Helldivers 2’s New Warbond Has an Emote That Appears to Reference a Famous World War 1 Moment

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The next Helldivers 2 warbond has been officially unveiled, and Super Earth’s finest are reporting for duty on March 17. Entrenched Division is the newest premium warbond, and just as fans previously predicted, it’s landing right on schedule.

The gear is unmistakably WW1-coded, right down to the trench aesthetic Arrowhead leaned into from the first frame of the reveal. But buried inside the warbond’s full offerings is a co-emote that history-aware Helldivers couldn’t help but notice instantly:

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It’s called “Diplomatic Handshake,” and it features two fellow Helldivers, standing just far enough apart, reaching out and holding a firm shake while looking straight ahead. As for the statue seen in the image above, it stands outside St Luke’s Church in Liverpool, a building that was bombed during the Blitz and that the city deliberately left unrepaired as a war memorial.

The WW1 Easter Egg Hidden in Helldivers 2′s New Warbond

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On Christmas Eve of 1914, soldiers on the Western Front did something that no commanding officer had sanctioned and that nobody expected to survive contact with the morning. British and German troops climbed out of their trenches in No Man’s Land, laid down their weapons, and shook hands. They exchanged cigarettes, beer, and stories. For one fragile stretch of silence, the guns stopped.

The “All Together Now” statue at St Luke’s Church was built to capture exactly that moment: two soldiers from opposing sides, meeting in the middle, reaching across the gap. Arrowhead has evidently recreated this in the new co-emote and tucked it into a WW1 warbond without a word of explanation.

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It’s a small detail in a content drop full of flamethrowers and gas mortars. Still, it’s the kind of thing that lands differently once you know the context: one night of handshakes across a frozen, shell-cratered field, surrounded on all sides by a war that had no intention of stopping.

Entrenched Division Has the WW1 Gear the Community Has Longed For

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The rest of Entrenched Division puts its money squarely where the name says. Arrowhead’s latest PlayStation Blog post describes the warbond as a dive into trench warfare, and the loadout backs that up without hesitation.

The headliners are the B/FLAM-80 Cremator, a heavy support flamethrower connected to a backpack fuel tank that “sprays a continuous column of flame,” and the SMG/FLAM-34 Stoker, a submachine gun primary with an incineration attachment for when you want both iron sights and a firestarter in one package.

The A/GM-17 Gas Mortar Sentry handles area denial for the chemically inclined, the P-69 Veto brings a “jet-assisted” pistol to the secondary slot, and the G-48 Giga Grenade trades throwing distance for a blast radius Arrowhead describes as breaking enemies into “much smaller, more manageable pieces.”

Then there’s the CQC-73 Entrenchment Tool, which has been lying around mission maps for ages, pickable only off a fallen colonist. Starting March 17, it’s a proper unlockable melee secondary, and yes, it digs trenches and surfaces buried Samples too.

The armor sets are worth a closer look as well. Entrenched Division ships with two different armor passives depending on which weight class you go with: the medium CPG-48 Sapper offers extra throwable storage and explosive resistance, while the light CPH-26 Commandant covers gas and explosion protection alongside reduced sidearm recoil.

Are you picking up Entrenched Division for the gear, the emote, or both? And which front do you think the trench warfare loadout will shine on most: bots, bugs, or squids? Let us know in the comments below!
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