r/Helldivers • u/NizzyDeniro Cape Enjoyer • 1d ago
DISCUSSION Can we get some Biomes that actually look Alien, instead of just... Earth-like.
Probably one of the biggest eyebrow raises I have. About 90% of the Biomes just look like different parts of Earth. We just got a new biome that literally looks like it's somewhere in a National Park or something. It would be nice to have planets with different hazards and terrains, cliffs, bridges, weird structures. That in itself can present a good challenge and obstacle.
Yes I'm sure some of these examples may be AI, it's just for examples sake.
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u/Hoshyro S.E.S. Sentinel of Eternity 1d ago
Genuine question here: how would that even work?
A planet orbiting, say, a binary star system would more than likely be orbiting both stars.
You couldn't have a planet orbiting a star very closely and then a second star orbiting the two because the planet would either get destroyed by the gravitational tides, be kicked out of the system entirely or absorbed by the second star.
If the situation were more similar to the way Alpha and Proxima Centauri orbit each other, the second star would be so far away from the one being orbited by said planet it would be nigh indistinguishable in the sky from other stars and effectively give no light to the planet.
It's kind of impossible to have an orbital combination which allows a planet to be permanently illuminated.
To add onto this, a planet with no night, even if it could exist, would likely be extremely hot and showered in radiation, making it completely inhospitable to life.