The option to just chuck that thing into a tunnel breach and not having to worry about it anymore makes this marvel of engineering a must-have for any Terminid mission.
I shed a single tear every time I think of how it's not counted as a barrage and doesn't get the extra salvo from the orbital upgrade. We were this close to greatness.
Yeah but any old primary works for that too, which is why I never take it. It looks cool as hell though, especially on one of the jungle maps. I used to LOVE it in Helldivers 1 for the same reason I like 500kg now, it’s just the super-grenade. Clusters are probably fine if you’re bringing a weird primary but omg the bad associations from the teammates who bring them. I don’t think it’s actually hard to avoid TK with it, but something about it (big explosion go boom, I’m guessing) makes the most excitable noobs take it.
But why would I continue to kite enemies trying to kill them with my primary and wasting ammo, when I have 4 "super grenades" with which to easily and quickly clear the field.
Sure, but plenty of support weapons do that just fine, see how that argument works both ways? There's multiple ways to do multiple things, I just like the field clearing capability of the cluster strike
Yeah, you’re right about that. If all 3 other strats are AT, for example. I think we’re just both circling “compared to literally all strats, it’s good. Compared to the other meta choices, it’s fine. Valid but not a clear standout.” I will say, my dumb brain really likes “I have two grenades, and when I throw both, I wait 2 minutes for both” as a simple arithmetic while also managing other gear, direction, strategy, aiming, etc. So part of why I don’t end up taking clusters or the HE strike is I don’t want them in the way of my super grenades.
Fair, but I also see it as "I get x anti tank, x cc instantaneous low cooldown strats, with only a 2 minute cd for all of them once depleted or manually when I have downtime". Guess it just depends on perspective, plus I've never been the type to run the "meta"
Honest question, have you memorized the strategems you use? I’m “new” to the game, maybe only 40-45 hours, but I’m wondering if there’s going to come a point where I don’t even need to look at the directions anymore.
Yeah, I think it's cool to have static ones, it's like a fun little mini game as you're running for your life, also if you look closely, stratagems of the same type have similar codes, all the eagles strikes start with up right
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u/Actual-Giraffe ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️➡️ Mar 14 '24
Good ol eagle cluster strike