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I mean it's more that to get to Choohe we have to go through Bot Hellmire and NO ONE wants to go back there.
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I'd like to try it against bugs, I can't give up my autocannon against bots. Definitely been killed by it
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Apr 27, 2024 16:38
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PlasticAutomaton posted:I mean it's more that to get to Choohe we have to go through Bot Hellmire and NO ONE wants to go back there. We can get to Chooe through Menkent which is already half liberated. That might actually be the only way to get the order completed on time.
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Apr 27, 2024 16:38
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Arglebargle III posted:Holy poo poo we do NOT want the pubbies to gain access to the cluster rocket launcher. The team kill potential is unreal. Palpatine: I love Democracy Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Gave the orbital shrapnel shot a try and got a question, why wouldn't I just bring cluster bombs instead? with all the upgrades it has 5 uses and comes with a big boy eagle strike bomb. You don’t cheat on eagle -1, eagle supremacy
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Apr 27, 2024 17:25
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I'm going to say the airburst launcher is basically useless unless the game just kinda hates me. I've shot them at gunships from every conceivable angle and distance and the general result is a single kill if it hits them dead on and nothing else for a massively long reload, or more likely- literally no response at all because it blows up in midair and none of the airburst so much as touches anything. Gunship Generators are my new most hated structure because once it gets spooled up there's nothing you can do. 8 gunships is nothing you have a response for and you just get chewed up endlessly.
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Apr 27, 2024 17:50
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Helldiver firing the airburst rocket and then immediately getting on his democracy phone to book a flight to Choohe.
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Apr 27, 2024 17:54
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Fabricated posted:I'm going to say the airburst launcher is basically useless unless the game just kinda hates me. I've shot them at gunships from every conceivable angle and distance and the general result is a single kill if it hits them dead on and nothing else for a massively long reload, or more likely- literally no response at all because it blows up in midair and none of the airburst so much as touches anything. Gunship Generators are my new most hated structure because once it gets spooled up there's nothing you can do. 8 gunships is nothing you have a response for and you just get chewed up endlessly. just shoot them with the laser canon
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Apr 27, 2024 17:59
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It'll be a shame if the airburst launcher ends up sucking because it does look cool as hell.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:10
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Shoulda went for the giant antitank discus...
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Apr 27, 2024 18:13
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bandaid.friend posted:I haven't liked exterminate missions from the beginning. They're not fun? The robots overcome your position so easily. I was irritated recently when someone just dropped a 380mm on top of us when it got nasty, but since then I've been doing it myself. Not right on top of us, but the maps are so small it's always risky. And it works quickly. I just bring along the three big barrages now (and a gatling) and drop them where there's lots of robots and not so many helldivers I bring ems and reg mortar and cluster bombs and either auto canon or laser or counter pick to fill in a hole based on what other people picked. Seems to work really well, but also I haven't gotten all the way up the difficulty chain yet so maybe that tapers off in effectiveness?
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Apr 27, 2024 18:20
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Reiley posted:Shoulda went for the giant antitank discus... W I D E 5 0 0
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Fabricated posted:I'm going to say the airburst launcher is basically useless unless the game just kinda hates me. I've shot them at gunships from every conceivable angle and distance and the general result is a single kill if it hits them dead on and nothing else for a massively long reload, or more likely- literally no response at all because it blows up in midair and none of the airburst so much as touches anything. Gunship Generators are my new most hated structure because once it gets spooled up there's nothing you can do. 8 gunships is nothing you have a response for and you just get chewed up endlessly. Airburst is not Anti Air. This is a bunch of explosives that explodes and are thrown around when they pass in proximity to something. It's not an Anti Air weapon. It's meant to be shot over patrols or walls then it drops a pile of bomblets on the area under where it detonates. EDIT: Removed a pile of very wrong words. BitBasher fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Apr 27, 2024 18:24
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I am pretty sure that you have that backwards. In the video they posted, Penta has the rocket launcher and Choohe has the mines. That's why everyone fighting on Penta is currently getting the rocket launcher for free. Penta will be liberated in a matter of hours but we don't even have access to Choohe yet.
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Sagebrush posted:I am pretty sure that you have that backwards. In the video they posted, Penta has the rocket launcher and Choohe has the mines. That's why everyone fighting on Penta is currently getting the rocket launcher for free. Penta will be liberated in a matter of hours but we don't even have access to Choohe yet. Yeah, you're right, this is what I get when I post before coffee! My bad
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Apr 27, 2024 18:39
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drat this cluster launcher is some funny poo poo. If you've ever wanted to accidentally kill your entire team on extraction, because the projectile detected a light pole 5 meters to your side and detonated right then and there, you've found the right support weapon.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:40
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Gave the orbital shrapnel shot a try and got a question, why wouldn't I just bring cluster bombs instead? with all the upgrades it has 5 uses and comes with a big boy eagle strike bomb. Orbital cluster does more concentrated damage, eagle cluster is more spread out.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:45
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it is really nuts that they haven't made the supply lines visible yet though
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Apr 27, 2024 18:47
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PlasticAutomaton posted:I mean it's more that to get to Choohe we have to go through Bot Hellmire and NO ONE wants to go back there. Yeah gently caress fire planets. Im ok not doing then atm.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:48
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Sagebrush posted:it is really nuts that they haven't made the supply lines visible yet though It's probably because the supply lines in most of the map are placeholders, though I guess they could at least show them in active sectors at the very least.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:53
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they want the lines to be a supplies 
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Gave the orbital shrapnel shot a try and got a question, why wouldn't I just bring cluster bombs instead? with all the upgrades it has 5 uses and comes with a big boy eagle strike bomb. The airburst is something I primarily run with bugs because I can just drop it on a breach and it will kill 75-100% of the bugs. Just right-right-right and I can ignore a breach unless a Charger comes out, and even then it's going to be stripped of the little guys that makes fighting them complicated. You're right that there's a lot better stuff for bots though.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:15
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I looked at the supply lines on Friday but I guess I got them backwards, because I thought we were gonna have to liberate Chort Bay first and that would open both of the MO planets at the same time. That would make more sense for a thing where the community is supposed to be competing with each other. Of course, it would make a lot more sense for the relevant planets to be immediately available instead of locked behind a mechanic that‘s only visible on a third party website.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:41
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Pak choohe unf
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Trip report. Airburst is very great for repeatedly killing yourself even when there's a completely clear path between you and enemies.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:44
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Airburst kills tanks and hulks, unlike clusters.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:46
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Airburst would be great if you could do something like hold a charge to determine how far it goes before exploding. The proximity detector it has seems quite traitorous.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:58
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I could see airbust being useful in wider spaced areas with a lot of enemies heading to you. I played alone to test but I’m sure like the mortar it’s garbage when anyone else shows up
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Apr 27, 2024 20:04
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I gotta say the most annoying thing about playing on comms, far more than team kills or bugs, are people who excitedly get on voice and spout useless communication. "Hulk on me!" "Bots behind us!" "I need some help!" You might as well have not said anything because I can't act on this information. Who is talking? What direction do you mean? Please at least use cardinal directions and refer to yourself by your code on the map.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:05
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You can see who’s talking.
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it would be cool if the rocket didn't arm itself immediately so it didn't go off because of the cover i am behind or a bush that is in the general vicinity. super earth needs to field test their poo poo i think.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:19
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uber_stoat posted:it would be cool if the rocket didn't arm itself immediately so it didn't go off because of the cover i am behind or a bush that is in the general vicinity. super earth needs to field test their poo poo i think. We are the field testers.
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CelticPredator posted:You can see who’s talking. Do you guys play with your discord overlay on?
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You’re talking about your homies? We’re just chatting and I know who’s who because of the armor or their name. So when someone says “hulk on me” I know their voice, bc they’re friends lol, and see their name and go to them
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I wouldn’t play this game on discord with people I don’t know honestly. I’d rather just use the in game voice chat for that. Other wise it’s with the homies so I guess this issue isn’t one I can relate too
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CelticPredator posted:I could see airbust being useful in wider spaced areas with a lot of enemies heading to you. It's really great for a stream of enemies, a PoI of mediums, running from a pack, and breaches like others have said. But yeah it's just a little bit more wide than you expect and this will kill your teammates if anyone is close. I see most people run away from it but a few others treat it like a 500kg they can get kind of close to and those people get chunked up immediately. People probably aren't used to it's range because it's not used that frequently. Arglebargle III posted:I gotta say the most annoying thing about playing on comms, far more than team kills or bugs, are people who excitedly get on voice and spout useless communication. Like Celtic said you can see who's talking, but I'm right there with you. Most of the time I don't even have people say anything as useful as these. Occasionally I'll get "dropping supers off at extract" or someone checking in on the group that's across the map or relaying the shell order of SEAFARTY which is great. Usually I just get: *vape noise* every twenty seconds *sharp inhale* "aww gently caress I hate that" "THATS BULLSHIT" and that's why I just immediately mute at the first sign of vape noise. That's definitely not every voice comm interaction, I've met and friended several people who had good comms or even lovely mics but where good at communicating, but the staticy breathing followed by failure expletives is far more common.
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cardinal direction isn’t any better. You still have to look around the hi to see where they’re at. That behind us near me stuff is a bit useless though I agree. Unless we’re all going the same direction. But sometimes the team splits up so if I know the voice isn’t my buddy I just tend to ignore it. The thing that lets you lock onto objects to tell people what you’re looking is super handy though. Even with voice.
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Yeah I prefer the group stick together because firepower is good, but if you're split up cardinal directions are not as useful. If you are together it is useful though, it takes less than a second to look at the compass.
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New rocket pretty reliably kills fabs from the side, but maybe not from the front(or at least, I haven't found the right spot to aim for yet), which is still 50% more angle you can blow them up from. https://i.imgur.com/PsAddBP.mp4
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I’ve only had to mute someone for background noise once. Honestly I expected more since I thought PS5 controllers had built-in mics that were on by default. Mostly it’s just silence, I feel like people on mic are pretty rare in most games these days. It’s a far cry from a decade ago where you had 12 year olds saying racist slurs every other game. So mostly I rely on the in-game callouts. Still kind of hard to keep track of who’s saying what though, cause of the voice changing every death. It’s a very funny and clever detail, but kind of confusing.
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Strong Sauce posted:cardinal direction isn’t any better. You still have to look around the hi to see where they’re at. you give cardinal directions in relation to the person you're speaking to
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