Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed the PC and PlayStation 5 co-op shooter’s subsequent Premium Warbond, dubbed Chemical Brokers, alongside a September 19 launch date.
Whereas Chemical Brokers doesn’t embrace any new weapons, it provides two stratagem variants — the TX-41 Sterilizer, which helps you to spray a gasoline on the Terminids and Automatons, and the Guard Canine’s ‘Canine Breath,’ which is a corrosive gasoline sprayer — and, in step with the alien exterminator theme, the G-4 Fuel grenade, which covers the entire space in a cloud of noxious fumes.
Explaining the choice to incorporate new stratagem variants however no new weapons, Katherine Baskin, social media and group supervisor at Arrowhead, stated in a put up on the PlayStation Blog: “Including stratagem variants to Warbonds is new with Chemical Brokers, however our designers felt that since gasoline is a crowd management software, it made extra sense to launch stratagems and let Helldivers select the first weapons they love probably the most.
“Not solely that, however that is bringing some critical selection to Chemical Brokers that we hope gamers will take pleasure in.”
As you’d count on, the Warbond additionally provides new armor, which has the Superior Filtration passive (provides the participant resistance to the gasoline clouds they’ll be producing), new capes, new patterns, and new emotes, together with the co-emote Pure Fuel Extraction (you get one other participant to tug your finger). There’s even an ‘Ew’ victory pose to be used again on the ship.
Elsewhere, there are new participant banners, a new participant title, and a new utility: the P-11 Stim Pistol, which helps you to shoot minor heals.
As with earlier Premium Warbonds, count on Freedom’s Flame to value 1,000 Tremendous Credit. When you can earn Tremendous Credit from gameplay and the warbond itself, it’s also possible to purchase them for real-world cash. By way of the in-game store, 1,000 Tremendous Credit prices $9.99. Premium Warbonds don’t expire, so you’ll be able to work your means by means of them at your individual tempo secure within the data their objects will stay out there.
Chemical Brokers launches two days after Helldivers 2’s hotly anticipated 01.001.007 replace, which fits stay on September 17. Arrowhead has been teasing its patch notes, which promise to buff most of the sport’s weapons and stratagems because the developer battles to deliver Helldivers 2’s considerably disgruntled playerbase again on-side following a rocky few months.
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