HELLDIVERS 2

>my only issue is heavies like hulks and tanks, or when shit gets upclose
>hulks
EMS
70 second cooldown and will stun anything that enters the radius. Fire your laser into the visor and win
>tanks
Eagle airstrike or orbital precision strike both kill tanks and bot fabricators easily.

Your one size fits all option would be taking the EAT and dropping them everywhere on cooldown.
I like the scorcher vs bots but you might not have that yet.

Breaker
500kg bomb
380mm barrage (often wipes out whole bases by itself)
Mortar turret
Recoilless rifle to take out dropships, heavies, or destructible objectives

Autocannon, it's literally a crutch vs bots. 90% of everything dies to just shooting the big red thing and this works on everything up to tanks (in which case you just call in your laser)

Scythe + lasercannon unironically.
Use Lascannon as your primary and switch to scythe whenever the cannon needs cooling. By the time the Scythe is too hot, the cannon has cooled off again.
It's great after the buffs and rewards good and steady aim. You can laser tanks, turret towers and hulks from a mile away.

That's basically how EMS works. Bugs/bots get stunned trying to enter it.

>Me watching people b***h about the railgun nerf while I never use it.
I love my anti-material rifle, and flamethrower too much.

In a pve game. With nine difficulty settings. And its objectively the lamest weapon you can choose

yeah, but i'd start my own and complete all missions in the set

>all three people on the destroyer are black and have no hair
What exactly did Arrowhead mean by this?

i'm doing hard missions with friends that are sub-level 10, never particularly great at shooters and bringing shit like the gas strike and minefield. metagays are totally paralyzed at the thought of leaving their comfort zone

>loses
>"this isn't a matter of "git gud"
git gud

>My buddies and I our in our 30s
What is the point of this detail?

Reminder this is the generation that started the "no child Left behind" policy.
They want to be carried to the most difficult level, not because it's fun or because they've earned it, but because it's clout. They want the satisfaction of being in the top difficulty to feel accomplished.
They could always go down a level where they can play for fun, but it doesn't stroke their ego if they see it's just medium difficulty.

Millennials are so pathetic

And also remember: they did the same thing to Helldivers 1 when they noticed people stacking strategems: nerfed the whole thing because the harder difficulties were supposed to be living out their liveleak fantasies of "watch american soldiers get killed in stupid ways in not-afghanistan" fetish. Being a swede is being a natural born cuck

I like that it's a parody of American "culture" because it really points out the scourge of israeli beuracrats and NGOs that are a plague on an international stage. Even though they call it fascism, our current regime is really a communist shitscape so I find it satisfyingly ironic because the fascism hasn't even begun yet. But it will.

i used it the first week when it was available for everyone and i loved it

I used it vs bots but didn't like it vs bugs. It's still good vs bots.

Used it once on my very first mission when I found one in a crate and once after unlocking it. I never understood why people liked it. EAT feels way better, arc thrower is godlike and now with the patch the laser cannon is top tier vs bots. Having one rail gun on a team as the support weapon makes sense but add clear is so much more important that heavy control. People b***h and moan about not having enough strategems to clear heavies but if you kill all the little guys who summon the endless drops then you never need that firepower.

Also EAT supremacy.

>Wolf brigade helmets
Damn, I need it.

Maybe they learned how to play the game and realized the devs were right.

the devs ARE the casuals
they never played above difficulty 4

The Internet is serious business

Black person.

Sweet baby threads have been getting moved to /misc/ and when they do you can see all the homosexual shill posts come from one guy posting

Railgun users got really really mad at the devs, people thought they had to defend the devs because it's stupid to be mad over guns, now people are mad at the second guys for defending the devs. It's just looping back on itself

AMR is good for bots and the devs are right for shitting on railgun normies.

>have to use a backpack
No thanks, I like my super jetpack jumps.

It's goat versus bots, it's good but not goat for bugs.

>Bots: Primary threat is devastators, hulks, chainsawbotii
It shreks them all. Especially devastators.
>Bugs: Primary threat is charger/stalker/BT
Not as efficient, but it's great versus the shielded warriors.

IF I could get them to do one change it would be to make more weapons weaken armor but not destroy it. So autocannon spam would tear off charger armor but it'd take a mag or two whereas a purpose built weapon would be able to do so in one hit.

not only does it shit on bugs and bots alike, it can clear nests and factories with a single shot

please respond. is it still trash or is it actually okay to use?

Just play the game my Black person. You'll find them in decent numbers in the little salute pods scattered around the map, and in supply bunkers. Just make it a habit to hit as many of those as you can in a mission and you'll be sorted.

I don't care what the capacity is on it so long as it can punch through armor on fricking chargers. I hate those fat TermiBlack folk

We're all carrying primaries with tons of rounds perfectly suited to kill the horde of bugs. If your support weapons aren't good at killing heavies or at least elites you've wasted a slot.

Bring a supply pack? People already do that for the GL

>"It's supposed to be a meat grinder, not a power fantasy! You're SUPPOSED to lose!"

You realize that playing against bugs means that you're going to be running a lot right? They are all melee enemies.

No this is the correct attitude.
I might criticize if you NEVER try harder difficulties, just because challenge can be fun in its own way, but if the majority of your playtime is in a difficulty you find both fun and engaging its all good. Frick the guys saying you should only be playing on 7+. Thats WHY there are difficulties.

You know what's funny?
Completing an operation on trivial difficulty counts towards the liberation % the exact same amount as a helldive operation.

There's no reason to play on a difficulty you aren't comfortable with. I regularly flip between level 4 and level 9 simply based on how intense I want my ass raped

>5
6 is where it becomes respectable

What is l4d2? That ancient zombie fps? Yeah, theyre practically the same game, you must be albert einstein.

Did you play/enjoy DRG? If so you'll probably like this. I've been playing with randoms just fine. Some are better than I am
Some are potatoes
With 9 different difficulties you can easily find one that's your preference.

everyone loves seeing meta gays crying. if they didnt act like homosexuals they might get people to care

it's 3 hits at 80-99%
2 hits at 100% exactly
below 80% its 5+

so for all intents and purposes safe mode is just non-functional and shouldn't even be there, and the TTK is way longer because of the longer charge up time required even if you autistically hone in on the exact 0.21 seconds you have to release the trigger at 100% and not explode (which by the way there's no audio or visual indication you've hit 100% so it's just a best estimate regardless)

It doesn't matter if you thought the gun was too good, but if you refuse to acknowledge it was too heavy handed of a nerf then you're just being dishonest to win an argument

Unsafe isn't worth the squeeze. Takes too long to charge, especially against bots, and one mistake bricks you out of doing anything useful forever.

Arc Thrower's just better.

kek this reads just like when mechs first got introduced into fortnite. you kids just eat up slop

certain attacks will oneshot the mech sometimes they just pling off

The charger rush literally does no damage to the mechs, but their melee attack instant kills them. It feels weird because chargers have a tendency of animation cancelling the charge into an instant melee

Yes. 1 EAT or RR to the corner thrusters should kill it.

He hasn't gotten any exp for weeks now.

He was a hero.

they're a small dev team, enjoy the new premium pass while you wait and when the playerbase starts to die you'll be able to quickplay

That was before the patch when metashitters would kick you for not picking railgun. Now everyone just brings whatever.

>If I start my own operation I have to do it solo, no one joins.
the way i fix this is by running a quickplay to start, then starting my own lobby. The netcode in this game is fricking awful, but all the shitters in here who can't run helldive in quickplay will just tell you your internet is the issue.

Throw an SOS beacon and make sure you have it set to public and not friends only.

customization is basically this game's whole progression system, it's, like, the reason why people play the game

once they fix the game, and assuming they don't continue down their anti-fun patch philosophy, Helldivers 2 will be better than both.

Skilm issue.

>post is more than 2 lines long
>90% chance it's some moron copypasting reddit posts for attention
>skip post

>one meek lightning zap at a time
arc thrower kills chargers absurdly fast, what are you talking about? are you shooting it properly? you know you don't need to full charge after the first shit, right reddit-spacing anon?

>and a complete shame the devs seem to believe taking agency away from players is the way to balance their game, as opposed to making more options viable
I don't think you understand how difficulty works

I think there should be a tone when you spam space

skill issue

2 mechs, actually
the rockets are like 14 EATs you can rapid fire and the minigun has medium pen so it's good for everything except bile titans and chargers

2 mechs
the idea is that in using the mech, you won't be spending 40 minutes on a mission. if you're spending 40 minutes on a mission, you're either extremely bad at the game or playing in such a way that makes the mech less viable (ie, cleaning out the map for every sample, medal, super credit, optional obj, enemy outpost, etc.)

Stop playing on difficulty 3. All of those are trash tier now after they broke the game.

Set one up

When it works it's actually good!
>it never works when you need it to

Freedom. Liberty. Democracy.

moron hosts will still kick regardless. They don't want to actually try and want to be carried instead.

well name aside. no I don't think so anon. in my experience people kick because they want to play with friends but are too braindead to make a private lobby

Downside is you have to use a backpack, you blow yourself up in close range, can't punch through heavy armor. I like it a lot though.

Chargers (although they can deal with them it's just a bit more difficult than other weapons) and Bile Titans. Against robots though, no, it's the perfect weapon.

>I'll wait for the balance patch they said is coming that will make armored enemies less of a nuisance
Source? I literally don't believe you, devs are in full "us + our discord vs them" mentality, I genuinely doubt they'll ever balance anything well after this.

scroll to the bottom of the stratagems list

Just lore text

tells you when you die.

press q on enemy look at name

>now that's embarrassing
which part? that you're not already running helldive missions, or that you don't understand that at a certain point people need common/rare samples more than supers and would rather run fast low level missions to farm them than 20+ minute helldives?