Arrowhead Game Studios has announced a new update for Helldivers 2, and I’m already feeling a little bit bit frightened of a number of the new bugs and bots we’ll be going through on the battlefield. Escalation of Freedom goes to be the biggest patch but for Helldivers 2, and it features a new issue, new biomes, new enemies, and plenty of quality-of-life modifications.
Gamers will be capable of go on Problem 10 runs, often known as Tremendous Helldives. These missions may have huge bot fortresses, limitless waves of baddies, and rewards to match. There are additionally a bunch of recent goals that will likely be added to different issue ranges, together with ones the place gamers need to babysit a bug larva in a backpack. It’s a little bit bit like Loss of life Stranding, besides as an alternative of constructing roads and transporting cargo, you’re fleeing from Bile Titans and Stalkers.
There will likely be some new enemies to fret about as properly. The Terminids will likely be backed up by the Impaler, a infamous risk from the primary Helldivers. The Impaler bunkers down and summons tentacles from beneath the earth, that are an enormous risk that counters the same old run-and-gun technique gamers use in opposition to bugs. If that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, there’s a brand new Charger variation: the Spore Charger, who cloaks itself in fog. The Brood Commander additionally has a brand new boss: the Terminid Alpha Commander.
The Automatons will likely be beefed up as properly, with a brand new Rocket Tank. Arrowhead teased extra additions to the robotic ranks, however we’ll have to attend to search out out extra. I’m positive the black gap gamers opened up lately gained’t have any disagreeable surprises of its personal; that looks as if it gained’t backfire on us spectacularly afterward.
The standard-of-life fixes have one main spotlight: an finish to grief kicking. Presently, gamers can boot an unsuspecting ally from the sport, that means they earn no rewards from the match — it’s a very imply type of griefing. Now, if a participant is kicked, they may spawn into a brand new session as host, and so they’ll preserve all of the goodies collected by the crew within the earlier session. There are different modifications coming, together with to the social menu, however this one is a large repair for one of many sport’s most irritating points.
Escalation of Freedom is ready to launch on August 6 on each PC and PlayStation 5.