After yesterday’s big update, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead isn’t done. A new war bond has just been implemented to offer players to take on the new Illuminate threat that arrived as part of Omens of Tyranny. The highlight, in terms of gears? Well, a big new flamethrower and a big pointy electric stick.
In case you missed it, the game has had a huge dose of new life injected into its veins with the arrival of the long-rumored alien faction of the first Helldivers – they’re taking over the colonies of Super Earth turning innocent citizens into zombies. “No vote” through mysterious space magic.
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Now, Urban Legends Warbond has arrived and is aimed specifically at players fighting for the planet Calypso, in the new urban areas that will be key to this next series of important orders, as the fight will take place in the streets. of ruined colonies.
So what’s in the war bond? well, there’s the SQC-19 Stun Lance, which is the “first secondary melee weapon” of Helldivers 2, and it’s basically an electric stick that you can combine very well with the also new SH-51 Directional Shield stratagem, which will allow you “steel”. yourself for hand-to-hand combat.”
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The other two stratagems on offer are the E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement, which aims to take out heavily armored enemies as you’d expect, and I think the one that sounds the most fun of all due to its potential. to cause chaos, a “stationary high-power flamethrower turret” called A/FLAM-40 Flame Sentry. “Be careful with this one, though, Helldiver,” Arrowhead writes of the sentry, “if the red ammo can takes too much fire, the entire sentry will go up in flames, taking out anyone nearby.”
In addition to them, there are heavy and light armor sets called SR-18 Roadblock and SR-24 Street Scout, both with a passive that increases the reload speed of the main weapon by 30% and the primary ammunition capacity by 20% . The former has Spartan vibes visually, which is clearly designed to fit with the new “This is Democracy” emote, which will let you kick a guy like that scene from 300.
You can also expect the usual types of cosmetics and a new booster that will give your resupply pods their own handy defensive turrets.
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