A brand new Warbond is on the best way to Helldivers 2, and it’s step one in Arrowhead shaking up the sport’s replace schedule. The Viper Commandos Warbond is themed after jungle fight — camo prints, purple berets, naked arms, throwing knives, cranium masks, and the whole lot else you possibly can equip whereas CCR’s “Lucky Son” blasts over a speaker close by.
Warbonds could be unlocked with 1000 Tremendous Credit, which could be bought with actual cash or collected round minor factors of curiosity on the map. Followers have criticized Warbonds for coming just a little too ceaselessly with out sufficient distinctive gadgets to justify them, and the Viper Commandos Warbond takes that suggestions under consideration.
“Based mostly on participant enter, we’re altering our strategy to Warbonds transferring ahead in a few methods,” wrote neighborhood supervisor Katherine Baskin on the official Sony web site. “Firstly, we’re slowing down the tempo at which we launch Warbonds to provide us just a little bit extra time to shine these designs earlier than they’re launched. Secondly, we’re altering the association of things in every Warbond to make room for brand new merchandise sorts. It’s time to deal with high quality over amount.”
Gamers can unlock a brand new Liberator Carbine, designed for shut quarters fight, in addition to a brand new secondary weapon that packs quite a lot of punch within the SG-22 Bushwhacker triple-barrel sawed off shotgun. The PH-9 Predator armor is a transparent reference to, effectively, Predator — and I’m tempted to unlock it only for the lovable beret. For individuals who desire heavy armor, the PH-202 Twigsnapper retains comparable aesthetics with just a little extra safety. Each armors characteristic naked arms and a brand new Peak Physique passive, which improves melee harm and weapon dealing with.
Probably the most thrilling weapon is a brand new utility merchandise: a throwing knife. I’m undecided if throwing knives will pack the identical punch as shotguns and orbital lasers, but it surely undoubtedly scores factors for being cool and classy.
The Viper Commandos Warbond additionally options camo skins for the hellpods, Exosuits, and Pelican-1. It must be good to have the ability to customise this stuff, including a sure panache to the in any other case plain-looking mech fits and hellpods. A brand new booster, Experimental Infusion, makes stims much more of a life-saver by giving injections a lift to motion velocity and harm discount.
The Warbond additionally comes with the everyday rewards of capes, participant playing cards, and emotes.
It’s fascinating to see Arrowhead shake issues up. There are some massive narrative happenings proper now, since gamers turned the tremendous colony of Meridia into an ominous black gap. If issues escalate additional, at the very least we’ll have these enjoyable new toys to throw at our alien enemies. The Viper Commandos Warbond will launch on all platforms on June 13.
