It’s official: Helldivers 2 is getting a Legendary Warbond that includes weapons and cosmetics from Halo: ODST, and its launch date arrives in a single week.
Arrowhead Sport Studios introduced the extremely anticipated crossover information on social media at the moment, revealing a first-look trailer for the Helldivers 2 Halo content material that gamers will quickly get their arms on. It’s a collaboration with Microsoft that arrives forward of the sport’s launch on Xbox Sequence X/S August 26, 2025, with the brand new Warbond tier and all of its ODST goodies set to drop that very same day.
A trailer for the Helldivers 2 Halo content exhibits what a number of the new content material appears to be like like in-game, however Microsoft made certain to supply extra data in a brand new Xbox Wire blog post. Gamers who decide up the Legendary Warbond will likely be handled to 4 weapons (three major, one sidearm), 4 car patterns, an armor passive, two participant banners, two capes, one participant title, and, after all, two armor units that seem like they have been ripped straight out of Halo 3: ODST.
You can see all the pieces included within the Halo: ODST Legendary Warbond within the picture beneath. As for that mysterious Ft First armor passive, gamers can count on a buff that permits them to make much less noise when transferring, develop into immune to leg accidents, and improve their discovery vary by 30%.
Tremendous Earth veterans will word that the Arrowhead is utilizing the Halo crossover to introduce Legendary Warbonds as a totally new tier for its content material packs. Meaning it’ll be dearer, too, working gamers about 1,500 Tremendous Credit (about $15). That’s up from the same old 1,000 Tremendous Credit (about $10) gamers have come to count on with non-crossover packs, however Arrowhead says it is going to be definitely worth the value of admission.
“The Legendary Warbond marks a brand-new tier within the Warbond lineup, and we’ve gone all-in to ensure it lives up to the title,” the studio stated in an announcement. “This one’s a tribute to a long-requested crossover, filled with particulars that followers will love to uncover.”
Arrowhead additionally clarifies that the brand new Premium Warbond Tokens, which additionally launch August 26, can’t be used to unlock the Helldivers 2 x Halo: ODST Legendary Warbond. Regardless of this, gamers appear to be taking the value announcement nicely.
“Wonderful. Collabs price cash,” one well-liked remark from a Reddit user said. “This isnt egregious. A lil expensive, however in the end acceptable.”
“Truthfully, I used to be anticipating it to be round 2000sc for a collab Warbond – 1500 is a pleasant shock,” one other comment added.
A correct reveal for the Helldivers 2 x Halo: ODST Legendary Warbond follows a tease for the brand new content material that was revealed final week. With such a extremely anticipated crossover lastly making its approach to all platforms, many anticipated to see Arrowhead take the chance to considerably improve its value.
Halo content material in Helldivers 2 additionally follows the controversy surrounding the inclusion of Killzone content material late final 12 months. Whereas gamers have been completely happy to see collaborations discover their approach into the sport on the time, they weren’t proud of the way it was dealt with.
As a substitute of delivering the Killzone content material within the type of a conventional Warbond, gamers wanted to spend almost 2,000 Tremendous Credit for a smaller number of individually priced content material. Making issues worse was the announcement that all the pieces would solely be obtainable for a restricted period of time earlier than being rotated out of the Superstore.
Arrowhead ultimately went on to apologize for its dealing with of Killzone Healldivers 2 content material, gifting all gamers a number of the crossover-themed goodies totally free whereas promising to do higher sooner or later. Judging by the response to the Halo content material, it sounds just like the workforce is heading in the right direction.
“Arrowhead stated they will be taught from suggestions of the Killzone collab, and so they did,” one other (*2*).
Helldivers 2 will convey Halo: ODST content material to gamers throughout PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X | S subsequent week. Within the meantime, you possibly can learn up on all the pieces included in one in all Arrowhead’s most up-to-date patches. You may also try the notorious “evaluation bomb” cape now that it’s lastly made its approach into the sport.
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