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The heavy MG is just like the medium MG, but with more recoil; I don't really get the point. It doesn't have noticeably better armor penetration against bots. The Quasar does the same job as the EAT. You get slightly less cooldown, but you can't take out two dropships in quick succession. Maybe it's for people who don't like calling down strategems and littering the map with EATs. If they up the calldown/cooldown time on the EATs a little I can see it getting use; especially on maps with modifiers that increase it further. thotsky fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Dandywalken posted:Fix the Spear lockon, cowards!!! The current trick I have been using is to mash the mouse button when it gets close to lockon so if I click on the nanosecond its green the gun fires.
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You can also stop trying to lock and then try again immediately, it sometimes acquires fast enough to almost seem designed.
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I think the Quaser is really going to shine with the jetpack. Being able to get up into places with it where EAT's wont land might be amazing, especially against robots where if you can get just the slightest angle on the roof the Quaser will mess them up in one shot.
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CelticPredator posted:Ems is god tier I've been running it and it's so helpful with a coordinated team, and the cooldown is a little over a minute which lines up with the timers on a lot of enemy reinforcements so whenever a new breach pops up we can put it down easily and focus fire on a hulk or BT or give them the slip and dip
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My first thought with the quasar is to pair it with scout armor and a jump pack, using the cooldown time to scoot between shots.
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I've only used the Quasar on the cold planet so far but it's got a good 10 second cooldown there. It'll probably be rough on hot worlds. Either way I can get a recoiless loaded much faster, even without team help.
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thotsky posted:The heavy MG is just like the medium MG, but with more recoil; I don't really get the point. It doesn't have noticeably better armor penetration against bots. The cool down is long enough and the charge is long enough that you are not hitting two drop ships when they are back to back. you can manage that with EATs if you're standing next to the drop pod or your buddy grabs the second one to help out.
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I haven't used the new weapons yet because I'm out of town, but from reading posts here it seems like the only reason to bring an RR at this point over EATs or a Quasar is if you're going to be getting buddy reloads.
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Lladre posted:The cool down is long enough and the charge is long enough that you are not hitting two drop ships when they are back to back. you can manage that with EATs if you're standing next to the drop pod or your buddy grabs the second one to help out. Yes? That was my point? The Quasar can't do that, but the EATs can. In return the Quasar will give more shots over like, 5 minute or whatever. There's less burst damage but more sustain. thotsky fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ice Fist posted:I haven't used the new weapons yet because I'm out of town, but from reading posts here it seems like the only reason to bring an RR at this point over EATs or a Quasar is if you're going to be getting buddy reloads. This seems about right. If they buffed buddy reloads by letting someone reload of the RR users backpack it would be in a really good spot I think.
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Ok so with bots I can run 50% explosive damage armor and that mostly saves me vs rockets, stuns and that mostly saves me against devastators and hulks, EMS mortar and hordes of bots are much less bad. But the thing that's eating my lunch vs bots is when they send like 6 berserkers at me. Nothing seems to kill them efficiently they just keep coming. Is there an answer? I'm about 100 medals to the slugger but I don't have that or the scorcher yet.
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That should be the case for the autocannon as well. Having one person not shooting stuff is surely balancing enough. I doubt buddy reloads are getting that much use when it requires that you have the backpack, and from a simulationist perspective it makes no sense.
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Dren posted:Ok so with bots I can run 50% explosive damage armor and that mostly saves me vs rockets, stuns and that mostly saves me against devastators and hulks, EMS mortar and hordes of bots are much less bad. But the thing that's eating my lunch vs bots is when they send like 6 berserkers at me. Nothing seems to kill them efficiently they just keep coming. Is there an answer? I'm about 100 medals to the slugger but I don't have that or the scorcher yet. The Slugger and impact grenades help a lot. The SMG sidearm might be your best bet until then.
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thotsky posted:The Slugger and impact grenades help a lot. The SMG sidearm might be your best bet until then. Stun grenades work well too
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Dren posted:Ok so with bots I can run 50% explosive damage armor and that mostly saves me vs rockets, stuns and that mostly saves me against devastators and hulks, EMS mortar and hordes of bots are much less bad. But the thing that's eating my lunch vs bots is when they send like 6 berserkers at me. Nothing seems to kill them efficiently they just keep coming. Is there an answer? I'm about 100 medals to the slugger but I don't have that or the scorcher yet. Shoot them in the head not the gut weakspot.
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AC completely bodies bots, i have a hard time bringing any other weapon instead
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causticBeet posted:This seems about right. If they buffed buddy reloads by letting someone reload of the RR users backpack it would be in a really good spot I think. I loved running RR in the first game and hope they do this. IIRC the RR also did much more damage than the EAT in HD1. Being cumbersome to run and with no clear damage advantage over the EAT makes the RR really easy to pass up at the moment.
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Hmm keeping getting a crash every time the new Laser Bazooka lands from the hellpod.
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I tried the light fortified armor for bot missions this week, and yep, I didn't want to admit it but it seems pretty helpful. Since I spend a decent amount of time mixing and matching my outfits for maximum drip, though, it is intensely frustrating that NONE OF THE GREENS EVER MATCH, so literally the only helmet in the game that doesn't clash is the one it comes with. Seriously, I really need them to do a pass on the coloring, just have a couple art team guts go over some stuff with a shader. There are like 8 suits with primary green coloring and each one uses a slightly different shade of green. They used the same shades of orange and beige and grey on a lot of different outfits, presumably for the fashion possibilities, so it really stands out that they didn't pick a uniform shade of green.
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jokes posted:gently caress the AMR for only allowing scoped shooting, by the way. No floating crosshair when normally wielding it is bullshit. The first time there was a "Kill 60 enemies with the AMR" personal order I didn't know there was an option to ads your gun. So I killed 60 bugs in a mission hip firing a sniper rifle at close range with no sight. I did a deep dive into the control options after that.
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:AC completely bodies bots, i have a hard time bringing any other weapon instead Laser Cannon is fun, but it doesn't hold a candle to how hard the AC murders bots.
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Dren posted:Ok so with bots I can run 50% explosive damage armor and that mostly saves me vs rockets, stuns and that mostly saves me against devastators and hulks, EMS mortar and hordes of bots are much less bad. But the thing that's eating my lunch vs bots is when they send like 6 berserkers at me. Nothing seems to kill them efficiently they just keep coming. Is there an answer? I'm about 100 medals to the slugger but I don't have that or the scorcher yet. -Impact nades and AC/AMR at range (AMR *seems* to 1 shot headshot, if you can hit) -Redeemer and/or auto primary up close The main thing is focus on *one* body part and dont panic spray. The entire purpose of the bot, even its appearance, is tailor made to make you panic. The glowing chest and head are obvious explosive weakspots but you can blow off their arms and legs too. You are faster than them. Their melee attack is wonky and misses alot.
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Dren posted:Ok so with bots I can run 50% explosive damage armor and that mostly saves me vs rockets, stuns and that mostly saves me against devastators and hulks, EMS mortar and hordes of bots are much less bad. But the thing that's eating my lunch vs bots is when they send like 6 berserkers at me. Nothing seems to kill them efficiently they just keep coming. Is there an answer? I'm about 100 medals to the slugger but I don't have that or the scorcher yet. the only weapon i've used that kills berserkers notably fast and efficiently is the normal machinegun if everybody else has walkers, hulks and devs handled it's not a bad niche to fill. the hmg probably works for that too, now that it exists? haven't used it though
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I’ve crashed in 2/2 games I’ve played on PC since the patch and validating steam files. This is on the non-snowball planet too. Love this game but these updates and general stability has kind of been a shitshow. I also still have friends who will just be totally unable to connect to any lobbies some nights and no amount of network or client troubleshooting seems to make a difference.
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Yeah Berserkers have little armor but just a fuckload of HP. If you can I would just concentrate fire with your team to bring a group of them down
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causticBeet posted:I’ve crashed in 2/2 games I’ve played on PC since the patch and validating steam files. This is on the non-snowball planet too. Love this game but these updates and general stability has kind of been a shitshow. I also still have friends who will just be totally unable to connect to any lobbies some nights and no amount of network or client troubleshooting seems to make a difference.  I genuinely thought that the goon who said this earlier was joking about this in reference to the previous arc crashes
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also crashing in all games, regardless of planet
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Ugh, of course the HMG is poo poo, it's always something with this loving game
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magiccarpet posted:They fixed the PS5 loadout bug! oh sweet jesus thank you, it was driving me mad
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There was a new NVidia driver, installing stop the crash on drop pod landing. Is it possibly a cultural thing in Sweden where 20/20 or 450/450 doesn't mean you've completed your task? Only when you reach 21/20 or 451/450, or is this just a typo in their poo poo? BadLlama fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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BadLlama posted:There was a new NVidia driver, installing stop the crash on drop pod landing. I dunno but we've had 1 more sample than it said you could get. Like 21/20 or whatever.
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Dren posted:I dunno but we've had 1 more sample than it said you could get. Like 21/20 or whatever. I'm pretty sure the sample counter in the menu only considers ground spawn stuff and not the ones in the escape pods and shipping containers and what not, but I could be wrong.
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What's the better warband progression?
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the tingler posted:What's the better warband progression? IMO (and assuming you're willing to spend  ) Sickle and Stun Grenade from Cutting Edge Warbond, which requires very medals and gets two extremely good pieces of gear, then get through page 8 of the free warbond to get the Slugger while picking up a lot of other decent to good stuff along the way, then finish whatever you want. I don't really like anything from the last two pages of the free warbond except the Muscle Enhancement Booster which is useful on some planets, and I don't like literally anything on the Steeled Veterans warbond (the Dominator is the best of the worst but it's pretty mediocre).If you don't want to spend money then going down the free warbond is perfectly good and you can pick up the Cutting Edge (or whatever comes next) with the currency found in game and unlocked via the regular warbond
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toasterwarrior posted:Ugh, of course the HMG is poo poo, it's always something with this loving game lmao no it it isn't
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The only really interesting items in the "first" premium warbond are the senator (if you like wheelguns) and the JAR (if you like bolters). Everything else is meh. IMO the "second" premium warbond is much better value, since you get arc-proof armor, and the Sickle right out the gate, which is one of the best primaries in the game, and it's also got stun grenades which somehow are allowed to work on bile titans when EMS isn't. Don't spend any real money unless you just want to show the devs love though, it's perfectly viable to farm all the premium currency you need by just playing.
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thotsky posted:Yes? That was my point? The Quasar can't do that, but the EATs can. In return the Quasar will give more shots over like, 5 minute or whatever. There's less burst damage but more sustain. I get it. But I rather run an auto cannon or the rifle for all the stuff you don't need an EAT for.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:lmao no it it isn't if they're gonna add a gun that's ADS only, they could at least make sure the sight is aligned properly
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