The war table in Helldivers 2 has seen many planets rise and fall under the control of Super Earth but no change has been as drastic as the change on the Automatons side of the war. Many players will remember the hard-fought battle for Malevelon Creek and many more remember the losses that came with taking it. This hatred for Automatons brought the majority of the Helldivers community together to fully push them off the map and basically defeat the Automatons. For a full weekend, the map was free of the red Automaton zones and players could focus on fighting back the bugs. However, the peace was never meant to last.
Players soon learned that the Automaton threat they had been facing off with since the launch of Helldivers 2 was just a scouting fleet. Now the full force of the Automatons has arrived and they quickly took several sectors of the map in an instant. Players are in a scramble to complete any major order to try to halt the advance of the Automaton fleet.
With the main fleet arriving, the Automatons have brought with them some new toys to help bolster their ground forces. The difficulty bunker missions are much more common as the Automatons seek to lock down planets. There has also been word of a walking dog base that players have been running into that features a working fabricator to spawn bots on it.
The final new addition for the Automatons is the new gunship factories and the two types of gunships that patrol to skies to hunt down unlucky Helldivers. These gunships are quite tanky and come in both a laser and rocket variety. They will regularly spawn from their factory and patrol the map until they manage to find a Helldiver. At which point they will hunt the unlucky diver down. To make dealing with them even more difficult, the factory for gunships can only be destroyed by a hellbomb. Forcing Helldivers to get up close to the spawn point to get rid of the gunships.
With all this focus on Automatons, Helldivers are reminded that the Termanid threat is still very real and that focus needs to be evenly divided between both factions. So if you get tired of being shot at, you can always take a relaxing break to get swarmed by bugs for a bit.
