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it just works
Only Chadivers use the Liberator.
I'm basically going back to it, fricking devs just want us to use the basic standard loadout.
standard loadout works pretty well up to diff 6
I use the liberator and basic starter armor on helldive, it's fine.
Le weak guns XDDDD you could just try getting good shitter
it does
>buff it
>release a new version of it
>new one is just worse than the original
any word on them unshitting all the weapons they nerfed?
Is it time for SMG chads to rise up?
>60 damage
>45 rounds
>the default smg is 70 damage and 45 rounds
Why?
The Pumpum staggers.
ah yes so its gonna get nerfed next patch after people bought the new pack, got it
because it obviously does something else that isn't DPS related, moron
it has a ton of stagger and can stunlock groups of bugs
So regular SMG is still better for bots?
There's a hidden value the Pummeler has going for it.
Compared to the Liberator Concussive that staggers, the Pummeler STUNS as if inflicting a 1 second EMP.
This held back a dozen Berzerkers during extraction so they all remained in place for an airstrike. It makes you a really good support in a team.
>the default SMG is stronger than the default AR
Half the weapons should just be scrapped, and everything balanced after that.
It’s simple they have to remove the armor level system and make any weapon damage armor until it pierces and the deals damage to health. Low caliber should take a long time to pierce like 3-4 clips while high calibers should pierce easily. Simple.
SMG is slow as frick to shoot, Anon.
Perma stagger. Same for SMG. You shoot stalker and it doesn't ducking move
come home, white man.
I can't play without this thing anymore. It just deletes everything.
I regret not buying this warbond, now I have to farm to get this or spend $10 but I rather not directly incentivize the devs with their shitty "balancing" patches.
I'll give you $10 if you ERP with me.
had to double check to make sure I wasn't looking at a Planetside 2 gun
I miss PS2's guns so much. I would KILL for a CARV or Gauss SAW primary in this game. The weapon balance is a lot better too, there's like 10x more guns and you can make an argument to use any one of them in different situations.
This is basically the Black person shooter of robots. It's amazing just deleting an entire column of berserkers and devestators with ease. My only complaint is whoever thought that puff of smoke going over the crosshairs in first person was a good idea should kill thenself NOW.
Turn off your damn flashlight and it won't glare on the smoke.
I always have my flashlight off, shit is annoying.
The smoke shouldn't even be there frick off what a moronic thought process to obscure your next shot.
It's literally a gyrojet rifle, though.
The smoke should be coming out of the barrel not through my crosshair kys.
I only bought that warbond for the cool robot arm, but this is a nice addition.
>Going to POI's passively for ammo and collecting free SC is not fun
Well then enjoy paying for the battlepass I guess. It's not like I particularly go out of my way for POIs either now I'm SC rich, but I still do them because they have samples and ammo, stims etc.
If your team is only doing the objective you will stoll come across 4-7 poi's a game that are basically in front of you, IF they're clearing all the nests then they're pretty much walking the entire map, in which case all of the POI'S are rarely out of reach.
Do POI's, they're useful for ammo grenades and stims if nothing else.
>Shilldivers general #108936
Frick off already. Sent.
>STOP HAVING FUN
t. Arrowhead developer when he sees players using any gun or stratagem in the game
So funny it’s almost like it came from Reddit directly, here’s your gold kind stranger!!!!
Same person.
brown person
>new AR is the Liberator but worse
>new plasma weapon is the Scorcher but way worse
>new pistol is boring
>new SMG, which I assumed would be trash because it's another concussive weapon, is the only semi-worthwhile weapon in the warbond and completely invalidates its only competitor (not much of an accomplishment but still)
This thing is fighting Democratic Detonation for last place.
Dd has grenade pistol, which means it at least has something useful.
So which warbond should I unlock as the 2nd after the electric one?
Steeled veterans
Steeled Veterans.
The Dominator and Breaker Incendiary are both great primaries and the Senator is decent if you like revolvers.
The only other currently worthwhile premium weapon is the grenade pistol in Democratic Detonation but it's not worth 1000 SC.
Are you kidding? Detonation had 2 very strong options with a third utility option.
>Detonation had 2 very strong options
Currently it has one and its the grenade pistol.
>had
Key word, right there.
>Pistol is a better Peacemaker where ir counts
>Impact Incendiary is great
>New Booster is amazing, and might be an auto include against bugs
You cannot asset shit to save your life, Anon.
Take your failed, dead FOTM and frick off to /vg/
/thread
>FOTM
Man, this is one long month... Been playing since February. But yeah, the catalog needs more console wars and other stupid shit instead of actual discussion of video games, I agree.
thinken of liber-tea~
buy an ad, shill
can this fotm garbage please die already ffs
It already is dead. These are literally just shill threads being spammed daily for months.
If FOTM doesn't die 4 months into the game, surely it's not longer FOTM.
just because there are a few highly dedicated autistic military LARPers who keep the game afloat doesn't mean it isn't or wasn't a FOTM
OK so go somewhere else. You have an entire board to post in. Your comments are cringe, frick off.
No I want to prove that my hatred for this FOTM Live-service GaaS slop outweighs your blind devotion to it
Holy cope lmfao
>a stable playerbase that keeps the game running doesn't mean the game has a stable playerbase that keeps the game running
Consider suicide.
should i buy it? the new warbond??
If you want a good smg. Otherwise, what warbonds are you missing?
It's OK, buy it with in game SC, I wouldn't spend real money on it.
Definitely buy it it has the strongest guns we've seen and some of the best armor
:^)
BUY HIGH SELL LOW
Buy two sets just to be sure. three if you want to support the devs who are doing an amazing job and listening to the community. And, just a small gentle reminder that IF you haven't and you WANT to, you should change your review back to positive.
so do I buy this new pass as my first one. or get the fire shotgun pass instead?
If you want actual usable weapons go with steeled veteran.
tell me about the weapons it has
Incendiary spray&pray shotgun, after the fire dot fix and buffs its a damn good primary.
Dominator has been buffed since its inception good splash damage and can take out medium units no problems and has replaced a lot of players primary choice.
oh thats the incendiary pass. yeah was thinking about between that and the new one. because I really want that flamer shotty
Why would anyone ever use this thing
Because it handles well with almost zero recoil and we dont have a Morita Mk1 yet
oh no no no no.........
They'll keep a larger bump when Illuminate arrives.
I genuinely doubt ANYONE is going to give a shit when they finally DO drop
I think you underestimate how much shilling and astroturfing will be done when it does.
Illuminate were by far the least played against faction in HD1 because of how annoying they were. Looking at the design and balance choices of HD2 I'd bet that they'll be even more annoying in this one. The first week or two will have a large influx of players before a sudden drop as people go back to fighting bugs 24/7
>playerbase puts up with Illuminate for a few days
>numbers fall off a cliff, everyone goes back to bots or bugs
>Arrowhead dumps Illuminate Major Orders for two weeks straight to try and get more people playing against them
>doesn't work
>AH starts removing popular stratagems or equipment to force players to fight them
>"After failing the last Major Order, The Illuminate took over the planet where Eagle munitions were manufactured ;^)"
I could see this happening
Unironically a major order that disabled our orbitals/eagle/tertiary weapons/back packs would make for an interesting challenge just to see the new strats folks would use
>folks
What's the bots/bugs split again?
Depends entirely on the current major order.
>8th most played game in the world
>Doesn't even include PS5 users
?
you do realize a vast majority of the playercounts in these games are bots, right?
Actual cope. You think this is a F2P game or something?
a good majority of the games on that list arent f2p either anon
And you think they're all bots? Delusional. I've played lots of games flooded with bots and this isn't one of them.
He's just shitposting because there's nothing for bots to even do in this game and if he played at all he would no there are nothing but pants on head moronic people playing
Anon, what's your playtime? I guarantees it's higher than my 80.
holy fug
Are YOU a bot?
It's a 40 buck game you twat.
Impressive
shill response
Thanks for you the (you) moron.
getting samples by playing normally doesnt take that long and isnt that hard, how shit are some of you guys?
Oh cool so that moves HD2 up a few notches. You just know CS2, Dota 2, and PUBG are full of inventory farming bots.
i love PUBG, baby
It’s crazy how many homosexuals still play Counter Strike and LE CONSTRICTING RING games on a daily basis. Actual pure garbage.
>maybe we should keep all the 3rd worlders who cheat, bot and scam
>NOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN 3rd WORLD ARINOS
what was the thought process here
What is the value of SMGs
I don't need to shoot behind me cause I'd rather just run
I don't use the shield
I usually have someone with me when carrying an ssd
>what does the smg bring besides these things the smg brings
Idk
Good ending.
HD2 community is based af (and we punch Nazis). You incels should try making friends instead of calling everything shit maybe you wouldnt be such fricking losers all the time. Picrel my thread on Steam, check the upvotes and comments you sad lonely frickups.
>300 upvotes
homie who cares
I hate ledditors and I hate these homosexual posts they always do.
it might be a shitty blogpost but its honestly much better for a 40 yo to just enjoy a game instead of being permanently mad about politics on the internet like a ton of people on this site
I feel the machine guns have to be reloaded too often. Lower the damage if you must. Just let me spam it.
We need a big ass Vulcan Raven esque ammo backpack strategem where you manually reload the weapon once to strap a belt to your current bullet using weapon on hand, and you can use your entire ammo apply for that weapon without needing to reload it. (Belt attach speed is directly tied to thw weapons normal reload speed).
>play for three hours
>finish 5 missions, 1 operation
>the rest of the time is hosts leaving mid-mission or after 1 mission
>players giving up and jumping out on easily winnable missions
>sitting in the spaceship waiting for a full crew and players leave almost as fast as they join
>worst player in the team also b***hing in chat despite us winning
Why does no one commit to finishing an operation? What did you even start the game for?
homosexual really thinks the game is only fun when u maximize medals and shit lol frick you moron I play one and done every time
>homosexual really thinks the game is only fun when u maximize medals
bro I'm trying to finish operations. If I wanted to maximize medals I would only spam eradicate and blitz missions then abandon the rest of their operation
who gives a single shit about operations unless you care that much about level xp
>Final mission is boring shit like eradicate, blitz or high value assets
I started the game to have fun
>blitz
>boring
just say you're fricking lame anon
it sounds nice on paper, but HD2 community is toxic as frick and it only takes a few minutes to remember why 85% of everyone is playing solo or 2/4. Vets don't give a shit and would happily wipe everyone off the map if it meant finishing wrapping things up 30 seconds earlier. People want to play with others, but other people are probably gonna frick things up even worse. The two biggest problems with the game are balancing and the playerbase.
Just host. I do nothing but host and it's just way better, and naturally you get other people more interested in actually sticking things out because (you) the stable host actually give people who want to a chance to stick around.
I host, but I kick anyone without a mic, or anyone who's obviously over-leveled for Easy bugs. I do it for Democracy.
>I host, but I kick anyone without a mic,
Bull fricking shit, you'd never have a team.
I have high standards, and I won't lower them for 3rd worlders. If PSN Account Protection™ was in place I might be more trusting, unfortunately I was lied to by the devs. There's a reason people say they don't have a mic. They're hiding something about themselves they don't want you to know.
Look I get the bit you are doing, but it's mediocre.
It's not a "bit" it's justification for TKing people.
>needing a mic
Handsome cat. You're still getting kicked.
>moron cant communicate or play together without screeching throught mic
I bet you are D4 lvl20 moron
A single mission can easily take 40 minutes, that's at least a 90 minute commitment for an operation. I don't want to play for that long, I'm already starting to get burned out on the game.
There's no downtime in a mission. You're either fighting or running to the next fight, and outside of really low difficulties even a tiny skirmish can snowball into WW3. You never get a chance to relax. I need to alt tab and scroll Ganker or twatter for a few minutes after a mission.
I'd kill for a mission type that was like a 1/3rd the number of bugs, but they were mostly heavies. Getting swarmed for 30 minutes straight is exhausting.
Operations are stupid, no one has time for that shit.
have loading times gone way up for anyone else?
I noticed it after the patch or a bunch of weapons were nerfed recently, plus the loading screen hitches and chugs more now. I still run good once I'm in game, but yeah like you said, longer load times.
Because the account linking option is removed the game has to do a lot of extra work during the loading process.
I only notice it when the host is on a slow connection. When I play solo it doesn't feel any different, but maybe I'm used to it by now.
>tfw the vast majority of players haven't unlocked this to use it and complain about how bad it is so it'll never get buffed
All it needs is like 80 rounds in the magazine, you can barely kill two basic automatons with one magazine at point blank range.
So what's the gimmick with the new secondary? Or is there no gimmick?
I will never care about this because I will never spend the extra $20 for it.
maybe if it wasn't behind a $20 paywall people would give a shit
>unlocked
I think you mean 'bought'.
Unironic skill issue, the knight is awesome
I can't get my fricking mic to work for this game. I've fricked with all the settings and I don't know what I've missed, every other game I play is fine. Anyone else?
It works for me, can't say much else.
say less next time you worthless frick
Ensure you only have one input source in windows audio settings. Check to see it works in Windows in various other software, but this looks to be working for you as you stated other games it works fine. Check the HD2's setting for audio and make sure it only see the one mic input and it is selected, change the press to talk to open mic and see if it works that way and then set it back to press to talk or w/e you prefer.
I know I stumbled upon an issue with the mic after the last patch, the game would mute both me and my friend after he selected a mission and we got into our hellpods to drop we both thought each other's mic was set to mute and so we played the game in silence and then after several minutes the game fixed itself and we were able to hear each other again.
Thanks anon, I'll try messing with it some more.
I need to know if all of the guns in the new warbond are based before I think about dropping money on that shit, or if the AR is finally good at least.
I love how dudes will bend over backwards INSISTING people don't actually spend real money on the warbonds and then dudes like this wander in proving them wrong instantaneously
>I love how dudes will bend over backwards INSISTING people don't actually spend real money
No one does this. There's a sizable population on both sides, it's just that Ganker leans more towards not spending money. I wonder what the actual split is though.
I'll admit I spent like $2 because a set of armor I wanted was leaving the shop, so I guess it worked on me.
I've dropped $10 for each Warbond after the first, which I got through Super Citizenship pre-order.
Glitch grinders can now sucl my dick for giving the industry hope that being lenient with monetization can still turn a profit. You're welcome.
They are all side grades or downgrades from existing weaponry, and the weaponry and question are generalist, all rounders so you're not getting any new kind of functionality like you would be with something like the erupter or grenade pistol. The booster is the best part of the bond, but you can honestly pass on that as well. This is probably the weakest war bond released to date and I can safely say that you can completely skip it and not miss anything that you don't already have.
It's all trash
Why does one impact grenade not kill hive guards anymore
It staggers them which is much better
>killing is worse than staggering
Killing something is a permanent stagger you moron
It used to kill them on direct hit. Now it doesn't. Same with spewers. This was an undocumented buff to the health pools of these enemies and it's fricking moronic. These devs are actually incompetent
Reminder the moron that killed Hello Neighbors 2 is the one in charge of balance, so it's just like that fricking moronic decision to make walkers blast proof which means they can eat autocannon, grenades and scorcher shots but die to one bullet because...BECAUSE FRICK YOU. They reverted that becaude walkers were fine as is so I'm gonna guess they'll revert this bullshit too, explosives should be effective crowd control frick these buffs.
I'm so tired of people complaining that your primary doesn't suck your dick, effortlessly horde clear with your superior gamer skills and kill heavies somehow
>I'm so tired of people complaining that your primary doesn't suck your dick
The primaries suck the dick of people who think they've got superior skills because all they do is run to point A, activate, run to point B, activate, run back to point A, bugs are gone, profit.
The game as it is is 75% less fun than what it was at launch and the midwit developers are fighting hard to nuke the remaining 25%
The devs don't play their own game, nor they understand why it was fun at the beginning.
They can't get around their: "not how we intended you to play mentality"
Okay but seriously what's the point of the new secondary?
Point?
If you want more damage than the default semi-automatic pistol but you don't want to deal with the clunkiness of the revolver. I'm actually looking forward to unlocking it to see what the 125 damage breakpoint actually means. I assume it will one shot scavengers, but if it can kill bigger enemies in two shots, I'll actually bring it along on some things.
>I assume it will one shot scavengers
Even the default pistol does this so yeah.
Really? I tried it a couple weeks ago and it took two shots.
For me it's the regular punisher.
I just like pump shotguns and buckshot.
The punisher is fantastic.
I swear it's only 1 (even before the buff). Maybe you body shot it? I swear they are pretty much all head and you one tap them.
Same, once you realize that you can kill two mooks in one shot by aiming between them if they're close together, the biggest downside of it is negated (handling large groups). It was one of the first weapons I've unlocked and it's still 70% of my primary playtime after unlocking everything.
homies actually want primary power creep to the point that they can easily solo helldive
Not just homies, but whites, hispanics and asians too.
>"Exosuit"
>no exoskeleton
>not a suit
>fire damage fixed
thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY
I can't believe they have that sexy ass white wolf armor the fricking starter passive. You almost got my shekels swedecucks.
>starter passive
You mean extra padding? Because 150 armor value at medium armor stamina is fantastic, the default armor is one of the best in the game.
I cant even imagine the level of useless bloat in this game in 1+ years, basically a mini season pass once a month is insane
its already falling apart only 4 months after launch
They need to fire that homosexual afton who keeps nerfing shit and removing the fun out of everything.
>not letting players powercreep and then releasing higher difficulties down the line
absolute moronation
Anon, the difficulties in helldivers 1 went to 15.
Werent higher unreleased difficulties datamined along with unreleased sample types?
Yes, there's at least 3 more sample types. This could just all be bloat/filler from development that they cut down on, but I'm hopeful we get a lot of crazy powercreep in the future
I know
All the dlc is free basically.
All the
>removes picking up Super Credits and exiting missions
Dlc is
>increases patrol spawns for solo
Free basical-
>lowers the chance of super credits spawning on missions
They haven't lowered frick.
Not him, they changed map generation on 1/2 and added a new type above that (the kind with the large amounts of tiny randomly shaped water pools) and both spawn very few POIs. The latter can also spawn the caved in POIs that used to only show up at higher difficulties.
>I don't want to play the game
>i just want to farm
>noooooo i cant exploit for super credits now I just have to play a few games normally to make hundreds of super credits
stop fricking lying you double Black person
People forgetting the the two oldest warbonds are now by far away the best because they kept getting tweaked and fixed.
I hope they extend the existing passes at some point instead of continuously pump them out monthly
I rather get new tiers of enemies and vehicles than more weapons and armors
yeah same, we'll end up with way too many warbonds at this rate.
Occassionally pumping up the starter warbond and then some additions to the oldest warbonds would be great.
does Motivational Shocks stack with Muscle Enchancement? because that would be cool if it did.
Is new warbond worth it ? i already have cutting edge
No its not.
So how's the omnetization on this, if I join now, theres permanently missed content from previous passes like in israelitenite? or canI just buy what I find cool?
The warbonds are permeant, so there's no fomo. Just unlock what you want as you go.
Nice, I thinkI'll pick it up, I know it's my fault for being so weak, but FOMO ruined Fornite zero build for me.
None of the warbonds (passes) are not time limited, you can buy whichever one you want at anytime.
LMAO Sony opened their mouths and got shat on. Shat IN.
I sleep
I too wish I had no life.
I just finished my ship today, and I only play a couple hours a night. It's been 3 months almost exactly, Anon. Just like, play rank 7-9 and don't be bad.
>random queue
>they're afk
>random queue
>kicked 2 seconds after loading
>random queue
>eradicate farming
>random queue
>morons picked -1 stratagem slot
>random queue
>morons picked -1 stratagem slot
>random queue
>they're afk
HOLY
FRICK
LET
ME
PLAY
THE
GAME
The only way to guarantee a good match is to host it yourself and wait for players to join. By the way we changed solo to be absolutely miserable.
Good luck!
>sets patch to public
>queue up a game
>wait ten+ minutes
>no one joins
epic
Sucks to be you.
you gotta reset. shit doesn't work sometimes
Use a girly username, I only join catgirl divers to carry them with my big democratic wiener
Holy frick why does it matter what other divers are bringing out of difficulty 9?
How can there be so much talk of the game being too easy and "solved" yet we also have babys like this who think the game will be unplayable without the best combo of weapons/strats/armor
are you a moron
You can only pick -1 stratagem slot if you only have 3 or its a modifier moron.
>load into game
>host picked op with 3/4 stratagem slots because he's a dumbass
>leave
is this hard to understand
Meh, it's fine. You didn't need the second airstrike anyway. Eats, plasmeme or RR, sheild and 500kg and you're good for d9 bugs and falling asleep tbh.
I'd get it if you main bots, but just swap the eat or shield with a AR/airstrike
>bug mission
>be walking away from finished objective in mech
>suddenly shot by a blue laser in the back
Didnt explode my mech but this isnt even the first time ive been shot at by something on bug missions.
Is this a planet with plants that pop.
It was not
that's usually what it is, but I guess not.
There is literally illuminate models and animations in the game right now. That and there being multiple testimonys along with videos of players being sniped by a blue laser doesnt leave much doubt that they have them in as a rare easter egg.
Now why a player hasnt killed one yet even just by collateral makes me think they must be invincible when they spawn to shoot one powerful shot and then leave.
Most of the evidence was all just plants exploding, that's why I asked.
>difficulty 7-9 mission
>me as host and 3 randoms
>last couple games atleast 2 of the randoms ignore main objectives and barely even leave the LZ
>they arent doing side objs or collecting samples as they barely leave the LZ or refuse to go to extract
>if respawned theyll just run back to the same area and be useless
>these are all players over level 50
Are these literal babys playing or just the lowest of effort trolls?
>Is host
>Doesn't kick moronic players for being detrimental leeches
Sometimes they're the type used to clearing a wave then moving on.
As long as they're not wasting tickets I let them be, because there can only ever be one breach(s) per map at any one time so it makes my life doing the objectives/POI's significantly easier because the risk of breach is far less when I clear that compound.
It's only detrimental on geological survey maps and evacuation, because they have breaches you can't avoid.
how is the scorcher 2?
Which gun is that? Is that the new plasma weapon in the recent warbounds?
Yeah, this is a swedish developed game.
>Is that the new plasma weapon in the recent warbounds?
yes
>ARcucks get cucked yet again
>new plasma gun is a charge weapon with no damage
SMGods, today is our day
SMG and ballistic shield is the meta now?
In 2 weeks it will be nerfed. Sorry, I don't make the rules, enjoy while you can.
new weapon for the next warbond got leaked
I hope they nerf this thing before release, it's too easy to kill chargers with it
It's nerf or nothing
CARLOOOOOSSSSSS
It's special perk is that it locks any enemy into a 5 second laugh animation, it's not the best heavy enemy crowd control weapon in the game.
It's already nerf, no worries.
You joke but NERF weapon designs go hard, I would kill for bootleg NERF guns in-game. Eye-watering neon orange guns and suit to go with it.
Damn, our guns already look like that but with more muted colors.
i hope we get an autocanon emplacement one day, the HMG emplacement is really fun to use but cant do squat to heavies
>He doesn't use the bright orange incendiary breaker.
Nows your chance before it gets nerfed
I've been using it. On one hand the neon orange armor is hideous, but I also want a suit that says I'm a fire hazard to me and everyone around me.
Someone said the devs failed to beat an egg mission on diff 6, is this true?
Does anyone have a link to this stream?
They don't play their game period.
they think the mech is viable on diff9
That's not what I was told. I was told it was a developer stream where they failed diff 6, is the guy recording a developer?
It's a youtuber who had the CEO and a couple devs (iirc) join his game
>he didnt extract kick them
Low test.
Might have been the video with karmakut/operatordrewski? I don't remember
WHO HERE /EAT-17/
I never leave the destroyer without it
protip from an EAT gremlin, always leave one EAT on the ground and one in the pod so you can both see it on the map and see it from visual distance.
Unless you're getting fricked up spawns, two guys cycling EAT call ins is enough anti armor for difficulty 7 at the least. If your team is even slightly coordinated this means your other two guys can bring some wave clear like a grenade launcher or auto cannon instead of a 4th fricking quasar.
I unlocked and tried the slugger and it's so, so bad. Takes 2 shots to kill anything above a scavenger and doesn't stun things coming at you like the punisher does. Dropped it faster than anything else up to now and went back to the punisher.
Anyways, look at this sick 48 kill airstrike I got.
nice
And yeah slugger just doesn't bring much to the table anymore.
Kill streak - UAV available
You're late to the Slugger party anon, it got nerfed into the ground a month ago.
I know, but I wanted to see if those people who are like "nerfs are fine, just try it" were right. They're not lmao
Very few people will bother saying the slugger is worth a damn, it's that poor. I didn't even use it before the nerf and it's obvious it's completely lackluster.
It was so damn good before the nerf.
But now it doesnt stagger shit along with needing double the slugs to kill any enemy worth a damn. Why they decided to fricking wreck the weapon instead of choosing one is beyond me.
>we didn't like that people were using a shotgun like a sniper rifle
>so we took out everything that made it a good shotgun and left its only niche being long range damage
>we put a scope on it instead of a regular sight btw 🙂
Schizo developers.
Why didn't they just give it penetration dropoff or something, jeez. There were so many ways to handle it and they picked the most moronic.
They could have worked off of real slug issues like missing penetration on armour and huge ballistic drop off and comparable slow muzzle velocity.
>Why didn't they just give it penetration dropoff
Lazy and/or incompetent to do stuff like that since penetration dropoff isn't coded in by default so they'd have to implement it.
It's why they can't do anything about specific gun weakpoint modifiers because that's not a thing explicitly tied to the gun.
The entire code is spaghetti shit where the fricking stalwart's and guard dog damages are tied to the liberators for some reason.
That's a enclosed red-dot, not a scope.
Scope these nuts gayboy
The nerf really hurt it, but it can still be usable on bugs. Just treat it like a pump action marksman rifle and aim for the head, two shots can decapitate a brood commander. Speaking of brood commanders, I hate how they get both more aggressive and have better tracking after their heads are gone. Walking forward while slashing wildly? Makes sense. Turning to track me after I strafe their assault? Fricking how.
You missed the glory days when it could pop open containers and stagger stalkers with ease.
The Slugger and the Railgun are perfect examples of how bad AH is at balancing.
>Railgun gets nerfed into oblivion purely because it's too popular
>a week after the RG nerf they fix the actual causes of the railgun's popularity, which was merely a symptom of too many heavy spawns and EAT/RR being ineffecive against chargers
>takes like a month for the RG to get adjusted again
>now that it's almost back at its pre-nerf strength nobody bothers with it because the other antiarmor options actually work
>Slugger gets nerfed into oblivion because "it's a shotgun outperforming DMRs" or whatever the frick
>they completely murder its stagger
>they frick up its damage
>now the Slugger is a shotgun that sucks up close and is only viable at DMR ranges, totally at odds with what the devs say they wanted for the gun
>basically useless on bots now because it can't stagger berserkers and you're gonna need all 4 nades to handle a horde of 10 of em running single file at you
>meanwhile the Punisher staggers everything 30m+ out
>it wasn't even very popular before the nerf and now it's probably the least used primary in the game
but hey at least the bugs and bots are enjoying a fair and balanced game
>now it's probably the least used primary in the game
I think the crossbow takes that crown especially after the recent nerf. Maybe the liberator penetrator.
the new warbond is actually better than you think
Had a dream where I was playing on a bug planet and randomly a hulk spawned alongside the bugs.
it's not better than this, right?
The new one staggers medium enemies, which sounds pretty damn juicy.
IT KEKS STALKERS
Nerf inbound
I think it is.
>5 points less damage.
Haven't noticed any trash mob enemies where this noticeably increases the number of shots to kill. Along with a slightly lower ROF and muzzle velocity you get:
>Staggers enemies
Incredibly useful. Against bots allows you to hold off berserker swarms and hit weakpoints easier when they do get staggered, effectively increasing damage output anyway. Against bugs you can keep hunters/stalkers staggered and away from tonguing your anus, something only the Punisher could do effectively previously.
I haven't decided yet if I like the Punisher or the Pummeller more vs. bugs but it's nice to finally have an alternative.
>tendie-riser unable to stagger shit
>defender sidegrade can
Tenderiser is a fricking joke of a weapon. Honestly why are Arrowhead focussing so much on making useless primaries. Give us some more stratagems FRICK, at least if they're not great they're probably going to be more unique than another shitty primary.
Shartdivers isn’t good.
jeet just can't stop thinking about poo
>underage can’t stop posting about his teenager FOTM slop
boring post
Literally me frfr
Why would you make this
Trying to decipher that moronic shit and I just want to kill myself.
Making memes that are borderline indecipherable is funny to me
me with the autocannon
I would use the laser cannon more if I could pair it with the quazar for maximum lasers
I wish there was some way to dual wield support weapons like a mech frame or power armor stratagem
Most of those weapons are fine. Why the whining.
The image isn't complaining anon, just assigning stereotypes and memes for the different weapon users.
Like the autocannon being happy and above it all, or the airburst user being an unhinged crazy person people are uncomfortable with.
Do you unironically have autism?
I find the airburst rpg so confusing, you cant tell if the map will have shriekers, (unless they just start showing up for every mission), takes a fricklong to reload and doesnt do any better on ground troops
Isn't that supposed to be it's one saving feature
it's fake you morons
aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
JUST LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS FRICK AAHHHHHHHHHHHH
i don't see reddit exploding so i'm assuming it is fake
There goes its viability.
This is not real right? They can't be this moronic after all the other nerf fiasco leading up to this warbound.
Ah, who am I kidding its a fricking swedish developer.
Is that real? Literally what would be the point of using it if not for the ability to single target stunlock mediums? Back to the Breaker Incendiary until they nerf that too I guess.
source, or fake
Fake as frick.
ok I was just foolin around
but lol, isn't is sad that it's a believable situation?
>no good weapons
>rehashed armor effects
>meh emotes
So why should i pick up this warbond again ?
you have SC to spare and nothing else to waste your 250 medals on
He can't keep getting away with it
It's always a fricking bug with these gays. Fun is a bug.
see kids? baiting those guys up their ^^^ is that easy
What's the new booster?
"Motivational Shocks"
you recover faster after being slowed by bug spit, doesnt work on environmental hazards.
Reduces slowdown from bug spit and frostplant pollen.
>all these snow gear and snow camo weapons
>we took Heeth like 3 days ago so now we're stuck taking the swampy tropical planets
FFFFFFRICK
Orbital Gas Strike is now actually good.
The low CD orbitals are all underrated. My favorite is the airburst, absolutely devastating for bug breaches.
I find it's not personally, it's hits need to be spread out more in terms of time so it can actually have time to build up mobs in the breach.
LOWER your voice man, or they'll nerf it next
They don't nerf orbitals or eagles, only weapons.
They don't nerf orbitals because they haven't had a reason to yet. None of them are good enough
That didn't stop them from nerfing the crossbow or hmg
The hmg hasn't been nerfed.
it did a few days after it came out, fire rate was reduced
Ah...
wait was max rof even useable? That sounds miserable.
It was for going under a bile and going hipfire BRRRRRR
Point blank you could delete a lot of things. It was more for fun than an actual real tactic. But arrowhead doesn't want you to have fun, that's the only explanation for the slower max fire rate.
It had it's max RoF decreased which is pretty much an unasked nerf.
I can see them nerfing airstrike
This is kinda against their balancing idea of relying on strategems
I'm just saying I can see it, by making it more random/inaccurate, also by making the +1 Eagle Use and +1 Eagle Bomb exclude Airstrike
Their idea already fricking sucks.
Why? It feels good and is entirely reliant on the user as to how effective it is and it's an early unlock for newbies.
OP vs bot fabs maybe but only if you're well into the learning curve and you've started aiming the angle of the strike to hit multiple things.
You kinda answered your own question, it's good against almost everything and it definitely carries in most loadouts
I think there's definitely a learning curve with it but it's definitely the most versatile, and that's probably enough for it to get nerfed
SOMETHING is going to be the most versatile thing. If they nerf it, people will find another general use workhorse to bring to missions because you have to have something that destroys heavy armor and encampments. It doesn't 1HK0 titans/striders unless you luck out and every single one hits (and even then, it's iffy) and it isn't even guaranteed to take out chargers and hulks. It's fine how it is now.
I agree but think about it, no other orbital/eagle is as fast, reliable, both pinpoint and generous and can kill virtually everything
The guy I was originally responding to asked a hypothetical, and given Arrowheads track record, Eagle Airstrike is the most likely candidate for a nerf because it's good at everything and doesn't have any real faults
I'd rather airstrike not get nerfed, and instead, more demolition force be given to Strafing Run and Orbital Gatling Barrage, as they are, you have to be incredibly lucky for 2 of the shots to line up and close a fabricator/bug hole
I also want Precision Strike Orbital to have it's base cooldown lowered to 70 seconds, it should be comparative to the EAT.
I don't use it unless I'm on bots or blitz honestly, it fricks up my 500kg reloads.
>Deploy HMG turrets
>Start killing enemies
>Teammates immediately stand in front of me and block LOS
>Also throw every possible stratagem out even though I have shit under control
>Only watch the same direction I am and then die from the bugs coming from the other directions
Ahhh frick off and let me shoot things
I can't unlock helldive difficulty. Each D8 operation has a mission that's absolutely grueling solo, such as the "kill waves of terminids" or escorting civilians, and grouping with others has gotten me disconnected randomly, finding groups that disband after 2 missions, or just now I got kicked to make room for the host's friend. It hurts bros.
Host. Host your games.
I've been throwing SOS beacons but haven't had any luck with pubs. Had one join earlier today but he died like eight times and left, haha. Didn't get any others.
Sit on your ship for a bit, make sure to choose a well player populated planet. If you get literally n one, hop into your helldiver pod. If you still get no one, restart the game.
I host all my games, it's just so much better.
Gotcha, so people can join before you start a mission? I've never had anyone join during the mission prep stage, which is why I usually join other games to find other people.
>Gotcha, so people can join before you start a mission?
As soon are you start an operation and pick the 1st mission, it should throw you into the quick join and normal join pool.
It's true sometimes you are waiting a bit, but yeah, usually a restart fixes that. When you are a stable host, you actually have a chance to get people who will hang for entire missions and maybe even a whole op.
Thanks, I'll give it another go. I don't think people play on D8 as much as they do D7 or D9, that may have been my problem.
Yeah I usually bum around on 7 for reference. Been meaning to move up for a while but been lazy, since I complete every single op always now, even the absolute shit shows without people dropping out constantly.
shut the frick up, joiner
Just find one with a blitz mission instead of an eradicate.
we're not gonna make it bros
I think we are expected to lose this one, its so we get the next big baddie for the bugs.
>New warbond is released
>Lose an easy grip of medals because community is morons
Such is the life of the Helldiver
This was a filler order anyway. The big one where we attack meridia starts tomorrow
there is an internal progress multiplier they use for major orders, when at the half day mark, they will probably make it so each completed mission does 10 times as much progress, how do you think we get almost all major orders done even when its apparent that we wont
My gut hurts when I sit, legit medical condition
what is the best gaming laptop I can buy for HD2 that lets me play it at my standing desk
Where's the continuous beam fire mode for my arc thrower, Pilestedt?
Laser cannon
Not cool enough.
>> throw incendiary grenade on the ground in front of bug swarm/breach
>> they walk into the fire
>> use pummeler to stagger them inside the fire
>> all the bugs get grilled without ever coming close
>> put a gas strike on the bug breach for good measure too
yep, the pummeler is based
it even staggers chargers in the butt
i like 8 the most. what about you, Ganker?
5 to warm up, 7 after the first operation, 9 if I'm feeling frisky.
I unironically prefer 7 to 5. 5 is just aids tier spawns for some reason, you get a set amount of spawns per patrol or breach and each unit has a cost, but at 5 it's mostly into shitter things like spewers and hunters, at 7 you get more titans and bile spewers which are ironically less of a threat to me and while yes they get more spawns, it actually is less shitter spawns because of how it calculates the spawns.
One op of 7 is usually a good day for me. But I'll be doing some 8/9 more often going forward.
7 but I've been reading 7 & 8 are indistinguishable so maybe I'll step it up to 8 with my friends plus it gives us more samples.
I always do 8.
I played up to 7 and decided to stay there. Its nice, not too hard or too easy.
4. I have 9 unlocked but even 7 is too scary for me a lot of the time. I don't wanna have to try too hard, I just wanna have a nice walk in the park while stepping on bugs.
I can't play below 6 I get complacent and start doing stupid shit like jumping to my death off cliffs
makes you wonder what goes through their head when they're diving off cliffs and holding live grenades until they explode (then do it again because they had explosive resist armor)
Same. I do like helldives but I am so fricking fed up with morons that either kick me for no fricking reasons in the middle of a match or just bail out of a dive out of nowhere when I am hosting one.
I wish I had a friendgroup with whom to dive, I hate randos so fricking much especially on helldives. On lower difficulties, even just one level lower the flaky fricks are much rarer.
Most people that bail during hosting are crashes and disconnects.
It's very rarely people leaving unfortunately, but sometimes they do so it compounds.
This game is unstable in game and on network.
THIS IS WHY YOU ADD GOOD PLAYERS, or add them. I play with 3 japs and shrek 9 trivially.
Yeah, I know that it can be due to network issues as well as it has happened to me as well. It is also way rarer in my experience on lower difficulties tho. Might be that the amount of shit that goes on in helldives makes crashes and network issues more likely.
Well anyone under d5 is going to be a shitter tbh. The lower the difficulty the higher the quality of shitter in terms of fricking your game up.
Yes, arrowhead ruined solo though, which compounds the issue honestly.
Except d3, I see a lot of high tiers farming sc and newbies.
I'm sick of losing, or having to sweat, in 9, so I just play on 7 now. I don't care if I unlock stuff slower, the devs are too shit at balancing and designing the higher challenges to warrant playing on 9. Especially since I only play with two other dudes, and we never seem to pull in a 4th these days even with the SOS.
7 is an enjoyable challenge for me, for the first month 9 was my preffered but for awhile now diff 9 seems like a dice roll on if the game will decide to spawn 6 bile spewers 8 chargers and 3 bug breaches on you for shits and if you are waiting on cooldowns you might as well die
after just playing diff 9 bugs for the past month, this shit isnt even that hard, just dont be stupid, i need atleast 2 more difficulty tiers
7 because it isn't pure armour shitspam
8 for when I wanna abe reminded how badly designed difficulty is
9 when I have to pretend to be tough with my friends around
7 was my comfort zone but it's been invaded by low level noobs lately. I've gone back to 9 to be around people nearer to my skill level. People on 9 actually bring enough things to kill all of the heavies and titans and they know how to deal with any situation.
9 is pretty easy, most teammate i have still bring quasars and just go 3 strategems
I mostly do 3 strategems and airburst though, sometimes eat
bots are 7 regardless
With my (competent) friends, yes. 8 is perfect.
Solo: 7 if I'm super sample hunting, 5 if I just want to have fun.
9 is annoying sweaty mode. I do it when one of my friends demands to experience it, but they've always stopped asking for it after slogging through one operation.
It's more fun on 8 when we can realistically complete all the map objectives, don't get stuck in reinforcement loops if we don't run away all the time, and get a nice 5-star rating at the end all without sweating all over the keyboard. 8 is perfect (with friends).
with my shit ass luck i don't go beyond 5/6
when i play with randoms i'm the only one doing the objective all the others just aggro for no reason, when i play with friends they ensist on going 7 and i get all hordes of bugs on my ass despite going stealth everyone and when i manage to get to the objective i realize i'm alone and the others are lagging behind aggroing mindless patrols
i'm tired of the shit so yeah, that difficulty is good enough for me
better than my friend who refuses to do the actual objectives before any side missions.
We have failed so many fricking missions because his loot goblin ass will not fricking go to the primary objective first, and he wastes the entire timer doing the side ones. He also outright refuses to call the extract "early" (two to five minutes left) because he wants to spend every possible second searching for stuff. Insisting on literally letting the timer run out each mission, for the auto extract call, just to potentially get more samples.
And then the moron always ends up dying on the return trip anyway, with me being the only one managing to extract.
It's bad enough that I think I'm gonna outright refuse to play with him, next time, unless he agrees to clear the main shit out first. It genuinely sometimes gets me to screaming mad tier, when he's trying to get to the Pelican, only to panic because there's no stratagems or reinforcemennts.
Completing the primary objectives increases patrol spawn rate by 4x.
Completing side (blue) objectives doesn't do anything to spawn rates.
Blowing up all outposts linearly increases patrol spawn rate after half of them are destroyed, but only up to ~15% more which isn't noticeable.
Being near an active medium or heavy outpost will increase the patrol spawn rate in a wide area around them, so it's generally a good idea to blow them up unless they're far out of the way.
I'm assuming your friend isn't autistic and instead knew all this but didn't bother explaining.
Okay, I didn't know that.
Why is he justified when we're only starting the very first main objective with about 7 minutes on the clock (the 40 minute missions), in half of the missions I've played with him recently.
If you have 7 minutes left then yeah, he's being a c**t. At that point you should just complete the primaries and evac.
You can also complete multi-stage primary objectives right up to the last stage without triggering the increase, i.e. stopping at 18/20 civilians evacuated, destroying all but one egg cluster objective, or stopping right at the "launch nuke" button on ICBM missions. The 4x increase in patrol spawns only happens the instant you complete the last primary objective.
I'll keep that in mind. it sounds like it'll come in handy to delay the spawn increases until 3 of the 4 are at the evac
yeah no he just fixates entirely on the side objectives. He's straight up a fricking butthole who doesn't even care if we fail the mission, as long as he gets the samples, but won't bother power grinding outside of when the group plays to get the last chunks he needs. I'll keep that point about nests being relatively worthless in mind, sounds like it'll save us time in the future.
That's a bit late, it's still good to get the subobjectives for the main objective along the way even if they mildly increase spawns.
I split off from the group to get some side objectives done while the main group handles the main objectives.
Usually I'm done with most of the map by 25mins still to go. If he's hunting for POIs for SC then he needs to go to lower difficulty levels like 7 where he can frick around a bit more since he's cutting it close.
Egg missions are longer than others if you're with pubbies, so that realistically should have 1 or 2 done well before the end.
Only bother doing nest clears when they're near something you want to do like an objective, or you need common and rare samples, they only give you frick all EXP and Req otherwise, and imo not worth doing.
After you do the objectives, the spawn rate of the mobs and patrols increases FOUR times.
He's right to leave them till last.
is the games weapon balance really bad or is the playerbase full of people who shit their pants at any change
It's poor, there is quite a few options for any given type of mission or faction, but everything feels kind of underwhelming with a few exceptions that are staples everyone uses.
I dont really know, but all that nerf talk makes me want to try out all guns I have and see for myself
Yes and yes.
There are plenty of good weapons and weapons frequently get buffed to being good, but people don't like their stuff being touched obviously so that gets discussed way more.
There are also 100% completely moronic nerfs thrown in for a few weapons that made them trash.
the later, there are a ton of weapons and stratagems that are completely viable provided you know which ones to mix and match.
there's not really a hard decision of "should I use X or Y?" there's a handful of OK guns and the rest are literally unusable trash.
the worst part is a gun can jump from either category dramatically in one hotfix, so no point getting used to or picking a favorite gun
looks like we'll need all hands on deck to win this one.
Give me loadouts for bugs, haven't played them in a while.
Blitzer, your choice of heavy AT
Punisher, your choice of heavy AT
Napalm is good now, gas orbital good now
Quasar or EATS
500kg probably.
laser dog or machinegun dog
Punisher, grenade pistol, impact grenades, grenade armor, recoilless rifle, eagle airstrike, 500kg, and orbital gas strike (use on breaches).
500/Orbital Railcannon/Orbital Airburst/EATs/
They gotta see that usgae stats for weapons like the marksman rifles are in the thousandths of a percent right?
Why the frick arent they buffing them to actually not be total ass, but knowing the devs now theyll turn each on into a armor shredding ez mode weapon before again nerfing them to a state weaker than they were
>Why the frick arent they buffing them
They have been. Try them vs. bots, they were never good vs. bugs.
fire eagle strike feels so good to use now
I'll give it a shot, it still destroys bug holes and fabricators, right?
throw it on breaches or anywhere where bugs are going. It doesn't cause explosion damage to take out holes/fabs
Ive not tried it against bots so far though so be warned
If that's the case, I'd rather stick with the airstrike and gas orbital.
it destroys bug holes and fabs, yeah
Oh sick, I'll replace the airstrike with it then. I've really come to appreciate how good lingering damage fields are in this game.
I can't stop using the flamethrower even though I usually kill myself or a teammate whenever I use it
Understandable
>tfw no flame resist armor
>Stagger
I want to kill the enemy not tickle them
I haven't played helldivers 2 proper in a month but are the nerfs that bad it makes the warbonds not worth it? I never faced any difficulty issue but it's probably because I mostly play Difficulty 4-7.
Steel veterans and cutting edge are still really good, Democratic detonation has one good thing in it now which is the grenade pistol, and the new war bond offers nothing new besides arguably the booster, which is whatever.
Low-Mid Difficulties are trivial and I usually use whatever weapon that feels fun to me at the moment such as feel and what it does. I don't care for higher difficulty because it really boils down to rushing to the objectives and do as much side objectifies as possible and gtfo.
Okay. That doesn't change my take on war bonds.
DD used to have two good guns but they nerfed both so now it only has the cool devastator armor set and the grenade pistol
supposedly one of the guns is bugged and they'll fix and buff or whatever but it was a fan favorite and everyone is pissed (including me)
don't know if anyone's pointed it out before but one quasar and one thermite will kill a hulk
pretty sure same applies for bile titans
>decode to drop into 8
>everyone's dead, 5 titans 5 chargers and dozens of hunters and other mobs
Ah, right, forgot that 8 just spawns more of everything despite how limited your anti armor options are. Back to 7.
Bro your recoilless? Your autocannon Sentry? Your quasar? Your spear? Your 500kg? Your thermite? Your team?
>5 titans 5 chargers and dozens of hunters and other mobs
Not a problem. I've extracted with worse. Every helldiver should have two stratagems dedicated to killing heavies and something for thinning out the chaff.
So with the dot bug fixed, is the thermite good? does it do something?
Thermite isn't affected at all, still piss poor pick
It still sucks unholy ass. No idea what the devs were going for.
Two on a charger's head should kill it.
>it sucks
>kills a charger with 2 grenades
That doesn't sound like it sucks.
>should
>join game
>play objectives
>get teamkilled on purpose
>kicked instantly for calling other player “pussy”
>join new game
>die
>one other player in squad
>takes everything I dropped
>doesn’t drop reinforcements
>leave after watching him bumble around a nest hitting every single exploding caustic bulb
I’m pretty new to this game, so is this just how it goes sometimes, or what?
In very low levels? Yeah. They don't know how to play the game yet. The game forces you to git gud or go home at higher difficulties.
Turn off crossplay
Are people able to turn off text chat in game or am I just getting ignored. I’ve had multiple games where theres dude with mics playinf but they ever respond or even seem to acknowledge text chat
>Join game
>Everyone is fricking blowing through the reinforcment budget because one butthole keeps detonating hell bombs he finds
>Melee him once as a warning
>He does it again
>I respawn
>Ragdoll him with a melee from my senator
>Crouch over his head, execute him like a dog
>He stopped after
I got shot point blank in the head and robbed of all my shit for literally no reason. No bugs around, literally just shut off the propaganda tower.
Yea ive had this happen to me
The butthole executed me for trying to call extraction when everyone was there, thankfully i shot him in the pelican and he lost all his shit before kicking me
(I knew he was gonna kick me on extract anyway)
>at extract on Diff 7 Bot mission
>nothing happening for three minutes
>playfully melee teammate then immediately stim him as he stands up
>he guns me down on the spot
>when I get called in he tries to shoot me again
>pelican arrives
>manage to avoid him killing me and we both get on the pelican
>kicked by host as it lifts off
And that was the last time I joined a game instead of hosting.
If you get a shitter do this, temporarily (or permanently) add them to your block list and even if they're host they get kicked from the match. Fair warning it can bug missions which have call in items if they've been called down like geo prospector so wait till interactable items are finished.
I played in bots where the lower difficulties have slightly more competent players and max payneing around is a viable strategy
HOLY SHIT AN ILLUMINATE JUST FLEW OVER MY SUPER DESTROYER
The AT sentry is underated, if im near a flat area I'll often throw one near the edge and it will literally kill literally everything by itself, you just have to make sure it's given the range.
On those defense missions with 4+ bile titans if you hide one round a corner, elevated and on the left so it doesn't get wasted on chaff it absolutely shreds every bile titan that comes into view while I was hitting a new bile titan with RR every 4s.
I always wanted to see what 4x AT turret could do on those d9 missions, placed correctly so they don't waste bullets on chaff for course.
Even on d9 with 4 people, if you get two people to place them a fair distance away from a breach with a good field of fire, clear out some chaff so they dont waste bullets, they will kill the entire breach.
Running 4 sentries is completely viable on difficulty 9. I do it all the time.
Which one?
Is there a comparison video? 5 capacity looks pretty bad.
neither, they both suck in reality
>eruptor got nerfed hard
>purifier already comes pre-nerfed
I'm just going back to my scorcher loadout.
Is it really that hard to cache jpg previews on people's computers?
This shit doesn't load for me.
>hosting game on Marfark (snowy mountain planet) Diff 7
>cool guy rando helps do objectives and beelines straight to Secret Bunkers all over the map
>third guy joins and just pals around with us helping where he can
>suddenly fourth guy joins
>he stands on top of a hill we already cleared for ten whole minutes by himself shooting random patrols
>tell him over mic we're on the last objective on the map he should get to extract
>he doesn't budge
>climb up the hill and warn him one last time
>no response, nor movement indicating he's gonna go
>melee him once so he flies off the hill to the bottom
>start climbing down towards him
>he stands up and magdumps me in the head to death
Easiest kick of my life.
how the frick do people play solo bugs
this is so fricking frustrating its unreal
What does even
| HEAT
and
| ROUNDS RELOAD
mean?
Why don't the game explain these things?
heat = it has a heating up mechanic where the weapon will eventually need to cool down from sustained fire.
rounds reload = reloading instead of by mag is by round. Like a shogun.
thank you friend
9 is annoying. Like yeah I can beat it but I won't have fun, it's just nonstop chargers and titans.
man the eruptor is fricking worthless now
We understand how it may feel like someone took your favorite toy away from you, but rest assured 40 damage all the time is better than 100 damage some of the time
So the gun is still viable
>t. alexus
Takes 5 seconds to reload, heavy as frick so it's slow to aim, and you can't crowd clear anymore. It's easily the worst DMR now.
And that's the problem with balancing based on spreadsheets and not gameplay, they just look at damage numbers
But that's only part of the story, they need to look at how a gun changes dynamics on the field
Like the breaker railgun combo was good because how they synergized
Removing the railgun meant the breaker wasn't the best option to run at all times anymore
The quasar having 1.5 fewer shots per minute might not seem like much
But that's 5 fewer AT shots during a long extraction
That's the difference between extracting or not wheh your other strats have been spent
>wow I can't kill entire waves of enemies, one shot medium armor enemies, AND destroy bug holes with this gun!
yeah, now it cant do anything at all and will be universally dropped and never used by anyone again, cool update.
>has the heaviest weapon handling rating in the game
>shot will ricochet and fly off to nowhere if striking any surface lower than 30 degrees
>has 5 shots per mag
>lowest ROF by far of any primary
>will kill or ragdoll you if fired at close range
>long reload
>S tier
Cutting edge
>A tier
Steel Vets
>B tier
None
>C tier
Polar (so far)
>D tier
None
>Shit tier
DD
I'd argue DD is D-tier purely because of how much Grenade pistol carries due to how useful it is. Plus the adjudicator isn't really all too shit anymore. It's okay now if you want a medium-pen liberator that's not shit.
>boot up Helldivers 2 for the first time in a couple weeks
>collect and spend 250 medals from completed orders
>quit
Easy game.
>host refuses to extract on 7 despite being swarmed by bots and out of reinforcements with all objectives completed
>kicks anyone who tries to extract
>game just crashes on start up for me now
bravo arrowhead
hey you know that gun that shoots rocket-propelled shrapnel
what if we took away the shrapnel
as a joke
haha
>scorcher
>grenade pistol
>HE
>med armor
>orbital rail cannon
>cluster strike
>laser rover
>flamethrower
Bugs fear me. Eagle girl wants me. 2 billion genocide? All me. This is the best set up in the game for bugs and if you think otherwise you are objectively wrong.
Just trusting your friends to handle any heavies?
Both kinds of spewers die from scorcher
Chargers die from flamethrower
To kill bile titan blow up both bellies with scorcher then orbital railcannon, it's a guaranteed kill. If you don't have railcannon just run underneath and use flamethrower, but the squad will usually have at least something to throw at bile titan. If there is nothing at all - just blow up their bellies and kite them indefinitely - they can't puke and walk slower.
They wall faster with bellies gone lmao, better off letting them spew and rape all the other enemies behind you with goop.
Shooting out the bellies is a dumb strat unless you have high ground and they can't reach you.
>Wall
They walk faster. Bile spewers with the weight of the goo gone walk faster so they can melee, their attacks are also more likely to be dangerous, how often has one actually got you with the bile? Never?
they really should make them slowed after you destroy the sacks, it's gay just running forever because you forgot to bring railgun-strike and you got separated from your team.
it's not even challenging, just annoying.
Just 500kg them and finish them with tickle damage if they survived, or 2 shots to the head with a RR eat or phaser, they're the easiest things to kill.
110mm eagle also hurts them and can kill in one or two passes, but not reliably and sometimes takes three, usually 2.
If you're good with hitting it directly with Eagle airstrike that can work too.
They also die pretty quick to the AT gun sentry if you give them the space and take aggro.
500kg has a smaller kill radius than you think, you can get remarkably close to it as long as you dive, so you can relatively safely bait the bile titan into an animation or turn as the 500kg drops right in front of your face (5-10meters idk how the scale works) and you dive away.
Your even safe 1-2 meters away as long as you're behind a tiny body height sized rock lying down, to be fair so is the bile titan, so try drop 500kgs on flatish ground with little clutter.
Lastly you can kill them with the AC, apparently you shoot the mouth 7 times but I wouldn't know I don't take AC on bugs.
I've even finished them with impact grenades and flamethrowers after a 500kg tbh.
>Eagle nugget wants me
Reported your traitorous homosexual ass to the democracy officer for spreading misinformation. Good luck at reeducation.
>everyone b***hing over whether or not we cut eagle1s legs off
>first upgrade is flood the wienerpit with liquid, so you know the radio comms aren't her really speaking
It's also the same voice despite it being hundreds of different ships.
The whole point is it's a war full of charades for the cannon fodder.
she isn't real she is an ai the controls the plane. We are just clones grown in vats
>clones
No you're unironically just signed up cannon fodder according to the lore.
>We are just clones grown in vats
source
a funny squid man told me
>spacefaring society can't possibly install a liquid sealed communications system in a wienerpit of their premier workhorse bomber aerial vehicle
All these theories either presume Super Earth has shitty tech or tech so advanced it's almost Type 3 civilization magic bullshit.
>Verification not required
https://hd2random.com/
Show me what you are going to run with on Hell Dive difficulty homosexuals
>Orbital 380MM HE Barrage
>MD-6 Anti-Personnel Minefield
>FX-12 Shield Generator Relay
>A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentry
>AR23P-Liberator PEN
>P-2 Peacemaker
>Randomiser
>SH-20 Ballistic Shield Backpack
>Eagle 500kg Bomb
>Eagle 110MM Rocket Pods
>MG-43 Machine Gun
Eh I can make it work on bots.
Would need to juggle the shield with the machine gun to get it to not drop the MG but it's actually not bad. 110mm rocketpods are my least favorite though, I can manually aim better than she can.
>game ran like shit for me ever since release
>then one patch a couple weeks ago I was consistently getting an extra 20-30 FPS on planet
>now it's back to running like shit again
I HATE SWEDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried cooking a charger, front, back, legs, everywhere, with the flamethrower and it took almost an entire canister to kill it. DOT didn't do jack shit either. Total meme, I eventually wise up and just grabbed an EAT and oneshotted it.
You target a single leg and it dies fast, if you spray all over you are just spreading the damage out.
Flamethrowers has been able to cook charger for months now.
you're supposed to stun it and then focus on a single front leg, it takes me about 2-3 seconds to kill one that way
>Stun it
Kek, I don't even bother.
Just scream
OLE and target a leg as it turns around.
See, last thread you guys told me to cook the ass while it's charging for max damage. No one knows what the frick to do.
no one has ever said that ever lol, it's well known the ass has always been a noob trap.
I'm not gonna argue or find the thread where someone told me to cook the ass, whatever. I'm still running flamethrower anyway because I want to enjoy it before they nerf fire back into the ground.
yeah im not asking you to go find the post where some moron trolled you, the flamer is great and is in a really weird spot as a heavy killer but cant push back chaff so it's actually a worse choice for small things.
Charger ass is only an option with explosive damage, which unlike every other damage type deals 100% damage to it.
5 ass shots from an autocannon or 2-3 direct impact grenade hits will blow its ass off, either killing it outright or making it bleed out in a few seconds. 2 autocannon shots to the back legs after it misses a charge will also kill it, but the vulnerability frames for the back legs are wonky as frick so I just play it safe and blast the ass off each time.
>See, last thread you guys told me to cook the ass while it's charging for max damage.
No. If anyone said that it was one guy trollling you so that's your problem.
I have had like zero success with the flamehtowers, is the bile titan just ignoring you? He's go one shot kill melee.
He can only one shot you if you're standing in front of him or if you're right next to his legs. Once you're under him you're safe.
Hmmm. Guess I'll have to give it a try.
The melee is super easy to bait by running under him or just diving away.
The only real risk is the titan turning around and hitting you with the legs while under him.
So get out from under them quick and its no issue.
if you aim at the front leg you can kill it in less than half a tank, if this didn't happen for you - you were missing.
if you cant kill a charger now then you never will when they nerf the flamethrower
>Every set in the new warbond is either heavy or light
Sorry, not taking off Light Gunner/Steel Trooper
Gas Strike is still shit. Doesn't kill anything.
kills me just fine
Skill issue.
Gay ass game for normgroid morons.
Dude I hate this fricking game, they've sucked ALL of the fun out of it. Literally nothing that isn't Quasar cannon + airstrikes is viable anymore because of the moronation of these shithead devs
Oh and to make things worse every fricking planet has some moronic fricking modifier that makes it even less fun. I cn stand fire tornadoes and shit, but the number of planets with Atmospheric interference is unbearable, how the frick am I supposed to kill the bile titan conga line if I can't use precision strike or 500KG reliably?
My friend was seriously trying to tell me it's just designed like Armored Core, where you gotta bring the right gear for each mission.
He had no answer when I asked him why there's so many weapons which are straight up inferior versions of existing ones, like the newest AR in the warbond, or how they flat out removed the unique feature of the eruptor, or how shit like the Spear and Airburst straight up just don't fricking work.
Also said anyone complaining about the nerfs needs to git gud cause he can still beat diff 9, and they're irrelevant.
And then he said the people whining online aren't the majority, despite literally every other place that discusses this game having the exact same sentiment Ganker does right now on it.
Seriously, go check the steam forums, reddit, twitter, and youtube comments, every single place hates the way this shit is going, myself and our other friend included, but this butthole's only response is
>yeah but I'm good at the game, and like it as it is, so AH should do whatever they want to
Only thing that got him to shut up was pointing out I've spent a good 100+ more dollars on the game than he has (40 and not a cent more), and if we're getting down in the weeds my opinion objectively has more weight because I paid Arrowhead more.
You guys weren't lying about how good the gas orbital is. It's like a little HE barrage with a 65s cooldown. Just took it into a D8 and rocked 20-40 kills every time I used it on a bug breach. Only criticism is that it can be a little inaccurate, I've seen it come down and land away from the strategem be 15m or so.
It didn't work until last patch because of DOT bug
>Only criticism is that it can be a little inaccurate, I've seen it come down and land away from the strategem be 15m or so.
Don't run in with atmospheric interference mission modifier
Ahhhh, that must be it, thanks. Disregard that part of the critique then. I love that strategem so much.
>introduce friend to this game
>he says the "DDR mini game is annoying and I can't move while doing it" so he doesn't use stratagems except for whatever support weapon he's bringing and reinforcements
>tell him it's easier and better to rebind them to the arrow keys so he can move and enter them in
>"thanks for the advice"
>doesn't do it
>we fold to anything at D6 or higher because he'll only use his primary + support weapon
I hate autistic people so much.
>rebind them to the arrow keys so he can move and enter them in
wtf you can do that? why is that not default?
That's why drones and turrets exist, exactly for those players
don't lump him in with autistic people. I'm a severe sperg and I was in the exact same situation you are, but I think my teammates eventually rebound to the arrow keys
Arrowhead are like the GTFO devs. They don't like that people are good at their game, and want you to continually eat shit on the higher diffs.
These are the same morons who say "we want you to rely on stratagems more than your primaries" forgetting that every stratagem has a fricking cooldown long enough to get you got.
what's your armor, primary, secondary, and grenade for each of these?
I've wanted general panacea builds for both factions, for a while now
I've narrowed down my loadouts to one all rounder for each faction, if I'm going to play with pubs with no knowledge of what the other mooks are bringing or willing to coordinate around.
Bots
>autocannon
>orbital precision strike
>eagle airstrike
>orbital 380mm barrage
Bugs
>recoilless rifle
>orbital gas strike
>eagle 500kg
>eagle napalm strike
Boring AF but it feels nerfproof. The precision strike is seriously so good on bots but I never see anyone use it. Fricks striders, tanks, towers, fabricators, you name it, and a 90s cooldown to boot.
The 110 is more idiot proof and does more or less the same thing while being an eagle. Precision strike is nice but if they move or it bounces it is useless.
I don't like to invest too many of my stratagems into being eagles, because I don't want to be hung out to dry when shit hits the fan. The only reason I run two with bugs is because the orbital gas strike has an extremely short timer of 75 seconds, which is even lower with the orbital cooldown ship module.
For bugs, I run the punisher, grenade pistol, impact grenades, and medium engineering kit armor. For robots, I run the dominator, redeemer (soon to be replaced by the new deagle sidearm), stun grenades, and either medium armor with the explosive damage +recoil reduction or heavy armor with servo-assisted to throw my precision strike further.
and these loadouts are good on diff 9?
I've only completed 3-4 D9 operations but I play on D8 every night. D9 is just hard to do with pubs IMO but I have pulled through with them without feeling like I was carried through it. I always have SOMETHING online that can hit heavy armor targets and that's the most important thing to have on D7-9.
Oh, and to add to
, I only use the precision strike on stationary or very slow targets. It's like a railcannon strike but with less than half the cooldown time.
I'm a controller chad and always have the lowest deaths and highest kills
And yep, I DON'T crossplay with Piss5 players.
>using the incendiary breaker
>doing fine, horde clears fine
>keep accidentally lighting friend's ass on fire
>try out the spraynpray, to stop lighting him up
>eat shit
back on the ship
>stats: half the amount of kills, if any, but more shots fired and higher accuracy % than incendiary
>look at the numbers
I thought the incendiary breaker's higher damage was because they were including the fire DoT in the damage stat.
Does this piece of shit seriously just do a flat x2 more damage than the regular spraynpray?
Why is the vanilla one even in the game? It can't horde clear for shit