With the Illuminate lastly stay in Helldivers 2, Sony has launched the new Urban Legends premium Warbond to assist gamers of their defence of Tremendous Earth.
The arrival of the alien Illuminate invasion fleet additionally brings with it new city environments to struggle in. These colony planets embody slim streets and shut encounters, and so the new additions to the sport revolve round a defensive, Struggle of the Worlds-type motion.
Urban Legends provides Helldivers 2’s first melee secondary weapon, the SQC-19 Stun Lance. This extra-large poker gives good vary and pairs nicely with the SH-51 Directional Defend stratagem, Arrowhead social media and neighborhood supervisor Katherine Baskin stated in a submit on the PlayStation Blog.
As sport director Mikael Eriksson informed IGN in a current interview, the Illuminate supply a more durable struggle than the Terminids or the Automatons. Lots of their massive hitters have shields, together with the imposing Harvesters. So, the E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement, new with this warbond, is really useful to assist take them down.
In the meantime, the A/FLAM-40 Flame Sentry is helpful for taking down a horde of Voteless (mind-controlled colonists who act like zombies). It’s a stationary, high-powered flamethrower turret, though based mostly on IGN’s hands-on with the Illuminate replace, it poses as a lot of a risk to friendlies because it does to enemies.
There’s additionally the new Armed Resupply Pods booster, which upgrades your resupply pods with a tiny top-mounted turret. Armor sensible, there’s the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor for that cumbersome spartan look, and the SR-24 Avenue Scout gentle armor for a S.E.A.F trooper look. Each of those armors function the Siege Prepared passive, which will increase your main weapon reload velocity by 30% and your main ammo capability by 20%. That’ll be useful in opposition to the relentless Voteless.
The 2 new capes are the Greatcloak of Rebar Resolve and the Holder of the Yellow Line. The brand new emote is ‘That is Democracy.’
The Illuminate be a part of the bugs and bots as Helldivers 2’s third enemy faction, and are set to breathe new life into the explosive third-person co-op motion sport. Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios sport of all time, having shifted an unbelievable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks following its February launch.
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