Helldivers 2 Brings Out the Big Guns for Automaton Eradication

Helldivers 2 players are now fully committed to the assault on the Automaton homeworlds in a preemptive campaign of “defensive annihilation”. The first waves met stiff resistance from the machines, and the entire situation was at risk of becoming a dangerous quagmire for the forces of Freedom. Thankfully, seeing the situation developing, Super Earth is bringing out the big guns, unlocking two new Support Strategems to provide the power needed to punch through all that armour.

Courtesy of the Ministry of Defence, the LAS-99 Quasar Cannon and MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun are now available for immediate battlefield distribution. The Heavy Machine Gun is marketed as a “very powerful but difficult-to-wield machine gun with intense recoil”, and the Quasar Cannon “charges up to fire a powerful, explosive energy burst”. It will take some time to determine the efficacy of each, but initial reports from the frontlines seem promising: