Helldivers: Turn Up The Heat free expansion launches today ~ PS4 games

mardi 12 mai 2015

Helldivers: Turn Up The Heat free expansion launches today

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Honoured Helldivers, with your help and determination the 1st Galactic War was won and Super Earth is safe… for now.

But how can we stand by while so many still suffer under the burden of independence, outside the democracy and justice that Super Earth brings?

So today we announce a new expansion in the war against terror, because freedom has no bounds.

The liberty we enjoy today we owe to the heroic HELLDIVERS that have fought relentlessly in the wars so far:

9.5 billion shots fired by the Helldivers (avg. accuracy 38%)
1.04 billion enemies of Super-Earth neutralised (killed)
22 million missions Played
1.4 million planets liberated
19 million Helldiver deaths
2 million trophies awarded
90k Helldivers have earned the Cape Spinning Dancing Queen trophy

Turning Up The Heat expansion

Helldivers: Turning Up The Heat is a free content update for Helldivers going live today, accompanied by the release this Wednesday of the Reinforcements 2 DLC.

Free expansion features:

Increased rank cap from 25 to 27
New trophies
New environment: Volcanic planets, full of dangers
New Bug enemy: The Bug Impaler
New Cyborg enemy: The Cyborg Hound
New Illuminate enemy: The Illuminate Obelisk
Three new objective types: Repair and Fire Artillery, Disarm Unexploded Ordnance, and Geological Survey
New customisation outfit: The Volcanic Camouflage set
New perk: Strong Arm, allowing you to throw further

To celebrate the release of the expansion, we are releasing the Helldivers: Turning Up The Heat Edition Bundle for €20.99. This bundle includes Helldivers plus the new Specialist Pack, which features the Specialist Uniform, LAS-12 ‘Tanto’ ultra compact laser SMG, and the Close Air Support powerful strafing run Stratagem. It will be available for a limited time only.

More reinforcements

In addition to the free content of Turning Up The Heat, Helldivers also adds four more Reinforcement packs for those in need of EVEN MORE DEMOCRACY.

Each pack is available separately for €2.99 and the Demolitionist, Hazard Ops and Pilot packs are available together in the Reinforcements Pack 2 for €5.99.

Specialist Pack

Helldiver Specialists are highly trained offensive support operatives. They specialise in the use of Stratagems and supportive fire. They are specially trained to receive enhanced air support. The Specialist Pack contains:

The Specialist Uniform (Helmet, Armor, and Cape).
LAS-12 ‘Tanto': An ultra-compact laser SMG with extremely limited range. The short focused beam is very powerful to compensate for the short engagement envelope.
Close Air Support: An ‘Eagle’ delivers a powerful strafing run followed by a pair of anti-tank missiles. Effective at damaging almost all targets it does however have the drawback of being slightly unpredictable.

Demolitionist Pack

Helldiver Demolitionists are experts at tearing things down and blowing things up. They are rumored to be careless when handling explosives, though this is most likely just their familiarity with explosives being misinterpreted. The Demolitionist Pack contains:

The Demolitionist Uniform (Helmet, Armor, and Cape).
MG-105 ‘Stalwart': A light machinegun based on the AR-19 ‘Liberator’. It’s very powerful when used in sustained fire, but the initial recoil is often hard to handle resulting in unpredictable spread.
REC-6 ‘Demolisher': A remote Explosive Charge capable of destroying both objectives and heavily armored enemies. The user can decide when to detonate the charge by pressing the detonator. Often referred to as a Satchel Charge.

Hazard Ops Pack

The Hazard Operative Helldivers are trained in chemical and biological combat and protection. Sometimes shunned by fellow Helldivers for their use of inhumane warfare, many a Helldiver is happy to have them on the mission when it comes down to life or death. It’s not like the enemy is Human after all.

The Hazard Ops Uniform (Helmet, Armour, and Cape).
AR-14D ‘Paragon': A heavy semi-automatic rifle firing rounds similar to the AR-20L ‘Justice’, but without the penetrating capabilities. Instead the rounds are hollowed out and filled with a neurotoxin causing targets hit to become slow and sluggish.
TOX-13 ‘Avenger': A high pressure liquid projection weapon similar to the FLAM-40 ‘Incinerator’. Instead of projecting flaming napalm, this weapon sprays a very potent neurotoxin resulting in slow movements and irreversible brain damage.

Pilot Pack

The Pilot Helldiver is specially trained to operate the wide arsenal of vehicles available to the Helldiver troops. Especially trained in the use of the EXO-48 ‘Obsidian’ Exosuit, Pilots are some of the few that are given the honour of using this heavily armed monster. Though they prefer to use vehicles they are still Helldivers and very formidable troops on foot. The Pilot Pack contains:

The Pilot Uniform (Helmet, Armor, and Cape).
AC-5 Arc Shotgun: A further development of the Arc technology, the AC-5 fires a wide, short range cone and damages everything covered by the static discharge. The charge up is much faster than the original Arc Thrower but the discharge is not quite as powerful.
EXO-48 ‘Obsidian': A powerful exosuit with two double autocannons. The firepower contained in this walking monstrosity annihilates light and medium infantry, and the two magazines allows for both maximum firepower or conserving ammunition. The only downside to this mech is its distinct lack of anti-tank capabilities.