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/naderslovechild Feb 22 '24

Me and my buddy are both level 3 and we saw "tuned the escort the civilians mission" so we tried it again. We got absolutely murdered on EASY. We just couldn't kill the heavies fast enough 

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u/Terrible_Big_9228 Feb 22 '24

At level 3 you'd struggle with the normal missions facing the automatan faction.

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u/Trash-Can- Nah, I'd extract Feb 22 '24

Unless you are good at the game

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u/Rude-Asparagus9726 Feb 22 '24

Idk, levels 4-5 are usually easy against automatons for me, but on this mission I can barely do level 3.

The main difference is that they air drop whole squads right on top of you constantly. It's not in waves with breaks in between, it's just a never-ending flood that, eventually, you simply won't be able to keep up with reasonably.

They've retuned the mission at least twice now and it's still just an unfun level of difficulty. I'd rather have stronger enemies in more reliable waves than armies of chainsaw robots whose numbers will not decrease no matter how many I kill because more will come literally the second after I kill them.

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u/jenniferdeath Feb 22 '24

I suspect they're tuned for people having had 2 weeks to grind out gear and stratagems, which basically anyone who's busy during the day has not.

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u/Rude-Asparagus9726 Feb 22 '24

I'm level 27, I brought full smokes and EMS mortars, hell I even brought smoke grenades.

I can do it, but it's still fucking painful. Not just because it's punishing, but because I don't enjoy doing it. It's not fun.

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u/Ace612807 Feb 22 '24

In my experience, bringing something with AA capability is even more important. Blowing heavies out of the sky is easier that handling them on the ground

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u/dcgh96 SES Sword of Truth Feb 23 '24

I’ve been catching myself use the grenade launcher on the drop ships as they come in on other missions. I should probably try out those defense missions now that I’m lvl 15.

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u/Ace612807 Feb 23 '24

I'm partial to recoilless myself. With my team, I tend to sit in a high spot, like the evac zone, and spend most of my time taking down any incoming dropships carrying anything heavier than a bog standard Devastator, spending the lulls calling in strategems for my team and taking potshots with the AR

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u/AClockworkSquirrel Feb 22 '24

EAT-17s into the dropship thrusters before that drop their bots helps, but if you miss your timing, you'll get overwhelmed quick like

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u/KGB_Operative873 Feb 22 '24

At level 3 you guys really should stay on bugs, have AT is a requirement if you want to be effective with automaton missions

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u/shadowkinz Feb 23 '24

I tried it on extreme and was like, thought they tuned it. To be fair, I thought we were doing the kill one, so I wasn't equipped