The Polar Patriots Warbond launched in Helldivers 2 this week, bringing with it new armor, weapons, and cosmetics, although some gear is missing a function that many people have been hoping would make it simpler to reverse icy worlds.

There are two units of armor within the Polar Patriots Warbond in Helldivers 2 which have cleats on the boots. The CW-36 Winter Warrior, which is a stunning white quantity, and the CW-22 Kodiak, a way more understated grey camo affair. Sadly, each actively work towards the thought of operate over vogue, with purposeful footwear that’s all for present.

Helldivers 2’s Polar Patriots armor gained’t cease you slipping on ice

Two armor units from the Polar Patriots Warbond in Helldivers 2 have cleats on their boots. In actual life, these are designed to assist mountain climbers and people exploring icy elements of the world have certain footing by penetrating ice and holding quick when different footwear would slip. Sadly, these in-game counterparts don’t do something, and gamers are nonetheless slipping and sliding throughout the ice as they battle Terminids and Automatons for Tremendous Earth.

Gamers on the Helldivers 2 subreddit picked this up on the identical day the Warbond was launched. I’m actually fairly cross about this as a result of once I first noticed the trailer for the Warbond, I believed the armor may need a hidden perk that helps you run throughout the ice on worlds the place you’re usually slipping round, principally into enemies.

Sadly, I used to be mistaken, and it doesn’t appear to be I’m the one one who’s disenchanted. Consumer spinyfever sums it up greatest: “I don’t perceive why they’d launch a snow/ice-themed Warbond and never have the armors present any benefits in snow/ice. Two of the brand new armors have crampons designed into the boots. Their literal objective is to cease you from slipping and sliding on ice.”

Ice planets may be the worst setting to combat in as a result of there are vegetation that explode and gradual you down with an space of impact debuff, and enemies can rush you throughout lakes of frozen water whilst you skid right into a rock and welcome them with open arms.

In actual fact, the Warbond doesn’t actually embrace something designed to assist gamers ship democracy on icy planets. The Booster, Motivational Shocks, is designed to negate the gradual impact Terminid acid causes, not the explosions from vegetation on icy worlds that do the very same factor. The armor actually seems to be the half, although, and I can’t deny that I like the thought of this ice-themed Warbond packing in a brand new incendiary grenade.

Nevertheless, these cleats not working one way or the other handle to suit extraordinarily nicely with the sport’s lore. Tremendous Earth has a behavior of throwing new tech on the market with out testing it and blaming others for the issues it causes. It’s additionally recognized for pulling simply the appropriate software out of nowhere proper after Helldivers have been pushed to their restrict with out it. If I have been dwelling in Helldivers 2, I’d anticipate cleats to start out working after hundreds of Helldivers had misplaced their lives to damaged necks or deaths all linked to slipping on ice.