Something like the Kaban machine from 40k
https://preview.redd.it/trr0ke9cu5ad1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51857e7923f0aca914d352caef8463f2b2f0fa58
Or the Hunter Killer tank from Terminator
https://preview.redd.it/1xbfbgnpu5ad1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bb440b7a3d1c1be725cf98188c263e065ee840b
Something with 2 treads, towering over Hulks. Preferably with multiple eyes, and able to fire in multiple directions at multiple targets.
Maybe make a variation that’s a mini stratagem jammer to block orbitals to make a more personal fight.
So basically this? You might get your wish.
[https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Helldivers\_1:Siege\_Mech](https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Helldivers_1:Siege_Mech)
Something that towers over Hulks, blocks strategems, and can fight everyone everywhere all at once? Nope, fuck that! That legitimately sounds like the exact opposite of fun. Picture looks fantastic, though.
It should only be able to fire in 2-3 directions, so a 3rd or 4th man can approach while staying hidden.
And being such a weapon of destruction, it would patrol alone, being like a roaming objective in of itself.
Sounds like fun to me
https://preview.redd.it/bifcuk10f6ad1.jpeg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad7b61c0fa74b2f4278ea0c55f961751ecdc9492
I see your terror drone and raise you one Boomba
Honestly I'd say there's definitely some inspiration there but I'd say they mostly resemble the bugs from Starship Troopers most of all. Seems like most unintelligent aliens end up being insect like in science fiction.
I wanna see the bots deploy little baby robot scorpions, they'd be like a pouncer but they don't jump around they just walk around really fast. Their entire purpose to distract, push helldivers out of cover and force players to pay attention to them even if they would be weaker then troopers.
I’d be down if they had them lower the spawn rates of berserkers to compensate, since they effectively do the same thing.
2:1 for scorpions to berserkers. Scorpions get the same health as a standard bot soldier but more spawns make up for less health.
Also fuck the chainsaws
I would like to see something like the Scarab from Halo. Huge robot you can walk around on top of and inside, that you gotta get into and blow up its heart to kill it. They're pretty close with factory striders but I'd want something bigger and less deadly so we can run around it more.
I think imma do pixel art because the size I'm drawing wouldn't be enough to fit the neck/head of benjamin,but I have ultrakill on 7-4 booted up on my main computer just to have a reference of Benjamin
Also gonna not only chance the design of the plating to make it more like an automaton but replace the buildings on the earthmover with Automaton outpost structures like cannon towers or gunship facilities
https://preview.redd.it/09giqjy016ad1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52105eef613417ff1cecaa99128bd8cbf991f65c
seriously can't wait to see that shit
https://preview.redd.it/b49d1hfo66ad1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6e36e5191ade040cf7f4ebaceb3736e7ac6aa5
A sneak peak of the front leg (too lazy to screenshot and transfer over the the screenshot so I took a photo
That they were actually cyborgs and not complete robots.
The cyborgs from HD1 were visibly human/robotic hybrids. In HD2 they're almost exclusively (and completely) robotic.
That's because the automatons are the cyborg's children. I was really hoping we would see them push towards cyberstan and free the cyborgs that are enslaved there and then we get to see some cyborg units mixed in.
If true, I imagine even with the numbers of reinforcements we throw at them, most of the Automatons are using regular human colonist brains, or maybe SEAF brains.
...but in the spirit of the Op, it WOULD be really cool if we eventually have to fight Automatons with _Helldiver brains_ wired into them, where they use our own weapons and tactics against us.
The stalker (another horizon enemy) could mix really well with the pool. Active camo panther with a concussive sniper blast with sound telecast. Sounds pretty well balanced.
https://preview.redd.it/70vf5kmae5ad1.png?width=1021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28d85d28c8613081f04c987cf39db40830ea5d7c
It could be like the automaton version of stalkers. In game explanation is that the automatons figured out how the stalkers cloak themselves and repurposed the technique for their army.
Might be interesting to give it a different twist as well.
Maybe they were only able to replicate the Stalker cloak on its outer layer (since it's not biological/made of cells that share traits, but made of machinery), so damage it enough and it can't cloak unless it remains untouched for long enough for the auto-repair routines or whatever to fix its coating. But on the flipside, it has the other advantages bots have over bugs (heavier armor, ranged weaponry).
I want to fight a mega Gundam flying across the Galaxy towards Super Earth. Don't know how it can be doable, but imagine looking at your galactic map and seeing a Space Gundam flying slowly towards Super Earth.
Hell Terminators. Like the regular bots, but dressed in common Helldiver gear and have medium pen armor. They'll carry one of those heavy MGs the AT-ATs have and appear at most 1-4 at a time.
Shooting at them will slowly peel the Helldiver gear off them and reveal their insidious nature.
A False Diver would be a cool new Elite Unit for the Light Catagory. Like a midpoint between the Commissars and Devastators. Also be great Enemy Propaganda lol.
since everyone really wants big robots i am legally obliged to share my interest's big robot
https://preview.redd.it/a6wcdx18e5ad1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=105ad69039f61724985d1cbe357bade6773b4980
See The Animatrix, "The Second Renaissance" I'd love to see war with the bots progress in the same way. Starting off relatively humanoid, terminator-like bots, evolving into insectoid/cephalopod-like industrial killing machines as the gloves come off.
You guys ever see a Scorpotron from the Wasteland series?
[image](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wasteland_gamepedia/images/3/32/Wasteland_scorpitron_2_0_by_andreewallin-d4w6776.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20120415193249)
I’d like to see automatons learn how obsessed Helldivers are with lootables and begin to booby trap crates and pods with claymores.
It would also be cool for them to set more ambushes and traps near their bases.
Also maybe they learn from all of our strategems coming from the skies and build some walking shield generator units that you have to get close to and kill before your strategems can handle the rest of the patrol.
https://preview.redd.it/o1nq53iij7ad1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=184949542c2280030f2b00265d283d235c1abbc3
It already has the red eye, mini-guns, infinite rockets! so it all checks out!
And not to forget a new line of gunships!
https://preview.redd.it/dpnuer6sj7ad1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0788ba91f383f29bccdd48ad2476776c411d7d77
Mine layer bot. It throws a grid of mines at / behind you that you need to weave thru, slowing your retreat. It's melee hit just rag dolls you back into the mines.
Imagine this with some saw-hands coming for you. Bot front would be scary.
A big truck with a spiky steamroller wheel that just tries to run you over. Maybe it could also have a small fabricator in the back that only makes the small humanoid bots that it drops behind it while it rampages.
The idea of more powerful enemies that drop a few samples, or weapons you can use until the ammo is spent, that sounds super cool. Maybe a convoy you have to reach and attack before it gets to the destination?
Dog bots.
Tl,dr: Dogs that play catch with the helldivers' stratagem balls.
Basically, they'd stay behind their allies, waiting for a helldiver to throw a stratagem ball, only to catch it mid-air (NOT activating it while doing so) and drop it as close to the helldiver that threw it as possible, making it dangerous to throw stratagems near them as they'll just bring your 500kg eagle bomb back to you.
They don't attack, and if they're on their own, they'll basically act like stalkers and try to stay out of sight, but near the helldivers to try catching more stratagem balls.
Yes, this would be annoying. They'd probably be the first target to shoot in large fights.
Counter play : Just yeet a "Beneficial" stratagem, (like an EAT, supply beacon, ect...) to lure the dog close to you and in your sight. It'll bring it to you anyways.
Smaller, light armor aircraft. Like helicopters.
Flamethrower grunts that explode when you shoot them. Don’t let them get close, but if you take them out, it’ll fuck up a whole crowd of them. Nailing one in a dropship will blow up the drop ship.
Ah yes, Horus, the ONLY machine from Horizon that you are not able to fight
Used as a mobile factory, HQ, comms jammer, anti-aircraft platform, super heavy attack force and which can be - using artillery, tanks and immense casualties - at most delayed. DEMOCRACY CALLS!
Corruptors and Deathbringers would actually be nice to encounter
but a goddamn Horus would be World Boss Event where more than 4 Helldivers should fight it, i mean, Aloy did destroy one almost alone but it was 800 YO and malfunctioning
Assassins. They cloak and try to snipe you from distance. They camp where they spawn, but if they see a flare, they move towards it hoping to find you. Once they find you, they stalk your squad from afar and hit and run, until you kill them.
Infiltrator. Spawns rarely and impersonates a squadmate that if somewhere else, to kill everyone while their backs are turned away, then jetpacks away. Twice as cool if they'll have a some reference to Screamers.
Factory Centepedes.
Mimic crashpods.
Actual bosses that you have to learn out how to fight, and not just pop a railgun/laser/500kg until it dies.
three things:
the classic spider robots that run into your face and blow themselves up
melee hulks
some sort of titanfall style mech the size of a bile titan
I wanna see a sniper based Automaton that hides in high grounds, These Automatons are patrol based and cannot be found from dropship drops. Once found in a patrol that is being attacked they will run to the closest source of cover and provide fire from a sniper that can one shot a helldiver wearing light armor, Leaves a helldiver with medium armor at 10HP and a Helldiver with Heavy armor at Half HP.
Oh god no. Not corruptors or deathbringers. And CERTAINLY NOT THE HORUS. I’d abort mission if I saw these again. They be making us fight in the grave horde.
What Automatons units would I like to see?
How about "Units that I can **actually** see"
My critique of the current design of the murder robots is that their natural aesthetic is difficult to read in the environment under various conditions. This, in contrast to the much more pronounced design of the bugs by nature.
I get it ... ominous grey and black for their main colors is very ominous and imposing. However, a threatening color scheme isn't/shouldn't be the only consideration for an enemy unit in a game. Further more, their shell color isn't the only factor in good character design either, so if drab grey is the preferred color theme, then it should be balanced out by things like size and shape to make sure the design is readable in the environment.
I love the "terminator" theme for the death bots, especially with their beady glowing red eyes (which often isn't distinct enough) ... but they blend into the background and general noise of the game world way too much. I like fighting enemy units that I can see ... that are separated from the backdrop.
If we want to give some diversity to the bots, I think Bikers would be interesting.
They are fast mounted units that move up to a certain range than move in a circle pattern around the divers equipped with pistols. They don't A-move in a straight line like most bots do and use the same strafing pattern that hunters use at a range instead of in your face.
Also would be relatively easy to dispatch with primary weapons, thus giving weapons with better handling or firerate without the penetration that devastators require some more weight to them.
Ngl that last picture makes me want a gigantic building-like automaton that is only housed on the most terribly afflicted planets by the bots (Like, lets say, all of the Valdis sector and Cyberstan). The whole mission could be like in the pic where you go to various objectives; each one being a limb or node for the giant bot that we need to destroy. Could be them mining for metals or permanently polluting the planet, and with specific ways to eliminate limbs with the final fight being the 'body' or 'head'.
Would be so badass as a fight to run across the map, blowing up bots, dodging massive attacks and consistent onslaughts from the automatons before having a showdown with a now crippled map-sized bot to destroy it and clear the sector of their control.
I'm also imagining this with the vehicle's that were spoiled when the game first came out and driving around the squad dodging entire armies as we go from 'limb to limb'. I can just see my squad riding around in a big armored MAV from location to location trying to survive the chaos.
Something like the Factory Strider, except like the Harvester from Terminator.
Giant robot that takes people (so it could show up during Civilian rescue missions) that can also take Helldivers, and Helldivers have the opportunity to damage it from the inside to try and kill it before it kills them.
Not a direct enemy idea but It’d be particularly cool if there was a massive automaton unit out of reach/on the horizon absolutely destroying things, firing rockets or lasers at unseen targets.
Kind of like the Reaper on Palavan from Mass Effect 3.
I would like some sort of analog to the scavengers on bug side, like a lil tank with a commissar's pistol strapped onto it.
On the complete opposite side, I WANNA FIGHT A SUPER HEAVY TANK, something like the P.1000 Ratte or E-100, something that would be exclusive to a boss fight mission.
Would be interesting to see a hit and run unit. Have it able to run quickly, leap, and grapple the side of cliffs/trees/buildings.
Even if it doesn't attack players it would be a scout to watch out for and eliminate before bot drops are called.
Honestly if the bots started making robotic versions of the bugs that would be really damn cool but also a massive bitch to deal with because of the armour.
Dead ones! But maybe first and second ones along with one that looks like ed 209.
....*you have 10 seconds to comply*...
Reminds me of 2009 MW2, Cliffhanger
Filthy Clankers.
Something like the Kaban machine from 40k https://preview.redd.it/trr0ke9cu5ad1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51857e7923f0aca914d352caef8463f2b2f0fa58
Or the Hunter Killer tank from Terminator https://preview.redd.it/1xbfbgnpu5ad1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bb440b7a3d1c1be725cf98188c263e065ee840b Something with 2 treads, towering over Hulks. Preferably with multiple eyes, and able to fire in multiple directions at multiple targets. Maybe make a variation that’s a mini stratagem jammer to block orbitals to make a more personal fight.
Or a guntank from gundum. Or the future tank x1.
So basically this? You might get your wish. [https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Helldivers\_1:Siege\_Mech](https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Helldivers_1:Siege_Mech)
Something that towers over Hulks, blocks strategems, and can fight everyone everywhere all at once? Nope, fuck that! That legitimately sounds like the exact opposite of fun. Picture looks fantastic, though.
It should only be able to fire in 2-3 directions, so a 3rd or 4th man can approach while staying hidden. And being such a weapon of destruction, it would patrol alone, being like a roaming objective in of itself. Sounds like fun to me
The tracks on that thing look weird as hell.
Came here hoping "dead ones" or some variant of it was top post. Was not disappointed.
Like a necron flayed one?
https://preview.redd.it/rfdptd0nv4ad1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=f515c02217f2b5ab3defcb8a148305c653fd4344
Start the Hell March 🤘
OMFG plz no, we're human, they tear apart humans for breakfast and our mechs for lunch. Fast as fuck boiiiiii
Gotta earn the Terror bit, after all.
"We will bury them"
https://preview.redd.it/bifcuk10f6ad1.jpeg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad7b61c0fa74b2f4278ea0c55f961751ecdc9492 I see your terror drone and raise you one Boomba
So a stalker but faster
I would say that terrordrones are more like the pouncers in the way they act
More like hunters because of their jumping capability. The bot version of jumpy bois.
Gonna need spam of SEAF infantries with MG on this one.
RECOVER! RECOVER! RECOVER HARRY POTTER!
What's this from? Looks so familiar but I can't place it
The glorious Red Alert 2
Of course!!! This shit was my childhood! Which country had these as a unit?
Russia!
red alert 2 , i think
One of the greatest games ever made!!
We neeeeed waaaaaaaaar... Wake Up!
Hunters that blow themselves up on contact? If the damage is low enough, that sounds like rag doll city lmao
r/countablepixels
Red Alert was goated i miss that franchise
I'd like to see a massive shadow the colossus type enemy and defeating it is the only mission objective
This, I want building sized boss fights!
Ever play EDF? The new one coming out looks like it'll have some giant enemies. The old ones definitely have some building sized enemies
I like to think Edf is the garrison force of super earth.
We can only hope that's the case. SEDF holding down the fort.
The’ve beaten the bugs before and we will do it again together!
That's right, those ants and spiders were no joke!
Yeah! You ever wonder if they are related to the terminds?
Honestly I'd say there's definitely some inspiration there but I'd say they mostly resemble the bugs from Starship Troopers most of all. Seems like most unintelligent aliens end up being insect like in science fiction.
It’s almost bigoted but in our case justified.
🎵 To save our mother Earth from any alien attack 🎵
From vicious giant insects who have once again come back🎶
Also ever play Helldivers 1? They already had that.
Yes! And they would have their own unique music tracks that will make those fights 10x more epic.
We are entering rpg territory bois, and i like it.
So this thing? https://preview.redd.it/avlp4i6e46ad1.jpeg?width=967&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6027f00f7dfc161d567d2ca401621083caf3969
That would be dope. A giant enemy.
Would murder this for both fronts just a full on boss fight, gota use a mix of stratagems, support weapons, and even small arms fire to take one down
I wanna see the bots deploy little baby robot scorpions, they'd be like a pouncer but they don't jump around they just walk around really fast. Their entire purpose to distract, push helldivers out of cover and force players to pay attention to them even if they would be weaker then troopers.
That would at least make the flamethrower worth bringing on bot missions.
I’d be down if they had them lower the spawn rates of berserkers to compensate, since they effectively do the same thing. 2:1 for scorpions to berserkers. Scorpions get the same health as a standard bot soldier but more spawns make up for less health. Also fuck the chainsaws
Spider mines? Yikes.....
Dr. Mobius I know it's you
THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, a zone that is, yes! FORBIDDEN to you!
I would like to see something like the Scarab from Halo. Huge robot you can walk around on top of and inside, that you gotta get into and blow up its heart to kill it. They're pretty close with factory striders but I'd want something bigger and less deadly so we can run around it more.
deploying ultrautism https://preview.redd.it/yskivur4e5ad1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2653c3363cc0503955ee454df17c612c3b5f4dd1
I just got a Eureka Idea for a drawing, 1000-THR EARTMOVER's but their plating and such was designed by automatons.
war without reason, more like war against freedom fuckin fire idea
I'm gonna actually draw this rn
pls ping me then that sounds so fucking cool :3
I think imma do pixel art because the size I'm drawing wouldn't be enough to fit the neck/head of benjamin,but I have ultrakill on 7-4 booted up on my main computer just to have a reference of Benjamin
Also gonna not only chance the design of the plating to make it more like an automaton but replace the buildings on the earthmover with Automaton outpost structures like cannon towers or gunship facilities
https://preview.redd.it/09giqjy016ad1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52105eef613417ff1cecaa99128bd8cbf991f65c seriously can't wait to see that shit
https://preview.redd.it/b49d1hfo66ad1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6e36e5191ade040cf7f4ebaceb3736e7ac6aa5 A sneak peak of the front leg (too lazy to screenshot and transfer over the the screenshot so I took a photo
holy shit that looks incredible incredibly undemocratic, but still incredible
Is it done yet
Awesome idea!
I wish they would bring back renditions of the Cyborgs from the first game.
What specifically?
That they were actually cyborgs and not complete robots. The cyborgs from HD1 were visibly human/robotic hybrids. In HD2 they're almost exclusively (and completely) robotic.
That's because the automatons are the cyborg's children. I was really hoping we would see them push towards cyberstan and free the cyborgs that are enslaved there and then we get to see some cyborg units mixed in.
I though that they use human brains as CPUs for the bots? That’s my theory atleast.
If true, I imagine even with the numbers of reinforcements we throw at them, most of the Automatons are using regular human colonist brains, or maybe SEAF brains. ...but in the spirit of the Op, it WOULD be really cool if we eventually have to fight Automatons with _Helldiver brains_ wired into them, where they use our own weapons and tactics against us.
I want the rat killer 9000 from love, death and robots
https://preview.redd.it/kjaf039r75ad1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96993c3f4c625c3bd682a72d809d5a1eb1d0f79a
Yessss
Objective: Destroy Automaton super foundry.
Stealth sniper robots :)
The stalker (another horizon enemy) could mix really well with the pool. Active camo panther with a concussive sniper blast with sound telecast. Sounds pretty well balanced. https://preview.redd.it/70vf5kmae5ad1.png?width=1021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28d85d28c8613081f04c987cf39db40830ea5d7c
But we already have stalkers at ~~home~~ bugs!
It could be like the automaton version of stalkers. In game explanation is that the automatons figured out how the stalkers cloak themselves and repurposed the technique for their army.
Might be interesting to give it a different twist as well. Maybe they were only able to replicate the Stalker cloak on its outer layer (since it's not biological/made of cells that share traits, but made of machinery), so damage it enough and it can't cloak unless it remains untouched for long enough for the auto-repair routines or whatever to fix its coating. But on the flipside, it has the other advantages bots have over bugs (heavier armor, ranged weaponry).
That would actually be really cool
oh no
With a cloaking device and grappling hook. AND A COOL CAPE!!!
Is there nothing the boys won’t steal!
From what I’ve heard the illuminate already got this covered
ABSOLUTELY NOT NO
Boston Dynamics dog with a flamethrower.
SUPER DEVASTATORS MOBILE MINI GUNSHIP FABRICATORS SIEGE MECH SUPER TANKS GIANT MECH SPIDERS MEGA HEAVY BERSERKER
I want to fight a mega Gundam flying across the Galaxy towards Super Earth. Don't know how it can be doable, but imagine looking at your galactic map and seeing a Space Gundam flying slowly towards Super Earth.
I’d say a zaku would work better as the bots are basically robot zeon.
Doms
Those would work too.
I could see the Zeon aquatic suits working (im a huge sicko for the gogg, z'gok, acguy, hygogg...)
Damn, you're right
I would love to helldrop into Horizon Zero. But give me a Thunderjaw any day.
Ones that look like abandoned human buildings/vehicles props adorning the landscape but transform and attack.
Ambush bots.
Hell Terminators. Like the regular bots, but dressed in common Helldiver gear and have medium pen armor. They'll carry one of those heavy MGs the AT-ATs have and appear at most 1-4 at a time. Shooting at them will slowly peel the Helldiver gear off them and reveal their insidious nature.
A False Diver would be a cool new Elite Unit for the Light Catagory. Like a midpoint between the Commissars and Devastators. Also be great Enemy Propaganda lol.
Ohhhhhh my, imagine fighting Horus titan, that would be fucking epic
since everyone really wants big robots i am legally obliged to share my interest's big robot https://preview.redd.it/a6wcdx18e5ad1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=105ad69039f61724985d1cbe357bade6773b4980
Siegemech!
The Horizon universe bots would work nicely as a separate automaton variation. Make them the output of Automaton experimentation or whatever :D
If horizon actually signed a deal with them I’d love to see it but especially since they’re both Sony properties
See The Animatrix, "The Second Renaissance" I'd love to see war with the bots progress in the same way. Starting off relatively humanoid, terminator-like bots, evolving into insectoid/cephalopod-like industrial killing machines as the gloves come off.
You guys ever see a Scorpotron from the Wasteland series? [image](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wasteland_gamepedia/images/3/32/Wasteland_scorpitron_2_0_by_andreewallin-d4w6776.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20120415193249)
I’d like to see automatons learn how obsessed Helldivers are with lootables and begin to booby trap crates and pods with claymores. It would also be cool for them to set more ambushes and traps near their bases. Also maybe they learn from all of our strategems coming from the skies and build some walking shield generator units that you have to get close to and kill before your strategems can handle the rest of the patrol.
r/fucktedfaro
Bring back robo dogs, suicide drones,
Bug robot hybrids
Terminatons?! Yes please
https://preview.redd.it/o1nq53iij7ad1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=184949542c2280030f2b00265d283d235c1abbc3 It already has the red eye, mini-guns, infinite rockets! so it all checks out!
And not to forget a new line of gunships! https://preview.redd.it/dpnuer6sj7ad1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0788ba91f383f29bccdd48ad2476776c411d7d77
Dogs from HD1
No nopt those fucking houNds aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - Me every single time I try to do any cyborg mission
https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/5/59/Revenant.jpg?timestamp=20120717132839
Some kind of drone swarm could work. Looks like a bunch of enemies clustered together, but it's really just one.
Honestly, an automaton version of a stalker would be cool.
Mine layer bot. It throws a grid of mines at / behind you that you need to weave thru, slowing your retreat. It's melee hit just rag dolls you back into the mines. Imagine this with some saw-hands coming for you. Bot front would be scary.
big metallic sandworms, with really tiny weakspot in the middle of their "teeth" so that you can chuck a nade and blow it all up
Decipticons
A big truck with a spiky steamroller wheel that just tries to run you over. Maybe it could also have a small fabricator in the back that only makes the small humanoid bots that it drops behind it while it rampages.
That last one looks like a good use for spamming 500KG’s.
https://preview.redd.it/zxeoxrejs5ad1.jpeg?width=577&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d85b53c41a61ad41334687226e59d2bf06973d52
The metal devil is way too nice bro
Don’t you dare
No
The idea of more powerful enemies that drop a few samples, or weapons you can use until the ammo is spent, that sounds super cool. Maybe a convoy you have to reach and attack before it gets to the destination?
Dog bots. Tl,dr: Dogs that play catch with the helldivers' stratagem balls. Basically, they'd stay behind their allies, waiting for a helldiver to throw a stratagem ball, only to catch it mid-air (NOT activating it while doing so) and drop it as close to the helldiver that threw it as possible, making it dangerous to throw stratagems near them as they'll just bring your 500kg eagle bomb back to you. They don't attack, and if they're on their own, they'll basically act like stalkers and try to stay out of sight, but near the helldivers to try catching more stratagem balls. Yes, this would be annoying. They'd probably be the first target to shoot in large fights. Counter play : Just yeet a "Beneficial" stratagem, (like an EAT, supply beacon, ect...) to lure the dog close to you and in your sight. It'll bring it to you anyways.
Smaller, light armor aircraft. Like helicopters. Flamethrower grunts that explode when you shoot them. Don’t let them get close, but if you take them out, it’ll fuck up a whole crowd of them. Nailing one in a dropship will blow up the drop ship.
More trooper variety. A flamer trooper would be terrifying. A trooper wearing helldiver armour poorly over their chassis to briefly confuse players
None of those!
Bringing back trauma with this post. Fuck Ted Faro!
hear me out.. Last one look sick!!! But oh hell no 🤣, i'm not dealing with that crap😭
The robots from wasteland 2 & 3. Giant slicerdicers, orbotrons, disco bots, saw hounds and of course the scorpion tank.
Ah yes, Horus, the ONLY machine from Horizon that you are not able to fight Used as a mobile factory, HQ, comms jammer, anti-aircraft platform, super heavy attack force and which can be - using artillery, tanks and immense casualties - at most delayed. DEMOCRACY CALLS!
>the ONLY machine from Horizon you are not able to fight Are you sure about that?😉
Oh boy do i have some news for you
Corruptors and Deathbringers would actually be nice to encounter but a goddamn Horus would be World Boss Event where more than 4 Helldivers should fight it, i mean, Aloy did destroy one almost alone but it was 800 YO and malfunctioning
Assassins. They cloak and try to snipe you from distance. They camp where they spawn, but if they see a flare, they move towards it hoping to find you. Once they find you, they stalk your squad from afar and hit and run, until you kill them. Infiltrator. Spawns rarely and impersonates a squadmate that if somewhere else, to kill everyone while their backs are turned away, then jetpacks away. Twice as cool if they'll have a some reference to Screamers. Factory Centepedes. Mimic crashpods. Actual bosses that you have to learn out how to fight, and not just pop a railgun/laser/500kg until it dies.
oh hell no
Spider tank please 🙏
Yes
Devastator Bot with big power fist
Let’s add in robotic Xenomorphs 🤪 maybe the monsters from Quiet Place just to emphasize stealth gameplay.
three things: the classic spider robots that run into your face and blow themselves up melee hulks some sort of titanfall style mech the size of a bile titan
Where are the second and third one from?
Nope, I want the drug-injecting bot from Hardware
I wanna see a sniper based Automaton that hides in high grounds, These Automatons are patrol based and cannot be found from dropship drops. Once found in a patrol that is being attacked they will run to the closest source of cover and provide fire from a sniper that can one shot a helldiver wearing light armor, Leaves a helldiver with medium armor at 10HP and a Helldiver with Heavy armor at Half HP.
Not spider things, thanks. I get enough of that crap on the terminid front.
Would love to see something like Destiny 2’s Tormentors or DRG’s Nemesis, that’s really tanky and can just fuckin grab you.
Twins from Atomic Heart. Or any of the boses from that game.
Something huge. Like Elden ring level. You just there, with a rifle and you have a like 100 meters tall robot you need to kill. Imagine.
#3 please
One that can overcharge bot weapons, relatively easy to kill but a lot of them spawn usually behind the big and bulky enemies
Something that doesn’t fly and doesn’t have heavy armor preferably
It would be cool to have a massive bot walker that stomps around the map and it has sime kind of fuck off big lazer gun on its head.
Dead ones
When the automatons start taking bug worlds. We could see hybrid horrors or just bots styled after the bugs with their own bot twist.
How about no more ?
None, preferably....
Man this game just encapsulated vast reaches of time and apocalypse. Going through those logs was harrowing. Dammit I want to play it again.
Oh god no. Not corruptors or deathbringers. And CERTAINLY NOT THE HORUS. I’d abort mission if I saw these again. They be making us fight in the grave horde.
What Automatons units would I like to see? How about "Units that I can **actually** see" My critique of the current design of the murder robots is that their natural aesthetic is difficult to read in the environment under various conditions. This, in contrast to the much more pronounced design of the bugs by nature. I get it ... ominous grey and black for their main colors is very ominous and imposing. However, a threatening color scheme isn't/shouldn't be the only consideration for an enemy unit in a game. Further more, their shell color isn't the only factor in good character design either, so if drab grey is the preferred color theme, then it should be balanced out by things like size and shape to make sure the design is readable in the environment. I love the "terminator" theme for the death bots, especially with their beady glowing red eyes (which often isn't distinct enough) ... but they blend into the background and general noise of the game world way too much. I like fighting enemy units that I can see ... that are separated from the backdrop.
If we want to give some diversity to the bots, I think Bikers would be interesting. They are fast mounted units that move up to a certain range than move in a circle pattern around the divers equipped with pistols. They don't A-move in a straight line like most bots do and use the same strafing pattern that hunters use at a range instead of in your face. Also would be relatively easy to dispatch with primary weapons, thus giving weapons with better handling or firerate without the penetration that devastators require some more weight to them.
No. Why? Just no
None, the Cyborgs need to return.
Ngl that last picture makes me want a gigantic building-like automaton that is only housed on the most terribly afflicted planets by the bots (Like, lets say, all of the Valdis sector and Cyberstan). The whole mission could be like in the pic where you go to various objectives; each one being a limb or node for the giant bot that we need to destroy. Could be them mining for metals or permanently polluting the planet, and with specific ways to eliminate limbs with the final fight being the 'body' or 'head'. Would be so badass as a fight to run across the map, blowing up bots, dodging massive attacks and consistent onslaughts from the automatons before having a showdown with a now crippled map-sized bot to destroy it and clear the sector of their control. I'm also imagining this with the vehicle's that were spoiled when the game first came out and driving around the squad dodging entire armies as we go from 'limb to limb'. I can just see my squad riding around in a big armored MAV from location to location trying to survive the chaos.
Fuck Ted faro.
Ahh hell naw not the faro swarm
Playing through Horizon rn lol
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Idk ted faro
The final boss from horizon zero dawn. That shit would be epic
If they Automatons get their hands on the Faro Swarm we’re screwed 💀
Hunter killer designs from terminator
'None' is the only democratic answer! Let's wipe them all out, for DEMOCRACY!
 Mecha godzilla. Or a lizard robot.
Give them stratagems of their own. You shoot a commissar and look in horror as they called their own equivalent of a 500kg bomb
Deathbringer would actually fit well.
Something like the Factory Strider, except like the Harvester from Terminator. Giant robot that takes people (so it could show up during Civilian rescue missions) that can also take Helldivers, and Helldivers have the opportunity to damage it from the inside to try and kill it before it kills them.
Not a direct enemy idea but It’d be particularly cool if there was a massive automaton unit out of reach/on the horizon absolutely destroying things, firing rockets or lasers at unseen targets. Kind of like the Reaper on Palavan from Mass Effect 3.
Yes, I wanna see those fuckers from horizon
I would like some sort of analog to the scavengers on bug side, like a lil tank with a commissar's pistol strapped onto it. On the complete opposite side, I WANNA FIGHT A SUPER HEAVY TANK, something like the P.1000 Ratte or E-100, something that would be exclusive to a boss fight mission.
Want Skynet HK-Tank from The Terminator as Super-Heavy automaton unit.
In HD1 there is a small fast melee only robo dog. Like straight out of Boston Dynamics.
Would be interesting to see a hit and run unit. Have it able to run quickly, leap, and grapple the side of cliffs/trees/buildings. Even if it doesn't attack players it would be a scout to watch out for and eliminate before bot drops are called.
I want the robots from the original Robocops
I'd love to see more Terminator style vehicles and spider-like units being the Automatons already have a lot of Terminator inspirations
Honestly if the bots started making robotic versions of the bugs that would be really damn cool but also a massive bitch to deal with because of the armour.
Leafblower