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Starship Troopers: Extermination

Starship Troopers: Extermination Update 13 Is Out, and the Bugs Can Fly Now

Update 13, Hoppers Take Flight, is out now in Starship Troopers: Extermination. It adds the film's flying Arachnids, which can carry off Troopers, plus a training camp, a shooting range and two-year anniversary freebies.

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By GetRekt 24 October 2026
Starship Troopers: Extermination Update 13 Is Out, and the Bugs Can Fly Now
TL;DR
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Update 13, Hoppers Take Flight, went live on 22 October at 10am PT (6am NZDT on 23 October). It's free.

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Flying Hopper Arachnids can grab a fully equipped Trooper and carry them off. They appear in Advance & Secure, Horde and ARC missions.

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New: Camp Rasczak training, a shooting range to test unowned weapons, and climbing and vaulting that are 100% faster.

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Weapon tuning, a new Warrior Swarm mutator, and Horde backfill now paused until wave 8.

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Two-year anniversary: a free four-item Third Wave Pack and a new paid 10-item Gore Supporter Pack.

Two years after leaving early access, Starship Troopers: Extermination has finally given the bugs wings. Update 13, Hoppers Take Flight, adds the flying Arachnids from the 1997 film, and true to the movie, they can grab a fully kitted Trooper and carry them off. Would you like to know more?

Starship Troopers: Extermination, Hoppers Take Flight trailer. Video: Offworld Industries (via IGN)

When is it out?

Now. Update 13 went live at 10am PT on Wednesday 22 October. For us, that was 6am NZDT / 4am AEDT on Thursday 23 October. It’s a free update for everyone who owns the game, and on Steam the game itself is NZ$43.59.

The update also marks two years since the full 1.0 launch on 11 October 2024, when it also arrived on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Before that it spent about 17 months in early access, starting in May 2023.

What’s in Update 13

  • Hoppers: big flying Arachnids that swoop in and can carry a fully equipped Trooper away. They turn up in Advance & Secure, Horde and ARC missions, and with certain mission mutators. If you’re the one who wanders off from the squad, enjoy the flight.
  • Camp Rasczak: a new training camp in the Arachnid Quarantine Zone. New players are pushed into Horde Defence Training on their first boot, and veterans can launch it from Solo Missions on the main menu.
  • Shooting range: unlocked in Camp Rasczak after training, so you can test weapons you haven’t requisitioned yet before committing to them.
  • Climbing and vaulting are twice as fast. Climb and vault speed is up 100%, which honestly might be the best change in the patch.
  • Weapon tuning: the TW-2 Sp.L.I.T shotgun gets a 10-gauge bore mod, the TW-2-FA gets frag shells, and the Morita XXX gets new mastery levels.
  • Warrior Swarm: a new mission mutator. Horde backfill now stays paused until wave 8 instead of wave 2.
  • Fixes: an Atmosphere Failure fix, a tutorial pop-up fix and a pile of UI and gameplay fixes. One known issue is the Collect Data Pads prompt in S.O.G Solo Mission 29.
Four Starship Troopers walking away from a huge explosion
Mobile Infantry walking away from an explosion, as is tradition. Image: Offworld Industries

Anniversary freebies and a new pack

  • Third Wave Pack: free, with four cosmetics, to celebrate the anniversary.
  • Gore Supporter Pack: a new paid cosmetic pack with 10 items, including a helmet decal, weapon skin, visor, uniform palette, nameplate and banner items. Offworld’s patch notes don’t list a price, so check your store before you buy.
Starship Troopers squad in armour in a dim hangar
A squad gearing up in the Update 13 trailer. Image: Offworld Industries

Our take

It’s taken them long enough. Hoppers are one of the most memorable bugs in the film, and a horde shooter built around holding a wall against a tide of Arachnids has always been crying out for something that simply flies over the wall. Being snatched off a ridge by a giant bug is exactly the sort of chaos this game is good at.

The less glamorous stuff matters too. A proper tutorial camp and a shooting range should stop new recruits from being dropped into the deep end and dragging the whole squad down. And doubling the vault speed fixes one of the clunkiest parts of moving around.

Extermination has always lived in Helldivers 2’s shadow. But it’s still getting meaningful free updates two years on, and it’s 16-player co-op that leans harder into the movie than anything else out there. If you bounced off it at launch, this is a decent excuse to re-enlist. Service guarantees citizenship.

Still running bug hunts in Extermination, or did Helldivers 2 steal your heart? Tell us in the comments, or come find a squad in the GetRekt Discord.

Sources

Source Steam (Offworld Industries)

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