Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

One thing I feel is a little weird is not being able to spawn with any support weapons, even the smaller ones like the machine guns, especially when support weapons are the only way you can ever kill certain enemy types outside of landing a stratagem on them.

So you can end up in situations where the team keeps dying and losing the only way to fight back and dies again.

It would be fine if primaries could do meaningful damage to the glowing weakspots though.

Diephoon posted:

For autos: There is a specific basic looking bot that only has one sword arm, they hold a pistol with the other arm. These shoot flares that summon drop ships.

For bugs: The smallest bugs usually summon, but I'm pretty sure I've seen Defenders do it too. Defenders are the frontal armored ones that will turtle up when you start shooting them. Brood Commanders (the huge non-charger bugs) can summon as well. Not sure about the rest of the bugs.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Can the breach summon even be stopped? I feel like, by the time I see the orange funk start rising, shooting the bug in question is useless as the breach is already forming.

Au Revoir Shosanna posted:

the mg's are fun as hell but yeah they're going to need armor pen to make them viable at higher difficulties

I Greyhound posted:

Helldivers 1 never exceeded 7k players simultaneously. Their estimates were 7k for 'baseline 'we did good' success', 50k for 'crazy good performance of game exceeds our expectations', and 250k for 'won the Powerball game goes viral but that will never happen haha...unless...'. They did actually code a system that could handle 250k. But then had it go super-mega-hit with 4 times the craziest estimate hammering the servers 2 weeks after launch.

The patch they put in today is working out, I had all black screens yesterday, but got in twice this evening for my first few games. Started solo, but then had some fellow patriots drop in, and it was a really fun experience.

Internet Explorer posted:

Hope this helps your confusion.

Exodee posted:

The orbital walking barrage works the same way as the strafing run doesn't it? I wonder how effective it is with the various upgrades to the destroyer's cannons, though that's got to wait until I finish my hangar upgrades.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I fee like Eagle bomb strikes usually goes perpendicular to my facing when I throw it. At least for the cluster bombs splashes.

Eg: if I throw it North of me, the bombs hit a west/east spread

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

People are talking about how every weapon needs to be brought up to the Breaker, but honestly a lot of weapons needs to be brought up to the Liberator because a good chunk of them don't even make it that far. Would be nice if we had some actual variety instead of "best choice", "ok if you want to use it I guess" and "don't bother, immediately feels awful to use".

It's insanely boring that every mission over lvl 5 is Breaker -> Shield -> Railgun -> Orbital Laser. That sort of monotonous meta is poison to me personally.

Durzel posted:

You could make an argument that playing at level 5 or 6 in a game with 9 difficulty levels, when you're under 50% of the level cap, is fighting whilst underlevelled?

Autocannon is very good imo and in some ways better than the Railgun. Granted the latter is more useful at higher difficulty levels because you get that precious backpack slot back, but in terms of raw firepower it owns bones - especially if you have someone to help you load.

Tom Tucker posted:

Best tip I've gotten so far has been "Remember: Freedom!"

Waroduce posted:

What is the endgame loop of Helldivers? Are there like raids or under leveled time trials or right now it's just do the missions on the hardest difficulty

Phenotype posted:

For the first fifteen hours or so, here's what you'll generally want to get:

You get enough req to play around with different stuff, so sure, if it looks interesting try out the recoilless rifle or whatever, but if it doesn't click for you that's fine too.

Nick Soapdish posted:

jokes posted:

I kinda wish there were lots of different single-fire laser weapons like a 40k lasgun because channelled laser guns are the lamest thing to me.

veni veni veni posted:

I just hope arrowhead sits down and looks at the weapons that aren't getting used and gives them appropriate buffs that might suite someones playstyle so it becomes more of a personal preference thing than a good/bad thing.

Basticle posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dMCsk5H.mp4

Quaint Quail Quilt posted:

Once the mission timer becomes red it becomes a good idea to think about extracting or at least maybe dropping your samples near extract. Sometimes it seems like it triples spawns and mobs and they are giving you incentive to GTFO

Rockman1811 posted:

Man, I didn't actually know how large the range of the 380mm stratagem until it completely hosed my team during an extraction.

jokes posted:

No poo poo? I wonder which one it was. I don't think the napalm airstrike can destroy factories/holes, but maybe the strafing run can?

flashman posted:

Because challenge is good

dog nougat posted:

What the hell is going on in this thread? Some real fuckin wild and dumb opinions. Game needs a balance pass for sure, but acting like the railgun, breaker, and shield are the only way to play the game is insane.

Darth Walrus posted:

What kind of firepower do you need to explode an automaton factory without having to run up and chuck a grenade into it? I know some orbital/airstrike stratagems can do it, but I haven't yet found one that will scratch 'em.

Being able to pop one of those things from a safe distance would be neat.

Nfcknblvbl posted:

I’m glad they lock out higher difficulties until you complete a campaign. Keeps those easy mission grinding mouth breathers out.

Riatsala posted:

I'm level 11 and haven't gotten a good AT support weapon yet. Should I get an autocannon or recoilless rifle first?

Also, how do you feed yourself ammo from your supply backpack? My teammates think I'm very altruistic handing it all to them but I'm really just trying to use the GL as a primary.

Dinosaurs! posted:

Does the explosive liberator become useful at higher difficulties? I have enough credits for the premium warbond but nothing in it has really tipped me over the edge from "wait to see what the next one is." The gun looks great and it'd be cool if doing full damage to chargers and spewers made it a good choice, but I feel like you have much better support weapon options by the time you're dealing with heavies in quantities that outpace strategem cooldowns.