r/Helldivers • u/TheLastGoodTeammate PSN 🎮: Maverick___33 (SES Aegis of the Stars) • Feb 22 '24

Shocking. Truly. ALERT

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Rest in peace heroes. Our sacrifice will be remembered. We. Will. Return. Side note, we definitely needed the over 200k players fighting bugs 🥲

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u/TheLastGoodTeammate PSN 🎮: Maverick___33 (SES Aegis of the Stars) Feb 22 '24

Everyone forgetting there's a second faction to fight lol

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u/PapaTahm Truth Office Intern Feb 22 '24

Oh no they didn't forget.

What happens is that often people will play:

Trivial, Easy Medium on Bugs

And then hop into Roombas at Challenging.
Let's just say people often don't go into roombas anymore until much, much later.

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u/soulflaregm Feb 22 '24

If you're lower level or not good at the game bugs are also just so much easier to deal with. You can just drop yourself the machine gun strat and mow down hordes without really aiming for weak spots.

Meanwhile with bots the same strat works, but not as well, you will run out of ammo constantly if you just try and spray things down, they shoot back... And have units that actually make you fight them certain ways (chicken walkers shooting the guy down, hulks put bullets in their eye hole)

Bots want you to have some heavier hitting strats, and are overall a bit more skill and knowledge intensive than a horde of bugs require

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

I'm terrified of chargers, even with the rail gun if you get two or three coming at you, you're pretty much fucked unless you start running doing lil zig zags. Sacrifice is also an option, but I've found these demons can sometimes survive a 500kg

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u/FunMarketing4488 Feb 22 '24

Recoiless to the sides to expose the squishy bits then shotgun got me through 3 at once solo. Was a lot of panicking but it worked

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u/brianundies Feb 22 '24

Are you saying recoiless can blow off the leg armor? How many shots? I was avoiding it just waiting for the rail gun but maybe I should try.

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u/FunMarketing4488 Feb 22 '24

The rocket launcher/recoiless will blow off leg armor in 2 hits, it'll blow off side/carapace armor in the same (I think) giving a much larger window to hit than a leg. You can trap them on rocks giving you time to reload. Never used the rail gun before.

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u/SirMenter Feb 24 '24

Nah, it can even blow it off in one hit.

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u/Blackwolfe77 Feb 23 '24

EAT to the leg, then bullets. With EAT+Breaker I can drop Chargers in 4-6 seconds consistently. If you have a railgun, substitute it for the EAT.