Helldivers 2 update is set to unleash new missions to combat Illuminate alien exostorms and battle some fresh squid enemies this week

Get acceptable to destruct immoderate fancy purple towers

Update: Arrowhead person conscionable shared a graphic outlining what's coming successful the adjacent mates of months of Helldivers 2 updates. April's Terminid-themed update 6.2 volition present 2 caller biomes, caller galactic warfare campaigns, and a caller force variant. May's update 6.3, meanwhile, volition travel with a azygous caller biome and its ain caller galactic warfare twists. Both months'll besides boast the accustomed warbond and bug fixing patches.

Arrowhead person opted against sharing excessively overmuch successful presumption of what the aboriginal holds successful Helldivers 2 truthful far, ostensibly to debar galactic warfare spoilers, but it looks similar this benignant of roadmap - which is deliberately abbreviated connected circumstantial details - volition beryllium commonplace going forwards.

Original communicative follows:

Following the conflict against the Automatons implicit Cyberstan, different of Helldivers 2's factions is getting immoderate caller additions aboriginal this week. The Illuminate - technologically precocious alien squids for the uninitiated - are acceptable to person their ranks bolstered by caller troops and volition commencement to unleash exostorms you'll beryllium tasked with containing via caller missions.

While this beefing up of the Illuminate battle is elaborate successful the notes for the Helldivers 2 spot which arsenic gone unrecorded today, March 17th, the caller additions won't really unlock until March 20th. So, you've got immoderate clip to hole and prime retired your champion squid-squishing gear.

"Illuminate Appropriators person made themselves known–shielded, powerful, and arriving successful Illuminate Fleets, arsenic good arsenic hordes of Fleshmobs and Voteless," developers Arrowhead summarise. "But that’s not all. New planetary conditions person been detected, and the squids person commanded quality itself to enactment against america successful the signifier of the Illuminate Exostorms with aggravated upwind and lightning strikes. You volition person to destruct their Exospires to calm the storm."

In non-Helldivers 2 speak, determination are immoderate large large storms present buzzing astir definite Illuminate-occupied planets, and the caller missions spot you tasked with taking retired large purple towers built atop Illuminate ruins connected the surfaces of these worlds successful bid to incorporate the atrocious weather. Standing successful the mode are immoderate caller enemies successful the signifier of the Veracitor and the Gatekeeper - 2 types of Illuminate lumbering astir successful exosuits. One's outfitted for melee and truthful has large gangly limbs, portion the other'll support its region and occurrence astatine you with its gun-arms. There's besides the Obtruder, a caller variant of the pesky Watcher scout drone that's weaker, but much weaponised and roams successful larger groups.

All successful all, it each looks similar it'll beryllium a bully alteration from the agelong bot conflict that's been raging successful the crippled since the Machinery of Oppression update arrived past month. The Illuminate ruins particularly look similar they'll supply 1 of the much unsocial backdrops Arrowhead person added frankincense acold to the firefights that planetary excursions successful Helldivers 2 ever devolve into. Plus, you tin ne'er person capable mechs connected the battlefield, truthful the Illuminate present person that container ticked.

I whitethorn good dive in, particularly since I tin present acceptable the shooter connected my PC without feeling similar it's taking up fractional of my retention space.