Helldivers 2‘s Festival of Reckoning goes live on December 18, 2025 at 2am PT (10am GMT, 11am CET, 7pm JST) and runs through December 31 at 14:59 PT (22:59 GMT, 23:59 CET, Jan 1 07:59 JST). The PlayStation Blog announcement says the event will bring extended event time and special Major Orders that hand out limited-time celebration stratagems.
The festival is billed as a season-long celebration inside Helldivers 2. Players can expect holiday Major Orders that grant temporary access to a range of stratagems, including some normally reserved for Premium Warbonds. In-game dispatches will inform squads which Major Order is active and which mandatory celebration stratagems are available for the short term.
Players looking for a quick look at the festival trailer can view the official clip here:
Expect a mix of spectacle and tactical chaos while the event runs, with the temporary stratagems changing which loadouts and strategies feel best in drop zones during the festival window.
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Helldivers 2
Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios
Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter in which squads of up to four players are deployed from orbit onto hostile planets to complete strategic missions. Players select loadouts of weapons, armor, and stratagems that allow them to call in orbital strikes, supply drops, vehicles, and turrets during combat. Friendly fire is always active, requiring coordination between teammates. The game features a persistent galactic war where community-wide performance determines which planets are liberated or lost.
- Genre Shooter, Tactical
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
- Perspective First person, Third person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release February 8, 2024
- Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment
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