A brand new Warbond is on the way in which 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, crimson berets, naked arms, throwing knives, cranium masks, and all the pieces else you’ll be able to equip whereas CCR’s “Lucky Son” blasts over a speaker close by.
Warbonds will be unlocked with 1000 Tremendous Credit, which will be bought with actual cash or collected round minor factors of curiosity on the map. Followers have criticized Warbonds for coming a bit too continuously with out sufficient distinctive gadgets to justify them, and the Viper Commandos Warbond takes that suggestions into consideration.
“Primarily based on participant enter, we’re altering our strategy to Warbonds shifting ahead in a few methods,” wrote neighborhood supervisor Katherine Baskin on the official Sony website. “Firstly, we’re slowing down the tempo at which we launch Warbonds to present us a bit 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 spanking 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 many who favor heavy armor, the PH-202 Twigsnapper retains related aesthetics with a bit extra safety. Each armors function naked arms and a brand new Peak Physique passive, which improves melee injury and weapon dealing with.
Essentially the most thrilling weapon is a brand new utility merchandise: a throwing knife. I’m unsure if throwing knives will pack the identical punch as shotguns and orbital lasers, however it undoubtedly scores factors for being cool and trendy.
The Viper Commandos Warbond additionally options camo skins for the hellpods, Exosuits, and Pelican-1. It needs to be good to have the ability to customise these items, 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 pace and injury discount.
The Warbond additionally comes with the standard rewards of capes, participant playing cards, and emotes.
It’s attention-grabbing 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, not less than 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.
