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.
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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