How’s it going, everyone? We are going to be covering Helldivers 2’s biggest update yet. Escalation of Freedom is dropping on August the 6th. Might be a good time to jump back into Helldivers 2.
If you played it back at launch or within that launch window, you’ve been playing other games, a lot of stuff has come out. Wow, this is a colossal, a massive, a gargantuan update. I do not know the exact superlative to use. to describe this update, but it’s gonna be a lot to get into, so we’re gonna try to go through it as quickly as possible. Before we get into this video, as always, if you do want a copy of Helldivers 2 cheaper, go check out our good friends over at Greenman Gaming.
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now on to the Escalation of Freedom. This is coming from the official PlayStation blog. Catherine Baskin dropped the update. Welcome to the Escalation of Freedom, Helldivers. We’ve taken the time to gather feedback from our players on the front lines, and we’re bringing greater variety to our content.
From missions and objectives to enemies and planets, we’re delivering lots of new content for both our veteran players and brand-new Helldivers on the battlefield. Get ready for our biggest update yet. Our community continues to show us how strong we all are when united against the mindless automatons and the scourge of the terminated.
As we stand here on the eve of the escalation of freedom, we reflect on six months since launch. We could have never predicted how far this game would go and how many citizens would answer Super Earth’s call to arms. Go on a super hell dive. Something that continues to amaze us is our players’ insatiable desire for more bugs, more bots, more liberation, and more destruction.
We thought nine levels of hell diving difficulties would be enough but in the escalation of freedom, we’re turning it up to 10 combat rating 10 that is cr 10 super hell dive is our most challenging, most relentless dive difficulty level yet, and we hope that this is going to give players the intensity that they’re looking for on the battlefield. And when the great challenge comes in greater rewards. The new difficulty isn’t the only thing that the community wanted.
We’ve also heard your desire for mission variation, which is why we’re bringing you new mission objectives and bigger enemy outposts for both bots and bugs that offer brand new super sample rewards. These outposts will be heavily fortified and require players to coordinate and strategize in order to take them out. You’ve got new enemies and dangerous swamps.
Escalation of Freedom is unleashing some new threats to our liberty that will take some serious strategizing from the Helldivers to take down. Back by popular demand, the Impaler. This bad guy from the original Helldivers creates some new challenges. No longer can you run from the bugs when the Impaler is around big, imposing, and destructive.
It demands to be dealt with. Also new among the Terminid ranks is the Spore Charger. As if the regular old Charger wasn’t scary enough, the Spore Charger is shrouded in fog to obscure its location until it’s right up on you, Helldiver. That sounds like an absolute menace, so bear in mind for that. Lastly, the Terminid Alpha Commander, which is a supercharged brood commander that’s bigger, meaner, and doesn’t hesitate to call in other bugs for backup.
Don’t think we forgot about the automatons. I think it would do me, last time I played it, it would do us, it would do me a lot of peace if we did forget about the automatons. Their ranks are growing too with the addition of the formidable rocket tank as well as some other bot surprises we’ll be throwing your way. Explore the swamps but not as you know them. With rolling fog and the untamed flora, the back end trees obscure the light and the air itself is haunted.
Keep your flashlight handy as visibility is limited and light is key. The enemy could be hiding anywhere amongst the undergrowth and under the hood there will be a lot of refinements made as well. The last addition I want to highlight about Escalation of Freedom update is that we’re making changes to mitigate the problem of grief kicking in Helldivers 2.
While it’s our hope that players engage with the game in good faith and sportsmanship we do recognize that some players are using the team kicking to grief others. To help this we implemented a system where if the player is kicked they will spawn into a new session as the host with all of the team’s loot from their previous session. All items can now be picked up by the player before extraction. The squad doing the kicking will see a message in the chat widget that a player has been kicked yet their loot remains unchanged.
That’s a pretty good change. With these changes, all players have the opportunity to leave with all loot collected on mission with no helldiver losing out. We’re committed to making changes that will improve the player experience and encourage healthy cooperative gameplay.
Along with this, we’re releasing other quality of life upgrades with escalation of freedom including mage of fixes to the social menu to make diving with your friends easier. Overall, we think Escalation is going to be packed full of awesome additions, long-awaited improvements, and a ton of surprises to discover Helldivers 2.
Escalation and Freedom, again, dropping on August the 6th. A massive, massive update for one of the biggest games of the year. Look, you can look at concurrent player counts, and I think I’ve seen some people do that, which is completely comical to me. If you are even remotely suggesting that Helldivers 2 is a flop, it’s falling off. You are a completely out to lunch that’s let’s actually pull up the uh steam concurrent player count for helldivers 2 right now.
Let’s see what it’s at because that’s something that i feel like has gotten more study done after pal world came out because pal world was just breaking crazy records. But Helldivers 2 currently has 21 000 22 000 players concurrently playing. yes, that is a big, big fall off from where it was initially at, but that is still a healthy level of people playing the game. And remember, this is a game that people already paid $40 for. They already got your money. So yes, while it does have that live service element, they still got money. There’s still people that are concurrently supporting the game.
And then you’re talking about updates coming out like an escalation of freedom that I do believe is going to draw a lot of
people in is it going to get back to the heights that it was at? Probably not. I mean, gaming moves very quickly, as you guys might know, but uh hell divers 2’s escalation of Freedom, I do think, will bring some people back, especially when it’s dropping at a time when not a lot of big games are coming out uh so take that for what you will, but the escalation of freedom will be dropping on august the 6th, so be on the lookout for that.
A lot of new updates, and it might be time for you to jump back in and do some diving. If you want the game a little bit cheaper, do check out Green Man Gaming, I’ll leave a link in the description box below.
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