After a shock last-minute delay, Helldivers 2's Redacted Regiment warbond is about to launch later this week
The Helldivers 2 Redacted Regiment warbond that was delayed on the final minute final week has a brand new launch date, and it is really not an excessive amount of of an added wait. As a substitute of arriving on January 20 as initially deliberate, Arrowhead Recreation Studios introduced right now that it’ll drop on January 22 as a substitute.
“We had been in a position to resolve the difficulty with Redacted Regiment and it’ll quickly be accessible for launch!” Arrowhead wrote right now on X. “We can have a patch incoming Thursday twenty second January at 11 am CET (5 am ET) with Redacted Regiment going reside at 2 pm CET (8 am ET) additionally on the twenty second.”
What precisely went improper to drive the delay stays a thriller. Arrowhead mentioned on January 16, just a few days after Redacted Regiment was revealed, that “throughout last testing for the Warbond, we discovered a key difficulty that did not meet our requirements for a launch.”
Some followers have speculated that successfully working stealth into Helldivers 2—which in my expertise may be very a lot a not-stealthy recreation—could have confirmed extra difficult than anticipated. Coming as shut because it did to the warbond’s launch, although, I really feel like the issue needed to be pretty particular quite than broadly conceptual.
Regardless of being well-known for the assorted sorts of orbital firepower gamers can name down on enemies (and one another), Redacted Regiment is all about doing the job quietly. As my PC Gamer information pal Lincoln Carpenter wrote final week, it brings a pair of latest suppressed weapons to the struggle together with a dart-firing pistol, two shadowy armor units, and the Hid Insertion booster perk that provides smokescreens to your Hellpod arrivals. There’s additionally a brand new backpack with six sticky C4 expenses, as a result of generally noise is unavoidable, and when that occurs you would possibly as effectively get actually noisy.
For what it is value, Lincoln additionally knowledgeable me that it’s doable to successfully make use of stealth whereas finishing Helldivers 2 missions: “You simply have to be an irredeemable pervert as a substitute of merely an off-the-cuff one.” I assume I must up my recreation.