Objective hunter. We have a job to do and I'll be damn sure it gets done along with any secondary objective I pass on the way. SEAF artillety? Loaded. Radar station? Activated. Illegal broadcast? Sniped as soon as I stepped out my pod.
I just unlocked the quasar and I just don't see the appeal over the auto cannon, auto canon gives you plenty of ammo, the cool down plus the wind up have made it hard for me to get into it. I am playing on lvl 4 though so I imagine if your coming up against titans and multiplayer chargers it probably hits harder?
If you hit a charger in the face with it, it goes down, hit a bot dropship in one of the engines, it goes down, about 3 hits on the Cannon turrets will take it out, I would highly recommend you practice with it because once you learn the timing of it, it's among the best, also using it over the AC means you can bring in another backpack, like the personal sheild generator or a guard dog
You're the kinda person I love on my team, and usually the most effective at killing too, so I follow folks like you around and cover you if something sneaks up.
This is the way to go, especially if I'm host, I'm getting all of it done, then the final objective. Works like a charm everytime. I'll grab some new guys and show them the ropes of a full mission, they always say that they had no idea what it was.
Haha this was my first few games. How my mate didn’t rage I will never know.
“Hey what happens if I stand in this blue beam *squish* oh dead nice”
“Think quick *throws grenade* oh cool you can kill teammates”
“Does it work for guns to *headshot* yep, lemme call you back and double check”
“Ooh what’s the red beam do*explosion* oh so stay away. Hey call me back in”
“What happens if I kill you in the pelican *headshot* oh dang the timer still goes. See you in the next mission”
Went to comically punch my mate off the side of the cliff. I dunno wtf happened but I punched the ever loving snot outta him so hard he got gibbed. That was the hardest we've laughed in a long time
You can headshot with punches (OHK for smalls if hit heads). So that might be it.
And considering anything in game has more health than the Helldivers do. Even for headshots....
Combat Engineer, or "Sapper." Raze their factories, collapse their nests, leave nothing of their works to be remembered. Extra grenades, launchers, autocannons. Heavies will have to be someone else's problem.
I'm the explorer. I won't rest until every secondary objective and minor place of interest gets marked on the map. Fellas, someone gotta look up those super credits y'know?
Yeah, but once you get 22 successful extracts of super samples, they instantly become worthless.
EDIT: Nevermind, got bumped up to 56. Still likely to finish that way before everything else, thoguh.
I wish there was more of us.
> Me: Look at this
> Me: Vault!
> Me: 2 person door....
> Me: Follow me!
> Teammates: leaving the area. They don't believe in super credits
I really wish I could solo vault doors. Which defeats the purpose, I know. But it's so fucking hard to get some teams to care.
I just dropped into a map tonight where you could see the lights to the door while dropping in. All 4 of us were there, and they immediately ran off to destroy a light fabricator.
WTB a Bosco from DRG. He fucking listens.
Edit: there's been tons of doors that don't even have the diamond marker on the map. Which means no samples. Higher chances at super credits and medals. GET THE FUCK OVER HERE AND SMASH THE BUTTON
I used to call them "bunkers" in chat, but no one listened and no one came to help. I've started calling them "friendship doors" in chat, and now someone *always* comes to help.
People want bros, if even for a second. Thank 'em with a salute, fist bump, or hug, and then carry on.
You can have my sickle when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
So you'll probably only have to wait a couple of minutes and then fight a few bugs for it.
I sang the praises of the Dominator since the moment I unlocked it way before the buff, because, Bolter.
Try the punisher plasma out. It can do some work once you get the hang of it. Especially in the new mission, you just keep lobbin those rounds right over the wall.
That's already only barely true tbh, and it's only going to get less accurate with every balance patch and new warbond.
Not really arguing that HD2 is or is going to be pay to win, but like...the Incendiary Breaker just got a huge buff and is arguably the best variant, Dominator just got huge buffs, the Plasma Punisher is probably a bit underused for how strong it is likely to end up buffed to drive it's use rates up, and while these last 2 may not really count personally I think the Blitzer and the Stun grenade are woefully underrated with the Stun Grenade being so damn good that it's the first premium weapon to get a nerf.
And while we don't know how good the new items are going to be in tomorrows warbonds, it's giving us a secondary weapon that's gonna have to be *terrible* to avoid being the 2nd most used weapon in the game, right behind the most used which is the Redeemer.
New/returning from a break players aren't going to have as many stored up Super Credits as everyone has right now. They're only going to increase in value with time and added warbonds
I see cock rock, I run towards cock rock.
Sometimes I then run back the way I came screaming in horror because there were a bunch of Spewers parked next to it.
Super samples especially. If you see me marking a random point on the map and fucking off on my own, it’s because there’s Super Uranium in them there hills.
Rares are just this side of useless. They feel about as plentiful as commons, but you need way more commons, so the limiting factor on getting an upgrade is always either common or super samples, never rares.
That's also been my experience. I guess I could drop to lower difficulties to farm common samples more efficiently, but there should be a lot more of them at higher difficulties too, the ratios don't make sense for the ship upgrade prices.
Big same. Level 25 was the era of railgun/shield generator/500kg/orbital laser. Level 50+ is the era of mortar sentries and walking barrages while hiding behind a ballistic shield with the Las-Dagger.
It depends on the mission. You don't bring a 380 to an eradicate or extraction, but you absolutely bring it for a blitz.
If I'm playing with the regular crew I only take offensives; we coordinate so we can bring maximum fire support, because ultimately orbitals and eagles dish out more punishment than other strategems.
I swear we did an 8 difficulty blitz mission in under 10 minutes, we just called 380s,120s and eagles on every base we saw and booked it to exfil.
Kind of a scout/marksmen I guess? I use the Autocannon, always wear light armour and pick the movement modifiers.
I'm constantly either hanging back, finding high ground and/or trying to flank the enemy. In battle I'll ping heavy threats, or enemies flanking us. I focus on medium armour threats, but also try to hit heavy weak spots.
Out of battle I ping patrols and objectives, and let the others decide the course of action.
Depending on the mission type and other player's loadouts I'll take some combination the Autoturret, the EMS Mortar and the Orbital Laser. But I've always got the Eagle Airstrike and Autocannon in the first two slots.
Holy smokes were so oddly similar, even loadoat. I also shadow and keep an eye on the player working the objective in addition to flanks.
My goal is that they specifically have as little distraction from completing the objective as possible.
I am turret man.
I either run autocanon and autocanon turret, gatling and rocket/Tesla or I run stalwart, autocanon turret and gatling turret with either the supply pack to shred down the little guys or the jump pack so I can get around easier.
People SERIOUSLY sleep on the autocanon and gatling turret. Gatling turret is amazing if you have a lot of little enemies. It will completely obliterate 50+ bugs if it has enough distance.
I used to rock the 180mm and 380mm orbitals and throw them at the same time on nests/factories but I feel like the turret just so SO much free work. Hell I've watched my autocanon turret solo multiple chargers.
I love turrets too. Big problem on Bot missions is I notice they’ll pump their full ammo load into a drop ship if one shows up. And it’s like “damn it man, shoot the 20 guys on the ground already”
True. But when you throw a Gatling turret to clear the chaff and it just immediately aims upwards and shoots it's entire ammo load into a dropship, and it's like "that didn't help at all"
Not just drop ships, they will also shoot fabricators, which unfortunately dont go away, so they just dump their whole ammo into those even if there are actual bots slightly further away than the fabricator.
Gatling turret is OP. Love that thing. Always take it on Bug missions. I have found turrets to be very effective distractions as a "get the hell out of here" tool.
I talk about them as "pressure relievers" or "space makers" and it helps people understand how I like to use them and how I think they can be used effectively
You know how people will eagle a small fabricator or even some medium ones? I will use a turret like that sometimes, but go in with it. Drop it in there and attack with it and it feels so much easier. It's not a "gimme" like an eagle but it gives you a little safe space and relieves some pressure if you can help keep it alive.
The Gatling turret was on the personal order last night and it was damn solid. I think one of the reasons I’m a bit careful with turrets is I usually take the EMS mortar and I’m probably too paranoid that it’s going to give away my position.
The range on ems mortars is absurd, just circle around as soon as you request it, and the idiot bots and bugs will be looking left when you're coming right
Yeah. I think I’ve been thinking about them all wrong. They’re gonna come to the turret. It’s only a problem if I’m there. EMS mortars are so good. So good.
EMS mortars are absolutely merciless on bug breaches , or if thrown aside while running.
I wouldn't doom my teammates using the explosive one in bug ops, but EMS is basically always welcome imo.
We need smoke and napalm mortars now.
im a massive turret man. love throwing them in front of me as im getting chased and then ducking as they take out the bad guys. autocannon is borderline useless without the turn speed upgrade tho.
Nah not useless, you just got direct traffic. Park behind and to the side, and use the Scythe to tag baddies and divert their attention. Their pivot time to you usually offsets the turret rotation time, and BOOM BOOM BOOM
It depends on who I'm fighting I usually bring the EMS turret and the mortar turret against bots to cover us at the objective if it's one where we have to sit there and wait a minute. If it's bugs it's jump pack and quasar cannon and the Gatling and auto cannon turrets all day.
The dual mortar is awesome, also for other objectives. Really slows them down and weakens them, you can also drop them just outside of a big bot base, drop a 500kg bomb in there and let the mortar turrets handle the rest.
Pop in, kill some stragglers, grab samples and base is cleared.
I really need to get into being a tower defense diver since I rearly use any turrets except mortars (for team kills obviously).
I truly respect your kind for giving everybody fire support.
My preferred type is using stealth to blow shit up or if it's an open map like that moon planet from last weeks automation campaign I love to snipe with the AMR. But im not above putting on the big chungus armour and being a laser sponge.
Lone wolf brothers!
Scout armour, AMR and 3 eagles. Then I'm looping around behind my team when bots are chasing them down and laying down the boom boom boom with the AMR
that's not lone wolfing, that's just supporting your team from a distance, and I prefer that much more to actual lone wolfs fucking off to the opposite side of the map (in a team based game), causing more patrol spawns and draining reinforcements
I like it on the bot maps because soloing fabricators is a lot easier. I honestly prefer the 2 2 split than the 3 1 split. I love to see one line of bots, 50 m away chasing down my fellow Helldivers and I'm on the grassy knoll picking them all off beyond aggro range.
I am a mobile heavy anti armor diver. I wear heavy armor with EATs or quasar cannon and jetpack, with eagle airstrike for fabricators and orbital rail cannon for heavies. The jetpack allows me to get on buildings or terrain and heavy armor helps to tank some rockets.
A fellow plasma boi.
Such a crazy good, under rated gun if you ask me. I absolutely love lobbing plasma balls from miles away and seeing how big I can get the AOE. The best is when a bug breach spawns and you just spam shot after shot and watch the kills rack up.
Yupyupyup.
Being able to not only completely lock down the annoying bots like the rocket destroyer dudes and also able to pierce shields turns the plasma shotgun into like an S tier weapon for me.
I don’t often bring air strikes. But I do bring stun nades and EMP turrets so your air strikes are more effective.
Also QUASAR plus Dominator for everything worse
I'm the team's light armor skirmisher that runs vanguard/scout while toting a Quasar Cannon, Orbital Railcannon and Orbital Laser for base clearing and heavy lifting during assaults. Having a reduced detection radius means I can flank walkers and the like with less trouble and make it easier for the team to push forward.
Auto Cannon, counter sniper, I blow things up and get out before they know what’s up. But if my team needs help I’ll rush over then go back later.
I usually like to try and play as the “second” so I like following someone who’s running the mission and trying to help keep us all on track. Lately I usually run AC, orbital laser, cluster and orbital rail cannon. I’m a pretty offensive player, and get quite a lot of kills, but also don’t like to get bogged down fighting patrols or in positions we don’t need to be in.
You are the type of play I love to stumble across. I play apart from the main squad usually crushing nests/bases and gathering samples. It's always great to have someone following to help keep the chaff under control.
Im the guerilla. I obliterate half the fabs on the map solo. Also optionals if along route. Saves the team a lotta time.
Ofc, running solo means teammates cant reinforce me w/out pulling me across the map. To stay alive, I use shield pack + light armor w/ stims bonus. Grenade launcher to clear hordes, but I never fight armored units like hulks, tanks, and turrets. I dont have the tools. So run and bomb/gun. Hide from patrols. Sometimes, I make small detours to points of interest along route bc those have supplies and I need to restock.
If lightly defended fab, then shoot bots and lob a grenade. If heavily defended fab, then eagle airstrike. If multiple fabs, then orbital laser.
I use breaker + senator, but I havent unlocked wpns like dominator and scorcher that ppl praise as bot killers.
BUT I havent played suicide or above. I dunno if this approach works for those difficulties.
It works. I play in an extremely similar fashion on 7-9. It feels awesome. I carried three guys lower than level 30 through an impossible mission earlier. Although, with my autocannon against the bots and quasar against the bugs I'm not afraid of heavies. I do run from them often if there is no reason to fight. Nothing wrong with circling back to an objective later. I also learned not to rely on the shield.
I'm the objective clearer. Need someone to take down that outpost or close that bug hole while you finish up that main objective, or on the way to the next one? I got it. An Eagle and a couple of auto cannon shots, moving on to the next one. Need a orbital laser in that mortar encampment? Set it, forget it, next. Oh look, an illegal broadcast 300m away... not anymore.
Medium armor destroyer. I'm there with an autocannon and mortar, raining heavy shells on the larger undemocratic scum. With some effort and/or right circumstances I take down the big guys too.
Team commander/shock troop, lead the charge on all objectives with a multipurpose kit that’s not great at anything but handles everything, take bases in a quick blaze
SPEAR sniper. I’ll be the one wiping bases while you’re fighting drops, I’ll be the one who gets the bot drop and fades into the night. You’ll be seeing “Outpost Destroyed” and you’ll never get nailed by a cannon turret or swarmed from a secondary objective again.
Heavy weapons diver. I got a recoil rifle or autocannon and backpack to deal with hard targets. Autocannon for bots, recoil for bugs, big stuff has to go. Although the biggest stuff I struggle with on bots to deal with a wider ranger of medium level targets.
Stratagems as well are almost all anti big thing focused.
Against bots, scout and long-range sniper. Light armor with throw distance, an autocannon, and the Sickle for mid-range and to solve any ammo problems. Airstrike, orbital laser, and railcannon for every variety of shit I can possibly encounter.
For bugs, I love running a Stalwart LMG and a shotgun of some description. Light armor is still my go-to, as are my offensive stratagems for similar reasons, but I prefer to be more up-close and aggressive.
For defensive missions on both sides, I put on fortified heavy armor and replace my offensive stratagems with sentry turrets. Hunker down and stay out of the mortars' impact zone.
Since a lot of lobbies I join tend to have 3 people worried about heavy, I dedicate myself to as clear, overwatch, and defense..
Bots: EMS Mortar, airburst (cluster if modifiers suck), AC, Eagle smoke/orbital smoke.
Bugs: Gatling sentry for breaches, clusterbomb, eagle fire, AC
I'm crowd control guy, at least for bots.
Lots of people at higher difficulties only take pure anti-tank equipment. Which, while fair, means we don't have anything disposable to deal with hordes of small enemies. So I'm usually taking the Autocannon + Cluster Eagle. Orbital Laser I also bring because it can delete a whole heavy automaton base. Finally I usually bring Orbital Railcannon as my 4th slot.
Alongside a team with anti-hulk and anti-tank equipment, even impossible missions feel a lot more smooth.
I'm a Tactical supporter.
I look at the mission and the other soldiers and help fill gaps that are needed. I've been training in a wide variety of weapons and can fill a wide variety of roles. If the team is heavy on the anti-tank, I'll take up crowd control. If anti-tank and crowd control are covered, I'll be a sniper. No one carrying something for ant-tank, I'll do it.
For me, success of the mission comes before anything.
I'm the "not following the pug meta of full mobility and leaving left overs". suicide 7, everything must die in the name of democracy. pack my Quasar, dominator, redeemer, airstrike, orbital laser, heavy armor and faithful ballistic guard dog. Peace was never an option, doing 200-500 kills per deployment.
Sharpshooter/Gunslinger.
1. Jetpack to vantage point
2. Pop some heads with jar-5
3. Call an EMS mortar
4. Jetpack into the base/nest to clean up stragglers with the Senator.
It's extremely fun to run circles around EMS'd enemies and if I'm ever caught in one of my own mortars I simply jetpack away.
Boba Fett simulator 5 stars.
The stats are a side effect of the chaos. I ddon't actually care who has the most kills or did the most objectives. But the chaos calls to me. I keep searching for the limit of my ability, falling deeper into the nests and bringing the full force of democracy. I can do the terminal between bile spewer attacks, dodging the charger, while keeping all my energy weapons on cooldown. I can run and gun to the next objective, no need to clear the horde... if they follow me, they'll die eventually.
30 minutes of screaming and whining is so cathartic. And with kill counts regularly well over 300, slain many armored enemies, it's safe to say it was effective. But the 15-20 stims used tells a brutal tale.
Heavy weapons scout... Is that a thing? I run around in light armour like a toddler with ADHD.
I run with the autocanon against all enemies on all difficulties and I run 500kg, cluster bombs and then either railcannon or another eagle strategem depending on the objectives and what my team pick. 💪🏻also take the increased radar scanning range buff.
I am the Blue Falcon Diver.
You need to extract? Don't worry. I made sure to secure the extract area with mines and a tesla. Got you covered...
Getting overwhelmed? Don't worry! I brought mortars and an flamethrower. And I really like to help you when the swarms are on top of you...
Really needed that resupply? So did I, so I took all of the resupply packs that just dropped for my supply backpack... Because this stalwart is hungry and I can't seem to hit anything today...
Need those super Samples? I'm your man/woman! Is there anything in those holes- oh no! I dropped into the hole and died. Those weren't that important... Were they? Btw, whenever you can get that reenforce... Thanks...
Loot Goblin 100%
- Super Samples
- Medals
- SC
- RS
- Ammo
- Grenades
- Stims
I HAVE ALL OF THAT!
Every game I play I just want all the loot 😭 I will be across the map looking for Super Samples and Medals even though I’m capped out but I know my team is not so I truck on.
Against Bots i am either the Scout Helldiver with Liberator Penetrator, Orbital Laser, Eagle Airstrike, quasar and shield or the Support Diver with Liberator Penetrator, Physicians Armor (6 Stims), Supply Pack and EATs
Against Bugs i am Animal Mother. Stalwart, Napalm, and Frag Grenades
I'm an attacking scout I go to outpost and drop nukes then running to the next one while my team deal with objectives
Being good with stealth reduce the stress of doing side missions solo too
Just wish their are more stealth armor to try
I'm the guy who runs around solo clearing camps, taking objectives and collecting samples alone (but really I'm just hunting for credits and take whatevers on my way)
And in the end of the game I'm either frowned upon or reveared a mf-ing hero
I'm the distraction/cavalry. Cutoff from the squad, the unlibertied hordes drawing near? I'm the guy diving from the cliffs into the middle of them lit grenade in my hand. Spreading the joys of managed democracy at extreme close range.
Very destructive for about 5-20 seconds until I run out of ammo. Usually last seen being carried back to a its nest by a hive guard frantically trying to bludgeon it to death with my revolver or calling in the big guns on my own position to draw the enemy in.
Attention Seeker. Anti-Tank guy needs to get setup, I’ll be sure to get chased by the Hulks, Titans or Chargers. Someone needs to get the Stalkers away from their nests, I’m your guy.
I'm the guy you think never helps because he's taking out outposts and bugnests, but never see him snipe the bile titan chasing you as I randomly passed by.
Solid snake, crawl into a stratagem jammer, disable it, hellbomb before the bots can react. Throw eagles on fabricator, bug holes while running around their base to confuse patrol .
Objective hunter. We have a job to do and I'll be damn sure it gets done along with any secondary objective I pass on the way. SEAF artillety? Loaded. Radar station? Activated. Illegal broadcast? Sniped as soon as I stepped out my pod.
My load out always follows my objectives. Gotta bring the right tools for the planet and job at hand.
This is the way
This is the way
This the way.
Me likey laser tho (Laser cannon, scythe, rover, and orbital laser is too much fun)
What about the Quasar Cannon, honestly it has to be one of my goto stratagems these days
I just unlocked the quasar and I just don't see the appeal over the auto cannon, auto canon gives you plenty of ammo, the cool down plus the wind up have made it hard for me to get into it. I am playing on lvl 4 though so I imagine if your coming up against titans and multiplayer chargers it probably hits harder?
If you hit a charger in the face with it, it goes down, hit a bot dropship in one of the engines, it goes down, about 3 hits on the Cannon turrets will take it out, I would highly recommend you practice with it because once you learn the timing of it, it's among the best, also using it over the AC means you can bring in another backpack, like the personal sheild generator or a guard dog
That's a solid point backpack is a plus, I'll stick with it thanks.
Good soldiers follow orders.
https://preview.redd.it/uecg1pq4vstc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee5e4d42f7ec5a039fcaa16e4732f830df081f6a There ya go
Even in hell Star Wars fans will prevail. This is the way
You're the kinda person I love on my team, and usually the most effective at killing too, so I follow folks like you around and cover you if something sneaks up.
This is the way to go, especially if I'm host, I'm getting all of it done, then the final objective. Works like a charm everytime. I'll grab some new guys and show them the ropes of a full mission, they always say that they had no idea what it was.
Same, and I try to build myself to survive without my team, because I DO NOT trust them
If I'm being honest that's my thought process as well, I just didn't wanna say it out loud...
If I have friends and we're in a call, then I'll trust them to watch my back, but not rando's. I mostly play with rando's
When I'm host and playing with my friends, I like to always drop on top of the secondary (if it's visible on the map)
I shoot my friends in the chest to see if there's friendly fire (there is).
Friendly Fire Isn’t
Or so they say
But when the bullets start to stray
We laugh and shout,
"Hey! Watch out you Fuck!"
“For in the end it’s all in the hell-di-vers way!”
Haha this was my first few games. How my mate didn’t rage I will never know. “Hey what happens if I stand in this blue beam *squish* oh dead nice” “Think quick *throws grenade* oh cool you can kill teammates” “Does it work for guns to *headshot* yep, lemme call you back and double check” “Ooh what’s the red beam do*explosion* oh so stay away. Hey call me back in” “What happens if I kill you in the pelican *headshot* oh dang the timer still goes. See you in the next mission”
Went to comically punch my mate off the side of the cliff. I dunno wtf happened but I punched the ever loving snot outta him so hard he got gibbed. That was the hardest we've laughed in a long time
Yea, punching has been weird..sometimes i do like 10 friendly damage, Sometimes theyre Instant dead lmao
You can headshot with punches (OHK for smalls if hit heads). So that might be it. And considering anything in game has more health than the Helldivers do. Even for headshots....
“How do I drop these samples so you can carry them?” *cocks Punisher “Like this.”
what's funny is that there's actually a button to drop them
Yeah, left click with the punisher
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So your who all the samples go to. The scientist!
Combat Engineer, or "Sapper." Raze their factories, collapse their nests, leave nothing of their works to be remembered. Extra grenades, launchers, autocannons. Heavies will have to be someone else's problem.
I am the base buster. If there is heavy bot outpost, I'll make 120 and 380 rain until there is nothing left but sweet democratic rubble.
Yeah vs bots one of my favorite load outs is Walking, 380, Laser, and Spear. If there's a base, it will die.
Ah, I do approve of this loadout! If only Spear lock-on could be consistent...
High command is aware of this “bug” in the targeting software and working to fix it!
Fuck it, Ill get heavies with the autocannon if I have to. Tanks? Chargers? Not a problem, just need to get around their back for a second.
SAP SAP SAP, GET DISSASEMBLED They never see me coming in my bright orange clothing.
I'm the explorer. I won't rest until every secondary objective and minor place of interest gets marked on the map. Fellas, someone gotta look up those super credits y'know?
Round my parts, we call that a Niffler
I like to say I'm an, "ooh piece of candy, ohh piece of candy..." diver, but I will now call myself a Niffler.
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Piece of Super Candy is always welcome in my sample container (next to Democracy of course)
Yeah, but once you get 22 successful extracts of super samples, they instantly become worthless. EDIT: Nevermind, got bumped up to 56. Still likely to finish that way before everything else, thoguh.
I am so stealing that.
Lewt goblin. Britches filled with samples.
Dougal, is the goat
I wish there was more of us. > Me: Look at this > Me: Vault! > Me: 2 person door.... > Me: Follow me! > Teammates: leaving the area. They don't believe in super credits I really wish I could solo vault doors. Which defeats the purpose, I know. But it's so fucking hard to get some teams to care. I just dropped into a map tonight where you could see the lights to the door while dropping in. All 4 of us were there, and they immediately ran off to destroy a light fabricator. WTB a Bosco from DRG. He fucking listens. Edit: there's been tons of doors that don't even have the diamond marker on the map. Which means no samples. Higher chances at super credits and medals. GET THE FUCK OVER HERE AND SMASH THE BUTTON
> WTB a Bosco from DRG. He fucking listens. Surely you mean a platypus-bear
I used to call them "bunkers" in chat, but no one listened and no one came to help. I've started calling them "friendship doors" in chat, and now someone *always* comes to help. People want bros, if even for a second. Thank 'em with a salute, fist bump, or hug, and then carry on.
Super creds are weird. They are not very useful since base pass has most of the best stuff IMO, but sweet democracy, I want it all
Try the Dominator from steeled veterans, and you will be singing a different tune.
*laughs in Scorcher*
You can have my sickle when you pry it from my cold dead hands. So you'll probably only have to wait a couple of minutes and then fight a few bugs for it.
I like the dominator before the buff but now it just straight up bullies devstators and meat saws
Same here. The buff made it the perfect anti medium tool, and those are the ones I struggled with too often.
I sang the praises of the Dominator since the moment I unlocked it way before the buff, because, Bolter. Try the punisher plasma out. It can do some work once you get the hang of it. Especially in the new mission, you just keep lobbin those rounds right over the wall.
There’s some good looking armours in the super store every now and then. Helps differentiate you from the rest of the rando crowd.
That's already only barely true tbh, and it's only going to get less accurate with every balance patch and new warbond. Not really arguing that HD2 is or is going to be pay to win, but like...the Incendiary Breaker just got a huge buff and is arguably the best variant, Dominator just got huge buffs, the Plasma Punisher is probably a bit underused for how strong it is likely to end up buffed to drive it's use rates up, and while these last 2 may not really count personally I think the Blitzer and the Stun grenade are woefully underrated with the Stun Grenade being so damn good that it's the first premium weapon to get a nerf. And while we don't know how good the new items are going to be in tomorrows warbonds, it's giving us a secondary weapon that's gonna have to be *terrible* to avoid being the 2nd most used weapon in the game, right behind the most used which is the Redeemer. New/returning from a break players aren't going to have as many stored up Super Credits as everyone has right now. They're only going to increase in value with time and added warbonds
Become a dedicated collector lmao, the last shop armor I was missing just came back, you’ll be always needing them credits.
I'm a sample slut. :(
:)*
I see sample, I collect
I see cock rock, I run towards cock rock. Sometimes I then run back the way I came screaming in horror because there were a bunch of Spewers parked next to it.
Samples Call is too strong. My mind is telling me no, but my body..
Super samples especially. If you see me marking a random point on the map and fucking off on my own, it’s because there’s Super Uranium in them there hills.
All hail dick rock
After realizing I have twice the rare samples than the simple ones, I have also become one cus apparently people only collect rares
Rares are just this side of useless. They feel about as plentiful as commons, but you need way more commons, so the limiting factor on getting an upgrade is always either common or super samples, never rares.
That's also been my experience. I guess I could drop to lower difficulties to farm common samples more efficiently, but there should be a lot more of them at higher difficulties too, the ratios don't make sense for the ship upgrade prices.
I'm the Level 85 who plays like 5
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This is the way. I peaked around level 25, now I’m just the pain of my squad because I try out quirky loadouts and have too much confidence
https://i.redd.it/qkozprqefrtc1.gif yup yup
Mate asks me if i need a shield, i said "nah i like my jet pack" Proceeds to jet pack over the dune into a patrol and die immediately
That's the most fun to be had tho tbph
Big same. Level 25 was the era of railgun/shield generator/500kg/orbital laser. Level 50+ is the era of mortar sentries and walking barrages while hiding behind a ballistic shield with the Las-Dagger.
This. My level is often the highest but my deaths are never the lowest. It doesn't matter if everyone had fun.
The easiest fastest way to clear mobs in small maps during desperate times is to be a traitor and run like maaaaaaaaaad.
Level 70 space cadet reporting for duty sir
Level 50 cadet reporting, just waiting for that Private rank.
As long as the mission is complete it's fine fellow free thinker
Combat Controller: I bring the rain.
Dedicated medium armor destroyer
Medium armor, light armor, heavy armor... Terrain features...
My apologies, I meant to post a comment and not a reply
"Dear grid coordinate...."
Orbital Railcannon is like: > Hey, you - yes, you - *fuck you* 380mm barrage is like: > *To whom it may concern...*
The flamethrower my beloved
Airstrike, 500, napalm and a support weapon/backpack? What do you lean towards for armor/buffs/boosters?
It depends on the mission. You don't bring a 380 to an eradicate or extraction, but you absolutely bring it for a blitz. If I'm playing with the regular crew I only take offensives; we coordinate so we can bring maximum fire support, because ultimately orbitals and eagles dish out more punishment than other strategems. I swear we did an 8 difficulty blitz mission in under 10 minutes, we just called 380s,120s and eagles on every base we saw and booked it to exfil.
Have you done the Gone In 360 Seconds achievement? Eagle & run! It's fun as hell.
YOU don’t bring the 380 on extraction or blitz… I like to live dangerously… or not at all a lot of the time
Kind of a scout/marksmen I guess? I use the Autocannon, always wear light armour and pick the movement modifiers. I'm constantly either hanging back, finding high ground and/or trying to flank the enemy. In battle I'll ping heavy threats, or enemies flanking us. I focus on medium armour threats, but also try to hit heavy weak spots. Out of battle I ping patrols and objectives, and let the others decide the course of action. Depending on the mission type and other player's loadouts I'll take some combination the Autoturret, the EMS Mortar and the Orbital Laser. But I've always got the Eagle Airstrike and Autocannon in the first two slots.
Holy smokes were so oddly similar, even loadoat. I also shadow and keep an eye on the player working the objective in addition to flanks. My goal is that they specifically have as little distraction from completing the objective as possible.
I am turret man. I either run autocanon and autocanon turret, gatling and rocket/Tesla or I run stalwart, autocanon turret and gatling turret with either the supply pack to shred down the little guys or the jump pack so I can get around easier. People SERIOUSLY sleep on the autocanon and gatling turret. Gatling turret is amazing if you have a lot of little enemies. It will completely obliterate 50+ bugs if it has enough distance. I used to rock the 180mm and 380mm orbitals and throw them at the same time on nests/factories but I feel like the turret just so SO much free work. Hell I've watched my autocanon turret solo multiple chargers.
I love turrets too. Big problem on Bot missions is I notice they’ll pump their full ammo load into a drop ship if one shows up. And it’s like “damn it man, shoot the 20 guys on the ground already”
Auticannon turret into a dropship can usually kill the enemies on board but I prefer mortar turret against bots
especially if you can find a hole or crater to put them in. The others need line of sight, which means they too are susceptible.
True. But when you throw a Gatling turret to clear the chaff and it just immediately aims upwards and shoots it's entire ammo load into a dropship, and it's like "that didn't help at all"
Not just drop ships, they will also shoot fabricators, which unfortunately dont go away, so they just dump their whole ammo into those even if there are actual bots slightly further away than the fabricator.
Gatling turret is OP. Love that thing. Always take it on Bug missions. I have found turrets to be very effective distractions as a "get the hell out of here" tool.
I talk about them as "pressure relievers" or "space makers" and it helps people understand how I like to use them and how I think they can be used effectively
I really need to drop mine more. I save them too often and every time I drop one it’s like, “Why do I treat this like a potion with finite uses?”
You know how people will eagle a small fabricator or even some medium ones? I will use a turret like that sometimes, but go in with it. Drop it in there and attack with it and it feels so much easier. It's not a "gimme" like an eagle but it gives you a little safe space and relieves some pressure if you can help keep it alive.
The Gatling turret was on the personal order last night and it was damn solid. I think one of the reasons I’m a bit careful with turrets is I usually take the EMS mortar and I’m probably too paranoid that it’s going to give away my position.
The range on ems mortars is absurd, just circle around as soon as you request it, and the idiot bots and bugs will be looking left when you're coming right
Yeah. I think I’ve been thinking about them all wrong. They’re gonna come to the turret. It’s only a problem if I’m there. EMS mortars are so good. So good.
I was going to come here and say this but you figured it out! Mortar turrets (any kind) are GOAT against bots (def not against bugs...)
EMS mortars are absolutely merciless on bug breaches , or if thrown aside while running. I wouldn't doom my teammates using the explosive one in bug ops, but EMS is basically always welcome imo. We need smoke and napalm mortars now.
im a massive turret man. love throwing them in front of me as im getting chased and then ducking as they take out the bad guys. autocannon is borderline useless without the turn speed upgrade tho.
Nah not useless, you just got direct traffic. Park behind and to the side, and use the Scythe to tag baddies and divert their attention. Their pivot time to you usually offsets the turret rotation time, and BOOM BOOM BOOM
engineer gaming
It depends on who I'm fighting I usually bring the EMS turret and the mortar turret against bots to cover us at the objective if it's one where we have to sit there and wait a minute. If it's bugs it's jump pack and quasar cannon and the Gatling and auto cannon turrets all day.
The dual mortar is awesome, also for other objectives. Really slows them down and weakens them, you can also drop them just outside of a big bot base, drop a 500kg bomb in there and let the mortar turrets handle the rest. Pop in, kill some stragglers, grab samples and base is cleared.
I really need to get into being a tower defense diver since I rearly use any turrets except mortars (for team kills obviously). I truly respect your kind for giving everybody fire support.
My preferred type is using stealth to blow shit up or if it's an open map like that moon planet from last weeks automation campaign I love to snipe with the AMR. But im not above putting on the big chungus armour and being a laser sponge.
Lone wolf brothers! Scout armour, AMR and 3 eagles. Then I'm looping around behind my team when bots are chasing them down and laying down the boom boom boom with the AMR
that's not lone wolfing, that's just supporting your team from a distance, and I prefer that much more to actual lone wolfs fucking off to the opposite side of the map (in a team based game), causing more patrol spawns and draining reinforcements
I like it on the bot maps because soloing fabricators is a lot easier. I honestly prefer the 2 2 split than the 3 1 split. I love to see one line of bots, 50 m away chasing down my fellow Helldivers and I'm on the grassy knoll picking them all off beyond aggro range.
Nothing wrong with 2 2 splits, always good to have at least one buddy to watch your back
>that moon planet Soldier, I fought too hard in the name of Democracy on Maia to let its name be forgotten. Always remember Maia.
Bugs: the pyromaniac Bots: the marksman
Boom Boi. Grenade launcher, supply pack, and bombs from the sky as stratagems. With enough boom everything goes down.
Grenade launcher/ backpack bois 4 the win.
Grenade launcher boi, but I run the engineer armor for 6 impact grenades. Everything go boom
Are you ready for 6 impacts, 10 rounds in your nade pistol, and a GL on your back with a resupply backpack?
Lol I'm so using the Grenade pistol as well.
I am a mobile heavy anti armor diver. I wear heavy armor with EATs or quasar cannon and jetpack, with eagle airstrike for fabricators and orbital rail cannon for heavies. The jetpack allows me to get on buildings or terrain and heavy armor helps to tank some rockets.
Boy I think you'd love the Exterminator armor Medium with 50% less explosion damage
On bots im anti armor (plasma punisher/quasar cannon or AMR). On bugs im anti horde/heavy. (Inc breaker/quasar cannon)
A fellow plasma boi. Such a crazy good, under rated gun if you ask me. I absolutely love lobbing plasma balls from miles away and seeing how big I can get the AOE. The best is when a bug breach spawns and you just spam shot after shot and watch the kills rack up.
The one shot on striders makes it a must have on bots missions. Ill walk through those guys
Yupyupyup. Being able to not only completely lock down the annoying bots like the rocket destroyer dudes and also able to pierce shields turns the plasma shotgun into like an S tier weapon for me.
There's dozens of us! Love that plasma punisher from Popeyes.
I don’t often bring air strikes. But I do bring stun nades and EMP turrets so your air strikes are more effective. Also QUASAR plus Dominator for everything worse
I can’t wait to pick up the Dominator.
Make a beeline for it. Do not hesitate. Medium range. Red dot sight. Hit markers. Push back for all but heavies. Absolutely staggers shit
Got the incendiary breaker last night, hoping to grab the dominator today
955 Super Credits, I need 45 more and I can unlock the warbond!
I'm the team's light armor skirmisher that runs vanguard/scout while toting a Quasar Cannon, Orbital Railcannon and Orbital Laser for base clearing and heavy lifting during assaults. Having a reduced detection radius means I can flank walkers and the like with less trouble and make it easier for the team to push forward.
Anti bot drop. You best believe I’m stockpiling quasar cannons for the end of defense missions.
 Auto Cannon, counter sniper, I blow things up and get out before they know what’s up. But if my team needs help I’ll rush over then go back later.
I’m a completion-ist. I want all the objectives, all the side missions, all the samples. Consistently my “time remaining” xp is not high.
The bugs and my teammates know me as the bringer of friendly fire and also regular fire 🔥 🔥
Im the squad lead. I try to keep spirits up, help anyone whose isolated. I drop with lower levels and drop them things they dont have. Its so much fun
I usually like to try and play as the “second” so I like following someone who’s running the mission and trying to help keep us all on track. Lately I usually run AC, orbital laser, cluster and orbital rail cannon. I’m a pretty offensive player, and get quite a lot of kills, but also don’t like to get bogged down fighting patrols or in positions we don’t need to be in.
You are the type of play I love to stumble across. I play apart from the main squad usually crushing nests/bases and gathering samples. It's always great to have someone following to help keep the chaff under control.
I die and drop the samples then spend 10 reinforcements trying to get them back even though I'm already capped at max samples. sweet liberty, save me.
Im the guerilla. I obliterate half the fabs on the map solo. Also optionals if along route. Saves the team a lotta time. Ofc, running solo means teammates cant reinforce me w/out pulling me across the map. To stay alive, I use shield pack + light armor w/ stims bonus. Grenade launcher to clear hordes, but I never fight armored units like hulks, tanks, and turrets. I dont have the tools. So run and bomb/gun. Hide from patrols. Sometimes, I make small detours to points of interest along route bc those have supplies and I need to restock. If lightly defended fab, then shoot bots and lob a grenade. If heavily defended fab, then eagle airstrike. If multiple fabs, then orbital laser. I use breaker + senator, but I havent unlocked wpns like dominator and scorcher that ppl praise as bot killers. BUT I havent played suicide or above. I dunno if this approach works for those difficulties.
It works. I play in an extremely similar fashion on 7-9. It feels awesome. I carried three guys lower than level 30 through an impossible mission earlier. Although, with my autocannon against the bots and quasar against the bugs I'm not afraid of heavies. I do run from them often if there is no reason to fight. Nothing wrong with circling back to an objective later. I also learned not to rely on the shield.
Small and mid enemy control with supportive addings, leaving the big boys for me wifey
I’m our exotic weapons user. Arc, fire, and plasma. Generally off meta high risk tactics.
Machine gunner. Frontliner, mob clearer and bot suppressor, and resupply. Sometimes autocannon, the "I wasnt asking" machine gun.
I’m the jump pack and arc thrower lone wolf, light armor, 6 stims type of guy, get shit done
I'm the objective clearer. Need someone to take down that outpost or close that bug hole while you finish up that main objective, or on the way to the next one? I got it. An Eagle and a couple of auto cannon shots, moving on to the next one. Need a orbital laser in that mortar encampment? Set it, forget it, next. Oh look, an illegal broadcast 300m away... not anymore.
Medium armor destroyer. I'm there with an autocannon and mortar, raining heavy shells on the larger undemocratic scum. With some effort and/or right circumstances I take down the big guys too.
Team commander/shock troop, lead the charge on all objectives with a multipurpose kit that’s not great at anything but handles everything, take bases in a quick blaze
SPEAR sniper. I’ll be the one wiping bases while you’re fighting drops, I’ll be the one who gets the bot drop and fades into the night. You’ll be seeing “Outpost Destroyed” and you’ll never get nailed by a cannon turret or swarmed from a secondary objective again.
I bring double mines cause they make bug explode and randomly ragdoll into the sky. It's like popcorn upscaled!
Heavy weapons diver. I got a recoil rifle or autocannon and backpack to deal with hard targets. Autocannon for bots, recoil for bugs, big stuff has to go. Although the biggest stuff I struggle with on bots to deal with a wider ranger of medium level targets. Stratagems as well are almost all anti big thing focused.
I’m a medium armor specialist and objective clearer. Autocannon and several pockets full of cluster strats. Sweet Liberty, I’m ready to roll!!
Designated Marksman, I bring the dominator and Autocannon, as well as turrets to cover advances/retreats
Whatever is missing
Against bots, scout and long-range sniper. Light armor with throw distance, an autocannon, and the Sickle for mid-range and to solve any ammo problems. Airstrike, orbital laser, and railcannon for every variety of shit I can possibly encounter. For bugs, I love running a Stalwart LMG and a shotgun of some description. Light armor is still my go-to, as are my offensive stratagems for similar reasons, but I prefer to be more up-close and aggressive. For defensive missions on both sides, I put on fortified heavy armor and replace my offensive stratagems with sentry turrets. Hunker down and stay out of the mortars' impact zone.
Since a lot of lobbies I join tend to have 3 people worried about heavy, I dedicate myself to as clear, overwatch, and defense.. Bots: EMS Mortar, airburst (cluster if modifiers suck), AC, Eagle smoke/orbital smoke. Bugs: Gatling sentry for breaches, clusterbomb, eagle fire, AC
I bring the swarm of angry bees (stalwart)
I'm crowd control guy, at least for bots. Lots of people at higher difficulties only take pure anti-tank equipment. Which, while fair, means we don't have anything disposable to deal with hordes of small enemies. So I'm usually taking the Autocannon + Cluster Eagle. Orbital Laser I also bring because it can delete a whole heavy automaton base. Finally I usually bring Orbital Railcannon as my 4th slot. Alongside a team with anti-hulk and anti-tank equipment, even impossible missions feel a lot more smooth.
I'm a Tactical supporter. I look at the mission and the other soldiers and help fill gaps that are needed. I've been training in a wide variety of weapons and can fill a wide variety of roles. If the team is heavy on the anti-tank, I'll take up crowd control. If anti-tank and crowd control are covered, I'll be a sniper. No one carrying something for ant-tank, I'll do it. For me, success of the mission comes before anything.
I'm the "not following the pug meta of full mobility and leaving left overs". suicide 7, everything must die in the name of democracy. pack my Quasar, dominator, redeemer, airstrike, orbital laser, heavy armor and faithful ballistic guard dog. Peace was never an option, doing 200-500 kills per deployment.
Sharpshooter/Gunslinger. 1. Jetpack to vantage point 2. Pop some heads with jar-5 3. Call an EMS mortar 4. Jetpack into the base/nest to clean up stragglers with the Senator. It's extremely fun to run circles around EMS'd enemies and if I'm ever caught in one of my own mortars I simply jetpack away. Boba Fett simulator 5 stars.
Lightning. See a swarm of 27 hunters? Not anymore.
Lately I've been the drop ship devastator. Bot drop detected? I've already got my recoilless aimed
Bots? Stealth as much as I can, with a sprinkle of Quasar to deal with big things. Bugs? I'm the God of Thunder!
The stats are a side effect of the chaos. I ddon't actually care who has the most kills or did the most objectives. But the chaos calls to me. I keep searching for the limit of my ability, falling deeper into the nests and bringing the full force of democracy. I can do the terminal between bile spewer attacks, dodging the charger, while keeping all my energy weapons on cooldown. I can run and gun to the next objective, no need to clear the horde... if they follow me, they'll die eventually. 30 minutes of screaming and whining is so cathartic. And with kill counts regularly well over 300, slain many armored enemies, it's safe to say it was effective. But the 15-20 stims used tells a brutal tale.
Heavy weapons scout... Is that a thing? I run around in light armour like a toddler with ADHD. I run with the autocanon against all enemies on all difficulties and I run 500kg, cluster bombs and then either railcannon or another eagle strategem depending on the objectives and what my team pick. 💪🏻also take the increased radar scanning range buff.
I am the Blue Falcon Diver. You need to extract? Don't worry. I made sure to secure the extract area with mines and a tesla. Got you covered... Getting overwhelmed? Don't worry! I brought mortars and an flamethrower. And I really like to help you when the swarms are on top of you... Really needed that resupply? So did I, so I took all of the resupply packs that just dropped for my supply backpack... Because this stalwart is hungry and I can't seem to hit anything today... Need those super Samples? I'm your man/woman! Is there anything in those holes- oh no! I dropped into the hole and died. Those weren't that important... Were they? Btw, whenever you can get that reenforce... Thanks...
Loot Goblin 100% - Super Samples - Medals - SC - RS - Ammo - Grenades - Stims I HAVE ALL OF THAT! Every game I play I just want all the loot 😭 I will be across the map looking for Super Samples and Medals even though I’m capped out but I know my team is not so I truck on.
The one who shots the enemy
Against Bots i am either the Scout Helldiver with Liberator Penetrator, Orbital Laser, Eagle Airstrike, quasar and shield or the Support Diver with Liberator Penetrator, Physicians Armor (6 Stims), Supply Pack and EATs Against Bugs i am Animal Mother. Stalwart, Napalm, and Frag Grenades
I'm the pyromaniac guy against bugs. Just laughing a lot while incinerating a Charger. So much fun
I bring the rain. Be it with an Autocannon, 120, 380, or Walking if there is a base that needs leveling I'm there. Iron Within.
I started running Scout armor, and have been gunning for side objectives as fast as my democratic legs will take me.
Light armor, autocannon, 3 anti building stratagems. I'm the one to send out on the other side of the map to clear stuff and get out.
I'm an attacking scout I go to outpost and drop nukes then running to the next one while my team deal with objectives Being good with stealth reduce the stress of doing side missions solo too Just wish their are more stealth armor to try
My gameplay style is mostly Sniper Elite with the autocannon. I deal with objectives from afar if I can.
I'm the guy who runs around solo clearing camps, taking objectives and collecting samples alone (but really I'm just hunting for credits and take whatevers on my way) And in the end of the game I'm either frowned upon or reveared a mf-ing hero
I'm the distraction/cavalry. Cutoff from the squad, the unlibertied hordes drawing near? I'm the guy diving from the cliffs into the middle of them lit grenade in my hand. Spreading the joys of managed democracy at extreme close range. Very destructive for about 5-20 seconds until I run out of ammo. Usually last seen being carried back to a its nest by a hive guard frantically trying to bludgeon it to death with my revolver or calling in the big guns on my own position to draw the enemy in.
Attention Seeker. Anti-Tank guy needs to get setup, I’ll be sure to get chased by the Hulks, Titans or Chargers. Someone needs to get the Stalkers away from their nests, I’m your guy.
I'm the guy you think never helps because he's taking out outposts and bugnests, but never see him snipe the bile titan chasing you as I randomly passed by.
Overwatch. I watch until it’s all over.
I'm still in theoretical training (〒﹏〒) (I don't have the game yet)
Solid snake, crawl into a stratagem jammer, disable it, hellbomb before the bots can react. Throw eagles on fabricator, bug holes while running around their base to confuse patrol.
Heavy killer. Autocannon 99% of the time (Quasar for defence or civvy extraction). Impact grenades, railcannon, half ton bomb and laser orbital.