PS5's Helldivers 2 Goes Full WW1 in Upcoming Entrenched Division Warbond

That P-69 Pistol is a really good blend of a Mauser C96 and a Wehrmacht P08 Luger. I wonder how well that will be received with the German ratings board, they were talking about easing up on censoring certain imagery in video-games and went even stricter. They've had whole characters visually changed in different games and are notorious for censoring or banning certain games. If you've ever seen a European game with a big green/yellow or red sticker with USK, that's them.

Physical collectors hate them and they are always focusing on online content/updates too. It looks like a great update but I'd hope German players don't get it cut from their game.

Like most avid divers I have earned more than enough ingame currency to unlock the upcoming warbond so I’ll do so even though none of the weapons are game changers.

Helldivers’ many fire enthusiasts will no doubt welcome the addition of two new ways to cook enemies. As a guy who prefers poison (relatively light danage but the disorientation effect is great) I am most looking forward to the poison mortar.

The defense themed warbond leads me to believe that H2 will soon be getting some new defensive mission types (kinda like what happened with the stealth warbond) in which trenches rather than walls and gates are what keeps the team and the assets they are protecting safe from enemies.

Got a bit burnt out on this game after we landed on cyberstan I think I'll be on extended shore leave for while before I head back out to battle!

@GirlVersusGame Honestly you should just import at that point.

Bring back Battlefield 1!

Sounds like they are running out of idea's. What's next WW2, why not go the whole hog with Roman, Medieval & Napoleonic styles. Great game, not played it for about 8 months.

Nice break to do the daily personal order in between my many Toxic Commando matches

I think this warbond was made for me. I love SMGs and fire. An SMG with an alternate flamethrower mode and a heavy flamer sounds lovely! I also really like mortars, but never take them because they are too lethal to players, too. A gas version sounds great!

@RedRiot193 They show up on some of my games when I'm in the UK and buy from Amazon UK. If I buy day one it doesn't happen but if I buy something niche a year or so later and it's not mass produced it can come through Germany. Amazon often use those regions for official stock and it's cheaper for Sony to print and package their discs in Europe. Up until a few years ago most Playstation games for the European market came through Austria and they didn't enforce a rating. The German USK are the first and final say on what goes through their region. They've ramped up their 'protecting the children'. Meaning if a game gets a particular rating it's illegal for a store to even advertise the game and it has to be sold under the counter not out on the shop floor. Many of those titles go straight to Amazon, not through their own retailers. It's a weird situation, I looked into it after so many of those Amazon buys did have those ratings and then I realized they'd stopped using stickers, they'd printed them into the original art.

It should be like that, where it's a peelable sticker. They'd printed it into a lovely collectors box for Persona Royal. I sent it back and imported from another vendor.

I've been kinda wanting to get into this game, but is there a clear beginning to start at, story wise? Or do you just jump in wherever the game is currently?

@pyrrhic_victory yes there is story it's living then dying for DEMOCRACY Its worth a play

@pyrrhic_victory You jump in where the game is at the moment but it's an ongoing war effort so you're not missing out on much really.
It's great fun and the community for the game is very good other players are helpful.
If you're looking for a warbond to go for first I'd pick democratic destruction or the one with the coyote assault rifle I'm sorry I forget it's name

@GirlVersusGame I started playing Dead Island 2 the other night with a German friend and had to wait while he installed his imported disc version instead of the digital PS+ version, because he wanted to see the zombies limbs fall off. Was the first I'd heard of the German censorship, pretty outrageous.

Seems all Sentry's now are behind a warbond when last year we lost twice for the Gas Mines but then did the inevitable and got them and did the other part of the mission together. Apart from the experimental Napalm Gatling Barrage which will probably be also being a warbond they could have added a new section to our ships to buy one time mods like Napalm ammo for that Oribital Strat and to use our money that we always max out

@TrannosaurusBex They treat it like the UK treated video nasties back in the 80's, the BBFC has since come to it's senses. I've seen them change some human enemies into robots, colour blood or remove it entirely, it affects online vendors like Steam now too. The Minister of the Interior feels that games that show violence against another human is harmful to a child's development, the same for so many adult games. They've confiscated games like Silent Hill then re-released them in a censored state after those edits.

For some reason zombie games like you said were a target for so long, Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising were all banned until a couple of years ago. The highest rating I've ever seen for a game anywhere in the world was 21yrs+ in the UAE, that was GTAV and it was banned up until maybe a year ago. I was really shocked to see a genuine copy, I'd only seen bootlegs. I think it's part of Rockstar's recent strategic partnership with the UAE Media Council and if so they might even see GTA6 day one. I've seen most Western games/media companies make visible or subtle moves into the region.

What I don't want to see is a majority shareholding being the reason behind external/Westerner censorship or even narrative. There will be nothing to censor if it's already not included in the original development cycle. I'm seeing a lot of proposed platform-level controls which means they could in theory influence censorship outside of their own borders, it would be internal and result in content not being included in the game period. If it does happen they'll call it the adoption of standards which should maintain profitability globally. In other words they'll say that certain content is offensive and it will be stripped to form a more user friendly experience. E.A already understand this and the ink isn't even dry. Battlefield wasn't a flop and yet they let their staff go. Battlefield as a series has a legacy, the only reason they'd move away from it is from internal pressure, I believe that's the start of that same shift.

They need to add the chimera from resistance as an enemy faction