Helldivers 2 Players Crown Seyshel Beach the New Malevelon Creek as Propaganda Floods the Front and Arrowhead Is Stunned

Helldivers 2 has a new hill to die on, and it is, fittingly, a beach. Seyshel Beach has turned into the community’s latest obsession, and yeah, it absolutely has shades of Malevelon Creek — the notorious grind that Arrowhead literally wrote into canon after players fed themselves into the Automaton grinder for weeks. This time, the parallels are hard to ignore, right down to the homemade propaganda.

Quick rewind: why everyone still talks about the Creek

Malevelon Creek was the perfect storm: players piling in because other players were piling in, robots tuned to wreck you, loud in-game messaging fanning the flames, and a whole lot of stubborn energy. It was brutally hard, strategically pointless, and slow enough to stall progress on actual objectives across the map. Arrowhead eventually memorialized that fiasco because the community made it a thing.

Cut to today: Seyshel Beach

Over the past few weeks, thousands — and at times tens of thousands — of Helldivers have been dogpiling Seyshel Beach, a frontline world on the Illuminate front. For what strategic reason? I genuinely have no clue. Maybe everyone wanted an ocean view.

The key ingredient is the same as the Creek: pure, collective stubbornness. Seyshel Beach hasn’t been an objective in any recent Major Orders, but that has not slowed the faithful. In September, Arrowhead’s in-universe High Command even gave this beach gang a nod for taking back a city there, New Alexandria, despite it not actually mattering for the wider war.

'While the city itself bears no particular strategic significance, the single-minded focus of these Helldivers is nevertheless an inspiration to all.'

Timing-wise, that shoutout landed at the end of Operation Gloom Tide — the one that kept sending everyone back to defend Hellmire (again), push into Terminid space on worlds like Gacrux, and scratch out land in the Gloom. In other words, nowhere near the Illuminate front, and definitely not Seyshel Beach.

Where it stands right now

Even after a new Major Order pulled focus to a different Illuminate planet deeper in the front, the companion app’s map still shows thousands hanging on at the Beach. As of this writing, Seyshel Beach sits at 84.3401% liberated, with the last 16.66% becoming a personal vendetta for the diehards.

The vibe from the sand

Players say they’ve been at this for three weeks straight, watching the planet yo-yo like the Creek — but with more concrete. One post on October 6 laid it out:

'We have been fighting on this planet for at least 21+ days and it’s just going back and forth like the Creek but concrete.'

- Reddit user A7THU3

On October 1, as a Major Order tried to lure folks away, another player wrote that the beach would be free one day. There are posters now, too: 'The beaches will dry before the Helldivers do!' Redditor RazzDaNinja shared that and added, 'Sir, I’m finishing this fight.'

So is this the new Creek?

Honestly, yeah — you can make the case:

• It’s not part of the current Major Orders, but people keep going anyway.
• Propaganda is popping up around the effort, giving it a mythology.
• The location has little to no strategic value in the larger campaign.
• Progress is slow and grueling, and it siphons bodies from elsewhere.
• Arrowhead has acknowledged the player-coordinated push is happening.

One last unrelated-but-useful tidbit

If you’re on PC and staring at that massive install footprint: Arrowhead says there are 'no easy solutions' to the 150GB file size right now, but the team is 'sure to find a better balance between loading times and installation size soon.'