Helldivers 2 - New Warbond Breakdown, News on Future Content, and More! 

This feels like Arrowhead is starting from a solid foundation that allows them to insure quality control before they start adding more weapons. I think they probably bit off more than they could chew with the initial war bonds and now they want to build up to that amount of content without sacrificing quality.

Vietnam helldivers? Makes the napalm eagle strike an even more fitting stratagem to use

It seems as though they were too ambitious with releasing a new warbond each month, it’s not that they are wasting time with the new warbond schedule, they never had that time to begin with

Finally a secondary shotgun 😭😭thank yu arrowhead🙏🏾

For a small studio to release a war bond every month, + patch fixes + working on illuminate content.. already amazing

Hellpod customization makes more sense when you consider the load screen when diving into a mission.

Keep in mind, they never said they were going to continue to release fewer weapons. This warbond is coming out on the usual time schedule, so thy may be releasing less to ensure it works properly, and may release three weapons again later.

Depending on how much balancing happens, not getting an abundance of weapons each month may not be a terrible thing. Gives players opportunities to use weapons that weren’t Fun before like Tenderizer or any AR in general. A balance update would make the old feel fresh and new. Most weapons that aren’t fun/useful now just need one balance update to take them from Mid to exceptional. For weapons like Eruptor and Slugger they just need to be restored. Aside from Eruptor brutalizing chargers it didn’t need heavy nerfs.

I like the new direction. Take the time to fix the old weapons before flooding the board again

Finally I can relive my Malevelon Creek era. The planet may not be playable, but damn it I'll be running around hearing the trees speak binary in my matching armor

A new planet biome, weapons and cosmetics is a great way to go forward. That swamp/jungle planet looks awesome

I don't mind them adding more customization options. In fact, I'm all for it. What's the point of having 3+ backgrounds and capes each and every warbond? Sure, bigger chance you're getting something you like, but at the same time the others are kind of wasted.

Stealth game play might be back in swing. Exploding crossbow, knife, and scout passive.

This week on trying to keep hell drivers players happy (impossible mode)

Throwing knives and a shotgun pistol with 3 rounds? We're going to fight against hordes of aliens with that?

I just realized. Knife does melee damage and armor passive boosts the knife damage... maybe

My hope with the throwing knife is that you can also melee with it.

Boy I can’t wait to get my hands on the new carbine, also to get my bare arms torn to bits by hunters

I refuse to get excited for any of these until I see how they perform on release

The throwing knife seems pointless unless they let you have like 8 that you can throw or even cooler if you only get one but you can suck it back to you hand so you can throw it unlimited times but only one at a time

They are testing the old weapons and rebalance them from a somewhat clean slate in addition to adding stats, and removing adding bloat and items mostly armor that don't have any identiry

What's the point of getting 3 new weapons that nobody likes or uses ?

This warbond looks crazy fun

"We dont want weapons to feel redundant" "Heres another liberator, btw it's the only primary you get"

I think the knife needs to be able to be picked back up AND needs to do like 600 damage. Then I’d be in

People can complain but that booster is going to be used every match

This warbond is on time. That's why I think it only has one primary. Hopefully future ones will have more primarys with longer time between.

Comon guys give them credit where it's due. The majority of people making noise complained about balence but more time on balence means less time on new content they hadent been working on this coming warbonds balence there working on the balence of what is already in the game! Plus this warbond is far more inavative and looks more polished. New skins with skin coulor shading for charecter and stratagems... that's new and an awsome idea. Throwing knifes much more creative than just another type of grenade and looks amazing. Tripple barrel shotgun that's NOT a reskin and is a new idea and looks amazing rather than just throwing more of the same gear at us this for me personally looks like the best warbond and provides more than the others because for me it's not just about guns guns and more guns slowing down the release of guns in favour of new innovation is a smart move in my opinion... hell maybe we may evan see more time on stratagems rather than guns being released 10 for every 1.

Quite a lot of negativity in this video about the new warbond. It is early to be saying you are dissapointed by the knife or that the new gun is a reskin. The throwing knife could be super fun, plus it will likely have increased melee damage which could stack with the new armour (also great to have new armour perks). AH are listening and trying a new approach and thats promising alone

If the next patch has a high number of meaningful fixes (that aren't going to need fixing themselves) then I'm willing to understand the present timetable. Probably not forever but at least for today

The way I see it, the last warbond had like the third scout light armor and two other redundant, uninteresting armors that maybe you like the look of but that's it. If I'm getting one less but they do something knew and they're cool looking, I'm all for it. The one primary seems like less but how many of the primaries from the last warbond are being used? One?

I wanted them to either reduce the amount of content they release so that the game breaks less. Or release the same amount of content but take longer to release so they can test everything before release. So far it seems we're waiting longer to get less content.

I'm happy that Arrowhead is at least listening because it can't be said for a lot of other studios.

Keep in mind that the armours/skins released will also bring inspired armours that we'll be able to purchase with credits in the store. Which is banger.

I think its highly possible the throwing knife is considered melee damage and the armor makes the throwing knife strong enough to do some serious damage. I could be wrong but that would be something that would make this warbond awesome

New triple barrel sawn off shotty is filthy

Next let’s be able to customize my Destroyer !!!

That throwing knife alone is totally unique and probably took a lot more dev time, art and testing than "this grenade has a delay and sets enemies on fire". I think if people want genuinely unique weapons like that they have to expect them to take longer to make. But only including 2/3 armor types is BS. The other thing about dev time is you have to remember different team members work on different things! It takes different skills so depending on what the item is and whether it needs animations, programming, art, or sound, there might be more or less people available to make it...

It's a hot night... the mind races. You think about your knife... The only helldiver who hasn't betrayed you. The only helldiver who won't be dead by sun-up. Sleep tight, mates, in your new Viper Commandos cosmetic armor sets.

The throwing knife I see as a stealth thing. Though I am surprised the new light armour doesn't have a stealth buff.

Im happy with the idea of more customisation going forwards, especially if they do add customisable sights, that would be great but i do agree i dont want too many attachments for weapons, id love to see under barrel launchers too though maybe. The throwing knife would be cool if it does very high damage, is useable for melee and also can be yanked out of corpses after it was thrown.

I just want similar to what’s in HD1: research tokens from a certain number of samples extracted, used to unlock upgrades for weapons and stratagems. OR spend unused samples to build up a progress bar to get research tokens. That would be super duper.

I suspect that Arrowhead is recognizing that people only use a small subset of all the weapons they have released at this point, which suggests that most of the weapons they release aren't user friendly in some way. Makes sense that they therefore concluded that releasing less weapons is probably the play, since the time they spend designing weapons that most people don't even use is definitely a waste of time.

It's quite possible that for this war bond / patch that they may be busy rebalancing the vast majority of armor and weapons that are already in our arsenal. Which would make sense, because there's a lot to rebalance. That being said that's what I hope is the case, time will tell.

Lol is Alexus still balancing it? If yes, dont want it.

This is a big hurdle to get over and i am intersted to see how it goes... BUT.... I am confident they can make it work. Waiting on those next steps for our "balance" patch too!

I’d assume this warbond is small because the patch has been eating into there time. I’m crossing my fingers the next one will have more

Wish there could be some sort of colour scheme items. Apply it in your character customization screen and it changes all your armour to green/camo, or weathered, or rusted etc. Other than that, I'm a-ok with a smaller, more polished and more useful warbonds at less frequent intervals

If the knives were heat knives they could cut with high penetration and it's internal generator could blow.

I haven’t used a warbond weapon since the sickle. Take as much time as you need.

I like the idea of making warbonds that correspond to different environments

Not gonna lie I hope the throwing knife is bugged but in a good way. It one hits a Bile Titan/Charger/Hulk/Factory Strider 🤣

The testing might be going into balancing what is already in the game. The warbond isn't the only thing they're working on.

Well they haven't taken that extra time yet. This is still one month after the previous warbond. They're saying they want to start slowing that down starting after the release of this warbond. What is that other guy confused about? Or did he just think the last warbond released alot further back than it did? Polar Patriots came our May 9th and this one is coming out June 13th. They probably want to start making them every two or every three months instead of on the second Thursday of every month like it was up until Viper Commandos.

I find it crazy how many people want melee weapons when our playable character is sliced in half from a tounge lash. Not to mention how much more powerful a fully automatic firearm is then a fucking knife...

Throwing knife could be a passive melee attack wich we throw first and do normal melee after the throw and off course we could pick the knife from dead enemies. I have high hopes for a mechanic like this.

I want them to add long term grind stuff, like if there was an armour set that you could only get if you kill 100k bugs or something that's big themed and maybe a special perk that specifically helps with bugs so that way you have something to work towards between warbonds

2 things: 1. There's also a patch/update coming out next week. Wait and see what that contains and adds to the game. It's quite possible that a lot of work has been required there which means the warbond had to compete with that. 2. This doesn't mean every warbond will only contain the equivalent of this one. Perhaps the next one will be a little meatier as they've improved their process and quality control. I always thought the warbonds were extremely reasonably priced considering you get 300SC included and can accumulate some SC through gameplay so the warbond is like the equivalent of a beer at my local bar. Pretty good deal! And the aesthetics and camo skins is enough for me to get excited and 100% buy this without a doubt.

Warbond *looks* cool but 2 guns and one of them being another standard AR pea-shooter means I sadly won’t be buying it.

Running that experimental infusion with a medic armour will be pretty rad too

The extra time that comes with only releasing two weapons can be used to balance current stratagems and weapons and work on the upcoming ones

testing weapon and try to make them balance take time, and maybe they are also working on older weapon too, they could tell a bit more of on what they are working. another possibility is they want to restart "small" on the warbond and maybe next oine will have more weapon once they are more tuned and know they "limit"

Throwing knife is melee weapon. Replaced the secondary with the option of throwing it.

First I'll say, I've been using the tenderizer. The weapons don't suck balance-wise in my opinion. But design-wise a lot of them are a bit too similar. So something that stands out to me it's the alternate fire mode of the shotty-pistol. We haven't had enough meaningful alternate fire modes. I think that if their time went toward giving current weapons new modes (and i guess buffing them in general) that would go further than just throwing out more weapons. So i can hope the new liberator has a different alternate firing mode, and the base one gets something actually impactful. (Semi and auto are basically the same since i can click fast enough to turn semi into auto) Instead of being strong (isn't going to be better than thermide) I think they'll give us like 12 knives instead of 4.

The thing is, warbonds are not the only content they need to work on. That's probably why qarbond weapons come out underpowered. That has been the case for every warbond weapon in rhw premium warbonds.(Except erruptor and grenade pistol) regardless of wether they got buffe din the past or not. Dominator ,breaker blitzed and punisher were NOT GOOD on release.

If the throwing knife is part of a rambo skin that after you use up all your grenade then it sawps it automatically swaps it with the knife that would be dope

Maybe the throwing knife could have a bleed effect Overtime, so it could be effective against big things and small things with the downside of not exploding any factories or holes

How to make the throwing knife Usable -you could pick up your throwing knives -it could stealth kill -you could charge up how hard you want to throw to cause more damage -full charge throw should be able to stun some enemies depending on where it hits.

If the new armor amps up your melee damage, then servo assisted should do the same too. I been saying servo assisted should mean a melee damage for almost the length of the game's life so far.

Hopefully they come out with a few new strategems along side the new warbond. maybe focus on balancing what we already have as well.

Sometimes I'll melee the small chaff enemies when I don't want to waste ammo, but it isn't a frequent thing.

Skins for mechs hellpods and the pelican make me optimistic that we'll eventually be able to put camo patterns or color pallette changes to our armor. Being able to mix and match our favorite sets and make them actually compliment each other would be massive

Would be nice if the throwing knife is like a close combat replacement for the first three close combat button hits and after that you do the gun bash like right now.

it seems like there is a whole new planet seeing where they showcased this warbond is no planet I recognize

Check it out guys lets start a fatty discusion of what you would change or add to helldivers 2. Heres a couple things ive has in mind for a while *a training grounds or a shooting gallery to test weapons *Attatchments, such as extended mags, different armor penetration bullets, scope optics, more melee damage ( this could be balanced by increasing recoil and handling or even reload speeds, higher armor penetration bullets have smaller mag or crazy recoil. Give all assault rifles plus 5 or 10 bullets per magazine, give shotguns 5 extra bullets. Make the breaker shotgun be the same mag size as the fire shotgun or at least add 5 to all shotguns. More ship upgrades that could effect primary and secondary weapons. Customizing armor EXAMPLE- it could be like you can choose extra padding for armor and also choose like plus 2 extra grenades. Since its customized it has less effect Example- light armor has extra padding and reduced recoil when crouched but it only givrs you +25 armor instead of 50. And recoil is better but not as good as the stock armors with recoil reduction. More secondary weapons so the ballistic shield will be more viable. Maybe a stradegem that kets you bring 2 primaries or 2 secondaries. Kinda like a overkill thing. Sprint faster when you have your pistol out. A stradegem that lets you call the pelican to fly with you for like 30 to 60 seconds Change the eruptor back to its original form All marskman rifles have 5 extra bullets per mag When using a backpack weapon your teammate can do the team reload thing eithiut THEM having the backpack. It makes more sense to reload from the homies backpack with the gun insteas of you holding the backpack. Id really like that cause its such a cool and unique concept and is like barley ever used. Mechs- have upgradable mech ship modules that increase cooldowns or ammunition size. Maybe you want a machine gun and auto cannon. Maybe dual machine guns, dual grenade launchers, fuck it throw a flamethrower on that bitch haha. Have resupply pscks or the suppky backpack be able to reload the mech. Again the mechs are a super cool idea and can definatley be improved on. They call em exosuits but they are definatley exosuits. Smaller versions called exosuits would be sick. Similar to power armor in fallout it , they can be customized and they make you sprint faster. Jump higher, have extra armor. More melee damage, or give you thr ability to dual wield secondary guns. Dual revolvers sounds so sick. Customizarion would be tight Customize the jetpack to either go higher in the air, or less vertical and more horizontal to make heavier armors have more mobility. Customize how farnor jigh you jumo hut oonger cool down and vice versa. Maybe faster cool down but jumo hight or distance isnt as much. Vechicles, give me a fuckin scooter bro lololol or a jeep or 2 man jeep to roll around the map.a jeep with a machine gun turret on top. Again with the ship module's or customization to sacrifice speed, armor, handling etc I had a coupke more ideas bjt thats all i can think of right now. Spitball with me and throw some ideas out there

New biome, swamp

I think they may be putting the extra time into developing another big warbond akin to the first one as well new map designs that were seen in the trailer

This one gives me serious OG Predator vibes, there's obviously a ton of references, and i love it.

About the throwing knife: I hope your first melee is throwing it, then it goes back to regular melee

The BIGGEST problem with this game, it has NOTHING to play for. Like I hit 250 medals so fast and every major order, personal order, mission complete rewards, MEDALS. Bruh it’s like what am I playing for? You’re basicly PAYING. To GRIND a Warbond a MONTH. This game desperately needs something to play for, or I can see myself falling off from it completely

Hopefully they could allow us to switch between 2 tertiary slots like bringing out grenades and the throwing knife together but changing the controls to allow for switching between them in game.

In reference to concerns about pricing, to be fair, it does come with effectively a 30% coupon for the next warbond and the currency to purchase the warbonds are easily earned in game. Essentially, even for casual players, earning the super credits is pretty easy and matched with the longer gap between updates, it shouldn’t be a problem having enough saved by the time of the next update. I’ve only ever purchased one warbond with money and that was because I was just impatient. I’ve earned the super credits to buy every other warbond through gameplay.

Last time I was this early, I already had dark fluid on my ship in Phase 1

And if we get stats and huds on helmets this takes priority to then focus on weapons later

For the throwing knife either they give u multiple of them or u can pick them back up

I'm hyped. I wanted skins and I'm getting them. Also the new primary looks awesome.

This might of been said already but we need like vtol air support like a harrier or even helicopter type with guns for close fire support

Hopefully we get Rogue Trooper blue skin. And utility primaries. So I can slot dmg secondary (revolver) and bring both Stun and Smokes without using orbitals/eagle.

The most important thing is that the community stays patient with helldivers the devs have done an amazing job so far it seems they will continue to listen to us and try to solve the problems we have

I like to do a lot of stealth in the game, I love the idea of the knife silently killing an enemy or even having it in my melee doing more damage for faster takedowns. I would like to have multiple knives and even a pistol with a silencer to combo with the knife to make side objectives safer especially in higher difficulties

This warbond genuinely looks great, and im honestly glad they're giving us less weapons but making sure its in good state. This is what happens when people are given time to work on things, and im glad i waited it out instead of leaving the game like a lot of people did. This is definitely moving in the right direction

Is it less content tho? While the other war bonds had 3 weapons only 1 was usable. There were 3 armor sets, where 2 had the same perk and armor rating. So to me we are getting the same amount. What will make or break it is if the weapon is a valuable add to your arsenal.

I was just thinking last night how dope a double barrel shotgun pistol would be. Today, I am happy 😊

Im so hyped for the mini saw off

I think they introduced the throwing knife. As a nod to Starship Troopers. Remember the scene where the drill sarge, throws one into a cadets hand ;)

I think this could be my first Warbond so i'm happy

Better melee options when fighting the bugs would be a plus. I'd like the quarterstaff that the illuminates used in the original Helldivers while having my energy shield on. Upping the damage of the existing weapons would be great as well.

I agree with the less weapons sentiment. I hope the AR balance comes in hot and ready and makes it feel like we have new weapons.

they've said that after you throw the knife you can pick it back up

There needs to be smaller things to win in between some exclusives or things to buy with out capped out samples or medals so we need small rewards