The Shame Boy posted:

Maybe the bugs aren't so bad in this case.

JBP posted:

Cluster bombs are one of the most effective ways to eliminate other helldivers. Slam the buy button.

Spanish Manlove posted:

Who gives a poo poo just buy it and keep playing. If you don't like them, keep playing and buy something else

Oneiros posted:

cluster bombs are incredibly effective at clearing a hoard. you just want to make sure that you and the rest of your squad are far enough away from it. no, further. further

Dandywalken posted:

My regular group runs 7-9 with a MG/jump pack dude routinely. Its def a valid choice later still.

Baby T. Love posted:

This is me but I take Precision Orbital and 500kg along with Stun Grenades. Drop call-in in front of Titan/Charger, throw stun when they're in position.

Captainicus posted:

Encountered a nest of flying bugs in my last two missions

Damage to helldiver wearing heavy armor with 1 swoop attack: about 1/10th of bar
Damage to helldiver wearing heavy armor if you shoot them mid swoop and their ragdoll touches you: instant death
Damage to mech when shot mid swoop and the ragdoll touches the mech: instant death

Dandywalken posted:

...they fly now...

Ravendas posted:

I throw it at the bug breach and rack up a ton of kills as it lingers while they pop out. 70sec cooldown means it's basically available for every bug breach, if you're lucky.

Definitely worth it to try and see if you like it.

I did have a friend die in it. I told him to be careful of the green fog, but the world fog was kind of intermixed in it and he couldn't see a clear boundary. He died real quick.

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

It is actually a very very good stratagem for dropping on a bug breach as soon as the smoke comes up. It covers a large area and lingers, so while it won't outright kill them all like a lucky bomb can, it will weaken pretty much everything in the initial spawn.

Away all Goats posted:

To find a game? Nope. I don't think I've ever had to wait longer than 30 seconds except for when the servers were making GBS threads themselves

Icedude posted:

I went with the Brotherhood of NOD fit for a while:

SplitSoul posted:

Exterminator from the Super Store.

AtomikKrab posted:

DEMOCRACY

That is all

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

Never leave home without your EAT 17's

Ravenfood posted:

Not really. Even when I brought that combo I still brought EATs too. If you're better at it than I am you could probably bounce the grenades under the charger, but that didn't work so well for me.

Hwurmp posted:

should've just kicked him

BadLlama posted:

If you got the autocannon bring that for all the big stuff. Any primary will wreck all the little dudes.

Hogama posted:

ZearothK posted:

I remember being on call with a friend after dropping a minefield and telling him to remind me that I dropped mines in that spot. Cue me five minutes later dying to one of the mines and bursting into laughter. Totally worth it.

Icedude posted:

Throwing a minefield into a bug breach of course has the added risk of the strategem ball sticking to a bug that happily brings it right back into the middle of your team

Captain Ironblood posted:

I've done plenty of objectives in scout armor, just chilling and hiding as patrols go by. Patrols might path near you, but you can be sneaky about it.

DeathSandwich posted:

My guess is when the bots and the bugs are mostly bottled up, the illuminate come out. They will have started with some sort of deep sneak attack really close to super earth and all the emphasis is going to be to beat the brakes off of them - allowing the Automatons and Bugs to break their containment and really kick everything into high gear.

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

It's good. When I take it I use it as my primary for most of the mission and switch to the actual primary when it wants to cool down. It will burn the launchers off missile Devastators very quickly, and it pops their heads with ease. It will very quickly kill a stunned Hulk with fire into the vision slit, or any heavy or turret if you can see the vents.

All round a good pick for bots, but it does lack a certain feeling of feedback when you fire. And while it is good for Berserkers at range, close in against them I feel like I'm still swapping to my machine pistol.

Like the grenade launcher it leaves your back free to carry a supply pack, but because it doesn't care for ammo you could also just mule a spare spear/AC/RR pack for a friend once he can call it in.

explosivo posted:

Oh poo poo have I been using the Arc thrower wrong? I thought you had to charge it up for every shot.

jokes posted:

The Sickle is probably the best primary (I almost exclusively use the Liberator though)

jokes posted:

Primary guns worth using:

Liberator
Punisher
Slugger
Breaker
Sickle

End of list

It's really sad that there's not much of a reason to use the others. The Lib Penetrator should really be more useful against armored dudes but it's not, things like that. A balance pass would be great, where they don't touch the guns listed above (though maybe a very slight nerf to the Sickle) would be good.

jokes posted:

Yeah man, it is The Way and The Truth. It is the gun by which all guns are judged. The Sickle is better in some ways but less reliable (it has to wind up before it charges unlike the liberator)

AtomikKrab posted:

I want my laser turret to go with my laser dog laser cannon laser pistol laser rifle and laser beam.

Improbable Lobster posted:

I've been getting a lot of mileage put of the 110mm Rocket Pods lately. Seems like it has a lot of the advantages of the railgun atrike or orbital laser while also being an airstrike instead of orbital.