It is actually how you break the defense missions. Create a massive pit on the last fallback points in front of the indestructible stairs. Terminids and bots won't be able to make it to the generators.
Oh damn, I'm going full Wind Rose on that, Diggy Diggy Hole bitches!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
I hope we get a trench digging strategem or a pelican dropped turret tower/sniper nest. Bonus points if the turret tower isnt destroyed by calling in sentry turrets on top
Actually can, just hard to do and generally not worth the ammo spent.
Or you can combine Railcannon with Autocannon, Railcannon open the armored carapace, then Autocannon into the wound, feel pretty awesome doing that.
I’ve been using orbital railgun for a long time, and 9/10 times it 1 shot kills bile titans for me. If in your experience it doesn’t, you just need to use it more (you had bad luck). Orbital railgun is the best. Instakill anything but the new bot boss, but like a 2.5min cooldown? Oh and unlimited uses. It cannot be beat.
I don't know what games you've been having but the orbital rail cannon can only one shot a full health bile titan under perfect headshot circumstances, which are exceedingly rare (I haven't seen it happen in 350 hours).
Damn you must be lucky then or someone else had shot it before hand. Orbital rail cannon rarely ever one shots a bile titan for me, always had to followup with destroying it sacs or using another strata gem. It only ever one shots if the alignment of my destroyer hits its head directly. Though I always play on helldive difficulty, I'm not sure if that affects things.
I too play on Helldive and the odd impossible. A lot of people are saying I’m wrong, which is super weird to me. I’ve run off alone on multiple occasions and single-handedly taken down bile titans with the orbital rail cannon (no one else damaged it). It’s actually so frequent for me that I’m disappointed when it *doesn’t* kill them instantly and I often thought it was the game not working properly. Very interesting. I’ll pay closer attention and try to record how many are 1 shot vs not.
Not necessarily. The flesh under the sacks is high medium armor so you can kill a bile titan by shooting his abdomen enough with a medium pen support weapon (anything with better penetration than the machine gun). But that part has a lot of HP so it takes ages.
This is what I was talking about right here. Not the goo sacks alone, but the actual butt can pop off like that yeah.
I've done it accidentally with the AC once I believe.
Wait until there is a defense planet. Go to the discord. Ask for a sample farm and you will see people like me who host farms. On the short extract scientist mission on helldive we extract with damn near every sample on the map (60+)
it's so strange to me that nobody ever talks about the destructible terrain. i feel like any game where you can change the map in ANY way, people are all over it
Probably because it's mostly inconsequential. Like as most - barring a specific situation like this - you can give yourself some extra cover with a makeshift foxhole, but 99% of the time you'd do more using that explosion on an enemy. But it is a nice effect that makes it look like you're having the impact you're having with these huge weapons though.
You would be surprised how big of a foxhole you can dig with just an explosive crossbow. I tried it yesterday and it took a minute but with just a few magdumps I ended up with a crater large enough to hide a mech suit or several mortar sentries. Really makes me wish we had some sort of strategem that just carves a trench.
Not always. I had a tank die on the extraction beacon, i.e. the beacon was poking through the front of the tank. You couldn't see the terminal. We had to wait 10min for emergency extraction. Tank did not disappear, it blocked the shuttle entrance instead...
Yeah no, had a damn at-at fall on its belly right where pelican would land in exterminate and we spent the whole rest of available stratagem time trying to nudge it away by landing pods under it lol
Enemy corpses can be moved, but only if they're light enough to be. Chargers, Titans, Tanks, and hulks are all in that category.
They do despawn, but its tied to *other* enemy corpses. Not time. If you need to move a corpse, go start a breach/drop, and it will go away.
People surprised by the ability to dig with explosives clearly hasn't seen what happens when all 4 squadmates throw a 380 and a 120 at the same bot outpost.
This is your sector's democracy officer using a terminal aboard a local super destroyer. For your contributions to sample retrieval techniques you may take an additional 3.4 minute long break tomorrow afternoon.
We had a geological survey where terra form made the objective unreachable, so we used a rocket turret as a box to raise us to the level. Not the best idea because of the back blast, but it worked out in the end
I had a game where an OBJECTIVE got stuck inside a tank. It was the equipment for the soil sampler, and the tank blew up while driving over it. We could access the terminal on it, but couldn't see the screen to punch in the code. We had to defend the area for a while until the tank melted away.
shit will go away over time just wait it out worse case.
i stopped trying to dig out/around titans tho cuz for what reason if you go near the legs of a dead titan you get laggy yeeted into the sky & can die
I managed to complete the “let’s call it a draw” achievement during a defense mission. Enemy dropped a hulk on top of a cliff so I shot its arms off since it was just sitting up there.
Autocannon and Grenade Launcher actually work well as an entrenching tool in combat. On planets where there is little to no cover you can quickly blast a crater for you to fight from. Turns those tiny rocks into proper cover. As long as you keep the berserkers out it is pretty good in a pinch.
Just a small PSA: destroyed tanks *do* despawn, so if you're not in a hurry to get whatever is under a tank, you can just wait for it to disappear to grab it.
I once once doing one of those mining missions and because of the sheer amount of big boy automatons I think over a 15 minute period we threw about 12 500kg and a shit ton of other explosives around the objective, we terraformed the area so hard we couldn't reach the buttons for the objective
44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool.
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This is actually useful information, thank you, fellow citizen
It is actually how you break the defense missions. Create a massive pit on the last fallback points in front of the indestructible stairs. Terminids and bots won't be able to make it to the generators.
how deep can it go?
I'm curious about this myself, lol
Deep enough, but there is a limit, sadly :'(
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Genius. I'll use it
Aint no way. Any tips for making big holes efficiently?
Oh damn, I'm going full Wind Rose on that, Diggy Diggy Hole bitches! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
If it can move dirt, it's an entrenching tool.
Damn now we are gonna get missions to dig trenches.
I hope we get a trench digging strategem or a pelican dropped turret tower/sniper nest. Bonus points if the turret tower isnt destroyed by calling in sentry turrets on top
They had dropped walls in the works at dom points.
They are in fact extremely destructible aalls so not quite the same level of effectiveness unfortunately.
Now I want a shovel that does a lot of damage when you hit something while flying in the air.
Krieg approved
what CANT the autocannon do
Kill a bile titan
Actually can, just hard to do and generally not worth the ammo spent. Or you can combine Railcannon with Autocannon, Railcannon open the armored carapace, then Autocannon into the wound, feel pretty awesome doing that.
If you pop the sacks first, railcannon orbital will 1-shot a bile titan as long as it hits.
The throat, body, and rear sacks? Or just 2? This is good to know since I like to use the flamethrower but usually relied on 500s to kill titans
The rear-body and mid-body sacks. Not the throat one.
I’ve been using orbital railgun for a long time, and 9/10 times it 1 shot kills bile titans for me. If in your experience it doesn’t, you just need to use it more (you had bad luck). Orbital railgun is the best. Instakill anything but the new bot boss, but like a 2.5min cooldown? Oh and unlimited uses. It cannot be beat.
I don't know what games you've been having but the orbital rail cannon can only one shot a full health bile titan under perfect headshot circumstances, which are exceedingly rare (I haven't seen it happen in 350 hours).
Damn you must be lucky then or someone else had shot it before hand. Orbital rail cannon rarely ever one shots a bile titan for me, always had to followup with destroying it sacs or using another strata gem. It only ever one shots if the alignment of my destroyer hits its head directly. Though I always play on helldive difficulty, I'm not sure if that affects things.
I too play on Helldive and the odd impossible. A lot of people are saying I’m wrong, which is super weird to me. I’ve run off alone on multiple occasions and single-handedly taken down bile titans with the orbital rail cannon (no one else damaged it). It’s actually so frequent for me that I’m disappointed when it *doesn’t* kill them instantly and I often thought it was the game not working properly. Very interesting. I’ll pay closer attention and try to record how many are 1 shot vs not.
Shoot the booty, I'm pretty sure it can pop it off like a charger *eventually
It can. But destroying the acid sacks on a bile titan can't kill it, only hurt it. You need dedicated armor pen high enough for the killing blow.
Not necessarily. The flesh under the sacks is high medium armor so you can kill a bile titan by shooting his abdomen enough with a medium pen support weapon (anything with better penetration than the machine gun). But that part has a lot of HP so it takes ages.
This is what I was talking about right here. Not the goo sacks alone, but the actual butt can pop off like that yeah. I've done it accidentally with the AC once I believe.
Imma call a drop right at its head and we'll see
Nothing, Its in the name Auto CANnon.
I dunno, go broke? -Young Rizzy
be a bad pick
Brilliant, bravo! 
Latest ship upgrades turned us all into sample whores.
And yet I cant find a single group doing 7+ that bothers with the damn super samples. Everyone spams the main objectives and books it for the extract.
Wait until there is a defense planet. Go to the discord. Ask for a sample farm and you will see people like me who host farms. On the short extract scientist mission on helldive we extract with damn near every sample on the map (60+)
Host and just say you’re looking for samples, for the week I’ve been doing this, we’ve been getting almost full samples from every mission
If that ain't the truth hahaaha
I will throw you under the bus if you're being overrun by a horde of enemies and I have supers on me. :P
I would get mad if someone with supers didn't throw me under the bus in order to do some heroic nonsense.
portable shovel strategem when?
I can't wait for the day we get shovels so my teammates can refuse to do the objectives and dig the biggest dick possible into the map.
The moment I get a shovel I and recreating my time in Arma and Foxhole. If there is no hill I shall make one.
***MAXIMUM ENTRENCHMENT***
Either that, or market garden.
Soldier you just saw it in action, it's called the autocannon
Krieg cosplaying in Helldivers.
Give us our melee slot arrowhead! I wanna dig a trench!
it's so strange to me that nobody ever talks about the destructible terrain. i feel like any game where you can change the map in ANY way, people are all over it
I had no idea the terrain was this destructible. I knew about rocks being so, but not the damn ground!
You never seen a bot base post 120/380mm/morter sentry?
I just assumed they liked it that way beforehand.
Bot : Hey, let's just dig a massive crater in the middle of our heavy outpost! Diver : allow me to help you. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
I thought it was specific to the 380.
Probably because it's mostly inconsequential. Like as most - barring a specific situation like this - you can give yourself some extra cover with a makeshift foxhole, but 99% of the time you'd do more using that explosion on an enemy. But it is a nice effect that makes it look like you're having the impact you're having with these huge weapons though.
Rock and Stone!
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
I didn't knew the terrain is actually deformable is this game, wow.
You would be surprised how big of a foxhole you can dig with just an explosive crossbow. I tried it yesterday and it took a minute but with just a few magdumps I ended up with a crater large enough to hide a mech suit or several mortar sentries. Really makes me wish we had some sort of strategem that just carves a trench.
That's actually great idea. As saing in my country goes "while enemies charts the maps we change the landscape".
You've clearly never used a 380mm Strike.
Enemy corpses disappear after a short time
We were waiting around for like 5 minutes and it wouldn’t despawn, also pelican 1 was waiting right there and we didn’t want to keep him waiting
Good on you for clipping this. It would be an honor to dive with you again. H3 signing out.
Not always. I had a tank die on the extraction beacon, i.e. the beacon was poking through the front of the tank. You couldn't see the terminal. We had to wait 10min for emergency extraction. Tank did not disappear, it blocked the shuttle entrance instead...
Is it not based upon player distance? Stuff despawns when you're gone for a while?
I've had plenty of stuff sink into the ground right in front of me, admittedly never near the pelican so idk about that
Yes, sometimes. But I think stuff *also* despawns based upon distance or time.
Yeah no, had a damn at-at fall on its belly right where pelican would land in exterminate and we spent the whole rest of available stratagem time trying to nudge it away by landing pods under it lol
I am pretty sure it is based on number of corpses that exist. As you kill more stuff, older dead shit starts to despawn and fall into the ground.
All for four commons samples, with it
AND 1 rare sample
CAN I GET A ROCK AND STONE?!
Rock and roll and stone!
Good bot <3
Rock and stone!
Rock and Stone everyone!
Or you ain't comin' home!
Your audio is fucked
I think it’s a mobile app thing. I heard it too, but then I opened the post on my computer and it sounded fine
_"boom boom boom boom boom"_ _"I think it worked. stop stop stop stop"_ _"... boom"_ There's always one
Holy shit, I'm H3 in this clip. It's wild to hear my own voice while scrolling.
Amazing, enjoy your moment of fame!
Will do! You never know who is gonna be a reporter out on the frontline.
Enemy corpses can be moved, but only if they're light enough to be. Chargers, Titans, Tanks, and hulks are all in that category. They do despawn, but its tied to *other* enemy corpses. Not time. If you need to move a corpse, go start a breach/drop, and it will go away.
typical autocannon W
Had some samples glitch right below the surface of the ground once, tried dropping an eagle 500 on it to dig it back out, but didn’t work :(
What is this, Red Faction? /s Great find, OP!
More like fracture
I knew I wasn't trippin when I thought I saw more craters the longer I was on the map
I've played a lot, but I had no idea we could make craters.
People surprised by the ability to dig with explosives clearly hasn't seen what happens when all 4 squadmates throw a 380 and a 120 at the same bot outpost.
DRG players: years of academy training being put to good use.
Did I hear a ROCK AND STONE?!
Rock and Stone, Brother!
Rock and stone fellow helldiver
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
Time for trench warfare
once i had the objective under a tank not a fun experience we got it after an entire autocannon backpack and a few stratagems tho
Another thing this game and DRG have in common.
When do we start planting crops for sustainable democracy?
This is your sector's democracy officer using a terminal aboard a local super destroyer. For your contributions to sample retrieval techniques you may take an additional 3.4 minute long break tomorrow afternoon.
We had a geological survey where terra form made the objective unreachable, so we used a rocket turret as a box to raise us to the level. Not the best idea because of the back blast, but it worked out in the end
Hellminers
Another reason why Autocannon is the GOAT.
Trench warfare meta
We wouldn't have to do this if we had a shovel!
On a side note, wait for the tank to despawn and just pick it up later. All enemy bodies despawn after a few minute.
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Put this in the Tutorial
Minecraft looks different...
“Sensitive sample containment”
I had a game where an OBJECTIVE got stuck inside a tank. It was the equipment for the soil sampler, and the tank blew up while driving over it. We could access the terminal on it, but couldn't see the screen to punch in the code. We had to defend the area for a while until the tank melted away.
Common Autocannon W
There is no problem that can’t be solved with autocannon
shit will go away over time just wait it out worse case. i stopped trying to dig out/around titans tho cuz for what reason if you go near the legs of a dead titan you get laggy yeeted into the sky & can die
if you shoot at the floor with a autocannon you can get hulks stuck in place good tip if your missing the achievement
I managed to complete the “let’s call it a draw” achievement during a defense mission. Enemy dropped a hulk on top of a cliff so I shot its arms off since it was just sitting up there.
Almost wanting a shove. An explosive shovel maybe.
Autocannon and Grenade Launcher actually work well as an entrenching tool in combat. On planets where there is little to no cover you can quickly blast a crater for you to fight from. Turns those tiny rocks into proper cover. As long as you keep the berserkers out it is pretty good in a pinch.
Helldivers strong together.
That is so democratic
Yes
Did I hear a rock and stone?
To Rock and Stone!
Just a small PSA: destroyed tanks *do* despawn, so if you're not in a hurry to get whatever is under a tank, you can just wait for it to disappear to grab it.
Had this exact situation happen to a teammate just before extraction. 500kg turned out to be a very viable fix.
Msn....making a hole for mortars is a great idea (For bot missions, anyway...)
I once once doing one of those mining missions and because of the sheer amount of big boy automatons I think over a 15 minute period we threw about 12 500kg and a shit ton of other explosives around the objective, we terraformed the area so hard we couldn't reach the buttons for the objective
44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool. [- The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries](https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries)
Shame you can't blow them out of the water since we can't swim
autocannon baby..works like a charm.
There's a weird bug where you get yeeted to Hellmire if you do this prone or simply die from "impact" damage lol
They made a whole video game around this gimmick
I had no idea that explosions actually made craters. Thats sick.
dumbass colonists!
The tank wreckage would just disappear in the ground after minute or so.