Helldivers 2 continues growing its overarching, player-driven narrative, with a brand new main replace dropping on Feb. 10. After spending over per week pushing out in-character binary-code messages throughout its social media channels, Arrowhead Studios has lastly revealed what it had been cooking (or processing) all this time: Equipment of Oppression.
This new patch brings us to Cyberstan, one of many Automatons’ main strongholds that gamers of Helldivers 1 will fondly (or solemnly) bear in mind. Helldivers are tasked with assaulting this socialist hellscape and bringing freedom to it as soon as and for all. The Automatons gained’t be ready with their arms crossed, although, and have introduced three new and highly effective cyborgs to defend their residence turf: the Vox Engine tank, the Radicals, and the Agitators.
The Vox Engine is the right factor to drop into the sport after giving gamers the Bastion tank stratagem earlier within the 12 months. We will now reenact the Battle of Kursk within the recreation, and the taking part ideologies are nearly the identical as then! Wait, don’t inform my CO I simply in contrast the freedom-infused Managed Democracy with the Nineteen Forties moustache man.
Anyhow, the Radicals and the Agitators are extra normal Automaton items, the previous having much less armor however faster, extra deadly martial arts assaults and roundhouse kicks, whereas the latter are armed to the enamel and function commanders to the Automatons you’ll encounter on Cyberstan.
This big replace goes to essentially reshape the galaxy and the Galactic Warfare occurring inside. So, earlier than anybody sees you’ve exceeded your 60-second break, return into the capturing vary to make sure you’re prepared as soon as the rise in opposition to the machines lastly begins on Feb. 10.
