New Warbond! First Impressions and Initial Testing in Helldivers 2

Let's take a look at everything the Polar Patriots Warbond has to offer in Helldivers 2

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[BeezerGutlr]

I heard someone else describe this as the weapons coming pre-nerfed and it's a spot on description...

[vonStahlmach]

Arrowhead: " Look players, a Warbond with the title " Polar Patriots ". Did you expect we gave the armor certain perks to fit into Ice planets ? Like not being fazed by Blizzards or moving normally through deep snow ?
No, we just slapped the same boring " perks " on them like all the other armors have.
Oh and we made all new rifles useless. Enjoy this Warbond! "

[joklin]

its like the balance team wants us to dislike new weapons. the outfits are cool... but they have the same boring passives like the rest.

[itsyaboymarcelluswallace]

Asking yall, is the weapon balance the biggest issue killing enjoyment of the game?

[tofubutcher]

Ballistic shield players (i.e. me) ecstatic rn that they have two primary weapons to choose from

[windsgrace]

Thank you for saving me 1000 super credits.

[TheFootballstar]

Revert Railgun, Eruptor, Guard Dog Rover, Quasar, and Shield back pack nerfs.
Reduce the sway/drag and buff damage on the snipers.
Lean heavier on the strengths of the different ARs. Make the low ammo ones hit harder and increase ammo in the weaker ones.
Some of them are just kinda screwed. The Scythe has to be weaker than the laser cannon but that makes the scythe worthless currently.

[joshizfly]

Woke up at 4am to play with the one handed concussive liberator, the liberator junior, and charging plasma scorcher. All were underwhelming.

[MaxVelzgg]

Devs think we don’t wanna feel like glass cannon soldiers, they think we just wanna feel like glass.

[Raso]

I feel the Tenderizer's stats were set before the Liberator buff. Maybe it has superior damage fall off distance?

[binging]

Its nickname is the Tenderizer because thats the state that helldivers who used it were "recovered" in, tenderized

[markpetrochenko]

Tenderizer is worse than a liberator ... Purifier is worse than plasma punisher... we been fed shit for 1000 sc...

[verygood]

An ice gun and dry ice grenade or something like that would have been nice to go along with an armor that gives you better movement and/visibility in snow planets. I'm seeing a pattern that I was hoping was just due to the devs focusing on crash fixes. Now its starting to feel like its laziness and finding new ways to give us the same bb guns in new wrappers.

[falseblackbear]

Here's a crazy idea: Instead of the developers nerfing guns we like, how about they buff guns that we don't like.

[zackhopkins]

I like the light armor, helmets, ii grenade and the booster. The weapons look kinda trashy but I haven't tried them out yet. I thought for sure the hand gun would have medium armor penetration

[someOldBaldguy]

I was looking forward to the tenderizer but after this video the new smg looks awesome. Also liking the incinerator impact grenade.
Not too excited about the armor but the orange/blue scheme looks dope

[SilverDrgn]

I have tried everything in the new warbond except the pistol. Every weapon is a worse version of what we already have.
The Tenderizer is a Liberator with less ammo and firerate which means less dps as well as you only get 2 mags from ammo pickups.
The Smg has worse damage and way worse firerate.
The Plasma gun is the scorcher that takes far longer to shoot for not enough damage to change any break points.
The incendiary impact seems cool, but the impact does the same thing just instant. Also it doesn't leave a hazard zone for you that the bugs just ignore.

I just don't have fun with any of the guns anymore. Sorry for being a downer.

[garathminis]

The SMG is the best assault weapon. You can stay mobile, so run around and hip fire it.
It does a bit of stagger so enemies cannot keep up.

As yourself, how much damage do the rifles do while moving fast? Zero. Yes, it is only for a moment, but you do have to stop to fire them.

This thing? Run backwards or sideways and simply hip fire. If the aggro is on your team, move in, grenade, switch to smg - fire the whole clip! Switch to Senator revolver for harder targets.

The bugs cannot do anything to you. Even stalkers have a hard time keeping up if your speed is 100. They have to stop next to you to attack. You don't. Senstor is also one handed btw.

[yomaster]

I think the Tenderizer is supposed to mimic the Halo Assault rifle

[katherinestives]

I was curious to see what other people thought, and it seems like Dr. Pooplove has the same initial impression that I do. I've tried the first two weapons and I don't think that they're "bad" so much as they're just "Meh". On both weapons I had the same thought occur to me "they don't have enough ammo".

Honestly, I can't see any reason to take them into a mission other than to see what they feel like. After that, they're completely forgettable. At least the grenade feels good.