Helldivers 2 Freedom Climb Update Coming August 6

Sony has announced that Helldivers 2 will receive its biggest update to date on August 6th.

It’s called Freedom Escalation, and it adds new difficulty modes, more mission variety, new enemies, and more.

The new Combat Ratin 10 will be the highest difficulty level in the game. According to the developers, “This is our most challenging and unforgiving difficulty level to date, and we hope it will give players the intensity they are looking for on the battlefield. Of course, with greater challenges comes greater rewards.”

The creators of the popular co-op game also explain that “we also heard your request for more mission variety, which is why we are bringing you new mission objectives and even larger enemy outposts, both bots and bugs, with the caption “These outposts will be fully fortified and will require a lot of coordination and strategy on the part of the players to take them down.”

New enemies include the Impaler, a returning fan favorite from the first Helldivers. We also have a Spore Charger that is “shrouded in fog, hiding its location until it’s right in front of you.” Bug-level additions will be closed by a pre-made Alpha Commander, “an ultra-powerful Nest Commander who, in addition to being bigger and more aggressive, isn’t shy about calling in reinforcements.”

On the machine side, a tank with a rocket will be added, “in addition to the random robotic surprises we’ll throw at you.”

Another new feature of the update is the swamps, which will now be more ominous and dark, hidden in thick fog.

Finally, Arrowhead highlighted changes intended to “mitigate the issue of kicks due to griefing and boycotts.”

This will implement a new system where if a player is kicked, they will spawn as the host of a new session with all of the team’s loot from the previous session, allowing the player to collect all of the objects before looting.

The team kicking the player will be notified in chat of the kick, but the loot will not change.