Owl Inspector posted:

Serious answer: vehicles all had 1 use per mission, no way to refill ammo, were pretty fragile, and they lit on fire after a certain amount of damage which would rapidly destroy them, so it was pretty easy to lose them early. there was a repair gun support weapon that you really wanted someone to have to keep them alive and did make it a lot more reliable to hang onto them for most of a mission, but that means someone out of the vehicle without an offensive support weapon. they were very vulnerable to tank-tier enemies, but only two of the vehicles had serious antitank options, and one of those could only shoot in a narrow cone in front of it. honestly they were pretty hard to use on high difficulties other than the APC with an anti tank cannon. However, HD1 let you fill your stratagem slots with as many copies of the same thing as you wanted, so you could do goofy dumb poo poo like bringing 4 mechs and calling in another as soon as you lose one.

part of their disadvantages were specific to HD1 mechanics (being big and stuck on the same screen as everyone meant it was very easy to have a stratagem or hellpod land on a vehicle and instakill it), but I think those will just be replaced by challenges specific to HD2 (actual complex terrain).

tokenbrownguy posted:

yeah, they were fine at easier difficulties but the single call in and general fragility made them a liability for groups doing more difficult runs.

plus you know... the weapons attached all had helldiver-portable versions that weren't single call in. a tank cannon is great and all but you can call massive air strikes on a whim.

their best use was as decoys. a tank or APC getting ripped up by bugs could be pretty useful in a clutch escape situation.

LazyMaybe posted:

my current most strongly held balance opinion is that the senator should have enough damage to always oneshot hunters

Turin Turambar posted:

Can any Helldivers 1 player explain how the mech and tanks worked?

Because in the last three pages there are several people mentioning how surely, with mechs and poo poo the game will be easier, and the higher difficulties won't be that hard with them. But... I doubt it works like that, that they are a straight upgrade to players powers, otherwise the game will turn into a mech game with all players always selecting one.
Surely they will have important tradeoffs in comparison with other options, like speed, being able to be hostigated by hordes until it falls into the ground, limited ammo, only 1 call, etc. From what we have seen of how these devs work and balance stuff in the game, I doubt is going to be that simple as four players with a mech each owning Titans easily.

explosivo posted:

It was incredibly easy to trample your teammates in the mech so I'm looking forward to that being a thing too lol.

Dandywalken posted:

Anyone else get the weird bug with those same spiked plants where you are hit, bleeding, and char keeps coughing + cant sprint yet you cant stim without taking legit damage from elsewhere? I assumed it was meant to be poison or something but hp never moved and I just whooping coughed around the map.

flashman posted:

Wheres all the green samples at da hell

ShadowMar posted:

considering how the game is currently balanced, mechs will be well balanced against bots and they will instantly explode upon contact with a bug

Triarii posted:

Tried out the breaker post-nerf, still seems powerful to me

https://i.imgur.com/27uOt1I.mp4

Maybe has a little more kick

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

The samples are inside the bugs, soldier! just keep shooting!


e] A funny thing I've noticed over the last couple of days is that pubbies won't call in resupply if they aren't the host now. They either ask politely in chat or just keep spamming the "need ammo" msg. Just use the supplies homie I don't care! Have sweats been furiously gatekeeping this or something?

Third World Reagan posted:

TracerBullet posted:

Apologies if I've missed this (skipped about 700 posts) but there is a video of someone finding a working mech on the map and hopping into it. Seems functional

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/ffI8DaI67A

explosivo posted:

Been mentioned like twice on this very page! Still neat though.

Rectal Death Alert posted:

3.) You take one supply unless someone else doesn't take one, then the remaining ones are first come first serve

Rectal Death Alert posted:

Yes. Having played extensively with the Maxed Sweatlords there are people who do this. Not everyone but they exist in great enough numbers some etiquette has been spread around.

1.) You must ask first to see if people agree, you do not call it down without asking
2.) Someone runs to extract to throw a resupply first thing so it's there during the end of the mission
3.) You take one supply unless someone else doesn't take one, then the remaining ones are first come first serve
4.) The host can do whatever they want gently caress you

I had to sit through some breathless lectures because a rambo was calling down supplies every single time for themselves solo across the map and the host died after running out of stims.

All it does is make people not use the resupply and it sits available after people who use it get kicked. The sweats want it ready when they need it. When they stop gunkataing because their meta weapon is dry the resupply better be available for them.

jokes posted:

So I want to have a red X when I hit a motherfucker right? That means I'm hitting a headshot/soft spot/etc?

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Not sure if it's a result of armour being fixed/changed or something they did quietly but the environmental hazards(spiky plant things) have been one shotting us on hard difficulty

And the meteor showers look dope but I feel like on a hard run the rng of getting randomly murked by them is gonna feel pretty lovely.

Away all Goats posted:

Heavy Armor should have reduced penalty from getting slowed IMO

You trade the stealthiness/stamina of light armor for being less susceptible to crowd control. It would also be a sort of nice alternative to the shield backpack as that is one of it's biggest advantages.