Is the Exo Experts Warbond Good in Helldivers 2?

The Exo Experts Warbond has arrived in Helldivers 2, providing players with a new Warbond filled with potentially exciting equipment to slay enemies with. With new armor passives, weapons, and 2 Exo Stratagems, it's going to be a bloody battle for the bugs, bots, and squids, but are the contents worth it?

Below, we'll walk you through each page of the Exo Experts Warbond and break down each of the new items, from the armor, weapons, stratagems, and more. This Warbond will be a dissection of how the new gear works, along with our thoughts on whether each item is worth it or not.

Helldivers 2 Exo Experts Warbond Showcase

• Exo Experts is a Premium Warbond that costs 1,000 Super Credits.
• It will take 778 Medals in order to unlock everything in the Exo Experts Warbond.

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SMG-203 Gallant

• Damage: 65
• Capacity: 50
• Recoil: 15
• Fire Rate: 1,380

The SMG-203 Gallant is a Primary Weapon SMG that is capable of Medium-Armor Penetration. While this weapon does have a decent range for an SMG and an extreme fire-rate to back it up, it completely eats through bullets (which isn't a good thing).

I wasn't a fan of this weapon and found its hybrid behavior of an SMG/Assault Rifle to be outclassed by other classic choices that left the Gallant a weapon best kept out of my loadout.

Bullet Storm

• Call-in-Time: 7.75 Seconds
• Uses: Unlimited
• Cooldown Time: 67 Seconds

Bullet Storm is a Support Weapon Stratagem, capable of Light-Armor Penetration. This weapon cannot be reloaded and has just one magazine. However, this magazine is extremely large, so it's likely you'll get killed before you even run out of ammo, even if it's an absolute bullet-guzzler.

Light-Armor Penetration sadly makes Bullet Storm pretty underwhelming, unless you're looking for a weapon to defeat squishy enemies like overwhelming swarms of bugs. While near useless against heavier units, it's a lightweight LMG that makes movement a lot faster, which in turn brings more survivability.

0-3 Free Spirit

• Armor Passive: Oxygeneator (Increases the wearer's walking and running speed. Increases the speed and duration of slides.)
• Armor Rating: 50
• Speed: 550
• Stamina Regen: 125

The 0-3 Free Spirit comes with the Oxygenator Passive, which will increase your walking and running speeds, along with the speed and duration of slides. This turns you into a speed demon, and if you like Light Armor for the speed benefits, then you're going to love this one thanks to its Passive.

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Lumberer

• Call-in-Time: 10.50 Seconds
• Uses: 3
• Cooldown Time: 570 Seconds

The Lumberer is an Anti-Tank Exo Suit Stratagem, and it's a literal blast to use. The Lumberer has an Anti-Tank Cannon for a right arm and an Incendiary Flamethrower for a left arm. Combined, you have an Exo-Suit capable of extremely deadly long-range and close-range combat.

The Anti-Tank Weapon (25 shells) works great for dealing with large enemies, and the Flamethrower is a lot of fun for burning lesser foes that dare to rush towards your Exo. While the Flamethrower is a tad slow to burn and kill, this is still an extremely fun Stratagem.

P-33 Missile Pistol

• Damage: 1,300
• Capacity: 1
• Recoil: 313
• Fire Rate: 60

The P-33 Missile Pistol is guided, meaning it can be aimed to lock onto enemies for automatic missile guidance. While this is a rocket pistol, the actual damage is underwhelming due to this being a Medium-Armor Penetrating weapon.

Having to reload after every shot, and a maximum capacity of 3 bullets, makes the P-33 Missile Pistol extremely underwhelming, and it feels like the less inspired younger brother of the Nuke Pistol, the Ultimatum. We wouldn't recommend this weapon, as the reload and lock-on are too slow and weak.

0-2 Heavy Operator

• Armor Passive: Oxygeneator (Increases the wearer's walking and running speed. Increases the speed and duration of slides.)
• Armor Rating: 150
• Speed: 450
• Stamina Regen: 50

The 0-2 Heavy Operator has the Oxygenator Passive, just like 0-3 Free Spirit. However, this is Heavy Armor, and while the additional sprint speed does add more fun to give a walking tank greater speeds, there are far greater passives. If you're using Heavy Armor, this Passive isn't going to change the way you play or add to your experience.

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Breakthrough

• Call-in-Time: 10.50 Seconds
• Uses: 3
• Cooldown Time: 570 Seconds

Breakthrough is another Exosuit, except this one is a melee-focused brawler with Heavy-Armor Penetration. Breakthrough is equipped with a shield and a Cannon, and both serve their uses well to provide you with an extremely fun and powerful Exosuit.

The shield is great for bashing enemies and flinging them away, which makes crowd control a real crowd pleasure as you spam melee strikes to smack enemies away, and defend allies with a durable shield. The Cannon is like a medium-range shotgun, capable of taking out most enemies, but it's not explosive, meaning it can't annihilate hordes or nests.

The Medium Armor for the Exo Experts set can be purchased from the Superstore for 250 Super Credits.

Would We Recommend the Exo Experts Warbond in Helldivers 2?

• Personally, I wouldn't get the Exo Experts Warbond. I'll explain my reasoning below.

The Pros

The Warbond is a lot of fun, and the Exosuits provide a more humorous power fantasy as opposed to being a slave to the meta. Both Exosuits serve a great purpose to provide fun. I also like the Armor Passive, but I think the added speed buff is minuscule compared to some other powerful Passives.

The Warbond itself is another fresh addition that adds deeper variety, especially for veterans who are looking for new items to mess around with in the Galactic War.

The Cons

The weapons really aren't that great. While previous Warbonds have had some exceptional meta-saving weaponry, the Exo Experts' weapons simply aren't powerful enough to warrant being a part of my loadout, whether that's because I have too many Warbonds or I'm stubborn for the meta.

I don't like the weapons, and I am underwhelmed with the Missile Pistol, as the lock-on gimmick is unique, but severely underpowered, so I won't be switching from my Ultimatum anytime soon. There's definitely a fun loadout to make with this Warbond, but on higher difficulties, I tend to take my loadout more seriously.

If you want more content in Helldivers 2, then by all means purchase the Exo Experts! It's fun, it's just not as powerful as the previous Warbonds we've had.

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Interested in more Helldivers 2 content? We've ranked all Warbonds, which you can find in the link provided. We also have tier lists for All Boosters and All Armor Passives! Or, you can check out what we thought of the previous warbond, Entrenched Division.