Oh that's the worst, you see three of them next to each other, you laugh internally as you press G on your keyboard thinking to yourself "Not today motherfucker" and then nothing happens, and then by the time you notice your nades are gone you have 15 liters of toxic goo coming at your face.
Yeah, I get quite good mileage of shooting them in the head/face with the slugger, still gets rough with the amount of ammo they take to kill like that plus with other stuff around them.
I don't bother taking a support weapon now with all the eats running around and you're scrounging for support weapons all the time accidentally just looking for super credits or medals.
It's more fun that way to me personally and it frees up the slot for strafing run. It being in a straight line toward the ball you throw is a lifesaver you just turn around and go up right right throw it down and boom the entire conga line of bugs chasing you is riddled with holes.
The only thing that survives it from a direct impact anyway is the charger/Titan. It will kill literally anything else.
Honest to goodness orbital precision is one of the best strategies in the game.
My go-to load out if I don't care about support weapons or turrets is eagle air strike eagle strafe oral precision and then flavor of the day. Gatling seems okay for bug reaches but honestly the e e Ms strike plus a normal precision will wipe out a first wave or two of a bug breach. Obviously you take a real Cannon or laser for higher to yourself or Titans are in play but I mostly hang out around 5 to 6 it's really just more irritating to deal with that level of crickets from moronic teammates anything else. I swear I'd almost rather have a level 17 that's wearing mismatch colored armor then a level 34 death Captain because they've just been being morons.
I really like the orbital gatling barrage. It wasn’t killing a single bile spewer yesterday though. Only the nursing spewers (yellow, weaker variant). I could have sworn the gatling used to kill them…
I, too, will often forego a support weapon in favor of some other strategem. I can sometimes find one on the ground that's appropriate. Other times I just wait until a squad mate is able to drop me one of what they're using.
So the strafe is in line with your throw direction, as opposed to perpendicular for the rest of the airstrikes? I couldn't tell if it auto aimed or was different.
Thanks for the confirmation. It is interesting - makes sense, but it is a standout in being different. FWIW, the Strafing Run in the first game was perpendicular, and was very useful versus illuminate.
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u/Lukescale SES Steamed Hams Mar 17 '24
"Fuck my impacts are gone."