{"id":774689,"date":"2025-11-30T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yz3iuZHaAwnRa6feZtqPSM"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:09:02","slug":"uh-oh-a-single-suit-of-armour-in-the-latest-helldivers-2-warbond-makes-4-person-arc-thrower-squads-viable-in-case-youd-like-to-unleash-electric-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/uh-oh-a-single-suit-of-armour-in-the-latest-helldivers-2-warbond-makes-4-person-arc-thrower-squads-viable-in-case-youd-like-to-unleash-electric-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh: A single suit of armour in the latest Helldivers 2 Warbond makes 4-person Arc Thrower squads viable, in case you’d like to unleash electric mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helldivers 2's latest Warbond is now here<\/a>\u2014and the future's looking electric, baby. Everything in this kit is centred around zapping the enemies of democracy into a fine mist with lashes of lightning. Stun grenades, laser pistols, and a plasma shotgun. <\/em>Liberty's never smelled so sweet, or quite so much like burned hair.<\/p>\n

One hilarious consequence of the new gear, however, comes with the EX-03 Prototype 3, which offers a staggering 95% resistance to arc damage. As it currently stands, arc damage is only something you'll ever experience from teammates\u2014namely, teammates using the Arc Thrower.<\/p>\n

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The Arc Thrower is a powerful weapon, but it's also a workplace hazard. It's strong, just maybe a little too strong\u2014its chain lightning leaps to enemies, but it has a nasty habit of leaping to your allies as well. It's seen some niche use as a great measure against moderately-armored foes (and some potentially-glitched out nuking of Bile Titans) but aside from that? It's a liability.<\/p>\n

The EX-03, however? That's a game changer, baby, though only for coordinated groups. Myself and our very own guides writer Sean Martin hopped into a lobby to test this thing out, and it took dozens of fully-charged shots from the Arc Thrower to bring him down. Super Earth R&D is legally required to state that this was a simulation, and the brave soldiers' featured in the clip later lost their lives in the field for completely unrelated reasons.<\/p>\n

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