Helldivers 2 | PS5, PC | Alvin reports "game gets crazy sometimes"

Hexx wrote:What do people run?

Incendiary Breaker
The SMG

Orbital Laser/Orbital Railgun
500KG Bomb
Shield Pack + Railgun
or
Spear (is that it? the last anti vehicle weapon) and backpack.

For Bots, Autocannon is king I think - if you are accurate you can take down a hulk from the front in 2 or 3 shots. I have maxed out turrets and love the autocannon/emp mortar combo. I've also gone back to Eagle airstrike as the 500kg bomb has a deceptively small radius.

The slugger is also great against bots if you can hit your shots. It can stun a Rocket Devastaster so if one is looking right at you you can keep him from shooting, it can also kill the chicken walkers from the front if you aim at the crotch!

I also use the light armour with 50% explosive dmg reduction when fighting bots.

Bugs I might do Arc/Flamethrower and Laser Rover for crowd control. As the Eat is so good against chargers now that might genuinely become a go to slot (to just quickly swap out when needed).

I use the medic armour with 6 stims and 2 extra stim seconds against the bugs. I still think breaker or breaker incidiary are the best bug primaries.

Edit: Also thr Autocannon can destroy illegal broadcasts and spore towers from across the map, which is so much fun. Can also destroy factories and bug holes from far away, the angle is a bit harder though.

Ah, Aaron is talking about the autocannon again I see

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Also Hexx and Alvin, down to Helldive whenever! Just hit us up in the GRCade* discord. I'm actually your timezone Alvin so can do some evening dives with ya.

Edit: originally I said Helldivers discord, I would not see you in there haha

Tomous wrote:autocannon

Did you say Autocannon?

Hexx wrote:What do people run?

Incendiary Breaker
The SMG

Orbital Laser/Orbital Railgun
500KG Bomb
Shield Pack + Railgun
or
Spear (is that it? the last anti vehicle weapon) and backpack.

For bugs my fave is slugger, arc thrower, jump pack
With orbital laser or rail cannon strike and EMS strike

For bots diligence, rail gun, personal shield
With eagle airstrike and either mortor

Though I think smokes for the bots is a good shout on higher difficulties

I will say the latest balance patch has really mixed up the viable loudouts you see, it's a good thing I think! Lots of fun toys to try out (context).

But not the bubble shield. That sucks lol.

Edit - actually maybe bubble shield + 380mm barrage could be a fun combo.

I need to unlock the shield generator, apparently that's excellent for blocking bile attacks, even reflecting them back on their spewers.

Guess I need to set up a Discord account. :shifty:

Alvin Flummux wrote:I need to unlock the shield generator, apparently that's excellent for blocking bile attacks, even reflecting them back on their spewers.

Guess I need to set up a Discord account.

The shield has had a definite nerf but it's still very handy for survivability,especially with bots.

GRcade discord for when you've sorted it! https://discord.com/invite/EPwWwXUS

aayl1 wrote:I will say the latest balance patch has really mixed up the viable loudouts you see, it's a good thing I think! Lots of fun toys to try out (context).

But not the bubble shield. That sucks lol.

Edit - actually maybe bubble shield + 380mm barrage could be a fun combo.

The ol' Gibby combo, haha.

Just curious, how many of you have play Deep Rock Galactic? I can't help but draw comparisons between both games.

Helldivers is definitely WAY more high budget and polished but DRG is just so damn wholesome and I really love the traversal and varied missions types.

Would be so cool if they do a Collab at some point. Having some DRG weapons in HD2 would be awesome

Yes I played DRG! I really enjoyed it, I used the Scout mainly. I totally see the comparisons, both great games.

Turns out the bubble shield is actually a great lure so can be used offensively.

Also it can reflect bile titan acid, killing them!

Seems kinda situational, cool though! If it did that kind of thing to more enemies it would be really useful.

The armour in the new warbond all has 95% arc damage resistance on it :lol:

It's pretty cool being able to tank a teslacoil hit if you forget to crouch.

The new laser primary seems really good as well, literally the only downside it has is you have to charge if for a second before firing.

Yeah looking forward to checking out the new warbond later, but I'll probably still save my medals for the Dominator (or whatever the last gun on the free warbond is) for now, and see how close I am to having 1000 SC without spending real money.

I will say the tesla towers are very good on the termicide missions, I was using one with incidiary mines to close off a lane for the bugs during the battery assaults.

I am down for any games tonight! Might be streaming some Prince of Persia but I'll try to keep an eye on the discord (or just pop in my stream and tell me to Helldive with ya).

I'm hoping to be on too :cool:

Me three!

Another stellar session with the boys - aayl1, Tomous and Fade keeping democracy ticking over for Super Earth :toot:

Honestly, this game is just so strawberry floating good, I can't even. Absolute peak co-op experience :datass:

Great stuff tonight guys, we're beginning to gel really well. We'll be on Helldive difficulty in no time.

Our last, short, mission of the night, featuring Preezy's heroic solo extraction here - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2091714956?t=02h07m58s

Also the whole session is there, but i timestamped the last one.

Such an epic escape, can't believe I somehow managed to get on that dropship, total fluke :slol:

Some great missions last night! Things running very smoothly despite the difficulty level.

We're now a well oiled team :cool:

Even if that clip starts with me going "sorry guys forgot my auto cannon backpack brb" :slol:

Helldivers 2 | PS5, PC | Alvin reports "game gets crazy sometimes"

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