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Helldivers 2 Rolls Out Bastion Tank as Siege Breakers Update Drives March on Cyberstan

The patch ties a new armored playstyle to a campaign pivot triggered by Automaton theft of Super Earth’s Star of Peace schematics.

Overview

  • Patch 6.0.1 is live with the TD-220 Bastion, a multi-seat armored vehicle with a 120mm cannon and heavy coaxial machine gun that functions more like a tank destroyer without a rotating turret.
  • Unlocking the Bastion costs 35,000 requisition slips, carries a lengthy cooldown of about 13 minutes, and typically requires a higher player rank to obtain.
  • The Siege Breakers Warbond adds heavy kit including the LAS-16 Trident, a breaching hammer, the GL-28 belt-fed grenade launcher, and the EAT-411 Leveller missile launcher, alongside new cosmetics.
  • Balance changes raise base melee damage by 50%, rework melee-related armor passives, reduce SMG and pistol sway, increase high-difficulty intensity most noticeably against Automatons, and improve Automaton aiming under heavy loads.
  • Quality-of-life updates include interchangeable emotes and victory poses, full Chinese voiceover, and a new hang-detection feature that force-crashes after prolonged freezes to generate diagnostic crash dumps.