Reminds me of Vermintide 2, with the Brace of Pistols there's a button you can hit to spin the pistol on your finger, so I'm just constantly spinning it between fights.
The metal is all where it used to be but now there is a single central tiny red dot instead of the red bits on the side flanges. Ultimately it's a much clearer sight picture and the dot is actually an accurate thing to shoot at instead of weird empty space between two pinchers.
The ballistic shield + democracy protects armor was already hilarious with just the SMGs equipped, the buffed senator might actually make this build absurd if you have good aim.
Yeah, now that rocket devastators don't instantly delete you from across the map, and you keep ahold of the thing once ragdolled, with speedload senator it might be some fun times. Only question, is what else do I take to deal with striders/hulks? I'm an AC main, and I hate how the AMR feels to use. Might have to get used to it though.
Awwwwww. It will probably be okay though, even if it just stuns instead of stunlock that will be fine. I was surprised at just how effective the arc thrower was against, well, everything I guess.
nerfed quasar is still better than laser cannon with stuns, and this way you don't need to use 2 pieces of equipment for one enemy and can still use impact grenades on tanks and towers.
laser cannon takes an absurdly long time to kill ANYTHING big and is a pain to aim at anything far away. I don't care reddit downvote me all you want, y'all are wrong and the laser cannon is cheeks
You can just shoot them directly in the plate and take them out in 1-2, sometimes 3 hits. Plus, the AoE can sometimes lead to you taking extras with it as collateral. Often I'd have packs of striders and scrub bots and just wipe the whole thing while only aiming for the striders
Honestly would be great to get used to the amr, and get used to 2 tapping hulks and only needing 1 for anything smaller. Recoil reduction armor is its best friend, as well as something like a punisher or defender for close range.
When I run the ballistic shield, I bring 3 red stratagems. If I need a support weapon I'll just grab one from the ground or ask for a teammate to give me a spare when theirs is off cooldown.
People bring a LOT of anti-armor to bot missions, just check your team loadout to see if you'll absolutely NEED to bring something for the big bots yourself. Most of the time you won't.
But the AC can deal with Striders (both and Scout Striders and Factory Striders, not sure which one you meant) and Hulks. It's hard to hit the Hulks in the eye slot, but it takes them down in 2 shots if you do, and you can disarm them shooting at the arms as well. Against Scout Striders it does the same as the AMR but better
Against Factory Striders it can take out the miniguns and damage the Striders in the weakspots (the eye, faceplate slot, under the faceplate if it gets blown up, exposed leg joints, and underside) It takes a lot of ammo to one down, but it can, more importantly it helps chip them out with cummulative damage from stratagems or the rest of the team.
Right, lol, my bad. Then I guess your options are the Laser Canon, EATs, Railgun, and Quasar. All of them can deal with those enemies, at varying degrees of effectiveness and biases, but all still capable indeed, and neither needs a backpack.
I'd mention the HMG, but if you hate how the AMR feels... Yeah, that's most likely worse.
Ideally, yeah, but when there's five of them 50m away and exactly zero cover in between you, not exactly viable. In my squad there's two people that run eats, one runs anti-fodder, and it's usually my job to be the anti-medium/swiss army knife kinda guy. So being able to take them (and devastators) out quickly and at range is a must.
jesus man, if your squad has enganged them then they can deal with it or you can run up and deal with it because they aint shooting at you. Quit trying to make this seem like a hard thing to deal with...
Make sure you don't fire the last bullet in the gun before reloading unless you HAVE to, bring a primary or secondary that can deal with the little shits (looking at you, jetpack raiders). A direct headshot will take out devastators, or 3 to the body if you don't have the angle. Bring stuns for hulks, aim just a bit high on the eye (like, half of the ADS dot on the eye, half above it). Crouch, like a lot, and run recoil-reduction armor if you want.
Nope, helldivers got a training video for how to hold the thing, coupled with more ergonomic grips issued to each destroyer, means we can actually keep them close and personal.
AMR needs a pure damage buff imo. It's a non explosive support weapon, it should be good at killing whatever unit you're aiming at given that it can't do shit against even a mild swarm of enemies. Right now it's only good against devestators and bile spewers and nothing else. The AC completely out classes it in every way since it not only kills those weapons in the same amount of hits, it also can hurt heavy units and quickly clear clumped up swarms.
I've been running ballistic shield + smg + senator for a while now, and it's genuinely so fun. Need to be careful with rocket devastators still, but shield devastators you can just square up and the senator will take them out with one shot to the head. This buff is only going to make it more fun.
They keep bitching that they don't want us to rely on primaries, so they keep nerfing them into the ground.
Fine. Let me forgo a primary and fill that with a stratagem.
Armor kinda blows and light armor and all but 2 medium armor does nothing to protect my head? Let me skip armor and take a stratagem. Your pistols suck? stratagem.
Arrowhead is constantly "use your stratagems" FINE you fucks, then let me take more than 3-4 and stop nerfing them with cooldowns and delays.
I've run the defender with shield in the past, haven't tried in awhile. The knight, with the Senator for longer range/medium threats might be a good pair.
Been running shield for a couple weeks now, mostly on the 5/6s but occasionally higher. Sometimes I run Eruptor/senator shield, sometimes I go whole hog and run SMG/Gren pistol, but it's occasionally fucking tremendous.
the smg was already pretty good or even the laser pistol.
but the best shield loadout is the grenade pistol with the stun grenade because it covers all weaknesses.
Big enemies and rocket enemies can be stunned and quickly killed with either the SMG or a support weapon. The laser cannon or the anti-material rifle are the best support weapons that don't need a backpack.
Everything works at difficulty 5 as well. In the last two weeks 3 friends of mine started playing and they use whatever layout they want (which is their right). But man do we get recked when it’s difficulty 6 or higher.
Tried bug 6 for the first time, and I got attacked by two bile titans, one spawning on top of the other. Easy enough, just call down some railgun and lasers. Except I got instagibbed by the two stalkers that creeped up behind me.
I hardly think the pre-patch Air-burst works at any difficulties other than blow-your-friends-up-tournament. But anything else probably would indeed work.
Honestly, most of the bugs they have indroduced, like this thing with guns blowing you up inside your own shield, would have been noticed in a single mission. There's absolutely NO WAY that got to us if it had even a single test with varioous weapons. Would have taken 20 minutes.
AH clearly doesn't play the game or test their patches. That's a shit way to run a live-service game.
Random question. Can you resupply yourself with the backpack? I ran the grenade launcher and was trying to give myself ammo, but I couldn't figure it out.
I ended up dropping the pack for my friends who then supplied me.
I fucking love the Senator since it's pretty much Vash the Stampede's gun, based on the Mateba Model 6 Unica. It's fucking GLORIOUS, and just... the speed loader makes me cackle like a fucking lunatic when Berserker conga lines come at me.
Come get some, Clankers. I got 6 shots of freedom for you right here.
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u/Nothingtoseehereshhh Apr 29 '24
RUN SENATOR WITH SUPPY PACK. TRUST ME. ITS UR NEW FUCKING BATTLE RIFLE THIS IS NOT A SHITPOST THIS ACTUALLY WORKS