I unlocked the steeled veteran and cutting edge warbonds, which one is worth picking up next? I got enough super shekels for one more
Definitely democratic detonation. Crossbow, grenade pistol and thermite grenade are all S tier.
So what is the current ranking of the most useful warbonds to get? I've already got Cutting Edge and should probably expanding and get one or two more (I have the credits).
I have all of them, here's the order I would buy them with the game in its current state (and why):
- Democratic Detonation - crossbow, grenade pistol, thermite grenade. Crossbow is the best primary, and its not even close - it wipes out chaff with ease. The Crossbow and Grenade pistol are also amazing utilities for nests/factories/ufos and to open containers. Thermite grenade slaughters chargers and bot heavies. A good throw will get bile titans too, Aim for the head.
- Cutting Edge - Everything, really. Sickle, dagger, blitzer, plasma punisher, and stun grenade (really good on bots w/ laser cannon or railgun)
- Freedoms Flame - Flamethrowers, fire resistant armor, cookout. Less useful if you dont play bugs a lot, but the armor is great for fighting on fire tornado planets or against incineration corps. Combines well with the hover pack on bugs/illuminate
- Polar Patriots - plasma purifier, verdict, tenderizer are all very good guns, but they all sucked balls when it launched. The bad rap is out of date.
- Servants of Freedom - Double edge sickle, ultimatum, portable hellbomb. Ultimatum is the panzerfaust looking secondary that can kill most heavies and even blow up bot jammers. Be careful it has low range.
- Borderline Justice - Talon, hover pack, deadeye (if you like marksman rifles)
- Urban Legends - AT Emplacement is godlike on fort defense missions and generally very good. not much else here though
- Steeled Veterans - Fire breaker, fire grenade, servo assisted armors, senator - used to be way better last year during the termicide tower arc when every primary sucked but the fire breaker.
- Truth Enforcers - Loyalist (plasma purifier pistol)
- Chemical Agents - gas grenades are good for bugs/illuminate, healing pistol (if you care)
- Viper Commandos - Experimental infusion (piss stims), everything else is borderline useless
One thing that I found confusing or entertaining about the universe of Helldivers is that Arrowhead tries their hardest to make Helldivers seems like incompetent, disposable retards when in "reality" Helldivers kill like a thousand aliens before dying and being replaced.
Just like when Paul Verhoeven made Starship Troopers to be a parody of Fascism, but because he understood neither Starship Troopers or Fascism, and ended up proving Heinlein's points that made it into the movie. Turboliberals and leftists often try to mock the various forms of right-wingery but due to their refusal to understand right wing ideas the shitlibs fail and end up making right wing stufflook cool or proving the right's rhetoric points. If you're curious about the Starship Troopers thing,
Sargon did a pretty good video about it a few years back. Yes he's a retard, but he's at least capable of writing good material once in a while.
A few weeks ago Pilestedt called the playerbase brainwashed fascists because the player base bought into the kayfabe ("oh no the players are having fun getting immersed in our game! NAZIS! NAZIS! NAZIS! Quick call the UN!"), but what he didnt think about was given the choice between total annihilation at the hands of skull robots that build people blenders, giant feral insects and evil aliens that turn people into zombies or a somewhat authoritarian technocratic government that's clearly a parody of the rhetoric of the Bush administration, everyone unironically supports Super Earth and for good reason. When he said something to the effect of "when everyone is wearing the same uniform and doing salutes all the time, that's Fascism" he made a complete ass of himself because he's clearly never heard of nearly every organized military in recorded history.
In short, they're retards who got lucky because the western gaming industry is a smoldering crater at this point and their game scratched a really big itch. They nearly flushed the whole thing down the toilet like 4 times now, with the Snoy shit, nerfapalooza, their SJW community mods shitting all over their discord and reddit, and their game's code being held together by caffeine and sheer force of will. Eventually they will successfully shoot their foot off permanently, its only a matter of time. I suspect Helldivers 3 will be nowhere near as fun because the devs will be compelled to spite their paying customers for being even a tiny bit right wing. They won't be able to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. At this point Arrowhead has the money I dropped on it at the outset so i might as well enjoy it while it lasts ( bought the super citizen bundle before the PSN debacle), but I'm not giving them another penny.
