Paid content vs Free content
We have far reached the life of the game where paid content has overtaken free content, and now finally, vehicles have been put into warbonds too, I feel as though this has gone too far and we are being milked dry,
Being able to farm sc is not an excuse as it is a paid game itself, yet this is being treated and defended like a free to play game,
I spent the past hour scraping the wiki to gather some information regarding how much paid content there is as of today.
Using https://helldivers.wiki.gg/ as a source, here is all of my findings regarding paid content vs free content updated to involve this new warbond.
I will not be including purely cosmetic content in this, only game play influencing content.
STRATAGEMS:
17 free support weapons
16 paid support weapons
12 free orbital strikes
0 paid orbital strikes
7 free eagle strikes
0 paid eagle strikes
7 free emplacements
1 paid emplacement
7 free sentries
3 paid sentries
6 free backpacks
7 paid backpacks
4 free vehicles
2 paid vehicles
TOTAL STRATAGEMS:
60 free stratagems
29 paid stratagems
WEAPONS:
2 free assault rifles
10 paid assault rifles
2 free marksman rifles
4 paid marksman rifles
1 super citizen edition sub machine gun - MP98 Knight
1 free sub machine gun
6 paid sub machine gun
4 free shotguns
6 paid shotguns
0 free explosive weapons
2 paid explosive weapons
2 free energy weapons
7 paid energy weapons
0 free special weapons
3 paid special weapons
2 free pistols
6 paid pistols
0 free melee weapons
6 paid melee weapons
0 free special secondaries
9 paid special secondaries
2 free standard throwables
3 paid standard throwables
2 free special throwables
13 paid special throwables
TOTAL WEAPONS:
17 free weapons
76 paid weapons
BOOSTERS:
6 free boosters
12 paid boosters
Now onto armour passives, this one is hard, this will not be including free armour given away for previous events, this will be purely from a new player starting point.
I am not counting multiple armour sets in the same type having the same paid passive as multiple paid passives, they will count as 1,
I am counting duplicate paid passives "between armour types", as multiples considering you are locked out of using a specific play style,
I feel like this is the best way to count it, if Light, Medium and Heavy all have Siege Ready as paid passives only, I will count that altogether as 3 paid passives.
ARMOUR PASSIVES:
1 free light armour passive - scout
21 paid light armour passives
7 free medium armour passives - Extra padding, Democracy protects, med-kit, scout, Engineering kit
21 paid medium armour passives
1 free heavy armour passive - Fortified
16 paid heavy armour passives
TOTAL ARMOUR PASSIVES:
9 free armour passives
58 paid armour passives
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TOTAL CONTENT:
92 free pieces of game play influencing content
175 paid pieces of game play influencing content