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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The problem with the EAT is that it's legit too good and I expect they'll turn it down at some point. Probably slightly decrease the cooldown but only one gets called in. This would absolutely dumpster the EAT (so I assume it is exactly what AH will do)
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Quasar is better for bugs than bots imo. Not only good at killing bugs and closing holes, but good for their structures as well. For bots, the autocannon can take care of pretty much everything easily, whereas charging a quasar just to kill a strider is a real feel bad. And for their structures, you usually want a strategem anyway (or autocannon for factories). My bug loadout lately has been incendiary braker, impact grenades, air strike, 500kg/napalm, laser bot and quasar. either that or the old arc thrower + EAT. Speaking of arc thrower, it feels really strong now that I've gotten used to it. the stagger is really good and you can hold off a bunch of enemies now while killing them.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:27
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The arc thrower, which was already very good against bugs, is even better now. Once of the weaknesses it has was against queens, where you'd pop their head and they would charge and potentially kill you. With the added stagger, that no longer happens. Arc thrower is very good on the Rambo kit against bugs.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:38
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i loving love this game but i hate the spear. its like one out of ten missions itll lock onto anything and youre unstoppable, but every other mission the computer is just too lazy to do jack poo poo. fucker!¡!!
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Apr 8, 2024 21:40
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Where do you aim on the charger with the arc thrower? The top of the head like with an EAT?
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causticBeet posted:This would absolutely dumpster the EAT (so I assume it is exactly what AH will do) Nobody uses EATs because everyone likes to bring a large inventory of things with them wherever they go so I think it's fine. The main draw-back from EATs is actually its virtue: it's disposable and it only gets a single shot. Now if they can let me loving aim my poo poo while I'm in the air with a jump pack...
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Mesadoram posted:Where do you aim on the charger with the arc thrower? The top of the head like with an EAT? Aim? With the arc thrower? Just let it rip while you are head to head with a charger and the lightning will figure out the rest. (just shoot them in the face until they fall over)
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flubber nuts posted:i loving love this game but i hate the spear. its like one out of ten missions itll lock onto anything and youre unstoppable, but every other mission the computer is just too lazy to do jack poo poo. fucker!¡!! Spear is good for destroying bot bases from afar Maybe sometimes in a pinch taking down a big boy. But little else Still taking down fabricators was a huge deal. You can deal with at least 2 or 3 of those without going near it
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flubber nuts posted:i loving love this game but i hate the spear. its like one out of ten missions itll lock onto anything and youre unstoppable, but every other mission the computer is just too lazy to do jack poo poo. fucker!¡!! What do you mean? It works great. https://media.discordapp.net/attach...893a26f6b100c1&
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Apr 8, 2024 21:46
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The only time I've used the spear is when I found one at a PoI and there was a cannon turret in plain sight across an open field 10/10, would shoot once and then discard again
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Apr 8, 2024 21:47
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God this game is so loving good. It should really inspire a new genre, like MOBAs and looter shooters.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:47
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Droxis posted:I loving love Hellmire unironically.  Legit Businessman posted:Aim? With the arc thrower? That's good to hear, I will give it a try tonight 
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The problem with the EAT is that it's legit too good and I expect they'll turn it down at some point. Probably slightly decrease the cooldown but only one gets called in. People better get used to the pro-gamer move of sticking the EAT drop pod onto chargers hey mom its 420 posted:Quasar is better for bugs than bots imo. Not only good at killing bugs and closing holes, but good for their structures as well. For bots, the autocannon can take care of pretty much everything easily, whereas charging a quasar just to kill a strider is a real feel bad. And for their structures, you usually want a strategem anyway (or autocannon for factories). Quasar only works if the situation is under control. When the situation is not in control you want EATs because someone will attack you while you're chargin the laser, and it flinches if it goes through the shield. jokes posted:Nobody uses EATs because everyone likes to bring a large inventory of things with them wherever they go so I think it's fine. The main draw-back from EATs is actually its virtue: it's disposable and it only gets a single shot. EATs are very much still used on bugs. It provides front loaded damage that any member of your team can access at anytime, even when their Quasar is cooling down between shots. It's super flexible and you leave a trail of them all over the map.
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Parkingtigers posted:Impacts rule, and I still adore the Stalwart because gun go brrr. It's a buzzsaw that carves through stuff. Could it carve a little faster? Maybe, but I have the time and just holding down the trigger until the bug is a pile of constituent parts is so satisfying. same except the regular mg on highest rof
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jokes posted:The EAT is a low-cooldown stratagem dedicated to taking out large enemies. In the cooldown time for one orbital rail strike you can get 4 EATs instead. Which is about an equivalent trade if you're not nailing heavies in their weak points reliably.
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Droxis posted:I loving love Hellmire unironically. I just had a fun session with some goons on hellmire. Finally got the Hell Dive cheevo. Turns out not dying on hellmire is easier than anywhere else when you play with some hyper competent goons
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Mesadoram posted:
Just be warned - it takes around 7 shots to solo a charger. You'll need to practice sidestepping their charge (don't dive, unless you have to, it kills your mobility so much) always end the DPS cycle a shot earlier than you think so you can get out of the way. Light armor helps too. And try to dodge by running at a 45 degree angle towards the charger, instead of directly left or right. Running towards them forces them to stop and turn in place which plants them, instead of potentially getting them to turn lazily in a circle if you move off to the side. Once you get the hang of it it's makes chargers a piece of cake (that takes a while).
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Risky Bisquick posted:Quasar only works if the situation is under control. When the situation is not in control you want EATs because someone will attack you while you're chargin the laser, and it flinches if it goes through the shield. This makes no sense to me and I love EATs. When poo poo isn't under control you're still stuck waiting for EATs to drop or your path to your last drop has been cut off by a patrol, or a bile Titan is spitting on your pod, or whack geometry has your EAT call down bounce to the wrong side of a cliff or you stuck a charger with the call down and he's taking the pod off to la la land or ... There are a host of potential issues with EATs being a deployable that don't exist with the Quasar. EATs are better sometimes and Quasars are better in others, but there are plenty of ways for a situation to get out of control with EATs.
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Friend of mine sent me an image he got from discord of a purple "rigel" sector with the illuminate icon being occupied by about 100 or so helldivers. Have no idea if that's fake or not but I'm leaning towards yes. Not seeing anything on helldivers.io so if it is real it probably went dark very quickly. Edit: yeah the rigel sector has all the planets at 100% liberated so probably bullshit explosivo fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Recoiless rifle will have its day!
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The EAT is the best weapon because when everything goes completely to poo poo and the entire squad has wiped, I can call down 2 of em before anyone can get back to their gear. It’s a critical first step to turning the tide on fail cascades. Plus the trail of EATs I leave around the map means everywhere can be a fall back position.
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WarpedLichen posted:This makes no sense to me and I love EATs. The trick is to always be calling down EAT pods. Just another bug hole complex, NBD. EAT. Situation looking a little sketch? EAT. Bored? EAT. In short always be EATing that way there's one around when you or your buddies need one.
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explosivo posted:Friend of mine sent me an image he got from discord of a purple "rigel" sector with the illuminate icon being occupied by about 100 or so helldivers. Have no idea if that's fake or not but I'm leaning towards yes. Not seeing anything on helldivers.io so if it is real it probably went dark very quickly. People have made that same fake dumb image like five separate times already.
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Sagebrush posted:People have made that same fake dumb image like five separate times already. Oh lmao yeah i figured it was something like that
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Wait, you guys go back for your gear instead of just leaving it and moving while waiting for the next cool down?
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Benagain posted:Wait, you guys go back for your gear instead of just leaving it and moving while waiting for the next cool down? Like touching a hot stove repeatedly my group of friends constantly do this and pay dearly for it. Like they figure the 3 minutes without an autocannon is the worst possible thing that could happen even though they usually spend so long trying to get their poo poo that the cooldown's gone AND they've died a bunch attempting to do so. I think in the missions where the cooldowns are longer you kinda have to at least think about it but normally I'll try to make due.
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Automatons destroyed? Check. Terminids contained? Check.  We are going back home soon. War will be over by May, count my words.
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Benagain posted:Wait, you guys go back for your gear instead of just leaving it and moving while waiting for the next cool down? Super Earth yearns for more samples. Will you come to her aid, helldiver?
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When you've got orbital fluctuations and the cooldown is like 12 loving minutes or whatever yes, I am definitely going back for my autocannon unless it's in a total disaster zone. Usually one eagle cluster bomb on the area is enough to run up and grab it.
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WarpedLichen posted:This makes no sense to me and I love EATs. yeah people are way overstating how hard it is to charge the quasar, even on bug helldives you have plenty of time to get shots off. even if there's a swarm of little nerds, your primary/a nade/airstrike behind you as you run will clear enough to get a quasar shot off.
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How much damage do hellpods do to heavy armor? They seem to take a chunk out of chargers and titans
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explosivo posted:Like touching a hot stove repeatedly my group of friends constantly do this and pay dearly for it. Like they figure the 3 minutes without an autocannon is the worst possible thing that could happen even though they usually spend so long trying to get their poo poo that the cooldown's gone AND they've died a bunch attempting to do so. I think in the missions where the cooldowns are longer you kinda have to at least think about it but normally I'll try to make due. yeah, I'll go find my AMR when I'm going bots, it's just so good against them. Typically places where a fight has been are clear for a while, if it's a hot zone it's not worth it though.
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FrancisFukyomama posted:How much damage do hellpods do to heavy armor? They seem to take a chunk out of chargers and titans last night I was being queued for a bunch of level 9 kill terminid missions, the ones where you're in a tiny extraction zone and there are 10000000 horrible chittering insects and multiple bile titans, and it was actually fun as hell. Everyone's dying all over the place anyway so you just sow the ground with every orbital strike you have then when you respawn you can drop onto a titan, then just run circles dropping strategms as they come online.
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jokes posted:God this game is so loving good. It should really inspire a new genre, like MOBAs and looter shooters. If you haven’t checked it out, Deep Rock Galactic is the closest thing to Helldivers 2, albeit with more chill downtime between its moments of terror.
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Haven't played vs Terminids forever, completely forgot how loving annoying bile spewer spam can get.
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Ulio posted:Haven't played vs Terminids forever, completely forgot how loving annoying bile spewer spam can get. Absolutely.
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