Automaton Fleet sighted - Helldivers 2

Attention, Helldivers! Spaceborne Automaton forces have been detected en-route to disrupt liberation efforts on multiple worlds. Show them the might of Democracy!

***All of this is a fan-made animation. As far as I'm aware, there is no official Automaton ship design, nor any plans to include their fleets anytime soon.

Helldivers fan art by Martechi.
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Music: Automaton Combat Music - Helldivers 2 Game Soundtrack
Composer: Wilbert Roget II
Developer: Arrowhead Game Studios
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America

[martechi]

Attention Helldivers, Automaton ships engaged!
Obviously, I've got no idea what Automaton spaceships canonically look like. These designs are based loosely on their Dropship, with some Super Destroyer elements and extra spikes mixed in. They're just about what I imagine their fleet might actually turn out to be, but we won't know until some updates or concept art come out.

As an added disclaimer: This animation was a rather quick and dirty one. None of the lasers are tracked to actual weapon hardpoints, etc. I want to do something more involved eventually, but for the moment I mainly wanted to show-off this design and see what people think.

Fingers crossed we'll get Helldive-Boarding action one day!

[Leprechaunlock]

I hope one day we get ship boarding missions. That'd be dope.

[shoulderpyro]

these are now headcanon official ships to me.

[greg-qciy]

Honestly, while i do like being a hell diver i would love to be a naval officer running void superiority missions and actually deploying the stratagems from the ship

[cherrynightmare]

Someone send this to the developers, they should see that we really need missions with space dogfights and boarding missions

[angush]

Imagine boarding missions where the drop pods are fired into Automaton ships whether its straight through the hull or just into hangar bays, and the objective is to blow the ship up and you get extracted just before it does

[KsnypsAdventures]

People are saying automaton fleets would be dope, but I feel like giving the Terminids a power boost by adding gigantic, intergalactic hives or bugs that you would have to fight in outer space would be pretty dope and a little more creative than your standard spaceship fleet vs spaceship fleet formula

[GamerGuy]

Someone needs to hire this man so we can get cutscenes like this you need to work for Arrowhead

[horse]

Now I want a helldivers rts/fps hybrid game

[multiversepatriot]

Loving the mix of Star Wars and Cylons in there, even if unintentional. Hope Arrowhead takes some cues from here. Awesome work regardless!

[johnlesterr]

Oh fuck yeah this is awesome. Rotating engines just feel right.

[ROBANN]

is anyone elses first thought "damn, they can't aim for shit"?

[boi]

He harnessed the power of The Simpsons and successfully predicted this outcome.

[isolit]

This feels like an empire at war cutscene mode but in hd, greay job!

[KeemperorK]

Love it, we need to see the ships of our enemies and have some kind of space combat component, to test and prove the might of Super Earth Ships against those dastardly robots and bugs.
Seriously, Helldivers could have some awesome space battles and I hope they get implemented one day

[Twilleh]

Space battles where you control a single fighter, yes please.

[lasagnakob]

I love how there's a massive saturation of shots being fired and _none_ of them hit anything lol

[AJOrpheo]

You cant tell me that the FTL doesn't gives that same satisfaction as watching a star destroyer come out of hyperspace. This game is such a fucking vibe. Space combat would be amazing in the future.

[bodansova]

As always excellent work on the designs, models, and animations.
I especially like the detail of the larger automaton ships having forward facing engine blocks that can turn around for ( more maneuverability i presume ).

Thank you for providing us with such amazing animations, looking forward to see what you make next.

[Kagira]

Imagine a "weaken the automaton fleet" mission where you're launched in boarding pods at a automaton capital ship.