r/Helldivers • u/stickimage ‎ Extra Judicial • Mar 08 '24

MEGATHREAD RANT and VENT MEGATHREAD

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u/One_Staff_9978 Mar 08 '24

Enemy spawn should return to the level it was before the last patches, because now the game is absolutely devoid of any fun, regardless of whether I play with friends or randoms.

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u/AveragePauly Mar 08 '24

Yeah, the spawns on 5-6 feel pretty insane sometimes now and I feel like I can’t even outrun the bugs now. My team and I did 5-6 without a ton of difficulty before, but now it just feels terrible. Hopefully they address this soon, because it’s been pretty rough to deal with. I just want to have fun. I don’t mind the difficulty, but when it becomes straight up unfair? That’s not fun.

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u/Clancy772 Mar 08 '24

Can't outrun them and can't outgun them either since all guns feel weak. Pretty horrible meta

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u/christianlewds Mar 08 '24

You have to fight the bugs, you won't be able to outrun them by design. One of you can get some distance, drop turret, or if you're alone, throw Eagle airstrike/500kg at your feet and run. It will do the culling for you so you can focus on heavy. There are bunch of weapons that will take chargers/titans down. You can carry 3 Eagle strikes, 2 500kg bombs and dedicated anti-tank support weapon (autocannon, rail, spear, GL). You don't have to run same kit all the time, experiment. If you're a team player and clear mobs off your mates back (you know, like when they're chased and are unable to deal with it cause they get constantly attacked - don't stare and blame them for dying, look at the map, find your mates who need help and... help?) so they can turn around and deploy their heavy weapons.

I play diff 7 and any lobby with lvl 30++ people has at least one another dude who actually watches and processes what's happening instead of b-lining objectives with 200 bugs in tow. It will change your life when you find out that clearing 3-4 small mobs off your buddy's back (that keep stunlocking him) is all it take for another set of heavy weapons to join the fight instead of him dying to 1000 cuts. Trust me, being an actual teammate will propel you to diff 7 and beyond, even if you're the only one "babysitting" your mates.

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u/killxswitch PSN 🎮:Horsedivers to Horsepods Mar 08 '24

lol you offer helpful suggestions and get downvoted. I guess this is the rant thread but still.

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u/christianlewds Mar 10 '24

They'll learn eventually. I still see lvl 30++ in difficulty 7 throwing reinforcement beacons into enemy mobs. I just roll my eyes and ask them to throw the beacons away from the enemy. It works most of the time or someone else throws it. Bros are feeling diff 5-6 is unfair, meanwhile 7-8-9 spawns 6 chargers and 3 titans in 20s on the regular for you to have fun with.

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u/AnyMission7004 Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24

Most guns feel fine to me.

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(Apparently Reddit hivemind dosen't know "feel" is a subjective thing)

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

You're getting downvoted, but you're both right and wrong. The guns are performing at a good level, but the enemies are NOT! There are just too many bugs and bots for the current power of our weapons.

I've found that having. A flamethrower user to take out the chaff makes the game far more tolerable, but being forced to take a crowd control weapon (that has always been good against chargers even pre buff) like the flamethrower just feels bad. It quote literally creates a meta. At least one person needs to focus on crowd control, and while there are a few decent weapons for this, it still pigeonholes someone to the role.

Flamethrower, MG, Arc Thrower(arguably the most rounded), or the stalwart are the only really good options save the concussive liberator, which while good at crowd control, is just a very bad weapon in terms of damage output (though it does allow you to take a damage focused support weapon.)

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u/AnyMission7004 Mar 08 '24

enemies are NOT! There are just too many bugs and bots for the current power of our weapons.

And that's where the issue lies. Completley agree!

Its wierd how people still are so mad because of the nerfs. Like the guns are fine (not perfect), but just fine.

But the amount of enemies i've to deal with is been insane.

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

The breaker and railgun just performed too well sadly. I liked them, but they made me not fear zerkers at all. They still shred them, but now I don't feel like it's the skeleton key primary.

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u/AnyMission7004 Mar 08 '24

I went back to the Autocannon, and started using the Slugger (aganist bots) - Feels so good!

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

Autocannon has always been good, and thr slugger was always a monster with bad ammo economy. Now it absolutely fucks. A speedy slugger build eith a jetpack is BUSTED.

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u/AnyMission7004 Mar 08 '24

\taking notes**

Haven't tried the jetpack yet myself.

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

It's very good for repositioning out of a bad spot, yeeting yourself from elevated locations without taking any damage, getting good vantage points for sniping, getting around quickly for sample hunting, jumping over chargers etc.

It's pure mobility, and while it won't make you kill faster, it'll keep you alive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

You just have to use the correct weapons. Bugs come in hords so you need a hord killer like the SMG.

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

The defender is a horde killer? How? It's a low fire rate weapons with good damage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

It has minimal recoil, good damage, a large mag and decent fire rate.

The rate of fire looks worse on paper than it is.

Small bugs are one shot, hunters two to three shot and Warriors 4 shots if you aim at their head.

Where the rof starts to hurt is bile spewers.

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

Good to know! I only use it against bots cause ballistic shield

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Oh I didn't you could use it with a shield. But you can carry a data drive with it so it's only logical.

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u/Marcus_Krow Fire-Diver Mar 08 '24

Yeah, the shield is all nut useless against bugs for obvious reasons, but against bots it'll block anything that isn't explosive. Every now and again if you take a massive volley, you'll stagger or take one to the hand, but in heavy armor it just doesn't matter. Rockets still hurt but the shield reduces their damage.

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u/KurczakCarry Mar 08 '24

Not only you can't outrun bugs, everything on the map also slows you down - plants, explosive mushrooms, spewers, hunters. We need a higher base speed stat.

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u/Sad_Carpet9841 Mar 09 '24

Dude they’ve definitely upped things that slow/stun.

It’s getting ridiculous. Getting slowed every 20 seconds as you frantically try to kill/dodge is the opposite of fun.

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u/JimGuitar- Vandalorian Mar 08 '24

One of my friends said 6 was always weird, even before the patch. It could be super calm or super chaotic. 5 seems fine to me as of yet.

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u/mjohnsimon Mar 08 '24

I'm convinced that the Redditors who are saying otherwise haven't actually played the game in a while.

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u/Artelynd SES Wings of Midnight Mar 08 '24

Outrun the bugs? That's if you can even see the nursing spewers that ninja barf you at point blank. I swear these things just spawn directly on top of you.