Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom Update Teases Arrowhead's Biggest Content Drop Yet
Helldivers 2 isn’t out of the fight yet, as Arrowhead Games Studios has announced that its latest update, Escalation of Freedom, will be its biggest yet.
The studio unveiled the latest addition to its post-launch rollout in a PlayStation.Blog post. It’s an update that’s meant to give Super Earth defenders more variety, including new missions, objectives, enemies, planets, and even a new difficulty mode. While we wait for launch on August 6, you can see how Arrowhead plans to move into the next phase of Helldivers 2 with the Escalation of Freedom update trailer below.
Do you have what it takes, Helldiver? The Escalation of Freedom Major Update begins on August 6, featuring:
• Difficulty Level 10
• New mission objectives
• Bigger enemy outposts
• New Bugs and Bots
• New environmental hazards
Full briefing: https://t.co/GTTi0R4tc3 pic.twitter.com/h8gEewiu5G
“Our community continues to show us how strong we all are when united against the mindless Automatons and the scourge of the Terminid,” Arrowhead social media and community manager Katherine Baskin said in the blog post. “As we stand here, on the eve of the Escalation of Freedom, we reflect on the 6 months since launch. We could never have predicted how far this game would go and how many Citizens would answer Super Earth’s call to arms!”
Arrowhead’s biggest fundamental change to the Helldivers 2 formula is its new, harder game mode: Combat Rating 10: Super Helldive. That’s right – if you thought your standard Helldive was too much, Super Helldive is here to offer an entirely new level of challenge. Arrowhead calls the mode its “most challenging, most relentless” difficulty mode, and of course, it means better rewards for those who are able to successfully extract at the end of the mission.
With Super Helldive comes added variety to missions, as well as larger Terminid and Automaton outposts that yield new Super Sample rewards. Arrowhead notes that new missions and objectives will be playable on other difficulty modes, too.
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