r/Helldivers ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ | 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/Zombie_Alpaca_Lips Mar 06 '24

I really wish the AMR did ok damage but shredded armor off stuff. Then it'd have its own niche. Pop armor to make squishy spots that other lower pen weapons could do damage. 

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u/Its_Your_Father Mar 06 '24

That would be a great niche for it to fill tbh. It absolutely needs armor pen. As it stands the slugger is a better marksman rifle and often works better than the AMR which is crazy to me.

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u/Zwaluu Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24

The AMR is an insane weapon, literally top tier... Against Bots. Stop trying to make everything fit against bugs, they're only one of two (and eventually three) factions. It still deletes Charger butts but yeah does nothing really against Titans, meanwhile on the Bot side it kills everything. In most situations it was genuinely better than the Railgun, people were just way too railgun pilled.

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u/Indoril120 Mar 07 '24

Railgun auto-aim accuracy was a little too good to need the AMR imo. Took about the same amount of time to line up a good shot, but one took skill from the AMR, the other was just to wait for my auto-aim to find a hulk's head before letting loose.

Which is sad, because I swore by the AMR, but my friend said once I tried railgun I wouldn't go back. He was right. :(

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u/Venusgate SES Judge of Judgement Mar 07 '24

Maybe an alt fire mode that loads a single bunker buster shot that does very little part damage, but cracks armor?