Did you get pleasure from celebrating Liberty Day over the weekend in Helldivers 2? Effectively, if the answer is no, you have missed out on being a part of a horde of gamers falling in love with the intentionally barely horrible in sheer efficiency phrases gun that Arrowhead gave the divers as a part of its in-game festivities.
Liberty Day, for those who’re not into Tremendous Earth lore, is a long-running in-game vacation that is been baked into the Helldivers universe, with gamers and devs coming collectively to rejoice, er, freedom and the opposite normal stuff, by way of a day of stuff on October 26. Okay, I’ve in all probability made it sound a bit lame there, however there are shock dissident executions, so hopefully that helps persuade you this can be a massive deal for the divers.
Anyway, as a part of these celebrations this 12 months, which additionally included a novel 24-hour Main Order, Arrowhead gave Helldivers 2 gamers the R-2124 Structure rifle and DP-00 tactical armour set. The latter’s a pleasant traditional Helldivers getup, nevertheless it’s the previous that is immediately wormed its means into the hearts of the divers.
Principally, it is an old style bolt-action rifle that would not appear too misplaced in a Name of Obligation set in one of many two world wars, and even one thing like Crimson Lifeless Redemption. Efficiency-wise, as you’d anticipate, it isn’t fairly on the identical degree as plenty of the extra fashionable or high-tech ordnance within the recreation’s arsenal, however that does not matter, as a result of it is glorious for 2 issues – musketeer roleplaying and stabbing stuff.
Yep, as you possibly can see within the clip above, people have even been having a go at poking among the recreation’s largest enemies – together with tanks – to demise with the Structure’s bayonet, as a result of online game. Extremely, the participant behind that try did finally really handle to destroy a tank this fashion with out being thrown into the stratosphere, posting a clip of that additional down the thread.
For those who’ve acquired the Peak Physique armour passive lively, the oldsters within the thread reckon you may be doing about 165 injury per stab together with your bayonet, which is fairly cool.
So there you go, a enjoyable factor to strive if you have not already when you anticipate the following MO within the current Democracy House Station saga to drop and finish your good Liberty Day vaycay.
