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I can't imagine the horror of being forced to bring huge explosions to blow up giant bugs. What a crime of game design, what if instead they just skipped the middleman and only gave you 3 strat slots.Parkingtigers posted:What's the best advice on getting the Gone in 360 Seconds trophy? Missions, loadout, enemy type, any tips in general. I just need that one, and the "nobody dies on a level 6 mission" which I can always sneak out a stealth solo run if needed. Really want to get the speed one over and done with though. Darox fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I think gas might be bugged in exactly the same way as fire damage over time. Ie, if you aren't the host it doesn't hurt them properly. yeah i was landing direct hits over a breach with 0 kills and it looked like the gas dissipated real quick
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Apr 9, 2024 05:05
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The "just shoot the bile titan two eats bing bong so simple" is hilarious because I more than likely already used both EAT's killing two of the three chargers. poo poo just gets so chaotic, I forgot how hard the bugs can be.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:06
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That's where your teammates come in. No one helldiver should be expected to carry the entire AT burden.
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Strong Sauce posted:yeah i was landing direct hits over a breach with 0 kills and it looked like the gas dissipated real quick That’s disappointing. Hopefully they can figure out some stability for gas and fire soon. I can confirm in my case I was seeing the kill counter tick up like in that screenshot.
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Parkingtigers posted:What's the best advice on getting the Gone in 360 Seconds trophy? Missions, loadout, enemy type, any tips in general. I just need that one, and the "nobody dies on a level 6 mission" which I can always sneak out a stealth solo run if needed. Really want to get the speed one over and done with though. Bug Blitz. Then Orbital Laser, Grenade Launcher, Ammo Pack, 500kg/airstrike. Drop a laser on the first bug hole you see, lob grenades into the next few holes, fire & forget the eagle on bug holes/crowds, keep running and ignore the small bugs.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:12
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Strong Sauce posted:yeah i was landing direct hits over a breach with 0 kills and it looked like the gas dissipated real quick this just means that the devs have been doing a good job ensuring that all of the orbital strikes are equally powerful
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Apr 9, 2024 05:16
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So I think I saw someone here mention a bug where there was a lethal spot on the map. That happened in a mission I played, my friend and one or two other team members died instantly to "unknown" after stepping on some spot on the map, and wasted a few reinforcements trying to get their samples and weapons back because the same thing happened each time. Other bug I experience sometimes is when joining a mission, sometimes I cannot choose a booster, and choosing strategems is also kind of bugged out in that if I use my mouse I select the wrong ones, I have to use the direction arrows and enter key.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:19
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incogneato posted:Someone mentioned that this game is client side p2p. Is that true? My friend complains that he only gets lag when he plays with me, and I'm generally hosting. It is indeed peer to peer. It tries to hand off host if the host crashes or drops and weird poo poo can happen.
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Hey, I just recently got into this game, and I'm wondering if there's a bug on the major orders awarding medals. I participated in the big push against the automatons alongside another brand new friends and a veteran player. They received the 50 medals, but over a day later, I've still got nothing. It would be a big boost to getting me along the battle pass, so am I just screwed out of them?
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Yes, there is a bug on the major orders awarding medals. It takes a few days sometimes.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:23
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I think the one before last took like 10 days for me to get the medals.
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incogneato posted:Someone mentioned that this game is client side p2p. Is that true? My friend complains that he only gets lag when he plays with me, and I'm generally hosting. afaik up/down speed and latency aren't as important in this as your ISP's ability to competently route traffic or whatever. i play with someone who DCs every 30 seconds due to horrible amounts of packet loss and their only solution is using a vpn
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Sagebrush posted:Yes, there is a bug on the major orders awarding medals. It takes a few days sometimes. Baiard posted:I think the one before last took like 10 days for me to get the medals. Thanks, I'll just be patient then. At least they got the medals to you eventually.
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Sagebrush posted:You definitely don't need that many stratagem slots. Technically all you need is one person with an EAT, because they still die to two shots to the face. Add a person with a 500 and a person with a rail cannon and you have plenty of options. And all three of those are also useful for chargers and bile bugs and stuff. The bile titans spawn rate on 8/9 is fine as long as your team brings a lot more than 500kg, orbital rail, and an EAT to deal with them. The stun nerf also makes this significantly harder because you can’t just line up free 500s and rockets to the face any more, so you end up doing a lot more chip damage and needing a combo of attacks.
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Eimi posted:Thanks, I'll just be patient then. At least they got the medals to you eventually. Early on when they tried giving them out all at once it completely swamped the player resource tracking and for a day or so missions would randomly not give rewards.
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Darox posted:I can't imagine the horror of being forced to bring huge explosions to blow up giant bugs. What a crime of game design, what if instead they just skipped the middleman and only gave you 3 strat slots. "Huge explosions" aka a choice between a bazooka, a laser bazooka, and disposable bazookas, each with nearly identical firing profiles and almost no function outside of their designated role? Riveting gameplay, baby. It doesn't help that other options are either broken, unreliable, or got nerfed. Patriots can barely dent a BT now with the rocket damage and aim nerfs and Stun Grenades actually opened up alternate options but nope only EATs and 500kgs allowed sorry Edit: and sorry again, I'm just salty after playing a game full of chargers and bile titans. I don't find much enjoyment from endlessly running away from nigh-invulnerable enemies with invisible beam breath while I wait for cooldowns. But I also don't like cakewalks so this is the bed I made I guess Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I think gas might be bugged in exactly the same way as fire damage over time. Ie, if you aren't the host it doesn't hurt them properly. I'm not yet convinced it has entirely to do with who is the host. I've played games where the host could light stuff on fire but their gas strikes did no damage, and I've done tons of drops where I'm not the host and deal fire damage without an issue. I did, however, also drop on a handful of games where patches of fire left by napalm and flamethrowers did no damage at all, but my flame breaker did fine. novaSphere fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Hellmire squashed, gg team. Don't even care about the order really, people talk about The Creek but it seems like I can never escape Hellmire. 
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I've also had wildly varrying success with gas strikes, sometimes doing seemingly nothing, sometimes locking down almost all of an entire bug breach. Usually they instant kill helldivers though. Been a minute since I've personally used it though.causticBeet posted:The bile titans spawn rate on 8/9 is fine as long as your team brings a lot more than 500kg, orbital rail, and an EAT to deal with them. The stun nerf also makes this significantly harder because you can’t just line up free 500s and rockets to the face any more, so you end up doing a lot more chip damage and needing a combo of attacks. The AC turret also does pretty good work on bts, if you can place it in a position where it doesn't instantly get shattered by a bug swarm. Recently I had a match that was going smoothly but ended with too many fire tornados, which I swear are sentient and/or hungry, at least half a dozen chargers, and three or four bts. We dealth with most of them with AT stuff, RR and Quasar, orbital railcannon, 500k bombs, and a bit of orbital lasers, but multiple of them where finished off by the one guy with an arc cannon after a hit or three of anti big stuff failrd to finish them off. Seems like a pretty fantastic compliment to take alongside everyone else's heavy weaponry.
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novaSphere posted:"Huge explosions" aka a choice between a bazooka, a laser bazooka, and disposable bazookas, each with nearly identical firing profiles and almost no function outside of their designated role? Riveting gameplay, baby. Darox posted:It would be an interesting alternative if charger legs were a little less heavily armoured and given more health to compensate. Let AC/Laser Cannon/Impacts break leg armour and then give the stripped leg like +60% more health than it currently has. e: Also also make bile spewers spawn on every single bug mission, it's still insane to me that the only bug that doesn't fall into the two different bug categories ("just shoot it with your primary" and "just shoot it with a rocket") only has a small chance to actually ever show up on missions even on Helldives. Darox fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:are any of the superstore armor sets worth it? i know some provide unique armor sets/weight combos, but are any good enough to be worth buying? There’s a few in my opinion (apologies I don’t recall the precise names but I go by the armour modifier and type) because they have no crossover with warbond armour: - the light padded armour (more armour than the type normally has) - heavy padded armour - light engineer (more grenades, though you get medium engineer armour in Helldivers assemble) - light medic (more stims) - heavy medic The worst thing about the war bonds, so far, is that the armour is all the same type and mod. Hopefully that’ll change with the upcoming warbond. All that said, I do find myself favoring the “Power of Democracy” armours these days.
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i accidentally picked spear instead of grenade launcher and i'm only able to hold one spear since i also brought down a guard dog. anyways my teammate is running from a charger, i line up the spear and get him. i'm about to summon another spear down when i turn around and another charger is there looking at me.. it starts to charge and i'm trying to throw down the call down beacon and i juke the wrong way against the charger and it runs over me right into a rock. apparently the guard dog did just enough damage to finish it off and it died right on top of me and i ended up getting stuck. my teammate killed me but then i realized all my samples were also stuck underneath the carcass. so we just had to wait it out.
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I accidentally joined a lvl 1 mission instead of starting my own, we were a full squad, and 2 of the players who were in the lvl 30 range kept dying to bugs. It was interesting to say the least. We used 10 reinforcements. I'm assuming it was someone new playing on their account, or at least I am hoping that was the case.
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why is the spear not a guarenteed kill against hulks, tanks, etc? just worse in every way than eat/rr even vs gunships where you would think it'd be perfect you only get 4 shots and the quasar does just fine shooting them out of the sky
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The Spear uses programming to defeat its target. It is basically a bot. Are you saying bots should be effective?
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For all its downsides, the spear probably should be a guaranteed kill against bile titans. But not chargers. This would mean that against bots it has the use case of sniping towers and factories, and against bugs it could deal with the titan. But it would still be a pig to aim, and you'd still have the chargers and hulks/tanks as things it struggles with.
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I love EATs too, but the main limitation for them on 8-9 difficulty bugs is the throughput. At most you can get in one shot per 30 seconds vs one shot per 12 or however much it is with the Quasar. anyway, what's the latest on the host only fire damage bug? it's hard to test so I don't know if that is still a thing or not.
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It's absolutely still a thing.
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I never host and use incendiary breaker constantly and have never once seen it. 
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the spear already sucks at killing chargers because the lockon blows and also it can't hit anything close to you since the missile just flies over the target's head. It has absolutely no flexibility since you can't use it on smaller enemies in a pinch, can't kill poo poo close to you, and if you have multiple targets in your lockon cone it's awful at shooting the one you want. Needing two shots to kill bile titans is fine, you can already do it in one if you hit the head. If anything i'd like to one-shot chargers since they're a lesser tier enemy, there's already a ton of limitations on its power already. RoyalScion fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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What is with the rewards for the major orders not paying out? I’ve participated in the last two and I have yet to see any rewards.
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Sindai posted:I never host and use incendiary breaker constantly and have never once seen it. fire BASE damage still occurs, it's only DoT damage ticks that are broken on anyone not the network host, which is different than the game host. So yes flamers and incin breakers will still work fine, but not "optimally".
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fat bossy gerbil posted:What is with the rewards for the major orders not paying out? I’ve participated in the last two and I have yet to see any rewards. They appear to have a really weird, inconsistent delay in being paid out. They do get paid out, eventually.
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helldivers is actually a very elaborate cryptocurrency rugpull.
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Strong Sauce posted:helldivers is actually a very elaborate cryptocurrency rugpull. That’s why you shoot the bugs in the butts
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fat bossy gerbil posted:What is with the rewards for the major orders not paying out? I’ve participated in the last two and I have yet to see any rewards. its a delayed batch processing job to award them to the million players who actually contributed, i really get the feeling it is a manually triggered processs
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Was playing 8s on Fori and was nearing the end of a relatively smooth mission. I died and on my reinforce landed on top of the big canyon wall bisecting the map, reinforced someone else up there and we both ran along it all the way back to extraction and heroically dove off, both surviving the fall.
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its like being drunk, diving reduces damage
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