Overview
- Arrowhead’s Machinery of Oppression update (v6.0.3) is live, shifting the Galactic War to factory-city battlefields with missions to destroy mega-factories and topple statues on the Cyborg homeworld.
- Three Cyborg enemy types debut: Agitators that command Automaton forces, close-quarters Radicals with shotguns and martial attacks, and the heavily armed Vox Engine war machine.
- A Galactic Reinforcement Counter now tracks a finite pool of Helldiver deployments, with every death reducing reserves and a zero count signaling failure of the operation.
- The first Major Order sets a one-day target to eliminate 700,000,000 Automatons on the planet, framing an aggressive opening push for the community.
- SteamDB shows the event driving a surge past 150,000 concurrent PC players, and game director Mikael Eriksson says the outcome is not predetermined and will be decided by players.