HELLDIVERS 2 has a big new event to take down the Automatons and you get tanks

Arrowhead Game Studios just released a big new free update for HELLDIVERS 2 which brings a new major mission chain, and we get tanks now too. The tank alone would have been enough to pull me back in but the event sounds pretty fun as well.

Running over the course of a week, the event requires players to fight through different Automaton planets, holding at least one of them when the event expires. Why? The Automatons stole plans for the "Star of Peace", an orbital laser super-weapon.

To help with this you can now call in a tank, and have your buddied ride along with you. See the Galactic Offensive trailer for more info below:

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Thanks to the event, the player count has increased quite a lot on Steam. Shooting from 40-50K up to over 100K concurrent players at time of writing. Seems a lot of players are answering the call to action.

Looking over the patch notes there's a lot of balancing changes, bug fixes and a few performance improvements. Aside from that another major change is that emotes and victory poses are now interchangeable, meaning that any of them can now be used as emotes or victory poses.

There's also a brand new Warbond (battle pass):

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