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ARROWHEAD SNEAKS TWO HUGE ENEMIES INTO HELLDIVERS 2'S LATEST PATCH: GIGANTIC
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This is not a drill: Following Helldivers 2's latest balancing patch and, hours
before that, sightings of mysterious motherships, two new threats have appeared
on Automaton planets. 



The largest is the Factory Strider, a colossal, four-legged walker that
represents a new class of enemy in the robot wars. Second are gunships,
quick-moving variants of the bot dropships that rain down fire from the skies.



An early field report from Reddit user CappedPluto suggests the Factory Strider
is essentially a mobile fortress for the Automatons—it's packing large laser
cannons, mounted miniguns, and a factory capable of spawning Devastators
on-the-move. The worst part? "No easy to find vents," Pluto says.




Meanwhile, new gunships are attacking divers in swarms. Despite our assumptions
that the cloaked ships in the skies of robot space were gunships, the true
culprits are smaller and travel in packs. Not as much is known about these, but
they fire lasers and missiles. According to user Bigglettt, gunships also have a
"nest" of sorts.

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"They also have dropship facilities (fabricators) which need to be killed by a
hellbomb," they wrote.



User Jackpknm, who fought off a gang of gunships, came back with an intimidating
description of their power.

"They are heavily armored flying rocket devastators with a regular devastator
strapped to the other side. They fire salvos of missiles and rapid fire lasers
otherwise" they wrote. "Each factory can field 3 gunships so if you have a
medium outpost with 2 factories you can fight up to 6 at a time."


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The good news is that, just like the regular old dropships, "one Quasar Cannon
or EAT to the engine will take the gunship itself down."

We'll update this page as we learn more about Factory Striders and gunships. Our
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college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to
have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest
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reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm,
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