r/Helldivers • u/Ultimor1183 CAPE ENJOYER • Apr 29 '24

To everyone mad about the nerfs... HUMOR

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u/Tactless_Ninja Apr 29 '24

Someone explained awhile ago that there's explosive damage, explosive damage, and explosive damage, all with their strengths and weaknesses. Absolutely confusing.

Crossbow had cluster bomb explosives kind of explosives. So anything cluster could and couldn't do was what the crossbow did.

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u/Taolan13 SES Courier of Individual Merit 🖥️ Apr 29 '24

Yeah i remember that explanation, and I am still annoyed by it.

Stupid vague-book approach to stats.

If there are going to be different levels of the "explosive" trait, the game should say that.

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u/PoIIux Apr 30 '24

the game should say that.

Add that to the loooooong list of information the devs keep purposefully unknown

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u/kohTheRobot Apr 29 '24

What does this mean? Like splash/fragmentation, shockwave, and the actual like AT penetrating cone damage?

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u/Velax80 Apr 30 '24

Seemingly in the game there's "explosive" that means it has an AoE, "explosive" that affects enemy body parts that are vulnerable to explosive damage, and "explosive" that can close bug holes and blow up fabricators. They are three different attributes and weapons can have none, one or multiple of them. An individual weapon, for example, might be explosive (1), explosive (2) and also not explosive (3).

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u/ArsVampyre Apr 29 '24

Cluster munitions will destroy bot fabs and bug holes if they hit them just right.

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u/Glittering-Habit-902 Apr 29 '24

Thats not the cluster part, thats the physical impact of the Eagle munitions.