Helldivers II

Cybsled

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I’ve yet to succeed in one of the new mission types where you have to stop their landing of 40+ ships. Everything will be going okay and then I’ll get overrun by overseers and lose within 3 minutes.
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Those missions are tough - the longer ships stay up, the more shit that spawns. They usually land in clusters or 2 or 3. The lander ships do show up on the map. Main goal is killing the ships, once you deplete reserve ships and landed ship quota is done, mission is complete

splitting your team into 2 squads seemed to work well when I ran it
 
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Im enjoying the new difficulty with the illuminate. They were a push over before, now if you get separated from your group it's almost a guaranteed death.
 
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

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Im enjoying the new difficulty with the illuminate. They were a push over before, now if you get separated from your group it's almost a guaranteed death.
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What level do you play on? A few days ago my brother and I played a handful of 40 min levels at Helldive difficulty (9/10) and it may have just been the people we were paired with, but it was ROUGH. I dont even think we extracted from the first one. My brother is lvl 150, Im almost lvl 90, but I think it really does make or break depending on who your partners are.

Maybe I need to add some of yall on steam so I dont get matched with incompetent nosebleeders who decide to throw Napalm Barrage into the immediate area or who respawn you right into the LZ for a 500 kg bomb.
 
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS said:
What level do you play on? A few days ago my brother and I played a handful of 40 min levels at Helldive difficulty (9/10) and it may have just been the people we were paired with, but it was ROUGH. I dont even think we extracted from the first one. My brother is lvl 150, Im almost lvl 90, but I think it really does make or break depending on who your partners are.

Maybe I need to add some of yall on steam so I dont get matched with incompetent nosebleeders who decide to throw Napalm Barrage into the immediate area or who respawn you right into the LZ for a 500 kg bomb.
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I play on 10 usually. They've done a good job making each faction challenging its own way. Loadouts also play a huge factor in success and many common loadouts simply don't work well against the illuminate. You have to stick together and you need options that will put tons of rounds down range.

The low cooldown mini gun turret is huge for clearing the voteless hordes. As is the arc thrower and LMGs. Illuminate are mostly medium armor so there isn't a huge reason to have rocket launchers, but the auto cannon is great for taking down the strafing jets, the new monstrosity and walkers.

If you can stay out melee range you're golden. If they get that close you're likely going to die.
 
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Cybsled

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Crossbow and a MG stratagem works well for the landed ships. Pop the shield with the mg, then a single crossbow shot into the open door insta kills the ship

Hornet launcher is useful too - makes shooting down the jetpack guys easier since they constantly move around. 2-3 darts will take them down. The darts are also useful on walkers since they pop the shields quickly from long range
 
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Cybsled said:
Crossbow and a MG stratagem works well for the landed ships. Pop the shield with the mg, then a single crossbow shot into the open door insta kills the ship

Hornet launcher is useful too - makes shooting down the jetpack guys easier since they constantly move around. 2-3 darts will take them down. The darts are also useful on walkers since they pop the shields quickly from long range
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Landed ships are easy for me.
Primary gun the shield until it bursts. Then switch to the grenade pistol. One shot into the door and it explodes.

the issue is more the heavier armor dudes for me. Especially the new flood monstrosity ones that have 4 arms.
 
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Ya those flesh heap fuckers are hard because they run super fast once they enrage and if you have medium/heavy armor you aren’t outrunning them. The trick with them is to kill all the glowing faces on them. Weapons with shrapnel work well or fire/gas weapons or powerful explosives, tricky bit is they have faces on the front and back.
 
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Cybsled said:
Ya those flesh heap fuckers are hard because they run super fast once they enrage and if you have medium/heavy armor you aren’t outrunning them. The trick with them is to kill all the glowing faces on them. Weapons with shrapnel work well or fire/gas weapons or powerful explosives, tricky bit is they have faces on the front and back.
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My go-to-armor set is no gimmicks, but 100 armor and 550 run. So its the speed of a light armor set but the defense of a medium armor set. It's GOAT.
 
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Hekotat

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Looks like we are the verge of losing Super Earth. I think it's going to collapse into a blackhole and we end up in another galaxy.

No idea what else they could hit us with when it falls.
 
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Another major update. I really wish they would add cross progression already.

 
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Is this worth getting into now? Looking for a shooter to play with my son.
 
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Absolutely, the halo crossover is nice and today they are launching new underground missions. There is so much content to unlock its insane. Im like 3 warbonds behind now but interested to see the new enemies and underground stuff today.
 
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Is this worth getting into now? Looking for a shooter to play with my son.
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The game is an absolute blast if you have a decent squad but can be even more entertaining if they're bad. On the other hand, Arrowhead really needs to take some time to iron out old bugs and new ones they've introduced with the latest update. Lots of terrain/geometry issues, including a certain new bug that can actually destroy all the terrain around objectives and soft lock your mission. Performance can be all over the place and on PC the game has now bloated to 140+ GB compared to 30ish on consoles.

Still, it's fun as shit and they do microtransactions right. You can earn everything in game by playing except for the pre order bonuses and stuff from the Killzone crossover, which they fucked up, but at least learned from. Everything else is in the permanent warbonds, with a small amount of stuff that rotates through the superstore. Super Credits can be found in missions at points of interest.
 
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The game is an absolute blast if you have a decent squad but can be even more entertaining if they're bad. On the other hand, Arrowhead really needs to take some time to iron out old bugs and new ones they've introduced with the latest update. Lots of terrain/geometry issues, including a certain new bug that can actually destroy all the terrain around objectives and soft lock your mission. Performance can be all over the place and on PC the game has now bloated to 140+ GB compared to 30ish on consoles.
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Apparently, the engine Helldivers 2 is built on is considered "dead". The company behind it doesn't even exist anymore. That means any real fixes or deep-level improvements are going to be next to impossible. It's a huge obstacle for the game's long-term future.
 
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Apparently, the engine Helldivers 2 is built on is considered "dead". The company behind it doesn't even exist anymore. That means any real fixes or deep-level improvements are going to be next to impossible. It's a huge obstacle for the game's long-term future.
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Yup, Autodesk Stingray. Ended support in 2018. It was the engine they used for the first Helldivers. The bloat on PC is supposedly because of massively duplicated assets, which I know is often done to speed up loading times.
 
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I've really loved the new maps, def a lot of bugs but still fun. Those giant worms and dragon bugs are such a pain in the ass, they make me want to stay in the bug caves lol.
 
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Is this worth getting into now? Looking for a shooter to play with my son.
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Very much so. Coop with multiple of my buddies and their kids. The difficulty settings, progression, and being cross platform are ideal for it. Not to mention fun factor. :emoji_thumbsup:
 
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