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Kly posted:i use the gl most of the time on bug missions. theyre not bad but not great against chargers. the trick is to shoot under them aiming near their back end when theyre facing you. still takes 4-6 shots though. Yep. Shoot underneath bugs for sure, they have soft bellehs turn off the TV posted:lol the subreddit has finally reached the stalking random devs and demanding that they be fired stage of meltdown Jesus christ, please just arrest reddit
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kaxman posted:Ah this makes so much more sense, and is also IMO really stupid. Not a huge fan of it either, but it's so you can't do math for how many hits you can reliably tank. Anyone else seeing a trend in arc/flamer mains going to 1v1 every charger they see?
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Waffle House posted:Jesus christ, please just arrest reddit fond memories of the time we got anderson cooper to investigate them for child pornography, and yet the site still exists
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Mar 7, 2024 07:20
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RBA Starblade posted:Reddit's making GBS threads its pants though I looked after reading this comment and lol you weren't kidding, people are losing their minds. I changed my mind, this patch is great. It does feel like some people are really struggling with "you shouldn't be able to consistently complete the hardest difficulty without terrific coordination and occasional setbacks"
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Mar 7, 2024 07:22
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The absolute histrionics going on in the game's subreddit over a set of minor balance adjustments is astonishing.
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Mar 7, 2024 07:23
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I hope they quit the game in disgust so the servers will be less buggy
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Mar 7, 2024 07:24
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Jerkface posted:Since i got the upgrade for extra eagles I've loved airstrikes\cluster\500 kg Running 3 or even 4 eagle strategems is secretly really powerful. Who needs a railgun?
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Eediot Jedi posted:Anyone else seeing a trend in arc/flamer mains going to 1v1 every charger they see? Goddamnit they're the protagonists here. They're going to bare knuckle box that armored scythe-dozer TO DEATH, and if that (obviously) doesn't work they're going to neuter its entire family lineage by sheer power of complaint
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I don't use anything they nerfed besides light armor so I haven't noticed anything different, autocannon gang stays winning 
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Mar 7, 2024 07:26
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WarpedLichen posted:Why do I get kicked after doing 2/3 missions of a difficulty 8 op all the time? Is it just cause the missions are long and people are taking a break after two? That mindset would also explain how for every good team of cool "Disaster that makes it home", was a team of overall competent players literally running over green/orange samples without grabbing them If we had a level eleven or whatever player along for the ride. But that might just be basic "But I already have everything unlocked! Pushing E or taking a 200 foot detour for purples will hurt my speedrun times!" brainworms instead.
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Mar 7, 2024 07:29
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drat Reddit is a salt mine right now. Solid read tbh. The only downside is the devs made a post basically saying f u guys then we’re done interacting w this community lmao
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Mar 7, 2024 07:30
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:It does feel like some people are really struggling with "you shouldn't be able to consistently complete the hardest difficulty without terrific coordination and occasional setbacks" yeah i don't know what is going on there. i've seen lots of posts from people demanding that the devs stream themselves easily beating helldive missions when I'm pretty sure that the entire point is that they cannot.
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Mar 7, 2024 07:31
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After thinking about it I think the best way to make heavy armor work would be to make it a max stamina or stamina recharge penalty rather than a speed penalty. Being unable to move faster than enemies or most attacks is too severe, you need that burst of speed.
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Owl Inspector posted:I don't use anything they nerfed besides light armor so I haven't noticed anything different, autocannon gang stays winning Yeah all my crap got buffed or not touched Make heavy armor take up a stratagem spot
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Mar 7, 2024 07:32
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Worf posted:drat Reddit is a salt mine right now. Solid read tbh. The only downside is the devs made a post basically saying f u guys then we’re done interacting w this community lmao 
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Worf posted:drat Reddit is a salt mine right now. Solid read tbh. The only downside is the devs made a post basically saying f u guys then we’re done interacting w this community lmao Counterpoint: that rules and I'm glad the devs are making the game they want rather than letting runaway success dictate what they do. Also lmao the devs could absolutely consistently beat Helldiver difficulty, it just requires strict coordination and prioritization. PsychoInternetHawk fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Is there a primary or a secondary that has armor pen that is decent? I'm thinking specifically about those brown armor plated shield bugs that square up on you. I want to try the Stalwart some more, but it felt bad having trouble with those guys head on. Worf posted:drat Reddit is a salt mine right now. Solid read tbh. The only downside is the devs made a post basically saying f u guys then we’re done interacting w this community lmao If that's true then good for them.
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Internet Explorer posted:Is there a primary or a secondary that has armor pen that is decent? I'm thinking specifically about those brown armor plated shield bugs that square up on you. Does breaker incendiary count?
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Devs who listen to reddit tend to have their game collapse so Arrowhead's really doing themselves a favour here
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I have a video uploading of a 7 Suicide difficulty run I did with 4 pubbies. It's not cherry picked, it's the only run I've done tonight that I didn't crash on. Unfortunately the PS5 only records the last 30 minutes so It's missing the first 5 minutes of the drop which was admittedly a complete poo poo show and cost us 3 reinforcements before the video starts. The host dropped us straight into an occupied settlement so we had to kill a pile of bugs with only our default weapons. before we could even call anything in. There were no real comms except a couple times I said something into the controller mic. All in all it was pretty typical for a level 7 IMHO. It's a decent example of ARC game play. The group was not remotely meta, which caused us no real problems. The players ran: Me: Orbital Railgun / Eagle Airstrike / ARC / Rover 2: Orbital Railgun / Eagle Airstrike / Shield Pack / Grenade Launcher 3: Orbital Railgun / Orbital Airburst / Rover / Laser Cannon 4: Eagle Airstrike / Eagle Cluster Bomb / Shield Pack / Laser Cannon I was running the Liberator Penetrator primary (For no reason, I had never tried it) with the Redeemer and default grenades. Light armor with Fortified for 30% less recoil and 50% explosive resistance. You see a couple minutes we organically split into two pairs and just supported each other for the most part. Also I totally got totally confused while carrying the SSD like an idiot and we all had moments of jackassery. When it finishes uploading and processing it should be below. May take a couple hours. My upload sucks on COX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGwF96HS_E Post Mission screen, since the video cuts off before then:  PsychoInternetHawk posted:After thinking about it I think the best way to make heavy armor work would be to make it a max stamina or stamina recharge penalty rather than a speed penalty. Being unable to move faster than enemies or most attacks is too severe, you need that burst of speed. Honestly I have no idea how to make heavy armor work. Stamina penalties and move speed are both kind of a death sentence against bugs. No joke. Internet Explorer posted:Is there a primary or a secondary that has armor pen that is decent? I'm thinking specifically about those brown armor plated shield bugs that square up on you. Not early in the tree unfortunately. The Slugger is solid and so is the Scorcher, but the Scorcher is at the very end of the tree, plus it can kill you from blast radius up close and has low ammo issues. BitBasher fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:Counterpoint: that rules and I'm glad the devs are making the game they want rather than letting runaway success dictate what they do. It rules that the developers want to interact with the community less because the community was negatively responding and being jerks ?
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Worf posted:Does breaker incendiary count? I dunno, does it? Can it handle those bugs head on?
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Internet Explorer posted:I dunno, does it? Can it handle those bugs head on? My understanding is that fire ignores armor, so I wasn’t really sure how that would play into it honestly I don’t have it unlocked yet to try it out
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The Slugger is pretty good and can pen medium targets targets like hive guards and Devastators. Especially devastators because it can stunlock them. It does take some getting used to though. You aren't very mobile with it, you can't afford the scope sway most of the time. And it sucks at trash clearing bugs. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Eradication missions were certainly too easy but I think they may have overshot a little. I started a one solo to finish the bug kill personal order and was being chased by twenty hunters by the time all my equipment landed.
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Worf posted:It rules that the developers want to interact with the community less because the community was negatively responding and being jerks ? No it rules that they're not groveling and are standing by their design decisions. What reddit is doing sucks rear end but water's gonna be wet
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Mode 7 posted:The absolute histrionics going on in the game's subreddit over a set of minor balance adjustments is astonishing. The discord was in a state earlier. Mods had to enable slowdown mode because too many people were lashing out in chat. And so for a while everybody was sending single message multiparagraph screeds. They'd scroll up unread in seconds.
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Astrochicken posted:The discord was in a state earlier. Mods had to enable slowdown mode because too many people were lashing out in chat. And so for a while everybody was sending single message multiparagraph screeds. They'd scroll up unread in seconds. my managed democracy manifesto
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Internet Explorer posted:I dunno, does it? Can it handle those bugs head on? If it absolutely has to be head on then it's the Slugger, and then against everything but the Charger and Titan.
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I tried a couple games with the railgun, the gun is no longer the king it once was. It doesn't strip armour reliably, it doesn't headshot reliably, so you're left whiffing shots being chased like you're on difficulty 4.  the dream boys, rip the dream
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The environmental effects added seem pretty great, the meteor showers are magnificent. I haven't seen a firenado yet, but the earthquake things at first I was like "wtf this sucks" and then a charger was charging at me and one hit and I realized it stunned all the bugs too and I was like "oh actually this is excellent" Anyway more effects that aren't "your cooldowns are all increased" please. I wonder if the bubble shield can stop a meteor...
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:The Slugger is pretty good and can pen medium targets targets like hive guards and Devastators. Especially devastators because it can stunlock them. BitBasher posted:If it absolutely has to be head on then it's the Slugger, and then against everything but the Charger and Titan. Nice! I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
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The main thing that prevents me from enjoying difficulty 8 & 9 as much isn't the increased heavy spawns, it's that you get stuck with two negative modifiers which means a much higher chance for the boring and unfun ones like orbital scatter or increased cooldowns or scramble. It also sucks that if you join a game mid-mission you can't seem to check what the active effects are while choosing your loadout.
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Risky Bisquick posted:I tried a couple games with the railgun, the gun is no longer the king it once was. It doesn't strip armour reliably, it doesn't headshot reliably, so you're left whiffing shots being chased like you're on difficulty 4. Today was the first day I really made an effort with the railgun (i got hooked on the autocannon early on) so it feels powerful and it's really fun to make some of the bigger bugs go SPLAT.
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Darox posted:The main thing that prevents me from enjoying difficulty 8 & 9 as much isn't the increased heavy spawns, it's that you get stuck with two negative modifiers which means a much higher chance for the boring and unfun ones like orbital scatter or increased cooldowns or scramble. the increased heavy spawns is all that difficulty 8 and 9 are i feel like a lot of people just don't realize this. you are pressing the "spawn more chargers and bile titans please" button.
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It's still crazy that nursing spitters and bile spitters are conditional spawns and only appear on certain missions. Bugs are an extremely two dimensional faction without them, it's hardly a surprise that the meta devolved to a two dimensional build to deal with them. Make Bile Spitters appear on every bug mission above difficulty 4.turn off the TV posted:the increased heavy spawns is all that difficulty 8 and 9 are No it isn't. On difficulty 7 you get one negative operation modifier (Increased calldown delay, Orbital Scatter, etc etc). On difficulty 8 & 9 you get two of them.
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Risky Bisquick posted:I tried a couple games with the railgun, the gun is no longer the king it once was. It doesn't strip armour reliably, it doesn't headshot reliably, so you're left whiffing shots being chased like you're on difficulty 4. Spend a bit more time with it to get used to overcharging. It can still put in a lot of work, it's just a bit harder than it was before.
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Meteors are cool when the warning light works properly but I think it's extremely inconsistent? A lot of the time I definitely wasn't seeing blue light until an instant before they hit.Darox posted:It's still crazy that nursing spitters and bile spitters are conditional spawns and only appear on certain missions. Bugs are an extremely two dimensional faction without them, it's hardly a surprise that the meta devolved to a two dimensional build to deal with them. Make Bile Spitters appear on every bug mission above difficulty 4.
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Waffle House posted:Yep. Shoot underneath bugs for sure, they have soft bellehs I tried to shoot chargers "properly" with the GL (from behind in the weak-to-explosives weakspot) and had dogshit results, but planting shots right under their chin seems to work much better (still not super consistent though) https://i.imgur.com/ho2UQJL.mp4
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