What to Expect from Helldivers 2’s Liberty Day 2025

Players who are new to Helldivers 2 might not be familiar with its in-game holiday, Liberty Day. Characteristically bombastic and self-indulgent, Liberty Day celebrates Super Earth and the Federation every October 26 in commemoration of the anniversary of Managed Democracy, with the holiday honored since 2016 (the first anniversary of Arrowhead’s original Helldivers).

Liberty Day is known to feature surprise dissident executions (it could be you!), as well as Liberty Day pyres, meetings with Helldivers, and enlistments “for your kids.”

As a tradition that’s now been adopted by Helldivers 2, Liberty Day is especially exciting for the game’s community due to it typically involving free rewards. Thanks to a chronicle of previous goodies doled out for Liberty Day, it’s possible to narrow down what you may be able to anticipate later this month.

Helldivers’ Liberty Day Rewards Spell Out a History of Fun Items

Liberty Day is quickly approaching. If Helldivers’ Liberty Days of old surmise a patternable formula, it might be quite plain what players can look forward to:

Helldivers Liberty Day 2016

M2016 ‘Constitution’
Liberty cape
Community cape
Developer cape

Helldivers Liberty Day 2017

Heavy Strafing Run stratagem
A/GL-28 Launcher Turret
‘Thunderer’ Smoke Round stratagem

Helldivers Liberty Day 2018

MGX-42 Machine Gun
Planet difficulties:
- 13 - An Exercise in Futility
- 14 - The Definition of Insanity
- 15 - The Inner Circle of Hell

Helldivers Liberty Day 2019

Proving Grounds game mode
9 Proving Grounds capes
Random and Favorite loadouts

Helldivers 2 Liberty Day 2024

R-2142 Constitution
DP-00 Tactical armor and helmet

Helldivers 2’s first anniversary was last year, and it held the sequel’s first Liberty Day celebration. It’s too soon to say with certainty that the second anniversary will mimic Helldivers’ second, but a Constitution rifle released on both games’ first Liberty Days could suggest that the sequel intends to mirror what its predecessor did.

If I was a betting man, a new commemorative cape wouldn’t be a bad guess, considering how many capes were released as Liberty Day rewards over the last nine years, not to mention how many beloved Helldivers 2 commemorative capes there are already. Personally, I’d love to see Helldivers 2’s take on the Launcher Turret.

An educated guess, based purely on 2024’s festivities, would be that this year’s Liberty Day will grant players another original Helldivers-inspired gun and armor set, perhaps sans cape.

However, if Helldivers 2’s second Liberty Day is an unprecedented departure from what we may expect, I’d be thrilled with any weapon, armor set, or stratagem we could potentially get. Overall, it may be inappropriate to expect too much, and Arrowhead did a great job of mitigating excessive expectations by releasing a humble amount of content last year. If a slew of content is released, players can be pleasantly startled. But if only a few items are handed out, players will rejoice all the same.

Helldivers 2 is Receiving a Performance Patch This October

This year, Arrowhead has a lot on its plate, and Liberty Day may be a joyous occasion in more ways than one. Arrowhead recently announced that it plans to have a patch go out in mid- to late-October, possibly landing it squarely around Liberty Day, that aims to tackle a handful of Helldivers 2’s performance issues.

Ironically, this patch could be more than enough of a reason to toast Helldivers 2’s success and sing its praises, depending on what technical problems are actually resolved. Nonetheless, we Helldivers should be eternally grateful for how transparent Arrowhead is regarding Helldivers 2’s development, and allowing the studio ample time to marinate, simmer, and slow-roast the game is the least we can do to show our gratitude.

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Released: February 8, 2024
ESRB: Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
Developer(s): Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
Publisher(s): Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing