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Rick Lane

Helldivers 2's latest warbond adds a stratagem I've craved since the galactic war started, a portable hellbomb

A screenshot of Helldivers 2, depicting a Helldiver saluting while wearing an anthropomorphic facemask.

While I've played and enjoyed many complex, nuanced video games in my life, I am ultimately a simple man at heart. I like video games that feature lots of explosions, and the bigger the explosions, the happier I'll be.

So when I first witnessed the colossal fireball created by Helldivers 2's ferocious hellbomb, you can bet that I grinned like a chimp saying 'cheese!'. Well, the first one I witnessed without being annihilated by said explosion, anyway, as like most people I underestimated the hellbomb's vast detonation radius when I first primed it to blow. In any case, as I watched the mushroom cloud billow from the crater that was once an automaton base, a single thought accompanied my glee. "I wish I could take that with me."

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