4th Faction?!?!

[Syridyn]

I know its only rumor, but a 4th faction or 5th sounds so cool. I think it would be so cool to have maps that have two factions bleed into each other and have two different enemies on the same map!!!!! The fun! The Chaos!!

[Oobaneko]

Add furries.

[Cat Nose Presser]

personally i dont think a fourth faction will only be seen until probably HD3.

[VeryGrumpyBear]

I second this. Have constantly provided feedback that the game would greatly benefit from a dose of surprises or unexpected circumstances. Have a Bile Titan hunt turn out to have 2 or 3! Definitely needs a 4th or 5th faction. Had never thought about mixing them though but it could work. I wonder what the community thinks?

[Guardian_Angel]

38th faction will be killer in 2096.

[Vivianite]

we dont even have all of the illuminate and you want another faction already????

[Reyhan]

Add Chaos Helldiver who has been corupted and killing helldiver for fun

[D.e.v.i.OS]

Originally posted by Reyhan:

Add Chaos Helldiver who has been corupted and killing helldiver for fun

with voice lines like "go cry about your weapons' nerf on the Steam forums!"

[Zaidah]

A new faction would need to stand out enough from the others, both visually and from a gameplay perspective. We already have bugs, machines and alien.

Like some people have been suggesting for a while now, the 4th faction could be rogue human factions that are contesting Superhearth's supremacy. The great population makes it believable as a long standing faction (Angel's Venture had half a billion citizen, despite that it was at some point taken by bugs some monthes ago).

You would be fighting human with an arsenal similar to ours (beside the super destroyer's fire support of course... unless ?). The enemy could be diverse as well, going from simple citizen that have basic/outdated weapons to some paramilitary groups with more advanced weaponry (MG's, grenade and maybe even stim to heal) and behavior (going prone when getting shot at, spreading out on the sides when engaging toward your position...). Then add reconditioned mech pilots and other improvised vehicle as heavy enemies, etc

[GoodGorilla]

Rebels would make the most sense. If the ai could be done for the NPCs to behave like soldiers. The rebels could use weapons, strategems, and modify existing buildings to be enemy structures like barracks, anti air emplacements to be shut down, etc. Many of the strategems we use could be reskinned, like they could have their own eagle aircraft and strategems. Having their own drop ships might be an extreme unless the rebels are helldiver dissetent factions like chaos divers.
The story is already there. They believe super earth are not actually democratic and use language of what say a modern military would react to super earth's military aggression. Possibly actually be true democrats, I wouldnt base it on American democrats. Plenty of material about why super earth are the bad guys, and the reactions to those videos and posts. The tech of the rebels could either reflect modern military, or be ex helldiver factions. Or a mix, it would take brainstorming.

Some mission types would be to assassinate their president or critical personal. Shut down ICBM launches, destroying military bases, destroying power stations, rescue civs or pow helldivers. Through the development of the galactic war, the rebels could be developing their own tech or steal other tech from other factions.

[Black_Fox]

All the enemies are themed around apocalypse/sci-fi - We have bugs (Starship Troopers, animes), Terminators and classic Aliens "War of the World" style. I think the next thing could be biological horror "Resident Evil" style though the trope of precoursors is also present in every sci-fi story and could be used.

It takes time to flesh out even a concept for a new faction, so that probably won't happen anytime soon

[Onan The Man]

Super demons from super hell? Like maybe at the end of the year once the other factions get expanded upon further.

[Belyth]

Originally posted by Syridyn:

I know its only rumor, but a 4th faction or 5th sounds so cool. I think it would be so cool to have maps that have two factions bleed into each other and have two different enemies on the same map!!!!! The fun! The Chaos!!

I can see Squids and Bugs somehow merging into a nighmarish hybrid chimera