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hiddenriverninja: May 10, 2013; life is locomotion
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my God, the bug spawn rates are too crazy, even on 5

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:26

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# ? May 24, 2024 00:53

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hiddenriverninja posted:

my God, the bug spawn rates are too crazy, even on 5

Some stratagems can harm more than one bug.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:27

Benagain: Oct 10, 2007; Can you see that I am serious?; Fun Shoe

we all called in mechs because why not and they all immediately got blown up by rocket devastators lol

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:28

CuddleCryptid: Jan 11, 2013; Things could be going better

hiddenriverninja posted:

my God, the bug spawn rates are too crazy, even on 5

Playing bots last night it feels like they really buffed spawn numbers, which may have been because we were also getting shelled constantly and not calmly picking them off. It was pretty cool.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:29

Internet Explorer: Jun 1, 2005

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/helldivers2/status/1766129205509546468?s=20

I'm really disappointed that the HE barrage at the start didn't blow the guy up while he was saluting.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:29

Insert name here: Nov 10, 2009; Oh.
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Turin Turambar posted:

The game seems to have some weird inconsistent damage bugs. Here a player tries the railgun vs titans, and it changes a lot... depending if he plays with a ps5 player or not!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWQxg5mIzT8&t=610s

I haven't had the chance to watch the video yet but I've definitely heard about the PS5 thing before, and glad that someone dug into it because as a PC player that does a lot of solo testing I've never managed to kill a bile titan with railgun headshots in a reasonable amount of shots.

johnny park posted:

Anyone have any tips for dealing with detector towers? Assaulting them is always a really grueling and reinforcement-costly process. Can you snipe the eye with an RR or anything?

I wait for the tower detection beam to sweep past, then I sprint up to the base of the hill it's always on and throw a 500kg bomb beacon at the base.

Captainicus posted:

I also tested something with the incendiary grenade: the puddles of fire it leaves on the floor do not even kill a tiny scavenger bug. They catch fire but it wears off in a couple seconds without killing them. I don't think the incendiary grenade is very good.

It definitely used to kill scavengers if they even got touched by the flame so I wonder if they broke it by accident lol

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:33

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Turin Turambar posted:

Another curious bug. That's me on the water, the water hurt me until the hp you can see, but somehow I'm not totally dead... except part of the game says I'm dead, because I can spectate the other players with the A/D keys. And other parts of the game believe I'm alive, because I can't respawn.

:/

i had this happen to a teammate yesterday, i had to fire at all sorts of weird angles to score a hit to kill them and bring em back

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:33

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Astrochicken posted:

meteors sure are a thing.

i was expecting giant fireballs from space, exploding ice is boring :mad:

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:35

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Turin Turambar posted:

Another curious bug. That's me on the water, the water hurt me until the hp you can see, but somehow I'm not totally dead... except part of the game says I'm dead, because I can spectate the other players with the A/D keys. And other parts of the game believe I'm alive, because I can't respawn.

:/

This happened to two people in my team last night, swimming is definitely buggy.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:35

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

CuddleCryptid posted:

Playing bots last night it feels like they really buffed spawn numbers, which may have been because we were also getting shelled constantly and not calmly picking them off. It was pretty cool.

i did one of the kill-X-on-the-extract bot missions this morning on 4 and the number of dropships in the air was completely nuts. it actually ruled but if i didn't have my GL we would have straight up run out of reinforcements 'cos everyone else was packing railguns and poo poo

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:38

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Ciaphas posted:

i was expecting giant fireballs from space, exploding ice is boring

You can get fireballs, it depends on the planet.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:38

BadLlama: Jan 13, 2006

The mechs are in the same area as sentries buffs, anyone have the +50% ammo capacity upgrade and can confirm their mech still has 1000 rounds or 1500?

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:38

Darox: Nov 10, 2012

Water is undemocratic, I never touch the stuff. It pulls down honest helldivers feet and prevents them from diving for liberty.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:38

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

speaking of dropships, is it actually even worth shooting them down? I call down an EAT the instant I see a flare go up, and usually score a hit before the bots start dropping, but then they end up on the ground walking and shooting just fine :\

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:39

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Hwurmp posted:

You can get fireballs, it depends on the planet.

good

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:39

Exodee: Mar 30, 2011; Damp and depressing.
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Turin Turambar posted:

Another curious bug. That's me on the water, the water hurt me until the hp you can see, but somehow I'm not totally dead... except part of the game says I'm dead, because I can spectate the other players with the A/D keys. And other parts of the game believe I'm alive, because I can't respawn.

:/

I had this bug as well. I wonder if it happens because of the armor fix lowering the damage of drowning

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:39

explosivo: May 23, 2004; Fueled by Satan

For anyone wondering, the Mech has a level 25 requirement along with the 20k RP

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:39

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

Seems servers are down. I literally had a mission crash while extracting. Restarted the game now I've been in a queue for 10 minutes.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:41

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Ciaphas posted:

speaking of dropships, is it actually even worth shooting them down? I call down an EAT the instant I see a flare go up, and usually score a hit before the bots start dropping, but then they end up on the ground walking and shooting just fine :\

Bring a grenade launcher & shell the underside before the bots deploy.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:41

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Hwurmp posted:

Bring a grenade launcher & shell the underside before the bots deploy.

I did try to do that at one point but kept whiffing so I just switched to firing grenades at their landing spot instead, seemed to work pretty good

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:42

explosivo: May 23, 2004; Fueled by Satan

nexus6 posted:

Seems servers are down. I literally had a mission crash while extracting. Restarted the game now I've been in a queue for 10 minutes.

Yeah I logged on to check the level requirement for the mech and was not able to get in at all. Servers are definitely down/sorta down atm.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:43

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

I like that the exosuit release was tied to securing Tien Kwan but I wonder what the devs would have done if it didn't get done in a timely manner

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:44

Baggot: Sep 9, 2009; Hail to the King, baby.

nexus6 posted:

Seems servers are down. I literally had a mission crash while extracting. Restarted the game now I've been in a queue for 10 minutes.

This doesn't surprise me, I expect the servers are being :goon:

ed to death once everyone heard the mechs are available.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:44

Turin Turambar: Jun 5, 2011

Online players peak causing outage because the mech news?

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:44

Internet Explorer: Jun 1, 2005

Ciaphas posted:

speaking of dropships, is it actually even worth shooting them down? I call down an EAT the instant I see a flare go up, and usually score a hit before the bots start dropping, but then they end up on the ground walking and shooting just fine :\

It's supposed to fall and land on the bots it dropped. I believe it used to be pretty close to 100% consistent and now it seems much less frequent. Dunno if it's a bug or a purposeful change.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:44

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

Internet Explorer posted:

It's supposed to fall and land on the bots it dropped. I believe it used to be pretty close to 100% consistent and now it seems much less frequent. Dunno if it's a bug or a purposeful change.

I've seen that happen but I've also seen it just vanish like someone deleted it.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:46

Internet Explorer: Jun 1, 2005

Yeah, the vanish bit makes me think it's a bug.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:47

explosivo: May 23, 2004; Fueled by Satan

Ciaphas posted:

I like that the exosuit release was tied to securing Tien Kwan but I wonder what the devs would have done if it didn't get done in a timely manner

I honestly assume they have been tipping the scales the whole time when they do stuff like this.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:48

Exodee: Mar 30, 2011; Damp and depressing.
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Ciaphas posted:

forget the railgun, the GL just seems to do everything and anything short of killing hulks

GL + supply pack against bots, AC against bugs seems to be my emerging MO

(e) this is on 4 or 5 difficulty lest anyone take this as sage advice lol

One advantage the AC has over the GL for bots is that it can destroy factories (if you got a good angle on the vents), anti-air guns and mortar emplacements from like a kilometer away, which is pretty huge.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:48

BadLlama: Jan 13, 2006

Now I want a hand held minigun with its own ammo backpack.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:49

johnny park: Sep 15, 2009

nexus6 posted:

Seems servers are down. I literally had a mission crash while extracting. Restarted the game now I've been in a queue for 10 minutes.

Yup. RIP

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:49

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

mechsuit too stronk, blew up the servers

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:50

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Ciaphas posted:

mechsuit too stronk, blew up the servers

Finally, Super Earth is safe forever

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:53

raverrn: Apr 5, 2005; Unidentified spacecraft inbound from delta line.

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BadLlama posted:

The mechs are in the same area as sentries buffs, anyone have the +50% ammo capacity upgrade and can confirm their mech still has 1000 rounds or 1500?

1000, good try though.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:53

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

BadLlama posted:

The mechs are in the same area as sentries buffs, anyone have the +50% ammo capacity upgrade and can confirm their mech still has 1000 rounds or 1500?

i'm pretty sure i have the sentry upgrade and the robot i called in only had 1k bullets

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:53

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Internet Explorer posted:

It's supposed to fall and land on the bots it dropped. I believe it used to be pretty close to 100% consistent and now it seems much less frequent. Dunno if it's a bug or a purposeful change.

Compared to earlier days, a lot of the time my view of dropships is "Huh, empty. did they already drop stuff?" and then like magic it starts raining bots from it. So another reason to feel justified in no longer bothering with the EAT on top of debuffs hitting them worse than other support weapons.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:53

CuddleCryptid: Jan 11, 2013; Things could be going better

Internet Explorer posted:

It's supposed to fall and land on the bots it dropped. I believe it used to be pretty close to 100% consistent and now it seems much less frequent. Dunno if it's a bug or a purposeful change.

I've seen that happen so rarely that I hardly bother anymore unless my sentry does the work for me. They go off course so much that on tight maps it's just as likely to land on you instead of them.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:55

Risky Bisquick: Jan 18, 2008; PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.; Buglord

I swear that weird PS5 railgun interaction is insane. I've had games where I one tap bile titans left and right ( I posted a video like that ) and others where they take 3-4 hits to the same spots to go down.

Does this also exist with chargers? I've had instances where you can use the charged railgun and 2 hit the legs for the armour strip post change, and sometimes it takes 5 hits to the same place and they simply keel over and die before showing the orange bits :confused:

Ciaphas posted:

forget the railgun, the GL just seems to do everything and anything short of killing hulks

GL + supply pack against bots, AC against bugs seems to be my emerging MO

(e) this is on 4 or 5 difficulty lest anyone take this as sage advice lol

GL is a solid option regardless of difficulty. You can 3 hit chargers from the front if you can bounce the grenade underneath and up into the abdomen.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:55

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

the robots are fun because they can crush the little bugs by walking on them but they are probably going to be totally useless on bot missions and any planets that have meteors and the ammo capacity makes them pretty limited in how useful they are

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:57

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# ? May 24, 2024 00:53

WarpedLichen: Aug 14, 2008

Risky Bisquick posted:

GL is a solid option regardless of difficulty. You can 3 hit chargers from the front if you can bounce the grenade underneath and up into the abdomen.

This is gonna be another dumb PS5 difficulty thing isn't it - I swear chargers take way longer to kill sometimes with grenade launchers and flamethrowers.

# ? Mar 8, 2024 17:59

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