>Indians are ordered to attack >the streets flood with shit >my house is swept away in a wave of shit and I drown to death >my entire country is consumed by a massive tsunami of diarrhea poo
The west has fallen...
Automatons are already cyborgs. That's the twist. They're bots with human brains, forcefully converting Super Earth colonists. Cyberstan is just the last stop to bump up their numbers and maybe get some new weapons given the rich minerals
>another evening literally ruined by forcing myself to boot up this heap of dogshit design decisions in the hopes of finding any of the enjoyment and potential for a good time scattered throughout
I seriously don't know why I keep coming back. It might literally just be hope. I want to like this game so bad.
I don't know about the tanks, but Scout Striders have pilots so I'm guessing Factory Striders do too.
Armor piercing shit is very bad against chargers/titans because they have shells to go through unlike bots with their exposed vents. Pods are way better against bots just like the laser
Depends on where you were when the explosion epicenter because being in the middle of a orbital strike, or eagle strike. Or walking on a mine without diving.
>armor grants you 50% resistance >you have 100hp >take 200 explosive dmg >50% of 200 is 100 >you still die
not that hard to figure out. Have you tried not being a fricking moron?
more like >take 80 damage from a rocket >you graze your leg on a concrete wall and the extremely unpredictable Impact damage model deals you 20 damage >you die
but yeah. with heavy armor + explosive resist I haven't been oneshot by rockets in like a hundred trials I think. light armor + explosive resist has gotten me oneshot occasionally but usually I survive. before patch any rocket hit had like a 50%+ chance of killing you regardless of your armor. shit was proper scary. I'm more scared of heavy Devastators than rocket Devastators now.
Are you using the light armor version or something? Because ever since I got the medium armor with blast res I've been taking direct hits from Hulk missiles and still surviving with 25% health.
laser cannon >need to shoot heatsinks on tanks/turret towers to hurt them >can kill hulks from weakspot, combos well with stun grenade >can snipe bot heads with it if you keep it steady >destroys AA/mortar turrets without needing to hit weak spots >absolutely melts gunships, multiple at a time >med armor penetration, can damage factory strider in some areas
quasar >can kill tanks/turret towers with hits to the turret >2 shots hulks or one shots if you hit the eye >charge takes too long to really work with stun grenades for hulks >cooldown makes sniping some bots with it kind of inconvienient >one hits gunships but needs to recharge between shots >can blow up bot buildings if you aim at the vents >can blow up the turret on a factory strider with one hit, presumably damage the strider anywhere on the body
overall laser cannon seems to be a better take on bot missions IF you have some way of blowing up fabricators like the grenade pistol or grenades. sickle + stuns + grenade pistol + laser cannon can deal with basically anything automatons can do, not even mentioning stratagems.
I didn't play around with laser cannon until recently and yeah, it's actually really good against bots. It's a bit weak against striders and devastators so I bring the nade pistol for striders and the dominator.
Quasar striking one of the dropship's 4 engines will one-shot it
The timing of when you strike the dropship determines whether or not its cargo actually die along with it though
It's simple, you have a few seconds before dropships arrive. After that you have a few seconds for the dropships to stop, stay there unloading and then going away. Shoot at the engines and the thing goes down, it usually does a mix of killing, maiming or blocking the bots it was dropping and the bots troops that where underneath it already on ground. Depends when you shoot.
Its preferable to target them if you have a clear line of sight, and have some cover/distance between you and the enemy already on ground. Its fun.
Leaked automaton centrifuge objective shows automatons are ironically using humans as fuel to power bots. So yes the war is 2 sides killing each other for oil
makes bots a bit scarier then necrons
sure if you ever get into a fight with a necron you will die horrifically but atleast the necrons just want humans to kinda piss off
SE kills bugs for oil, not bots. Spill oil isn't referred to SE extracting oil from the bots.
reddit be like: "le automatons are actually the good guys freeing themselfs from human slavery or something"
HD1's satire was better. Cyborgs just wanted independance and were crushed by SE, bugs were sentient and peaceful and were attacked by SE for oil, illuminates were peaceful and advanced and were attacked by SE out of fear.
SE clearly were the bad guys pretending to be heroes, feeding propaganda to the guillible populace. Nothing groundbreaking but still a well rounded and clear cut caricature of a fascist, expansionist, xenophobic and totalitarian state.
HD2 is set ~100 years after HD1.
Cyborgs built killer robots that are programmed to hate humans/SE. No room for reconsiliation/diplomacy anymore, even if SE decided to leave them to their own devices.
Bugs were bred out of their sentience and are now just mad cattle to be tamed for oil. Not very nice but it went from genocide to animal rights violations at best. Cruel but not as evil as HD1 SE.
Current day SE is paying for the mistakes of its ancestors and they're not really the bad guys anymore. No one who made the actually bad decisions a century ago is still alive.
I really wonder how the Illuminates will tie into this. If they just come back to attack SE then it would justify SE even further in their actions. I doubt Arrowhead understands this though.
After SD I'm pretty sure the illuminate are responsible for helping build up the bots military and setting the bugs loose. For all we know the bots may have developed entirely unaware of SE until recently.
Just look how leftards react to Germany and Japan: You will never shake off the guilt of your ancestors, they will always hold the past over your people. In the world of the redditards, the five year old great-grandchild of a warcriminal still deserves execution because he dared being born as a descendant of a person they hate. Just read up their reaction to the cold-blooded murder of the Tzar's children and grandchildren. Cheering and making horrible jokes about it. They all deserve death. They deserve nothing but getting beaten to death with a bat and let to stroke to death because their brains are perforated with skull shrapnel.
Aren't automatons basically a frick you weapon made in revenge because of humans genociding the cyborgs or something
In that sense they're still a result of humanity's actions where it created a race entirely devoted to eternal hatred
Funny, this is the sort of horrible treatment blacks put on whites in the real world, and yet we have to pretend like they're oppressed and have it rough
I mean. It is invincible. Right? Why do my friends keep telling me it isn't? I've never seen it being destroyed but they get SO FRICKING MAD if I don't get in fast like am I schizo or them?
Hellmire is fun and cool. Perfect metal-album cover aesthetics.
If you have any situational awareness whatsoever the fire tornadoes are not a serious problem.
>If you have any situational awareness whatsoever the fire tornadoes are not a serious problem.
Not true. >ragdolled but now you just die >bocks your objective >blocks your extraction >kills the citizens you are trying to evacuate >blocks your path from flanking for a weakpoint >forces you out of your cover at the worst times
When you dig into how many ways it can frick you over, it's impressive
>tfw I'm situationally aware of the five fire tornados camping the ICBM terminal forcing me to stand around and wait for 10 minutes for them to go away so I can continue playing
>letting troons retcon media and ruin it
That's the kind of thing that made Bridget into a troony, Samus secretly being about coming out as a troony,etc. I bet you think Dumbledore is a homosexual too and Celeste is about a troony.
The Matrix was originally a philosophical allegory and then the Watchowskis were forced to trans for an occult Illuminati humiliation ritual and retconned the plot to say it’s a metaphor for chopping off your penis.
directing brothers are literally trannies now and it seems like they were forced to for revealing too much in their first movie.. it was a shock to everyone
You know how everyone agrees that the first Matrix is objectively the best one, and the sequels are kind of all over the place? Turns out the script had more blatant troony shit in it, and studeo execs told them to frick off and make it normal. Now trannies take it as a win for some reason.
Both directors ended up being trans, which is totally natural and not at all social conditioning, just astronomically unheard of odds that two siblings could end up that way.
mongrel prostitute of allah kuta kumina get fukkd in hell by dogs for doing the unneedful and getting in the chopper before I finding all samples OK b***h ?
i've seen enough indian head massage videos to know that they take english letters on their shirts as a status symbol, and the bigger the letters are, the better. like the guy in the pic, i've seen a lot of them wearing girls' shirts just because of the english. the funniest one was a guy wearing a shirt that said >proud police wife
Some pajeet shit poster calling the game FOTM, post an image of the HD2 steam population during off hour, but forgot to change the language to English in photo so the letter was in Hindu. He tries to delete the evident, but it only lead to more scrutiny for his frick up. I wouldn’t be surprise if this is some elaborate false flag shit posting from /misc/.
Wtf bros... they turned this brown, muscular tomboy with white hair and fangs into a communist... We must destroy Cyberstan in its entirety, they had their chance to earn penance in the mines.
I can't wait for the fanart of cute childhood friend tomboy Helldivers and beautiful blonde Eagle-1 getting brainwashed and mindbroken by Illuminates and turned into xeno wienersocks >inb4 coomer
Btw have you guys seen the other leaked rifles?
Pretty much the same difference as an fire nade vs a contact. Normal mines have it all front loaded and is better for things like bots who get wrecked by explosive dmg. Fire do 75% of their dmg as a dot so it can actually take out bigger bugs like chargers,
>Join team to do the main objective >Bot Drop >Hulk starts running at the team >Stun it and begin to shoot out its eyes >Host throws all his impact grenades at the Berserkers behind me, killing me >Watch while dead as the Hulk gets up again and nukes him with a flamethrower >Game crashes
>guy is being moronic all game and eating away at our reinforcements >spams the "request reinforcement" whenever dead for longer than 5 seconds >i go help him so he stops fricking dying >he runs into my airstrike which also came in at a very shit angle >gets pissy about it and teamkills me >i do nothing about it because revenge would just start a loop where we piss away reinforcements twice as fast >i give it a bit of time before going back to him, thinking he'd have stopped seething and malding >he dies again, he's fricking lucky i was already running towards him so i happen to be there to call him in near where he died >he teamkills me on sight again >are you fricking serious right now >he has his own samples and my samples now so i have to make sure for all of our sakes that he makes it back alive to the rest of the group >he stops shooting me to death, thankfully >he tries to nade me to death twice but misses both times, pretend to not notice in order to get shit done >mission fails anyway in the end as we ran out of reinforcements >he has over twice the deaths compared to the rest of us
i'm too much of a sperg to host, those 5 seconds of having to pick the landing spot for everyone is pure hell
You should've killed him moron and not revived. Also frick the samples, shitters would objectively have a harder time getting more samples and therefore not picking them up would injure the shitter party more.
Listen, save that faith for real life relationships with people you like, not slopdivers. I kick morons on bot defense missions if they don't bring mortars after a single warning. And if you're anxious about picking a bad drop, just choose the side of a map, less chance of landing near a POI or secondary and starting a bot drop/breach.
>i'm too much of a sperg to host, those 5 seconds of having to pick the landing spot for everyone is pure hell
Land directly on the objective or the biggest red spot on the map.
You should've killed him moron and not revived. Also frick the samples, shitters would objectively have a harder time getting more samples and therefore not picking them up would injure the shitter party more.
it was better back when it was the only way to survive rockets and turret blasts. imo they should honestly turn the % up to 66 or 75 or something. if you get set to 1 HP, most of the time you're about to get hit again anyway
50% = 25%. 12.5% if you get a bad bounce.
it's pretty exhilarating when it works, though.
>Wearing democracy protects armor >Pull out 500kg bomb strategem >Instantly cannon tower from across the map >Survive with 1 hp, drop the strat orb >500kg bomb lands directly in my ass crack >Survive with full health because I used a stim half a second earlier >lol, lmao even
>why
so that I can kick.
but for what it's worth, on Helldive I always get people joining before I can even pick my stratagems and ready up even if I'm speedrunning the process
I bought the game yesterday and I'm surprisingly survivable compared to other players. I haven't played anything over Hard though. Only ever played with regular armor.
>they're a bigger danger to you than the fricking bugs and bots are
I definitely got that. Clear out half a map, then die to the big eagle bomb. Game is a bit too troll friendly, though friendly fire deaths are definitely funny.
I just stick to sniping, scouting, hellbombing, optional effect objectives like radar or jammers, and throwing the occasional reinforce when I'm the last one alive
it works pretty well until we meet up at extraction and they jump underneath a hellpod while holding a 120mm barrage
They stop updating the game like the DRG devs, introduce an extremely cancer enemy that is in every mission right before they do that as well. Perfect collab.
automatons become less or more fun to fight by having energy shields. hulks have cloaking like stalkers. some hulks have jetpacks. devestators also have jetpacks and cloaking devices. jetpack raiders also have cloaking devices. they also drop cannon towers willy nilly now alongside bot drops.
there'll be a new mission type where you gotta protect a big slow moving vehicle that harvests ore or something that blows up in a few hits. you also gotta refuel it every 5 minutes.
bulk detonator is put in for the nids and is just renamed and reskinned but is the exact same thing except it also has cloaking capability like the stalker. so it's a stalker bile thingy hybrid that has the force of 2 500kg bombs when it self detonates upon death.
we just get some neat bobbleheads and posters and other non-game changing things out of this collab. or there might be new short advertisement of the Freedom TV on our ships.
hoxxes gets added as a planet
daytime makes you fight rival faction bots, nighttime makes you fight glyphids
average glyphid grunt is the same size as the smallest terminid
id rather not honestly. they're two completely different universes and seeing some bullshit crossover would make them both be lesser
I HATE MULTIVERSAL BULLSHIT FRICK YOU HOLLYWOOD gay israeliteS
>Highly corrosive, vaporizing chemical that kill bots cant be used to destroy fabs and hives.
It would make precision strike underpowered but they should keep them in.
380mm orbital isn't optional
I thought 380 was always the answer but it cant really stop marauding hoard that are running though the beacon.
120 turns out to be better at shutting down reinforcements. Managed to clear out a diff9 overran extraction point without team killing,
No, they can spawn as low as difficulty 7. But I think they can't spawn at all right now, since pretty much no one has seen any on any difficulty level since the time the bots were "exterminated".
it'd be interesting if it was something the first group developed on the fly as a last ditch effort, and the second group can't use it until they capture planets that were once under the first group
The bots taking back the western fringe is pretty unlikely if the devs dont force it. Unless something catastrophic happens we'll probably take cyberstan back in the next 3 weeks
So after a few hours of testing some things I've come to two conclusions.
1. wearing light armor increases the amount of headshot damage you take
2. I still have no fricking clue why the AP Lib is in the game.
they need to fix NVMe drop sequence.
with a really fast SSD the game loads so fast you just spawn on the ground and you cant fall from the sky epically.
its morale draining and needs to be adressed.
I might just install HD2 on an HDD if this keeps up
Anyone else getting worse performance all of the sudden? I haven't changed any settings, but I'm getting noticeable chug now. It was running smoothly before. What are those Swedes doing to this pile of spaghetti code?
This reminds me of a classic sci-fi movie, whose name I can't remember... It has a really iconic shot of Saturn at the end rising over the Earth (spoiler btw). I think it was time travel? Or dimension hopping. It's old, maybe the 80's.
i miss the days when i was low level playing with other low levels and we just walked around clearing everything with Machine Guns shouting "waste the motherfrickers!", but now i have to dedicate 99% of my loadout for killing armored units because the game loves tossing me 4 chargers and a bile titan out of one bug breach
>Team is out of reinforcements, make for the main objective >See the brief flicker of flame behind me >Frick it's a hulk, instantly dive >Surprise, motherfricker! It's TWO hulks! >Stun them and keep fricking running >Third one-armed hulk comes out of nowhere and instantly kills me with fire >I was the last one alive >We had 20 minutes left
>transmog should be in the game because cheaters play the game with cheats
That's like saying "I should be allowed to burn down stores because a cop shot a drug addict who rushed him with a knife."
IIRC the devs are on record as saying that the AC is what they consider to be the prime example of a "balanced" support weapon, in that it requires knowledge of weakspots to kill most heavies, requires you to know how to manage the recoil and pace your shots, and requires you to give up your backpack slot. The fact that it's only "good" against bugs while being godly against bots also helps. The devs seem to consider weapons that shine against only one enemy faction to be balanced.
This statement came out about a month ago, mind you.
>The devs seem to consider weapons that shine against only one enemy faction to be balanced.
I would generally agree but I think some weapons should be decent against both. The basic Liberator for example really struggles against bugs ever since they changed the spawn rates of heavy and small enemies.
It's perfect for bots: Kills the few small enemies easily and if you're precise you can take on devastators. While your support weapon and stratagems take out heavies.
But for bugs you don't really have many options but spray into the bug tide and be constantly out of ammo. If you bring a MG then you don't have a reply to heavies, if you bring AT, you get swarmed by the smalls.
I think the liberator could use a bump in either DMG or rounds per mag.
I take IMMENSE joy in joining random people's lobbies, waiting until extract, and once everyone is sitting in the pelican - I pull out my Senator and proceed to shoot each of them in the head as they sit there, unable to do anything except helplessly watch.
I can't wait for the fanart of cute childhood friend tomboy Helldivers and beautiful blonde Eagle-1 getting brainwashed and mindbroken by Illuminates and turned into xeno wienersocks >inb4 coomer
Btw have you guys seen the other leaked rifles?
>people saying this isn't even the first super earth they had in the game
but little do they know, IRL, we're actually on bozrah, a replica planet, and not earth
The Exploding Crossbow is both really nice and I fricking despise it. It's silent, requires stupid precision, and can blow up in your face. People who say that it can compare to the Eruptor are either looking at empirical stats and not actual perfomance, or are clinically insane. It takes five bolts to a Devastator's leg to down it, while it takes only one or two shots with the Eruptor. From further away. Without needing to account for gravity, or projectile sway, or the projectile accidentally killing you or others.
Patch dropped:
E-27 Ground Breaker armor now has the Engineer Kit passive as previously advertised.
Fixes
Fixed an issue that resulted in different damage being dealt enemies between PC and console players.
Red boxes in defense missions are no longer visible.
Major orders should now properly display text.
Fixed multiple crashes that could occur in the loadout screen when other players left or joined the game.
Fixed multiple crashes that could occur after extraction when the mission results and rewards were shown.
Fixed crash which could occur when throwing back a grenade while wielding a heat-based weapon.
Fixed crash that could occur when hosting a play session migrates to another player.
Fixed crash that could occur if too many civilians spawn.
Fixed various other crashes that could occur when deploying to mission.
Fixed various other crashes that could occur during gameplay.
when the frick are they fixing crossplay, half my friends are console peasants and we can't go 10 minutes without it splitting the lobby into PC and PS players.
How the
FRICK
is scope misalignment still a fricking issue? Jesus christ, this is such an easy thing to fix that you couldn't even use the excuse of "w-w-well patches are a priority...." because ITS NOT EVEN SOMETHING THAT'D BE HANDLED BY WHOEVER DEALS WITH GAME STABILITY. ITS SOMETHING THAT AT BEST IS DONE BY THE ART TEAM, AND AT WORST BY THE WEAPONS TEAM.
Christ, they could handle the task off to an intern or a temporary foreign worker and they'd probably fix it in an afternoon between shitposting on Twitter.
There's a light armor with an armor buff that gives it a 100 armor rating. I pretty much go with that for everything.
If it's a tough bots mission heavy armor with explosive resistance.
I am not a clever man.
medium or heavy armor for bots, fortified for explosive resistance and lower recoil, which helps you land repeated headshots on hulks
light or medium armor for bugs, anything that lets you stay mobile is good. I use the extra padding light armor since I don't bring a shield backpack now
You know, i asked this yesterday on the general and got shit. Everyone was too busy sperging about coomers.
There's a light armor with an armor buff that gives it a 100 armor rating. I pretty much go with that for everything.
If it's a tough bots mission heavy armor with explosive resistance.
I am not a clever man.
medium or heavy armor for bots, fortified for explosive resistance and lower recoil, which helps you land repeated headshots on hulks
light or medium armor for bugs, anything that lets you stay mobile is good. I use the extra padding light armor since I don't bring a shield backpack now
ngl I bought the new warbond solely because there's a cape that goes well with the light gunner set.
The eruptor and nade pistol are cool too, I guess.
When using things like AC, Eruptor, or even heavier weapons like RR and EAT, am I supposed to aim at the acid sack at the back of spewers/chargers/titans or at the mouth?
autocannons and eruptors can only pop the undersides of a titan
with RR and EAT you have to try and nail their foreheads. Two shots to their foreheads will kill a titan. Not the *teeth* area, that plate of armor on their foreheads
It used to be shoot em in the ass in the first game.
Now it's the face. Spewers can be shot in the sack for damage as well but the face is guaranteed.
Titan sack just disables the spit, aim for the face again.
Chargers, the face.We used to do the leg and that's still viable if you're struggling.
>a new medic line armor >the green is slightly different shade than all the others >helmet has a patch of the green on the back for some reason, can't even use it with anything either
wtf is their fricking problem
At this point i'm hoping for some kind of perk rework so we don't have so many identicals. Like a medic armor that gives the angel drone quicker recharge when it releases, heavy armor that lets you hold more ammo, or has even MORE explosive resistance. Armor that stuns melee attackers, slow resistance the list can go on and on.
Perks are basically a meme at this point. What's the point of adding all these super detailed armor sets if you're just going to slap the same fallout 4 tier modifiers on them. Most of which aren't even used because coin flip immortality trumps basically everything.
DP let's you survive bot mines, cannon turrets, and all the other silly shit they have. It also let's you survive pablogonzales2007s cluster bombs
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Situational awareness does that too and it doesn't cost an armor slot.
2 weeks ago
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By that same logic situational awareness removes the need for any survivability boost whatsoever and implies that this game is 100% fair 100% of the time.
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Not at all. Getting hit by stray bullets is inevitable when you're engaging bots, walking on a mine or getting shot by a turret is moronic.
2 weeks ago
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>actually standing on bot mines
Oh you're moronic, that's understandable. Enjoy the armor.
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Standing on them isn't a problem it's getting ragdolled into them
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>needs a perk that only works 50% of the time to account for something that very rarely happens
On the other hand, if that is somehow something that occurs frequently for you I might just have to call it a skill issue.
Every fricking armor is like this it's insane
We have four different shades of this same ugly green, five shades of white, everything red is actually red-orange, red on people's champion that doesn't match anything else in the game, only one cape with pure neutral colors
The hype is completely irrelevant right now. The galactic campaign is on rails since the game is still lacking ~60% of assets (worlds, enemies, weapons, factions, upgrades, stratagems, armors etc.) so what other players do is largely irrelevant to you and your 3 buddies you play this game with.
I already paid for the game, I'm not shitting on it for its playercount (which I haven't checked but I'm assuming is still high). Just annoyed that it looks like I missed the peak.
>Just annoyed that it looks like I missed the peak.
Why?
The game literally does not play any different if there's 1k or 100k active players. Liberation rates of planet is always tied to the number of currently active players.
Why does it affect you when the peak was?
Please elaborate.
The hype is completely irrelevant right now. The galactic campaign is on rails since the game is still lacking ~60% of assets (worlds, enemies, weapons, factions, upgrades, stratagems, armors etc.) so what other players do is largely irrelevant to you and your 3 buddies you play this game with.
>in the mood for helldivers >get matched with absolute mongoloids that won't stop eating through our reinforcements >have a teammate end the match with 11 fricking deaths (he was level 73 btw) >fail mission as a result and get nothing for 20-30 mins of playtime >no longer in the mood for helldivers
>another light engineering set
I wonder if they are ever going to change the perk system at all. What's the point of having 100 different armor sets if there only different perks?
There's no possible way that they have any form of quality control, and I'm betting they have very little communication between different employees, let alone different teams. It feels like everything's designed or balanced in a fricking vacuum.
Play the game in lower difficulties and find out what works for you. You’ll notice what works against each type of enemies and which mission will have certain stratagems preferences.
I'm talking about what's viable on 8-9. What loadout has the least amount of diminishing returns. I keep trying loadouts on my own but don't really feel like i have it all tbh.
My favorite thing as of late for bug helldives is >dominator or incendiary shotgun/redeemer/impacts >rail cannon orbital >gas or mech >airstrike >quasar
you don't get the most amount of kills but it's very spammable, also i like to sneak around enemies
>Airstrike >500kg/Orbital Laser/Orbital Rail of your choice >Shield(Bots)/Laserdrone(Bugs) pack >Quasar
>Light Stealth Armor >Grenade Pistol/Senator depending if you want more utility or an oh frick button >Sickle (bots)/Any Breaker shotgun (bugs) >Impact Nades
As you can see there are some choices to be made, but with this you can solo any helldive situation easily as long you remember that running and coming back is the tactic if you are alone and 4 heavies are coming
rover bots eliminate sneaking around patrols at close ranges so i tend to not use them, but i see some divers taking them constantly.
>Heavy Armor >Liberator Penetrator >Grenade Pistol >Orbital Gas strike >Eagle Smoke >HMG >Spear
You'll never lose a mission again. Because you'll get kicked as soon as the mission starts
>Airstrike >500kg/Orbital Laser/Orbital Rail of your choice >Shield(Bots)/Laserdrone(Bugs) pack >Quasar
>Light Stealth Armor >Grenade Pistol/Senator depending if you want more utility or an oh frick button >Sickle (bots)/Any Breaker shotgun (bugs) >Impact Nades
As you can see there are some choices to be made, but with this you can solo any helldive situation easily as long you remember that running and coming back is the tactic if you are alone and 4 heavies are coming
Nah this is objectively the best all around build, if you take the stun nades you lose the ability to quickly yeet pursuing striders and bile spewers, if you take the flamethrower you lose the utility of quickly dispatching heavies without strategems, with this build you can carry any team to victory in 9, without it you are relying on at least 1 more competent person in your squad.
It's so fricking versatile it's not even funny.
you can clear most non-heavy bot outposts with a single airstrike before they even realize you're there and it's only slightly worse at clearing chaff than the cluster strike, while also being able to kill mediums and heavies.
You play low difficulty missions because you're a shitter
I play low difficulty missions because my computer shits itself when there's too many enemies on the screen
So apparently they are working on the DoT bug but fixing it requires them to reprogram a bunch of shit so that fixing this bug doesn't break other combat stuff, so it's taking a while.
Ever since they fricked the aiming almost no one bothers with them, especially in high difficulties.
Sometimes people will drop them in lower difficulties to give new players a chance to stomp around in them, but that's about it.
at that difficult they're worthless against bots, there's simply too many rockets flying for you to survive before expending all your ammo
its pretty good against bugs all the way to Helldive, if you or your team can keep chargers at bay
>Get tired of my usual loadout for bots, switch things up and deploy >Immediately remember why I use my usual loadout when I now have to run from pretty much all bots and can't deal with gunships
It was getting too easy for me also. So I turned back on crossplay to carry shitty PS5 players. Doing this brought back another problem though. PS5 players are way more likely to kick at extract which wasn't a thing for over a month until I started playing with them again. Don't know why console players are such shitty people.
>get super samples >can't use them because i don't have enough commons
Super samples are something you get by playing normally, not specifically go hunting for
I feel like if they didn't keep coming up with new ways for the game to crash and frick up with every new patch and content drop, they'd actually be able to focus on fixing the shit in the known issues. Wouldn't that be nice? To not constantly be in this loop of two steps forward two steps back shit? (When they decide to take any steps at all that week that is)
I wonder what new bugs and crashes we'll see this week!
I've seen one la giganta burro automata in all my time playing 7-8 and it died before I got support weapons called in (largely because I was running like a b***h from the 2 hulks and 6 devastators accompanying it)
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I've only seen one and that son of a b***h survived 3 orbital railcannons 2 500kgs and a small countries worth of EATs, what the frick. A river of devastators, too.
>accidentally use an SOS. >guy that comes in dies 5 times in as many minutes then leaves
Why the frick are pugs so bad. It was just a difficulty 6 too. Not like it was a fricking helldive.
>each eliminate target mission gets its own icon >blitz and eliminate hoard missions still share the same one, have to check every time
it's the little swedish things
how the frick do I consistently take down drop ships with the AUTOCANNON lads please help me out here
am I supposed to shoot 1? The ENTIRE THRUSTER and hope it explodes? or the tip of it, 2? I'm assuming with EATS you can afford to shoot 3 and still take it down but fricking hell my autocannon is doing jack shit, and I've seen other players take down dropships with the autocannon and recoilless, where the frick are they shootin
do you know when to move onto the next thruster after shooting 1? or you just immediately go 1 2 3 and it explodes? does each thruster give a sign when it's properly damaged and you can move onto shooting the next thruster
with the quasar is one shot to the thruster and it falls, you can't use the handheld autocannon to shoot it down, that's why i shoot it's cargo instead
however if you use the autocannon sentry, it can shoot it down
you don't. the AC turret can bring down airships, the handheld version can't.
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It's not *great* at killing heavies, but it *can* kill heavies somewhat reliably, you'll still want a dedicated anti-heavy option. it's just a nice bonus.
well frick, thought I found my perfect all rounder
you don't. the AC turret can bring down airships, the handheld version can't.
Didn't realize it was good at killing heavies. I usually use cluster for groups and use my support weapons for heavier targets.
It's not *great* at killing heavies, but it *can* kill heavies somewhat reliably, you'll still want a dedicated anti-heavy option. it's just a nice bonus.
I have 200 hours played and I don't know how you're supposed to scan the map for PoI. I've used the scanning armor, I've hovered my mouse around the minimal and I've set pins all over. Nothing uncovers it besides proximity or manually pinging what I can already see. How does this shit work?
PoIs can be seen with the compass bar over your head with a ? when you are close to them
if there are blinking ? on the minimap that means those are secondary objectives near you
basically, PoIs can be seen with the compass while minimap only will show you secondary hidden objectives
>me and 1 other guy taking on a huge automaton base >we nearly got it >I die >"oh shit ok he can bring me back" >suddenly my camera flies across the map because the other two players respawned me instead >watch his HP as the guy I left behind on the other side of the world dies just before its done, he's brought over to us, less than 3 minutes left till extract
its a painful thing
>Drop in >Beseiged on all sides by bots, they instantly call in reinforcements >Team gets split up trying to survive, me and one other wind up near the main objective while the other two went for the far sub-objective >The far two die, one wonders why we got split up at all (because heavy devastators are b***hes, that's why) >Together we all stealth our way back to the sub-objective and complete it >Make our way to the main objective >Stop to take out a heavy outpost next to it, or it will be a problem when the dropships start coming in >Botch destroying the two cannon towers, now they're shelling the team >Sonehow take the outpost >Factory strider gets dropped in >Manage to eventually kill it, go for the main objective now >Get pinned in by heavy devastators and hulks, pop stims and bolt for extraction >Time goes over while waiting for the Prlican, we're being seiged really hard >Pelican starts landing, two guys get shot to death >Pelican lands, third guy dies to missile spam while trying to get in >Mad dash to get in myself, barely make it
alright frickers i've been holding out on buying this because i don't trust any game at launch any more but it's starting to feel more and more like waiting is just missing out on shit
opinions couldn't be more divided it seems so please, genuinely try to convince me to buy this stupid norwegian board game
Don't bother
We don't need fence sitters like you noobing up the game. If you couldn't tell this was gonna be too awesome to miss day 1 you're the kind of homosexual who doesn't appreciate anything and will come back whining in every thread.
>walk straight forward on open field >nothing to see >turn camera to the left for 2 seconds >look back >a whole group of bugs standing infront me >no bug breach, no nothing
>bot drop >all naded in 10 seconds >spend the next 10 minutes battling bots wandering out of the fog one by one by one by one to stop you doing the objective
Yeah, it's the Twitch armour. It's medium with the +2 stim perk. It was a very limited Twitch drop, but it does seem like a ton of them were snapped up by resellers who put them up on eBay, g2a, etc for about $3.
no. no I did not.
didn't even know about the game before it came out, and I typically don't even buy games so quickly after release.
the only other one was the Division 2, and that one was a gift (that I was very happy with)
>new warbond >FIRE WITH FIRE >3 new fire shotguns >2 sets of medium and 1 heavy with fire resist >ANOTHER fire DoT grenade >fire redeemer secondary >enemy burn time booster >will be released BEFORE they fix DoT
yeah, i straight up don't play firenado maps and i aim the flamethrower slightly above enemies to avoid setting dirt on barren land on fire thusly killing myself instantly
they could have made it less obvious those cancer tornadoes follow players, because the meteors certainly don't home in on you.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Tornadoes would be fine if the trail of fire they leave was just shorter. A small speck of flame shouldn't light me up to kill me inside of two seconds either.
Actually, you know what? I'm not fine with tornadoes.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'd be fine with them if they had actual pathing instead of "move towards nearest player".
>gay homosexual poop colored person is allowed to take his time painstakingly one and two tapping scavangers thanks to me being a demigod and killing 75% of the map singlehandedly
you're welcome, Black person lover
What makes it even more impressive is he's almost got 50% more shots than anyone with 90%+ accuracy.
If anything, you're the one spraying and finishing the one's he's weakened.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you are a gay homosexual moronic Black person and I'm going to kill your parents
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you really sound angry now
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>and I'm going to kill your parents
You mean you have a 50% chance of killing my parents
He's the one who carried the whole team you asswipe. >got all the samples to unlock stuff >probably killed all of the chargers >didn't consume all of the stims so the dumb c**t in the third slot could guzzle them all down >didn't waste ammo missing so everyone else had more to waste >meanwhile you're ignoring all of the threats to shoot at ticks to pad your kill count
I'm pretty sure this actually happens. This is the only game I've seen where automatic rewards don't happen instantly.
Its like 1kb of data being sent out there's no fricking way out could take that long.
>it's a 'team stops moving in between objectives to be sitting ducks and plink away at the 3 patrols and 5 drop-ships instead of moving forward and funneling them along the way' episode
>It's a "team moves forward past a chokepoint to funnel the 3 patrols and reinforcements into but runs into 5 new patrols who call their own reinforcements" episode
>premium weapons have only ever received buffs >the only time one got nerfed was collateral from Titans becoming stun immune
Can't wait for the Eruptor to get buffed or some shit.
sar I usinged the 380mm and orbital lay-sar and got manyest murders in the level please doing the needful ignoring the deaths and accuracy ok b***h bastard rascal frick ?
>fixed crash affecting .01% of players >fixed crash affecting .03% of players >we think arc thrower might be bugged >fixed crash affecting .05% of players >we are still aware of the DOT bug
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence >fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence >fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence >fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence >fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
>go towards next main obj >kill patrols on the way because why not >shit one triggered a bug breach >kill the bug breach >FIRE TORNADO >5 fire tornados sweep over perfectly creating a wall between you and next objective >wait 20 hours for the fire to go away >walk 2 steps forward >AHH AHH AHH AHHH AAAAA >stim, hear the stim sound, nothing happens, burned to death anyways
Nah, once you get better, you understand how goods some of the early and basic options are.
Defender+ballistic shield is still a top tier primary for bot and breaker is still good for bot and top tier for bug
>Defender+ballistic shield is still a top tier primary for bot
I tried really hard to make the tank playstyle work, but it just feels bad. Small-arms fire is rarely the main issue and you still get ragdolled by every explosion in your ZIP-code.
It feels like something you only pick for the style, while other choices are much more fun and effective.
You don't go hard tank. You can play with medium or even light armor with the explosive resist perk. Your role is to push forward from cover and cover safely and move your frontline quickly against bot. Your biggest advantage is not getting pushed/always push against heavy devastator. You are invincible and safe as soon as you clear out all of the enemy with rockets.
If you run AMR, you clear out missile devas, hulk, then push in
If you run arc, then you use shield to push into range of of arc to stun lock your hard match up then clean up the rest while holding shield. If you run diagonally with shield facing toward the enemy, you can push forward, not getting hit much by stray bullet, but still moving too quickly for rockets to hit.
Primaries are never meant for armor. You pick a primary that fits your loadout. Keep playing lvl1-5 missions to get XP, then buy something like the Autocannon or Recoilless Rifle.
One of the best primaries is the SG-8 Punisher shotgun from the default Warbond. It does great damage and has absurd stagger, allowing you to stunlock multiple enemies. It also has decent range.
SG-8 + something armor breaking (RR or EAT) will basically carry you all the way to lvl8-9.
It's mostly for elites, like the warrior bugs (not the big Chargers) with armor-plated heads or the large mechs.
Heavy Armor enemies usually need special solutions, like the Recoilless Rifle, EAT or airstrikes/orbital railgun.
You can still kill charters with medium-armor piercing stuff by dodging out of th way and aiming for the orange part of its abdomen.
The AC is mostly used against mechs, since it oneshots the armored walkers and can one-tap elite units with headshots. The flamethrower is the equivalent on the bug side.
Heavy armored enemies can't be damaged by the autocannon unless you hit weak(er) points on them, a Bile Titan is practically impervious to autocannon, sure you can kill it but it will cost you all your ammo
Medium armored enemies can sometimes (rarely, i've only seen it happen twice) can deflect a shot depending on the angle you shoot at them
the game is a slog until you get access to the later strats moreso than weapons but yes the weapons that rip armor completely outclass the earlier counterparts on higher difficulty
I'm betting that the entire reason they haven't fixed the scopes yet is because its intentional and they're trying to find some other way to add base inaccuracy to the rifles. >inb4 they fix the misalignment, but the AMR and DMRs get worse sway than PlanetSide 2 snipers
The Punisher shotgun still shreds everything at close range. Stalwart/Punisher/Laser-Bot/EAT makes you basically a walking ball of death in bug missions.
Just use the Punisher for regular chaff and switch to the Stalwart during a breach.
I feel like reducing amount of mags is kinda pointless since under most situations you'll be able to get more pretty easily before running out. Reducing amount of shots per mag from 5 to 4, or increasing reload time would definitely hurt though. >Stalwart
Sorry I'm a nut that runs it alongside the Autocannon. I use a secondary for close quarter emergencies.
The Eruptor is already a mini-AC, so that niche is covered. Plus, the Stalwart doesn't take your backpack slot.
The Stalwart is also the highest capacity, highest sustained DPS weapon in the game. Having a bug breach open up before you and then holding the trigger down for 30 seconds feels godly.
Also, you can use the grenade pistol as a secondary, which frees up your actual grenades for whatever you want (stun, incendiary, thermite once it's fixed).
I tend to run the stalwart on its lowest firerate setting for bots to shoot weakpoints but still work as a spray-n-pray in a panic or against foes where its less necessery, so I've thought of taking a marksman rifle at some point instead of the breaker to mix things up
I always put it on highest, because it's the dedicated Berserker-shredding-tool. Anything else I'm fine to deal with at range, but Berserkers have way too much health and always show up in groups.
I doubt it. It would've been by far the strongest primary in the game otherwise. It's technically supposed to be the mobile variant of the default MG or the Heavy MG, but it's just better than both in every aspect.
This is just speculation but it being the first unlock, having its model in the armory, and the fact that it excells on the difficulties we know the devs mainly play on makes me think it was a primary that got reworked and added to the stratagem list.
Do not redeem extraction sirs
SIR! DO NOT REDEEM MY SAMPLES. SIR! DO NOT REDEEM
Indians are much greater than you will ever be
GOOD MORNING SIR
Frick you. Get ready because whatever country you're in, we're coming, and we're taking your women, your jobs, your houses, your lives.
Let the streets flow with shit, cum, and blood!
homie you cant even take and keep food in your stomachs because of how vile you all are
Even Africans in villages mock Indian street food
Africans in villages mock a lot of things
it's one of the only things they do that doesn't kill themselves or each other
Hahs that send off at the end
These people’s stomachs must be indestructible
I can't help but notice you didn't say "your toilets".
>Indians are ordered to attack
>the streets flood with shit
>my house is swept away in a wave of shit and I drown to death
>my entire country is consumed by a massive tsunami of diarrhea poo
The west has fallen...
The Poonami is coming
>phone camera picture of a Twitter screenshot
kill all zoomers
You forgot the bit about the women being weirdly hot.
Not even Skaven use cow shit as a medicine though they do piss on eachother
Automatons are already cyborgs. That's the twist. They're bots with human brains, forcefully converting Super Earth colonists. Cyberstan is just the last stop to bump up their numbers and maybe get some new weapons given the rich minerals
Im gonna coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
are tanks and factory striders giant robots or piloted vehicles?
>another evening literally ruined by forcing myself to boot up this heap of dogshit design decisions in the hopes of finding any of the enjoyment and potential for a good time scattered throughout
I seriously don't know why I keep coming back. It might literally just be hope. I want to like this game so bad.
I don't know about the tanks, but Scout Striders have pilots so I'm guessing Factory Striders do too.
>faction not even in yet
>already spreading propaganda
You are getting shot out of the destroyer without a drop pod you traitor scum
>922 helldivers in Sol
W-what are they doing in there?
visiting kid's hospitals
Gotta get those new recruits ready
>one helldiver is an army
>so four helldivers are like... four armies
I love that cute little engineer moron
which cape is thatl
our lives for super earth
MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH
MY LEEEGGGG!!
>110 pods are useless against bugs
ok, you live you learn
Armor piercing shit is very bad against chargers/titans because they have shells to go through unlike bots with their exposed vents. Pods are way better against bots just like the laser
it's okayish against titans actually but it shares a cd with 500kg which is much better at the same thing
>wear explosive resistant armor
>die instantly to explosion anyway
This is fine.
Resistant doesn't mean -proof, dumbass.
Where's the "resistant" part if you die instantly as you would normally, dumbass?
Depends on where you were when the explosion epicenter because being in the middle of a orbital strike, or eagle strike. Or walking on a mine without diving.
>armor grants you 50% resistance
>you have 100hp
>take 200 explosive dmg
>50% of 200 is 100
>you still die
not that hard to figure out. Have you tried not being a fricking moron?
more like
>take 80 damage from a rocket
>you graze your leg on a concrete wall and the extremely unpredictable Impact damage model deals you 20 damage
>you die
but yeah. with heavy armor + explosive resist I haven't been oneshot by rockets in like a hundred trials I think. light armor + explosive resist has gotten me oneshot occasionally but usually I survive. before patch any rocket hit had like a 50%+ chance of killing you regardless of your armor. shit was proper scary. I'm more scared of heavy Devastators than rocket Devastators now.
Are you using the light armor version or something? Because ever since I got the medium armor with blast res I've been taking direct hits from Hulk missiles and still surviving with 25% health.
It's pretty wild with heavy armor and a shield. You can tank a lot of things, except maybe a tank.
>wear massive armor
>die in a quarter second anyway
>killed by unknown
She claims another.
is that image a reference to that fricking AI generated chocolate factory experience?
Yes, the Unknown.
in the context of automatons
laser cannon
>need to shoot heatsinks on tanks/turret towers to hurt them
>can kill hulks from weakspot, combos well with stun grenade
>can snipe bot heads with it if you keep it steady
>destroys AA/mortar turrets without needing to hit weak spots
>absolutely melts gunships, multiple at a time
>med armor penetration, can damage factory strider in some areas
quasar
>can kill tanks/turret towers with hits to the turret
>2 shots hulks or one shots if you hit the eye
>charge takes too long to really work with stun grenades for hulks
>cooldown makes sniping some bots with it kind of inconvienient
>one hits gunships but needs to recharge between shots
>can blow up bot buildings if you aim at the vents
>can blow up the turret on a factory strider with one hit, presumably damage the strider anywhere on the body
overall laser cannon seems to be a better take on bot missions IF you have some way of blowing up fabricators like the grenade pistol or grenades. sickle + stuns + grenade pistol + laser cannon can deal with basically anything automatons can do, not even mentioning stratagems.
we should be friends irl, anon
>mfw TBD
I didn't play around with laser cannon until recently and yeah, it's actually really good against bots. It's a bit weak against striders and devastators so I bring the nade pistol for striders and the dominator.
how can you down dropships with it?
shoot the engines
Quasar striking one of the dropship's 4 engines will one-shot it
The timing of when you strike the dropship determines whether or not its cargo actually die along with it though
It's simple, you have a few seconds before dropships arrive. After that you have a few seconds for the dropships to stop, stay there unloading and then going away. Shoot at the engines and the thing goes down, it usually does a mix of killing, maiming or blocking the bots it was dropping and the bots troops that where underneath it already on ground. Depends when you shoot.
Its preferable to target them if you have a clear line of sight, and have some cover/distance between you and the enemy already on ground. Its fun.
With laser cannon? I don't think you can. What's the point anyway when shit survive the fall most of the time?
That cyborg lady is pretty hot!
Seriously though that's a nice lust provoking image, good job OP
Disgusting. Let the other guy with the nice screenshots make the thread.
reddit be like: "le automatons are actually the good guys freeing themselfs from human slavery or something"
Leaked automaton centrifuge objective shows automatons are ironically using humans as fuel to power bots. So yes the war is 2 sides killing each other for oil
makes bots a bit scarier then necrons
sure if you ever get into a fight with a necron you will die horrifically but atleast the necrons just want humans to kinda piss off
Some of them want to wear you
Ironically?
no they melt you in an ironic manner
I mean, if we develop something like this that operates on human blood, poor and homeless people would be the first collected for fuel
How easily people forget.
>if
homie, organ trafficking has been very profitable for the past half-century already.
SE kills bugs for oil, not bots. Spill oil isn't referred to SE extracting oil from the bots.
HD1's satire was better. Cyborgs just wanted independance and were crushed by SE, bugs were sentient and peaceful and were attacked by SE for oil, illuminates were peaceful and advanced and were attacked by SE out of fear.
SE clearly were the bad guys pretending to be heroes, feeding propaganda to the guillible populace. Nothing groundbreaking but still a well rounded and clear cut caricature of a fascist, expansionist, xenophobic and totalitarian state.
HD2 is set ~100 years after HD1.
Cyborgs built killer robots that are programmed to hate humans/SE. No room for reconsiliation/diplomacy anymore, even if SE decided to leave them to their own devices.
Bugs were bred out of their sentience and are now just mad cattle to be tamed for oil. Not very nice but it went from genocide to animal rights violations at best. Cruel but not as evil as HD1 SE.
Current day SE is paying for the mistakes of its ancestors and they're not really the bad guys anymore. No one who made the actually bad decisions a century ago is still alive.
I really wonder how the Illuminates will tie into this. If they just come back to attack SE then it would justify SE even further in their actions. I doubt Arrowhead understands this though.
After SD I'm pretty sure the illuminate are responsible for helping build up the bots military and setting the bugs loose. For all we know the bots may have developed entirely unaware of SE until recently.
Great post.
Just look how leftards react to Germany and Japan: You will never shake off the guilt of your ancestors, they will always hold the past over your people. In the world of the redditards, the five year old great-grandchild of a warcriminal still deserves execution because he dared being born as a descendant of a person they hate. Just read up their reaction to the cold-blooded murder of the Tzar's children and grandchildren. Cheering and making horrible jokes about it. They all deserve death. They deserve nothing but getting beaten to death with a bat and let to stroke to death because their brains are perforated with skull shrapnel.
THEY ARE THE TRUE HELLDIVERS, CHUD. REDDITORS.
you surprised? they are telling the same about bugs.
the only "le good guys" I can agree are illuminates, at least H1 version of them
evil means good to them
now show us public execution arena
Welp that's my ship fully upgraded. Guess I will just cap everything out again.
Sirs you are redeeming the ship modules too fast sir. We will be needing to increase the cost of the sample cost sir.
Automatons are so cartoonishly evil it makes me think if the leftists saying that they're in the right are all playing a prank on people or something
Must be fun living in fake strawman situations
what?
You see a lot of homosexuals spouting bullshit about how super earth is in the wrong for wanting to kill every automaton ever and similar stuff
Bros what does the media literacy manual say about this
Aren't automatons basically a frick you weapon made in revenge because of humans genociding the cyborgs or something
In that sense they're still a result of humanity's actions where it created a race entirely devoted to eternal hatred
>a result of humanity's actions
inherited guilt nonsense
Fascists literally deserve it.
time to move on to: automatons are evil murder machines and that's a good thing
YOU'RE FAILING YOUR MEDIA LITERACY TEST
thats a twitter talking point
super earth brought all of this on themselves but that dosent make the other factions good
negotiations arent on the table
Pretty much, it's evil vs evil at this point
Except we're the good guys because we're humans
Funny, this is the sort of horrible treatment blacks put on whites in the real world, and yet we have to pretend like they're oppressed and have it rough
>pelican surrounded by fire tornadoes
>ems strike it
>watching morons thinking they can just sprint through
i hope they never patch pelikan being invincible.
it would get destroyed every single time
the extraction ship was always invincible since the first game
I mean. It is invincible. Right? Why do my friends keep telling me it isn't? I've never seen it being destroyed but they get SO FRICKING MAD if I don't get in fast like am I schizo or them?
There's a bug that allows the Pelican to be destroyed rendering the mission unwinnable.
I've had it drop through the floor several times. Thankfully it despawns once it hits the bottom of the map and you can call another.
Last time it happened to me, it didn't despawn. The team just got booted from the map with no reward.
You think someone are still alive in those bunkers?
Hellmire is fun and cool. Perfect metal-album cover aesthetics.
If you have any situational awareness whatsoever the fire tornadoes are not a serious problem.
>If you have any situational awareness whatsoever the fire tornadoes are not a serious problem.
Not true.
>ragdolled but now you just die
>bocks your objective
>blocks your extraction
>kills the citizens you are trying to evacuate
>blocks your path from flanking for a weakpoint
>forces you out of your cover at the worst times
When you dig into how many ways it can frick you over, it's impressive
>tfw I'm situationally aware of the five fire tornados camping the ICBM terminal forcing me to stand around and wait for 10 minutes for them to go away so I can continue playing
Imagine if we had a Automaton mission similar to this, defending a supply ship
?t=67
>troonslop
I'm glad you're not in charge of missions
>letting troons retcon media and ruin it
That's the kind of thing that made Bridget into a troony, Samus secretly being about coming out as a troony,etc. I bet you think Dumbledore is a homosexual too and Celeste is about a troony.
Bridget with tiny hrbreasts and a chastity cage is kinda hot though
but dumbledore IS gay
It's so weird that you think what was is somehow ruined by modern autism
>troonslop
Troonslop looks like THAT???!!
>The Matrix
Did I miss something here, how the frick is that movie related to the mental at all? Or are you just a bot?
The Matrix was originally a philosophical allegory and then the Watchowskis were forced to trans for an occult Illuminati humiliation ritual and retconned the plot to say it’s a metaphor for chopping off your penis.
directing brothers are literally trannies now and it seems like they were forced to for revealing too much in their first movie.. it was a shock to everyone
The directors are trannies now after getting involved in weird sex shit and have said that um achshually the red pill is estrogen.
You know how everyone agrees that the first Matrix is objectively the best one, and the sequels are kind of all over the place? Turns out the script had more blatant troony shit in it, and studeo execs told them to frick off and make it normal. Now trannies take it as a win for some reason.
Both directors ended up being trans, which is totally natural and not at all social conditioning, just astronomically unheard of odds that two siblings could end up that way.
They got groomed by a well known dominatrix they were both seeing.
Man, imagine letting media determined every facet of your personality.
super Sar I coming to extracting but please to be waiting for me eat capsicum omelet and finding samples OK ? hello bastard ptah fukk you there ????
>have to leave the objective to lure away the 6 fricking fire tornadoes because they follow you
what's with the pajeet posting, I haven't met any Indians in this game
frick you bloody bastards
game is too new for pajeets.
needing to have PS5 or decent PC is the ultimate filter
mongrel prostitute of allah kuta kumina get fukkd in hell by dogs for doing the unneedful and getting in the chopper before I finding all samples OK b***h ?
>kills you
>collect your samples
>jumps into volcano hole
i've seen enough indian head massage videos to know that they take english letters on their shirts as a status symbol, and the bigger the letters are, the better. like the guy in the pic, i've seen a lot of them wearing girls' shirts just because of the english. the funniest one was a guy wearing a shirt that said
>proud police wife
Some pajeet shit poster calling the game FOTM, post an image of the HD2 steam population during off hour, but forgot to change the language to English in photo so the letter was in Hindu. He tries to delete the evident, but it only lead to more scrutiny for his frick up. I wouldn’t be surprise if this is some elaborate false flag shit posting from /misc/.
Bro your terninids?
which warbond has the best items I'm new to the game and can almost get one
The one with stun grenades, that shit is vital for bots.
Wtf bros... they turned this brown, muscular tomboy with white hair and fangs into a communist... We must destroy Cyberstan in its entirety, they had their chance to earn penance in the mines.
Wouldn't be the first.
>No fangs, hardly muscular
If I were a freedom-hating machine I wouldn't even bother converting her; straight to the blender.
I can't wait for the fanart of cute childhood friend tomboy Helldivers and beautiful blonde Eagle-1 getting brainwashed and mindbroken by Illuminates and turned into xeno wienersocks
>inb4 coomer
Btw have you guys seen the other leaked rifles?
After using it for the personal order i think the minefields are pretty neat
Should have a shorter cooldown though
What's the difference between incendiary and ordinary ones damage wise?
Pretty much the same difference as an fire nade vs a contact. Normal mines have it all front loaded and is better for things like bots who get wrecked by explosive dmg. Fire do 75% of their dmg as a dot so it can actually take out bigger bugs like chargers,
The sound design for anti-personnel is better which automatically makes it the superior choice
>Join team to do the main objective
>Bot Drop
>Hulk starts running at the team
>Stun it and begin to shoot out its eyes
>Host throws all his impact grenades at the Berserkers behind me, killing me
>Watch while dead as the Hulk gets up again and nukes him with a flamethrower
>Game crashes
>guy is being moronic all game and eating away at our reinforcements
>spams the "request reinforcement" whenever dead for longer than 5 seconds
>i go help him so he stops fricking dying
>he runs into my airstrike which also came in at a very shit angle
>gets pissy about it and teamkills me
>i do nothing about it because revenge would just start a loop where we piss away reinforcements twice as fast
>i give it a bit of time before going back to him, thinking he'd have stopped seething and malding
>he dies again, he's fricking lucky i was already running towards him so i happen to be there to call him in near where he died
>he teamkills me on sight again
>are you fricking serious right now
>he has his own samples and my samples now so i have to make sure for all of our sakes that he makes it back alive to the rest of the group
>he stops shooting me to death, thankfully
>he tries to nade me to death twice but misses both times, pretend to not notice in order to get shit done
>mission fails anyway in the end as we ran out of reinforcements
>he has over twice the deaths compared to the rest of us
this is why you kick
>I wasn't hosting
this is why you host
i'm too much of a sperg to host, those 5 seconds of having to pick the landing spot for everyone is pure hell
i still had some misplaced faith in him
Listen, save that faith for real life relationships with people you like, not slopdivers. I kick morons on bot defense missions if they don't bring mortars after a single warning. And if you're anxious about picking a bad drop, just choose the side of a map, less chance of landing near a POI or secondary and starting a bot drop/breach.
>i'm too much of a sperg to host, those 5 seconds of having to pick the landing spot for everyone is pure hell
anon...
>i'm too much of a sperg to host, those 5 seconds of having to pick the landing spot for everyone is pure hell
Land directly on the objective or the biggest red spot on the map.
pls be my cute helldivers bf
You should've killed him moron and not revived. Also frick the samples, shitters would objectively have a harder time getting more samples and therefore not picking them up would injure the shitter party more.
>malding
Uh huh. Back to resetera with you.
When are they fixing CE-27 Ground Breaker?
>memed into using Liberty protects
>it's still not good compared to medic armor
it looks good, but I won't trust my life to the gacha lotery
it was better back when it was the only way to survive rockets and turret blasts. imo they should honestly turn the % up to 66 or 75 or something. if you get set to 1 HP, most of the time you're about to get hit again anyway
>it worked
>you die to impact anyway
lol
50% = 25%. 12.5% if you get a bad bounce.
it's pretty exhilarating when it works, though.
>Wearing democracy protects armor
>Pull out 500kg bomb strategem
>Instantly cannon tower from across the map
>Survive with 1 hp, drop the strat orb
>500kg bomb lands directly in my ass crack
>Survive with full health because I used a stim half a second earlier
>lol, lmao even
Why would you want to host if you could go an unknown amount of time just standing around waiting for people to fill the lobby
>why
so that I can kick.
but for what it's worth, on Helldive I always get people joining before I can even pick my stratagems and ready up even if I'm speedrunning the process
I bought the game yesterday and I'm surprisingly survivable compared to other players. I haven't played anything over Hard though. Only ever played with regular armor.
yes, many players suffer from severe mental moronation
they're a bigger danger to you than the fricking bugs and bots are
>they're a bigger danger to you than the fricking bugs and bots are
I definitely got that. Clear out half a map, then die to the big eagle bomb. Game is a bit too troll friendly, though friendly fire deaths are definitely funny.
I just stick to sniping, scouting, hellbombing, optional effect objectives like radar or jammers, and throwing the occasional reinforce when I'm the last one alive
it works pretty well until we meet up at extraction and they jump underneath a hellpod while holding a 120mm barrage
Just surviving isn't really enough to get stuff done.
Unironically higher-than-average IQ. I had a shitter bring orbital airburst to bots and throw it at 3 chaff infantry 15 meters away.
the starter armor is some of the best in the game in terms of raw survivability
Most the times the people that think they're better (you) are the biggest shitters
>devs are actually considering DRG collaboration
Your predictions?
>Helmets with low-poly count beards strapped onto them
Rock and stone.
Drills as melee weapon
C4 charges so I don't have to wait for morons to click a double door
I'm with you on that if the C4 can also be planted on fabricators to destroy them.
They stop updating the game like the DRG devs, introduce an extremely cancer enemy that is in every mission right before they do that as well. Perfect collab.
automatons become less or more fun to fight by having energy shields. hulks have cloaking like stalkers. some hulks have jetpacks. devestators also have jetpacks and cloaking devices. jetpack raiders also have cloaking devices. they also drop cannon towers willy nilly now alongside bot drops.
there'll be a new mission type where you gotta protect a big slow moving vehicle that harvests ore or something that blows up in a few hits. you also gotta refuel it every 5 minutes.
bulk detonator is put in for the nids and is just renamed and reskinned but is the exact same thing except it also has cloaking capability like the stalker. so it's a stalker bile thingy hybrid that has the force of 2 500kg bombs when it self detonates upon death.
we just get some neat bobbleheads and posters and other non-game changing things out of this collab. or there might be new short advertisement of the Freedom TV on our ships.
You forgot a weapon nerf across the board, the game is still too much fun.
Space AIDS for 2 years
Hopefully a dorf body type.
>pick dwarf body type
>ordinary small bugs are now considered as chargers
lol
>pick dorf
>smaller hitbox
>run slower
>can take a little more damage
Would be kino
hoxxes gets added as a planet
daytime makes you fight rival faction bots, nighttime makes you fight glyphids
average glyphid grunt is the same size as the smallest terminid
id rather not honestly. they're two completely different universes and seeing some bullshit crossover would make them both be lesser
I HATE MULTIVERSAL BULLSHIT FRICK YOU HOLLYWOOD gay israeliteS
>Absolutely NO FUN allowed
A few dorf inspired armor. That's about it, maybe a funny allusion to the game in the desc something about the fact they're small size.
>Your predictions?
Ganker seething, reddit celebrating.
>devs fixed gas strike being able to destroy factories
lame
god fricking damn it i hate them
wait, really? you could use gas to destroy factories?
I think the gas strike is a missile and that can destroy fabs/buildings.
>Highly corrosive, vaporizing chemical that kill bots cant be used to destroy fabs and hives.
It would make precision strike underpowered but they should keep them in.
I thought 380 was always the answer but it cant really stop marauding hoard that are running though the beacon.
120 turns out to be better at shutting down reinforcements. Managed to clear out a diff9 overran extraction point without team killing,
>you can actually tk pelican passengers
ok, didn't know that. sorry for those guys.
Speed is key. If you run fast, you don't need blast resistance.
>still haven't seen a factory strider
What gives?
it's level 9 exclusive or something, because I've never seen it as well
No, they can spawn as low as difficulty 7. But I think they can't spawn at all right now, since pretty much no one has seen any on any difficulty level since the time the bots were "exterminated".
I'm guessing they're a special mob that only gets rolled out during important GOs. Either that or they're still going through testing.
Or they are supposed to spawn, but a bug is preventing it. Wouldn't put it past those devs.
it'd be interesting if it was something the first group developed on the fly as a last ditch effort, and the second group can't use it until they capture planets that were once under the first group
The bots taking back the western fringe is pretty unlikely if the devs dont force it. Unless something catastrophic happens we'll probably take cyberstan back in the next 3 weeks
got one today at the end of a diff 9 blitz
So after a few hours of testing some things I've come to two conclusions.
1. wearing light armor increases the amount of headshot damage you take
2. I still have no fricking clue why the AP Lib is in the game.
they need to fix NVMe drop sequence.
with a really fast SSD the game loads so fast you just spawn on the ground and you cant fall from the sky epically.
its morale draining and needs to be adressed.
I might just install HD2 on an HDD if this keeps up
Anyone else getting worse performance all of the sudden? I haven't changed any settings, but I'm getting noticeable chug now. It was running smoothly before. What are those Swedes doing to this pile of spaghetti code?
>What are those Swedes doing to this pile of spaghetti code?
Nerfing guns anon, 99% of their efforts go towards nerfing.
>spent the entire match clearing bases by myself with the Eruptor while the rest of the team does whatever they were doing
Post screenshot
This reminds me of a classic sci-fi movie, whose name I can't remember... It has a really iconic shot of Saturn at the end rising over the Earth (spoiler btw). I think it was time travel? Or dimension hopping. It's old, maybe the 80's.
Found it, The Quiet Earth.
i miss the days when i was low level playing with other low levels and we just walked around clearing everything with Machine Guns shouting "waste the motherfrickers!", but now i have to dedicate 99% of my loadout for killing armored units because the game loves tossing me 4 chargers and a bile titan out of one bug breach
No wonder I keep finding stupid mines everywhere, this goddamn personal order.
>"Finding" them
SWEET LIBERTY MUHHH LEEEEGG!
Fun fact on certain terrain mines will clip into the ground and become completely invisible.
>mine personal order
>Do bug mission
>Piss off a small critter
>Drop it on a giant orange cloud of shit
>????
>Profit
Play easy and just throw it at nests, trigger a breach then leave.
What is he thinking about
27 hours in paint
>Team is out of reinforcements, make for the main objective
>See the brief flicker of flame behind me
>Frick it's a hulk, instantly dive
>Surprise, motherfricker! It's TWO hulks!
>Stun them and keep fricking running
>Third one-armed hulk comes out of nowhere and instantly kills me with fire
>I was the last one alive
>We had 20 minutes left
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-ceo-says-a-transmog-system-is-out-of-the-question-swapping-one-for-the-other-is-like-having-an-apple-that-tastes-like-bacon/
Based, frick transmogtrannies
>trans moggers
sick of zoomer lingo
eh? thats a strange food analogy to tie to it, isnt it?
what the frick is wrong with pcgamer and it's stupidly long URL
nothing wrong with it at all, you don't even need to click the link to read the article
>transmog should be in the game because cheaters play the game with cheats
That's like saying "I should be allowed to burn down stores because a cop shot a drug addict who rushed him with a knife."
Today is PATCH DAY?
Hopes?
Fears?
Expectations?
They nerfed your favorite weapon
They buffed the one you hate
If they nerf the autocannon I'll fricking riot
IIRC the devs are on record as saying that the AC is what they consider to be the prime example of a "balanced" support weapon, in that it requires knowledge of weakspots to kill most heavies, requires you to know how to manage the recoil and pace your shots, and requires you to give up your backpack slot. The fact that it's only "good" against bugs while being godly against bots also helps. The devs seem to consider weapons that shine against only one enemy faction to be balanced.
This statement came out about a month ago, mind you.
>The devs seem to consider weapons that shine against only one enemy faction to be balanced.
I would generally agree but I think some weapons should be decent against both. The basic Liberator for example really struggles against bugs ever since they changed the spawn rates of heavy and small enemies.
It's perfect for bots: Kills the few small enemies easily and if you're precise you can take on devastators. While your support weapon and stratagems take out heavies.
But for bugs you don't really have many options but spray into the bug tide and be constantly out of ammo. If you bring a MG then you don't have a reply to heavies, if you bring AT, you get swarmed by the smalls.
I think the liberator could use a bump in either DMG or rounds per mag.
>they buffed the spear
oh, now it locks properly? nice
no but they made it full reload off of resupplies, you're welcome 🙂
but it already did that before thanks to the latest ship upgrades
NERF: ship upgrade full magazine resupply no longer applies to the Spear
BUFF: spear now fully stocked by resupply modules
is there really a patch today or is it just a pattern they follow?
The arc thrower is even more useless against berserkers, striders, regular bots and even explosive barrels.
I take IMMENSE joy in joining random people's lobbies, waiting until extract, and once everyone is sitting in the pelican - I pull out my Senator and proceed to shoot each of them in the head as they sit there, unable to do anything except helplessly watch.
Based,anon. Thanksfor theinteraction!!
H-hot...
This is LITERALLY me but only when the other three players in the lobby are dirty BLACK Black folk
380mm orbital isn't optional
I've got general brasch breathing down my neck after that little stunt you pulled on hellmire
>people saying this isn't even the first super earth they had in the game
but little do they know, IRL, we're actually on bozrah, a replica planet, and not earth
MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH
The Exploding Crossbow is both really nice and I fricking despise it. It's silent, requires stupid precision, and can blow up in your face. People who say that it can compare to the Eruptor are either looking at empirical stats and not actual perfomance, or are clinically insane. It takes five bolts to a Devastator's leg to down it, while it takes only one or two shots with the Eruptor. From further away. Without needing to account for gravity, or projectile sway, or the projectile accidentally killing you or others.
i'm playing heckdivers right now
Patch dropped:
E-27 Ground Breaker armor now has the Engineer Kit passive as previously advertised.
Fixes
Fixed an issue that resulted in different damage being dealt enemies between PC and console players.
Red boxes in defense missions are no longer visible.
Major orders should now properly display text.
Fixed multiple crashes that could occur in the loadout screen when other players left or joined the game.
Fixed multiple crashes that could occur after extraction when the mission results and rewards were shown.
Fixed crash which could occur when throwing back a grenade while wielding a heat-based weapon.
Fixed crash that could occur when hosting a play session migrates to another player.
Fixed crash that could occur if too many civilians spawn.
Fixed various other crashes that could occur when deploying to mission.
Fixed various other crashes that could occur during gameplay.
>fire still isnt fixed
do these few changes really warrant a 6gb patch?
Are you dumb?
No, serious question.
They add assets with these patches that get unlocked later. This has been the case for the last 2 months now.
This, get ready for new leaks soon.
Every patch some tech illiterate zoomer brings this up.
Part of it is the way Steam chunks updates.
when the frick are they fixing crossplay, half my friends are console peasants and we can't go 10 minutes without it splitting the lobby into PC and PS players.
>No DoT fix
>No Spear fix
>No scope fix
Seriously?
At least they finally fixed PS5 damage.
How the
FRICK
is scope misalignment still a fricking issue? Jesus christ, this is such an easy thing to fix that you couldn't even use the excuse of "w-w-well patches are a priority...." because ITS NOT EVEN SOMETHING THAT'D BE HANDLED BY WHOEVER DEALS WITH GAME STABILITY. ITS SOMETHING THAT AT BEST IS DONE BY THE ART TEAM, AND AT WORST BY THE WEAPONS TEAM.
Christ, they could handle the task off to an intern or a temporary foreign worker and they'd probably fix it in an afternoon between shitposting on Twitter.
>Fixed an issue that resulted in different damage being dealt enemies between PC and console players.
RG back on the menu?
No. PS5 RG did more damage. Now it's down to the nerfed damage.
So, what kind of armor do you guys use?
Advice/strategy would be nice, seeing Steam guides are absolute meme trashfire.
Bugs - light medic
Bots - super heavy 200 armor
Does 200 Armor really make that big a difference over 150+Explosion Res?
It's roughly the same for explosion damage, but much better against other damage types
So overall it is better
You know, i asked this yesterday on the general and got shit. Everyone was too busy sperging about coomers.
Thanks lads
There's a light armor with an armor buff that gives it a 100 armor rating. I pretty much go with that for everything.
If it's a tough bots mission heavy armor with explosive resistance.
I am not a clever man.
medium or heavy armor for bots, fortified for explosive resistance and lower recoil, which helps you land repeated headshots on hulks
light or medium armor for bugs, anything that lets you stay mobile is good. I use the extra padding light armor since I don't bring a shield backpack now
semi-heavy armor for bots (medium armor with fortified)
light armor with padded for bugs
So...thats the Gunner armor for light and Exterminator for medium?
i use the enforcer for medium, but yeah
I just use the light armor with extra padding. I like the speed and stam recovery of light armor too much to change.
I run the light recon armor, black and yellow, on all missions. I would run the medium armor with the same perks but I don't like how it looks.
ngl I bought the new warbond solely because there's a cape that goes well with the light gunner set.
The eruptor and nade pistol are cool too, I guess.
light armor stealth mode for bots
medium medic armor for bugs
When using things like AC, Eruptor, or even heavier weapons like RR and EAT, am I supposed to aim at the acid sack at the back of spewers/chargers/titans or at the mouth?
autocannons and eruptors can only pop the undersides of a titan
with RR and EAT you have to try and nail their foreheads. Two shots to their foreheads will kill a titan. Not the *teeth* area, that plate of armor on their foreheads
It used to be shoot em in the ass in the first game.
Now it's the face. Spewers can be shot in the sack for damage as well but the face is guaranteed.
Titan sack just disables the spit, aim for the face again.
Chargers, the face.We used to do the leg and that's still viable if you're struggling.
Don't remember if that CM-10 Clinician helmet was rotated in previously but its frickin' snazzy
>a new medic line armor
>the green is slightly different shade than all the others
>helmet has a patch of the green on the back for some reason, can't even use it with anything either
wtf is their fricking problem
oh and it has the same stats like the other TWO medic mediums.
all you get is choice of what type of clown you want to look like
At this point i'm hoping for some kind of perk rework so we don't have so many identicals. Like a medic armor that gives the angel drone quicker recharge when it releases, heavy armor that lets you hold more ammo, or has even MORE explosive resistance. Armor that stuns melee attackers, slow resistance the list can go on and on.
Perks are basically a meme at this point. What's the point of adding all these super detailed armor sets if you're just going to slap the same fallout 4 tier modifiers on them. Most of which aren't even used because coin flip immortality trumps basically everything.
>coin flip armour
>good
lmao
If you want immortality you pick the stim armour.
DP let's you survive bot mines, cannon turrets, and all the other silly shit they have. It also let's you survive pablogonzales2007s cluster bombs
Situational awareness does that too and it doesn't cost an armor slot.
By that same logic situational awareness removes the need for any survivability boost whatsoever and implies that this game is 100% fair 100% of the time.
Not at all. Getting hit by stray bullets is inevitable when you're engaging bots, walking on a mine or getting shot by a turret is moronic.
>actually standing on bot mines
Oh you're moronic, that's understandable. Enjoy the armor.
Standing on them isn't a problem it's getting ragdolled into them
>needs a perk that only works 50% of the time to account for something that very rarely happens
On the other hand, if that is somehow something that occurs frequently for you I might just have to call it a skill issue.
Every fricking armor is like this it's insane
We have four different shades of this same ugly green, five shades of white, everything red is actually red-orange, red on people's champion that doesn't match anything else in the game, only one cape with pure neutral colors
>finally decide to get into the game
>found out the hype died like a week ago
Why does this always happen to me
WHY DID YOU REDEEM BLOODY BASTAD b***h SIRS
I already paid for the game, I'm not shitting on it for its playercount (which I haven't checked but I'm assuming is still high). Just annoyed that it looks like I missed the peak.
>Just annoyed that it looks like I missed the peak.
Why?
The game literally does not play any different if there's 1k or 100k active players. Liberation rates of planet is always tied to the number of currently active players.
Why does it affect you when the peak was?
Please elaborate.
These dudes are getting so baited by fomo they're now going "it's over, the game has barely even a bajillion players, I missed the hype..."
How do we solve the zoomer problem?
100k people on the planet is more than enough for you. You wont cover 5% of those people during the whole game lifetime.
What the frick does that even mean?
The hype is completely irrelevant right now. The galactic campaign is on rails since the game is still lacking ~60% of assets (worlds, enemies, weapons, factions, upgrades, stratagems, armors etc.) so what other players do is largely irrelevant to you and your 3 buddies you play this game with.
>all robots have a built-in womb to carry human babies
Is... Is this propaganda???
>shots fired
>4568
>shots hit
>2895
Professionals have standards.
>DoT still not fixed
Swedish devs, not even once
>in the mood for helldivers
>get matched with absolute mongoloids that won't stop eating through our reinforcements
>have a teammate end the match with 11 fricking deaths (he was level 73 btw)
>fail mission as a result and get nothing for 20-30 mins of playtime
>no longer in the mood for helldivers
>doesnt fish around for fellow degenerates to group up
You brought this upon yourself
new slop just dropped
The other set is another medic set
The rav set with the tube might be really cool.
Too bad the tube is mid as frick.
Man, that helmet would be cool if it weren't stuck with the worst possible colors.
Is that actually all there is to this patch
I encountered a factory strider, so they were added again.
They weren't removed they're just ungodly rare
OH BOY ANOTHER MEDIUM MEDIC SET
I FRICKING LOVE MEDIUM MEDIC SETS
>another light engineering set
I wonder if they are ever going to change the perk system at all. What's the point of having 100 different armor sets if there only different perks?
Judging by the name (FS-37) this one was actually supposed to be Fortified but they got the perk wrong again.
Who the frick is in charge of their quality control and why the frick have they not been fired yet?
There's no possible way that they have any form of quality control, and I'm betting they have very little communication between different employees, let alone different teams. It feels like everything's designed or balanced in a fricking vacuum.
Give it to me straight guys. What's the meta. Trying to copy what some other high level divers bring in missions isn't working out for me.
Play the game in lower difficulties and find out what works for you. You’ll notice what works against each type of enemies and which mission will have certain stratagems preferences.
I'm talking about what's viable on 8-9. What loadout has the least amount of diminishing returns. I keep trying loadouts on my own but don't really feel like i have it all tbh.
My favorite thing as of late for bug helldives is
>dominator or incendiary shotgun/redeemer/impacts
>rail cannon orbital
>gas or mech
>airstrike
>quasar
you don't get the most amount of kills but it's very spammable, also i like to sneak around enemies
rover bots eliminate sneaking around patrols at close ranges so i tend to not use them, but i see some divers taking them constantly.
>Heavy Armor
>Liberator Penetrator
>Grenade Pistol
>Orbital Gas strike
>Eagle Smoke
>HMG
>Spear
You'll never lose a mission again.
Because you'll get kicked as soon as the mission starts
Scythe, Break shotgun, uzi secondary, shitting out as many statagems as you can.
Personally im a big fan of using the marksman rifle on bots.
Autocannon for bots, Quasars or E-AT for bugs, Sickle for both
>Airstrike
>500kg/Orbital Laser/Orbital Rail of your choice
>Shield(Bots)/Laserdrone(Bugs) pack
>Quasar
>Light Stealth Armor
>Grenade Pistol/Senator depending if you want more utility or an oh frick button
>Sickle (bots)/Any Breaker shotgun (bugs)
>Impact Nades
As you can see there are some choices to be made, but with this you can solo any helldive situation easily as long you remember that running and coming back is the tactic if you are alone and 4 heavies are coming
You forgot stun nades and a flamethrower vs bugs.
Nah this is objectively the best all around build, if you take the stun nades you lose the ability to quickly yeet pursuing striders and bile spewers, if you take the flamethrower you lose the utility of quickly dispatching heavies without strategems, with this build you can carry any team to victory in 9, without it you are relying on at least 1 more competent person in your squad.
Why airstrike over other options?
It's so fricking versatile it's not even funny.
you can clear most non-heavy bot outposts with a single airstrike before they even realize you're there and it's only slightly worse at clearing chaff than the cluster strike, while also being able to kill mediums and heavies.
Didn't realize it was good at killing heavies. I usually use cluster for groups and use my support weapons for heavier targets.
because it's really useful, you can clear even medium bot outposts with a single strike, and can kill devastators and damage hulks, tanks and cannons
You play low difficulty missions because you're a shitter
I play low difficulty missions because my computer shits itself when there's too many enemies on the screen
At least you can salute Super Earth flags as you raise them.
>We fixed some crashes
>Also here's some bugs that have been in the game from day 1 and we still haven't fixed
>3 months of patches fixing crashes
>still crashes if you dare alt-tab
Disable hardware acceleration in whatever overlays you've got running.
Not running any, should I disable windows one?
disabling windows hardware acc. actually seems to have helped, thanks for the tip
works on my machine
unironically works on my machine lmao what the frick are you Black folk rigging with, amd masterrace
>Fixed an issue that resulted in different damage being dealt enemies between PC and console players
Buff for PC or nerf for console?
Nerf for console I think. Since the PS5 version was the one that had the Bile Titans that could sitll be killed in one hit.
Not how it worked, it didn't do anything for PS5 players, but if you had one join your match as a PC player you could suddenly deal way more damage.
So apparently they are working on the DoT bug but fixing it requires them to reprogram a bunch of shit so that fixing this bug doesn't break other combat stuff, so it's taking a while.
Normally I'd call bullshit but considering the engine they're using literally has no official support anymore I'd believe it.
>this bad boy might be in the super store soon
brehs...
Not a chance. Too unique to be dumped into the shitty copy/paste medic armor slop rotation. Maybe next warbond.
But it's literally a reskin of the bonesnapper set
I'm going to do melee only when using that armor.
How often are mechs used?
I never see them on 7s.
Ever since they fricked the aiming almost no one bothers with them, especially in high difficulties.
Sometimes people will drop them in lower difficulties to give new players a chance to stomp around in them, but that's about it.
at that difficult they're worthless against bots, there's simply too many rockets flying for you to survive before expending all your ammo
its pretty good against bugs all the way to Helldive, if you or your team can keep chargers at bay
Use them against bugs all the time. Against bots you will die so fast its pointless though.
>dropships can drop factory striders now
>start objective
>2 striders get dropped in
Say sike right now
Bullshit
Well, maybe I'll get a chance to finally see those homosexuals.
Never saw one on level 7 until now
Had a geological survey mission where one got dropped right on the objective
>Eradicate can feature 3 Factory Striders now (one was stuck on the bottom left bunker)
>shadman
Why are you traitoring?
some invisible geometry launched me
but traitoring and letting the 380s follow you into enemies is actually viable, esp. on Bugs
>Get tired of my usual loadout for bots, switch things up and deploy
>Immediately remember why I use my usual loadout when I now have to run from pretty much all bots and can't deal with gunships
why do people play 7+ but don't go hunting for super samples?
I'm maxed out on super samples and I only play diff 9 because I need the pain to feel something
Personally I am capped on them and prefer to look for rares since those are the ones I need for the new ship upgrades.
XP and requisition gains
What's the point of XP after you unlocked everything?
I'm gonna be a super private one day
Because 9 is the only thing that's fun? And it should be harder... Getting boring to win 90% of the games without much of a struggle.
It was getting too easy for me also. So I turned back on crossplay to carry shitty PS5 players. Doing this brought back another problem though. PS5 players are way more likely to kick at extract which wasn't a thing for over a month until I started playing with them again. Don't know why console players are such shitty people.
>get super samples
>can't use them because i don't have enough commons
Super samples are something you get by playing normally, not specifically go hunting for
i don't even really mean hunting. surely on 7 and up, everyone should at least be keeping an eye out for the uranium rock?
How the frick do you people run out of commons but have super samples?
I have all lvl4 upgrades and the only thing i struggle with was oranges
I feel like if they didn't keep coming up with new ways for the game to crash and frick up with every new patch and content drop, they'd actually be able to focus on fixing the shit in the known issues. Wouldn't that be nice? To not constantly be in this loop of two steps forward two steps back shit? (When they decide to take any steps at all that week that is)
I wonder what new bugs and crashes we'll see this week!
Is there a better way for getting SC other than running trivial missions and scanning the map? I'm at like 800 out of the 1000
Not really, but in just 3 missions I got from 830 to 950, and each one takes like 8 minutes at most
>helldive mission loses connection after we kill three factory striders
frick you, all that effort for what
>three factory striders
I don't believe you.
go do a bot helldive and 100% the map, I guarantee you'll see them around now.
fair enough
>go do a bot helldive and 100% the map,
I will not.
because I am a coward.
get your courage together so you can see el perro robo gigante, you can do it
I've seen one la giganta burro automata in all my time playing 7-8 and it died before I got support weapons called in (largely because I was running like a b***h from the 2 hulks and 6 devastators accompanying it)
I've only seen one and that son of a b***h survived 3 orbital railcannons 2 500kgs and a small countries worth of EATs, what the frick. A river of devastators, too.
>doing serious missions on a tuesday
Why the frick am I only getting level 10-20s in my D8/9 games?
>accidentally use an SOS.
>guy that comes in dies 5 times in as many minutes then leaves
Why the frick are pugs so bad. It was just a difficulty 6 too. Not like it was a fricking helldive.
I've had the game scam me with unusably bad new primary unlocks before.
>each eliminate target mission gets its own icon
>blitz and eliminate hoard missions still share the same one, have to check every time
it's the little swedish things
how the frick do I consistently take down drop ships with the AUTOCANNON lads please help me out here
am I supposed to shoot 1? The ENTIRE THRUSTER and hope it explodes? or the tip of it, 2? I'm assuming with EATS you can afford to shoot 3 and still take it down but fricking hell my autocannon is doing jack shit, and I've seen other players take down dropships with the autocannon and recoilless, where the frick are they shootin
i shoot 3 with an autocannon because i wipe out chaff + walkers before they even land, and 2 with quasar
do you know when to move onto the next thruster after shooting 1? or you just immediately go 1 2 3 and it explodes? does each thruster give a sign when it's properly damaged and you can move onto shooting the next thruster
with the quasar is one shot to the thruster and it falls, you can't use the handheld autocannon to shoot it down, that's why i shoot it's cargo instead
however if you use the autocannon sentry, it can shoot it down
You can't
well frick, thought I found my perfect all rounder
you don't. the AC turret can bring down airships, the handheld version can't.
It's not *great* at killing heavies, but it *can* kill heavies somewhat reliably, you'll still want a dedicated anti-heavy option. it's just a nice bonus.
I have 200 hours played and I don't know how you're supposed to scan the map for PoI. I've used the scanning armor, I've hovered my mouse around the minimal and I've set pins all over. Nothing uncovers it besides proximity or manually pinging what I can already see. How does this shit work?
PoIs can be seen with the compass bar over your head with a ? when you are close to them
if there are blinking ? on the minimap that means those are secondary objectives near you
basically, PoIs can be seen with the compass while minimap only will show you secondary hidden objectives
Did you try the radar scanner sub mission?
The Abjucator really is useless. Downgrade in everyway compared to the Libby P.
Sad.
>Kill factory strider
>It still spawns devastators, just damaged ones instead
Fricking DIE
STOP GIVING BIRTH AFTER YOU'RE DEAD
>It still spawns devastators, just damaged ones instead
what the frick, kino
>me and 1 other guy taking on a huge automaton base
>we nearly got it
>I die
>"oh shit ok he can bring me back"
>suddenly my camera flies across the map because the other two players respawned me instead
>watch his HP as the guy I left behind on the other side of the world dies just before its done, he's brought over to us, less than 3 minutes left till extract
its a painful thing
>still can't used gas strike
ARROWHEAD!!
Actual new armors in the super store btw.
>Drop in
>Beseiged on all sides by bots, they instantly call in reinforcements
>Team gets split up trying to survive, me and one other wind up near the main objective while the other two went for the far sub-objective
>The far two die, one wonders why we got split up at all (because heavy devastators are b***hes, that's why)
>Together we all stealth our way back to the sub-objective and complete it
>Make our way to the main objective
>Stop to take out a heavy outpost next to it, or it will be a problem when the dropships start coming in
>Botch destroying the two cannon towers, now they're shelling the team
>Sonehow take the outpost
>Factory strider gets dropped in
>Manage to eventually kill it, go for the main objective now
>Get pinned in by heavy devastators and hulks, pop stims and bolt for extraction
>Time goes over while waiting for the Prlican, we're being seiged really hard
>Pelican starts landing, two guys get shot to death
>Pelican lands, third guy dies to missile spam while trying to get in
>Mad dash to get in myself, barely make it
You forgot the part where the pelican is bugged and doesn't register you getting in
Repurposed Automaton tech when?
Bots women owe me sex for liberating them from tyranny and teaching them about managed democracy.
souce?
Hado
It's got the same stats as a medium medic armor
>Hado
dont lie to me Anon
I am not clever enough to lie
She looks like she she fricks robot men.
DISAGREE
yeah you just dont know and make shit up
Groove1121, there. Look I gotta fight bots on Marfark someone else spoonfeed next time.
sauce?
https://kemono.su/patreon/user/56180904/post/99486337
https://kemono.su/patreon/user/56180904/post/99486387
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>linking the fox
this is why shit gets taken down
That's not Hado lol, not even the same artstyle.
>Eagle-1's married to Democracy, and Liberty is her boyfriend
bawd. MY AUTOMATON GF WOULD NEVER
alright frickers i've been holding out on buying this because i don't trust any game at launch any more but it's starting to feel more and more like waiting is just missing out on shit
opinions couldn't be more divided it seems so please, genuinely try to convince me to buy this stupid norwegian board game
if you don't like shooting bugs and bot and possibly squids and then get angry about the swedekeks about this game then this sit isn't meant for you
You shouldn't fotmslop that will die soon and even if you did we'd win
Don't bother
We don't need fence sitters like you noobing up the game. If you couldn't tell this was gonna be too awesome to miss day 1 you're the kind of homosexual who doesn't appreciate anything and will come back whining in every thread.
don't, i don't want you here
Just do it man, game's fun. There's a refund window of two hours that's more than enough for like training and 2 full missions.
nope, sorry, you missed out, everyone will kick you out of their lobby or leave yours once they find out you don't have a creek cape
frick off
the known issues list only gets bigger every update
stand back
arc throwers take lead
>walk straight forward on open field
>nothing to see
>turn camera to the left for 2 seconds
>look back
>a whole group of bugs standing infront me
>no bug breach, no nothing
frick you, this kills the game
>bot drop
>all naded in 10 seconds
>spend the next 10 minutes battling bots wandering out of the fog one by one by one by one to stop you doing the objective
literally bullshit, mobs don't magically spawn next to you
Where have you been? They've been doing this since release because enemy spawning is based on LOS.
That new defense mission is very fun against bugs.
what's the armor on the dude on the left? i like how it looks
Some twitch exclusive bullshit or something.
fug
Yeah, it's the Twitch armour. It's medium with the +2 stim perk. It was a very limited Twitch drop, but it does seem like a ton of them were snapped up by resellers who put them up on eBay, g2a, etc for about $3.
>got the drop and forgot
>found out later what perk it has
>"no more codes available"
salty
>Equip the blackest armor I can find
>Arc thrower + Laser pistol
>Jump pack
hell yeah, it's Dark Trooper time.
I hope you got the pre-order red and black armor. It's almost perfect.
no. no I did not.
didn't even know about the game before it came out, and I typically don't even buy games so quickly after release.
the only other one was the Division 2, and that one was a gift (that I was very happy with)
New Armor when
We just got new stuff in the super store and the demolition warbond.
let me rephrase it, when are we getting new Armor with new perks like less fire damage
That, I don't know.
>new warbond
>FIRE WITH FIRE
>3 new fire shotguns
>2 sets of medium and 1 heavy with fire resist
>ANOTHER fire DoT grenade
>fire redeemer secondary
>enemy burn time booster
>will be released BEFORE they fix DoT
sounds about right but they really should make more perks for the armor
yeah, i straight up don't play firenado maps and i aim the flamethrower slightly above enemies to avoid setting dirt on barren land on fire thusly killing myself instantly
they could have made it less obvious those cancer tornadoes follow players, because the meteors certainly don't home in on you.
Tornadoes would be fine if the trail of fire they leave was just shorter. A small speck of flame shouldn't light me up to kill me inside of two seconds either.
Actually, you know what? I'm not fine with tornadoes.
I'd be fine with them if they had actual pathing instead of "move towards nearest player".
Is it weird that I haven't seen a single factory strider yet? Where the hell are they at? I'm always on Helldive.
Haven't seen any either while playing 7-9.
I hate gay homosexual homosexual Black person israelites. How come I gotta carry every mission????
>0 deaths
>90% accuracy
What a mad c**t
who cares about him you stupid Black person homosexual homosexual b***h israelite, I had 4x as many kills as him I'm amazing
>Most deaths
>Worst accuracy
>Least samples
>No melee kills
>gay homosexual poop colored person is allowed to take his time painstakingly one and two tapping scavangers thanks to me being a demigod and killing 75% of the map singlehandedly
you're welcome, Black person lover
What makes it even more impressive is he's almost got 50% more shots than anyone with 90%+ accuracy.
If anything, you're the one spraying and finishing the one's he's weakened.
you are a gay homosexual moronic Black person and I'm going to kill your parents
you really sound angry now
>and I'm going to kill your parents
You mean you have a 50% chance of killing my parents
I always make sure to get at least one melee kill every mission so my teammates feel more inadequate when they compare our stats after extraction.
it doesnt count for bragging rights unless you karate chop a robot from behind
He's the one who carried the whole team you asswipe.
>got all the samples to unlock stuff
>probably killed all of the chargers
>didn't consume all of the stims so the dumb c**t in the third slot could guzzle them all down
>didn't waste ammo missing so everyone else had more to waste
>meanwhile you're ignoring all of the threats to shoot at ticks to pad your kill count
shut up stupid gay homosexual moron *kills 500+ of you*
average bugbabby lmao, stay mad in ur containment
Why the frick didnt I get the 55 medals from the major order?
MO awards are manually applied to each account by a work from home intern named Rajash.
I'm pretty sure this actually happens. This is the only game I've seen where automatic rewards don't happen instantly.
Its like 1kb of data being sent out there's no fricking way out could take that long.
do not redeem MO sah
>it's a 'team stops moving in between objectives to be sitting ducks and plink away at the 3 patrols and 5 drop-ships instead of moving forward and funneling them along the way' episode
>It's a "team moves forward past a chokepoint to funnel the 3 patrols and reinforcements into but runs into 5 new patrols who call their own reinforcements" episode
>everyone feared nerfs in the patch
>it was nothing
it was obvious they weren't going to nerf premium weapons
>premium weapons have only ever received buffs
>the only time one got nerfed was collateral from Titans becoming stun immune
Can't wait for the Eruptor to get buffed or some shit.
They will nerf its ammo capacity is my guess. From 12 to 8.
sar I usinged the 380mm and orbital lay-sar and got manyest murders in the level please doing the needful ignoring the deaths and accuracy ok b***h bastard rascal frick ?
Give me your top five patch notes.
>fixed crash affecting .01% of players
>fixed crash affecting .03% of players
>we think arc thrower might be bugged
>fixed crash affecting .05% of players
>we are still aware of the DOT bug
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
>fixed crash caused by the devs' incompetence
Fire damage to players reduced by 2%
New weapon that is just existing weapon but it explodes/burns enemy
More hp for chargers
>"fixed" the Exosuit by aligning the rocket pods to the left shoulder camera view that you cannot switch to without mag dumping one of your weapons
Have they fixed the problem with firing while dragging/tagging the map in a suit?
yes
>go towards next main obj
>kill patrols on the way because why not
>shit one triggered a bug breach
>kill the bug breach
>FIRE TORNADO
>5 fire tornados sweep over perfectly creating a wall between you and next objective
>wait 20 hours for the fire to go away
>walk 2 steps forward
>AHH AHH AHH AHHH AAAAA
>stim, hear the stim sound, nothing happens, burned to death anyways
nice game
You have to dive to put out the flames. Healing while on fire does nothing.
https://x.com/helldivers2/status/1780235765873553889
Factory Striders are back patriots. Time to dive again into the unknown.
New player here
This game is just aids until you have a primary that goes through armor isn't it
Just use a stratagem or play lower difficulty for a few hours.
No. Get support weapons. The base machine gun goes through medium and the expandable anti tank, one of the earliest unlock goes through heavy armor.
Nah, once you get better, you understand how goods some of the early and basic options are.
Defender+ballistic shield is still a top tier primary for bot and breaker is still good for bot and top tier for bug
>Defender+ballistic shield is still a top tier primary for bot
I tried really hard to make the tank playstyle work, but it just feels bad. Small-arms fire is rarely the main issue and you still get ragdolled by every explosion in your ZIP-code.
It feels like something you only pick for the style, while other choices are much more fun and effective.
You don't go hard tank. You can play with medium or even light armor with the explosive resist perk. Your role is to push forward from cover and cover safely and move your frontline quickly against bot. Your biggest advantage is not getting pushed/always push against heavy devastator. You are invincible and safe as soon as you clear out all of the enemy with rockets.
If you run AMR, you clear out missile devas, hulk, then push in
If you run arc, then you use shield to push into range of of arc to stun lock your hard match up then clean up the rest while holding shield. If you run diagonally with shield facing toward the enemy, you can push forward, not getting hit much by stray bullet, but still moving too quickly for rockets to hit.
Primaries are never meant for armor. You pick a primary that fits your loadout. Keep playing lvl1-5 missions to get XP, then buy something like the Autocannon or Recoilless Rifle.
One of the best primaries is the SG-8 Punisher shotgun from the default Warbond. It does great damage and has absurd stagger, allowing you to stunlock multiple enemies. It also has decent range.
SG-8 + something armor breaking (RR or EAT) will basically carry you all the way to lvl8-9.
I have the auto cannon and it bounces off armor sorry I'm new and don't really understand how armor works
It's mostly for elites, like the warrior bugs (not the big Chargers) with armor-plated heads or the large mechs.
Heavy Armor enemies usually need special solutions, like the Recoilless Rifle, EAT or airstrikes/orbital railgun.
You can still kill charters with medium-armor piercing stuff by dodging out of th way and aiming for the orange part of its abdomen.
The AC is mostly used against mechs, since it oneshots the armored walkers and can one-tap elite units with headshots. The flamethrower is the equivalent on the bug side.
Heavy armored enemies can't be damaged by the autocannon unless you hit weak(er) points on them, a Bile Titan is practically impervious to autocannon, sure you can kill it but it will cost you all your ammo
Medium armored enemies can sometimes (rarely, i've only seen it happen twice) can deflect a shot depending on the angle you shoot at them
the game is a slog until you get access to the later strats moreso than weapons but yes the weapons that rip armor completely outclass the earlier counterparts on higher difficulty
I'm betting that the entire reason they haven't fixed the scopes yet is because its intentional and they're trying to find some other way to add base inaccuracy to the rifles.
>inb4 they fix the misalignment, but the AMR and DMRs get worse sway than PlanetSide 2 snipers
If they nerf the eruptor into uselessness, what would be a good primary to pair with a Stalwart? Mostly for fighting bugs.
The Punisher shotgun still shreds everything at close range. Stalwart/Punisher/Laser-Bot/EAT makes you basically a walking ball of death in bug missions.
Just use the Punisher for regular chaff and switch to the Stalwart during a breach.
>nerf the Eruptor
Nah, it's already got too much drawback for that. Right?
I think they might nerf its magazine size and reduce the number to 6-8. The damage is fine and you're already forced to run Stalwart with it anway.
I feel like reducing amount of mags is kinda pointless since under most situations you'll be able to get more pretty easily before running out. Reducing amount of shots per mag from 5 to 4, or increasing reload time would definitely hurt though.
>Stalwart
Sorry I'm a nut that runs it alongside the Autocannon. I use a secondary for close quarter emergencies.
The Eruptor is already a mini-AC, so that niche is covered. Plus, the Stalwart doesn't take your backpack slot.
The Stalwart is also the highest capacity, highest sustained DPS weapon in the game. Having a bug breach open up before you and then holding the trigger down for 30 seconds feels godly.
Also, you can use the grenade pistol as a secondary, which frees up your actual grenades for whatever you want (stun, incendiary, thermite once it's fixed).
Eruptor is a flatter arcing, longer-ranged grenade launcher with a smaller explosion radius.
The Eruptor is my backup Autocannon so I can fire freely knowing that in a pinch I can quickly switch to the Eruptor without having to stop to reload.
What's your sample-hunting loadout, Ganker?
Cargo shorts, wife beater, sandals and a map with all the local Costco's marked.
the most tryhard garbage available to ensure mission success as much as possible, clearly
After putting in 90 hours into this game, I'm finally ready to try out a level 7 diff mission
Good luck.
Images like this make me understand why the devs don't want to interact with the community.
>2 dropped AT-ATs on lvl 7 difficulty
I like taking the breaker, machine pistol, impact grenade, and the stalwart on every mission regardless of objective or enemy
There are certain loadouts that work basically everywhere, but at some point you just want to try new things.
I tend to run the stalwart on its lowest firerate setting for bots to shoot weakpoints but still work as a spray-n-pray in a panic or against foes where its less necessery, so I've thought of taking a marksman rifle at some point instead of the breaker to mix things up
I always put it on highest, because it's the dedicated Berserker-shredding-tool. Anything else I'm fine to deal with at range, but Berserkers have way too much health and always show up in groups.
I'm convinced the stalwart was originally a primary
I doubt it. It would've been by far the strongest primary in the game otherwise. It's technically supposed to be the mobile variant of the default MG or the Heavy MG, but it's just better than both in every aspect.
This is just speculation but it being the first unlock, having its model in the armory, and the fact that it excells on the difficulties we know the devs mainly play on makes me think it was a primary that got reworked and added to the stratagem list.
I simply don't respect people who don't use black/yellow armor
>3 strategem mission with constant hulks and heavy devastators
is sc farming still a thing?
I just got banned for farming.
If you mean by disconnecting the same map over and over, then no. You can only get SC once per map instance, wich persists through disconnects.