Helldivers 2 just received two new stratagems for players to employ against the enemies of managed democracy, and they look to pack quite a punch.
The two stratagems are support weapons: the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun and the LAS-99 Quasar Cannon. Both weapons have a three-second call-in time by default and a 480-second cooldown timer on call-ins, but can technically be called into battle as many times during a mission as needed (as long as they aren’t on cooldown). The Heavy Machine Gun costs 6,000 Requisition to unlock while the Quasar Cannon costs 7,500.
Helldivers, support has arrived! The LAS-99 Quasar Cannon and the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun are available now for use against the Automaton horde. pic.twitter.com/EZSzXJWSPn
— HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) March 28, 2024
In-game, the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun is described as a “very powerful but difficult-to-wield” weapon, and joins the ranks of two other similar weapons, the Machine Gun and the Stalwart. It’s the Quasar Cannon that definitely looks to be the more interesting of the two, as it’s a massive shoulder-mounted weapon that after a charge-up time “fires a powerful, explosive energy burst” but features a long cooldown before it can be fired again. The Quasar Cannon looks to be particularly useful against the heavily armored Automatons, and is even capable of shooting Automaton dropships out of the sky.
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