# Helldivers 2 Machinery of Oppression:  6.2.3

- Product: Helldivers 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/helldivers-2)
- Vendor: Arrowhead Game Studios
- Date: 2026-05-06
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/686379208862072850
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/helldivers-2/releases/2026-05-06-machinery-of-oppression-6.2.3

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **changed** — Hive Guard main body armor increased from 1 to 2
- **changed** — Hive Guard main body health increased from 375 to 500
- **changed** — Hive Guard head armor decreased from 4 to 3
- **changed** — Hive Guard front legs armor increased from 2 to 3
- **changed** — Hive Guard claws armor decreased from 3 to 1
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws

Release Captain Morris here with a small update this fine Wednesday.

We have reverted the Hive Guard and fixed an issue introduced in Patch 6.2.1 where armor values were incorrectly swapped between the Legs and Claws.

##### **Updated Hive Guard stats:**

**Main Body**

Armor increased from 1 → 2

Health increased from 375 → 500

**Head**

Armor decreased from 4 → 3

**Front Legs**

Armor increased from 2 → 3

**Claws**

Armor decreased from 3 → 1

##### [url="https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15916898652700--HELLDIVERS-2-Known-Issues" style="pill" buttoncolor="#ffe800"]KNOWN ISSUES