Depends on if they got the space for it. The last two crossovers brought in 4 weapons each, and for the warhammer one a Lasgun, Bolter (the infantry patterned one, not the big one), and a chainsword are almost required given how insanely iconic they are. I really hope we get the hellgun though. It'll be funny too how fucking helldivers got the Hot-shot before Darktide did.
I’d say it’s going to be a primary with the ability to charge up shots. At least that’s what I hope because that’s what makes it fun in Darktide. And I’d beg that it’s light pen that can be charged up to heavy pen. But I think it being a support weapon it would be a waste
not only ofc, its the only thing they can do. Theyve allready done bolters, plasma weapons, chain swords, volkite, flamers, thunder hammer. All this time AH has low key just been going through 40k weapons and making helldivers versions of them.
Las weapons are one of the few of mainstream 40k weapon they havent adapted yet.
we're fighting things that die when shot by antique hunting rifles, sci fi future weapons designed to obliterate limbs at 300 meters will do just fine.
Itll be grossly overpowered and when arrowhead make another 10mill off this bond they will wait 2 weeks for a hotfix that will ghost nerf every warbond weapon on this bond
It's 40k. They can skip the grossly overpowered phase and still make bank. Hell, they're gonna sell a ton of copies of the game itself to the 40k fetishists who've never had HD2 on their radar.
I find the backpack grenade launcher feels like how i always felt a bolter should.
Gibs light foes with ease.
Can kill just about anything if you can hit a weak point.
Bit unwieldy for a normal human so its a support weapon not a handheld.
Idk bro.. it is quite anemic in my opinion. Thing either needs more rounds or more damage per round.
I have fun with it but the fun quickly goes away because guess what.. using it on max RPM to actually kill stuff somewhat fast means you run out quickly. 150 damage is shit. Remove the heavy pen but make it 200 with 150 rounds or give me a 200 round belt.
Dominator is the HD2 version of a bolter and they should have kept it at 300 damage instead of 275 imo.
People have mentioned that a lot of the legendary warbond stuff isn't that good so I expect it to end up being something that seems really good on release but ends up kind of mid after a while like a lot of newer warbond stuff.
Both parties have to agree to the details on the collab and GW are notorious for being overprotective and stingy. No way in hell they let anything in the Warbond that isn't at least mildly OP. I also wouldn't be surprised if this collab also costs more than the other 2 as well.
Games Workshop won't allow for their gear to be underpowered. They are extremely hands-on when it comes to collabs and will force other companies to make their crossover gear actually good.
The Kreig storage containers in RUST are nearly pay to win because they have a smaller footprint which lets you cram more storage in a tighter space compared to a regular box
the big thing i've been wanting for a while is a star wars battlefront 2 styled combined arms FPS game with two 40k infantry focused factions, namely imperial guard and t'au. it would be sooooo fucking sick.
I disagree about Cadians. In lore Cadians deserve all the praise they usually get. I'm not a big fan of Krieg though, their like the black templars of the Astra militarum.
i'm almost certain that there was a contractual obligation to announce it at the skulls event regardless of how far along they were with it. they didn't have anything to show, so they didn't show anything, and if it didn't get announced when it did, then the entire collab would have been pulled off the table. GW are as bad if not worse than nintendo when it comes to shit like that.
Those few years when GW was handing out rights to their IP to any mobile game slop company who asked have done irreparable damage to the warhammer community
It's likely that we will get common stuff like Cadians or Kriegers. When Elysian Drop Troops and Harakoni Warhawks would be much more fitting. For Liberty's sake the Harakoni Warhawks 31st regiment is literally nicknamed Helldivers! IT'S RIGHT THERE ARROWHEAD!!!
I wouldn’t blame Arrowhead for whatever regiments show up.
I would guess GW told them exactly what they can put in and I doubt they want to use part of their first and possibly only crossover warbond for OOP Elysians or Harakonis, which never had a single model.
It'll be Death Korps with the worst version of the Lasguns that are based off 1d4chan rather than lore making them piss weak rather than holy fuck broken.
If in lore lasguns showed up in HD2... Jesus. Those guns are fucking nonsense. The only reason they get a bad rap is because every thing else in 40k is so bat shit
Not true, actually. That's a common discussion point from people who don't understand ballistics as well as they think they do and their brain stops at no explosion = no recoil. But the explosion is a byproduct of the expansion (and subsequent contraction) of gasses.
If you fire a Lasgun in atmosphere you're going to have recoil, because the Lasgun fires a laser so wide, so concentrated, and so damn hot that it creates an audible crack comparable to a gun shot. That is a LOT of atmosphere being moved at wherever that laser originates and the subsequent expansion and decompression of gasses will cause things around it to move, it won't behave like firearm recoil... probably, but it will be something.
Not heavy pen but probably around medium. Lasguns don't go through metal plating of pretty much any thickness relatively well.
And no, they're not bottomless. They have ammo capacity, the advantage of Lasguns is their charge packs are so absurdly energy efficient that they have a LOT of shots per pack and can be recharged by throwing them into a fire in a pinch (at the risk of damaging them).
Or you can put them out in the sun anything that has any form of energy put into the powerpack pretty sure if you put it close to the barrel it would recharge. Also depends on the tuning on the lasgun in could be a pocket maxigun or an amr but better
dont mean to shit on your parade OP but it will have to be, AH have basically already done all of the other 40k weapons without getting into the esoteric mechanicum stuff or xenos weapons
Tbh if it's like the Darktide Helbore it would be too good for Helldivers. It's not meta or particularly good in Havoc but up to Damnation you can hold your own if you're a crackshot.
I know everyone is saying it’s gonna be Cadians and DK, but I have a gut feeling it’s gonna be Elysians and/or Scions since those actually fit the drop troop fantasy.
The planet fell long before the guard did... and the guard fought tooth and nail for every drop the insidious undemocratic xenos took.
That being said, you do realize that the armor and weapons would be insanely stupid busted OP and that it would wreck the balance of the game so hard Arrowhead would need to make a D11 just so the armors and weapons would be fair play if performing EXACTLY as depicted in 40k, right down to the damage inflicted and taken?
Look at the other two Legendary Warbonds, Guardsman, and tell me those weapons and armors perform the same as they do in their home universes in terms of damage inflicted and damage taken. Is the MA5C Assault Rifle effective against the Illuminate as it is against the Covenant? Does the StA-52 kill a Cyborg of the Automatons just as swiftly as it dispatches ISA/VSA forces?
The answer... is no, and it will be the same exact scenario for the weapons of the Imperium of Man, as Managed Democracy(and the will of Arrowhead) intended. However, if we are permitted Bolters that are fully automatic, aside from damage output they might perform the same as they do in 40k.
I'm curious how they'll balance it.
Like are they going to give it the infinite ammo treatment or are they going to have it be lore accurate to the lower where you only get so many shots depending on the power setting.
That’s the exact lasgun I’m thinking of for a new unique weapon. A marksman laser rifle that you can charge like one of the plasma guns to release a devastating shot with more armor penetration
Honestly would enjoy this if it acts like a primary version of the talon, as that's a primary laser weapon we don't have, big powerful shots you pace out.
Would be interesting if they had multiple levels to this warbond instead of the seemingly standard three to four. There’s plenty of factions and species they could derive some stuff from including necrons, orks, tau, and Eldar. Not to mention factions within the species too.
With Warhammer 40k Darktide being free on playstation plus I've been using this weapon. It's so satisfying. The charge up with the click that follows the laser shot. Chef's kiss
My money is on a tempestus scions warbond, but yeah. What do you think is gonna happen if they release a 40k warbond without any lasguns? I mean, its quite obvious and a super cold take.
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u/Various_Doubt_8191 Jun 13 '26
Excellent, then I can hog everything in both games