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Nybble posted:AC good for bots GL is good in every situation but it really shines against bugs. You can clear out bug nests in record time and It completely negates bile spewers, you'll want to shut those down asap in difficulty 7+
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Hwurmp posted:lol contact mines on Durgen are an absolute menace Is that a planet with red ground/vegetation? Contact mines suuuuck on those planets.
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Nybble posted:AC good for bots I think mobility is more useful against bugs than bots, so while the AC is still good, the ability to reload on the move as well as the better AoE of the GL makes me favor it with bugs.
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Apr 6, 2024 04:14
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Back Hack posted:The one where he hits the tower behind the robot? i don't think that the blast radius is 200 meters but it would be cool if it was
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Back Hack posted:The one where he hits the tower behind the robot? ??????? that detection tower is waaaay off in the distance bro
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Schwawa posted:not to be an rear end in a top hat but have you tried just aiming for their faces? I feel like I pop devvy heads like crazy with the sickle, like I'm always surprised by how fast they go down. Plus you can just sweep it over a big pack of little guys at roughly head height and you'll usually get most of them. to be fair I only took it on one mission, where I was primarily using the AC. I'll give it another shot
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-1 stratagem kinda sucks and I wish it wasn’t so prevalent on everything 8+. It’s not even that it’s hard, it’s just boring how it limits your loadouts.
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causticBeet posted:-1 stratagem kinda sucks and I wish it wasn’t so prevalent on everything 8+. It’s not even that it’s hard, it’s just boring how it limits your loadouts. Yeah I think it's a little cheap and unimaginative to build so much of the gameplay around stratagems then gently caress with them in ways that IMO simply aren't interesting like "you get one fewer."
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Threw the 380mm at some robot command bunkers at level eight today, it was pretty good. Three out of three blew up. Looks like they're so big even the 380 can't miss them. I got to use it a couple of times against big robot groups while running away, too, and it killed, ah, a couple each time
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turn off the TV posted:i don't think that the blast radius is 200 meters but it would be cool if it was Mazerunner posted:??????? I'm dropping this after this post, because this argument we're having here is kind of pointless...however, in this frame, you can clearly see, he hit the tower. https://imgur.com/SWQRDCr There. I'm done. Take it or leave it, it doesn't matter. We'll probably be getting the weapon soon enough and we'll probably be both wrong, where it turns out it's remote-detonated by hold down the trigger or something.
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I am loving filling the niche role of squad Spearman while fighting bots mostly because of their turret killing ability. My group constantly got repeatedly killed by cannon turrets that they lost track of and being able to efficiently wipe them out from a mile away has made our runs go so much smoother.
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Ravenfood posted:Does the stealth armor help you lose bits that already activated or just passive patrols? They seem to lose track of you much more easily and get distracted by any other explosions or noises, so it's really easy to give them the slip. Once in another mission I stumbled on two patrols and just immediately went prone and slithered between them, like 5 metres away, they never noticed me.
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Back Hack posted:I'm dropping this after this post, because this argument we're having here is kind of pointless...however, in this frame, you can clearly see, he hit the tower. the people who have actually played with it, in the comments, said its proximity detonation and you can kill ground stuff by shooting it over their heads. I don't know what to tell you other than you are wrong and stubborn and it does not hit the tower, it flew over their heads and detonated. The tower is way in the distance
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RoyalScion posted:The 110 rocket pods would be nice if it more reliably hit things, but it will even miss stationary things pretty often so I find it hard to recommend even against bots. The rocket pods suck poo poo and are a waste of a stratagem slot. It doesn't even kill all of the enemies in the demo video which is the first red flag.
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SplitSoul posted:When it's good it's good, but I don't think I've ever played a game where pubbies sometimes manage to be such imbeciles. Horace Kinch posted:The rocket pods suck poo poo and are a waste of a stratagem slot. It doesn't even kill all of the enemies in the demo video which is the first red flag.
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I know people are mostly fighting bots at the moment but if you haven't tried the breaker incendiary against bugs you need to. With the increased direct damage and fire damage it now actually fulfills the fantasy of "sweeping shots across a herd of small bugs, setting them all on fire, and watching them fall over a second or two later." And medium bugs die in one burst at short range or a couple of seconds later. Dropped next to a shrieker nest? As long as a single pellet hits one it's dead in two seconds. As a bonus, you get kill credit for anything that dies while on fire. I ended up with over 600 kills one mission. (I wasn't the host afaik. At least I didn't start the missions.) Oh the fire grenades are good too. They do close holes and dropping one on a breach kills every small bug that comes out of it for a while. Sindai fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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okay so just had one of my more fun experiences played Hard with a level 30+ and a level 11. its the mission ending with launching a nuke. we were clearing everything out when the level 30+ guy suddenly dropped in the middle of antagonizing a bunch of nests so the level 11 guy and i spent the rest of the round running for our lives completing the objectives. we ran out of time so we had to fend off the 3-4 huge waves of bugs as we waited for the emergency shuttle to land. i'm sure stories like this are common but man its so fun
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Pretty sure it's just gas strikes do nothing, not that dots in general don't do damage under certain circumstances. Host tried gas strike and it did no noticable damage.
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 So this was a new one - Pelican landed crooked somehow and angled itself such that nobody could walk in. You can kinda see the ocean of Hulks and Devastators that were closing in on us from the left. The only reason it says "Shuttle Departing" at the top is because someone got lucky and managed to clip their way into the trigger zone by crawling up to it in just the right way. MechanicalTomPetty fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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Strong Sauce posted:okay so just had one of my more fun experiences played Hard with a level 30+ and a level 11. its the mission ending with launching a nuke. we were clearing everything out when the level 30+ guy suddenly dropped in the middle of antagonizing a bunch of nests so the level 11 guy and i spent the rest of the round running for our lives completing the objectives. we ran out of time so we had to fend off the 3-4 huge waves of bugs as we waited for the emergency shuttle to land. This game is at its best when poo poo has hit the fan and you still manage to complete objectives and extract
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I stg every time I give the 500 a chance it just disappoints. Not mad about dying, mad about the hulk surviving one exploding in its face. https://i.imgur.com/97Nhadj.mp4
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Eediot Jedi posted:I stg every time I give the 500 a chance it just disappoints. Not mad about dying, mad about the hulk surviving one exploding in its face. Using a macro for strategems?
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Eediot Jedi posted:I stg every time I give the 500 a chance it just disappoints. Not mad about dying, mad about the hulk surviving one exploding in its face. wtf lol
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BitBasher posted:Using a macro for strategems? Nope. Rebound the keys to the arrow keys, so I can run around but can't aim while inputting.
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yeah, I really want to like the 110s because it sounds really useful, but they're only good at killing tanks. and tanks are actually pretty easy to deal with (for example with two impact nades), so there's not much reason for the 110s
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hey mom its 420 posted:yeah, I really want to like the 110s because it sounds really useful, but they're only good at killing tanks. and tanks are actually pretty easy to deal with (for example with two impact nades), so there's not much reason for the 110s I switch between them and eagle cluster depending on what other people are bringing. It's not as good as orbital rail but you get many more uses from it and let's be honest, the one hit kill is rare so doing a lot of damage to a turret or straight up killing a tank is pretty solid.
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I love my big beautiful 500kg bomb Also, it is so cool that they let you pick and change the fire rate of the hmg. I've found myself using it more as a primary than a special 3rd weapon, switching firing rates depending on the distance of engagement. Slower is great for further, middle is decent anywhere, and fastest is great for when you're being overrun and need bullets right now. Clip size is the only downside. I've also been gravitating towards the marksman rifles on highest zoom, feels really great to sneak around in scout armor popping heads. When stealth fails, out comes the hmg and bombs. Game is good as hell
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Arglebargle III posted:Anti-materiel rifle is surprisingly good against bots, I find myself killing hulks with it more often than with the recoilless rifle or laser cannon. And against devastators it's the bee's knees. The key advantage is that by being far away from the rockets and flamethrowers, I'm not getting killed by the rockets and flamethrowers. yeah AMR and marksman rifle (iirc) is a solid early combo, the marksman rifle chews through the smaller and medium ones, the AMR will pop the larger.
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Strong Sauce posted:okay so just had one of my more fun experiences played Hard with a level 30+ and a level 11. its the mission ending with launching a nuke. we were clearing everything out when the level 30+ guy suddenly dropped in the middle of antagonizing a bunch of nests so the level 11 guy and i spent the rest of the round running for our lives completing the objectives. we ran out of time so we had to fend off the 3-4 huge waves of bugs as we waited for the emergency shuttle to land. 
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Lobok posted:Is that a planet with red ground/vegetation? Contact mines suuuuck on those planets. In the daytime, mines blend in with Durgen's desert sand almost perfectly.  Next time I'm just crawling around the outside of the bases and shooting any I see.
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Darox posted:When time runs out and the destroyers leave the 20s evac timer starts as soon as the Pelican lands regardless of if anyone is onboard or not, so he was right to get on. I meant there wasn't enough time to finish the objective. We only had a couple of reinforcements left and still needed 3 or so bug holes. He called it in and extracted while we were like 100m away and beelining for the extract.
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SplitSoul posted:I meant there wasn't enough time to finish the objective. We only had a couple of reinforcements left and still needed 3 or so bug holes. He called it in and extracted while we were like 100m away and beelining for the extract. not possible. If you hadn't completed the main objective, then it is not possible to call in extraction except if time runs out, which means you failed and you get a one time 'be here or get hosed' last chance. Your teammate did not do anything. You did not pay attention to the time, and got left behind by the game itself.
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Mazerunner posted:not possible. Then I'm wrong about the objectives and somebody else closed them on the way. I know there was time left on the timer, because stratagems were still available to call in. I called down a resupply on the way there. Does the timer keep going after they're completed and trigger the last ditch extract anyway? Then I'm sorry for calling that guy a loving idiot. SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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So who's the new faction?
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SplitSoul posted:Does the timer keep going after they're completed and trigger the last ditch extract anyway? It does, and on blitz missions you only get 12 minutes instead of the usual 40 iirc.
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