Expanding enemy variety in the future

[Archon]

There is plenty of enemy variety right now as is, but I'd love in the future if they gave us even more types of bugs to fight. Finding something even BIGGER than a Bile Titan would be horrifyingly awesome.

Also, in higher difficulties, getting spammed with the same 2-3 types of bug gets kind of tedious, especially Chargers.

[Army of Optimists]

Helldivers 1 added several new enemy types over time. It also had a third faction, so we can probably expect that to get added at some point. Judging by the success of this game - literally the most successful Sony GAAS title ever released - we're likely to see hefty support in the future.

[McFuzz]

There's a few enemies from HD1 still not in game. Not many, though. There was a ground tentacle monster. Might be a bit cheese-y in 3rd person though.

[Chillum]

Pretty sure I saw an interview where they hinted at new factions. The lack of enemies to galactic north and south hint at possible new factions in the future. Hopefully they add in enemy types as well for the current factions to stop it getting stale.

[bwc153]

Supposedly Automotons are not the Cyborg faction we know from HD1, so they may come back, not to mention the Illuminates. The loading screen also shows a flying bug that isn't ingame.

Originally posted by McFuzz:

There's a few enemies from HD1 still not in game. Not many, though. There was a ground tentacle monster. Might be a bit cheese-y in 3rd person though.

There's also the Mammoth from HD1 as well. The Charger looks to be the Tank. Considering the amount of QQ over the Charger/Tank, imagine the QQ over the Mammoth

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Originally posted by bwc153:

Supposedly Automotons are not the Cyborg faction we know from HD1, so they may come back

The similarities are so overwhelming, that it's obvious they are a replacement for the cyborgs. I would have preferred the grotesque cyborgs again, though. It would have given them more possibiliies, including full automata, but also the hounds, for example, or other "fleshy", unarmored enemy types for a change - and everything in between.

[The Dess 2023 GOTY Edition]

Originally posted by Archon:

There is plenty of enemy variety right now as is, but I'd love in the future if they gave us even more types of bugs to fight. Finding something even BIGGER than a Bile Titan would be horrifyingly awesome.

Also, in higher difficulties, getting spammed with the same 2-3 types of bug gets kind of tedious, especially Chargers.

I just fought the automatons on challenging difficulty. Then switched back to bugs real quick until I get more gear, fighting the autmatons is like a second game inside this game. They simply hit different, go fight them for a couple of days first and then chill out.

[Raklap]

In Helldive difficulty you get some new variant bug.

[∞]

like...bugs mix with robots?

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

Originally posted by Niuby:

like...bugs mix with robots?

robugs?

[Larry]

Originally posted by Army of Optimists:

Helldivers 1 added several new enemy types over time. It also had a third faction, so we can probably expect that to get added at some point. Judging by the success of this game - literally the most successful Sony GAAS title ever released - we're likely to see hefty support in the future.

The third faction suuccckkked though. They were Protoss basically. No one really bothered with them until the very end of the war.

[MJ1911]

Or maybe alien space robots with teleportation abilities? And when the mothership hits you your directional movement and aiming gets reversed!

What a terrific idea. Let's pass it onto the devs.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

I would love to see more factions in time, but I think I could do without the illuminates, too.

On the other hand, they would play totally different than in HD1, just like the automata/cyborgs do. Ranged combat wasn't really a thing in HD1 - not in the sense as in a 1st/3rd person game. Now they are mostly about that.

Illuminates, with their shields and maze-like force fields would perhaps be less of a pain in HD2. Anyway, a superior-tech faction would be the logical choice again for a third faction. Maybe psionics, too, working with illusions...

And for the fourth faction (here is hoping...) it should be a rival faction resembling mankind in most ways - maybe bloody unmanaged democrats that need to be freed from their regime.