Whereas I’ve performed and loved many advanced, nuanced video video games in my life, I’m in the end a easy man at coronary heart. I like video video games that characteristic a lot of explosions, and the larger the explosions, the happier I will be.
So once I first witnessed the colossal fireball created by Helldivers 2’s ferocious hellbomb, you may guess that I grinned like a chimp saying ‘cheese!’. Nicely, the primary one I witnessed with out being annihilated by mentioned explosion, anyway, as like most individuals I underestimated the hellbomb’s huge detonation radius once I first primed it to blow. In any case, as I watched the mushroom cloud billow from the crater that was as soon as an automaton base, a single thought accompanied my glee. “I want I may take that with me.”
Now, because of Helldivers 2′ newest warbond lets you just do that. Servants of Freedom introduces the B-100 moveable hellbomb, a brand new stratagem which the official PlayStation weblog describes as “a beacon of democratic fact in a handy backpack format”. The hellbomb might be activated by your self or by a teammate, whereupon it’ll detonate after a ten second countdown which, the weblog stresses “can’t be cancelled”.
Alongside the B-100, Servants of Freedom provides an upgraded variant of the sickle laser rifle. Referred to as the ‘LAS-17 Double Edge’, it packs way more energy behind the laser-beam, with the slight downside that it may additionally burn the wielder. Arguably extra fascinating is the GP-20 Ultimatum, a miniature grenade launcher that occupies your sidearm slot. The weblog says that is designed for “closer-range use” than the standard grenade launcher, although presumably not too shut vary, given it is designed to spit out high-explosives.
There’s additionally a pair of recent armour units, the IE-3 Martyr and the IE-12 Righteous. These are each medium armours with anthropomorphic helmet faceplates and extra explosive protections—making them useful to couple with that shut vary grenade launcher. Lastly, the warbond chucks in a brand new throwable, the G-50 Seeker. That is truly a grenade-sized drone that hovers close by till an enemy comes into vary, otherwise you ping a selected foe, at which level it’ll house in on that focus on to offer them a very intimate fireworks show.
Briefly, the entire warbond caters to these with an inclination towards heavy ordnance, making me a cheerful Helldiver certainly. Servants of Freedom punches the detonator on February 6. Apart from a weak Killzone 2 crossover weapon, Arrowhead appears to have largely eradicated the steadiness points that plagued Helldivers 2 by means of the center of 2024, and the shooter has been operating sturdy because it added the Illuminate faction towards the tip of final 12 months. It reveals little indicators of slowing in 2025, both regardless of director Johan Pilestedt taking a sabbatical from the studio.
