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servers dead?
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Feb 28, 2024 00:30
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Steam maintenance?
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Feb 28, 2024 00:30
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Games dead because nobody followed the meta and the bots/bugs won Democracy died in darkness
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Feb 28, 2024 00:31
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Blew up right as we were extracting from a friend's second mission ever, had full cleared a level 3 vs chargers and everything.  Steam is automaton sympathizer.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:32
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You know if you communicate with your team and don't abandon calldowns, you could have just two people take a backpack/railgun and wait 5 minutes to get your own, saving the slots for more explodies.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:33
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steam does maintenance every tuesday at 6pm eastern time which won't let you connect to always online games which makes perfect sense
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Feb 28, 2024 00:33
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it annoys me when we're clearly not doing great, have a couple reinforcements left, and my team is off trying to tackle more side missions. It never goes well, like time to leave folks.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:34
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My squad has concluded that chargers absolutely loving hate sentries. Before we unlocked railguns we'd toss a gatling or autocannon turret up a hill or perpendicular to our route and they'd pretty reliably peel off from the swarm to kill it.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:35
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So how do I unlock Strategem Hero on my ship?
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Feb 28, 2024 00:36
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AndyElusive posted:So how do I unlock Strategem Hero on my ship? Buy the special edition of the game.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:37
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AndyElusive posted:So how do I unlock Strategem Hero on my ship? You pay money for the citizen edition of the game
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Feb 28, 2024 00:37
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Turrets are surprisingly useful for just disengaging. My brain is always like these are for defending etc etc but honestly half the time it's "we need to leave and this will buy space throw it off to the side and let it rip this swarm up for a bit while i run for my life".
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Feb 28, 2024 00:37
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Turrets are best used against dudes as you run away because most things are more easily killed by shooting them in their rear end. I also like to throw them over enemies' heads for the same reason on those evacuation missions Most bugs Walkers Big Robots with Shields
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Feb 28, 2024 00:41
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I burned another $40 to play this from the comfort of my couch, and what in the absolute gently caress? It doesn't bring my progression across to PS5? The Steam version wouldn't let me play until I went through Captcha Hell to link it to my Playstation account! It never even occurred to me to check, because why would I need to do all that if I wasn't creating The Helldivers Account Linked To My Playstation Profile? I don't think they do refunds so I played a couple hours anyway, and man, I feel a lot more vulnerable on a controller. I don't know how you play without being able to whip the mouse around to target all the little bugs that rush you. I also wish there was a better solution to push-to-talk than using the PS5 mic button, cause it brings up a little Playstation mute notice every time you press it.
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Feb 28, 2024 00:42
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Feb 28, 2024 00:44
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Phenotype posted:The Steam version wouldn't let me play until I went through Captcha Hell to link it to my Playstation account!
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Feb 28, 2024 01:03
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Phenotype posted:I burned another $40 to play this from the comfort of my couch, and what in the absolute gently caress? It doesn't bring my progression across to PS5? The Steam version wouldn't let me play until I went through Captcha Hell to link it to my Playstation account! It never even occurred to me to check, because why would I need to do all that if I wasn't creating The Helldivers Account Linked To My Playstation Profile? fwiw you don't actually have to link the steam version to a ps account, that screen lies to you no idea what it actually does, if anything
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Feb 28, 2024 01:07
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Phenotype posted:I burned another $40 to play this from the comfort of my couch, and what in the absolute gently caress? It doesn't bring my progression across to PS5? The Steam version wouldn't let me play until I went through Captcha Hell to link it to my Playstation account! It never even occurred to me to check, because why would I need to do all that if I wasn't creating The Helldivers Account Linked To My Playstation Profile? I play controller on PC and it rules. I don't feel any more efficient with mkb. I've kind of moved on from playing anything but strategy games with mkb though. Controller feels like I'm having fun. Mkb feels like it's time to write a report.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:09
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Infidelicious posted:Take a shield backpack now you can't be slowed by green bugs and don't get gibbed by rockets or stalkers or acid. See my problem with this whole "the railgun is op" thing is the only difference between it and the autocannon in this context is that it doesn't need a backpack to reload. But it also has to charge, and needs to reload after every shot. Also it needs level 20. I can see why the railgun is good, it just doesn't feel as good as people are saying, and I'd rather lug around the autocannon because it feels more versatile. Hell, I don't even find the shield backpack that helpful because in this game if you're getting hit you're probably in a poo poo position in the first place, so if you're bad at dealing with bugs like me it's not going to save you from getting swarmed or anything.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:14
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Yeah, a report on how much better I am than anyone with a controller Edit: at the game. I make no qualitative judgments on value as a person based on controller preference
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Feb 28, 2024 01:16
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JBP posted:I play controller on PC and it rules. I don't feel any more efficient with mkb. Same, same. If the game has good controller support I always prefer the controller
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Feb 28, 2024 01:19
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Nuebot posted:See my problem with this whole "the railgun is op" thing is the only difference between it and the autocannon in this context is that it doesn't need a backpack to reload. But it also has to charge, and needs to reload after every shot. Also it needs level 20. The railgun is quite literally more versatile than the autocannon in what it can kill - the only thing the AC will take out that the Railgun cannot is fabricators/holes and structures (because the AC counts as an explosive). Not only that but it kills things the AC won't even touch - without eating up a backpack slot. The shield becomes invaluable at high level versus bots, where eating rockets out of nowhere becomes commonplace. Are you sure you're running it on Unsafe? Because unsafe Railgun is devastatingly strong to the point of one-shotting everything that isn't a charger, titan or tank.
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Nuebot posted:See my problem with this whole "the railgun is op" thing is the only difference between it and the autocannon in this context is that it doesn't need a backpack to reload. But it also has to charge, and needs to reload after every shot. Also it needs level 20. How do you say all this and not mention the actual biggest difference between the autocannon and railgun, the one that underlies literally every discussion of it, its ability to chew through heavy armor, is beyond me. And you say it as "in this context" in response to a post literally listing that ability. Confusing as heck. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 01:21
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CainFortea posted:Edit: at the game. I make no qualitative judgments on value as a person based on controller preference I do. They're anti-Democratic scum and I say kill em all.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:21
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BastardySkull posted:What the gently caress are these? Automaton ships? i think those are supposed to be the cloaked automaton ships or whatever. iirc there's some npc dialogue talking about how they don't know how automatons travel between planets and they seem to appear from nowhere even without fabricators.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:23
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Kitfox88 posted:Blew up right as we were extracting from a friend's second mission ever, had full cleared a level 3 vs chargers and everything. Also happened right before extraction for me. 
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Feb 28, 2024 01:23
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Fajita Queen posted:I do. They're anti-Democratic scum and I say kill em all. I think you will find that it is actually the reverse. Super Earth didn't invent these haptics for you to say gently caress you I'm using bot controls.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:24
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GlyphGryph posted:How do you say all this and not mention the actual biggest difference between the autocannon and railgun, the one that underlies literally every discussion of it, its ability to chew through heavy armor, is beyond me. Because I was specifically referring to the context of "just shoot it twice in the leg then swap weapons" or "just shoot it in the weakpoint" both of which the autocannon does very well as well. The railgun is fine, but people acting like it's some kind of god gun that does these things in special ways nothing else does is insane.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:24
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Nuebot posted:Because I was specifically referring to the context of "just shoot it twice in the leg then swap weapons" or "just shoot it in the weakpoint" both of which the autocannon does very well as well. The railgun is fine, but people acting like it's some kind of god gun that does these things in special ways nothing else does is insane. The AC is a great weapon. The issue with the railgun is that is doesn't really occupy a niche. It's very good against everything and the bugged out AT options that aren't EAT are too unreliable to wrestle the railgun from it's near default spot as the AT gun. You don't have to shoot the charger legs either. You can just shoot them in the head a few times. It's effective against pretty much everything weak point hit or not. I think the AC is objectively better against bots if you can shoot red lights with it, but against bugs the railgun should be competing with or complimenting the other heavy AT options, but they're broken rn.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:29
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ZeusCannon posted:To be fair the RR can do most of those as well. Think the Hulk front weak point it cant do tho and it only needs one shot to strip charger armor so minor differences. The RR takes a backpack and reloads while stationary. These are huge downsides that are very hard to mitigate compared to "takes slightly longer, and can blow yourself up if you take too long to shoot." A huge part of this is that how the shield backpack negates both the slowing effects of bugs, and the omnipresent risk of 1 hit kills vs. Rocket Devestators. Infidelicious fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 01:32
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Nuebot posted:Because I was specifically referring to the context of "just shoot it twice in the leg then swap weapons" or "just shoot it in the weakpoint" both of which the autocannon does very well as well. The railgun is fine, but people acting like it's some kind of god gun that does these things in special ways nothing else does is insane. Doesn't need a backpack, has 20 ammo. What's comparable then? That backpack slot absolutely matters.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:33
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Infidelicious posted:The RR takes a backpack and reloads while stationary. These are huge downsides that are very hard to mitigate compared to "takes slightly longer, and can blow yourself up if you take too long to shoot." Yea, but you usually only need one shot. BitBasher posted:Doesn't need a backpack, has 20 ammo. You get 3 brood commanders with an army of warriors coming at you, and your railgun and primary will probably get run dry. AC can handle the whole bunch of them in a fraction of the time and still have 2/3rds of your ammo left.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:38
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The biggest advantage the railgun has over other options is not needing a backpack. I love the autocannon, but having to take a backpack with it does limit my options. Whereas with the railgun I can take a support weapon that is just as effective while also taking a Guard Dog or shield or supply pack. That's a pretty significant boost regardless of what faction or difficulty you're one. I suspect Arrowhead's intention was that the whole team reload thing would make the RR or autocannon more effective than the railgun as long as you have a buddy loading for you, but in actual practice that doesn't ever happen.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:40
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Can you re-supply yourself from your own ammo backpack? I don't see any prompts on how to do that.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:44
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Rusty posted:Can you re-supply yourself from your own ammo backpack? I don't see any prompts on how to do that. Press 5
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Feb 28, 2024 01:44
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Me and my buddy got the RR and formed the blowjob bros team. Our motto: they go high, we blow low.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:45
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BitBasher posted:Doesn't need a backpack, has 20 ammo. It still has to reload every shot and needs to charge, it's a slow weapon. The backpack slot mattering is a matter of preference, a lot of people sleep on carrying around supply packs to reload team mates in a fight or whatever even. At no point did I say the railgun was bad, just that in that specific example cited it wasn't actually any different than another gun and like three people jumped in to get mad over it. I'm on team nerf the rail gun now because lmao
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Feb 28, 2024 01:45
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The fact that doing a sick max payne dodge out of the way of a charger and unloading your gun into it until its back half explodes in a shower of gore is objectively badass, and yet they discourage that so heavily in favor of some dumb thing where you shoot it in the leg twice, is wack
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Fajita Queen posted:Press 5
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