You can hug the Super Earth grunts in Helldivers 2's Devoid of Liberty update, which revamps NPC troops and adds new Illuminate enemies

The concealed of the floating carnivore is revealed: Helldivers 2 is gearing up for an battle connected the Void, that icky hellmouth gobbling up a chunk of Illuminate-controlled space. The co-op shooter’s large caller update, Devoid of Liberty, sees the intergalactic nasties throwing retired 2 caller mutant enemies to combat connected the field, portion your bosses connected Super Earth deploy amended equipped, amended trained, mostly little all-round useless infantry troops to assistance you out.

Yes, Devoid of Liberty (a.k.a. Patch 7.0) brings backmost the SEAF, NPC cannon fodder (even much so, somehow, than the Helldivers) who’ve popped up successful erstwhile high-profile invasions. This time, they’re imaginable satellite modifiers, and portion inactive astir apt not agelong for this satellite (or that world), developers Arrowhead person granted them upgrades that mightiness marque them much similar utile allies and little similar short-lived pets. Heavier weapons should boost their harm output, and their stim pistols tin heal players – surely a large buff for solo ‘divers.

They’ll besides present instrumentality your offers of hugs. Mark’s connected vacation astatine the infinitesimal but I deliberation I conscionable heard him cheering.

In the Illuminate corner, the faction’s caller baddies see the Crusher, whose quality to rapidly regenerate wellness requires sustained leadstorms to counter. Then there’s the Wretch, a fast-moving, evasive mutant who can, worryingly, "dismantle" players’ weapons if not chopped down.

The 7.0 update besides introduces the antecedently announced level headdress increase, from 150 to 300 – those who were inactive playing portion maxed out, arsenic a reminder, volition get immoderate excess acquisition back-applied erstwhile the spot is installed – and the Warhammer 40K-themed warbond, which adds immoderate Astra Militarum clobber and assorted Emprah-approved weapons. No, I’m not annoyed Helldivers Goddamn Two got a meltagun earlier Darktide did. I’m not. I’m not!

Here beryllium the spot notes, which instrumentality the gist of that astir 15-minute-long video and puts it into conveniently readable words. There’s rather a spot there, successful presumption of equilibrium tinkering and bug fixes, truthful bash person a work – a knowledgable SEAF genitor is simply a liable SEAF parent.