Helldivers 2's enemy squids are headed to Super Earth, so now you can tinker with your guns more

Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 added its 3rd force faction, the Illuminate, backmost successful December. Now the alien squids are headed towards Super Earth itself, and to counteract this latest menace to ideology developers Arrowhead are giving soldiers caller ways to customise their weaponry.

As explained connected the PlayStation blog, the caller update adds limb customisation for each superior weapons, letting you implicit missions and wage in-game currency to unlock attachments and skins. "Whether it’s tweaking sights for precision, changing colour patterns, adjusting magazines for ammo capacity, muzzles to optimize limb show characteristics oregon adjusting under-barrel attachments for the handling you want, you’re successful bid of however your weaponry performs connected the battlefield," says the post.

These recently tweakable weapons are projected arsenic a effect to Illuminate heading towards Super Earth, and doing truthful with recently added force types. That includes "the Stingray", a flying force that tin execute strafing runs connected Helldivers; "the Crescent Overseer", which tin driblet explosives connected Helldivers down cover; and the Fleshmob, a "Frankenstein’s monster of Voteless parts turned into a brute battlefield unit that the Helldivers indispensable enactment hard to destroy."

"Voteless parts" is good. Good marketing, marketer.

The in-game store has besides been amended to connection items permanently, alternatively than lone a rotating time-limited selection, meaning that you tin present spell pickup that fascist dandy cape you missed archetypal clip around. I similar erstwhile developers determine to halt preying upon FOMO.