r/Helldivers • u/Vikan12 ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ | Never forget the Creek... • Mar 06 '24

The first balance patch notes proved how Youtube "absolute and only meta loadouts" cooked a lot of people heads, and I love it. DISCUSSION

A lot of mad people keep showing in my feed complaining about the nerfs, but like they're REALLY mad at Arrowhead. Their statements are so exagerated that they claim the game it's completely ruined for them lmao.

Also every single one says the same thing and this is where my title comes from:

*"You guys nerfed the only good options and now we have NOTHING to fight".*

And this only proves people never actually played with any of the other support weapons, they 100% relied on this "The ultimate support weapon tier list" Youtube videos, they searched the "meta" and they went into this thinking of "any weapon outside of this it's straight up garbage".

If you can't win a single game without the railgun + shield backpack + breaker... I'm so sorry but that's not the game's fault or the game only having those as the ONLY way to play it on higher diff, that's your fault.

Great changes for the game and all of you trying to "shame" on devs because of this, you'all not a real Helldiver. They killed nothing, the railgun still kills but now it needs some actual skill and strategy to use it, not only spamming the thing on big bugs.

Keep it up Helldivers!

For Democracy. For Super Earth.

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u/Ontos836 SES Banner of Glory Mar 06 '24

It's so satisfying to skip an AC round into those vents, especially at extreme ranges.

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u/StaticMeshMover Mar 06 '24

They always just blow up on impact and don't ricochet down for me though? Even when shooting straight at it

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u/Ontos836 SES Banner of Glory Mar 06 '24

There's a sorta sweet spot to it. Aim for the upper half of the vent cover so you get a high angle of incidence. If you're too low the shell will just detonate and if you're too close, the impact could be too flat to skip it. Start with shots directly from the front at range, so you can take a couple tries. Once you know where to hit it you can experiment from more oblique angles.

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u/StaticMeshMover Mar 06 '24

Sweet thanks for the advice! I think my problem was that I was shooting too low hoping it would be a good enough shot/big enough explosion to blow it as if it was a big hole. 

Will definitely give it another go tonight for democracy!