Welcome to the Escalation of Freedom, Helldivers. We’ve taken the time to assemble suggestions from our gamers on the entrance strains, and we’re bringing higher selection to our content material. From missions and aims to enemies and planets, we’re delivering tons of new content material for each our veteran gamers and brand-new Helldivers on the battlefield. Prepare for our biggest update but!
Our group continues to indicate us how sturdy all of us are when united towards the senseless Automatons and the scourge of the Terminid. As we stand right here, on the eve of the Escalation of Freedom, we replicate on the 6 months since launch. We may by no means have predicted how far this recreation would go and what number of Residents would reply Tremendous Earth’s name to arms!
We’ve watched our forces expertly deal with each battle and problem we’ve thrown their method, from flying enemies to the Terminid Management System, to saving the youngsters of Tremendous Citizen Anne’s Hospital. Now for this main update, it’s time for us to offer again one thing huge to the group and welcome in much more gamers to the Helldivers universe.
Helldivers, that is escalating shortly.
Go on a Tremendous Helldive
Go up towards the brand new supersized bot fortresses.
One thing that continues to amaze us is our gamers’ insatiable need for extra bugs, extra bots, extra liberation, and extra destruction. We thought 9 ranges of Helldiving difficulties can be sufficient, however within the Escalation of Freedom we’re turning it as much as 10… Fight Ranking 10 that’s.
CR 10: Tremendous Helldive is our most difficult, most relentless dive issue degree but, and we hope that that is going to offer gamers the depth they’re on the lookout for on the battlefield. And with a terrific problem comes higher rewards.
The larva retrieval mission has the Helldivers babysitting a bug.
However a brand new issue degree isn’t the one factor the group wished. We’ve additionally heard your need for mission variation, which is why we’re bringing you new mission aims and larger enemy outposts for each bots and bugs that supply model new Tremendous Pattern rewards. These outposts will likely be closely fortified, and require gamers to coordinate and strategize in an effort to take them out.
And in case you’re new to Helldivers 2, you don’t have to fret about lacking out on all of the enjoyable till you unlock Tremendous Helldive, as a result of many of our new mission aims will likely be playable on different issue ranges.
New Enemies & Harmful Swamps
The Impaler returns!
Escalation of Freedom is unleashing some new threats to our liberty that can take some critical strategizing from the Helldivers to take down.
Again by in style demand: the Impaler! This huge man from the unique Helldivers creates some new challenges. Not are you able to run from the bugs when the Impaler is round–huge, imposing, and harmful, it calls for to be handled.
Additionally new among the many Terminid ranks is the Spore Charger. As if the common outdated Charger wasn’t scary sufficient, the Spore Charger is shrouded in fog to obscure its location till it’s proper up on you, Helldiver.
The brand new Spore Charger within the fog.
Lastly, the Terminid Alpha Commander, which is a supercharged Brood Commander that’s larger, meaner, and doesn’t hesitate to name in different bugs for backup.
You thought the common outdated Brood Commander was unhealthy? Suppose once more.
Don’t assume we forgot concerning the Automatons. Their ranks are rising, too, with the addition of the formidable Rocket Tank, in addition to another bot surprises we’ll be throwing your method.
(*6*)
The Automaton rebellion continues.
Discover the swamps however not as you already know them, with rolling fog and the untamed flora, the blackened bushes obscure the sunshine and the air itself feels haunted. Preserve your flashlight helpful, as visibility is proscribed and light-weight is essential. The enemy may very well be hiding anyplace amongst the undergrowth.
Get spooked, Helldivers.
Below the Hood
The final addition I need to spotlight concerning the Escalation of Freedom update is that we’re making modifications to mitigate the issue of grief kicking in Helldivers 2. Whereas it’s our hope that gamers have interaction with the sport in good religion and sportsmanship, we do acknowledge that some gamers are utilizing the staff kicking to grief others.
To assist enhance this we now have applied a system the place if a participant is kicked, they are going to spawn into a brand new session because the host with all of the staff’s loot from their earlier session. All gadgets can now be picked up by the participant earlier than extraction. The squad doing the kicking will see a message within the chat widget {that a} participant has been kicked, but their loot stays unchanged.
With these modifications, all gamers have the chance to go away with all loot collected on mission, with nobody Helldiver dropping out. We’re dedicated to creating modifications that can enhance the participant expertise and encourage wholesome, cooperative gameplay.
Together with this, we’re additionally releasing different high quality of life upgrades with Escalation of Freedom, together with main fixes to the social menu to make diving with your folks simpler.
Total, we expect this escalation goes to be packed full of superior additions, long-awaited enhancements, and a ton of surprises to find! Helldivers 2: Escalation of Freedom is launching on August 6!