Helldivers 2 Chemical Agents Warbond explained – everything in it

The Chemical Agents premium Warbond expands your gas-attack options in Helldivers 2. The theme is all about biohazard, poison gas, and bug spray. While the aesthetics are on point, there isn’t much to recommend over some of the game’s established staples. The items in this Warbond are evocative for sure, but slot better in a support role than outright destructiveness.

All rewards in Chemical Agents Warbond

Chemical Agents comes with 21 items after purchasing it for 1000 Super Credits. From then on, you can unlock the items page-by-page by spending Medals. We hope you have loads saved up, because the total cost comes down to 759 Medals. This includes various items, including two sets of armor, a new pistol, various cosmetics, as well as (for the first time ever) two Stratagems. So let’s get into everything you can get from this Warbond.

Page 1 items

Item	Type	Cost
AF-50 Noxious Ranger	Light armor	40
AF-50 Noxious Ranger	Helmet	30
“Ew”	Victory pose	8
Standard of Safe Distance	Cape	8
Standard of Safe Distance	Player card	2
Mustard Hellpod	Hellpod pattern	20
100 Super Credits	Premium currency	7
G-4 Gas	Grenade	30

The AF-50 Noxious Ranger armor comes with the new armor trait, Advanced Filtration. It’s a passive that gives you 80% resistance to damage from gas clouds, as well as making you immune to the confusion effect. Meanwhile, the G-4 Gas grenade creates a gas cloud in a 7m radius with the reworked Caustic effect. It deals a small amount of ticking damage while applying the confusion debuff that makes enemies act erratically. 

Page 2 items

Item	Type	Cost
Steriliser	Stratagem	85
100 Super Credits	Premium currency	12
AF-02 Haz-Master	Medium armor	45
AF-02 Haz-Master	Helmet	35
Mustard Shuttle	Pelican-1 pattern	50
Patient Zero’s Remembrance	Player card	5
Patient Zero’s Remembrance	Cape	20

The new Steriliser stratagem functions the same way as the flamethrower. However, instead of flames, it bursts with poison gas with the Caustic effect. Its best use is as a support weapon to set up enemies for destruction, thanks to the confusion effect. The AF-02 Haz-Master armor set comes with the same Advanced Filtration passive trait as Noxious Ranger.

Page 3 items

Item	Type	Cost
100 Super Credits	Premium currency	32
Expert Exterminator	Player title	20
P-11 Stim Pistol	Secondary weapon	80
Mustard Exosuit	Exosuit pattern	50
AX/TX-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breath	Stratagem	110
Natural Gas Extraction	2-Player emote	70

The P-11 Stim Pistol lets you heal your allies, but does no damage to the enemy. Instead, it recovers around 30% of allies’ health per shot, with 6 shots in a magazine. Meanwhile, the new Guard Dog variant, Dog Breath is the standout item, which serves as a backpack stratagem that shoots poison gas with the Caustic effect. Using it leaves your hands free to shoot at the newly dazed enemies.

Best items in Chemical Agents

This Warbond doesn’t have much to recommend it over other more powerful ones we’ve seen before. It can be said that it offers mostly support items, without much destructive firepower. Gas attacks work better against Terminids, especially swarms, meaning that in theory, the Automatons won’t be too bothered. Still, there are a few good items to consider:

1. AX/TX-13 “Guard Dog” Dog Breath

This backpack stratagem drone variant is the standout item of this Warbond. It provides the support you need to deal with hordes while leaving you hands-free to keep shooting. Other drones are better at outright destroying enemies, but Dog Breath gives you a degree of crowd control that you can’t find elsewhere.

2. G-4 Gas grenade

While not as strong or destructive as other grenades, G-4 Gas has decent viability in a support loadout. Just like the Dog Breath above, you can use it as a crowd control source instead of the similar Stun grenade. It has one more perk over it, in that it can close nests, due to its ability to deal a small amount of damage. The Caustic effect lets you set up groups of enemies for a bombardment.

3. Steriliser

The bug-spray stratagem is something that players have begun experimenting with. Its confusion effect is far more powerful than the small amount of damage it deals. What sets it apart is that you can spray a wide berth of bugs with it to set them up for your allies. As such, it slots into a support role, so don’t expect to rack up many kills with it.

4. AF-02 Haz-Master armor set

Both of the new armor sets in this Warbond come with the Advanced Filtration passive. It lets you wade into clouds of smoke to deal with any enemies caught within. However, Haz-Master has two points going for it over the Noxious Ranger. One, it’s a medium armor, which will let you survive longer if any of the confused enemies decide it’s time to attack. And second, subjective, is that the Hazmat suit aesthetic looks great.

✓ Alternative

If you’re getting the armor just for the Advanced Filtration perk, then Noxious Ranger is still a good choice. You trade off survivability for extra mobility, so pick one that better suits your playstyle.

5. P-11 Stim Pistol

The P-11 Stim Pistol is the only “real” weapon in the Warbond, occupying the secondary slot. As such, you’re trading in the ability to fall back and deal damage, with the ability to give your allies a minor heal. It only heals for about 30% of health, and that’s after you even manage to line up a shot. With how chaotic Helldivers 2 can be, just hitting your allies with the gun can take more shots than needed, which translates to time you could’ve spent clearing enemies attacking them instead. Still, it could have some niche uses as a support weapon, for example, but boosting the stamina regen of a teammate kiting enemies.