Helldivers 2's infamous Automaton Striders are back with a vengeance, just as players thought they were turning the tide against Game Master Joel

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Somehow, I'd managed to miss the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 Factory Striders the first time around, but it seems that my time living in ignorance has come to an end. A new report claims that the monstrous, bot-spewing machines are back, and iౠn far bigger numbers than ever before.

In a tweet this afternoon, the official 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 account dropped a new news report, confirming that the Factory Striders "have made 🐭a resurgence on the Automaton front." An accompanying video shows an oncoming horde of the machines, which are built like Star Wars' AT-ATs, complete with some serious armor plating and mean-looking machine guns fitted under their cockpits.

appearing at lower l൲evels, and are being carried in by dropships rather than simply spawning in for an unluck𝕴y few.

It seems as though the addition of these extremely tough machines - thought of by some as an even deadlier answer to the Terminids' Bile Titan - is a matter of revenge from galactic game master Joel. The most recent Major Order has been had f൩ought by the community after a weekend of Joel-made Hell, but the developers have been warning that the previous Automaton force - which was all-but entirely repelled earlier this month and was home to the first Striders - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:was nothing but a vanguard.

A new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 patch dropped earlier today, but don't count on it helping you defeat this new enemy.

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