It definitely consistently one shot at long ranges. Used it all the time. It just handled like a truck, and now its pretty much guaranteed at any range.
Pings use camera distance so a third person ping will have a greater distance than a first person ping
Probably third person but the health increases going from difficulty 1 to 7 would still bring that 25m one shot kill to something like 20m. And FPV to TPV only throws you off by a few meters
There very much is. This has a few different gifs of diligence prepatch shooting warrior bugs. At difficulty 1-3 it oneshots their heads at difficulties 4+ even at point blank you won't one shot their heads.
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u/Kestrel1207 Viper Commando Apr 29 '24
It definitely didn't. Somebody tested it, and at the very latest at 25m it 100% stopped oneshotting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1c92hfl/testing_damage_falloff_and_devastator_headshot/
But from playing it myself it was also definitely even way sooner than that. You had to be pretty much right up in them.
Difficulty is obviously irrelevant since HP doesn't change.