Arrowhead Game Studios is promising that some major additions are coming to ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:Helldivers 2 via its ę¾³ę“²å¹øą¶£čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:biggest update yet, Escalatiošn of Freedom, early nextšÆ month, but it's only the "first step" in a series of extensive changes.
"Our community continues to show usš how strong we all are when united against the mindless Automatons and the scourge of the Terminid," the studio's social media and community manager Katherine Baskin says in the most recent post.
"As we stand here, on the eve of the Escalation of Freedom, we reflect on the six months since laušnch. We could never have predicted hš¦ow far this game would go and how many Citizens would answer Super Earth's call to arms!"
Arrowhead developers might already be shocked at "how far" their hit co-op shooter has come since the launch in February, but they've also been teasing how much further the gaš“me still hasā to go.
In the ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom announcement trailer below, design director Niklas Malmborg explaiš„ns that the beefy update is only the team's "first step out of many where we're going to expand the game in big, meaningful ways." On August 6, that inź¦cludes more mission variants where you're escorting bug babies, new enemy types that might tentacle their way through the ground, a fresh "Super Helldive" difficulty that'll probably convince my FitBit I'm having heart problems, and more.
But if all of that terrifying goodness is only the team's "first step," then what could possibly be up next? More of the same is the safest bet, although there's also the looming threat of ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:The Illuminate, the returning alien faction from the first game that's been ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:teased again and again over the last few months. Oh, and there's still a ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„čÆ¢:black hole / Dark Matter void still gaping somewhere in the Milky Way. Thašt might be important.&nš¹bsp;
