Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just released that blog post telling everyone where the studio’s at in terms of current progress on its 60-day plan. Good news, the next big update to the game is set to arrive on September 17.

If you’re out of the loop, since the Escalation of Freedom update was accompanied by some balancing changes and tweaks to flamethrowers that didn’t go down well with a lot of players, who felt Arrowhead wasn’t aiming to make the game fit their definition of fun via its nerfs to meta weapons, the studio’s been attempting to get a lot of these unhappy soldiers back on side.

As detailed in the blog post, the next big update to the game – which the likes of Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt have been teasing for the past little bit – now has a concrete arrival date – September 17. So mark that on your calendar.

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