Helldivers 2 has had its ups and downs post-release, but a new trailer at the Game Awards may be one of the most exciting post-release developments ever. The new trailer showcases a combination of exciting additions: firstly, the new enemy faction, the Illuminati, which originally appeared in the first game; second, vehicles that Helldivers can use to drive through battlefields; and third, combat in urban environments. These are all part of a new update, Omen of Tyrannywhich looks like it will seriously change the pace of the online shooter’s galaxy-wide war.

Since launch, players have been engaged in battles with two factions: the Terminids, a race of giant insect monsters, and the Automatons, an army of deadly robots. So far the Helldivers have been at war on two fronts. We repulsed the Terminids, only for them to create an impenetrable wall of spores in their regions of space. The automatons have always been a thorn in Super Earth’s side, and the democracy station the players built together lies deep in their territory.

A third faction will only complicate matters, especially since it looks like they’ll be using powerful psychic powers to control the corpses of dead people so they can use them as an army. The runner shown at the end of the trailer looks particularly alarming and I can’t wait to learn how to knock these beasts down.

At the end of the trailer it says that the update is now live; when logging in Helldivers 2 I received the following message from Super Earth:

EMERGENCY ALERT! — EMERGENCY ALARM! — EMERGENCY ALARM!

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