What you need to know
- Helldivers 2's latest patch has stealthily added two new Automaton units to the game: the Factory Strider and gunships.
- The former is a colossal heavily armored six-legged walker with a heavy laser cannon, front-mounted laser miniguns, and the ability to periodically spawn Devastator shock troops.
- Gunships, meanwhile, spawn from factories on the map and rain lasers and rockets down on players from above.
- Both require good armor penetration to damage, though the Factory Strider is particularly tanky and demands the use of heavy weapons like rocket launchers. It doesn't have a weak spot, though gunships take more damage when hit in their engines like regular Automaton dropships do.
- The patch that added these also included a wide variety of different fixes and balance changes. I've included the full patch notes at the bottom of this article.
