The latest HELLDIVERS 2 update is going to suck away lots of hours and it's discounted

By Liam Dawe - 21 May 2025 at 2:01 pm UTC

Arrowhead Game Studios have just launched a major update to the popular co-op shooter HELLDIVERS 2, and with that there's many new enemies to face along with more customization options.

The game is still running rather nicely on Linux too, with the anti-cheat being enabled for Linux since the original release. Not just that, but it's also 31% off on Fanatical right now during their big sale which might actually be the lowest price for it so far.

Main highlights include:

New Illuminate faction enemies.
New Weapon Customizations and Progression.
Crash fixes.
Weapon fixes.
Miscellaneous fixes.

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I've put a ridiculous amount of hours into HELLDIVERS 2 at this point and I'm going to play a lot more thanks to this update. I still think they have one of the best implementations of a "battle pass" compared to most other games, with no time-limited silliness and they stick around so you can claim stuff from them whenever you wish.

Have you been playing it on Linux recently? How's your experience been?

HELLDIVERS 2 | Release Date: 30th September 2023

Official links:

Steam

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, On Sale, Online Co-op, Steam, Third-person shooter, Update | Apps: HELLDIVERS 2

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3 comments

Arehandoro a day ago

Supporter

When they released the Illuminate, the game lost all the fun for me somehow.

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scaine a day ago

Contributing Editor
Mega Supporter

The new, updated Illuminate faction is superb, but it's the weapon progression that re-ignited my love of this game. 350 hours now.

One of the greatest co-op games of all time, I think.

Last edited by scaine on 21 May 2025 at 8:32 pm UTC

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Eri a day ago

I played yesterday a few missions, dude, the leviathans are ruthless. I needed like 5 or 6 javelins/recoilless to take one down, at the end I decided to ignore them and try to avoid contact. Also, the flesh amalgamations (I don't know their name xD) are soooo tanky too, the first time I saw one running at me and not dying after a full clip I almost left a brown mark on my chair, I don't know why it scared me that much but I loved it.

And like scaine said, the new weapon progression hooked me too, I want to level up my favs, try different attachment combinations and see how differently the behave.

A great game is getting better and better.

Let's kick those squids out of our home planet!

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