The developers behindHelldivers 2, Arrowhead Game Studios, just dropped a new update which includes a secret change to the Automaton frontline. Alongside changes in the March 2025 patch notes, which include improved enemy AI to make smarter and faster decisions, is a whole new mission type and set of urban maps for players to take on the bot menace like never before. With this quiet addition, players can fight in the city against all three enemy types available in the battle to defend Super Earth.
This isn’t the first timeHelldivers 2has made major changes without noting them in the patch notes, asthe developers prefer to surprise their playerbase with an ever-evolving warthat canchange at the drop of a hat. This secretive style of updating the game does makeHelldivers 2an especially unique experience, as the discovery of changes by the community makes new events far more exciting than simply reading them in a blog post.
Helldivers 2 Adds Urban Maps For Bots In The March 2025 Update
Take The Bot Fight Downtown
With theaddition of a new warbondand patch notes 01.002.200, fans can nowplay on urban maps for all three enemy types in the game, which includes Terminids, Automatons, and the Illuminate. While mowing through hordes of voteless, former citizens in the city maps was scary enough, you can now experienceTerminator-like action by combating the bots in an urban landscape.
This recent patch even adds a new mission type for the Automatons in whichplayers must take down factory striders with stratagem jammers on top of them, which means teams of Helldivers will need to come up with anew strategy for the giant walking mechsbesides spamming missile strikes.
New Bot Objectives In Helldivers 2 Are Another Fun Surprise
Secret Changes Can Bring The Community Together
The developers forHelldivers 2always like tokeep a few wildcard changes up their sleevesas the ever-evolving war effort to protect Super Earth presents new challenges. This isn’t the first time, and likely won’t be the last, thatHelldivers 2adds a new mission or surprise without advertising it before. Just last month, Arrowhead added shovels to the game, which could only be found in specific POIs, and allowed players to create their own strategic combat holes all over the map.
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Previous secretive additions toHelldivers 2included missions to destroy Automaton Fabricators, which can be a fun surprise, though developers have also admitted to some stealth changes to weapons and stratagems.Having a surprise in the form of a new mission is great, and while it can be a little frustrating to not know exactly what a new patch is changing, having the whole community band together and discover the new warfront is worth it.
