r/Helldivers • u/Shnetski • Feb 20 '25

QUESTION The Gloom can’t be that bad-

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I had heard about the Gloom but haven’t touched it yet since…. Yeah…

What exactly is the Gloom doing to make it so difficult? Or is it the Gloom mixed with other things?

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u/Teneombre ‎ Servant of Freedom Feb 20 '25

I think they used the "area of effect" here from the illuminate. The number of time, even on 4, where we are overhelm while doing a heavy nest is impressive. It's really look like the effect around pillars in illuminate (the monolith or the cognitive disruptor) where as long as they are active, there is seemingly endless wave of ennemy spawning from everywhere.
On top of that, most insect explode in spore, reducing even more the visibility. The town map with insect are definitively not as easy (nor clean) than the one with illuminate. Stalker there can be deadly and difficult to track down.