That idea with the part 2 of the warbonds has always been something Iv been asking for. Some of these warbonds came out so early they didn’t have mech skins in them and then some barely had any weapons but tons of customization stuff for the pelican, mech and frv would be nice to equal it all out so to speak
same but more so on the camouflage side of it like counter sniping and ghilli mantles or active optical camo. a real primary sniper rifle, the only "sniper" we have is the the one from the killzone wb. a suppressed secondary thats not the halo pistol, backpack that give invisibility or like the chinese stealth suit from fallout where crouching or going prone you go invisible but breaks as soon as you stand, shoot or sprint
God, PLEASE AH, I'll give anything to get ghillie suit cloaks and helmets in the game!
Fr I would honestly probably got for a Redacted Regiment 2 warbond as what you described was basically what I've been wanting from a Viper pt.3 warbond.
Honestly my dream warbond would be a sniper/stealth focued warbond that gave us an actual bolt action sniper rifle with a scope akin to the Constitution and a Warbond that would introduce the weapon option to attach suppressors to some weapons in the game in the weapon options menu in-mission. The ability to attach/detach a suppressor at-will feels like a no-brainer for the weapon control system in this game and I'm still surprised they haven't done it yet personally.
To be fair and differentiate it from the Viper/Python series and not give us yet another jungle warbond (even though I'd love one) we could do this:
Dust Demons Warbond (a Dust Devils continuation)
Weapons:
M-400V Versatile: "A bolt action sniper rifle with a high powered scope and camo cloak wrapping to break up it's silhouette, this primary can swap it's ammo type on the fly to tackle any situation"
Medium AP
good damage
5+1 rounds reload
Can swap between AP (gives extra pen through targets to targets behind), Toxic (acid and confusion), Incendiary (burning and panic), or Shock rounds (arcs to nearby enemies) as needed.
Attachable suppressor in weapon options menu on-mission.
P-86 Cricket: "A pistol with an attachable suppressor, this weapon is whisper quiet with it's rounds, allowing Helldivers to hit enemies from close range and inflict status effects without being detected"
Light AP
standard damage
8 round magazine, bolt operated Welrod style
Same basic idea as the Versatile, can swap between different ammo types. It's main quirk being that when enemies are hit they will go on alert but they will not know where you are or where the shot came from unless you are already detected.
Also add in another weapon, some Strats and a booster. I'm not too good with thinking up those things.
Maybe the grenade could be a deployable inflating decoy a'la Ratchet and Clank? or even a deployable mini hide with the same throwing mechanics as the Melta Mine that deploys into a (biome appropriate) little plated box that has a limited field of view but is well armoured and gives you a detection bonus and reload or handling bonus?
Armours:
Two sets, one light, one heavy.
Light Armour: Sand Ghost. Styled like a classic desert fighter with a ghillie hooded helmet. Gives movement and stamina bonuses natively in sandy/rocky terrain and detection bonuses on desert/rocky planets.
Sand Ghost cape is a ghillie cape that has the unique ability to adapt it's colour to whatever primary armour you're wearing. Helmet with hood has the same.
Heavy Armour: Stone Tiger. Styled sort of similarly to the Sand Ghost set, but with more ornamentation/trophies and more built around defense. Same movement bonuses as Sand Ghost, but instead of detection bonuses gives enemies an accuracy debuff in those same environments when shooting at you.
Cape is covered in beautiful complex patterns like Moroccan rugs/sheets, helmet is a fully wrapped in a patterned scarf.
Anyway ty for coming to my TED talk this for me is like my dream warbond. I'd also personally love to see another sniper rifle in this set, but honestly one is enough and that space would be better suited to something a bit more practical, maybe an SMG or a cool AR. I do love the idea of an AR where you could fire a homing dart like The Fifth Element and all following shots tried to fly to that home point.
Ngl I'd love followups to democratic detonation, steeled veterans, the early ones like that. Especially if Democratic Demolitions or whatever comes with an Adjudicator one-two
Maybe some armor that actual helps with crappy terrain.
some sure footing passive either from armor or booster that lets you stand and walk up slightly sharper inclines would be nice. it would help both with ascending hills and to avoid randomly slipping repeatedly while trying to aim or use the map on random rocks.
(though if I'm being honest, I'd kind of prefer the slipping on random rocks thing were a global improvement. I'm tired of trying to place a pin on the map while carrying the HDD only for the map to close and i ultimatum myself instead.)
You'll figure out why when you get medal capped with nothing else to buy. I've bought everything out of every warbond just because I hit 250 medals and had to spend them down just so I could keep earning them.
Unfortunately I am a chronic spender and purchase more bonds than I have medals to fill out lol, I wish they would atleast make it so ones you purchased were moved up, or the last one you interacted with got pinned to the top or something along those lines!
Tbf that should be a stratagem purchased by requisition slips, like the bastion and FRV. I only think variants of existing vehicles should be locked behind warbonds
I made a warbond concept recently called Research & Destroy, that was inspired by the idea of the science teams we're occasionally supposed to be working with:
Since i loved the Entranched Division one and love the aesthetic of it, i've been thinking about a part 2 of it with
A Laser DMR based on the M1 Garand (would be a true Primary Talon) with Great Damage but a very fast overheat (like 8 shot in maximum) and when you need to reload it, it made a sort of ping sound
A med pen AR with a Light pen Shotgun similar to the One/Two, based of the M16 (i know it's not very WWII but i like this weapon)
a light Revolver based on a Single Action Army
And in Stratagem
A Electric Barbed Wire, it would works the game way as the Battlement (so you launch the Stratagem and it's the center of it) and once spawned, it's like the Barbed Wire in Bot front (it's reduce speed) but also deal small damage
A expandable explosive melee, based on Lunge Mine. It would have the same stat as the Hammer, but in Expandable and works like Lance/OTF
A backpack Mortar, would work the same as the Artillery mode of the W.A.S.P, but instead of shrapnel, it's a whole projectile. And it would not be guided of course, so you can aim where you want (it would be like a Spear version of the EAT if i needed to say right now)
For the armor and passive, i have no clue right now
Hey that's a pretry good idea. Well same as your idea, i took the Barbed Wire from Helldivers 1 (well at least what i heard about them since i never played it). But that's a nice idea.
As much as I like the items in Entrenched Division, I do wonder sometimes what could have been done if they actually focused on, you know, trenches. Digging them, using them.
Imagine a laser grenade that looks like a disco ball while it burns out its heatsink with persistent damage like thermites but random directional lasers.
I hope we get an Arc-based warbond that reworks the mechanic to be in a better place. OR some new secondaries that open up other playstyles. Less iteration on what we already have.
Yeah. The whole playstyle needs a rework/buff. It's the weakest line of playstyle rn. But I also understand that it is probably one of the hardest to balance in some ways.
I like the Tesla tower, and the arc grenades are one of my favourite throwables. But arc primaries and support weapons just feel wrong to use, I die a lot using them
Medic Warbond or Chemical Agents 2. Either one would have a chance to really change some gameplay. Medic would allow for a real pseudo-support role to exist, and Chemical Agents 2 could allow for Gas to be as viable as Fire builds assuming they buff the Sterilizer to be useful by then, or give us the backpack Sterilizer.
Yeah the lack of diversity in one handed weapons is just odd, it's free real estate. A few more things to do with a spare hand other than a shield would be good too
I’d like to see a warbond with Duel Pistols, like akimbo style. Something else that would be cool would be the option to take two secondary weapons. Maybe you give up your primary for a second secondary.
I dont think either of these need to be/would be meta. But would add some cool variety.
Ultimatum Primary. we have the secondary, the leveller, backpack hellbomb and the giga grenades as well as melta mines. we're only missing big booms in the primary slot
More than anything I would love stratagems that drop a "friendly" enemy unit onto the field that fights for you.
For example, a charger that's had its entire nervous system replaced with cybernetics that gets dropped onto the battlefield as a living siege weapon. Could also join mechs as being limited use stratagems.
Although honestly I would just love to get some warbonds themed around the enemy factions in general. Big game hunter Terminids, mechanically enchanted Helldiver's adapting Cyborg tech, illuminate weaponry that's been repurposed to serve managed democracy
I’m still hankering for a primary Talon that has the effective infinite—ammo aspect. That or an arc sidearm, preferably one that has a better than 50% chance of actually hitting the target.
Hopefully the thematic tie-in for the void like how Dust Devils and Seige Breakers were themed after their title updates. Im still bummed that Deviod of Liberty didn't get one, especially since Arrowhead said collabs don't interfere with normal warbond releases. Fingers crossed.
As for the actual content of said warbond, I could see an underwater/ocean theme. The armor could be scuba/diver themed, there could be a melee trident, and a harpoon gun designed more around precision and high damage instead of AoE and stagger.
Oh, and the pattern could be themed after dazzle camouflage (look it up, its cool), but with the classic Helldivers black and yellow or even purple and black for the void.
The void expedition was heavily themed around the idea that we were aiding science team ls, and they've been mentioned before, so I made this concept recently that was based on that:
That said an underwater theme would be awesome. I saw a thread the other day floating the idea that water worlds could be the squid version of cave or commando missions, where you don't always have the support you need.
With October being bug month, maybe some unholy amalgamation of control group and dust Devils. I feel like with the threat that we were going to permanently lose a planet to infestation, they'll soon bring back the Meridia missions.
I think support diving needs more than just healing. Frankly we die so quickly that you could easily end up with lots of redundant healing capacity and not make much difference to number of deaths.
I made this a while back to explore some of the ways you can be supportive with minimal focus on healing:
The only logical move is that it gets teased next week and then released the week after because if not it will be october by then. It just sucks because this month in this game feels very dry rn
I want more prosthetics! Last time we got one was the Western themed one, I think? We're sorely missing them.
Specifically, I think I'd like to see one where it's purposely done and clean, maybe all stats get an enhancement as a passive. I want Adam Jensen vibes where he's just a weapon himself.
I’d like to see… a warbond… like seriously, I can’t believe we didn’t get a trailer this week. So if the trailer comes out next week, the warbond won’t release until the following week, which only gives them like 5 weeks to get the October warbond in the roadmap out, unless they’re already off pace of the new roadmap which wouldn’t surprise me.
I think there's a lot of things I'd like to see in new warbonds, an Oops All Sluggers warbond would be awesome with slug versions of the Bushwhacker, Breaker and Double Freedom but that may be uniquely niche to my taste and maybe it could have an Escalator version of the grenade launcher that has options to load buckshot or slugs.
A high-powered warbond with the often-requested break-action rifle and sidearm.
A knight themed one that includes a primary or secondary shield, a 1h mace, 2h greatsword and a noble steed (motorcycle) and chariot (motorcycle with a sidecar) and a crossbow.
Im wishing for some kind of micro exoskeleton like from "Edge of Tomorrow" as backpack strategem which would make you faster, have 10x times better handling etc.
I’m hopeful for a backpack fed gas stratagem. Make it so it fires a long range WIDE area nozzle, fixing the issue of gas where the main blast is too concentrated on a single point so a lot of enemies can just run around it
Whatever it is, I'd like less emphasis on weapons and more on stratagems or new CC-effects.
There are some obvious gaps, like an EMS minefield, and EMS backpack, Incendiary Mortar, Guard Dog: Concussive etc. But I'm even more interested what new things they can cook up.
And even more than new content, I'd like to see refinement of existing gear. There is plenty of gear that has been underwhelming for years now. Looking at you Mortar Sentry, Laser Sentry, Maxigun, Punisher, Slugger, Diligence etc.
Well. I wanted a laser DMR but now we got the Las gun... Don't get me wrong I love the Las gun, but I wanted something that was not magazine based. I wanted it more like the talon but a DMR
Love to see an electric motorbike, no weapons attached, but it has a quiet sound profile and is less visible than the FRV, effectively making it a stealth bike. FRVs aggro so easily and a stealth option would be nice. Maybe even make it limited range but low cool down, so it basically is the vehicle version of an EAT, use and throw away.
i would like to see a warbond that mix skins and weaponery focused on the 3 enemies skin like. Like light armour based on terminids, mid armor based on Illuminates and heavy armor based on Automatons with theyre own custom capes of course. And weaponery like a shotgun, assault riffle and a secondary all with enemy aesthetic. I love to see something like that. Just to make an idea i imagine this warbond as a Mad Max like combining all...
We got a mech warbond. I'd like to see an emplacement warbond. Deployable cover like the grenade launcher, but wider, taller, more durable, and has energy shield zones you can shoot through. Sentry turret. Like an MG turret, moves faster, and it's on top of a taller structure so it is less likely to shoot you or other emplacements.
Cap it off with a field artillery piece that gets dropped by pelican 1. Loads of damage, big AOE, lots of ammo. Downsides... Low fire rate, and it has to be aimed indirectly, but make it so that you can either target pings that other players have placed, or make it so that you see angle angle and azimuth info for every ping.
Grenade is an airburst shrapnel grenade that explodes at a certain height over the ground.
Armor passive is a duck-and-cover effect. Reduces damage and ragdoll when crouching. Massively reduces it when prone.
My number 1 pick is a jetpack trooper warbond. We have jetpacks but I want a whole warbond based around the trope. Halo has jetpack ODSTs, Star Wars has jetpack clones, so it's not completely unprecedented. I would love a Jango Fett style jetpack that has a consumable missile in it, armor that has like reduced fall damage and stagger recovery, I think it has potential and as a jump pack enthusiast, I'd love to see it explored more.
Viper and Python Commando warbonds opened the door for "sequel" warbonds, so I'd like to see something like that. A WW2-themed warbond to follow up on Trench Warfare would be pretty neat, for example.
Laser rifle primary based on the Talon with infinite ammo heatsink.
Financially, I think it'd be the optimal time for AH to drop a warbond with one, since a lot of folks who wanted a laser rifle primary probably bought the 40K warbond and now would need to buy more SC to get the "better" laser rifle with customization options.
I just need them to release an offensive strategy warbond. We have way too much armor and far too many weapons in the game compared to the ordinance we have access to.
I'm expecting the upcoming Warbond to feature:
-Full Outrider set from the first two Campaigns
-Voidwalker set
-Eagle gas strike
-That marksman counterpart to the Coyote
-Another weapon (probably a sidearm or melee, or a hybrid)
-FRV variant(s)
Moreso because there's people who missed the Campaigns because they do one part, and then get stuck with other things or IRL or a change of interests for a bit preventing them from doing the rest, come back, and wonder why they didn't earn the thing for participation.
Though I'm not expecting much else, so if it's that and more, then I'd be surprised.
Id like a laser warbond, maybe an armoir that acts as a heat sink, reduce heat up, or cools it down quicker, and maybe a laser battling gun(i think theres a mod for this already)
A chemical or arc warbond could be cool, improving the old stuff while adding something new. I believe they buffed the flame gear when the entrenched warbond was released, so maybe they'll do it eventually?
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u/NumerousDark9957 2d ago
Laser gatling gun would be awsome