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Helldivers 2: New Automaton boss, helmet perks, planetary effects, mission objectives, etc.
New Helldivers 2 update info: Includes details on Automaton Lieutenant boss, helmet perks, planetary effects, and new mission objectives (intel gathering, ritual interruption, hive scan, etc.).
1. 🤖 New Automaton Boss: Lieutenant
- ✅ The new Automaton unit is called the Lieutenant.
- ✅ This boss is currently the only unit with a boss tag.
- ✅ The Lieutenant uses a variety of weapons, including a chainsaw, rocket launcher, cannon, machine gun, and flamethrower.
- ✅ This unit is expected to appear during the Cyberstan invasion.
00:00 - 01:14
1. 🤖 New Automaton Boss: Lieutenant
- ✅ The new Automaton unit is called the Lieutenant.
- ✅ This boss is currently the only unit with a boss tag.
- ✅ The Lieutenant uses a variety of weapons, including a chainsaw, rocket launcher, cannon, machine gun, and flamethrower.
- ✅ This unit is expected to appear during the Cyberstan invasion.
01:15 - 01:56
2. 🪖 Helmet Bonuses and Armor Customization
- ✅ Helmets don't have stats but have passive attributes and skills like armor.
- ✅ Helmet perk bonuses are in the game files, and Arrowhead is likely tweaking these bonuses along with upcoming armor customization.
01:57 - 02:45
3. 💎 New Sample Types
- ✅ There are a total of 17 samples in the game.
- ✅ Samples are categorized as minerals, plants, spices, crystal mines, super access, E710 elements, artificial products, exploration, research, engineering products, and alien creatures.
- ✅ There are special glacial samples and insect information collectors to collect.
02:46 - 03:10
4. 💥 New Planetary Effect: Orbital Bombardment
- ✅ One of the new planetary effects is enemy orbital bombardment.
- ✅ Enemies can now use 380mm orbital bombardments.
03:11 - 04:00
5. 🚀 New Automaton Ship and Objective
- ✅ Automatons are getting a new ship that functions similarly to the Illuminate ship.
- ✅ The new objective includes destroying the Automaton ship using an orbital cannon.
04:01 - 04:55
6. 🎯 New Mission Objectives
- ✅ New mission objectives include setting up communication relays, collecting hive larvae, destroying Automaton chemical silos, and collecting Automaton remains.
- ✅ Unknown objectives include cargo trucks, colony rover extraction, dark fluid labs, camera objectives, and TCS 2.0.
04:56 - 05:23
7. Espionage Objectives and Special Missions
- ✅ There are special espionage objectives on the map.
- ✅ The objective is to collect information from a crashed Super Earth drone site.
- ✅ Successfully extracting the information unlocks a special opportunity mission.
05:24 - 06:16
8. Espionage Package and Rewards
- ✅ The information package is worth 500 requisitions if extracted from the mission.
- ✅ The information location is displayed on the minimap.
- ✅ Damaged information packages alert enemies to our location and trigger encounters.
- ✅ Special rewards can be obtained, and all of this is connected to the information PDA that is currently unused and in the game.
06:17 - 07:44
9. 👽 Illuminate Rituals and Dark Fluid
- ✅ There is an Illuminate ritual objective, and the goal is to interrupt all Illuminate rituals.
- ✅ Illuminate summoners are actively performing rituals, and we must interrupt them and kill all the summoners.
- ✅ Interrupting the ritual causes a large earthquake to be felt nearby.
- ✅ Dark fluid harvesters have been added to the game.
- ✅ Dark fluid is the cause of the Meridia black hole explosion.
07:45 - 08:00
10. Additional Mission Objectives and Super Earth
- ✅ There is an objective to manually place a hive scanner at a designated location to scan an underground hive.
- ✅ There will be more missions on Super Earth.
- ✅ There is a briefcase objective icon associated with the President's football objective.