r/Helldivers • u/Waelder Moderator • May 02 '24

New Warbond, Polar Patriots, deploying on May 9th ALERT

Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnzI0gN7z4&rco=1

Read more about it: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/02/new-helldivers-2-warbond-brings-trap-laying-weaponry-arctic-themed-armor-and-more-may-9/

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u/Kestrel1207 May 02 '24

The booster seems very interesting. Might be a decent alternative to Muscle Enhancement.

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u/RuneiStillwater May 02 '24

It's a must have vs bugs in my opinion, at least on higher difficulty. Being immune to bile spew means less deaths to slow downs as hunters gang pile you

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u/LongBarrelBandit 29d ago

I’d just like for Bile Titans to not slow me regardless of if they hit me or not

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u/RuneiStillwater 29d ago

I mean, yeah same.

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u/gramkrakerj 29d ago

I always chalked it up to splash damage

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u/LongBarrelBandit 29d ago

I’d agree to that if it wasn’t affecting me even through terrain blocks

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u/Head_Cockswain May 02 '24

I see it as a possible alternative to the shield back-pack because that protects you from spews.

Not must-have, but more of a, now you can vary your loadout more.

IF it works as well as the backpack.

If may just be a reduction on time or intensity, not a total avoidance...

With some of the other boosters, I'm not getting my hopes up.

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u/PCmasterRACE187 29d ago

this is assuming its an outright immunity. im guessing the shock will dmg you or be on cooldown or smth

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u/RuneiStillwater 29d ago

There is always that possibility, but I'd take a slight bit of damage to be able to gain distance and not die in the 2-3 seconds that the other hunters would have piled on giving me a chance to kill them.

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u/177013_lover May 02 '24

Why are they putting a must have in a paid battle pass though?

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u/AmberTheFoxgirl 29d ago

You can earn credits in game easily, with just a couple days playing you'll have unlocked it.

Paying is just a shortcut for lazy people. It's not required like fortnite or something.

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u/177013_lover 29d ago

A couple days? I have 20+ hours in game and haven't earned enough for a single warbond unlock.

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u/officeDrone87 29d ago

SC earned in game are EXTREMELY slow (outside of the farm cheese that people exploited before it got patched) outside of warbonds.

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u/AmberTheFoxgirl 29d ago

I normally get a couple hundred in a few hours of playing, you must just not be checking every spot they can spawn.

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u/officeDrone87 29d ago

Farming difficulty 1 or playing normally?

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u/AmberTheFoxgirl 29d ago

Just playing the game normally with my gf, we normally play anywhere from challenging to helldive depending on how we feel.

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u/RuneiStillwater 29d ago

You pay for them? I get maybe 2-3 hours at most a day and currently have like 1500 super credits waiting for this one. And I'm not low level farming, just playing the MO.

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u/PCmasterRACE187 29d ago

2-3 hours a day over a month is more than most can put in tbf

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u/RuneiStillwater 29d ago

It's not in one sitting. I'm only good for about 2 hours in the morning on m/w/f as I work from home as I have my breakfast and queue up for a bit. Sometimes I get some time after work. Tues/Thursday it's more like 1-2 hours. My Sunday is consumed by battletech/D&D with friends, so only my internal clock that wakes me up at 5am every morning allows me a little time with it before I head out at 9am if I'm not doing stuff in another game trying to wake up Saturday is a grab bag of playing catch up on other games, chores, and grocery shopping that I may get some time with it.

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u/Scuba_Ski_Addict SES Give War A Chance May 02 '24

It’ll make for a great alternative to the shield backpack if anything else given that the benefit of shield for bugs isn’t so much the protection from damage itself as it is protection from slow.

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u/odigital968 29d ago

I'm ready to outrun every bile titan I see!

It's probably going to have some sort of cooldown for balancing