Helldivers 2‘s Halo ODST Warbond has landed, and it is… positive? It is positive. There’s not an entire lot of precise Halo in it other than a handful of weapons and cosmetics, but it surely does have the traditional MA5C assault rifle. Okay, so it is a bit worse than the usual Liberator assault rifle you begin out with, and it is actually no Adjudicator (which, with all of the recoil issues I’ve, might be a great factor). However look, it is simply cool okay?
The Halo Warbond has three pages, consisting of weapons and a number of other cosmetics in your daring defender of democracy and their varied bits and items. The primary two pages are a bit underwhelming. Yeah, a Halo-themed drop pod is neat, however you see it for perhaps 5 seconds earlier than it delivers your subsequent sacrificial freedom lamb and vanishes — barely sufficient time to even discover the small print.
The Warbond’s weapon choice goes heavy on Arrowhead’s army realism, with an assault rifle, handgun, SMG, and shotgun, all of which mix in with the sport’s customary weapons. These aren’t a lot completely different from the gear you begin out with — and the MS7 SMG is definitely a bit worse — so when you’re hoping for operate greater than type, there’s not loads right here besides the SOCOM pistol and shotgun on web page three. It would not have been an enormous stretch to incorporate the Needler or perhaps a plasma rifle, not when Arrowhead additionally has fancy sci-fi strategems just like the electric-blast bazooka Epoch, so sticking with the plain weapons looks as if a missed alternative to essentially make this really feel correctly Halo-like.
It seems type was sufficient for me, although, at the least the place the MA5C assault rifle is worried. It sounds and feels punchy, and regardless that its recoil degree is barely worse when capturing from the hip, it handles completely when aiming. I by no means use first-person mode Helldivers 2, because it’s really easy to get overwhelmed by a mob of enemies behind you or off to the facet. The ammo show and people MA5C sights have been simply too temptingly Halo to disregard, although, so I toggled first-person mode on and have not shut it off since. Is it useful? No! I die far more than standard this manner and haven’t any clue what’s subsequent to me half the time. However it’s a hell of a number of enjoyable anyway.
I do not assume the Helldivers 2 Halo Warbond is value the additional 500 tremendous credit in comparison with the usual premium Warbond, not when it has no themed throwables or melee weapons and no extra tremendous credit to redeem in return. However, I am having a blast with the MA5C rifle and taking part in Helldivers 2 in a approach I by no means in any other case do. It isn’t the Halo fantasy it might’ve been, however typically, a bit dress-up and a nostalgic area gun are all you want.
