Slicing Edge Warbond launch date and begin time in Helldivers 2

The Slicing Edge Warbond is the primary new Warbond coming to Helldivers 2 post-release. It’s additionally the second Premium Warbond — that means it prices extra cash — after the Steeled Veterans one which launched alongside the sport again in February.

Slicing Edge will internet you some new cosmetics to outfit your Helldiver and — most significantly — some new weapons so that you can use within the battle to avoid wasting Tremendous Earth. If you happen to’re searching for new Stratagems, you gained’t discover any right here (however try the hilarious, rubbish mech that Arrowhead Studios not too long ago added).

On this Helldivers 2 information, we’ll stroll you thru when you may choose up the Slicing Edge Warbond, how a lot it prices, and what all comes with it.

Slicing Edge Warbond launch time: When does the brand new Helldivers 2 replace launch?

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The Slicing Edge Warbond for Helldivers 2 will launch on Thursday, March 14. It’s at the moment unclear what time the replace will go dwell, although based mostly on launch instances for earlier Helldivers 2 updates, we are able to make a fairly educated guess.

Helldivers 2 itself launched at 4 a.m. EST on Feb. 8, and most patches appear to look inside an hour or two of that very same window. Assuming the Slicing Edge Warbond releases round Arrowhead Video games’ standard replace time, right here’s roughly when you may count on it to look in your time zone:

• 2 a.m. PDT for the west coast of North America
• 5 a.m. EDT for the east coast of North America
• 9 a.m. GMT for the U.Ok.
• 10 a.m. CET for western Europe / Paris
• 6 p.m. JST for Tokyo

We’ll replace this publish if Arrowhead Video games pronounces an official time for the Warbond’s launch.

How a lot does the Slicing Edge Warbond price in Helldivers 2?

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Arrowhead Video games and Sony haven’t introduced how a lot the brand new Warbond will price. Nonetheless, the Steeled Veterans Warbond ran gamers 1,000 Tremendous Credit (or $9.99) in February.

The Steeled Veterans Warbond gives the identical variety of weapons — probably the most beneficial gadgets within the Warbond — as Slicing Edge will, so it’s fairly protected to imagine it’ll additionally run you 10 bucks on the 14th.

Simply do not forget that Warbonds don’t mechanically grant rewards. Like a Battle Cross monitor in Fortnite or Future 2, you’re paying for the proper to unlock gadgets from the Warbond as you play, earn Medals, and buy the brand new goodies you need most. If you happen to play lengthy sufficient, you’ll finally be capable of unlock the whole lot within the Slicing Edge Warbond. And, in contrast to season passes in another live-service video games, Warbonds by no means go away in Helldivers 2.

What’s new within the Slicing Edge Warbond for Helldivers 2?

The Slicing Edge Warbond comes with 4 new weapons, three capes, three armor units, a brand new grenade, and quite a lot of different goodies like participant playing cards and emotes. Let’s break it down.

• The LAS-16 Sickle is a brand new rifle that shoots lasers in bursts. As a substitute of needing to reload, you’ll as a substitute have to verify it doesn’t overheat.
• The SG-8P Punisher Plasma is a Punisher shotgun that shoots plasma as a substitute of bullets. Whereas it’s described as a shotgun, it seems to fireplace extra like a grenade launcher.
• The ARC-12 Blitzer is a shotgun that shoots lightning at targets and seems to arc between them.
• The LAS-7 Dagger is a laser pistol, which isn’t very fancy when in comparison with the opposite gadgets on this record. However hey … it’s nonetheless a pistol that shoots a sustained laser.

The three armor units are the EX-03 Prototype 3, the EX-00 Prototype X, and the EX-16 Prototype 16. The grenade is a stun grenade referred to as the G-23.

This Warbond appears particularly good for coping with Automatons, which have given the group fairly a little bit of bother for the reason that sport’s launch final month.