Escalation of Freedom

Escalation of Freedom was the first major update for Helldivers 2, released on August 6th, 2024.

New Features[]

Escalation of Freedom brought the following items and features into the game:

Super Helldive (10) Difficulty
Mega Terminid Nests and Automaton Fortresses (4 different variants each)
- Mutated Eggs and Confidential Data spawn as "High Value Samples" within each respectively, with only one spawning per game
- Upon successfully extracting the High Value Sample item, the team is awarded an additional 2 Super Samples and 4 Rare Samples
Foggy Swamp Biome
- Variant of the Swamp Biome that is permanently in night-time and features heavy fog instead of rain
- First Planet with this biome to become accessible was Socorro III
Acid Storms now reduce the amount of armors for all units, both friendly and enemy
Terminids
- New Elite Unit: Impaler
  - Only Spawns in Helldive and Super Helldive
- New Heavy Unit: Spore Charger
  - Spawns a 20 meter radius of thick smoke, similar to a Spore Spewer. This radius moves along with the Spore Charger
  - Explodes and deals heavy damage within a 2 meter radius on death. Applies Acid Damage for 5 seconds after explosion
- New Large Unit: Alpha Commander
  - Replaces the Brood Commander in Helldive and Super Helldive
  - Higher health and speed than the Brood Commander. Otherwise, behaves the same.
  - Summons Alpha Warriors instead of normal Warriors, which are faster and more aggressive than normal Warriors but are otherwise the same
- New Secondary Objective: Retrieve Mutant Larva
Automatons
- New Heavy Unit: Barrager Tank
  - Fires heavy missiles at nearby players at a slow firerate
  - Fires volleys of 3 missiles at players that have been detected and are at a distance farther than 30 meters (need confirmation)
- New Heavy Unit: Reinforced Scout Strider
  - Replaces the normal Scout Strider in Helldive and Super Helldive
  - Body is completely heavy armor. Can fire up to 4 missiles in addition to its existing laser cannons
- New Secondary Objective: Enemy Bio-Processors