Everybody already stopped playing that's why there's crickets.

they went overboard tbqh, even 7 missions are unwinnable with randos

I fucking knew it. The game was actually fun for a while but nolife retards had to whine and whine and whine until they made it into a fucking slog again just so a few loud mouthed mouth breather can feel good about themselves sweating their ass off. I'm done.

>>719666494
I should play the update before they baby the game again

>>719666494
retarded to not release the waarbond at the same time. I'm maxed on all resources and playing a bunch right now

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>bring in a gorillion new players with xbox
>release hardest expansion yet so they ruin everyone else's game
D E V I L I S H

>>719666494
tried it with some friends
what the fuck were they thinking with those digger ants? This is not fun. It's a shooter game. Don't put the targets under ground. I don't want to play dune.

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>>719666494
>141gb
god damn that's disgusting. are strats better balanced (in that more are viable)?

Genuinely impossible mess of an update. There aren't enough explosives in existence to unburrow 1/4th of the bugs the game shits on you. And their attacks are actually, not hyperbole, but factually undodgeable.

the trick is to not fucking aggro mobs unnecessarily, but retards can't help themselves

>>719667763
use explosive weapons, forces them out

>game is hard now
kino

just play an easier difficulty :^)

>>719667879
well the game doesn't exactly present itself as a metal gear action stealth game. It's a silly horde shooter with friendly fire.

the explosive thing is too gimmicky for the amount of burrowers the game is spawning. It's a hassle

You wouldn't survive a day in these EDF streets

>>719668139
easier difficulties are empty snore fests

>>719668296
not anymore

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>Hive Lord battle takes 15 minutes

>>719668964
do you even get anything?

>>719668964
it can be done in under 3 minutes
>>719669059
229 exp so nothing

I just started playing last steam sale, what's the best first premium warbond to get so my weapons don't feel like wet cardboard

the bugs keep flipping over the damn giant vehicle, how are you supposed to beat that mission if they keep burrowing underneath it

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>>719669156

Orbital Precision strikes and Portable Hellbombs make it just a gentle breeze of a battle, but the longer attemp with rockets and air strikes is more fun.

>>719667687
turn crossplay off

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>crash
>crash
>crash
just like the good old days

>>719669259
Democratic Detonation for thermite grenades and grenade pistol
Servants of Freedom for backpack nuke and bomb pistol
Polar Patriots for the best gun in the game (Purifier)

>can land on top of the caves with completely broken collision with only luck allowing you to survive once you jump off
The sheer slop.

>>719667781
Everything is far better than it was at launch. Most the dogshit strats are usable now.

>>719669625
Someone decided to activate that inaccuracy modifier for cave call ins for some demented reason. Now your shit has a chance to never come down because it got stuck.

>>719669625
>not hellbombing the hive lung from above
NGMI

>>719669259
Democratic Detonation, full stop, medium to high pen weapons, high damage, insane utility. After that they're all just kinda fighting for 2nd place or bottom tier trash. Here's the skinny on the decent ones
>Servants of Freedom
Great weapons all around, a mini nuke side arm, a great laser weapon, decent lightning shotgun, portable nuke that has a lot of utility
>Freedom's Flame
When they fix the currently bugged fire damage, it's really good, the fire weapons are anti tank so they'll work on everything
>Borderline Justice
The straight up best secondary in the game, decent marksman rifle and a great backpack
>Urban Legend
Best armor passive and the best turret in the game
>Control Group
You're really only in this for the warp pack, the volley rifle is okay
The rest I couldn't give a fuck about, some bullshit about melee in a game that punishes you for getting within melee range, it's just not a worth while investment, the rest are irredeemable dogshit like the Halo bond and Force of Law

>>719669879
Talon is a shit, nothing will ever dethrone the Senator.

>>719670004
Senator isn’t just a sidearm, it’s a lifestyle. When you cowboy slide into a bug burrow, fan that hammer, and walk out untouched-you're not just gaming, you're making a political statement. Talon might have that fancy reload and big numbers on paper, but the Senator *feels* right. That satisfying thud, the raw force, the AMERICA of it all. No weapon with a scope belongs in the same sentence.

>>719670004
>>719670143
I'm still gonna be using Talon, I know... I knoww! I'm sorry, it's just a straight up better gun with infinite ammo/no reloads, sorry! Senator's admittedly fierce firepower means dick all in the face of a hundred bugs with that 60 bullets + reload lmao, it's only gotten worse with the cave update lmao

>>719669625
Super Earth seriously needs to invest in some better equipment.

>crickets
Yeah because this game runs like complete shit

>>719666494
No one plays this trash anymore. Good will only lasts so long.

>>719670640
Senator can shoot titans in their fucking mouth but the talon will never fail you with something trivial like "ammo" or "dry fire", if you overheat a talon no secondary was going to win you that fight anyway

>>719666494
Too little too late.
Genuinely just contemplating trying to find SC cheats at this point so I can go from lobby to lobby dropping as much SC as I can then switching to the next lobby to personally make sure I get to decrease their profits even if just by 1%.
Fuck arrowhead, fuck sweden. (The lack of capitalization here is intentional)

>>719666494
ngl i played on impossible difficulty and it was pretty fucking hard. i played killing floor on HOE difficulty and l4d2 on expert regularly too.

>>719672682
That would be amazing, receiving 3000sc in a round would be an early christmas, I can only hope some redditor doesn't snitch you out, I wish you good hunting

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>>719667781
These days strategems are pretty well-rounded out to the point of "meta" being so similar in damage output, or being so versatile in use that flavors for each helldiver and how they operate matter far more than simple raw damage output.

Wanna be space-hitler? Gas the fuck out of bots/bugs/squids alike and watch them tear each other apart while all you gotta do is worry about what few mediums survive it, and what heavies are left over.

Want to play the "Heavy-assault diver" who specializes in wiping the floor with heavy and ultra-heavy enemies? AT emplacement, Recoilless Rifle, and whatever else your little heart desires.

If you wanna cosplay as a TF2 engineer, then just bring all sentries all the time and let them do the heavy lifting as they cover you and your squad (or kill them) while you get objectives done.

The list goes on and on, but the point is that there are very few strategems that can fit in EVERY playstyle, but tons of them that can overlap and fit in with MANY playstyles. As far as strategems go, you are spoiled for choice and AH let you go and do what you will with them without being pigeonholed into running the same 4 over and over and over again because those are the only ones that do anything worth a damn.

Now, that being said, being a GOOD HELLDIVER and recognizing what would be best suited for each particular mission and knowing the enemies you will face is another conversation altogether. So if you suck at being a helldiver, all you will do is bring the rest of the team down with you, especially in the fucking Gloom.

>>719672682
based

>>719667224
just play a fucking lower difficulty or different mission type you bitch jesus christ

>>719669339
Except that Hive Lords have 150,000 HP

Hellbombs only do 10,000 damage
OPS's do only 3,500 damage

So lets say all 4 of your team mates bring 4 portable hellbombs, on top of the free shared cooldown one you get for Gloom missions. Now lets be GENEROUS and say that each of them detonates right where they should, and deal max damage. That's only 1/3 of its HP pool (50,000) gone every 456 seconds or just a little over 9 mins per 'volley' on a perfectly upgraded Super Destroyer

Okay, so lets say you all fire your OPS's right where they need to be, and they all hit for maximum of 3,500. That's only 14,000 damage every 90 seconds, or 1.5 mins, OR 84,000 damage over the course of 9 mins.

But lets be even MORE generous and say "Oh, you could just throw 2 500kg bombs per diver on it!" which would give you 8000 damage.

That STILL wouldn't bring one down. In fact, it STILL would have 8,000 HP remaining.

Now at this point, we can say you could just throw a Orbital laser on it and just be done with it, fine. You've just killed a Hive Lord.

It still took you well over 9 minutes to do so, while still being attacked by the Hive Lord itself, and still getting swarmed by everything around you.

I'm calling bullshit beyond using exploits and/or heavily cheating (lel cheatan in a PvE gaem, fag)

>>719674038
That would be fine for an actual boss battle but seems retarded for a random side objective. Maybe it has weaknesses nobody found yet or some gimmick will come weeks later from "high command"

>>719672682
Dew it

I'm not fighting the bullet sponge.

>>719674038
Coordinate with your friends and break the armor
Can be done in 10 minutes

>>719674038
A recoiless getting partner loaded with a resupply behind you is its weakness
>and still getting swarmed by everything around you
is why it doesn't work

>>719674854
That entire calculation was done with perfect coordination in mind. Every strategem used the instant its cooldown is up, every single hit (which is ludicrously generous given the chaos of the battle) landing exactly where it needs to, assuming the only enemy on the field is JUST the Hive Lord and nothing else to disturb the fight, and also assuming you aren't being attacked. It is literally the most perfect of perfect scenarios a helldiver team could ask for, and perfect conditions.

To do it sub-10 minutes inside the chaos and havoc of fighting it and all of the other fucking bugs is a neigh impossibility unless using cheats or expending every last resource purely on the Hive Lord and nothing but it, and landing each shot perfectly.

Not only is it not feasible, nor reasonable to focus so much time on it, the rewards to do so (or lack thereof if you're all lvl150) is so small and meager that it is hardly worth killing one. The only time to engage it is to make sure you have a good 5 minute breather to jump from one tunnel to the next or one objective to the next.

>>719672997
>recognizing what would be best suited for each particular mission
sure wish it would tell you if its going to be a "all the tanks" mission or "spewers fucking everywhere one (1) titan max and also a 70 hunter patrol mission

>>719675338
They are absolutely pulling a fomo or just using it to show off the next stratagem, but they did fuck up with illuminate cruisers too, everyone quickly just ignored them

>>719667781
jesus chirst what the fuck over 100 gb yeah im never buying that and here i was hoping maybe someday the rootkit would go and i'd grab it but WOW

>>719666494
play a few games today was fun overall people just need to get use to it that's it.

>>719675394
kek still waiting for them to add load out save.

>>719675765
nah nigga you are fucking buried in bugs from the moment you land and if you have a cave-heavy map, you are absolutely going to fail the mission

>>719672997
>then just bring all sentries all the time
I've been doing this. Sentries seem a lot more reliable than orbitals

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>>719675574
>poorfag can't afford a ssd

I really like the whole underground tunnel system. It adds a pretty cool dynamic where you have to use your weapons and can't just use turrets and call down. Seems the respawn is really glitched when underground, unfortunately. And there are times you have open sky above you so you can use your calldowns, but the call down goes to an entire different locations. Some of the underground paths get blocked as if the map generation is messing up when creating proper paths. The game also crashed a couple of times. So it's pretty rough overall.

I obliterated that giga worm solo

>>719675995
Sentries are way more active and proportionate to enemy behaviour is why, but they cant crack defences like orbitals/eagles

>>719675338
>That entire calculation was done with perfect coordination in mind.
Cool.
Have you killed one?
I have

>>719669879
>decent lightning shotgun
nigger what are you smoking? the blitzer is in cutting edge, not servants of freedom

>play new truck mission for the first time
>gets caught one a rock not even that big
>spend like 5 minutes trying to get it unstuck while getting continuously attacked
>as soon as we get to the first objective point a dragon moth RKOs out of no where, shits on it, blows it up

0% chance gloom doesn't get nerfed into oblivion

Is medium armor the way to go in caves? Or does medium armor just not make a difference for light?

>>719669438
>get in the big truck thing with a friend
>both our games crash as soon as I hit the gas
Great game

>>719677079
depends on your play style, but I'd say the armor passive is the more important.
Acclimated or the new Feet First are good picks against ze bugs.

>use the killzone%0% all status armor
>am literally invincible
unexpected but hilarious, can just catch the 3 round burst of acid blobs and still have over 50% hp and the team can run around with all the gas/fire they want in the tunnels and it wont kill you

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>>719667781
>>719672997
The only "bad" stratagems are the smoke strikes and the EMS strike, and that's solely because they fill a very specific niche in playstyles, but are still somewhat useful. Except the orbital smoke strike, that one is completely ass, as the smokescreen it creates pitifully small and its only redeeming quality is that it has demolition force, so you can destroy stuctures with it on a direct hit from the shell.

>>719667879
>the trick is to not fucking aggro mobs unnecessarily, but retards can't help themselves
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if its going to be like this then the suppressed Halo SMG needs actually have a tangible effect and they really need to make stealth a thing. It almost is, I think melee attacks don't alert surrounding enemies, but suppressed weapons needs to also be like that.

>>719666494
Should I reinstall? Reddit brained retards also complained Illuminate were too hard.
I literally fell asleep playing D10 bots last time I played in March.

>>719677721
if you like suffering, there's a lot of it, especially with randos

>>719677721
The new missions are the hardest the game has ever been.

>>719666494
>bugs up the ass
>crashes up the ass
>150 gb
>absolutely 0 playtesting
>dogshit performance that gets worse every day.
I wonder why nobody is talking about it, the amount of friends I have who tell me they're waiting until they fix the week one bugs to play is insane.

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>>719676087
Anon, the game is 30-40 fucking GB on consoles, because they have an SSD. Arrowhead are being fucking retards and asset duplicating to help people on PC that are STILL on HDDs. I have an SSD, I'm given no choice to use the damn thing for what it was made for.

>>719666494
i haven't even seen one hivelord yet

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>squids had super erf invasion
>bugs have the gloom
It's their turn next

>Don't have any of the paid battle passes
>Don't get any of the OP weapons and call-ins
>Can't really do the new missions effectively
Wild this isn't a f2p game.

>>719678948
I don't think anyone can do the new mission.

>>719678847
For bots only thing I can think of is Space Station/Star Base/Orbital Fleetyard Maps., that would be cool

Light pen shills on suicide watch

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>>719678948
>/v/ continues to be a casual and bad at games
Somethings really are eternal.

>>719676303
>but they cant crack defences like orbitals/eagles
They can do that. Sentries have really good range. Mortars are great if you need to get over walls. Come up to an enemy hive or base or whatever, just drop the sentries to bust it open safely and then use grenades/support weapons/whatever else you have. Sentries just need to be planned out a little bit more. If you're completely surrounded, you can't really just call down a sentry since it will just get immediately killed if it is also getting swarmed and overwhelmed.

>still complete the mission even if everyone fails to extract
neat

>>719666494
>>719666821
>>719666863
the update sucks ass

back to endless bot planets I go

>every warbond since urban legends has been trash
>every update brings unnessesary bloat141gb lol
>every update brings atleast two new game breaking bugs and a old bug
guess it's time to retire this game

>>719669879
>When they fix the currently bugged fire damage
Wasn't that shit bugged at fucking launch? Did they fix the flamethrower just to break it again?

>>719666494
>haven't seen anyone kill the mega worm yet

Some people coordinated and were able to kill the worm in 2 minutes.

Took 4 orbital lasers, 3-4 portable hellbombs, some ultimatum shots and about a dozen thermite grenades but they did it.

Thank god they made the game difficult again. But I just know they’re gonna nerf it soon which gives me more FOMO than any of the storeslop.

>Explosive barrel across the street explodes
>Die instantly to burning
Huh

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>>719666494
It’s ez

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>>719678847
I want to dive on Cyberstan.
I want to kill Cyborgs.
I will speed-run the Nuremberg trials for their crimes against Liberty and her Super Citizens.

What's the best support weapon these days? Quasar seems pretty good if just for the fact it doesn't take up a backpack slot, has infinite ammo and can 1 shot most heavies if you hit their weak spot.

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Scrub helldiver here, is it bad that I much prefer playing with the Grenade Launcher as my "main" weapon and clearing out huge groups of enemies and fall back on a shotgun if something gets too close? I do play very very carefully to avoid nuking allied units but sometimes this means big downtime in choke heavy areas. I think I'm like this because I haven't quite found a regular gun that I super enjoy yet.
Is this playstyle acceptable or is it a noob trap?Inversely, what can I use for optimal Demomanmaxxing.

>>719682042
Grenade launcher might actually be pretty good in the tunnels with how big the swarms get

>>719682042
Gl is very good so you’re fine. Using your strat gun as your primary is viable for a lot of em

>>719666494
They could do whatever the fuck they want with difficulty if they hadn't gone full retards locking upgrades behind higher difficulty levels

>>719682042
Naw thats a pretty valid strategy, be sure to equip a supply pack to keep the nades coming. Also protip if you got the pump shotgun you do a little trick where you press fire and reload at the same time to always stay full of ammo, let's you walk and fire towards a horde and clear house like the trenchgun mad lads before you.

>>719667879
The game incentivises clearing every inch of the map for rewards, I would love to be surgically in and out but everybody I get grouped up with wants to be thorough.

>>719682272
>>719682430
Many thanks!
>>719682527
Woah, that''s sick as hell, thanks!!

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>have friend who always wants to squad it up
>he always runs around trying to solo shit
>even with the new bug map
>he ends up dying all the time
>plays high all the time
If I appear offline on Steam he won't see me on the in-game friend's list right?

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if i turn off crossplay nobody joins my lobby
if i turn on crossplay i have to carry console niggers

>>719683176
Why don't you just tell him you don't want to play with him?

lobby doko?

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>>719677943
>>719678093
Okay I did a few D10 cave missions
I had fun

>>719669879
A decent list but I'd argue steeled veterans are tied with demo warbond for 1 or 2 place. It just has a lot of real good shit there all around.

>>719666494
>get inside a cave
>the game slows down and the sounds glitch so bad you cant even hear whats going on
>25 fps
>everything on low
whatever i have a 3060 and a i5 10400, i am supposed to have a better experience than minimum specs 30 fps, if they are not going to fix the performance they should at the very least update the minimum requirements.

>>719666494
I remember when the game dropped to like 5k players on steam after AH nerfed every single weapon and stratagem so the ultra loud minority can feel good about having to sweat their balls off in a difficulty 4.

>>719684176
Incendiary is my goto grenade and the throw passive are great so I can see an argument there but jardom and libpen kinda just get overshadowed by demo det

>>719674038
I've already seen people claim to have killed it solo in 5 minutes lol people are straight up telling lies trying to make it seem not as absurdly hard as it is. For every well thought out and well worded response for why it is too hard you will have 50 nigger AH shills saying "erm actually you are wrong I killed it in 1 minute with a sidearm".

>>719683176
>same situation but he's not even high
>he's just that fucking retarded and thinks he's funny
I would also like to know this please

Whatever happened to the autocannon? It seems like people don't use it as much as before

>>719685119
Supply pack is required right now.

>>719685153
>go into a cave
>by the time the first encounter is over, we're all out of ammo
holy shit dude

>>719683176
>>719684968
You don't. I have a friend that always appears offline and she doesn't. Makes it annoying to invite her.

>>719666821
Exactly. Shit got old real quick.

>>719669625
Did that on a mission, and if it's too high you can't stim through the damage and while traveling the dragonroaches are already dive bombing your ass while on top, also it feels like the tracking attacks from the diggers is bullshit with how many can stack ontop of themselves to hit you one after another.

>>719677439
I could make an argument for the EMS strike on bots since stunning a hulk can let you headshot it or run around behind and hit its vent.

>>719669879
They added extra buffs to Truth Enforcers so being harder to stunlock actually means something, but holy fuck these enemies can two tap you, even the fucking scavengers.

>bugs get less and less fun with every update
>bots remain consistently fun and have only gotten better
ship boarding when

>>719687441
>ship boarding
Why? I'd think it would be a full factory that you have to sweep out since they added those huge ass fabricators for bot "cities."

What's the point of the halo shotgun if its light penetration? The burrowing fucks are medium armored so you cant even blast them when they get up. Is it moreso just for squids? I guess its shotgunnfor squids, assault rifle for bugs, and smg for bots (using a shield in the other hand)

>burrowers are annoying as shit
it's always something can these fucks make one good enemie the player is always grounded EVERY enemy should be based around that

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What kind of dumb retarded fucking swigger decided that truck escort mission was a good idea
>>719687441
>>bots remain consistently fun and have only gotten better
>perpetually ragdolls you from across the map

walking around in a mech defending the oil truck from bugs makes me miss Lost Planet 2.

Did they add tunnels you can go into? I saw that in some of the promotional material and that sounds sick.

>>719689054
they did
it sucks

>>719689147
Oh, why? How could you screw that up?

>>719689169
imagine perpetual super helldive swarms and inaccurate item call-ins

>>719689287
I see how that wouldn't be as fun. You need some lulls to create a sense of unease.

>>719666821
I am WAY off peak hours and there's still over 110,710 people playing right now.
For context, Team Fortress 2 is at 36,700, Garry's Mod at 10,000, and Battlefield 2042 (currently in a revival due to BF6 hype) at nearly 28,000.
Helldivers is doing very bloody well thank you.

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>disable cross-play
>immediately start winning again

>drive the oil rig
>worm decides that we're gonna fail the mission
uh, okay?

>>719689323
Also half the enemies can burrow in the ground and instantly pop up in your face and wipe out most of your health in two seconds.

>>719689463
>Bugs just burrow out of thin air when you're in a tunnel system
Whats the point then

>get hoverpack
>am now fucking invincible
also it's bullshit that orbital railgun doesn't one-shot the dragons

>>719689359
>Garry's Mod at 10,000
Where did it all go so wrong
Does anyone even play with wiremod anymore is it just TTT?

>>719675338
In HD1 the incentive for doing bosses was that they gave more progress toward the galactic war goals.
Now the galactic war is fake and gay so it doesn't matter.

>>719666494
But nobody was complaining over the difficulty. The complaints were over nerfing fun guns and forcing a meta like in every mmo because tranny devs and their pr department are completely retarded and can't even learn from the mistakes of others.

>>719689410
Joining a lobby with people only level 130 is like night and day. It was more fun to join low rank player lobbies prior to this, but those retards are not ready for the difficulty switch. I wonder if they'll stick to their guns on this while just fixing broken shit.
Currently it feels extremely overwhelming and I'm really enjoying it. Burrowing warriors almost always guaranteed to get a free hit on you is pretty gay though. I've more than once had a swarm of 4+ of them unburrow at the same time and instakill me. I feel like they need to be more dodgable or at least able to be shot for reduced damage or something

>>719689718
Autocannon splash damage forces them to come up. I think the scorcher splash damage does too but I need to experiment with it more.

I still don't like them though. They are too prevalent to be an enemy that basically fucks you if you dare bring an off-meta weapon.

the government doesn't want you to know this, but you can deploy with both walker strategems at the same time

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>>719689545
Because it's a 21 year old game? Still having 10,000 players in 2025 is pretty incredible.

>>719689985
Its been a while since I played, but last time I did I couldn't find anyone wiremodding and it made me sad.

>>719689985
Age doesn't really mean anything for a game that does shit that nobody else does. Except those fucking mooks over at roblox I guess, but I'm neither a child nor a pedophile so I have no interests there.

>>719689545
I think it's pretty much all the RP and other game modes. The contraption building aspect has sort of been made obsolete by other games. The "animation" aspect died as soon as SFM was released.

>>719690107
Last time I played(~2021), wiremod was built into the game instead of having to download it.

>>719684176
Steeled veterans is slight upgrades to existing gear. Detonation gives you completely game changing options.

>>719687760
It has yuge knockback so it's good as a 'get the fuck away from me' defensive tool, plus obliterating light enemies at close range.

>>719689884
I think any splash damage does since the GL seems to work just fine. GL+supplypack seems meta for cave bugs overall since that's 130 grenades total before you have to dip out.

I thought the tunnels were gonna be dark, and not a bright shitfestival.

>>719666494
So they made the bugs about a thousand times more difficult and we got................. what exactly? What did we get to deal with all of this increased difficulty? I don't understand it - Arrowhead kept over-tuning the difficulty at launch and it finally seemed like they learned from that and stopped doing it, and yet here they are doing it again. I wish these fucking retarded swedes would learn what is good and what is bad about their game because they clearly don't understand their own game.

>>719666494
>worm drops on extract
>pushes it into the terrain
Not sure why I play this trash

>>719692665
I dont know why it isnt just a primary objective instead of being random, tunnel fighting and hive lords require completely different loadouts

>>719692964
Because its a live beta test they just didnt say so

>>719666821
This update sucked but there were like 250,000 people just on the new planet earlier today, it's like this with every major update with basically zero dropoff.

>>719692964
Would be neat if it was an enemy that was persistent across missions, keeping the HP you reduced it to until you eventually kill it for a large chunk of rewards. Would incentivize people sticking around.

>>719692620
Just lower the difficulty

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>make amazing game
>but make it on a legacy engine held together with spaghetti code
>make amazing content updates
>but every single time you do it adds a million bugs and performance has been terrible since illuminate dropped
>promise performance improvements and plans that never occur
>expect Xtards to be able to run it smoothly when the best PCs can’t
AH have dug themselves into such a pit of technical debt and they’re so hooked into the content churning that they won’t fix it

>>719666494
Edf6 is 100x more fun
Wake me up when they add a fencer class and actual good enemies to hd2

>>719694240
You're poor and brown

>>719694464
My PC runs absolutely everything I get smoothly it’s just fucking helldivers

killing the hive lord should give you 100 sc

>>719667879
>the trick is to not fucking aggro mobs unnecessarily, but retards can't help themselves

>um acktually you should not shoot or engage the bugs in a starship troopers rip off

You failed game design 101.

>>719694240
I believe the devs literally don't know what they're doing with the game engine. That's why shit breaks after every update. Even if they had all the time in the world they couldn't make the performance better cause they don't how!

>>719689359
>Team Fortress 2
>Garry's Mod
Can you find something even more dead?

>>719695375
All the games issue stem from the one retarded decision to use a legacy engine to make it

>>719693778
I was thinking about something like this too. Similar to the Ur-Dragon from the Dragon's Dogma DLC or something

>>719695375
the "muh dated engine" is a good excuse, but the truth is modern devs don't know how to code, regardless of engine. daily reminder that Sea of Thieves was so consistently broken that Rare had to contract a second team to fix the game. Sea of Thieves runs on unreal.

lol.

>>719693778
>each operation has one hive lord for all 3 missions
>gives strategic depth because you could order your missions so you can just nuke it entirely in the first mission so the next 2 are easier at the cost of mission 1 being a bitch to finish through
>or slowly whittle it down across all 3 missions at the cost of having to actually deal with it interrupting you in all 3
that's way too cool a concept for HD2

>>719695868
"Operation objectives" in general would be pretty neat.

>>719666494
nah I never said that
it’s more that it’s not worth sweating over so I have no desire to go back to 10
>>719667781
this is because arrowtards duplicated models multiple times over the install

>>719672682
does arrowhead even do anything to people who receive SC this way?

>>719667781
>pc patch and overall install is over 100 gb's
>console is around 30 for the install and the patch was around 4
What causes this?

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>take one of the most viable builds for cave diving into the game
>get kicked
Why is this?

>>719668152
Really it's not even a stealth thing, it's a pick your battles thing. If a patrol can be avoided it's best to do so since any bug can call in a breech. And you want to avoid those.

>>719698131
>DO NOT SHOOT ENEMIES IN OUR HORDE SHOOTER
I'd trigger witches in lfd2 for fun

Had a blast doing 2 sets of D10 with 2 different groups of randoms. Game is challenging and very intense at the moment. Scared they'll nerf it. They need to fix strat drops they're pretty inconsistent at the moment with their landings.

>>719672483
Ultimatum mogs all sidearms lol

>>719687441
>bugs get less and less fun with every update
>bots remain consistently fun and have only gotten better
But will the inevitable new squid units and factions improve them?

>>719667781
holy bloatware batman. are the devs actually retarded?

>>719667687
Do they even play on D10?

>>719698694
it's amazing how literally every single developer above indie has made the decision to render the last 10 years of hardware breakthrough completely useless

>>719666494
>Autocannon
>Machine Gun Sentry
>Eagle Strafing Run
>Emancipator Exo Suit
Then you get a medium armor piercing primary to deal with the digganobs, stick with your squad, keep moving, and focus the dragon roaches as soon as they appear. Shoot the ground with the autocannon when you see them burrowing to draw them out. Flame grenades help you with crowd control where you can turn tight spaces into the hot gates where their numbers mean nothing. Machine gun turret helps but it's not a big deal if it gets spanked by a burrower since they regen quickly. Strafing Run helps you cut through horses quickly and regents super quick on top of being easy to call in. Exo Suit is good everywhere, but don't go on the bridges in the caves with them.

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What are the chances, and I know they are close to 100%, that instead of just fixing the bugs that make the new content barely playable they will nerf everything to make the new content consistently beatable by everyone?

>>719698694
>>719698907
Are you posting from 1999? Still using a 2 gig hard drive? 100 gigs is nothing today, you little bitch

>>719699060
Very likely. Hell i'd say it's damn near set in stone.

>>719672226
lol sorry your 20 year old PC can't keep up

I get 200 FPS on my fucking laptop on almost max settings

>>719699191
I will not stand for devs shitting up my storage space because they are incompetent/lazy with optimization and expect me to pick up the slack. saying
>dont you guise have more storage space
is peak cuck cope

>>719678347
you're a bitch and you're wrong I fuck your ass

>>719699191
The game is legit 34gb on console because the pc version has over 100gb of duplicated files/data they refuse to clean, so yes 134gb is a lot when 100gb of that is literal bloated trash

>>719681781
WASP

white anglo saxon PUSSY

i've played this game for like 10 hours with the lads and i dont really think i like it

Killing a hivelord the first time is fun but i can see this getting tedious if it's gonna take this long every time.

>>719699619
To each their own.

>thread is nothing but faggots complaining that the game is too hard
pathetic

>>719699560
who cares? do you have a data limit or something?

>>719689916
How??

>>719699756
I do love deepthroating retarded dev dicks like the reddit browser that I am.

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>>719677217
i don't have medium with siege ready so i stick to light as always
i survived getting squished by the hive lord, that is how i learned he has an attack where he just tries to flatten you. it kinda pushed me under ground then i popped back up without a scratch. seems unintended.
he then did it again while i was in a mech, did no damage to the mech, but picked it up on his way back up and flung me across the map. 10/10 fight. this was during extraction of course so i missed the ship

i've encountered a lot of bugs (and terminids, of course) which i was kind of expecting, so i try not to let it wreck my mood too much, i am sure things will get smoothed out. genuinely impressed with the new vehicle thing, i love driving it. gives me hope that a small tank like the first game would be well-implemented

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>>719672682
>fuck sweden. (The lack of capitalization here is intentional)
Best part of this thread so far, bravo!

>>719700068
I just don't care. Keep crying bitch

>>719700176
cuck mentality

>>719700205
yeah, true alpha sigma chads get upset about file sizes lmao

>>719700176
you're a retard, i love arrowhead but there's no excuse for the insane bloat on PC and excusing it away with "they have better access to storage" is idiotic

>>719700242
is this actually a problem for you

does it do anything

or are you just trying to fit in bithc

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>>719700230
you understand your mentality is why games are so fucking shitty these days, yes? you just roll over and take it like a good goy?

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Haven't played since they patched the easy credit farming. I'm like 10 season passes behind

>>719700283
go outside

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>>719700286
these days it's about as fast as it was back when you could reset the same mission over and over again

>>719700230
true reddit cucks just excuse dev laziness and take it up the ass when all the dev has to do is clean up duplicated files, yes

>>719700286
What did they patch? Im still doing it, infact when you do low level missions youll find that that is exclusively what players are doing.
>run around
>say map is clear
>host resets back to ship
This takes like 2 minutes when youre doing it with the other farmers.

>>719700342
>downloading a file is the same as getting fucked in the ass
you're gay huh

>>719699191
I have one high speed SSD with 2tb, it was supposed to hold 100 games not 10

>>719700423
>being daft on purpose
you lost, cuck. fuck outta here back to hugbox reddit/discord

>>719700457
keep crying bitch

maybe one day you'll be able to afford another 50 gigs of storage if you work hard

What's your cave loadout?

>>719700550
ax/arc-3 guard dog
bullies the shit out of most of the bugs to the point I can mostly run whatever else I want at the cost of killing anybody on my team who tries to come down the same tunnel
haven't tried it yet but I'm thinking the gas dog might be the safer alternative if you don't want to fry your friends down there.

>>719666494
I keep getting maps where i can't get into the hatchery the door's dug into the ground? and i can't find ways in

>>719666494
Does anyone playing notice a like big grid on the screen in the sand or sometimes when hurt? lately i have been noticing it

Why is the game crashing so much? How is this shit still this broken? Took months off and came back to this garbage lmao

>>719700993
That's the broken AA that was broken months ago, AH ""fixed"" it but you still see a weird fucking grid overlay. No one talks about it because the AA is blurry dogshit so its not reported

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>>719701018
It crashes now way more than before the current update, and it already crashed often before that.

>>719701034
I turned AA off tho and it still happens

>>719701018
>>719701219
ive never had a single crash wtf are u doim

>>719697982
Duplicated files for faster loading on HDDs for PC players who still run the game from them.

>>719674038
>>719684763
Explosives hit multiple sections at once, multiplying the damage several times over. Turn down the difficulty or just don't bother fighting Hive Lords if it's too hard for you, there's no need for this excessive cope.

Do I need explicitly "explosive" damage to get those fuckers to dig out, or any splash damage will do?

>>719672682
Share the wealth, brother

>>719700117
Double dubs of truth. Based!

>>719667687
Under normal circumstances I can carry difficulty 7. In fact, prior to this update the lvl 20-30 xbox guys did okay on regular maps. Since this dropped, all I have are helpless people who want to see the hive lord - they cant kill anything, they mill about not moving to the next objective, they struggle to fight the regular trash spawned, they die to patrols or bug breaches if im not around.

Like wtf is going on, even average xbox divers from 3 days ago should have been able to follow me into a cave. Now every terrible on earth is coming to this place to be useless.

>>719702125
It's only dubs if it's the last two numbers newfag.

>>719701018
For me the audio is completely fucked up when i get inside caves.

>>719702207
Difficulty 7 is perfect for attracting people who want to play "harder" difficulties but aren't actually good enough for it and just want to be carried. If you're playing with randoms, the game is generally easier on difficulty 10 just due to the different playerbase.
At the moment though people are likely struggling with the new content in general as well. They'll get used to it, plus it'll almost certainly be nerfed. Enjoy the difficulty while you can, it won't last.

>>719688085
They saw drg's escort duty but said hey lets make it more retarded by making it have limited hp and put it on a biome that has a 50/50 chance to fail if it spawns a hive lord or not

>>719688085
It needs 4 seats, so teammates actually stick with it. Im noticing that everyone just runs off on their own insteadof escorting it and I have no idea why.

>want decent teammates that communicate even a little bit
>Everyone at D6/7 is a mute retard
>above that the game doesn't feel fun for me
I wanna like this game but without friends, it's kinda hard to

>>719699191
Do you let other people park their shit box car in your garage because their home's footprint doesn't allow them to park it there?

No. Same concept here fuckwit. I should not have to reserve another 60 gig and devote ANY mental capacity to calculations of space for a game that is verifiably smaller, because some poor brown somewhere has a HDD.

MY SSD is for ME, cunt. Not you or swiggers to have opinions about or shit up. Stupid fuck.

>>719666494
Tried one game and crashed 30 seconds in
I'll play next month

>>719684449
>so the ultra loud minority can feel good about having to sweat their balls off in a difficulty 4.
man, the real reason they did it is even MORE retarded than that. they were doing spreadsheet balancing. literally just looking at use times, win ratios, kill counts and nerfing shit based on that. it took over a fucking YEAR for them to understand that they were marketing a horde shooter and to make the starting gun actually viable. the fucking president had to step down and force his devs to play their own damned game at a difficulty higher than 5.

>>719700313
Nigga we are on a board about videogames, you go outside, then find a rope and hang yourself outside.

>>719678948
>>Can't really do the new missions effectively
Yeah that's a skill issue.

>>719702530
People don't realize it can be destroyed, it's borderline impossible to fail missions before this one so they just do the normal lone wolf shit

>>719702582
At D10 the only communication you get is objectives or heavies being pinged. Other than that everyone already knows what needs to be done so no one needs to speak.

>>719700286
Get the giant blue arrow mod.

>>719702704
it can be destroyed?
I was taking tons of hits from the dragons and other enemies while driving from objective to objective and the worst thing that happened was that the turret broke

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>mfw recoilless can't one-shot something

>>719700392
back in the day, you could force disconnect or through other means return to ship without abandoning the mission, once you ran the loop and got all the super credits. when you dropped back in you'd be on the same map so you knew where all the drops were

>>719702583
you need my fucking cock bitch

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>>719666821
>180k 24h peak
seems pretty active to me

>>719703213
>defending blotware
>muh dick
lmaoing at a cuck fag

>>719667781
>spaghetti code
explains why these midwits can't update their game without breaking something.
this level of incompetency reminds me of overwatch and halo infinite.
AI can't replace these useless entitled programmers fast enough.
TPD: total programmer death

>>719703091
Yep, immediately fails you if it does, pretty unlikely if your team isn't braindead, but the hive lord can also just decide to rape you

>>719666494
Did some Diff10 earlier. Killed the Hive Lord with my static but it took sooo fucking long despite team reloads. The spawnrate for it is far too fucking high it's there almost every mission.

The AOE of the starcraft 2 roaches is comically large, burrowing enemies should be forced above ground from explosives. The Dragon is too squishy and dies near instantly. You shouldn't be able to drop on the cave roof and there should be. a little more time between breaches. Rn you are nonstop fighting in these missions.

>>719703561
It's less the breaches and more the non-stop patrol spawning from inside the caves, especially late into the mission you will have an endless single file line of enemies coming at you at all times if you're anywhere near them

>>719703429
maybe if you keep crying and begging someone will show you mercy and give you 10 dollars to afford a larger storqge

>>719703659
What's annoyed me is that despite checking my surrounding to be sure the area is clear, the 0.0001 second I stop to reload my heavy weapon I get swarmed from all side by burrowing ennemy.

>>719680346
Fire is bugged if you're host. Flames sometimes won't slow or do damage.

>>719703893
They need to give it stagger, or stun even. On top of fixing the damage breaking every other game.

I HATE DIGGERS

>>719672818
The cheats get their account banned, retard.

>>719701018
I'm on Series S and haven't crashed yet this update. git gud, bitch boy

>>719666494
they should just make it actually playable in singleplayer
hate coopslop with a passion

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Firebots were the best state the game could as recently and then all went downhill again, super Earth defence was trash

>>719666494
How about they make the game harder without turning it into a janky, broken mess? It feels like they didn't even playtest the update.

I'm done with this game after this shit, which sucks because it was fun for such a long time. 484 hours.
>just lower the difficulty broo
No. Uninstalled.

>>719666494
I would play it if they would kick the best korean anti cheat out. just give fucking eac.

>>719666494
I've seen a lot of whining about the new bug types but fire weapons are tearing them apart as usual.

>>719666821
I hit 150 like last year why the fuck are you guys still playing this shit

>>719689545
Anyone who genuinely played Gmod multiplayer for over 100 hours went to Roblox years ago.

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>can't play with bots
no buy

>>719673675
I haven't tried below 6 yet but even 6 is a sweat fest and simply not fun

>extraction pad surrounded by rock walls with two paths out
>with no warning hive lord just body slams the whole extraction zone and kills everyone
kek. this update is kind of fun if you just want the feeling of utter hopeless chaos but I can see why so many people are mad. The solution here isn't to turn the difficulty down but to just dive somewhere else. This feels like the first true "endgame" content and you obviously need a fully coordinated team to survive let alone actually complete all objectives. If they were more intentional in saying "hey this new content is going to be especially challenging and isn't necessarily for new players" I think they would've avoided a lot of the bitching. Releasing this a week after a new playerbase gets the game is devious, I have not had a single succesful solo queue round yet and I don't replay expect to

>>719707971
I feel like "we're going to the bug give world with a bunch of new enemy types" is pretty self-explanatory that it will be harder than usual bug missions.
The main issue I encountered was how finnicky respawns are around the cave. my entire team respawned on the cave roof and we all had to jump off a cliff to get back.

>>719708272
Arrowhead jank aside, they kind of dug their own grave a bit where for the longest time the MEGA-SUPER-RAPE difficulty was a total snooze half of the time which made people think they're hot shit for being able to kill a half-dozen bugs, and now that there are missions that fuck you sideways they start bitching.

>>719666863
>they went overboard
My only problem is hive lord. 150 000hp. If you want to taki it out, you have to coordinate everyone and have fully dedicated loadout. Impossible with randoms.
Im not keen on nerfs, it should be hard to kill, but maybe give us some way to chase it away?

>>719708560
yeah I agree with shitting on arrowhead for technical issues but I'm not going to listen to these kneejerk complaints about difficulty unless it's brought about by the jank/bugs.

>>719708697
With that amount of health, it's more like an environmental hazard than an enemy you can reasonably kill unless you're team goes all out.
but it would be cool if dealing a certain amount of damage had it run off for a bit.

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>>719708830
>but it would be cool if dealing a certain amount of damage had it run off for a bit.
Yeah, but it would suck if you were actually trying to kill it.
Maybe add some new POI, i dont know, Seismic Station or some shit, that when activated scare it off for few minutes?
Also, what are we thinking about AK-IN SPAAACE!?

>>719666494
>into the JUST

>>719709063
secondary objective that acts as a temporary lure for the hive lord sounds cool

>>719703260
If the devs stopped updating this game every month, it would die in no time. Non-competitive live services thrive on updates. The same goes for Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky. I played it with friends at the beginning of the year, and then they didn't launch it for months because all they've added since then are armor that always does the same thing or weapons that are either slightly crappier than the standard ones or slightly stronger. Shit gets boring so quick once the satisfaction of unlocking upgrades and most of the weapons wears off. The "big update" of supear earth being under attack was basically: "heres your useless allied mobs and 2 new types of enemies of an already existing faction". How do people keep finding this entertaining?

>>719709537
they also added the weapon customization around the super earth invasion which was probably good at keeping people playing for a while.

>>719684449
>>719702678
it wasn't even the difficulty aspect that made me quit. it was that ah fundamentally had a stick up their ass in making everything as shitty as possible. in a well balanced game, both players and monsters have significant power. even though the game may be very hard and punishing for making mistakes, weapons and stratagems are strong too. yet they couldn't let that stand. they nerfed railgun which i really liked. they nerfed slugger for no reason after it was buffed. they nerfed arc thrower click tech. and that was on top of the constant bugs they introduced and reintroduced into the game. it just got tiring.

>>719674038
Why not just call 4 boomer chairs and blast it into oblivion?

>>719709298
>temporary lure
Or some kinda trap that debuff it, making it easier to kill (lure it to eat super super hellbomb for example)?

>>719710272
>4 boomer chairs
You would have to land every shoot perfectly (4*39k=156k). Not that easy.

>>719686771
Yeah the EMS strike is the best of the stratagems I mentioned, because it stops everything smaller than a bile titan/factory strider dead in their tracks and it doesn't need to impact on the enemies as they also get stunned if they walk into the lingering cloud.

>>719710525
I'm a boomer chair pro, but none of my other friends use it. But I figure a few boomer chairs and some orbital lasers or railcannons would handle it in 1 "wave". Maybe a few thermites up close.

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>>719689884
The scorcher straight up kills them before they unburrow, because even though they have medium armor, they have less hp than regular warriors. Also I agree that they should not be able to attack instantly when emerging with no counterplay other than "just use explosives before they come to u lol".

>>719709063
Im interested in the harpoon gun, Im hoping it has some effect besides just big damage, even if it just pins large enemies in place it would make using stuff like orbital precision strike actually worth using.

They need to do more weapons like that shotgun that has two firing modes that swap between stun and flechette, they could easily add underbarel function weapons based weapons with that. Also saw there is a chainsaw coming.

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>>719707592
I was at 7 and went down to 6 and it somehow was harder with more enemy spawns than 7.
Then I kicked it down to 5 and the digger shits stopped spawning and enemy count went down to like 1/4. Don't know what the fuck is going on with that lol.
Imo the biggest fucking mistake in terms of balancing is the fact that the digger warriors can choose between projectile-spewing and stream spewing like a bile spewer.
They are just insanely broken in general. What's even the fucking point of bile spewers anymore if those new fuckers can just choose to melt through your health in the exact same way but with much more mobility and shielding themselves from most damage by digging. Usually they'll be in groups of 3 or more and one will dig towards you to try to get you with melee and the other two will be spewing at you from a distance.

>Graphic settings on max
>Still looks terrible sometimes
>Turn off bloom
>Barely any difference
What do you guys use for graphic settings? Feels like my lighting is fucked too but I keep fiddling with the settings without much improvement

>>719711746
Max settings. D10 only. No slowdown or dropped frames. No failed missions. Friends only. Lots of jank.

>>719701515
Anything that has splash damage is dubbed "explosive" in the armoury description, so yes to both questions. The PLAS-1 Scorcher absolutely rapes the rupture warriors.

>>719711746
Low/medium, with AA turned off and supersampling. The AA in this sucks shit, it genuinely looks better to just reduce the sharpening in my opinion.

A lot of the game is CPU bound, so changing settings doesnt have that much of an effect. Its the physics, everything tied to an active ragdoll is hell in terms of effects on performance.

>>719712445
Yeah, for some reason I thought there was no "explosive" in description. Plasma Punisher my beloved we're so back.

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>>719672173

>>719711556
The harpoon has a gas grenade strapped to it IIRC

>>719666494
I like the new missions but spawns are fucked. they put out a broken difficult event right after a new console got the game so there's also a huge number of retards who don't have any equipment yet just getting skull fucked relentlessly now.

I disagree with all the pussy faggots around the internet saying this update made the game unplayable, just lower the difficulty. fucking retards.

but I do agree that the degrading performance is completely unacceptable and the fact the game is 140GB on PC is also unbelievable. How do you take a 40GB game and add 100! more gigs to it? Genuinely the worst developers of all time.

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>>719712596
>Plasma Punisher
I really gotta give that a whirl the next time I drop

>>719713049
I haven't played in a while and my friends and I still cleared every 10 we played, but a lot of the "difficulty" comes from fucked up drops or getting physics janked into the stratosphere by the hive lord moving. The game is insanely janky.

>>719713268
Like, it still mostly sucks, but if you have some machinegun to deal with all the shit and just need something to get those fuckers out, plasma should be a good option imo, good fire rate and ammo pool. I miss the days when it was efficient.

>>719666494
Into the JUST

>>719713049
Aside from the actual game-breaking bugs like the hive breaker drill not spawning on nuke nursery missions, the hive lord RKO-ing the GATER or Pelican-1 glitching into the ground and staying there in the cave extract, the ONLY actual mechanics related issue I have is the rupture warriors' instant attack after emerging feels really cheap.

>>719713590
We had hive breaker drill spawned like 3 meters above the ground, just floating. Needless to say we failed to start it.

>>719713751
Yeah yesterday I played two nuke nursery missions and both got softlocked by the drill never fucking showing up.

>>719666821
there were over 220k people playing concurrently yesterday

The only non-bug or performance issue I have is tunnel warriors digging up to you and frame 1 removing half of your health. You can sort of dive away from one, but when there's multiple you just eat shit, especially since there's a 50% chance they got screened into close range by other bugs so you can't explode them out of the ground.

Everyone shits on the bug front for being too easy on release, but I felt like the bugfront was always the hardest.
Automaton is the easiest faction imo. It just that no one knew how armor pen worked back then. Even with randos, any squad with HMG and Recoilles can clear even d10 easily.

annoying how the spitter diggers just pop up and melt you instantly. those fucks are far more deadly than bile titans

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>everybody crying about performance
>never had any performance issues

is it just poorfags?

>>719666494
the devs don't play past difficulty six, i don't enjoy games past difficulty 7
the new enemies aren't fun to fight and the higher difficulties just make me depressed with how many fucking enemies can show up at once

i still only have about 6 weapons because I don't go out of my way to grind gay in-game currency, which is honestly the most bizarre choice for a shooting game ever
>should we give F2P players more weapons than 5?
>nah, just don't release anything for free, especially guns and content, make sure they pay for that
>oh and give them pity coins so our fans will fervently defend us for allowing them to do chores to have the PRIVLEGE of playing with more than 5 guns

>>719714905
I have a 5800X and a 4070ti S. The game dips to the 40s when there is a lot of shit happening for me, this and Dragons Dogma 2 are the only games that seem to shit the bed, so I just assume that its the optimization.
>was getting 120 FPS in BF beta
Like, how.

>>719678347
>Bugs up the ass
Just stop fighting nids

>>719714738
bots used to feel much harder than bugs but over time it's been going the opposite way

>>719714953
Any dev that doesn't fully playtest their game on the highest difficulty setting and familiarize themself with the actual experience of playing the entire game should be beaten to death in front of their mother. This isn't just specific to HD2. I can't count the number of games I've played and wondered "Did they even play their own fucking game?"

>>719714547
Devs don't play their own games, or they would realize these are problems.
>pelican STILL glitches out, preventing extract
>MECHS are STILL basically useless and a waste of a slot
>half the stratagems are only better in specific scenarios making it so you never grab them at all
>turrets are shit and usually die within 10 seconds of enemy contact
>>719715149
devs don't play their games, basic shit that is obviously a detriment to gameplay and flow will be left in, glitches that are repeatable and easily fixed are left for people to troubleshoot on their own and to top it all off, the devs will look at their game running at 30fps with 50ms frametime, with shader stuttering and massive amounts of blur from post-processing, and then turn around and say it runs and looks great, when player/NPC models have literal glowing halos around them

>>719714905
it's been slowly getting worse over time. I usually run it fine but get frame drops when shit really goes crazy. when me and my friends were spraying fire into the caves as a mountain of bugs poured out, my game started to struggle.

I'm sure a lot of the complaints ARE poorfags but I'm not going to excuse the devs for ignoring optimization.

>>719714738
Bug front is hard because nobody brings anti-chaff. Half the time people won't even bring a regular primary and take shit like the eruptor or the crossbow because muh bug holes and then get their ass blasted by infinite shitter bugs.

>>719714905
I think the game has issue with the CPU since changing the graphic barely does anything from what I gather from a lot of the complain.
I guess this game does seem to demand more from CPU than GPU since the graphic isn't even that impressive.

>>719715289
I run the game on low/medium and I only get 100fps if there's LITERALLY nothing going on, and even then the game struggles to keep a steady framerate for just looking around

I don't think the game is that visually impressive, the environments are just serviceable, they aren't good but they aren't bad, it really shouldn't run so poorly but i don't know anything about computers and I feel like i've been saying that about any game released these days
i have
>Ryzen 7 5700X3D
>6750 XT

>>719715263
Mechs and turrets are fine. Maybe turrets less so right now because lmao burrowed enemies instantly blow them up.

>>719715345
I usually use eruptor for closing holes and hitting alpha commanders, and the stalwart for little guys, but lately I feel like I need medium or even heavy pen machine gun fire for the hoards.

>>719716121
I run stalwart whenever I can, even with all the medium armor bugs, but it really sucks in caves due to the close combat, it shines on med-long range.

>>719716121
I came to the same conclusion when I realised that burrowing warrior have medium armor.

>>719716121
fire shotgun to deal with light/medium bugs + grenade pistol for utility did pretty well for me.

Best main for dem bugs?

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This game is way too buggy and janky to enjoy and for some reason the graphic quality is not impressive at all despite how much of a good computer it needs to run it property.

I just wish the studio working on this game worked more hours or hired way more very professional people to work on it and focus first on fixing the bugs and the jank and then on the content.

>>719715345
The worst thing about the bug is that unlike automaton and illuminate, those thing always actively tries to flank or encircle you.
So often times you are getting killed from behind by the shitter bug because you got distracted by the bigger bugs.
Or it's the opposite, you got distracted by shitter swarm only to get whacked by the bigger one that suddenly appears behind you. And then there is the flying ones, I feel like I always spent too many bullets just to get a hit on one of those flying fucker.

>Highest kills, accuracy, least deaths
>Get killed by machinegun friendly fire of rando even though I was crouched on top of something for at least 10 seconds
>Missions ends
>"You didn't make the cut"
>Get kicked
Lmao

>>719700117
>>719716721
This.

If the game has been a financial success they should pour more manpower to work on it and make it an even better product.

>>719716721
>content that half the player won't use ever either because it's LITERAL DOGSHIT or because it's locked behind a pass you have to pay for
>there's 0 weapons that aren't locked behind passes, giving you even LESS weapon choices if you aren't some retarded paypig or an idiot doing chores for small amounts of currency instead of just being able to play the game with a good amount of guns

>>719716721
A big issue is that the company who developed the middleware engine they are using went out of business in the middle of developing the game.

>Ally joined the squadron
>Ally left the squadron
>Ally joined the squadron
>Ally left the squadron
>Ally joined the squadron
>Ally left the squadron
what the FUCK is going on

>join game
>land just to evac
>do another mission with that group
>truck gets stuck on a rock after it's first digging shit and cant move
>they end the mission and start a new underground one
>idiot kills me with grenade launcher
>respawn has me crash onto the mountain.
>I yolo and jump down hole
>glitch, go through floor, and then die

Great patch.

>>719716853
>expecting big companies to actually improve the product
They will cut corners till their last breath, and only then they might consider to do something good.

>>719716576
Blitzer.
Just be careful to not hit teamatte since you gonna get kicked often if you do with randos.
Or just get a bunch of friend and have them wear Arc Armor passive.

>>719716985
people are crashing/disconnecting

>>719696442
As far as I know at the moment they are literally incapable of banning anyone on PC, that's what PSN integration was supposed to do but luckily it was avoided (for now).
As soon as you bypass Anti-Cheat so it doesn't close the game the moment it detects any injections, you're good.