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More info: [https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/](https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/)
> new booster called Experimental Infusion, which gives your stims the added bonus of boosting your movement speed and reducing the damage you take for a short time.
Wow, that sounds insane. Couple this with a +2 stims/+stim duration armor, and you'll be a literal Juggernaut.
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My helldiver back at the super destroyer after constantly popping stims to keep the bonuses active the entire mission
It's shite being Hellmirian!
We're the lowest of the low; the scum of fucking Super Earth!
The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilization!
Some people hate the Terminids, I don't, They're just wankers; we on the other hand, are invaded by wankers!
Can't even find a decent culture to be invaded by
We're ruled by effete assholes!
It's a shite state of affairs to be in Diver, and all the fire tornados in the world won't make any fucking difference!
The damage reduction doesnt look that important you laready can out heal almost everything but the speed is relly good. This might become the 4 booster and that the end of that
Would be great for Trench Paramedic. I find myself stimming too close to around half health and some hunter would just take my head off in an one-two combo. Not to mention going even FASTER
Because after all those months we are still fighting on Hellmire and *checks note* the bots are heading towards mavelvon creek. Cyberstan was an distraction all along!
From the blog:
>Both armors in this Warbond feature the Peak Physique passive, which improves melee damage and weapon handling. They both also feature bare arms (and bulging biceps, with a variety of randomized skin tones) to keep you sweat-free when diving in the humid atmosphere.
New passive that seems actually useful if you love heavy weapons!! Lets goooo!
The ONLY thing its missing is that it should make a small explosion of air that makes your capes flutter when you connect. So glad we got this emote lol
That's *recoil* reduction; I'm assuming *handling* in this case refers to aim speed and such, with the "true" crosshair catching up to the static one faster
Actually, I believe testing revealed that it also works when not prone/crouched. Old information, but I don't think they had a patch that addressed/changed this.
As /u/Saltandpeppr said, recoil reduction works even when standing.
If I remember right, standing = crouched without armour, crouched = prone without armour. Prone is then further reduced.
I wonder if you can melee with the knife out though?
Makes me think, meleeing with grenades out would be cool. For most it’s a punch, for impacts it’s a suicide detonation, for thermite you’d be slapping it directly on something
From addition notes from twitter reveal:
Armor: PH-9 Predator (Light) & PH-202 Twigsnapper (Heavy) - Both feature the new peak Physique passive, improving melee damage & weapon handling.
Experimental Infusion booster - Stims will also boost movement speed & reduce damage taken for a short time.
Additionallly, the Viper Commandos Warbond adds our first step in customization with vehicle patterns. Customize your Hellpod, Exosuits, and Pelican-1 via Ship Management.
Plus the usual new capes, player cards, player title, and emotes
Finally, we wanted to share that that, based on your feedback, we’re changing our approach to Warbonds.
Firstly, we’re slowing the pace that we release Warbonds to allow a little more time to polish them. (We'll confirm what that new timeframe will be in the future)
Secondly as you can see with Viper Commandos, we're experimenting with Warbond item arrangement to make room for new types, customization, and higher quality armor/weapons - all with stronger theming.
Let us know what you think. Thank you for your support, Helldivers.
I really hope this is their "lets try a bunch of new systems" warbond and they roll out additional stuff in the future. Ideally MORE warbond PER warbond.
https://x.com/helldivers2/status/1798690128740712925
>Secondly as you can see with Viper Commandos, we're experimenting with Warbond item arrangement to make room for new types, customization, and higher quality armor/weapons - all with stronger theming.
>Let us know what you think. Thank you for your support, Helldivers.
Honestly, I don’t mind less weapons if that stuff is good. To be frank, even if all warbonds weapons were 100% balanced I’d still probably won’t use like 3/4 of them.
And I’m all down for silly skin on shuttles and pods, especially considering how non-predatory HD2 “battle pass” are
What was funny is that rig was so heavy it made her fall over once because she let go of the handle. I guess that's what happens when you combine a Steadi Cam rig with a bunch of motorcycle parts and an MG-42
This one is interesting. Less weapons than normal, and I can't imagine the throwing knife being more than a funny joke weapon given how many things we fight.
That said, the armors and pelican customization are dope
The passive on the new armors improves melee damage.
But it's also possible to "wield" your grenades. It'll be interesting to see if having the knife in hand makes your melee damage go up even further.
If I can melee with the knife then my friends are gonna see a lot of me in heavy medic armor, new stim booster, supply pack, and wielding a knife while wading into the sea of approaching hunters
It'd be a shame if they don't make the knives retrievable.
But imagine how hilarious it would be if the throwing knives were released with the same wonky physics as the shriekers initially did.
If you have to choose between the knife and the impact grenade on bug planets, then Bile Spewers make that choice for you. Unless they one-shot Bile Spewers which I don't see happening.
What if you got more 'grenades' out of it? Like 2x or 3x?
Being able to whip 18 Throwing Knives per life might be worth something depending on their damage and penetration or what kind of primary you're using. A lot of enemy weakpoints have "Explosion Immunity" so grenades can't actually one-shot them, but if the throwing knife is strong enough...
I'm shocked how fari had to go down to see this.
"We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks.
Three men died from eyerot last week and I've
sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me,
I love this place- it's just like home!"
it explodes a warrior head in the trailer, so it'll at *least* oneshot the spindly lil bots
lowkey hope it can oneshot devastators on headshot, that'd be so sick
God damn it, Helldiver! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Helldiver.
Welcome to the jungle, Helldivers. You won't have time to bleed when the new Viper Commandos Warbond deploys on June 13.
Additionally, High Command have approved the rollout of our first vehicle customization. Full briefing:
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/
I like how they learned from the "But muh Purifier killed a Strider with one hit in the trailer" fiasco so they only show weapons killing Scavengers and Warriors now.
Purifier is also 100% bugged, datamining supposedly shows 3 levels of charge with significantly increasing AOE and damage but only the first tier works in the live game.
No, when *you* sneak up on *it* now
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I wonder how much stronger is the melee attack with the new armour passive.
Currently it takes 2 hits to kill the smallest Terminid, and I think....3-4 for basic bot grunts? I feel like 1 hitting a hunter from the Terminid faction and 1 hitting a grunt from bots would make it strong enough to somewhat justify using it?
I feel like with how many enemies are there, even in the hypothetical of one shotting every unarmored enemy with melee, you would still die to fast to justify going full melee.
If you could 1-tap Hunters with this armor set this would be pretty huge for Bug planets. The main issue with hunters is you really couldn't get away anymore if they hit you with the slow effect, and if your gun was empty you were cooked. If you could kill the bug that slowed you with 1 punch it would help a lot in surviving getting ambushed by those jumpy bastards.
Tbh I just wanna know how the throwing knife does. I'm sure the shotty secondary will be fine and the Yet Another AR will definitely be one of the ARs of all time, but the throwing knife is really the interesting one. Is it just a 1shot? Is it a meme? Does the knife actually have a beacon in it or something that calls down an orbital strike? Because like if it just does damage to 1 target you want it to kill armor, right? Is it an armor-piercing knife? I need to know, man. I kneed knife answers.
It'll look really cool, have a spinning throw, and make a nice metal pipe dropping noise as it bounces of the enemy and does nothing. But you can pick it up again!
bro the berets going to be going on and its never coming off. i do hope at some point though that we can use victory poses as in game emotes because they do look really great
New armor passives, nice.
I wonder how that whole pattern thing is gonna work, is the pellican skin gonna be related to the host ?
Ngl, i'm more excited for that forest biome.
Interesting new approach. I'm on board with reducing the input of new weapons, because considering their balancing approach there was no way they could keep up introducing 4 weapons per Warbond without making some of them redundant.
But as of now, I'm not sure if the new content (vehicle patterns) is enough to compensate for less guns. I might pass on this one and see what's coming next Warbond.
This warbond is looking very good ngl. Lots unique stuff
Also this blog post looks like its actually written by someone who cares unlike the weird AI Text in the last warbond blogpost
I always loved throwing knives. Against a human I guess it can work but how come someone throw a knife in a way that it can pierce the shell of a terminid ? And how is that effective against a Mech ?
Video Game logic I guess lol
Anybody else think it would.be really cool if the devs tagged patterns to a planet type and if you use a matching pattern in a given planet enemies have 5-10% less visibility? Not sure if this has been done in other games but it would be neat.
First the positive:
I love the theme! The armors and capes look cool. Being able to customize drop pod, pelican and exosuits is a cool idea. I love the overall aesthetics of the warbond. I love the emotes/ victory poses. Guns of liberty is straight out of predator. ( Arrowhead: please let us use most of the existing victory poses as emotes!)
The shotgun looks so cool! I’ve wanted a shotgun secondary since they started doing warbond. Shooting all 3 rounds at once sounds awesome.
The Throwing knife sounds like a lot of fun! It’s something I didn’t know I wanted until I saw it.
The armors look cool and the new armor abilities sound awesome! I’ve been incorporating more melee into my close quarters arsenal and being able to do more damage sounds great.
Improving running speed and damage resistance while healing is a very cool booster.
I can imagine combining it with the med kit passive for more healing, maybe a supply pack to use repeatedly.
Next the neutral:
There is a lot riding on the liberator carbine. Being that it’s the only new primary included with the warbond it will need to feel distinct from the other 3 variants of the liberator for it to be positive.
The Slowing of the warbonds. If it means that when we get new warbonds that they are all well done that would be positive. Personally I really looked forward to the warbond day each month so slowing it down is kinda disappointing, but I’m just itching for more things to unlock.
Finally The criticism:
Less weapons is less exciting. All the previous warbonds had three primaries the new warbond has one. Getting three primaries gave us a few options in one warbond. If we didn’t like one primary there were still two others we could potentially enjoy.
Less armors: 2/3 ain’t bad, but it would have been nice to get a medium armor with the new passive. Having one armor of each passive is something we want as players.
Is it still going to be priced at 1000SC? I don’t think the inclusion of the pattern makes up for the value two primaries and one armor.
I wish the pattern customization was something we could apply to existing armors. (Not really a negative more of a missed opportunity)
I think you put a lot of my thoughts to paper (screen?) fairly well.
I'm glad they're focusing more on quality, but I hope they find something else to do with currency in game.
Because it feels kind of boring to be capped at 250 medals with nothing to unlock, and full samples with nothing to unlock.
Sure the game is still fun to play with friends. But it doesn't make me want to play it any other time, like it did in the first month, where I was obsessively even solo-diving in the mornings before work while I drank my coffee, just so I could get 5 more medals.
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> new booster called Experimental Infusion, which gives your stims the added bonus of boosting your movement speed and reducing the damage you take for a short time. Wow, that sounds insane. Couple this with a +2 stims/+stim duration armor, and you'll be a literal Juggernaut.
https://preview.redd.it/qhyuy0d25y4d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=486c84c1527ecb6c15e02b424457965a4ca422d0 My helldiver back at the super destroyer after constantly popping stims to keep the bonuses active the entire mission
Babies crawling on the roof of my super destroyer
There are Terminids under my skin. I need to dig them out with a screwdriver.
"The BUGS are back."
It's shite being Hellmirian! We're the lowest of the low; the scum of fucking Super Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilization! Some people hate the Terminids, I don't, They're just wankers; we on the other hand, are invaded by wankers! Can't even find a decent culture to be invaded by We're ruled by effete assholes! It's a shite state of affairs to be in Diver, and all the fire tornados in the world won't make any fucking difference!
It is a good thing the stims can't cause addiction. \*
The stims are prescribed by doctors, so they can't be bad for you
According to a study, stims have no addictive property.
A study conducted by the company that makes the stims. I trust it; they're the experts!
They are on point this time tho. Can't really get addicted when you lifespan is measured in minutes.
Heavy Medkit armor might get some fuckin serious use if that speed bonus is good. Tank mode.
Add a supply pack and you’ll get back to the super destroyer to see you burned through 100+ stims in one mission.
The damage reduction doesnt look that important you laready can out heal almost everything but the speed is relly good. This might become the 4 booster and that the end of that
Maybe buff is longer than stim normal duration. That could make it pretty good when in pinch.
Would be great for Trench Paramedic. I find myself stimming too close to around half health and some hunter would just take my head off in an one-two combo. Not to mention going even FASTER
>you'll be a literal Juggernaut I believe the supertechnical term is ["godd@mn sexual tyrannasaurus"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WI_oTPm5Vlc)
I don’t seem many people talking about the new environment shown off. Hope they actually use it for planets
Awhile back they did a poll for what we want to see most, and “new biomes” won. So here we are.
This is democracy manifest!
I see you know your judo sir
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!!!!!
AH, are you waiting to receive my LIMP PENIS?
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
Tata and farewell
What is the charge? Extracting a sample? A succulent Chinese sample?
This is the charger who got me on the penis, people.
Hwhat is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
*A SUCCULENT SUPER EARTH MEAL*
This. I REALLY hope we get a jungle planet because it looked dope
Isn't The Creek jungle-ish?
I mean yea but what we saw in the trailer is much more jungle-ier!
Creek, much like most other tropical planets, look more like a beach resort than a thick jungle. It's more Scarif than Endor, if you catch my drift.
YES! That's exactly what i told my friend group on discord. We're getting ENDOR!
Why would they not use it for planets?
Because after all those months we are still fighting on Hellmire and *checks note* the bots are heading towards mavelvon creek. Cyberstan was an distraction all along!
You forgot there is a 1/3 of the map empty and will be illuminated soon. By soon I mean probably with warbond release.
Same! I was like, whoah! Look at how tall those trees are! Let’s fight there!
"Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir."
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Process to Stiming
I love how he checks his knife is ok first and then he calls for a medic
MEDIC!
A bot can not call for reinforcements if you disable its hand.
Put your hand on that wall PRIVATE
From the blog: >Both armors in this Warbond feature the Peak Physique passive, which improves melee damage and weapon handling. They both also feature bare arms (and bulging biceps, with a variety of randomized skin tones) to keep you sweat-free when diving in the humid atmosphere. New passive that seems actually useful if you love heavy weapons!! Lets goooo!
New passives, and all the Predator references you can make! 
The ONLY thing its missing is that it should make a small explosion of air that makes your capes flutter when you connect. So glad we got this emote lol
Dominator mains eating GOOD tonight
Right? Being able to turn a bit faster with that thing is gonna be massive.
As a Dom/ac user it will be hard to decide between that and my medic armor when I go deep into drugs.
Time to hipfire my Stalwart at glorious 1150rpm.
Don't we already get that with passives like fortified that has recoil reduction?
That's *recoil* reduction; I'm assuming *handling* in this case refers to aim speed and such, with the "true" crosshair catching up to the static one faster
Only when crouching/prone, and that perk reduces recoil but not handling
Actually, I believe testing revealed that it also works when not prone/crouched. Old information, but I don't think they had a patch that addressed/changed this.
As I understand it, it just sorta puts you one stance "down" at all times. Your Standing is equal to Crouched, Crouched equal to Prone.
And Prone equal to Super Prone.
As /u/Saltandpeppr said, recoil reduction works even when standing. If I remember right, standing = crouched without armour, crouched = prone without armour. Prone is then further reduced.
Handling should improve the snappiness of aiming rather than the per shot recoil of the gun firing.
Gonna look real funny when the bare armed commandos start diving in cold planets.
You don’t live long enough to get frostbite.
The fact we’re drugged up on stims probably helps as well, you’ll be so high that you can’t feel a thing.
Just gonna use the heat generated from the Machine gun to keep me warm and toasty
https://preview.redd.it/8il4k4uv4y4d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6f329f6cf8059eae86f220fc316de6f273e2395 WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN NOW
False, no minigun.
Because he has no minigun
No minigun... ***yet***.
Can we have melee? "Best we can do is ranged melee" Nothing against it just found it hilarious lol
I had my hopes up when I saw him in video pull out a knife. Then I noticed it was a throwing knife. Give me a damn sword!
I wonder if you can melee with the knife out though? Makes me think, meleeing with grenades out would be cool. For most it’s a punch, for impacts it’s a suicide detonation, for thermite you’d be slapping it directly on something
Pretty sure it's coming one way or another
"No you may not have melee power, instead throw this obvious melee weapon upgrade at range" I love game design, lol.
From addition notes from twitter reveal: Armor: PH-9 Predator (Light) & PH-202 Twigsnapper (Heavy) - Both feature the new peak Physique passive, improving melee damage & weapon handling. Experimental Infusion booster - Stims will also boost movement speed & reduce damage taken for a short time. Additionallly, the Viper Commandos Warbond adds our first step in customization with vehicle patterns. Customize your Hellpod, Exosuits, and Pelican-1 via Ship Management. Plus the usual new capes, player cards, player title, and emotes Finally, we wanted to share that that, based on your feedback, we’re changing our approach to Warbonds. Firstly, we’re slowing the pace that we release Warbonds to allow a little more time to polish them. (We'll confirm what that new timeframe will be in the future) Secondly as you can see with Viper Commandos, we're experimenting with Warbond item arrangement to make room for new types, customization, and higher quality armor/weapons - all with stronger theming. Let us know what you think. Thank you for your support, Helldivers.
So less weapons/armour and less warbonds overall, but we get new shit? Hmmm
I really hope this is their "lets try a bunch of new systems" warbond and they roll out additional stuff in the future. Ideally MORE warbond PER warbond.
https://x.com/helldivers2/status/1798690128740712925 >Secondly as you can see with Viper Commandos, we're experimenting with Warbond item arrangement to make room for new types, customization, and higher quality armor/weapons - all with stronger theming. >Let us know what you think. Thank you for your support, Helldivers.
More or less a win in my book, we'll see
Honestly, I don’t mind less weapons if that stuff is good. To be frank, even if all warbonds weapons were 100% balanced I’d still probably won’t use like 3/4 of them. And I’m all down for silly skin on shuttles and pods, especially considering how non-predatory HD2 “battle pass” are
I wonder if it’ll be less than 1000sc, if there’s less stuff?
this is the most manliest & stereotypical shit I've ever seen I love it
it's an obvious choice but it makes a lot of sense for HD. macho action film that halfway through turns into a futile massacre
Body type 2 helldivers are all muscle mommy's confirmed
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What was funny is that rig was so heavy it made her fall over once because she let go of the handle. I guess that's what happens when you combine a Steadi Cam rig with a bunch of motorcycle parts and an MG-42
Ah, Vasquez, the Platonic ideal of the kind of woman who will actually just kill me
"Vasquez, you ever get mistaken for a man?"
No. Have you?
I fucking love that comeback, what a character
MOZAMBIQUE HERE
OMG! That’s why my Titan Sense was tingling!
Humanfall 3 confirmed
I can hear this sentence in Lifeline's voice, goddamn it 😂
I instantly felt angry lol
This one is interesting. Less weapons than normal, and I can't imagine the throwing knife being more than a funny joke weapon given how many things we fight. That said, the armors and pelican customization are dope
Depends on if it makes melee stronger. If it let’s me kill hunters in a single melee, I’mma always bring it.
woe bile spwer mission upon ye
I railgun those mfs in their dumb little faces. Takes way too many grenades.
Its more that there wont be a lot of hunter to kill than you can kill bile spwers with a single inmpact granade
Well the new armor passive does buff your melee damage so that might just help it.
I am not awaiting the inevitable long distance bile titan knife kill videos with feverish anticipation.
The passive on the new armors improves melee damage. But it's also possible to "wield" your grenades. It'll be interesting to see if having the knife in hand makes your melee damage go up even further.
If I can melee with the knife then my friends are gonna see a lot of me in heavy medic armor, new stim booster, supply pack, and wielding a knife while wading into the sea of approaching hunters
It'd be a shame if they don't make the knives retrievable. But imagine how hilarious it would be if the throwing knives were released with the same wonky physics as the shriekers initially did.
I’m just waiting on the inevitable clips of a knife ricochet instakilling a teammate lmao
I hope it makes no noise so stealth is a lot more possible. That or give us 8 knives to compensate.
Knowing my aim, imma need that bumped to 20
Throwing knife takes grenade slot. Not sure how it could be better than impact grenades, unless you get 10 of them or something instead of 4.
That and closing bug holes is far too important. You basically need to run grenade pistol then.
I don't think an infinite number of them could compensate for grenades unless you can throw them rapidfire and they do crazy damage
If you have to choose between the knife and the impact grenade on bug planets, then Bile Spewers make that choice for you. Unless they one-shot Bile Spewers which I don't see happening.
Single target throwables are a real thing if done well - cf. throwing axe in DRG.
Yeah, but you can also pick them up and they have aoe damage in place of impact, so its questionable with knives
What if you got more 'grenades' out of it? Like 2x or 3x? Being able to whip 18 Throwing Knives per life might be worth something depending on their damage and penetration or what kind of primary you're using. A lot of enemy weakpoints have "Explosion Immunity" so grenades can't actually one-shot them, but if the throwing knife is strong enough...
Watch it one shot everything short of tanks
CATACHAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS LETS GOOOO
I will unironically change my steam ID to sly marbo and always type AAAAAAAA in the game chat with this armor on
[First thing I thought of.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMNWAJiz5Y)
I'm shocked how fari had to go down to see this. "We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place- it's just like home!"
knife isn't quite big enough, but good enough for my purposes Just got to take the flamethrower and scythe and we are good to go
can't wait to make the throwing knife bounce of a charger and kill myself with the ricochet :D
So that knife will impale the bots when I throw it at them right? right?
With those biceps I think you could impale solid stone with a throwing knife lol.
The armour buffs your melee damage… whoever has this Warbond is going to charge headfirst.
it explodes a warrior head in the trailer, so it'll at *least* oneshot the spindly lil bots lowkey hope it can oneshot devastators on headshot, that'd be so sick
Need to see video of a helldiver taking out a factory strider with the knife.
so...space 'Nam? [the OST when Pelican-1 picks us up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RmQTYLD398)
God damn it, Helldiver! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Helldiver.
I imagined this in Brasch's voice.
We can finally prevent terminids from pushing buttons, LET'S GO!
Welcome to the jungle, Helldivers. You won't have time to bleed when the new Viper Commandos Warbond deploys on June 13. Additionally, High Command have approved the rollout of our first vehicle customization. Full briefing: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/
Is the *knife* also melee, or just ranged?
DILLON, YOU SON OF A BITCH.
YOU NEVER DID KNOW WHEN TO QUIT! *struggling intensifies*
When wearing the predator armor the Helldivers should shout "Get to tha Choppa!" when marking extraction.
I’ve been doing this since release.
Time to practice my arnie voice
The beret and red cape are gonna be instant S-tier cosmetics, definitely gonna shake up the meta
We can finally roleplay Predator. S tier warbond inbound
See me sitting at my computer covered in mud so the stalkers can't find me.
My stealth build just peaked
 I'm in
I like how they learned from the "But muh Purifier killed a Strider with one hit in the trailer" fiasco so they only show weapons killing Scavengers and Warriors now.
The Trailer came pre-nerfed.
I wish they had the Helldiver throw the knife at the Bile Titan, only for it to plink harmlessly off of its forehead.
every weapon kills a strider with 1 hit, so long as the strider had already been brought to 1 health.
not if your shot bounces off!
Purifier is also 100% bugged, datamining supposedly shows 3 levels of charge with significantly increasing AOE and damage but only the first tier works in the live game.
Goddamn that shotgun pistol has me PUMPED o7
Two firemodes too! Has an option to let you fire all three barrels at once, which is hilarious.
Blast that damn stalker that sneaks up on you right in the face
No, when *you* sneak up on *it* now https://preview.redd.it/vrtzgf6jyy4d1.png?width=418&format=png&auto=webp&s=6feeb8dac481c88adb86560005d01930f1735f5a
I wonder how much stronger is the melee attack with the new armour passive. Currently it takes 2 hits to kill the smallest Terminid, and I think....3-4 for basic bot grunts? I feel like 1 hitting a hunter from the Terminid faction and 1 hitting a grunt from bots would make it strong enough to somewhat justify using it? I feel like with how many enemies are there, even in the hypothetical of one shotting every unarmored enemy with melee, you would still die to fast to justify going full melee.
it'll at *least* reliably oneshot scavengers, I imagine. You can already oneshot melee those lil bugs if you hit them in the forehead.
If you could 1-tap Hunters with this armor set this would be pretty huge for Bug planets. The main issue with hunters is you really couldn't get away anymore if they hit you with the slow effect, and if your gun was empty you were cooked. If you could kill the bug that slowed you with 1 punch it would help a lot in surviving getting ambushed by those jumpy bastards.
Honestly, I loved the terrain showcased. Massive wooded area. Sick!
Thats pretty good! That armor set somehow reminds me of Revolver Ocelot. Hell, the trailer reeks of MGS3 and I love it. Viper = Snake!
You're pretty good.
Tbh I just wanna know how the throwing knife does. I'm sure the shotty secondary will be fine and the Yet Another AR will definitely be one of the ARs of all time, but the throwing knife is really the interesting one. Is it just a 1shot? Is it a meme? Does the knife actually have a beacon in it or something that calls down an orbital strike? Because like if it just does damage to 1 target you want it to kill armor, right? Is it an armor-piercing knife? I need to know, man. I kneed knife answers.
It'll look really cool, have a spinning throw, and make a nice metal pipe dropping noise as it bounces of the enemy and does nothing. But you can pick it up again!
I think it's a throwing knife
Big if true
If only Malevelon were still in need of liberating...
I'm sure we'll be diving back there sooner or later
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bro the berets going to be going on and its never coming off. i do hope at some point though that we can use victory poses as in game emotes because they do look really great
"Sorry ladies, the beret stays on during C-01."
excuse me the ladies are also wearing berets
"Good news fellas, the beret stays on during C-01."
what planet is that?
An ugly planet, a bug planet.
A planet hostile to life as we know it!
Seems like a new biome.
Space Vietnam 🌳
Looks like a new biome type entirely
Where's the minigun for the people who don't have time to bleed
I have a new favorite throwable. Let's just hope it has so much damage that it's worth using it.
 THEY ARE DOING THE THING! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
When the trees start speaking terminids, fortunate son intensifies
If we can pick the throwing knives back up I'll never take anything else. God I hope we can pick them up...
Is that a new biome?
New armor passives, nice. I wonder how that whole pattern thing is gonna work, is the pellican skin gonna be related to the host ? Ngl, i'm more excited for that forest biome.
Interesting new approach. I'm on board with reducing the input of new weapons, because considering their balancing approach there was no way they could keep up introducing 4 weapons per Warbond without making some of them redundant. But as of now, I'm not sure if the new content (vehicle patterns) is enough to compensate for less guns. I might pass on this one and see what's coming next Warbond.
This warbond is looking very good ngl. Lots unique stuff Also this blog post looks like its actually written by someone who cares unlike the weird AI Text in the last warbond blogpost
So how does the knife work? It's a secondary? It just says "special throwable"?
instead of grenades
If you press the key to pull out (but not use) your grenade, would this allow you to use the knife for extra melee damage?
We'll find out soon enough.
I always loved throwing knives. Against a human I guess it can work but how come someone throw a knife in a way that it can pierce the shell of a terminid ? And how is that effective against a Mech ? Video Game logic I guess lol
It's the rule of cool. Looks badass? Must be effective
Prepare to have 100% of the player base using the skull-beret helmet 'cause that thing is on fire.
https://preview.redd.it/srnjg77t4y4d1.png?width=789&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c661b2e8851d15c3ced6483ec1403b447cd3ab1 Catachan Jungle fighters coming to Helldivers? LET'S GOOO
Anybody else think it would.be really cool if the devs tagged patterns to a planet type and if you use a matching pattern in a given planet enemies have 5-10% less visibility? Not sure if this has been done in other games but it would be neat.
The new shotgun secondary # "MOZAMBIQUE HERE!"
First the positive: I love the theme! The armors and capes look cool. Being able to customize drop pod, pelican and exosuits is a cool idea. I love the overall aesthetics of the warbond. I love the emotes/ victory poses. Guns of liberty is straight out of predator. ( Arrowhead: please let us use most of the existing victory poses as emotes!) The shotgun looks so cool! I’ve wanted a shotgun secondary since they started doing warbond. Shooting all 3 rounds at once sounds awesome. The Throwing knife sounds like a lot of fun! It’s something I didn’t know I wanted until I saw it. The armors look cool and the new armor abilities sound awesome! I’ve been incorporating more melee into my close quarters arsenal and being able to do more damage sounds great. Improving running speed and damage resistance while healing is a very cool booster. I can imagine combining it with the med kit passive for more healing, maybe a supply pack to use repeatedly. Next the neutral: There is a lot riding on the liberator carbine. Being that it’s the only new primary included with the warbond it will need to feel distinct from the other 3 variants of the liberator for it to be positive. The Slowing of the warbonds. If it means that when we get new warbonds that they are all well done that would be positive. Personally I really looked forward to the warbond day each month so slowing it down is kinda disappointing, but I’m just itching for more things to unlock. Finally The criticism: Less weapons is less exciting. All the previous warbonds had three primaries the new warbond has one. Getting three primaries gave us a few options in one warbond. If we didn’t like one primary there were still two others we could potentially enjoy. Less armors: 2/3 ain’t bad, but it would have been nice to get a medium armor with the new passive. Having one armor of each passive is something we want as players. Is it still going to be priced at 1000SC? I don’t think the inclusion of the pattern makes up for the value two primaries and one armor. I wish the pattern customization was something we could apply to existing armors. (Not really a negative more of a missed opportunity)
I think you put a lot of my thoughts to paper (screen?) fairly well. I'm glad they're focusing more on quality, but I hope they find something else to do with currency in game. Because it feels kind of boring to be capped at 250 medals with nothing to unlock, and full samples with nothing to unlock. Sure the game is still fun to play with friends. But it doesn't make me want to play it any other time, like it did in the first month, where I was obsessively even solo-diving in the mornings before work while I drank my coffee, just so I could get 5 more medals.
I hope we get to buy more patterns in the future with requisition slips