bandaid.friend posted:

Threw a gatling strike pretty far away from the extraction point but the ext was on a hill and the shot angle was shallow, so the strike hit the hill. Whole team got wiped. One player boarded the shuttle as soon as we spawned, beginning the countdown to liftoff. Everyone else ran to recover samples but never made it onto the shuttle in time

I apologised. Host was real pissed, but I don't have much sympathy considering they'd been dropping Eagles on me all mission

Fangz posted:

I'm seriously tempted to start team killing pubbie mortar turrets. Seeing someone put one down when we have chargers coming in is just a recipe for a dozen dead Helldivers.

Sir DonkeyPunch posted:

Don't be like me, and save up your medals because you're indecisive, only to hit an arbitrary cap that the UI never actually warns you about. Probably missed most of the medals from Veld because of it

Oneiros posted:

challenging to extreme are definitely something with match making. at higher levels people tend to have their poo poo together but i've dropped into extreme malevelon creek missions to see a bunch of sub-level-10s rocking a machine gun and the 120mm he barrage, the later of which has already cost them sixteen reinforcements

Rusty posted:

Those stupid defend missions where you are trying to escort people at higher levels are really awful, I just hope those get replaced. They were fine until I hit 6 and 7.

Apple Craft posted:

I had the daily for the flamethrower two days ago and have not seen a daily since then at all. Are they actually dailies or random?

BitBasher posted:

After the last 2 days I'm really liking the lightning gun. It's unlimited ammo so you can basically run it like a primary. As long as you are conscious of your fields of fire it seems like it can do good work. Run it with the Rover and be an ammo free destroyer of yard trash. As long as a couple others bring any heavy armor it works great, and others basically always bring that. I run 110s and 500kg to help with the armor.

An advantage of the load out is that since you don't rely on your primary you can bring more ammo problematic primaries like a Slugger or Scorch without it being an issue.

Its fun!

Darox posted:

I had a network issue that dropped the pubbie game I started, so I joined quickplay and ended up with a bunch of underleveled people doing a bot blitz mission. No problems there, but at the end screen I get this.

Thanks quickplay.

I already had all the supers and rare samples I needed to max everything out but that's still ~200 common samples, as well as maxing out all the limits for any future upgrades that might be added.

explosivo posted:

Love when my friends are just like "oh poo poo run run!" and nobody knows who they're talking to or what they're telling you to run from so everyone stands still and gets wiped out by a cluster bomb lol

Infidelicious posted:

Eradicates are weird because the number goes up so little between difficulties and the bot one gives you such a ridiculously defensible position.

Would be much more interesting if on 7/8/9 it was kill 500 bots on a map the size of the trivial one where there was mortars raining down on you and your eagles were blocked from AA and poo poo.

They should play more like a bad drop than a shooting gallery.

Ciaphas posted:

i'm sad that stealth seems to be becoming meta even at low difficulties. makes me not want to even play anymore, that poo poo is boring

i just wanna shot poo poo

BitBasher posted:

Just bought the Scout Handshake, had never seen the emote before. Before the mission started I offered a handshake to the host on the way to the pods and immediately got kicked from the lobby, and I don't blame him. Never going to use it again!

deep dish peat moss posted:

If anything I feel like this game is easier (against bugs) now because frankly the Railgun was already bad and slower at killing things than other options, and now people are feeling forced to use the actually-good guns instead of focusing their entire strategy around being able to blow off charger feet like an early 2000s youtube frag vid.

Like, the grenade launcher was already faster at killing Chargers than the railgun before today, with the side benefit of actually being good against everything else too. And now that difference is even more pronounced.

Basically I feel like everyone using the Railgun was making the game way loving harder for themselves all along, you can tell because they were the only people who thought the game was particularly hard. Chargers are and always have been a complete non-threat that are only scary in the middle of a big swarm of small bugs, which the railgun has no way to deal with, which made Chargers appear more threatening than they are to railgun users, which reinforced their idea that they needed a Railgun to deal with Chargers. But if you're dealing with all the real threats (a.k.a. artillery bugs and swarms of grasshoppers) well, you can just (very easily) sidestep them like a charging bull and send a couple grenades up their rear end and they just die instantly.

BitBasher posted:

The reaction to this on Reddit are blowing me away, it's like an apocalypse.

I believe it's this. Without fail so far every complaint I have seen is all "When I get attacked by 4 chargers" and never, ever mention their teammates and their strategems at all. Like they expect that every single thing that encounter need to be handled alone without teammates and with their primary and maybe sometimes their call in weapon only. I find it bizarre.
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There's also been a really large number of people thinking demanding that charger legs be reduced to be destroyed by medium armor penetration, which I feel would completely defeat the point of the charger even existing.

Alkydere posted:

Personal order: kill 2 bile titans.

Took the Spear to a Haz 6 geological survey mission. I think there were nearly 10 by the end so yeah, I got that done. Spear lockon is hella jank be but when it works it works. Of course it also has a minimum range where it will just yeet itself over a charger and into the ground behind it.

I think I sold someone on it because I called down a second to resupply myself and someone else picked up my original kit and went on with it.

Hecking hectic extraction with a meteor shower coming down right in our landing. Also, gee thanks Super Destroyer. I really wanted that orbital railcannon shot to reduce a hive commander to grease and not the charger.

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

I've moved on from thinking invisible bugs with long tongues as bullshit right into robots with jetpacks that just blow up in your face as bullshit

deep dish peat moss posted:

This is how good I am at this game
https://i.imgur.com/tvNgW7N.mp4

TheDemon posted:

The one singular thing I do not love is how a crash or a connection issue forces me out of game about 1 in 3 longer missions. With the difficulties in finding a good squad in matchmaking I feel I only really get rewarded for half my gameplay.

AndyElusive posted:

Hooo boy.

Answered a pubbie SOS on a Suicide Drop on Oshaune. Almost immediately one diver gets disconnected so it's a trio. The first guy says we aren't even the original team that he started the mission with him and the second guy who just joined becomes the host. We pick up all the super samples and run for extract. We survive until Pelican 1 shows up only to find out none of us can get in. Pelican 1 won't let us sit down. We get wiped and the mission ends on a 2 star with no samples.

If this game wasn't so fun I'd be more annoyed.

Griz posted:

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

its worse than that, it causes camera shake to nearby players too. couldn't aim my AMR because someone was standing next to me firing their JAR

Ravenfood posted:

Sure, but this has been every single person. Guess I'm the smelly kid.

E: and yeah I'm finding the "evacuate civilians" levels where you get dropped into a tiny area and get swarmed by bots basically impossible. They just drop more troops faster than I can kill them even taking down dropships and I just get swarmed.

smellmycheese posted:

This is going to be a dumb question but why would you not wear the armour suit that gives you a FIFTY PERCENT CHANCE NOT TO DIE WHEN YOU GET WHACKED? Feel free to explain to me why I’m an idiot

Black Noise posted:

THAT PART OF THE MAP WAS CLEAR

FLIPADELPHIA posted:

Did the last major order succeed? I know I fought a few missions on those planets but didn't get any reward?

Eason the Fifth posted:

Post ur #1 flexible loadout

Eagle airstrike (all purpose)
Quasar (AT)
Orbital/gatling turret/mortar (support type depends on mission type)
Lazer guard dog for bugs/shield for bots (survivability)
Sickle (unlimited ammo)
Senator (cool factor 100%)
Medium armor with 50% chance to survive a death (survivability/stamina middle ground)