Last week saw the new Servants of Freedom Warbond released in Helldivers 2, with each of its new weapons and stratagems offering some pretty extreme firepower in exchange for equally extreme risk to the user and any allies near them. The B-100 Portable Hellbomb, for example, is a wearable backpack nuke that only gives you 10 seconds to get clear of its blast radius once you drop it to take out an objective, while the single-shot GP-31 Ultimatum grenade pistol fires a heavy Fallout-style mini nuke with all the destructive — and teamkilling — potential of an Eagle 500kg Bomb. Even the battle pass' new armor sets are absurdly dangerous to drop with, as they make their wearer explode and obliterate anything around them upon death.
Much of the community's attention has been focused on the ridiculousness of the Hellbomb backpack and the Ultimatum in the days following Servants of Freedom's launch, but personally, I've been addicted to the LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle — a variant of the regular rapid-fire laser primary with extra stopping power, but also the hilarious side effect of burning the wielder and eventually even lighting them on fire if fired continuously for long enough. With the right setup (the Vitality Enhancement booster and fire-resistant armor) I've been able to take full advantage of its extra oomph while almost completely mitigating its drawbacks, so I was pretty ecstatic to learn that a new patch released this morning made it even better.
