Helldivers 2made an immense impact when it launched in early 2024, quickly reaching massive player counts and firmly entrenching the franchise across the gaming industry. This massive success was achieved despite the project’s relatively limited platform availability, with the launch of the game only being available through PlayStation and Steam.
It is no wonder that players have wantedHelldivers 2to come to other platforms like Xbox for some time now, and these calls have finally been answered. Ahead of this Xbox expansion forHelldivers 2, it seems as if some interesting new content is slowly being added to the game. This could come to a head around the time ofHelldivers 2’s Xbox launch, making for a momentous occasion in more ways than one.
New Enemies and Fresh Content Alongside Xbox Availability Could Mark a New Era For Helldivers 2
After over a year of waiting,Helldivers 2is set to come to Xbox consoles on August 26. While there are no plans for the game to come to the Xbox Game Pass service, this still marks another important step in unifying the available content between console giants like Microsoft and Sony. With full crossplay between platforms, the addition of Xbox players could cause a kind of renaissance for the game’s popularity. Arrowhead seems to be fully aware of this, and fans have already noticed new enemy types creeping their way into the title.
One imposing new enemy has been added to the Automaton faction, for example: War Striders. These massive machines appear at Extreme difficulty and above, using cannons and volleys of grenades to devastate players. Players can encounter these new War Striders in the new mega-cities that were recently added to the game, withHelldivers 2’s July 15 updatebringing a new Major Order briefing to the game.
Alongside War Striders, players were quick to reporta new enemy belonging to the Illuminate faction. Now, players will encounter Gazers, a type of Illuminate turret that fires concentrated beams out of an eye-like body. The subtle launch of this new content across both Automatons and Illuminate is a great indicator of future support planned forHelldivers 2; it’s likely just the beginning of some major changes to maximize its Xbox plans.
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of newHelldivers 2players could join the game’s community thanks to its Xbox availability.
New Patches Will Hopefully Pave the Way For a Perfect Helldivers 2 Transition For Xbox
These new enemies dropped alongsideHelldivers 2’s 1.003.200 patch, which brought with it a slew of balance changes across many weapons and enemy types. By also including some important bug fixes, this latest patch has caused a positive buzz across theHelldiverscommunity which will hopefully be just the tip of the iceberg. There still seems to be so much room forHelldivers 2to broaden its horizon, especially with theteased big plans to flesh out the Illuminate faction even further.
It was always going to be a difficult task forHelldivers 2to maintain its eye-watering initial player numbers, which reached as high as 450,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. Despite this, the game has done an excellent job at providing consistent support, as evidenced by these new surprise enmies. The playership boost that will inexorably come with its Xbox availability is an opportunity that is too good to overlook. Things like needed patches and new enemy content are already creating some great momentum going into August’s Xbox expansion.
