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Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead is getting ready to release a brand new Warbond, just days after this week’s major new update. The Freedom’s Flame Warbond has an August 8 release date on PS5 and Steam. Based on past releases, fans can expect the Warbond to drop at around 10am BST UK time. As you can probably tell by the name, the Warbond will introduce some fiery new gameplay elements, not to mention a host of new weapons, armour, emotes and skins. This includes a pocket-sized pistol that doubles up as a short-range flamethrower. That’s on top of a new pump action shotgun that unleashes a burst of incendiary phosphorus pellets.
Other new content includes Big Stretch, Deep Reflection, and Thoracic Collision Exultation Manoeuvre Co-emotes, which are said to give players the opportunity to win in style.
You can see a full list of new Freedom’s Flame content further down the page, including all the new armour.
The new content launches just a couple of days after the release of the controversial Escalation of Freedom update.
The update hasn’t gone down well with fans, with some accusing Arrowhead of making the game less fun.
The latest balance changes have nerfed some of the game’s weapons, making them more realistic, but far less effective.
HELLDIVERS 2 FREEDOM’S FLAME WARBOND NEW CONTENT
Firepower
Primary:
• SG-451 Cookout
– Burn, baby, burn! A pump action shotgun that unleashes a burst of incendiary phosphorus pellets at your helpless enemies.
• FLAM-66 Torcher
– A lightweight flamethrower shooting pressurized fuel through a nozzle into a roaring, open flame. Sounds safe. It isn’t. Watch where you’re standing.
Secondary:
• P-72 Crisper
– A flamethrower that fits in your pocket for the Helldiver on the go! What will those guys think of next? This lovely compact handgun projects a jet of freedom flames over short distances.
Booster:
• Fiery Drop – Firebomb Hellpods
– Scorch the earth (and anything else) below as you touch down with attitude and ignite the dropsite.
Armor:
• I-09 Heatseeker
– Proudly display the burnished blood-red plates that were forged in righteous fire, like the heroes they were wrought to protect — a true vision of democracy.
• I-102 Draconaught
– Ah, there’s nothing quite like those satisfying screeches as the enemies of freedom burn. Enjoy it all in this 14-cm sheathed silica fiber foam armor with an exclusive tube-to-ear feature.
• Armor Passive
– Inflammable! Enjoy 75% damage resistance to fire as you run head-first into danger like the unstoppable legend your mum said you’d be.
• Title: Fire Safety Officer
– You can now call yourself a Fire Safety Officer. Doesn’t come with a certificate.
• Skin: Safety Orange
– Repaint your Shuttle, Hellpod, and Exosuit in striking Safety Orange.
Capes & Cards
• Purifying Eclipse
– A heartfelt tribute to the Liberation of Choepessa IV in the First Galactic War, in which so much orbital ordnance was detonated that its sun was occluded by ash for an entire lunar cycle.
• The Breach
– The final mission of the 361st Freedom’s Flame saw this storied unit deploy into the heart of a Supervolcano in a mission of heroic sacrifice.
– Triggering a huge eruption, this act of incredible bravery wiped out a massive Terminid swarm. As documented in the bestselling graphic novel ‘The Breach,’ it is available at all good book shops on Super Earth.
Emotes
• Big Stretch, Deep Reflection, and Thoracic Collision Exultation Manoeuvre Co-emote. If you’re going to win. Win in style.