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 — often, and every provides new weapons, armor, and equipment below a theme.
Helldivers 2 gamers reported 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. According to this textual content, Freedom’s Flame contains “fiery weapons, life-saving armor, cool capes, recent emotes, participant playing cards, and patterns.”
Clearly, this new warbond revolves round hearth harm, so count on the brand new weapons to faucet into that a part of the sport. The hope is that Freedom’s Flame provides hearth resistant armor, which ought to assist notably on planets similar to Hellmire, which function hearth 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, but it surely has slowed down the tempo of recent content material drops to be able to guarantee it will get them proper, so there could also be a little bit of a wait.
Indeed, Arrowhead not too long ago revealed it was within the technique of setting the studio up so it may “make extra and higher stuff” within the long-term. In an introductory post on reddit, Jorjani stated the studio has needed to regulate to the large success Helldivers 2 has dropped at the corporate.
Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation recreation of all time, having shifted an unbelievable 12 million copies in simply 12 weeks. Amid the large income Helldivers 2 has generated, Arrowhead has suffered various crises, together with launch server issues and a battle with Sony itself over the console maker’s controversial try to power Steam gamers to account hyperlink to PlayStation Network.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
