With the Illuminate finally live in Helldivers 2, Sony has released the new premium warbond Urban Legends to help players defend Super Earth.

The arrival of the Illuminate alien invasion fleet also brings with it new urban environments to fight in. These colony planets feature narrow streets and close encounters, and so the game’s new additions revolve around War of the Worlds-style defensive action.

Urban Legends adds Helldivers 2’s first melee sub-weapon, the SQC-19 Stun Lance. This extra-large poker offers good range and pairs well with the SH-51 Directional Shield strategy, Arrowhead social media and community manager Katherine Baskin said in a post on the PlayStation Blog.

As game director Mikael Eriksson said in a recent interview with IGN, the Illuminati offer a tougher fight than the Terminids or the Automata. Many of their big hitters have shields, including the imposing Harvesters. Therefore, the E/AT-12 anti-tank emplacement, new to this war alliance, is recommended to take them down.

Meanwhile, the A/FLAM-40 Flame Sentry is useful for destroying a horde of Voteless (mind-controlled colonists who act like zombies). It’s a stationary, powerful flamethrower turret, although based on IGN’s hands-on experience with the Illuminate update, it poses just as much of a threat to allies as it does to enemies.

There’s also the new Armed Resupply Pods booster, which upgrades your resupply pods with a tiny top-mounted turret. As for armor, there’s the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor for that chunky, spartan look and the SR-24 Street Scout light armor for that SEAF soldier look. Both armors feature the Siege Readiness passive, which increases your primary weapon reload speed by 30% and your primary ammo capacity by 20%. This will be helpful against the unrelenting voters.

The two new capes are the Rebar Resolve Greater Cloak and the Yellow Line Holder. The new emote is “This is democracy.”

The Illuminati joins the Bugs and Bots as Helldivers 2’s third enemy faction, bringing new life to the explosive third-person co-op action game. Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game of all time, selling an incredible 12 million copies in just 12 weeks after its release in February.

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