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Warmachine posted:I've also been getting better at 'bullfighting' them. Bait them into a charge, dive out of the way at the last second, then mag-dump into the weakspot. Do you shoot the legs or the rear end? the leg joints are better and there's a glitch or whatever to just shoot their front legs' armor for full damage
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jokes posted:Do you shoot the legs or the rear end? the leg joints are better and there's a glitch or whatever to just shoot their front legs' armor for full damage I've been shooting the rear end, but I'm in middle difficulties right now. I've tried shooting at leg joints before but it never seemed to pan out for me.
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one thing thats frustrating with chargers is that everyone wants to shoot their rear end with their normal weapons and that is basically detrimental since it does so little damage really wish there was better feedback for shooting the legs cause i see divers making this mistake constantly, even after i strip the armor off the leg
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Warmachine posted:I've been shooting the rear end, but I'm in middle difficulties right now. I've tried shooting at leg joints before but it never seemed to pan out for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWiUwksefQ&t=234s This is why I use the Stalwart exclusively. It's good against everything you would use normal guns against, and then for the more specifically armored guys that's why God invented stratagems. With the fortified armor, crouched/prone Stalwart is laser-accurate. People sleep on it because of the lack of armor-piercing or whatever but I mostly play Rambo so if there's an enemy I'm not able to take down I just book it anyways jokes fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Warmachine posted:I've been shooting the rear end, but I'm in middle difficulties right now. I've tried shooting at leg joints before but it never seemed to pan out for me. that rear end is only a weakspot if you use explosive weapons on it, otherwise youre only doing 10% of your normal damage. try aiming for the back of the legs instead, tho that is a much harder shot
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Shooting the butt is bad but also literally the only option unless you use that bugged vulnerability the chargers get sometimes which is pretty inconsistent. It's one of my general issues with how chargers are designed.
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ijyt posted:ok so? Honestly I don't care if they don't nerf it but would love some other guns to get some love from the devs. The other shotty feels like crap.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:https://x.com/seiyaposting/status/1763332475093483736?s=46&t=I-gsjpvNkUNcOBofs8OOkQ New field item pickup - Literacola. Used on pickup, it acts like a stim but also increases your damage because you suspect that some Super Earth citizen spit in it and this enrages you.
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Use guns that are fun, not guns that are good --- this post is from Punisher gang
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Rusty posted:I thought the grande launcher was good for the level you get it, but the auto-cannon is just way better, sucks about the backpack, but you only need to use it until you get the railgun anyway. Against bugs, I'd say Railgun > Autocannon but against bots I say Autocannon all the way. It might not be able to kill Hulks/Devastators in one shot like the Railgun, but the Autocannon brings a ton of utility against bots. I can't tell you how many times being able to pump three Autocannon shots into a Tank/Cannon Radiator to kill it in the amount of time it takes the Railgun to fire once has saved both my bacon and that of my fellow Helldivers. Not to mention being able to use it to cheese certain objectives or learning how to bounce an Autocannon shot into a bot fabricators from a distance to quickly take out an outpost without even getting close enough to get shot at by the bots.
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Turin Turambar posted:If that was right, and given that the game has been a much bigger success they had planned for, it would mean planet progression would be trivial, favoring the players as they are the group that is unexpectedly huge . i think they're using the daily peak user count instead of the concurrent one so during certain hours of the day there aren't many people online and all of the planet progression regresses.
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jokes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWiUwksefQ&t=234s I need to give the Stalwart a shot, because mowing down hordes of bugs is super fun. Also there's just something about running into a bug hole or bot factory and blowing them up rather than just calling down strategems on them, and I feel like if I run the Stalwart and a supply pack I can do all of the above.
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I love it when some guy takes it upon himself to handle all the ammo. Running an ammo pack and calling down all the supplies and storing them for people that need them works great when that person is super on top of it.
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jokes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWiUwksefQ&t=234s The Stalwart is my go-to if I'm not wanting to play the visually impressive but kinda weak flamethrower psychopath. Rusty posted:I love it when some guy takes it upon himself to handle all the ammo. Running an ammo pack and calling down all the supplies and storing them for people that need them works great when that person is super on top of it. As someone who was a consummate Battlefield supply player, how am I supposed to tell who needs bullets? I see the red/flashing red icons next to squaddie health bars, but even handing them a pack doesn't always result in the UI indicating they now have ammo. It's easier with backpack reloads since I can see the model update to show they have a full rack of RR shots or whatever.
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Warmachine posted:The Stalwart is my go-to if I'm not wanting to play the visually impressive but kinda weak flamethrower psychopath. It's not perfect but the little icons on the bottom left indicate who is low on stims/ammo when they turn red.
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Warmachine posted:As someone who was a consummate Battlefield supply player, how am I supposed to tell who needs bullets? I see the red/flashing red icons next to squaddie health bars, but even handing them a pack doesn't always result in the UI indicating they now have ammo. It's easier with backpack reloads since I can see the model update to show they have a full rack of RR shots or whatever. Flashing means their current magazine isn't full, when the icon itself turns red that means they're missing reserve ammo. I usually just look at the ammo packs in the backpack to know when I've given someone ammo since I'm usually keeping an eye on how much I have.
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Away all Goats posted:It's not perfect but the little icons on the bottom left indicate who is low on stims/ammo when they turn red. I had someone ask if I needed ammo because the thing was red but I'd only used one breaker mag.
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Rusty posted:I love it when some guy takes it upon himself to handle all the ammo. Running an ammo pack and calling down all the supplies and storing them for people that need them works great when that person is super on top of it. This is nice but one time I played with someone who got mad when I jumped in after it started and called my own support drop during the chaos. “DO NOT CALL DROPS!!! CALL ME FOR AMMO!” I called another one after the cooldown and he typed “I HAVE THE PACK!!!”. Yeah no thanks buddy. I’m not waiting around for you to fight through the poo poo to get to me while my ammo drops to nothing.
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Bummed that I missed the light armor with the medic trait in the super store. Now there’s a medium armor with Fortified, which I don’t think I’ve seen on a Warbond… when armor gets fixed, would this be a good piece to have?
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mentalcontempt posted:Bummed that I missed the light armor with the medic trait in the super store. Now there’s a medium armor with Fortified, which I don’t think I’ve seen on a Warbond… when armor gets fixed, would this be a good piece to have? It looks pretty sweet, so yes.
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mentalcontempt posted:Bummed that I missed the light armor with the medic trait in the super store. Now there’s a medium armor with Fortified, which I don’t think I’ve seen on a Warbond… when armor gets fixed, would this be a good piece to have? That medic armor will probably cycle around again at least one time.  This is the second time these armors have cycled through the Super Store, and supposedly new content will hit every second Thursday of a month, meaning there is enough time for the store to make a full cycle again before new stuff potentially either replaces or adds to the Super Store stuff.
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Warmachine posted:As someone who was a consummate Battlefield supply player, how am I supposed to tell who needs bullets? I see the red/flashing red icons next to squaddie health bars, but even handing them a pack doesn't always result in the UI indicating they now have ammo. It's easier with backpack reloads since I can see the model update to show they have a full rack of RR shots or whatever.
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explosivo posted:When there's tall mountains around it autopilots you to flat ground. Still annoying but that's why that's happening. That's too bad because it would be hilarious to get stuck on the very tip of a mountain tbh. Just like when your pod goes in one of those holes and you die instantly apostateCourier posted:People cheating in a community focused PvE game with global goals is going to negatively impact the whole playerbase, so I can't agree that having anticheat in this PvE game is stupid. I think the main issue people had with that is they were blaming it for the poor server performance at launch, and also saying they should've used a more popular version that isn't used by janky Korean mmos or whatever, but that kinda sounds like racism absent any other real objection. Like people said most anti cheat has kernel access, and I'm sure it's much more difficult and expensive to do it without it. If it was spying it damaging systems I'm sure we'd know. The Slack Lagoon posted:Is smoke useful for anything? I wish it was more useful, or at least covered a wider area. It seems to disperse very quickly too, I tried to use it as a way to get bots to completely lose you and that can happen, but more likely they'll just keep moving forward, come out of the smoke and kill you. I've abandoned it as the coward's way. All my stratagems revolve around killing enemies, and my democracy officer strongly approves Ihmemies posted:Whatever setup these guys use for scaling looks hideous with movement. Am I just imagining things? Never had a game look like.. this... still images look fine, but movement.. ehhh.... I think the game looks really nice. Maybe not as great as a triple a single player game, but you wouldn't expect it to. Looks better than pretty much every single ubisoft game Pharmaskittle posted:Man I had high hopes for the countersniper DMR but it just tracks way too slowly. Back to armor piercing assault rifle on single shot I guess Yeah I always play in first person aim as well and that gun has a bad one, too zoomed in and the scope takes up too much space. The original marksman is one of my favorites though, along with the defender and breaker. Fishstick posted:Did Bile titans get a health boost at some point? I remember orbital railcannons oneshotting them but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, or am I misremembering? I think you're misremembering. The orbital laser, which has more limited uses and longer cooldowns, kills them with one shot, not the rail cannons. But a rail cannon and a couplefew railgun shots directly to the face should do it. That being said I have seen some apparent variation in this on multiple different enemy types Risky Bisquick posted:AC is really good but the shield is nearly an auto pick on high difficulty bugs. On bots I could take an AC on 8s for sure given that rockets can still kill through shields with light armour unless you have the explosive resist trait. I still prefer the laser guard dog on high difficulty bugs. Taking the shield instead means you have to personally handle every single enemy no matter how small, which drains ammo and makes you even more likely to be hit.
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Taking the dog means you have to deal with the patrols you can no longer sneak by. If you can manage it, which I'm sure you can by the sounds of it, by all means use the dog. It's a trade off but I prefer not to go alarm to alarm. I basically just run from the trash bugs and break vision, and move on to some other objective
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Veld is nearly liberated, but the bugs have already spread to Angel's Venture.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:This is the second time these armors have cycled through the Super Store, and supposedly new content will hit every second Thursday of a month, meaning there is enough time for the store to make a full cycle again before new stuff potentially either replaces or adds to the Super Store stuff. They've also said nothing will be long term time gated so it won't really be possible to "miss out" on stuff. So I assume it will be in the rotation forever. Risky Bisquick posted:Taking the dog means you have to deal with the patrols you can no longer sneak by. If you can manage it, which I'm sure you can by the sounds of it, by all means use the dog. How do you figure? Laser dog doesn't fire at patrols until and unless you trigger them in my experience, sneaking works fine. And it lets you mop up the patrol that much quicker if they do trigger, which is nice.
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turn off the TV posted:Unless you count any other commercial anticheat then yeah nprotect is unprecedented in having kernel level access. My point is: For all the handwringing that was caused because of Arrowhead's choice of anti-cheat... it didn't matter in the end anyway because people circumvented it anyway?
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GlyphGryph posted:How do you figure? Laser dog doesn't fire at patrols until and unless you trigger them in my experience, sneaking works fine. And it lets you mop up the patrol that much quicker if they do trigger, which is nice. Interesting. I did not actually know that, I thought it would fire but I guess thinking back you're right, I've been pretty close to untriggered enemies and it doesn't shoot until they trigger. It also aids in truly ludicrous kill counts, 500 plus in certain missions in higher difficulties.
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Stalwart on the highest RPM setting is something special. Honestly they should just reduce the RPM and magsize (or count) and make it a primary weapon instead of support. Visible "weakspots" like charger abdomens should be actually-weak to everything instead of being a big fat phoney bullet trap of bullshit. Then they can give explosives innate armor destruction so they still have a niche and every metaslave doesn't feel the need to always railgun for optimal gameplay. Waiting for armor with "extra mags" trait to come out, until then I'm glued to "scout". Being able to freely disengage from almost anything is just too good, and the radar on pings is legitimately great help for teammates while I'm on the other side of the map getting samples and clearing secondary objectives. Play posted:(regarding smoke) BeAuMaN posted:My point is: For all the handwringing that was caused because of Arrowhead's choice of anti-cheat... it didn't matter in the end anyway because people circumvented it anyway?
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I need explanation on mission selection stuff. What does quick play do? I've been choosing a front, going to a hostile planet, and then I see operations with multiple missions or other missions that people are already in. I get an error every time I try to join one of those that already have people in them. That has left us with choosing an operation. Is there a way to always fill them? Only seems like a quarter of a time that anyone else joins us.
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Is the hit marker not showing up for some of the call in guns a bug or intentional? It’s kind of annoying when I picked up a flamethrower and didn’t get any feedback on if I was hitting or not
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Play posted:Interesting. I did not actually know that, I thought it would fire but I guess thinking back you're right, I've been pretty close to untriggered enemies and it doesn't shoot until they trigger. Definitely seconding that at least the laser drone does not fire at stuff unless it's aggroed. You can sneak by patrols no problem and the drone won't open up until the aggro music starts. Dunno if the liberator drone is the same, I would assume so
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sushibandit posted:Every anticheat always gets circumvented eventually. The main goal is just making it "more difficult" for joe casual to fire up a generic cheat program and break the game for whoever he randomly joins, at least during the initial popularity surge of a new game release. Waiting for the devs to implement a secret queue for cheaters that sets the difficulty of every mission to, I don't know, 15 where it's pretty much impossible to stop multiple dropships/breaches, they all spawn multiple Titans/Tanks, patrol spawn frequency and # of units per patrol is high, the entire map knows exactly where you are the moment you fire a gun, Stalkers spawn from every bug hive, and bot rockets actually track you mid-flight.
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What's yall's anti-stalker strategy, by the way? I wonder if they regenerate because these stupid assholes love to knock me around with a high-velocity tongue and it is extremely annoying so I mostly just empty clips on them as they fly away and as they turn invisible and don't stop ever
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LuiCypher posted:Waiting for the devs to implement a secret queue for cheaters that sets the difficulty of every mission to, I don't know, 15 where it's pretty much impossible to stop multiple dropships/breaches, they all spawn multiple Titans/Tanks, patrol spawn frequency and # of units per patrol is high, the entire map knows exactly where you are the moment you fire a gun, Stalkers spawn from every bug hive, and bot rockets actually track you mid-flight. "Man, blackouts in a storm sure suck... Yes Darksouls, I know I did a naughty disconnect. Thank you for reminding me I have sinned." Section Z fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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So I didn't get the 45 medals we were supposed to get for liberating Veld. Did that happen to anyone else? I've only been playing 2 days but every mission I played was on Veld, so I assume I should qualify if there was some kind of "you need to do missions on that planet to qualify" thing they didn't mention. Tried logging off and logging back in and that didn't do anything either.
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jokes posted:What's yall's anti-stalker strategy, by the way? I wonder if they regenerate because these stupid assholes love to knock me around with a high-velocity tongue and it is extremely annoying so I mostly just empty clips on them as they fly away and as they turn invisible and don't stop ever You have to seek out the hole they're coming from. If you see stalkers that means there's a special spawn point on the map for them that can be destroyed as a sub-objective. Follow the direction they're coming from and you should eventually run into it.
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