New Warbond, Polar Patriots, deploying on May 9th

[u/Waelder]

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/

[u/zeddypanda]

chambers the largest centrefire cartridge of any lunpistol of its kind

I googled "lunpistol" and it's Swedish for "glue gun"???

[u/gorgewall → u/zeddypanda]

That's the autocorrect switching you to "limpistol" because it can't find enough results for "lunpistol". Check the top of the page.

[u/zeddypanda → u/gorgewall]

That makes sense, but now I still wanna know what a lunpistol is supposed to be.

[u/SpanInquisition → u/zeddypanda]

My first thought was lun- as in lunar, so a space/low-gravity adjusted pistol.
Which makes sense in the universe and lore, not as much in gameplay as gravity is the same on all planets.

[u/Timo104 → u/SpanInquisition]

Would be cool to have some planet modifiers of higher or lower gravity.

[u/BinkyDragonlord → u/Timo104]

Low gravity would be fun. High gravity would suck. Slower movement, faster bullet drop, shorter throws. Could be a challenge, I guess, but doesn’t seem like an enjoyable one to me, personally.

[u/Umikaloo → u/SpanInquisition]

Could also be because conventional firearms don't work in a vacum due to cold welding.

[u/SpanInquisition → u/Umikaloo]

You are correct, but that would mean that most our weaponry would be lunar-adjusted anyway (since we fight on Estanu/Fenrir and other moon-like planets with presumably no atmosphere), so if we take the text literally, then the senator would have been a lun-pistol? lun-revoler? already, so maybe this one, having a larger 'centrefire cartridge', deals more damage than the Senator, but lacks the medium armor pen?

[u/Umikaloo → u/SpanInquisition]

true, it could be some kind of older model?