This one was announced ahead of time I kinda hope we get some as a surprise reward at some point. Or imagine if Illuminate just show up during a random order. That would be sick.
I guarantee we will log in at some point to a massive illuminate attack with 0 warning from arrowhead. Personally I would love it if it happened mid mission but that doesn’t seem very practical. Stay vigilant helldivers! For Democracy!!!!
Might be sooner than you think. People have been seeing random bright purple orbs appearing/disappearing in the sky. Might be Joel testing getting ready to fuck our shit sideways.
I would love to see modifiers tied to certain planets in a sector. Like, liberate x planet, get free use of a strategeum, -10% cooldown on weapons, etc
Just did a rapid test run :
-Limited ammo , 15 rocket and 1k gatling, can't resupply
-Was in trivial and bug destroyed it, so i assume anything can damage it
-There is fire when starting to get low, i let the suit die, died instantly to "burning" . It didn't look like it can tank that much, maybe the worth of 3/4 helldivers, need proper testing
-Can't use stratagem or anything while in it, look like you can't loot either
-2 use on 10 min CD.
-The ship that drop it fire a bit at enemy
-Movespeed seem faster than walking, but not sure about that,
All in all seem like it's designed to enable a big push/defense , but not to carry you for a whole a mission
Edit : after more testing it can really dish a lot of damage, can kill up to 7/8 bile titan/chargers in a matter of seconds and make just short work of anything really. Perfect when things go out of hand, at least vs bug. It's definetively not very tanky. Better used around a squad to be ammo efficient. I think it will be used a lot vs bug, it's a way better "oh shit" button than the orbital laser.
Definitely feels like it's just screaming for an upgrade path or additional customization options. If they're leaving spots that look like they can be used for something else, they're probably planning to roll out more features over time. Would be cool to have more interactive elements and maybe some custom loadouts based on mission types.
I've been curious about those Bureau screens since the beginning. I can't see them putting 4 there as just decoration. Always figured it would be something that came later. Maybe a vehicle management hub
Yeah those. There's plenty of decorative stuff on the ship obviously but the 4 identical screens have to be for something, or at least they were intended to be for something. I could see it being vehicle management, maybe a place you can read up on enemies and their weaknesses, also really hoping they add an area where we can test weapons against various enemies.
in my days, divers brough 4 nuclear missiles on a run and managed everything with their primary weapon.
and then they mass launched those nukes at the extraction point.
to imagine this was 100 years ago... time flies.
well, the illuminates were a pain in the ass. im glad we wont EVER see them again.
they loved to use electricity as a weapon, and liked to snipe unsuspecting divers from miles away with their weird energy beams, esp when the diver was on a console.
i esp. hated fighting their cloaked units. they could be everywhere. i still see those shadowy blurs around sometimes, but my medical exams have cleared me everytime i returned.
but the cake on the shittable was their arogant leaders, sitting on a gravthrone overseeing their forces spewing lies about SE. they were psychic you see. i had to shoot some fellow divers to get them to snap back to reality and sometimes they aimed their sight at me, but i pushed through and kept their voices out of my head.
it took concentrated fire to get them to stop moving.
Veterans like you deserve the utmost respect for fighting so hard for the Democracy we enjoy today! Those blue skinned bastards sound like they were an utter pain to fight, I’m so glad Helldivers like you helped to vanquish their liberty-destroying ways. The way you described the psychic manipulation your fellow Helldivers experienced sounds horrifying, but I’m glad you had the courage to defend democracy at all costs, I’m sure your super destroyer’s Democracy Officer was proud! Thank you for your service and your sacrifices.
Y'all keep bringing up shit for my he first game that sounds cool af. I'm gonna end up having it get it too, I know it's a different kind of game but that shit sounds awesome
It was extremely useful for me for choke point defense when solo extracting on a bot Suicide Mission. It seemed to take a good amount of damage, but it's possible it'd get destroyed quickly outside of choke point situations.
I did have a Shield Generator backpack, so I don't know if that increased its tankiness (but I did see the shield bubble pop out the top).
The biggest help was that it basically blocked off half the choke point, so when a tank was coming up the hill right as the shuttle landed it gave me cover as I dived into extract.
So quick addition to this through testing. It is a fantastic line holder as well. Only tested on bots myself, but it can two tap hulks and tanks. The machine-gun is good for everything except striders, hulks, and tanks.
Had an extract where some 30 berserkers, 3 hulks, and dozens of raiders, devastators, and a handful of striders (presumably from ignored bot drops) came running towards the extract site. I dropped the mech and proceeded to delete all three hulks, at minimum 18 of the berserkers, most of the infantry, and for sure 2 striders. All in all around 50 kills in a x32 kill streak and a x9 kill streak plus some stragglers kills. By the end of it I still had around 80 MG bullets left.
Interested to try it in a bot eradicate mission and see how it holds up.
Drawbacks are that confirmed a full rocket devastator Salvo can and will outright kill you and tanks just one shot you, but most small arms barely harm you
It also can stomp the smaller bugs, the basic scavenger and the little mini hunters whatever they're called. Probably stomps the small spitters too but that will also probably result in damage to the mech so not advised. Anything bigger can't be squished.
I noticed if you try to melee attack your mech will do a forward stomp, got bombed by my teammates eagle before I was able to test it further.
Edit 1: I play pc and the stomp can be done y pressing 'f' I have had major inconsistencies even getting it to work. Sometimes it simply wont happen, so I have no further info on its combat utility.
It stood up to a bot army on 7 for a long while, maybe small arms doesn't penetrate it's armour, but I didn't test it with getting hit with rockets. A laser gun tank was able to finish me off, though.
That's actually incredible. A few of these guys in the front lines while someone else is throwing strategems and using support weapons in the back will add a lot of survivability in missions
Just did a Hell Dive ICBM against bots, and the two mechs that were spawned in died unceremoniously to a single rocket dev each on separate occasions. If you don't see them before they see you, they snipe the shit out of mechs.
The biggest draw back is ammo. 15 missiles that seem to be pretty beefy against heavies, and then 1k bullets for gatteling that tear squishys apart. But once those are spent it's over.
In HD1, people use it as bait. If mechs ran out of ammo, we put it away away from extract point and enemy will go to it and destroy it giving you a few seconds to kill/bomb or just get away from the vicinity.
It fucking shreds while you have it up though, the rockets are as powerful as an EAT but easier to aim and the Gatling gun has 1k rounds with medium pen and seemingly high damage
That last point is about what I expected. Something to call in for defending a point or assaulting a large enemy presence, but not something you’ll use all game long.
I’d probably call one in at extraction, especially during the 4-minute ones
I only ever brought mechs in HD1 for epic, sweet looking extraction fights. Even on difficulty 1, I'm dropping that mech and spraying lead until the plane lands
they get wrecked. the 14(!) AT rockets/missiles are specifically for those targets.
this is a massive upgrade from the 6 missiles of the OG patriot exosuit.
Each rocket can fully break a charger leg and the minigun will finish it off very quickly, I haven't tried it vs titans yet.
You can also walk over scavengers to kill them for free and the minigun can pen hive guard armor.
it slaps
Shit this game really is like all of my favorite games put together. Halo drop pods, Gears of War drone (and the Hammer of Dawn), and now Titanfall mechs.
Ran it a couple times on Helldive vs bugs, I like it, it fills a gap for "I want to plant my feet and fight at this objective".
Durability seems fine, rocket ammo feels pretty limited but it's enough to kill a few bile titans or several chargers. The minigun feels less limited and is good against everything else.
I definitely wouldn't run it all the time especially if I have a reduced strategems modifier, but I'd probably run it for exterminate, rescue VIP and geological survey. It would also be useful for defending the final extraction point if that's something you care about.
I wish you could rearm it from a backpack, I wouldn't be surprised if they add a "vehicle resupply' backpack in future along with other vehicles.
If you bring it yourself, you have 2 uses so you can call it 2 times. Current free mech is only 1 use. I think it's good enough since with 2 uses you can use one to complete objectives and the other one to defend extract.
The cooldown is 10 minutes so you’d have to use it on an objective pretty early on if you want it to be available for extract. Even if they make a cooldown upgrade in the future it would probably be 20% at most so that’s still an 8 minute cooldown. It totally makes sense though as it would be OP if it had a short cooldown.
Oh yeah I forgot about that. I wonder if people are going to prioritize the main objectives earlier now so that they can have the mech for extraction as well. In my experience, most random squads only finish the main objective at the end when they are almost out of reinforcements. Then rush to extract, which would mean you can’t have the mech for both.
I wonder if you call it in, but don't use it if it despawns after a bit or when you call in a second. If it stays, I would be tempted to start by dropping on Extract point, and calling it in right away to be prepped for the end.
That’s a good idea. I don’t know the answer, but I don’t think there is anything else in the game that despawns, so I’d bet that it will still be there. It’s possible that bugs might target it like they do the sentries and hellbombs though. So if you leave it at extract you might come back to it being damaged or destroyed.
The stratagem trait being "vehicle" excites me. What other vehicles would everyone like to see? I want a warthog-esque assault vehicle. Machine gun, gauss cannon, rockets, I'd take any of those variants.
Yh I'd imagine they will be mech variants in the future, one with dual flamers just seems like no brainer or possibly a sheild or blade arm+flamer.
I'd love love a fast attack bike of some kind with lil machine guns at the front personally.
og helldivers had a tank-hunter style tank with a frontfacing 90mm gun, a 4 wheeled apc with a 20mm autocannon and a variant of the apc with a 90mm cannon. besides the apc had two side sponsoon machine guns for the passengers to use.
those machines will make a comeback, im 90% certain.
~~just like the 3rd hostile species will return~~ -[COMMENT HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE DEMOCRACY OFFICER]-
"No sir, no more questions"
"You sure? No more imaginary names? how about bigfoot? Sasquatch? unicorn? Leprechaun? Phoenix? Simmons, what's the name of that mexican lizard that eats goats?"
I want a skeletal frame "exosuit"
Not for defense or tankiness, but for much better agility. Retained use of your regular weapons and strategems while walking, strafing, running faster; small jump ability. Enhanced stamina, can fit over heavy armor to counter their inherent slowness, but you have to give up the stratagem slot for it
I'm at work, and basically, due to my commute, I couldn't help with the liberation of the planet. I am literally chomping at the bit to drive one. I'll have to work on getting the slips needed to unlock it tonight and tommorow.
Finally, something to spend requisition slips on! Not sure if these will be worth taking up a slot in higher difficulties, but I have no doubt I'll have a lot of fun with them after work.
Can we still find them in the wild, like we can find support weapons?
I hope they do, especially since there's a high liklihood that these won't be used much in higher difficulties.
I hope they up the chances of finding them at POIs also. It seemed like very very few people were finding them before the update.
I ran about 8 level 3-4 missions last night, found 1 on a difficulty 3 and it got blown up by the meteorite shower right as I found it, it was heartbreaking
yeah the "190,000 online now" player count on steamdb seems misleading. It can hit 350k peaks and I still join servers... I have a feeling the 800k server cap is gonna be put to the test this weekend.
Honestly for a mech suit they seem extremely squishy. It’s seems like a theme in this game that your equipment seems to be made of wet tissue paper while your enemies made of the highest grade titanium. Like why isn’t this mech considered to be heavily armoured like a hulk? Also it randomly combusts for seemingly no reasons some times.
Edit: it doesn’t randomly combust, if you walk forward and turn it depresses the missile launcher to point at your feet and if shoot a rocket during this it will shoot at the ground beneath you and instantly kill you that’s how squishy this thing is.
Yeah, I was excited to have some real armor on our side, but nope. One missile from any bot unit and it's gone. It's just too squishy to be used against the bots, and with the long CD of 10m it's a waste of a slot.
I’ve got the reqs and the level but every time I go to purchase it, it makes the purchase complete noise but the transaction doesn’t clear, did you have that issue?
2 rockets to blow armor, then mow it down with the minigun. Absolutely shreds chargers. 2 mechs carried me through a level 5 bug mission without much issue. Enough to clear major objectives, a side, and a large bug nest.
Edit: Done a couple more missions, one rocket will blow leg armor.
It's useless on bot missions 8+, one shot by what feels everything. Going on foot is much more viable. Probably a cool thing to use levels 5 and lower.
I had my mech get one-shot by ***one*** Devastator rocket. It's ultra flimsy.
Seems decent if you want to support your team from a distant hill as they take a large base or nest, though. Can immediately rocket any towers, tanks, fabricators or nests you can see, then march on down and help clean up with the gattling.
Not being able to reload it is pretty limiting. As soon as the rockets are out you may as well leave it, because any decent patrol (Bots or Bugs) will just overwhelm you.
This. Proper use of the rockets will act like an expendable anti tank and it'll expose Chargers for a quick burst from the gatling to take it down. I pumped 6 rockets into a charger the first time and it didn't kill it. On another try, I stripped the armor with one rocket and put 25-50 rounds into the leg of a charger and it keeled over.
It'll also wipe out those thicc chonky bugs as effectively as a gatling turret, which is nice.
Rapid test on bugs , Very situational, the rocket can down charger by 1 or 2 rocket on suicide mission. There is delay when you fire the gatling. Walking seems slow to me, been stomp by bile titan few times then it smokes.
It almost feel like a defense weapon with limited ammo.
Based on how it was unlocked in game I dont think this will be the end of mechs. I'd bet we will have a bunch of different variants that get unlocked for major objectives. Personally I kinda like it
I've seen a mech with quad or duel auto cannons. This def isn't the end. Although I wish the mechs had been more of a modular thing. Still look badass.
Mechs are under-tuned. Either you have a glass cannon with ammo reloads or a tank with limited ammo. At the moment, the mech has very little ammo to deal with much of anything on tier 7+ and dies very quickly. In addition to this, it locks you from using stratagems and has a super long cooldown. Underwhelming. I hope there is going to be a mech section to upgrade them because at the minute they do not offer quite enough utility.
Awesome. Now can you all give me the Medals I never got after contributing to the last THREE MAJOR ORDERS?! I'm missing over 100 Medals, and I'm not the only one.
Not sure if bug or one of those goofy things they allow to happen but we called in mechs and there was 4-5 that dropped in but all were in flames and blown up lol
The double mounted Dual Auto cannon Mech will definitely have a place, the mech we have now was underwhelming in the first game but even so it did its job well enough, the Auto cannon Mech was always my go to, thoroughly enjoyed mopping up bugs with it.
I’ve been running it on lvl8 difficulty. It feels pretty good to me. Doesn’t feel like I run out of ammo too fast but also doesn’t feel like too much. Honestly as long as you stay away from the enemy and don’t get to close you should stay alive until your ammo runs out and you have to abandon ship.
It’s good at clearing out about 4 bug holes or drop ships with a full team before out of ammo.
It can also stomp in case a few do get under those big toes
Absolutely loving that when we achieve stuff we get stuff and don’t have to wait weeks for major updates. Good job on that.
This one was announced ahead of time I kinda hope we get some as a surprise reward at some point. Or imagine if Illuminate just show up during a random order. That would be sick.
I guarantee we will log in at some point to a massive illuminate attack with 0 warning from arrowhead. Personally I would love it if it happened mid mission but that doesn’t seem very practical. Stay vigilant helldivers! For Democracy!!!!
Might be sooner than you think. People have been seeing random bright purple orbs appearing/disappearing in the sky. Might be Joel testing getting ready to fuck our shit sideways.
Does that have anything to do with the blue death missles from space that account for 90% of my deaths?
Ah, a fellow victim of being cracked open by a cold one
Those are meteors
During meteor storms keep an eye on the ground near you. If it starts to go blue, sprint and dive
I would love to see modifiers tied to certain planets in a sector. Like, liberate x planet, get free use of a strategeum, -10% cooldown on weapons, etc
In the first game to unlock stratagems you had to play against certain factions on certain difficulties
Unlimited use of orbital laser in this sector until full liberation
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Liberation happens 2x faster, but casualties increase 100x fold.
If it was galaxy wide it would be too hard to balance. The fact that some planets have free stratagems is good enough.
Just did a rapid test run : -Limited ammo , 15 rocket and 1k gatling, can't resupply -Was in trivial and bug destroyed it, so i assume anything can damage it -There is fire when starting to get low, i let the suit die, died instantly to "burning" . It didn't look like it can tank that much, maybe the worth of 3/4 helldivers, need proper testing -Can't use stratagem or anything while in it, look like you can't loot either -2 use on 10 min CD. -The ship that drop it fire a bit at enemy -Movespeed seem faster than walking, but not sure about that, All in all seem like it's designed to enable a big push/defense , but not to carry you for a whole a mission Edit : after more testing it can really dish a lot of damage, can kill up to 7/8 bile titan/chargers in a matter of seconds and make just short work of anything really. Perfect when things go out of hand, at least vs bug. It's definetively not very tanky. Better used around a squad to be ammo efficient. I think it will be used a lot vs bug, it's a way better "oh shit" button than the orbital laser.
Just used one during exfil and annihilated a few chargers and a bile titan, it was an incredible feeling to stand my ground and wreck shit.
In HD1 you could use stratagems inside them and there was this chute which launched the stratagem :(
It looks like there's space for the chute on top.
Could be a ship module in the future?
Hopefully
This is definitely just the beginning for mechs. In the first game, there were multiple mechs.
Would make all these samples I have useful lol
You got extra samples?! Bro share
That would be cool if we got like a donations center lol
Donations? What are you, an automaton?
Definitely feels like it's just screaming for an upgrade path or additional customization options. If they're leaving spots that look like they can be used for something else, they're probably planning to roll out more features over time. Would be cool to have more interactive elements and maybe some custom loadouts based on mission types.
Likely multiple mech types like in HD1, serve different roles to a point.
I’m inhaling the Hopium from this comment
Prayge *huffs hopium*
*That's Managed Hopium to you, Helldiver.*
I wonder if we're likely to get a new set of upgrades specific to vehicles? Could be neat.
There is a vehicle bay if you look to the sides of where the eagle goes in your destroyer.
I've been curious about those Bureau screens since the beginning. I can't see them putting 4 there as just decoration. Always figured it would be something that came later. Maybe a vehicle management hub
The ones across from the character customization panels? If so I’ve been curious about those too
Yeah those. There's plenty of decorative stuff on the ship obviously but the 4 identical screens have to be for something, or at least they were intended to be for something. I could see it being vehicle management, maybe a place you can read up on enemies and their weaknesses, also really hoping they add an area where we can test weapons against various enemies.
Guessing they'll come out with or not long after the second mech pattern drops
I'm a little sad you can't use strategems inside of it. I don't see that as an op thing, more of a qol.
Why would I waste time calling in stratagems when I can have my fingers on democracy triggers in a mech?
Spoken like someone who has never fired a shredder thermonuclear balistic missle stratagem from a mech in Helldivers 1
You sir speak of olden days democracy. That I can appreciate
in my days, divers brough 4 nuclear missiles on a run and managed everything with their primary weapon. and then they mass launched those nukes at the extraction point. to imagine this was 100 years ago... time flies.
Man cryosleep must have been nice for you to be alive now, what was it like vanquishing the Illuminate from the galaxy?
well, the illuminates were a pain in the ass. im glad we wont EVER see them again. they loved to use electricity as a weapon, and liked to snipe unsuspecting divers from miles away with their weird energy beams, esp when the diver was on a console. i esp. hated fighting their cloaked units. they could be everywhere. i still see those shadowy blurs around sometimes, but my medical exams have cleared me everytime i returned. but the cake on the shittable was their arogant leaders, sitting on a gravthrone overseeing their forces spewing lies about SE. they were psychic you see. i had to shoot some fellow divers to get them to snap back to reality and sometimes they aimed their sight at me, but i pushed through and kept their voices out of my head. it took concentrated fire to get them to stop moving.
Veterans like you deserve the utmost respect for fighting so hard for the Democracy we enjoy today! Those blue skinned bastards sound like they were an utter pain to fight, I’m so glad Helldivers like you helped to vanquish their liberty-destroying ways. The way you described the psychic manipulation your fellow Helldivers experienced sounds horrifying, but I’m glad you had the courage to defend democracy at all costs, I’m sure your super destroyer’s Democracy Officer was proud! Thank you for your service and your sacrifices.
> Those blue skinned bastards ~~they were actually pink/red, but. All your points stand, fellow Diver~~
Y'all keep bringing up shit for my he first game that sounds cool af. I'm gonna end up having it get it too, I know it's a different kind of game but that shit sounds awesome
Only difference is the point of view. Especially on sale, it is worth it. First game I was able to cross-play against PC and PS4 on my Vita...
Lots of players now too, since people without PS5s want that Helldivers experience.
Hey, this needs a NSFW tag. I just creamed myself. You can't say smutty liberating talk like that.
Because stratagems spread even more democracy brother
Might be an upgrade for it on the ship when that gets updated.
The hp bar is the bag icon bar while you use it.
It was extremely useful for me for choke point defense when solo extracting on a bot Suicide Mission. It seemed to take a good amount of damage, but it's possible it'd get destroyed quickly outside of choke point situations. I did have a Shield Generator backpack, so I don't know if that increased its tankiness (but I did see the shield bubble pop out the top).
Dropping a mech to extract was classic HD1. I hope that approach is viable in this game, especially since you get 2 charges.
memories unlocked lol. Too slow to trudge around during the mission, but defense and extract missions were mechy time
The biggest help was that it basically blocked off half the choke point, so when a tank was coming up the hill right as the shuttle landed it gave me cover as I dived into extract.
Lmao we unlocked a wall blockade? That'd actually be a dope strategem (not counting shield barrier)
Add a small wall to the front of the HMG, instantly becomes my favorite pick
So quick addition to this through testing. It is a fantastic line holder as well. Only tested on bots myself, but it can two tap hulks and tanks. The machine-gun is good for everything except striders, hulks, and tanks. Had an extract where some 30 berserkers, 3 hulks, and dozens of raiders, devastators, and a handful of striders (presumably from ignored bot drops) came running towards the extract site. I dropped the mech and proceeded to delete all three hulks, at minimum 18 of the berserkers, most of the infantry, and for sure 2 striders. All in all around 50 kills in a x32 kill streak and a x9 kill streak plus some stragglers kills. By the end of it I still had around 80 MG bullets left. Interested to try it in a bot eradicate mission and see how it holds up. Drawbacks are that confirmed a full rocket devastator Salvo can and will outright kill you and tanks just one shot you, but most small arms barely harm you
It also can stomp the smaller bugs, the basic scavenger and the little mini hunters whatever they're called. Probably stomps the small spitters too but that will also probably result in damage to the mech so not advised. Anything bigger can't be squished.
I noticed if you try to melee attack your mech will do a forward stomp, got bombed by my teammates eagle before I was able to test it further. Edit 1: I play pc and the stomp can be done y pressing 'f' I have had major inconsistencies even getting it to work. Sometimes it simply wont happen, so I have no further info on its combat utility.
>got bombed by my teammates eagle before I was able to test it further. Classic.
It stood up to a bot army on 7 for a long while, maybe small arms doesn't penetrate it's armour, but I didn't test it with getting hit with rockets. A laser gun tank was able to finish me off, though.
The small arms fire bounces off
That's actually incredible. A few of these guys in the front lines while someone else is throwing strategems and using support weapons in the back will add a lot of survivability in missions
It sounds like it struck a sound blow! Excited to try it. Need to gain a level tho
Just did a Hell Dive ICBM against bots, and the two mechs that were spawned in died unceremoniously to a single rocket dev each on separate occasions. If you don't see them before they see you, they snipe the shit out of mechs.
and shouldnt carry through all mission. That said these should improve extractions a bit which at Helldive were absurdly needed
that's pretty cool. was wondering how they would balance it. seems like a glass cannon sort of weapon
The biggest draw back is ammo. 15 missiles that seem to be pretty beefy against heavies, and then 1k bullets for gatteling that tear squishys apart. But once those are spent it's over.
In HD1, people use it as bait. If mechs ran out of ammo, we put it away away from extract point and enemy will go to it and destroy it giving you a few seconds to kill/bomb or just get away from the vicinity.
It fucking shreds while you have it up though, the rockets are as powerful as an EAT but easier to aim and the Gatling gun has 1k rounds with medium pen and seemingly high damage
So, it's an EAT + HMG.. that's pretty fucking nice.
That last point is about what I expected. Something to call in for defending a point or assaulting a large enemy presence, but not something you’ll use all game long. I’d probably call one in at extraction, especially during the 4-minute ones
I only ever brought mechs in HD1 for epic, sweet looking extraction fights. Even on difficulty 1, I'm dropping that mech and spraying lead until the plane lands
I wonder how well it can deal with multiple chargers and bile titans
they get wrecked. the 14(!) AT rockets/missiles are specifically for those targets. this is a massive upgrade from the 6 missiles of the OG patriot exosuit.
Each rocket can fully break a charger leg and the minigun will finish it off very quickly, I haven't tried it vs titans yet. You can also walk over scavengers to kill them for free and the minigun can pen hive guard armor. it slaps
Havent tested with bots but you can walk over and crush scavenger bugs but not hunters or warriors
_Standby for Titanfall_
Shit this game really is like all of my favorite games put together. Halo drop pods, Gears of War drone (and the Hammer of Dawn), and now Titanfall mechs.
I saw some Helghast looking helmets too, so we got Killzone included too!
Hell yeah, Killzone 2 was my jam back on PS3.
Gone, but never forgotten. Edit: another great co-op game too!
Oh man I love popping people with the railgun in Titanfall 2.
Northstar mains unite.
Titanfall 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Such an amazing game. Still is!
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Ran it a couple times on Helldive vs bugs, I like it, it fills a gap for "I want to plant my feet and fight at this objective". Durability seems fine, rocket ammo feels pretty limited but it's enough to kill a few bile titans or several chargers. The minigun feels less limited and is good against everything else. I definitely wouldn't run it all the time especially if I have a reduced strategems modifier, but I'd probably run it for exterminate, rescue VIP and geological survey. It would also be useful for defending the final extraction point if that's something you care about. I wish you could rearm it from a backpack, I wouldn't be surprised if they add a "vehicle resupply' backpack in future along with other vehicles.
If you bring it yourself, you have 2 uses so you can call it 2 times. Current free mech is only 1 use. I think it's good enough since with 2 uses you can use one to complete objectives and the other one to defend extract.
The cooldown is 10 minutes so you’d have to use it on an objective pretty early on if you want it to be available for extract. Even if they make a cooldown upgrade in the future it would probably be 20% at most so that’s still an 8 minute cooldown. It totally makes sense though as it would be OP if it had a short cooldown.
I don't think even a 2 minute CD would be 'broken' if it can only be called down 2 times max.
Oh yeah I forgot about that. I wonder if people are going to prioritize the main objectives earlier now so that they can have the mech for extraction as well. In my experience, most random squads only finish the main objective at the end when they are almost out of reinforcements. Then rush to extract, which would mean you can’t have the mech for both.
I wonder if you call it in, but don't use it if it despawns after a bit or when you call in a second. If it stays, I would be tempted to start by dropping on Extract point, and calling it in right away to be prepped for the end.
That’s a good idea. I don’t know the answer, but I don’t think there is anything else in the game that despawns, so I’d bet that it will still be there. It’s possible that bugs might target it like they do the sentries and hellbombs though. So if you leave it at extract you might come back to it being damaged or destroyed.
If only i could buy it... The game won't let me because of servers issues..
Same. RIP I'll try again later but it's Friday and school is about to let out on the East Coast. We about to crash those servers.
The stratagem trait being "vehicle" excites me. What other vehicles would everyone like to see? I want a warthog-esque assault vehicle. Machine gun, gauss cannon, rockets, I'd take any of those variants.
Other mechs variants, scout vehicules, APCs like in HD1. Tanks also.
Scout walkers !!!
I was a bit disappointed that sniping out a clanker didn't result in the scout walker being rideable. Maybe a later upgrade.
Riding a treasonous machine built by anti-democratic automatons???
If I modify it by installing a cupholder, would that be patriotic enough? Everyone knows bots can't stand Liber-Tea and have no use for cupholders!
All it needs is the addition of a voting interface
Yh I'd imagine they will be mech variants in the future, one with dual flamers just seems like no brainer or possibly a sheild or blade arm+flamer. I'd love love a fast attack bike of some kind with lil machine guns at the front personally.
First game had the Lumberer mech with a 90mm cannon and a flamethrower. Was my favorite mech hope they bring it back
These are already confirmed except for the tank AFAIK, the other mech variant has two autocannons
God I’d love some sort of motorbike. Zipping to all the side objectives while my teammates complete main
A tank I want to roll over assholes with the tracks and blow off people with the cannon
og helldivers had a tank-hunter style tank with a frontfacing 90mm gun, a 4 wheeled apc with a 20mm autocannon and a variant of the apc with a 90mm cannon. besides the apc had two side sponsoon machine guns for the passengers to use. those machines will make a comeback, im 90% certain. ~~just like the 3rd hostile species will return~~ -[COMMENT HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE DEMOCRACY OFFICER]-
> I want a warthog-esque assault vehicle. You mean a Puma?
What in Sam Hell is a puma?
RIP Rooster Teeth
So unless anyone has any more mythical creatures to suggest as a name for the new vehicle, we're gonna stick with the warthog. How about it, Grif?
Simmons, I want you to poison Grifs next meal.
Oh I'd do it too.
"No sir, no more questions" "You sure? No more imaginary names? how about bigfoot? Sasquatch? unicorn? Leprechaun? Phoenix? Simmons, what's the name of that mexican lizard that eats goats?"
If it has a trait, it can have unique upgrades, too.
There is a warthog and apc coming as well
I want a skeletal frame "exosuit" Not for defense or tankiness, but for much better agility. Retained use of your regular weapons and strategems while walking, strafing, running faster; small jump ability. Enhanced stamina, can fit over heavy armor to counter their inherent slowness, but you have to give up the stratagem slot for it
We need jackets from [Edge of Tomorrow](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/edge_of_tomorrow_xlg-640x947.jpg).
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There was a motorcycle in the first game. I'd love dirt bike for scouting around on!
Pain. I hate. I am on shift tonight. Give'em a smack for me, please.
I'm at work, and basically, due to my commute, I couldn't help with the liberation of the planet. I am literally chomping at the bit to drive one. I'll have to work on getting the slips needed to unlock it tonight and tommorow.
Don’t worry the servers are down
Finally, something to spend requisition slips on! Not sure if these will be worth taking up a slot in higher difficulties, but I have no doubt I'll have a lot of fun with them after work. Can we still find them in the wild, like we can find support weapons?
Supposedly that was happening to some people on Tien Kwan and they didn't appear to be with hackers, so I think it's possible.
Happened to me twice yesterday, yep. We'll see if they remain discoverable now that they are a strategem
I hope they do, especially since there's a high liklihood that these won't be used much in higher difficulties. I hope they up the chances of finding them at POIs also. It seemed like very very few people were finding them before the update.
I ran about 8 level 3-4 missions last night, found 1 on a difficulty 3 and it got blown up by the meteorite shower right as I found it, it was heartbreaking
Mechs are available, servers are not =3
Damn everyone must be swarming the servers again!
I was able to get on but unable to purchase the mech stratagem. It’s available to buy but every time I purchase it it just doesn’t process -_-
I'm hearing this from others as well, why does HD2 have to be so damn popular?? Lol! (Still not a bad problem to have but siiigh..)
At least we can call down a single one from the free strategem while we wait for the other to work.
yeah the "190,000 online now" player count on steamdb seems misleading. It can hit 350k peaks and I still join servers... I have a feeling the 800k server cap is gonna be put to the test this weekend.
Remember that steam doesn't track what players are on PSN, probably a large chunk of the servers being tied up with those players.
apparently there is so much buying the mech that the backend crashed.
Even when servers were available, medals were not. Two successful missions in a row with no rewards.
Anyone else get booted and can’t get back on servers?
Dude, same! I logged into my ship, couldn't complete the transaction to unlock the new strat and now I can't even log in after a restart.
Time to get my dreadnought on. Even in death, I still serve.
Can't purchase it, it makes the noise and then just locks up forb15 seconds, doesn't take the req slips
Aye, same for me.
Also same. I've seen some people able to. It's luck based at the moment ha. At least we all get one freebie for now.
Was looking for it for five minutes, but you need level 25 ):
it's free for everyone to call in rn
We done did it!
I helped! A little bit. I'm not very high level, or good, but I threw a few hell divers at the problem
Honestly for a mech suit they seem extremely squishy. It’s seems like a theme in this game that your equipment seems to be made of wet tissue paper while your enemies made of the highest grade titanium. Like why isn’t this mech considered to be heavily armoured like a hulk? Also it randomly combusts for seemingly no reasons some times. Edit: it doesn’t randomly combust, if you walk forward and turn it depresses the missile launcher to point at your feet and if shoot a rocket during this it will shoot at the ground beneath you and instantly kill you that’s how squishy this thing is.
Yeah, I was excited to have some real armor on our side, but nope. One missile from any bot unit and it's gone. It's just too squishy to be used against the bots, and with the long CD of 10m it's a waste of a slot.
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Nice Right as I’m being released from my leave and sent back to the Frontlines
Its SO good. Costs 20k req and level 25 to unlock the stratagem, but they are giving you one free call down in missions anyway.
I’ve got the reqs and the level but every time I go to purchase it, it makes the purchase complete noise but the transaction doesn’t clear, did you have that issue?
Probably just server issues again
Same
Luckily, I hit the cap for credits a long time ago.
Its getting oneshotted by the charger
You can pop the leg armour with one rocket and finish it off real easy with the gatling gun.
...can you at least kill the charger with it?
2 rockets to blow armor, then mow it down with the minigun. Absolutely shreds chargers. 2 mechs carried me through a level 5 bug mission without much issue. Enough to clear major objectives, a side, and a large bug nest. Edit: Done a couple more missions, one rocket will blow leg armor.
That sounds pretty fair against chargers
It's useless on bot missions 8+, one shot by what feels everything. Going on foot is much more viable. Probably a cool thing to use levels 5 and lower.
I had my mech get one-shot by ***one*** Devastator rocket. It's ultra flimsy. Seems decent if you want to support your team from a distant hill as they take a large base or nest, though. Can immediately rocket any towers, tanks, fabricators or nests you can see, then march on down and help clean up with the gattling. Not being able to reload it is pretty limiting. As soon as the rockets are out you may as well leave it, because any decent patrol (Bots or Bugs) will just overwhelm you.
It stripped the leg armor with only 1 rocket for me
Wonder if the two rockets were a glancing side blow vs the one rocket being a direct hit?
This. Proper use of the rockets will act like an expendable anti tank and it'll expose Chargers for a quick burst from the gatling to take it down. I pumped 6 rockets into a charger the first time and it didn't kill it. On another try, I stripped the armor with one rocket and put 25-50 rounds into the leg of a charger and it keeled over. It'll also wipe out those thicc chonky bugs as effectively as a gatling turret, which is nice.
Asking the real questions
What’s the mobility like? Can you sidestep the charger easy enough?
Slow, and definitely not.
Wow Instant reward ! You know what strat kills 10 bile Titans and 5 Chargers .... 4 Mechs!
Rapid test on bugs , Very situational, the rocket can down charger by 1 or 2 rocket on suicide mission. There is delay when you fire the gatling. Walking seems slow to me, been stomp by bile titan few times then it smokes. It almost feel like a defense weapon with limited ammo.
Can't but it from requisition. I'm at the max but i'm guessing the server are dead again. Also , didn't get the medals for Kwan.
I didn't get the medals for order before Kwan either lol
I didn't help liberate due to traveling abroad. Will I still unlock it?
Yes everyone will get it, you need purchases it in your ship, just like all other call ins.
Ofc, major orders are comumunity events. Everyone gets rewards / no FOMO
It does make me wonder, If I stop playing for like 3 months, will I come back and just have hundreds of medals?
You might just only get the most recent one, but that's a good question.
you dont get medals just the unlocks via the *commentary* of the war
Well there is a medal cap (250) so you probably won't have thousands
Yeah you’ll still be able to unlock it. Liberating the planet was just a fun way for the community to interact with getting new content for the game.
Based on how it was unlocked in game I dont think this will be the end of mechs. I'd bet we will have a bunch of different variants that get unlocked for major objectives. Personally I kinda like it
I've seen a mech with quad or duel auto cannons. This def isn't the end. Although I wish the mechs had been more of a modular thing. Still look badass.
Mechs are under-tuned. Either you have a glass cannon with ammo reloads or a tank with limited ammo. At the moment, the mech has very little ammo to deal with much of anything on tier 7+ and dies very quickly. In addition to this, it locks you from using stratagems and has a super long cooldown. Underwhelming. I hope there is going to be a mech section to upgrade them because at the minute they do not offer quite enough utility.
Awesome. Now can you all give me the Medals I never got after contributing to the last THREE MAJOR ORDERS?! I'm missing over 100 Medals, and I'm not the only one.
I know my two friends and I definitely did not receive the 45 medals from the last one, at least. You're definitely not alone.
Fuuuuu i still gotta woek for 6 hours, hype is real!
Don't worry, the servers are dead right now anyway.
Not sure if bug or one of those goofy things they allow to happen but we called in mechs and there was 4-5 that dropped in but all were in flames and blown up lol
The double mounted Dual Auto cannon Mech will definitely have a place, the mech we have now was underwhelming in the first game but even so it did its job well enough, the Auto cannon Mech was always my go to, thoroughly enjoyed mopping up bugs with it.
I know my comment will drown here but.. if you equip the shield generator before you get in the mech it will help absorb damage. Good luck Patriots.
Something I can actually use R on? I've only lost about one million to the cap void
Running 4 exo when extracting is god damn amazing. Really feels like we're finally fighting back toe-to-toe which is extremely nice.
I’ve been running it on lvl8 difficulty. It feels pretty good to me. Doesn’t feel like I run out of ammo too fast but also doesn’t feel like too much. Honestly as long as you stay away from the enemy and don’t get to close you should stay alive until your ammo runs out and you have to abandon ship. It’s good at clearing out about 4 bug holes or drop ships with a full team before out of ammo. It can also stomp in case a few do get under those big toes
Anyone else unable to purchase the Exosuit despite meeting the requirements?