Helldivers 2’s subsequent warbond could have leaked from an unlikely supply: PlayStation itself.
Arrowhead’s explosive PlayStation 5 and PC co-op shooter releases new warbonds — primarily battle passes — repeatedly, and every provides new weapons, armor, and kit underneath a theme.
Helldivers 2 gamers (*2*) receiving a PlayStation notification for the present warbond, known as Viper Commandos, however the textual content pertains to an unreleased warbond known as Freedom’s Flame. Based on this textual content, Freedom’s Flame consists of “fiery weapons, life-saving armor, cool capes, recent emotes, participant playing cards, and patterns.”
Clearly, this new warbond revolves round fireplace harm, so anticipate the new weapons to faucet into that a part of the sport. The hope is that Freedom’s Flame provides fireplace resistant armor, which ought to assist significantly on planets resembling Hellmire, which function fireplace tornados as an environmental hazard. The maybe unreleastic hope is the warbond additionally provides a flamethrower turret or flamethrower drone.
Arrowhead has but to point when Helldivers 2’s subsequent warbond will launch, however it has slowed down the tempo of recent content material drops with the intention to guarantee it will get them proper, so there could also be a little bit of a wait.
Certainly, Arrowhead not too long ago revealed it was in the technique of setting the studio up so it may “make extra and higher stuff” in the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, Jorjani stated the studio has needed to modify to the monumental success Helldivers 2 has dropped at the firm.
Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation sport of all time, having shifted an unimaginable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks. Amid the enormous income Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead has suffered plenty of crises, together with launch server issues and a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial try to pressure Steam gamers to account hyperlink to PlayStation Community.
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