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The Helldivers 2 Chemical Agents Warbond allows you to commit even more war crimes

Not that killing the enemies of Super Earth is ever a crime

Marco Wutz

Arrowhead / Sony

Cheer up, Helldivers, because Super Earth has just invented the greatest anti-Terminid weapon of all time – bug spray. The TX-41 Sterilizer is part of the newest Helldivers 2 Premium Warbond, Chemical Agents, and allows you to coat your Terminid enemies in a fog of toxic mist. 

If you don’t want to get your own hands dirty, you can leave the spraying to the AX/TX-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breathe – a flying drone that can apply the bug spray from the air.

Additionally, Helldivers can use the G-4 Gas Grenade to spread toxicity among the enemies of space democracy. A new utility item, the P-11 Stim Pistol, allows you to provide minor heals to allies.

Naturally, you want to make sure that none of that unpleasant business gets into your own lungs, so the new AF-02 Haz-Master armor will be the best drip for professional bug exterminators due to having the Advanced Filtration passive, which gives the player resistance to the gas clouds they’ll be generating with their new toys, including the toxic cloud put off by the Orbital Gas Strike stratagem.

Helldivers 2 screenshot of a drone applying bug spray.
Drone-applied bug spray? That's the future of warfare. / Arrowhead / Sony

There is also the lightweight AF-50 Noxious Ranger armor that allows you to move swiftly – and hopefully get out of the way of any wind changes.

As always, a complementary set of capes and name cards are included in the offerings as well, though this time some cosmetics for your Hellpod are included, too.

I would like to note that chemical warfare is a war crime. Oh? A friendly Super Earth democracy officer reminded me that the enemies of space democracy don’t, in fact, enjoy any protections of the law, so go ham.

The Helldivers 2 Chemical Agents Warbond will be released for PC and PS5 on September 19, 2024.

Players can also look forward to an upcoming balance patch containing major railgun buffs.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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