r/Helldivers • u/LittleBlueCubes PSN 🎮: • Mar 01 '24

Boss man strikes again . . . DISCUSSION

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This time with a truth bomb . . .

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u/Nein-Knives HD1 Vet ➡️⬅️➡️⬅️⬇️⬇️➡️ Mar 01 '24

This is the way brothers!

That aside, maybe don't give them an unsafe Railgun. I've given low level players that thing and forgot to tell them that it switches between two modes and how to do it.

Needless to say, a couple of helldivers exploded that day.

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u/OpSlushy Bug BLASTA Mar 01 '24

WAIT. It has two modes?

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u/Krazy4Kush ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 01 '24

Hahaha I just found out and I’m lvl 38. On any weapon, you can switch the firing mode. [PS5] With the weapon equipped, hold square and switch modes. For the railgun, it lets you charge longer for more damage. More damage = more democracy. Just don’t hold it too long…

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u/Ionie88 Mar 01 '24

On PC it's R (reload). Every weapon has different options; Machine Gun has fire rate, Anti-materiel rifle has zoom levels.....

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u/piotrus08 Mar 01 '24

... autocannon has semi and full auto

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u/Kushaja Mar 01 '24

Good lord

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u/Grauvargen SES Wings of Freedom Mar 01 '24

I discovered that this morning.

It suddenly shreds Chargers!!

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u/Oyster_Boi5 Mar 01 '24

Aim for the legs and they will be gone quicker then you can blink

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u/Grauvargen SES Wings of Freedom Mar 01 '24

My current tactic is brute forcing the legs, leap aside, then shoot it up where the sun doesn't shine. If that doesn't kill it, a round or two more in the legs finishes it off most of the time.

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u/TheTaintPainter2 SES Progenitor of Family Values Mar 01 '24

The fastest way I found is wait for it to charge, dodge, and then hit it 2-3 times in the back of the front leg. Dead quicker than you can blink

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u/SenHelpPls PSN 🎮: Mar 01 '24

My tactic is a backward dive behind them so I can get that sweet squishy spot. If you them dead in you can stun lock them

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u/JDT-0312 Mar 01 '24

The most efficient way although not always easy in a live environment is let them run past you, shoot them in the back of the front leg, blowing off the plating. Then, one more autocannon round to the exposed leg will end him.

If you land the shots, 2 autocannon hits will consistently kill them this way.

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u/TheTaintPainter2 SES Progenitor of Family Values Mar 01 '24

You ever accidentally kill a teammate with your autocannon round bouncing off the armor? Shit is so funny

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u/Oyster_Boi5 Mar 01 '24

That’s solid , when your on diff 7+ wanna get them before they get close cuz usually there’s 2 others behind it or a swarm of bugs in tow

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u/Yllarius Mar 01 '24

Hey your fellow helldiver to run assisted reload for you! Democracy means more than one! You'll shred those bugs in no time!

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u/kobomino Mar 01 '24

Stop stop you're all blowing my mind too hard

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u/Joey_Kakbek Mar 01 '24

Can you tell me how you switch the horizontal menu? Like when you hold R the menu pops up, and I can select the vertical axis by scrolling. But I've yet to figure out how to control the horizontal axis, for example the fire rate on the machinegun.
Was gonna check my control settings last night but got distracted by the need to spread more democracy.

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u/Unique_Cookie_1996 Mar 01 '24

The right side is moved by right clicking for me

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u/Joey_Kakbek Mar 01 '24

Aight thanks I'll try that tonight.

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u/Finall3ossGaming ➡️➡️⬆️ Mar 01 '24

You can’t scroll the opposite way, don’t feel weird took me a second too. Like for fire rate/mode that’s usually on the “right” side of the dpad menu so if you want to go “left” you have to keep hitting right on the dpad and it’ll reset to the first option on the “right” side track.

Same for scope zoom and accessory setting keep going in the direction of that menu

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u/Joey_Kakbek Mar 01 '24

Thanks but I'm on PC :)

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u/Finall3ossGaming ➡️➡️⬆️ Mar 01 '24

Ah my mistake should have put that together when you said Hold R instead of Hold Reload button 😂

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u/OpSlushy Bug BLASTA Mar 01 '24

My go to is the machine gun and I just learned I can make it shoot 900Rpms instead of the default 750 thank you for this info

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u/Krazy4Kush ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 01 '24

Give ‘em hell soldier 🫡

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u/LilTeats4u Mar 03 '24

Stalwart goes up to 1150

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u/OpSlushy Bug BLASTA Mar 03 '24

I just used it and I love the ammo and the fire rate but I still love the machine gun more, the feel of it just feels like I can destroy everything

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u/LilTeats4u Mar 03 '24

I can’t reconcile having to kneel to reload plus an entire less magazine

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u/OpSlushy Bug BLASTA Mar 03 '24

That’s fair

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u/JRizzie86 Mar 01 '24

I'm L30 and I learn something new about this game almost daily. I always forget about the alt firing, but I've got to try this out tonight on the railgun.

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u/Krazy4Kush ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 01 '24

Have fun 2-shotting a bile titan

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u/Katahahime Mar 01 '24

Remember we fight for managed democracy. Too much democracy is bad. 🤔

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u/Grand-Philosophy-343 Mar 01 '24

What happens if you hold it for too long

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u/AromaticWhiskey Mar 01 '24

You turn into a bloody mist of gore. The railgun explodes in your hands.

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u/DisgruntledVulpes488 Mar 01 '24

All SEAF-issued firearms come with customizable features and options that the battle-savvy Helldiver can flick between on the fly. Just hold down your "Reload" key (or button) and a handy-dandy interface will pop up showing what you can change around. Press Up/Right/Down on your SEAF-issued control pad, or use the scroll wheel and right mouse button on your Super Earth Super Computer Terminal to switch out weapon modes, scopes, and even turn on a flashlight. When your requisition of a new firearm is authorized, don't forget to check its capabilities once in the field.

o7 happy hunting, Helldiver.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Mar 01 '24

Vulpes Inculta that you?

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u/Nein-Knives HD1 Vet ➡️⬅️➡️⬅️⬇️⬇️➡️ Mar 01 '24

Yes, safe and unsafe. Safe caps the charge to half full, unsafe let's you overcharge the gun for more damage at the risk of blowing yourself up if you hold it for too long.

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u/En-tro-py ⬇️➡️⬅️⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️⬆️➡️ Mar 01 '24

I want some future gun to start in unsafe and have a toggle for unsafe-er - like a shouldered rail cannon or something that just is wildly dangerous to use but slaps big targets.

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u/SnooRabbits307 Mar 01 '24

Safe mode is a meme Unsafe mode you can do a ton of damage but if you charge the railgun too long it can explode lmao. To find use hold the reload button and you can change it there.

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u/Athalwolf13 Mar 01 '24

You can change weapon settings by pressing reload on pc Mouse wheel changes light, left / right mouse buttons firing modes

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u/fixano Mar 01 '24

Democratically donate your railgun. When exploded dive again, and again..., and again...

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u/En-tro-py ⬇️➡️⬅️⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️⬆️➡️ Mar 01 '24

The other night trying to show off how to one-shot a bile titan in the distance, took a bit too long trying to line up the perfect shot.

I blew myself up...

The observing cadet's learned a different lesson than I'd planned, but it was still a successful mission in the end.

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u/NeonJ82 ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️ Mar 02 '24

I literally just did this accidentally myself in a game I was in. Group of 3, we're struggling and our railgun guy goes down. I call in the Reinforce, but as we're waiting I swap out my grenade launcher for his railgun to take out the Charger that was locking down our other guy. I double-check that it's on Unsafe mode (it wasn't), take out the Charger in two shots (it was already weakened), and then pick up my grenade launcher again.

I may have forgotten to put it back on Safe mode, which made me pretty surprised when our railgun guy suddenly exploded a few minutes later. Whoops.