Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom Adds INSANE New Lore

the little bug in the container is actually a baby hive lord. it has the same face shape as the hivelords from hell divers 1

My hypothesis is that since humanity is no longer controlling the bugs breeding they are mutating back towards what they once were like before the genetic tampering

That tank repair facility is actually already in the game,you can sometimes see tanks getting fixed in the heavy outposts

The bugs probably operate like the orcs in Warhammer 40 K, they use spores those spores become scavengers in those scavengers become nursing spewers, and it just continues

Liberty day is October 26th, we should expect some pretty big, maybe even illuminate big

The bot ships have been seen in the news for when they took cyberstan

"Upgrades everybody, Upgrades"

the spore chargers might be related to the warriors we can find also covered in green pustules. maybe exposure to termicide early in the development like as a warrior or scavenger will lead to the chargers we find later

fun fact: bug corpses can spawn on bot planets which makes me think that the bots also use them for E-710. We know that the bots have oil because that is what they bleed when you shoot them we also know that E-710 is oil soooo edit: in the game files the bug larva is called "hive lord larva"

the ship seen in the update image thing looks maybe like the ships they used to invade the valdis and surrounding sectors after they were wiped out the first time. and I believe that the terminids spread via spores projected into space, multiple dispatches have alluded to terminid spores being emitted from planets being directly tied to how fast they can move to new planets

Spore chargers are probably just a mutation response. Since helldivers use ranged weapons and that's basically the bugs biggest weakness, having a cloud of concealment similar to smoke makes sense as a natural response. Nursing spewers do that so it's nothing new and they're very effective.

Also in the trailer, I don't know if it's a mission objective or just cosmetic but we get more evidence that the bots are using us a resource, you can see them grinding what looks to be human blood in some sort of processor

Hopefully you can shoot the side rockets on the armored Chicken Walker

It was mentioned during the shutdown of the TCS, bugs get around by launching "spores" into space, there's gotta be an absurdly strong bug to pull that off though

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The thing with the Automatons is that their ancestors, the Cyborgs, were humans that seceded from the Super Earth Federation, it only makes sense that they shared a lot with the SEAF and so do the Automatons, they copy our equipment and reverse engineer it, even if they aren't humans anymore (probably) unlike their Creators, they retain the mannerisms of keeping pace while marching with songs, having specialized units and clear command figures on the field (Commissars, also the Bruiser Hulks have what look like Crests on them, FYI) So at their core, they act like humans, it only makes sense that they'd itirate on their equipment Also I like ArrowHead's approach of consistency with the Socialist Automatons still having equipment that looks like soviet/russian gear, the new rocket tank looks like the TOZ-1 Buratino Flamethrower rocket battery and the armoured Striders have rocket sleds bolted on the sides like some WWII tanks and they look like soviet RBS-132 anti tank rockets

Imagine if the bots actually get strats like the divers do your running and this bots chucks a 500Kg or what ever bomb air strike something at you that would be a nightmare like could be awesome and terrifying to

The impalers and spore chargers were most likely hiding out on the worlds behind omicron. There was mention of changes in terminid migration patterns so that’s why they got to the frontline. Your explanation is cool but the devs usually take the simpler approach when it comes to justifying why we shoot the things we shoot, as the previous major orders have proven. Also the bug in the larva mission is a hive lord larva as evidenced by the leaks

Automatons have always had human brains, back in HD1 they were cyborgs, and they were called cyborgs because they still had a significant portion of their original human bodies, we call them automatons now because they have advanced to a point that there is no recognizable human parts left

I don't wanna fight the Hive Lord againnnn😫