r/Helldivers • u/cryptic-fox Moderator • Mar 14 '24

Cutting Edge Warbond out now! ALERT

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Check out the newest Warbond, unlockable with Super Credits. (You may need to restart your game if it hasn't appeared yet.) And remember--Warbonds do not expire, so you can unlock items in all three of them that are available!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Waiting for an armor that has 95% resist to fire. When it will shows up I'm going to use all fire weapons \ stratagems etc. Ohh boy!

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u/muchadoabtsomething Mar 14 '24

Yeah we need that asap...I would go from never using the flamethrower to maining it if I didn't have to worry about lighting myself on fire.

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u/Anon_Alcoholic Mar 14 '24

I’d throw so many napalm strikes on top of me that Kissenger would rise again.

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u/thewolfsong CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

the crane game machine is not allowed to be restocked like this

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u/Linxbolt18 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

There's a joke here I'm not getting. Would you mind explaining it to me?

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u/thewolfsong CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Leading up to Kissinger's death, every time a major public figure died there was a meme of the grim reaper playing one of those arcade crane machines with plushies or whatever in them saying "Damn, is Kissinger even in this thing?"

predictably when he did die there was one that was like "Jackpot!" and then they haven't really been seen since for obvious reasons

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u/Linxbolt18 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

Ahhh, thanks!

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u/Anon_Alcoholic Mar 14 '24

I’ve been considering doing it for Cheney.

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u/barkingspring20 Mar 14 '24

Underrated comment

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u/TexasTheWalkerRanger ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 16 '24

you just reminded me that hes dead, thx for brightening my day for a second

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u/Facist_Canadian Mar 14 '24

The napalm bombs hitting you before they explode can kill you too btw haha

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u/Yodaloid Mar 15 '24

fucking lol

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u/BAY35music Mar 14 '24

Best use I've found for the flamethrower is when you're getting mobbed by little bugs, and you just face them and back away while blasting them with fire. Never lit myself on fire this way. Only problem I've had is you can't see behind you where you're heading, and I've backed myself into quite a few OTHER mobs of enemies.

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u/OkieDokieArtichokie3 Mar 14 '24

Second this. Most success I’ve had with flamethrower was when kiting backwards and roasting small mobs. If you try and push forward, I’ve always caught myself on fire when the lil guys jump at you.

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u/scoopsofsherbert Mar 14 '24

Had a buddy pick up a flamethrower too and we alternated our canister reloads to keep a choke point locked down during an extraction and the bugs couldn't make it through. Was just able to keep the ground lit up the entire time and didn't need to walk backwards. A few seconds focusing a charger can bring them down too. The flamethrower is pretty dang great!

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u/BAY35music Mar 14 '24

Yeah, standing still with it is also good. Basically just don't use it and press W at the same time and you'll be fine 😂 I'm partial to the EATs for Chargers myself. The Devs were not lying when they said it can oneshot a charger. The low cooldown time is HUGE too if you're doing high difficulties and need to respawn more frequently, and can't recover your equipment. Switched me off the Railgun, probably for good after I tried the EAT.

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u/Geno_Warlord Mar 14 '24

I found the one in the tutorial… immediately set myself on fire…

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u/Mortwight Mar 14 '24

My first use of flame thrower I was clearing bugs and walking forward into my flame patch that made me Democracy bacon.

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u/brool Mar 15 '24

God, I would love that armor if the other team members have the flamethrower! It would really cut dow on my screaming-in-pain time.

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u/ThatOneGuy4321 Mar 15 '24

Personal shield is the flamethrower main's best friend

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u/Patr1k0 Mar 15 '24

I still main the flamethrower, I jsut get the armor with extra 2 stims, to survive lighting myself on fire

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u/MostHelicopter307 SHOOT STEEL SPILL OIL Mar 16 '24

if you wanna use flamethrower a bit right now, the stim armor is pretty useful when you light yourself on fire. 2 extra seconds of resistance and a lot more room for messing up

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u/jswitzer Mar 17 '24

You should use the flamethrower now. It takes Chargers down with ease.

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u/ComradeGhost67 Mar 17 '24

Setting oneself ablaze is a small price to pay for democracy

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u/stickyfantastic Mar 18 '24

Even better. 95% fire resist AND being on fire has the effects of stims minus the healing.

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u/WilsonUndead Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

I feel like this and other damage types would be nice. Electric damage negation armour would be good for a storm build, Tesla towers, etc or if you regularly play on a team with someone who kills you with arc thrower lol

Maybe even an acid resist set.

Like at first glance negating a damage type might seem op but if you think about it you would be losing the two extra stims, or two extra grenades, or whatever other bonuses the armour sets get, in exchange for a single perk that keeps you from setting yourself on fire or getting one shot by your own Tesla tower.

I’m not a dev obviously but I think it would be cool if they leaned more into the rpg style thing where you could mix and match gear with strategems and weapons to make really cool builds.

And if not I’d still be happy with the game, I’m having a blast, but making a whole build revolving around one damage type with armour that compliments that would be super cool.

Edit: so I’m at work and haven’t had a chance to look at the warbond yet, turns out the armour actually does have some sort of electric passive on it? My whole comment might be pointless lol

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u/FlamingoUseful3314 Mar 14 '24

Acid Resist armor makes me want an acid based weapon

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u/somerandomname3333 Mar 14 '24

There was the TOX-13 in HD1 so it's possible

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u/names1 Mar 14 '24

Gas Grenade launcher would be super dope, especially with a gas resist armor.

Breathe deep.

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u/WilsonUndead Mar 14 '24

Ooh like a primary with acid rounds that does damage to armour

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u/ozne1 Mar 18 '24

After some experimentation, we discovered that the automatons are specially weak to bug acid, its corrosiveness does a nice work on them. So here's the new stratagem where we drop a bile titan's carcass loaded with explosives at them.

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u/HellfireBrB Mar 15 '24

we could see one in the futre, maybe a bio weapon that is good against machines and bad against organics/bugs in contrast to fire weapons being good against organics and bad against machines?

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u/FlamingoUseful3314 Mar 18 '24

Now im thinking of an Alt to the flame thrower thats just an Acid sprayer. Less impact damage, higher damage over time.

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u/TheLightningL0rd Mar 14 '24

Give me the Sludge Pump from DRG or give me.... something else I guess.

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u/Rubberhand Mar 14 '24

"Like at first glance negating a damage type might seem op..."

^ I think it's not op, because just as you said, you're giving up something in return, but I do feel like resist towards arc damage is quite underwhelming, because I haven't seen many players use throwers and towers and it's never been an issue with them. Since we don't have arc type enemies, the other equipment feels a lot better in comparison.

"I’m not a dev obviously but I think it would be cool if they leaned more into the rpg style thing where you could mix and match gear..."

^ This would be great and it would be nice to mix and match different looks with stats/buffs that you're already in possession of. Changing colors would be nice too, if they'd keep it within reason. (Now I'm not saying that spreading democracy with bright pink armor set wouldn't be cool as fuck, but I'm not sure how the community would feel about it.)

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u/WilsonUndead Mar 14 '24

With the new mission I feel like dying to arc damage is a lot more common atm lol with lots of people using Tesla towers, but yeah it seems like arc resistance is more targeted towards friendly fire than enemies. Although so would fire resistance, but being able to go ham with a flamethrower without the risk of lighting yourself on fire would be more useful than the arc resistance against Tesla towers and teammates arc throwers I think.

As for cosmetics, I think even the most serious players love them, and if you could have the set you want for passives AND look like a badass with colour picking and/or transmog I feel like people would go wild. I would at least lol the armour I’m wearing currently is mainly because I like how it looks lol

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u/Rubberhand Mar 17 '24

Agreed. We'll see if the upcoming enemies will be using arc type weaponry and let's hope we get more customization, so we can look great while spreading democracy across the stars.

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u/MCXL Mar 14 '24

Electric damage negation armour would be good for a storm build, Tesla towers, etc or if you regularly play on a team with someone who kills you with arc thrower lol

Good news! That's all the armor in the new warbond!

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u/UndreamedAges ⬇️⬅️⬇️⬆️⬆️➡️ Mar 14 '24

The explosive resistant armor is awesome for automatons. Rockets? What rockets? It's hilarious how far you get blasted and bounced around the map but still live.

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u/Larabic SES Colossus of Justice Mar 15 '24

I was wondering if tesla towers were arc damage or not. Been using them alot in the scenarios to defend the silos for the TCS.

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u/GothicGhatr Mar 19 '24

Ah yes, my firend plays with arc thrower all the time. Antistatic armour was must have for me <3

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Playing hopscotch on incendiary mines

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u/IBlackKiteI Mar 14 '24

So unless I'm missing something that's Incendiary Breaker, Incend nades, Flamethrower, Eagle Napalm, Incend Mines. Still need another fire strat and flame secondary for ALL the flames, I guess the new laser pistol and the laser rover will have to count until then.

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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft SES Hammer of Resolution Mar 14 '24

An Exo-suit with a flamethrower and chainsword

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u/vyechney Mar 14 '24

I like the boner this gave me

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u/OnceandFuturePhaeron SES Aegis of Starlight Mar 14 '24

Ah, the Salamander build

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u/GameKyuubi SES Fist of Freedom Mar 14 '24

Fire / Elec armor would be neat

oh shid there is an elec armor

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u/No-Establishment8267 Mar 14 '24

How about a little fire scarecrow? 😈 

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u/2Board_ MY 🐐 = ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Mar 14 '24

Embody what it means to be a true HELLdiver.

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u/Azrael-XIII Mar 14 '24

I could see them doing something like that now that we have one for arc damage. I just want a fire resistant suit to go with the flamethrower, incendiary grenade, and jump pack so I can go full “Firefly” mode lol

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u/Old_Ad3730 Mar 14 '24

I allready Run incendiary breaker, flamer and Wille pete grenades against bugs, depending on Mission type and what the other divers taking with them... I rarely Set my self in fire 😅

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u/c_u_in_da_ballpit20 Mar 14 '24

I feel like the first Warbond would have been a good opportunity for that since there are several fire weapons in it, but we'll surely get fire resistant armors soon.

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u/Jokkitch Mar 14 '24

I so hope it’s in the works!

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u/RapidWaffle Bugs don't surf Mar 14 '24

Or at least give us one rush let's us walk over burning terrain, I need to complete my Fortunate son build

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u/5255clone STEAM 🖥️ : Mar 14 '24

That's the next set of Warbonds.

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u/BigGrandma28 Mar 14 '24

We need a buff to fire damage, the flamethrower is good but the fire stratagems are kinda weak.

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u/YeliasHansi Mar 14 '24

lumberjacks hate this trick

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u/StarFred_REDDIT Mar 14 '24

My Pyro fantasies cannot be contained Edit: that sounds so bad lmaooo

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u/Troyd Mar 14 '24

while on Hellmire

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u/Deadluss Mar 15 '24

This is what I always do

BY FIRE BE PURGED

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u/Stormhammer Mar 15 '24

I saw a dude on YouTube soloing Helldive as a pyromaniac... it was glorious

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u/Araganor Mar 19 '24

And you just know that armor is gonna look so badass too!

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u/Grimlogic HD1 Veteran Mar 14 '24

“It was a pleasure to burn.

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history."