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lol this grenade launcher is a menace https://i.imgur.com/3d4Wj3S.mp4
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So I dunno if it’s just because of the influx of new players but increasingly, compared to launch, there’s been players killing each other for the samples they have and seemingly thinking they aren’t shared. I’ve seen players get mad someone picked up their dropped samples after they’ve died or kill everyone at extract to take the samples they had and solo extract. I’ve even had hosts kick everyone on extract. Coupled with that is an increase of new players killing higher level player for their gear or stealing gear from drops no matter what it is. I had a new player rush over and take the reload pack for my recoiless rifle and not use it to reload me. When I pointed out I needed it, they told me they weren’t giving it up and to just call down another one  thinking I might stick only with playing friends and no longer chancing pubbie quick play
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Feb 23, 2024 12:20
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I like to tell new players they're not shared just to be mean
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Feb 23, 2024 12:23
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I often just grab people's stuff if it's there, in the situation where they're far away or I'm running for my life. I had someone grab my stuff while we were fleeing some swarm of baddies. They dropped my shield for me later but said they wanted to keep the railgun. I hadn't asked, so whatever. A lot of games end with a whole lot of drop markers all over the map anyway In the first game, I'd get annoyed and sometimes kill someone if they were dragging the screen away from my dropped stuff. But that's just unnecessary and rude
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Feb 23, 2024 12:30
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My first car was a stick
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the real question is are super credit pickups shared?? it's the only thing that doesn't show up with an amount picked up
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Feb 23, 2024 12:50
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What's the best thing to spend early samples on? I feel I'm getting them the slowest of any currency.
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Feb 23, 2024 12:50
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hell i mean i just picked up like 6 war medals on easy defense, so 10 in total with rewards
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Feb 23, 2024 12:51
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I've honestly had it the way around. I've had my support weapon or backpack come off cooldown so I drop a second one for my teammates, especially when they don't have anything equipped, only to find that they absolutely refuse to pick it up.
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Feb 23, 2024 12:52
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Mainwaring posted:What's the best thing to spend early samples on? I feel I'm getting them the slowest of any currency. the one that gives your crew meth also come to easy defense, especially the beach map, you'll be rich. my record is 14 common samples in 10 minutes
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Feb 23, 2024 12:53
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Booty Pageant posted:the real question is are super credit pickups shared?? it's the only thing that doesn't show up with an amount picked up Yes, they definitely are, I got 30 in my last mission and I didn't touch any of the piles myself
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Feb 23, 2024 12:54
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Fangz posted:I've honestly had it the way around. I've had my support weapon or backpack come off cooldown so I drop a second one for my teammates, especially when they don't have anything equipped, only to find that they absolutely refuse to pick it up. The only time someone has picked up one my support drops while I still have mine is if I ping it, which is how I try to signal "this poo poo is for anybody, go nuts."
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Dr. VooDoo posted:So I dunno if it’s just because of the influx of new players but increasingly, compared to launch, there’s been players killing each other for the samples they have and seemingly thinking they aren’t shared. I’ve seen players get mad someone picked up their dropped samples after they’ve died or kill everyone at extract to take the samples they had and solo extract. I’ve even had hosts kick everyone on extract. Are you playing on lower difficulties by chance? A common thread in coop games including this one is that higher difficulties ironically become somewhat easier because the chance of running into competent teammates is higher. DRG, tide, etc all of them have shitters that are "stuck" on the lower difficulties but play like they're hot poo poo and act like asses to newbies who the difficulty is meant for and wil rage out for the least. You go up to difficulties that are more punishing and people are a lot more chill
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Feb 23, 2024 13:02
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veni veni veni posted:I really like the bots but everyone I play with hates them. It's annoying playing bugs 80% of the time. the bugs are the best, but variety is so much better. We played suicide mission bots all night and I was having a blast while everyone else was complaining about it being too hard even though we completed every single mission just fine idgi. Highest I’ve played at this point is medium which for me and the people I’ve played with is pretty hard lol But it’s been hard in a very fun way. Chaotic, frustrating but cool. Oh here’s a thing from my games yesterday I didn’t love. During a long mission we had like 15-20 mins left and I moved toward a side mission that everyone missed to pick up some stuff if possible Everyone went to the evac and just started it lol. Idk give me a dang second lol It sucked because I was grabbing some stuff from those little dropship hatch things but I couldn’t pick it up because the timer started and I was pretty far But idk if they knew. I didn’t know about the extra missions until I played with someone on silent and I followed them and we just did them with no mic communication and it owned. Then we saluted each other at the end of it CelticPredator fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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The only time I've ever kicked anyone was a railgun shield guy who left me hanging for 40 consecutive seconds. He probably thought I wanted his lovely gear but I just wanted some goddamn human contact, Doug. If you don't rock and stone you ain't coming home.
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Feb 23, 2024 13:35
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I want the FFVII super-slow high five
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Give me two emote slots so I can still salute as the ICBM launches while also being able to hug my bros/do the 'come at me' pose at the bugs 
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Ugh had an annoying failure cascade last night on a 7. 3 of us got chased out of bounds and lost our gear, and had to fight at one point five Chargere at once. Really wish theyd just up their vulnerability to rear end damage. Got two of the awesome 500kg vs Bile Titan direct hits tho! Then server crashed lol
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Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:The only time I've ever kicked anyone was a railgun shield guy who left me hanging for 40 consecutive seconds. He probably thought I wanted his lovely gear but I just wanted some goddamn human contact, Doug. I was trying to give out hugs for the boys in a public game and one bro kept swooping in and taking them all. Kicked him. No hug hogs on my ship thank you.
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Feb 23, 2024 14:06
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Nothing hits quite like Malevelon Creek 8 when one powerful goon boards the pelican with 5 super uranium as you sacrifice yourself to a horde of robots for democracy.
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I've been thinking about dropping the 80 medals on the JAR-5 because it looks cool as hell but I'm struggling to think of a decent loadout to complement it. I kind of want to run it with a Stalwart so I've got trash clear and medium armour covered but then what do I do about heavy armour? I could take the railgun instead but that just fills the same niche as the JAR-5 but better.
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Feb 23, 2024 14:08
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:I've been thinking about dropping the 80 medals on the JAR-5 because it looks cool as hell but I'm struggling to think of a decent loadout to complement it. Nothing but huge explosions is what I use with it.
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Dominator is super fun to use, but yeah you need some trash clear. Honestly though, proactive cluster bomb use and +2 grenade armor with impacts can get the job done, so long as other people have some better trash clear.Dandywalken posted:Ugh had an annoying failure cascade last night on a 7. 3 of us got chased out of bounds and lost our gear, and had to fight at one point five Chargere at once. Really wish theyd just up their vulnerability to rear end damage. chargers have a massive vulnerability to helldiver pods, its fine!
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:I've been thinking about dropping the 80 medals on the JAR-5 because it looks cool as hell but I'm struggling to think of a decent loadout to complement it. The machine pistol sidearm is surprisingly effective at trash clearing, especially if you use it in tandem with some impact nades.
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Fishstick posted:The machine pistol sidearm is surprisingly effective at trash clearing, especially if you use it in tandem with some impact nades. Yep this is what I do. You can kill medium bugs/bots very easily then hose down the trash or toss grenades.
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Fangz posted:I've honestly had it the way around. I've had my support weapon or backpack come off cooldown so I drop a second one for my teammates, especially when they don't have anything equipped, only to find that they absolutely refuse to pick it up. It feels like a dick move to take someone's stuff so in my experience people don't take drops, even off corpses. Imo it comes down to communication; they will take it if you tell them it's okay.
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I've been tempted to get the impact grenades but I clear a lot of nests in person, is that gonna be more difficult if I can't aim for that upper lip and bounce it in?
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slicing up eyeballs posted:I've been tempted to get the impact grenades but I clear a lot of nests in person, is that gonna be more difficult if I can't aim for that upper lip and bounce it in? Just throw it in there flat and the nest will blow up. It takes a mission or two to get right but it's no harder for nests (it is hard for bot factories though).
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slicing up eyeballs posted:I've been tempted to get the impact grenades but I clear a lot of nests in person, is that gonna be more difficult if I can't aim for that upper lip and bounce it in? I've had no problems hitting bug holes with impacts. Bot factories, on the other hand, are right fuckers. Carry an orbital or eagle that can bust those if you fight the bots and want to use impacts.
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Bug holes and factories are definitely harder to nail the nade throw with the impact in my experience because you can't bank it off anything so it has to be right in there. It isn't too hard to get used to though and I think the impact grenade is great for normal use too so it's worth it imo.
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idiotsavant posted:it ends up working a little differently than you're thinking - the downtime isn't the issue, it's that the downtime never starts until you either use up all 15 of your various eagle charges, or until you manually send it in to refill. So if you use your 500kg and airstrikes but still have 3-4 clusters and a few strafes left you're basically extending the time you don't have 500kg/air strikes. I think 3 Eagle and a support weapon is about as far as I'd push it because you need something to kill stuff during the 2:30 the Eagle takes to rearm, but honestly I think 2 Eagle strats, or even 1 Eagle 1 Orbital is probably better. 500kg bomb, eagle cluster bomb, eagle bombing run, a jetpack, and a dream!
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You can take out bug holes with a surprising number of things, seemingly anything with decent AOE. Even the autocannon works.
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JBP posted:Just throw it in there flat and the nest will blow up. It takes a mission or two to get right but it's no harder for nests (it is hard for bot factories though). Protip, the open doors on bot factories work too - you don't specifically have to hit em in the vents. Wait for an idiot robot to come check out the noise and then toss the impact nade inside the front door. Made dealing with single factories a lot easier when using impact nades personally
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Nice I didn't know that about the doors!CuddleCryptid posted:You can take out bug holes with a surprising number of things, seemingly anything with decent AOE. Even the autocannon works. Bot factories with the AC are super easy. Run around the perimeter and shoot the top of the vent intakes, they bank right in there. Also discovered the JAR will kill spore towers if you shoot them a few times. Also works from an extraordinary range.
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Fishstick posted:Wait for an idiot robot to come check out the noise and then toss the impact nade inside the front door. Made dealing with single factories a lot easier when using impact nades personally I've seen this mentioned before but never was able to get it working with an autocannon, at least. Do you have to use grenades?
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Is the Tesla Tower any good? It seems like it'd be great for closing off a direction from bugs, but I only ever see people taking gatling/mg turrets instead.Fishstick posted:Protip, the open doors on bot factories work too - you don't specifically have to hit em in the vents. Wait for an idiot robot to come check out the noise and then toss the impact nade inside the front door. Made dealing with single factories a lot easier when using impact nades personally 
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Icedude posted:Is the Tesla Tower any good? It seems like it'd be great for closing off a direction from bugs, but I only ever see people taking gatling/mg turrets instead. If it was a constant zap it would be great, but from what Ive seen its not super reliable
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tesla tower seems decent, but the bit about being safe while prone near it is a dirty liar by lying liars.
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Fangz posted:I've honestly had it the way around. I've had my support weapon or backpack come off cooldown so I drop a second one for my teammates, especially when they don't have anything equipped, only to find that they absolutely refuse to pick it up. Dandywalken posted:If it was a constant zap it would be great, but from what Ive seen its not super reliable
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my experience with the tesla tower was that it was a revolutionary tool for dealing with bot hordes followed by the realization that it's a giant bug zapper for fellow helldivers, they can't stay away. I love throwing out lil comments even when nobody else is using voice chat - they can still hear me because people will react or use the in game chirp - and no matter how hard I telegraph the tesla tower and how to stay safe, it deploys and someone gets zapped lol
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Man, some good games today, but pubbies are really bad at doing the drat mission. At least the ones today responded to instructions, it was glorious, we got a few perfect missions because they were willing to listen to basic suggestions. ("press the buttons", "run!", "go to evac and call shuttle while I destroy last two outposts" and "get the samples!". It was greatly appreciated)
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