Okay, So We Now Know 1 Weapon Coming to Helldivers 2 as Part of the Warhammer 40,000 Warbond, and I Think We Can Guess a Few Others

Helldivers 2 volition uncover its hotly anticipated Warhammer 40,000 crossover connected July 30, Sony has announced. But successful the meantime, we person confirmation of 1 limb that volition beryllium included successful the Legendary Warbond.

The little teaser video, below, shows a Bolt Pistol, lifted consecutive from the Warhammer 40,000 armory. Bolt Pistols are utilized by galore antithetic factions and units successful Games Workshop’s grimdark acold aboriginal setting, but it’s peculiarly fitting successful the hands of an Astra Militarum (formerly the Imperial Guard) soldier.

Even earlier the Warhammer 40,000 crossover was announced, fans had spoken astir however it would beryllium the cleanable acceptable for Helldivers 2, which sees groups of 4 soldiers fundamentally play the relation of cannon fodder successful the endless galactic warfare against horrible alien monsters. You tin rather easy equate Helldivers’ alien bug race, the Terminids, to Warhammer 40,000’s Tyranids, for example. The Automatons aren’t a cardinal miles distant from the mindless mechanical Necrons, either.

Warhammer 40,000 is thing Arrowhead is often asked astir successful interviews, and by that I mean that I person asked the squad astir it successful interviews due to the fact that I emotion this stuff. In April past year, I asked Alex Bolle, accumulation manager connected Helldivers 2, astir a imaginable Warhammer 40,000 collab, and helium said determination was discussions being had. "Obviously Warhammer 40,000 is thing that a batch of guys internally emotion to death," helium said astatine the time. "So the devs are discussing, the devs are proposing stuff, and the hype is building. So these are discussions internally that we are having. Warhammer 40,000, I can't truly archer you. Maybe. Who knows? We'll see!"

Indeed, successful 2024, Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt published an extended database of IPs helium “really would emotion to bash a instrumentality on," and Warhammer 40,000 was close up determination alongside the likes of Aliens, Starship Troopers, and Terminator.

As for what the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 Warbond volition include, aft the Bolt Pistol uncover we tin speculate astir what other we’ll see. A Chainsword seems similar a harmless bet, arsenic does the Astra Militarum’s iconic Lasgun. A Boltgun, however, mightiness beryllium a measurement excessively acold for Helldivers 2 — it’s usually utilized by the genetically enhanced ace soldiers known arsenic the Space Marines, though determination are versions of the Boltgun that tin beryllium utilized by modular humans.

As for armor, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed to spot Cadian-style Kasrkin and Scion armor sets for the soldiers of Super Earth. Cadia is 1 of the astir celebrated planets successful the Warhammer 40,000 setting, and its radical immoderate of the toughest successful the Emperor’s quality army. Cadia is nary much (that’s a full happening each its own), but its radical unrecorded on, arsenic bash their wargear.

We’ll find retired connected July 30.

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