Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new trailer for Helldivers 2 revealing a brand-new vehicle coming to the co-op shooter: the TD-110 Maelstrom tank. The trailer is an in-universe advertisement for X-UDE, complete with a narrator outlining the vehicle’s features.
“Here at X-UDE, we have but one dream: healthy profit margins and personal defense for all. Because every Super Earth citizen has the right to defend their family, without sacrificing the comforts Managed Democracy affords. That’s why we’re working with the Helldivers to secure the resources we need to make that dream a reality. Together, we can bring personal defense home. X-UDE. A tank in every driveway. Luxury in every detail.”
The TD-110 Malestrom tank’s arrival in Helldivers 2 is part of a larger update that brings with it several changes based on community feedback, like enemies no longer targeting unoccupied vehicles, better stat tracking for kills across mines, vehicles, drones, and backpacks, and fixes for issues on arctic planets.
The update also adjusts enemy spawns for separated Helldivers on missions, Evacuate High-Value Assets mission changes, and balance tuning across a host of weapons. Level design is seeing changes with more randomized loot locations and weapons, new random groups for loot like ammo, health kits, grenades, and weapons, and 10 more common samples that can be collected throughout a level.
Along with the update, Helldivers 2 now also has a brand-new Premium Warbond, dubbed Ironclad Democracy. The Warbond brings a host of new gear designed around frontline fighting. New weapons include the AR-11 Arbitrator (assault rifle) primary, the GL-15 Evictor primary (shotgun), the P-34 Breacher secondary (pistol), the G-60 Anti-Tank Seeker throwable, and the G-8 Immolation throwable.
Ironclad Democracy also adds the BFM-16 Tanker light armor and the BFM-220 Ironclad heavy armor. Both sets have the Blunt-Force Mitigation passive, which makes wearers more resistant to being knocked off their feet while reducing impact and collision damage by 30 percent.
The weapons are joined by a pair of new boosters – the Surplus EAT Allocation and Integrated Extinguishers. The former gives players two free uses of the Expendable Anti-Tank Stratagem per mission, giving a full squad one single-use rocket launcher each. The latter reduces the time to extinguish flames when you accidentally set teammates on fire.
On the cosmetics side of things, the Warbond adds two new capes – the Standard of Rapid Evacuation and the Shroud of The Juggernaut, along with the new Helmet Durability Check emote, the Standard of Rapid Evacuation and the Shroud of The Juggernaut player cards, the Treadhead title, and exclusive patterns for tanks – Verdant camouflage, Glacial polymer, and Executive onyx.
Helldivers 2 is available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
