Helldivers 2 devs "actually expected a lot less players to move to the Automaton front," but a full 70% of the game's community was fighting the good fight

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Community manager Spitz revealed some insights into player behavior over on the game’s Discord channel on March 31.

“I’d say people are perfectly fine fighting wherever the [Major Order] sends them.”

Players didn’t quite mobilize in time and instead lost crucial planets to the mechanized forces.

Those fractured military forces eventually came together in stronger numbers than developer Arrowhead Studios predicted, though.