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 larger selection to our content material. From missions and aims to enemies and planets, we’re delivering a number of new content material for each our veteran gamers and brand-new Helldivers on the battlefield. Prepare for our greatest replace but!
Our neighborhood continues to point out 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 might by no means have predicted how far this sport 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 replace, it’s time for us to present again one thing massive to the neighborhood and welcome in much more gamers to the Helldivers universe.
Helldivers, that is escalating rapidly.
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 want for extra bugs, extra bots, extra liberation, and extra destruction. We thought 9 ranges of Helldiving difficulties could 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 problem degree but, and we hope that that is going to present gamers the depth they’re in search of on the battlefield. And with a fantastic problem comes larger rewards.
The larva retrieval mission has the Helldivers babysitting a bug.
However a brand new problem degree isn’t the one factor the neighborhood needed. We’ve additionally heard your want for mission variation, which is why we’re bringing you new mission aims and greater enemy outposts for each bots and bugs that supply model new Tremendous Pattern rewards. These outposts might be closely fortified, and require gamers to coordinate and strategize in an effort to take them out.
And in the event 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 a lot of our new mission aims might be playable on different problem ranges.
New Enemies & Harmful Swamps
The Impaler returns!
Escalation of Freedom is unleashing some new threats to our liberty that can take some severe strategizing from the Helldivers to take down.
Again by well-liked demand: the Impaler! This massive man from the unique Helldivers creates some new challenges. Not are you able to run from the bugs when the Impaler is round–massive, 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 greater, meaner, and doesn’t hesitate to name in different bugs for backup.
You thought the common outdated Brood Commander was dangerous? Suppose once more.
Don’t assume we forgot in regards to 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.
The Automaton rebellion continues.
Discover the swamps however not as you understand them, with rolling fog and the untamed flora, the blackened timber obscure the sunshine and the air itself feels haunted. Hold your flashlight useful, as visibility is proscribed and lightweight is vital. The enemy could possibly be hiding wherever amongst the undergrowth.
Get spooked, Helldivers.
Underneath the Hood
The final addition I wish to spotlight in regards to the Escalation of Freedom replace is that we’re making adjustments 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 crew kicking to grief others.
To assist enhance this we’ve applied a system the place if a participant is kicked, they are going to spawn into a brand new session because the host with the entire crew’s loot from their earlier session. All objects 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 adjustments, all gamers have the chance to go away with all loot collected on mission, with nobody Helldiver shedding out. We’re dedicated to creating adjustments 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.
General, we predict this escalation goes to be packed stuffed with superior additions, long-awaited enhancements, and a ton of surprises to find! Helldivers 2: Escalation of Freedom is launching on August 6!
