toasterwarrior posted:

This is the first time I'm doubting Steamchart numbers because playercounts going up while the servers remain as volatile as ever seems wildly incompatible. Surely everyone eventually fuckin gives up sitting in queue or black screen or whatever situation

Typical Pubbie posted:

In my experience, weapons that require the user to ADS and engage targets at long range all suck.

Engaging targets at long range in this game is generally a bad idea. If you're attacking an objective or a patrol for some reason it's best to get as close as possible before your team opens up. That way you kill the defenders quickly while limiting the area of the engagement. This is good because sprawling fire fights over a large area are bad. They aggro more patrols, which has a snowballing effect when the patrols call for reinforcements. This is what overwhelms you.

Also, weapons that need you to ADS to be good just suck in a game where a strong gust of wind will throw your character to the ground, and anything and everything will cause your aim to flinch.

GlyphGryph posted:

They really need to let you use it midair, though. It feels really bad that you can't.

Icedude posted:

Is the Tesla Tower any good? It seems like it'd be great for closing off a direction from bugs, but I only ever see people taking gatling/mg turrets instead.

Aphrodite posted:

What's the best pair of eagle call-ins? I'm using Cluster Bomb right now and it's great but can't hit buildings.

jokes posted:

What up with this wack-rear end turret that one-shots me from super far away but doesn't seem to have a weakpoint? I dropped an air strike but I guess it missed? Anyways, I decided to land on a tank and was standing on top of it just emptying my clips into the vent on the back of the tank and then the turret shot me and destroyed the tank. Thanks?

hey mom its 420 posted:

I played an extract the NPCs defense mission yesterday and to my surprise they made the radius of the map like three times bigger. not sure if that was just a random occurrence or if that came with an update. anyway, it made the mission much more fun because you could actually utilize your range and strategems and keep the situation under control

mentalcontempt posted:

Are the Eagle 110 rocket pods capable of taking out a bile titan? I called them in for the very first time against one, and it just got…deleted. Felt awesome, assuming it was my call-in that did the job and not some other source of damage that I didn’t see.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

https://twitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1762976026580123657?s=20

Coldforge posted:

It was buggy or something, we did several full 3-mission campaigns on the Defend planets and got no credit. I finished the week at 6/10, and did dozens.

blastron posted:

Do we know how armor penetration works? I’m convinced that the DMR is more efficient at doing damage to armored targets because of its higher base damage, but that’s based on my completely untested belief that armor is a flat reduction to incoming damage. If that were to be the case, then against a hypothetical target with a beefy 40 armor, the DMR would be doing 72 damage per shot versus the starting AR’s 15, with smaller rounds just bouncing off.

blastron posted:

Interesting, thanks! Do we have anything specific on what counts as “light armor penetrating” on a weapon’s description? Rather, do all weapons with that descriptor have the same value, or is there a range?

Triarii posted:

That seems really clear-cut (if obfuscated) but then there's also a loading screen tip that says the angle of impact affects armor penetration. Given the state of the game, it might just be lying, who knows.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Ever have the arc fire shoot but nothing happens? Fully charged shots just vanish into the ether, it seems to happen much more often when I'm above the target.

TaurusTorus posted:

What sci-fi archetypes are left? Orks? Nanobots? Cosmic horrors? Posadists?

Apes-A-Poppin posted:

7th difficulty feels just right enough, as has every difficulty thus far, imo they really succeeded in building the difficulty curve. I'd be happy staying on this level if 8 and 9 are just the same but with more hulks and tanks.

nexus6 posted:

I destroyed a dropship with my mech. It just disappeared and a new, wrecked one spawned in at ground level, flew across the ground behind me destroying my mech in the process, and stopped where the original one should have fallen.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

new one first since there seems to be a good gun in there. breaker incendiary is not better than the normal breaker

Nuebot posted:

I was so excited to finally try the JAR, took aim at the center of an automaton, and then fired half a dozen shots over each of its shoulders and between its legs. Eventually I hit it and killed it though, but it's just an insanely inaccurate weapon. You can be a foot away from your target, the dot dead center of the circle lined up center mass and shots will still go wild.

Durzel posted:

Did anyone else find themselves back in tutorial mode when they played today?

I wasn’t thrown into the tutorial, but I’m getting tips on basically everything including advice on changing weapons when they run out of ammo. It’s getting quite annoying to be honest and can’t see any obvious way of turning it off.

Harlock posted:

Making more progress by not logging in for 2 weeks and collecting all the Major Order rewards than actually playing

Jack B Nimble posted:

TLDR; I'm level 13 playing with higher level friends: What's a versatile loadout consisting of, say, one eagle, one turret, one orbital?



Can some recommend some useful and versatile load outs for someone that's always lower level and with less play time than their friends? Im level 12, my friends are in the 30-50s, and they're always taking the lead and setting the pace, I just don't play the game nearly as much as they do.

So far I'm what I like the most is:

Breaker - I wish the other guns I had were worth taking , I try to experiment (liberator penetrator, laser rifle) and regret it

Small arms:
Auto Pistol - same, the starting pistol is irrelevant

Impact Grenade - it's the only thing can save me from the tougher enemies if I'm fresh out of the pod.

Support:
Grenade Launcher - great all around, mobile, powerful against anything less than a hulk/charger

Backpack - my go to backpack slot

Auto Cannon - also good and versatile, but I think I prefer it more against automatons

Recoilless Rifle - as above but for bugs, love to have one of these loaded when I see a charger.


What I'm really struggling with is fire support stratagems. I'd like to have One Versatile Loadout I always bring.

Let's assume I'm using a backpack fed support weapon and have three fire support stratagems. What's a versatile loadout consisting of, say, one eagle, one turret, one orbital?

Jerkface posted:

Airburst has delayed release of 3 explosions which gives it a slightly different use case than eagle cluster. you can throw it on top of a breech or behind you and you know the conga line is gonna get messed up.

johnny park posted:

novaSphere posted:

The Dominator is misleading; while it is classified under 'Explosive' in the list, it does not actually possess the Explosive tag like the Scorcher and Lib-Conc do. It doesn't actually deal explosive damage, it just shoots big bullets that hit kinda hard. I strongly disagree on calling it a 'much worse Slugger' though because the Dominator has triple the fire rate and can actually deal with crowds. Both guns are good.

atelier morgan posted:

if you see a charger: E.A.T.!
red brood commander: E.A.T.!
destroyer shooting at us: E.A.T.!
when you don't have any ammo: E.A.T.!
even at extraction: E.A.T.!
everybody else is dead: E.A.T.!