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Darox posted:All I can tell from this is “don’t use first person and let the game give you the RNG free kill instead” and “shoot it from the side instead of dead on” I feel like I should've gotten a sick one/two shot kill from random chance by now. Looking back at footage, I can see clear misses or hitting armour at times, but I can also see shots that look like it hits one of the many zones people swear by. I see complaints that bile titans are incredible easy if the host is on a PS5, but if the host is on PC they're super tough, or that bugs hit harder on PS5, but then other people contradict that. All I know is I will keep on kiting then freedom bombing titans when it's off cooldown. e: one time it looked like my AC turret two-shot a titan as it was climbing out of the hole, and I was like drat bro way to show me up
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i'm sad that stealth seems to be becoming meta even at low difficulties. makes me not want to even play anymore, that poo poo is boring i just wanna shot poo poo 
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idk i mostly hang out at lvl 7 difficulty and its definitely not stealth, but we do move between points quickly. no reason to stay and fight the constant waves of aggro bugs
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Ciaphas posted:i'm sad that stealth seems to be becoming meta even at low difficulties. makes me not want to even play anymore, that poo poo is boring One of those things that makes me a bit nervous. Completely different game but I remember Payday 2 sort of suffered from that from a few specific missions you could stealth all the way through. Ended up meaning the host would play through the map themselves and you'd just follow behind with your dick in your hands doing absolutely nothing.
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Mulva posted:They aren't an outside group, is the thing. It's the entire point. The robots were cyborg rebels a hundred years ago, and the bugs are a bio program to clear planets and generate oil. It's like how the US Army couldn't invade Florida. It's already America, technically, you can't invade yourself. You can do other horrible things, but you can't invade. You are already there. Actions against the bugs and robots are just propaganda to keep from saying "Yeah we hosed up and we need to clear out some of our bioweapons/we have some uprisings going on". To imply that Super Earth could lose control, or that citizens could rise up? Unthinkable. The bugs are not so intelligent(seemingly), but again, I think if you totally lose planets or star systems, that is no longer 'your' area. It's been taken over by something else, and taking it back means invading what is now hostile territory.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:idk i mostly hang out at lvl 7 difficulty and its definitely not stealth, but we do move between points quickly. no reason to stay and fight the constant waves of aggro bugs This is the real answer. It's not so much stealth as "keep moving and don't let yourself get pinned in one place." I go stealth when it's clear the other three are just going to deathmatch for 20 minutes. My time is better spent using them as a distraction to go solo objectives and collect samples at that point. But if we keep moving and avoid getting pinned down, that's fun.
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Important note that even before Super Earth domesticated them after HD1, they were still capable of advancing between planets and the lack of knowledge or how they do it probably mirrors the space bugs in Starship Troopers who have the same mystery but also clearly far more than just animals. Someone could've had the bright idea to make a controlled war via sacrificing some sparsely populated planets in the worst case that has gone drastically out of control. Or they underestimated the bugs and lost control in their breeding farms. Or both.
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Friendship with Autocannon over, Expendable Anti-Tank is new best friend. Ran around with EAT, eagle cluster bomb, laser guard dog, and gatling sentry on two nice long bug missions. EAT has like a minute cooldown before upgrading the super destroyer so you can just drop it everywhere and hunt chargers while cluster bombing dudes and using gatling senties at key points and the rover gets anything that gets too close. It was insanely fun too. Grabbing EATs and dropping them into a bile titan feels great. Highly recommend.
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LazyMaybe posted:I would say that when you entirely lose whole planets to a hostile force, you are no longer "already there". Ah you get them back in a bit.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:15
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The dailies have been great at making me try stratagems I skipped over.
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I love dailies that are just "Do what you were planning to do anyway but more recklessly" and that was todays. Good times. Im guessing killing enemies with the EATs themselves does not count towards the count, but I enoyed calling them down on cooldown and using them to blow up bugs no matter how small.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:19
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Tom Tucker posted:Friendship with Autocannon over, Expendable Anti-Tank is new best friend. The beacon for the EAT will also stick to a Charger's face. And thus home in on the charger like a poor man's orbital rail cannon.
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are the dailies the same for everyone? i had a kill 100 guys with eagle strafing run and its really bad. drop it in a pile of bugs and it killed 8
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Tom Tucker posted:Friendship with Autocannon over, Expendable Anti-Tank is new best friend. Yeah I like using the EAT for bugs, but the Autocannon for bots because I'm too lazy to deal with Striders and Devastators any other way Kly posted:are the dailies the same for everyone? i had a kill 100 guys with eagle strafing run and its really bad. drop it in a pile of bugs and it killed 8 I had that one yesterday. It's easy since the Strafing Run has a short cooldown and a lot of charges, so you can spam the hell out of it. Eagle stuff's overall cooldown doesn't start until the fighter rearms though so if you have multiple Eagle airstrikes equipped you won't get your charges back until either you order it to rearm or you spend all your charges on every airstrike. IMO the Strafing Run isn't that great compared to the Cluster Bomb or Napalm but at least it's hard to TK people with! Chillgamesh fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Relentlessboredomm posted:idk i mostly hang out at lvl 7 difficulty and its definitely not stealth, but we do move between points quickly. no reason to stay and fight the constant waves of aggro bugs
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Cracking the lobster claw on the chargers is so satisfying and then shooting the orange meat. I want the next faction’s Super Heavy to be a huge meaty horror thing. Either a giant fleshy dinosaur or a Star Fox Andross face - something where you’re just shredding huge chunks of it off to expose weak points. Make me take an HMG and dump a whole mag into some big wet target and let the physics engine fry my computer.
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Kly posted:are the dailies the same for everyone? i had a kill 100 guys with eagle strafing run and its really bad. drop it in a pile of bugs and it killed 8 It wasn't too bad once I realized the attack pattern is unlike every other Eagle strategem; Instead of dropping the payload perpendicular to the player, the strafing run starts at the beacon and moves away from the player. It also helps that I have the extra Eagle payload so I had 4 loads before needing to rearm.
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Away all Goats posted:I had 4 loads before needing to rearm. Impressive
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Mar 6, 2024 04:39
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One of the new factions should be angels or spirits or something. I want to bring managed democracy to god by showing him hell.
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Kly posted:are the dailies the same for everyone? i had a kill 100 guys with eagle strafing run and its really bad. drop it in a pile of bugs and it killed 8 I like it more against bots, they tend to line up on the way in and it can remove devastators quickly. I use it a lot for POI clearing too.
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i easily got the 100+ eagle strafing kills in a single mission but that was mostly because i somehow ended up in a solo difficulty 7 and was constantly running for my life with a huge parade of bugs behind me
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Chillgamesh posted:I had that one yesterday. It's easy since the Strafing Run has a short cooldown and a lot of charges, so you can spam the hell out of it. Eagle stuff's overall cooldown doesn't start until the fighter rearms though so if you have multiple Eagle airstrikes equipped you won't get your charges back until either you order it to rearm or you spend all your charges on every airstrike. IMO the Strafing Run isn't that great compared to the Cluster Bomb or Napalm but at least it's hard to TK people with! yeah i got it i just had never used it before and it seemed really bad Away all Goats posted:It wasn't too bad once I realized the attack pattern is unlike every other Eagle strategem; Instead of dropping the payload perpendicular to the player, the strafing run starts at the beacon and moves away from the player. It also helps that I have the extra Eagle payload so I had 4 loads before needing to rearm. this might be the problem, i assumed it worked like the other eagle strikes i used where it drops perpendicular to where you throw it
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Space zombies are gonna be the last faction after alien jedi. Think about it - zombies can't even vote, and that's the most un-democratic thing possible.
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Away all Goats posted:It wasn't too bad once I realized the attack pattern is unlike every other Eagle strategem; Instead of dropping the payload perpendicular to the player, the strafing run starts at the beacon and moves away from the player. It also helps that I have the extra Eagle payload so I had 4 loads before needing to rearm. yeah it also seems to come in a bit quicker so it's very good for chucking behind you at the swarm of bugs chasing
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SpartanIvy posted:One of the new factions should be angels or spirits or something. I want to bring managed democracy to god by showing him hell. gently caress yeah the real crazy poo poo like giant spinning wheels covered in eyes
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Arc Thrower firing squad strategy is real. The main trick is to not aim directly at enemies on the ground, the thing has a small cone of stuff it might decide to target and you want as few rocks, sticks, and corpses in the cone as possible to force it to hit an enemy, so aim high. Once you've mastered that and the rhythm of rapid firing it's a pretty great weapon. Sindai fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Might be a bit more controversial than they're looking for, but "Literal God shows up and tells you you're in the wrong, you drop a 500kg bomb on Him" would be a fun direction to take a fascist parody work I wonder how the in-universe propaganda would spin it
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it would also be nice if this alien faction was revealed to be the original source for abrahamic religion
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Triarii posted:Might be a bit more controversial than they're looking for, but "Literal God shows up and tells you you're in the wrong, you drop a 500kg bomb on Him" would be a fun direction to take a fascist parody work  (and he actually did it too)
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I was thinking about how a Chaos Helldivers faction could be implemented and Heavendivers seems just a little too silly-sounding It would be cool to have a Xenomorph/Zerg style enemy that adjusts spawns through the mission depending on what you're killing them with- use lots of small arms and they start getting more armor, use lots of ordinance and they start to burrow, etc.
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fighting angels would explain why we're getting mechs
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Warmachine posted:The beacon for the EAT will also stick to a Charger's face. And thus home in on the charger like a poor man's orbital rail cannon. Triarii posted:Might be a bit more controversial than they're looking for, but "Literal God shows up and tells you you're in the wrong, you drop a 500kg bomb on Him" would be a fun direction to take a fascist parody work Ah the Earth Defense force plot.
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causticBeet posted:Did HD1 ever have missions with mixed factions? Nope, never mixed. (sorry forgot to hit post) whoever said the game spawns enemies when you look away is full of poo poo. https://i.imgur.com/VLELViS.mp4
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Triarii posted:Might be a bit more controversial than they're looking for, but "Literal God shows up and tells you you're in the wrong, you drop a 500kg bomb on Him" would be a fun direction to take a fascist parody work As opposed to EDF, where God shows up and we try to arrest him for the crime of starting poo poo.
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Make the next faction mad max style space orcs. Just weird hulking dudes driving on-fire cars and stomping around in a mech gushing smoke everywhere.
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man played for almsot 2 hours tonight all on level 7 and could not get a single purple science, gently caress this is a goddamn grind
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Eediot Jedi posted:whoever said the game spawns enemies when you look away is full of poo poo. Yea I would be surprised if everyone didnt have at least 1 experience of a patrol appearing on top of them. I kinda wish they'd fix that. Also I know people have been debating about patrol routes and stuff but in my experience I've found that even when nobody is on alert patrols will generally head in your direction. I wouldn't be surprised if the game is nudging patrols in your direction to drive action in the game. I don't think they will hunt you blindly, but I do think the game sets patrol paths that intersect with where ever you're hanging around. Way too many times have I been minding my own business doing a SEAF or something and have an entire squad of bugs or bots just wander right over top of me. WoodrowSkillson posted:man played for almsot 2 hours tonight all on level 7 and could not get a single purple science, gently caress this is a goddamn grind By far my worst experience with this game was the other day when a guy TKed everyone \ we died and they didnt pick up the samples and extracted without reinforcing. I wasn't sure if they did it on purpose or not but it felt insanely bad. It sucks because the guy who had the super samples picked them up after I dropped them at extract before I could get them and the only reason *I* died was because I was guarding him to get on the shuttle. I wouldn't have given our other idiot teammate the chance to kill me if I had them myself. Maybe I should have Tked him and picked them up 🤔 Also whats up with the samples being in groups of 3 but all the upgrades being 10 or 5? I'm at 9, I just want more eagle airstrikes!! Jerkface fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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I must learn to forgive the expendable anti tank. After all, they purposefully made it bad, as a joke.
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Jerkface posted:Yea I would be surprised if everyone didnt have at least 1 experience of a patrol appearing on top of them. I kinda wish they'd fix that. ive been playing at 7 for like 6 days now and still only have 3 super samples. its one of the worst grinds ive experienced. id loving love it if one of those hackers woudl hust give me 2000 of it
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