Pharmaskittle posted:

I wouldn't be surprised if they did a flame trooper battlepass the way they did a tesla trooper one. Tinfoil armor that keeps you from taking fire DoT and a hand flamer would be sick

Aipsh posted:

I bought the Blitzer with my hard earned battle bucks (because it’s the last gun I didn’t own) and WOW. It completely sucks poo poo. Even the weird little energy ball launcher is better

Tommy the Newt posted:

I'm braced for this being an unpopular opinion but the live service aspect of the game is starting to get me down. I appreciate that they're trying to do something new and I genuinely wish them well with it, with a few tweaks I'd probably be into it, but I find currently the cost to individual player choice too high.

For example, if you want to play on Heeth or Fenrir (which are my two favourite planets so far), you just can't because they're no longer on the list. Also if you want to revisit termicide missions you can't, even though they were IMO a better version of the defence missions.

On top of that, if you want to commit to their narrative and contribute to the galactic war you're required to complete full campaigns, which means a potentially 120-minute set of missions in the same location against the same enemy type with the same modifiers. All progress is lost if you want to go elsewhere for a change in the middle of it. Combined with the sense that there's a lot of godhanding going on, this leaves me feeling disengaged from the war effort overall and just frustrated that I can't pick and choose from a more generous menu.

I can see the upsides and potential for sure, it's been good for memes and social media and it does seem to be inspiring for a lot of people but I kinda miss Deep Rock's 20-minute mission and modifier rotation, it lets you access more varied content more often, as well as giving you more control over the length of your session.

Maybe once they add a 3rd faction things will feel a bit more open, it's early days, but I'd really like individual missions to count for war effort and for there to be some way to revisit favourite locations when you want, even if it's in some kind of separate simulator mode or something.

ZeusCannon posted:

I still havent seen any flying bugs

Away all Goats posted:

Just fought some on Oshaune. Medium Difficulty

The Arc thrower is really effective on them as expected. Less likely to kill helldivers while firing at them, too!

edit: Thank you mods for my gang tang :bless:

ZeusCannon posted:

I still havent seen any flying bugs

Video Nasty posted:

(on PS5) has anyone else had their loadout swap to default primary\secondary weapons or swapping the default emote on your diver? I've now jumped into more than one mission where I pulled out the pistol instead of the uzi and have the salute emote when I wanted to hug my bros

DarkHorse posted:

I wish this game was on XBox (or that I could afford a new PS5/PC)

Griz posted:

DeathSandwich posted:

My guess is when the bots and the bugs are mostly bottled up, the illuminate come out. They will have started with some sort of deep sneak attack really close to super earth and all the emphasis is going to be to beat the brakes off of them - allowing the Automatons and Bugs to break their containment and really kick everything into high gear.

Griz posted:

thotsky posted:

The bugs do not need to be bottled up. They don't have space flight capacity; they only get from planet to planet because Super Earth transports them there. It's a cull, not a war.

BadLlama posted:

Or you just shoot them from 141+ meters away with rockets, autocannon, laser cannon etc.

I can't ever clear a nest with one hell bomb, always need at least two.

Maybe am just bad.

LazyMaybe posted:

protip: just ignore them if they're close to you so long as their falling corpses become deathbombs

you can genuinely just run straight into their nest, throw down a hellbomb, activate it and leave without furing a single shot(unless there are ground bugs that would break the hellbomb). don't think many people atm realize how easy this is, there's no need to call in multiple EAT drops to slowly clear out the towers

BadLlama posted:

Or you just shoot them from 141+ meters away with rockets, autocannon, laser cannon etc.

I can't ever clear a nest with one hell bomb, always need at least two.

Maybe am just bad.

Brutor Fartknocker posted:

I have to use 2 hellbombs for like half the blow base up objectives, I wish the hellbomb explosion was bigger.

LazyMaybe posted:

protip: just ignore them if they're close to you so long as their falling corpses become deathbombs

you can genuinely just run straight into their nest, throw down a hellbomb, activate it and leave without furing a single shot(unless there are ground bugs that would break the hellbomb). don't think many people atm realize how easy this is, there's no need to call in multiple EAT drops to slowly clear out the towers

BadLlama posted:

For the research station, the only building you actually have to blow up is the one with all the radio towers around it.

Griz posted:

they aggro from like half a mile away and keep accumulating while you're trying to deal with the dozens of hunters and a stalker lair between you and the nests

LazyMaybe posted:

When dropships pull up carrying multiple tanks/hulks during ore scanning, that's just an excuse to drop eagle airstrikes/orbital lasers on their heads. Alternatively, you could bring a (regular) mortar there, because missions where you defend a point against many bots are mortar's actual strong use case.

BadLlama posted:

Did they change it so if you fail the primary mission you still get your xp and space bucks for the secondaries and bug hole closes?

I swear it used to be if you failed the primary then gently caress you, you get nothing (You should get nothing).

JBP posted:

I have tried to charge in and hellbomb many flyer nests and it is a fool's errand most of the time. They will start attacking you from a way out. You can duck and roll through them, but then you're trying to set up the bomb while a heap of the fuckers divebomb you and it's likely there are heaps more bugs around. I just run in and throw 120s at the base then book it.

JBP posted:

I have tried to charge in and hellbomb many flyer nests and it is a fool's errand most of the time. They will start attacking you from a way out. You can duck and roll through them, but then you're trying to set up the bomb while a heap of the fuckers divebomb you and it's likely there are heaps more bugs around. I just run in and throw 120s at the base then book it.

thotsky posted:

The bugs do not need to be bottled up. They don't have space flight capacity; they only get from planet to planet because Super Earth transports them there. It's a cull, not a war.

Hakarne posted:

Since the bots are in more need of democracy this week, how is the arc thrower against them? I was just starting to like it as a bug zapper and I want to play around with it again now that it won't hardlock my game. I just don't want to feel useless if I show up with one.

Hakarne posted:

Since the bots are in more need of democracy this week, how is the arc thrower against them? I was just starting to like it as a bug zapper and I want to play around with it again now that it won't hardlock my game. I just don't want to feel useless if I show up with one. I'm guessing the personal shield would be all but mandatory since you have to be pretty immobile to dispense freedom with it.

Griz posted:

ZeusCannon posted:

Those are bats

Hwurmp posted:

Arc Thrower is anything but useless, just don't fire if a buddy is in front of you or behind your target

ZeusCannon posted:

Those are bats

Snuffman posted:

Bats aren't bugs.