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Helldivers 2 Kicks Off 2025 With Patch Full Of Buffs And A Portable Hellbomb

Helldivers have also received coaching on how to lift with their knees

The first major patch for Helldivers 2 has hot dropped from low atmosphere, and it is a bonanza of brilliant buffs and fantastic fixes – defeating a slew of crash causes, but also shaking up a few smaller annoyances that many soldiers assumed were here to stay.

The shocker for many is a sly change to when a Diver is carrying a bulky object – usually relegating the individual to agonisingly carry it at a snail’s pace, or trying to juggle it by mashing the [Pick Up] and [Drop] action. In a fun twist, Super Earth High Command has seen fit to simply instruct Helldivers to try jogging with their payloads:

  • The Ministry of Humanity has added a clause to its Principles of Correct Posture for Safe Lifting, now allowing Helldivers to jog while carrying two-handed items such as barrels and SEAF Artillery Rounds

This should make carrying munitions less of a pain.

There has also been an awesome improvement to my favourite new stratagem – the M-102 Fast Recon Vehicle, affectionately known as THA CAAAR between me and my mates, with Super Earth High Command giving the A-OK to throwing grenades out the window. This means your buds can pepper baddies with all manner of exploding fun while at high speeds.

But it doesn’t just end there, they also added the ability to THROW STRATAGEMS. That means you can now buzz a high priority target with an UBER style drive-by drop off.

Leave the Eagle 500kg Bomb at the door, please.

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Besides the plethora of fun and fantabulous changes, they also dropped details of a new Premium Warbond for players to enjoy – Servants of Freedom, bringing spooky unfeeling facemasks to your wardrobe – but also the most diabolical item of destruction:

A portable Hellbomb backpack.

The fun new toys include:

  • The LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle
    How do you make the Sickle do more? Overclock it and bring some heat. The LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle is pure agony meets ecstasy as it starts to burn the wielder as well as everything in its path. Shoot through the pain, Helldiver.
  • GP-20 Ultimatum
    To help you spread liberty around, you could equip the GP-20 Ultimatum–a front-loading grenade pistol for your secondary slot. The Ultimatum packs a punch like a grenade launcher on steroids, designed for closer-range use. But handle it with care, or you might accidentally liberate yourself along with the enemy.
  • G-50 Seeker
    A small drone that follows you and explodes near enemies when detected. The Seeker can also target pinged enemies, like sending it on a little crusade.

I love my Sickle, so the idea of one that does increased damage at the cost of my own health just feels diabolical.

But the real big ticket bastard in this Warbond is the terrifying back accessory that will surely lead to many team wipes:

  • B-100 Portable Hellbomb
    A beacon of democratic truth in a convenient backpack format, which can be easily activated by you or a helpful teammate. Just be sure to drop the pack and clear the area once it’s active, because the B-100’s got a ten-second countdown that can’t be canceled.

Provided that this puppy – clearly shown in the trailer blasting its owner – is a proper, capital “H”, Hellbomb, this will be an immensely fun new tool within the game. Ever dealt with an objective that requires a Hellbomb to destroy, but a pesky stratagem jammer or weather effect stopped you calling one in? Well, maybe you have this bad boy strapped to your back from earlier. Press the big red button, and start running.

For a full list of patch notes, check out the Arrowhead website here.

It looks like a kickass start to 2025 for Helldivers 2, a game that we gleefully awarded Best Multiplayer Game to in our WellPlayed Game Awards for 2024.

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Bring on that boom.

Are you excited for more Helldivers car shenanigans? What about jogging with heavy stuff? Let us know in the comments or on social media.

Written By Ash Wayling

Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games

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