It looks like Helldivers 2 's developer just leaked a forthcoming Orbital Napalm Barrage Stratagem during a recent livestream. Yesterday, to mark the new Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom update , PlayStation Access hosted a new livestream of the update. While there isn't an archive of the broadcast, one eagle-eyed viewer was able to capture the moment the hosts apparently showed off an unreleased Stratagem during the livestream, in the screenshot just below.
'Launches a prolonged barrage of napalm shells over a wide area, setting a swath of land ablaze in mere moments,' the Stratagem's description reads, which sounds like chaotic fun. The barrage takes 11.15 seconds to call in, which is a fair while to wait, but it has unlimited uses throughout a mission, and comes with a 300 second cooldown timer.
Weirdly, different screenshots of the same livestream are reporting different statistics for the new Stratagem. The screenshot just below, for example, has the call-in time as just 7.45 seconds, and a cooldown time of 240 seconds, a whole minute less than the other screenshot.
I don't really know what's going on here, but I think we'll be waiting a while for any sort of clarification. This new Stratagem, whenever it eventually launches, should help players prepare their defenses against encroaching Terminid forces. This is especially true of the 'high-value asset' mission type, which requires players to defend eight rockets until they've all successfully launched, which inevitabl.