Helldivers 2 - Hell is more diverse than ever as PlayStation's demographics continue to grow and change.

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i bought at launch and had fun 200 hours then the updates started crawling and being worthless sidegrades and cosmetic changes of stuff i already have. like an assault rifle but 7% different than stock wow cool.
so every couple months i look at what they've added and im waiting for something cool like a tank or an APC.

nothing! its 2 years and the latest update gives you a 500kg bomb sidegrade. oh you aim it differently now. very cool.
i dont know how people play this its a fake live service game. All these games, the devs decide they dont want to make a video game anymore, they want to become a balancing factory instead and they arent even good at it. Fatshark studios is across the street from these helldivers devs and theyre doing the exact same thing. 3 year old live service game that has had like 3 actually new weapons and 1 new class and the rest of the time theyre doing retarded balancing changes nobody cares about.
are you guys HYPED!!! and gonna put in another 30 hours for the jetpack sidegrade thats diagonal instead of horizontal whoa dude and theres a new armor pen tweak on 2 guns im so hyped
 
bull_truefur said:
i bought at launch and had fun 200 hours then the updates started crawling and being worthless sidegrades and cosmetic changes of stuff i already have. like an assault rifle but 7% different than stock wow cool.
so every couple months i look at what they've added and im waiting for something cool like a tank or an APC.

nothing! its 2 years and the latest update gives you a 500kg bomb sidegrade. oh you aim it differently now. very cool.
i dont know how people play this its a fake live service game. All these games, the devs decide they dont want to make a video game anymore, they want to become a balancing factory instead and they arent even good at it. Fatshark studios is across the street from these helldivers devs and theyre doing the exact same thing. 3 year old live service game that has had like 3 actually new weapons and 1 new class and the rest of the time theyre doing retarded balancing changes nobody cares about.
are you guys HYPED!!! and gonna put in another 30 hours for the jetpack sidegrade thats diagonal instead of horizontal whoa dude and theres a new armor pen tweak on 2 guns im so hyped
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If it's any consolation...they just put a finished APC in the files. It's there, ready to go whenever.
But yeah, I haven't played more than a couple operations since before the Super Earth defense a while ago.
I was gonna dive boogs but the audio issues make it unbearable.
 
Dr. Jaime Reyes said:
How are you supposed to play this faction? I took a break from the game around the time they came out and I haven’t figured them out yet.

The guys with the jet packs soak way too much damage from both sickle and coyote. Should I be going with a shotgun? Eruptor? Then you have the giant flesh abominations and the stingrays. Rockets for both? I used to run the AMR regularly against bots; does it have utility against the squids?
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Dr. Jaime Reyes said:
Did a squid dive on my lunch break. I found the eruptor unsatisfying: it’s useless against the flesh mob and if you miss a floating dude you’re reloading like a chump.

Ended up adopting the “strategems and run” tactic and it served me well enough. Double edge sickle obviates the need for a machine gun. Light armor and plenty of cover means only occasional death. I still find them the most difficult faction but it seems that’s a popular opinion.

Thanks for the advice fellow Kiwidivers.
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You have a couple load out options that work well, I’ll give you my philosophy.

For squiggers you want one DPS weapon and something that will kill medium armor.

The reason you want this is that you use dps on things with shields, flesh mobs and to break harvester shields, and the medium pen to kill overseers, stingrays and to break the harvester’s shield prong then its hip joints.

Flesh mobs are really weak to lasers because of the fire dot they proc. The dagger is great because you can shoot and run, which means the flesh mob stays burning while you bullfight it.

For backpack, I almost always take guard dogs, they are great for voteless crowd control, all are good in their own way.

Gas is also your best friend as it does 2 critically important things: kills voteless and breaks aggro, which is critical for dealing multiple flesh mobs. Here are two great tricks: kite the enemy andthrow the gas grenade at your feet while running away. It will explode and catch what was chasing you, break aggro and inflict dot. This also works with orbital gas, bu you throw that ahead of you to compensate for the call in time. Both are really useful in the bottleneck of city streets. Add in a guard dog chewing on them an you can kill a lot of enemies with this trick.

For strategems I would almost always take eagle strafing run and orbital gas strike or mg turret. The fast reload in both is extremely useful, gas strike kills the spawned ufos through the shield if the shell strikes it, and the strafe will drop any shield it hits, is great for city streets and it super fun to strafe a stingray once you get the timing down.

Here’s a few loadouts I like to use:
Equipment:
Eruptor
Dagger laser pistol
Gas grenades
Favorite light armor (I mostly run servo assisted)

Strategems:

Eagle strafe
Mg turret
Gas dog
Machine gun (or gas strike, you can find machine guns on the ground a lot), use high fire rate

Eruptor murders the shields of spawners and harvesters, bullies harvester leg joints and flattens voteless. It’s got awful ergo though so it takes getting used to. Use all your weapons on flesh mobs,they all work well, gas buys you breathing room. Kill overseers and stingrays with the machine gun.
Drop mg turret at the first sign of trouble, it reloads fast

Loadout 2:

Knight smg/liberator carbine
Dagger/grenade pistol
Gas grenades
whatever armor

Strategems

Eagle strafe
Gas strike
Mg dog
Laser cannon

Use your primary on voteless/flesh mobs and break shields, laser cannon for overseers (shoot the head), stingrays and harvesters (pop shield w/ primary then hit the shield prong with laser cannon, finally kill hip joints) and again cycle all your weapons on flesh mobs, they all work. Take grenade pistol instead of dagger for the kill spawners mission.

Mg dog kills overseers pretty well, but you run out of bullets a lot.

Hope this is useful.
 
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Neodanthril said:
this is guaranteed to get you kicked from a game
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I find that the Blitzer doesn't. Usually. People give you a fair shake but the cone of arcing is really weird. It seems like it likes to leash onto one or two enemies at close proximity as you may expect but then other times I've had bugs 5m ahead of me and one random arc shot out at 70 degrees and nipped a friend.

Tesla towers though absolutely people are traumatized by those since launch.
 
Neodanthril said:
this is guaranteed to get you kicked from a game
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Again, YOU ASK FIRST AND EXPLAIN FIRST. Don't jump in on random people with this loadout unless you want people to subject you to a field execution.

Sneedfully and Peacefully said:
I find that the Blitzer doesn't. Usually. People give you a fair shake but the cone of arcing is really weird. It seems like it likes to leash onto one or two enemies at close proximity as you may expect but then other times I've had bugs 5m ahead of me and one random arc shot out at 70 degrees and nipped a friend.

Tesla towers though absolutely people are traumatized by those since launch.
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The Tesla Tower is hilarious if you have Electrical Conduit, because being prone under one suddenly becomes the safest place in the fucking game. Even if the Eye of God falls upon you, it will do only chip damage.
 
Jaimas said:
The Tesla Tower is hilarious if you have Electrical Conduit, because being prone under one suddenly becomes the safest place in the fucking game. Even if the Eye of God falls upon you, it will do only chip damage.
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Yeah I swear going prone used to not stop it or maybe I'm hallucinating and it did but I recently discovered you can crawl to get your items if you happened to get team killed by one, and it's always amusing because you're going super careful baby mode to creep in and get your stuff back.

That aside the thing is monstrous and I want more people to use it. It's not great everywhere like most defensives but any mission where you absolutely have to hunker down (extract assets being the premier because it's entirely defense) like assets, ICBM, raise the flag, and particularly against bugs the thing is going Old Teatament on them.
 
Sneedfully and Peacefully said:
Yeah I swear going prone used to not stop it or maybe I'm hallucinating and it did but I recently discovered you can crawl to get your items if you happened to get team killed by one, and it's always amusing because you're going super careful baby mode to creep in and get your stuff back.

That aside the thing is monstrous and I want more people to use it. It's not great everywhere like most defensives but any mission where you absolutely have to hunker down (extract assets being the premier because it's entirely defense) like assets, ICBM, raise the flag, and particularly against bugs the thing is going Old Teatament on them.
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Prone around it always worked.

The problem is that people would go prone after they already angered the lightning god, or got murked by an arc jump after the initial hit nailed something else.
 
Jaimas said:
Prone around it always worked.

The problem is that people would go prone after they already angered the lightning god, or got murked by an arc jump after the initial hit nailed something else.
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I've found that wearing any backpack dog that isn't parked will still get hit and arc to you even if you are prone. Doesn't happen if you park it however.
 
I don't know what the issue is but this is the only game I've played in the last 5 years since I've had this PC that has caused it to completely hard crash where I will have to press my power button to reset it. I know I'm not the only one who has this issue and Arrowhead needs to fix this shit. I keep thinking I'm gonna get on the game and play an operation only for my computer to freeze and black screen about 40 minutes in.
 
Where's my armor customization AH
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Not Funny said:
I don't know what the issue is but this is the only game I've played in the last 5 years since I've had this PC that has caused it to completely hard crash where I will have to press my power button to reset it. I know I'm not the only one who has this issue and Arrowhead needs to fix this shit. I keep thinking I'm gonna get on the game and play an operation only for my computer to freeze and black screen about 40 minutes in.
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Maybe it's GameGuard raping your system because it doesn't know when to turn off.
 
Had my eye on this game since the Halo collab and now that the games on sale I'm tempted to buy. What am I in for?
 
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