Helldivers 2’s new Chopping Edge premium Warbond is reside now, including new weapons, gear, and armor to the smash hit PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter.
The Warbond, which is Helldivers 2’s tackle a battle move, isn’t time-limited. Which means that as soon as you purchase it, you’re free to unlock its rewards everytime you like. The earlier premium Warbond, Steeled Veterans, stays obtainable.
Chopping Edge prices 1,000 Tremendous Credit. Whilst you can earn Tremendous Credit from gameplay and the Warbond itself, it’s also possible to purchase them for real-world cash. Through the in-game store, 1,000 Tremendous Credit prices $9.99.
Helldivers 2 Chopping Edge Warbond contents:
The EX Collection Prototypes
- EX-03 Prototype 3 – Features a rubber underlayer for insulation. Helpful, actually, as this prototype’s wires function at a stunning 400,000 volts.
- EX-16 Prototype 16 – Warning: Electrical arc generates a robust magnetic discipline. Keep away from use whereas close to stapled paperwork.
- EX-00 Prototype X – The tip results of a number of billion Tremendous Credit and 12 years of analysis into creating “the Soldier of Tomorrow”. Present us it was value it.
Expanded arsenal
- LAS-16 Sickle – A candy laser rifle that fires briefly bursts. And it doesn’t want reloading. Simply look ahead to overheating or shove a brand new heatsink in there.
- SG-8P Punisher Plasma – Exploding plasma rounds sound lethal… as a result of they’re, to aliens and allies! This modified Punisher shotgun is as enjoyable as it’s fearsome.
- ARC-12 Blitzer – Mission an arc of close-range lightning, or cost it as much as hearth off highly effective bolts. Good for taking out a number of targets and supplying you with extra time to choose a celebration emote.
- And you may unlock a brand new stun grenade, the G-23 Stun, and the LAS-7 Dagger pistol.
Three new capes are included within the Warbond, with matching participant playing cards for every cape, in addition to three new emotes. There’s additionally a brand new booster, known as Localisation Confusion, that will increase the time between enemy encounters.
There’s hundreds occurring on the planet of Helldivers 2 proper now. Developer Arrowhead simply quietly launched flying bugs within the recreation, and final week made mechs obtainable. In the meantime, Arrowhead has requested for the Helldivers 2 group’s assist in developing with concepts for the “arduous to unravel” downside of gamers kicking teammates who don’t have meta loadouts.
Helldivers 2 has change into one of many shock hits of 2024 since launching in February, topping the charts on Steam and reportedly promoting round three million copies. In response to at the very least one analyst, it is nonetheless rising. Take a look at IGN’s Helldivers 2 overview to search out out why it is happening so properly.
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