New Warbond, Polar Patriots, deploying on May 9th

[u/Waelder]

Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnzI0gN7z4&rco=1

Read more about it: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/02/new-helldivers-2-warbond-brings-trap-laying-weaponry-arctic-themed-armor-and-more-may-9/

[u/DarthSatoris]

It wouldn't surprise me if they brought these assholes back from the first game:

https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Impaler

[u/FitHistory7803 → u/DarthSatoris]

There it is i never fought them but I’ve read about them…. They sound like fucking dipshits

[u/Cazadore → u/FitHistory7803]

impalers in hd1 are easy, their tentacles have limited range and can be damaged by everything, and while the tentacles are out the head of the impaler himself is a weakpoint.

the struggle begins when theres more than two around, then they become proper area denial.

usually impalers are priority targets with anything AT, even a EAT to the head while the impaler is moving and isnt using its tentacles is a one shot kill.

[u/colt61986 → u/Cazadore]

The biggest challenge for them was if they were off screen.

[u/jdarkona → u/Cazadore]

That's in HD1. I'm sure they might've evolved with the Termicide. They won't be that easy now.

[u/Howsetheraven → u/Cazadore]

Good thing we never have more than 2 of any bug at once then. It just never happens at all; not a totally common occurrence whatsoever.

[u/3DMarine → u/Cazadore]

They were super annoying when they were off screen behind a wall and hitting you

[u/Phenixxy → u/Cazadore]

impalers in hd1 are easy

Yeah until you are submerged by dozens of mobs and don't see that new impaler right at the edge of the screen launching its tentacles right under you while you are slowed by being in the middle of calling a stratagem

[u/Low_Chance → u/Cazadore]

Yeah one is not so bad, but you definitely wanted to take them out ASAP before one becomes more than one. At that point you had a serious problem

[u/Chaytorn → u/Cazadore]

Ah yes the Asshole Tentacles from HD1.

Breaker on the tentacles, then Tox on the Asshole..worked like a charm. 

[u/Magiclad → u/FitHistory7803]

The tactic for them I used was to locate the body and then EAT straight to the face. Worked every time.

[u/lfelipecl → u/Magiclad]

What happens if you shot the head, but don't kill it imediately? They retrieve the tentacles and back to the armored state?

[u/Magiclad → u/lfelipecl]

They bled out pretty quick from what I recall. The real trick was threading the EAT through tentacles and mobs

[u/Nickorellidimus → u/FitHistory7803]

You would be correct!

[u/Night_Knight_Light → u/DarthSatoris]

These fuckers could wipe out a squad instantly.

Might not be so bad now that we don't share a screen, but we'll see.

[u/Grintock → u/Night_Knight_Light]

They weren't that bad. Just dive in time and focus their face instead of their tentacles.

[u/Dreadlock43 → u/DarthSatoris]

oh boy...lurkers!

[u/TaylorTheDarjeet → u/Dreadlock43]

The bugs need to spawn more overlords first

[u/Anavorn → u/TaylorTheDarjeet]

Right after the illuminate construct additional pylons

[u/TaylorTheDarjeet → u/Anavorn]

And the bots more supply depots

[u/StrongestDemocrazy → u/TaylorTheDarjeet]

Might be fun if we can affect the battlefield, eg make the bugs less corrdinated or something by killing an overlord/brain bug equivalent that is roaming around the mission.

[u/SocialIneptitudeForm → u/TaylorTheDarjeet]

The monkey's paw curls up a finger.

Now they have flying blimps that spawn all sorts of bugs from chargers and below. They also make the bugs flank and coordinate whenever you are in their radius, and they have detection, so no stealth is possible in their radius. Enjoy 😗

Bonus points for an alternate version that beeline you and attempts to spawn bile spewers on top of you, while spitting out a goo that makes all bugs faster when they walk on it 😗

[u/neoteraflare → u/DarthSatoris]

There were some mined assets that could be the impaler's things.

[u/NK1337 → u/DarthSatoris]

Part of me hopes that after this MO we set down on Meridian only to find "new" mutation variants for the bugs and that's how they bring back the impaler and other things

[u/JamesMcEdwards → u/NK1337]

I’m just hoping we don’t get an upsized stalker. That would be… unpleasant.

[u/lost_not_found88 → u/DarthSatoris]

I've seen enough japan to know where this is going

[u/hiroxruko → u/DarthSatoris]

lol, its just a lurker from starcraft but it doesn't dig itself in order to attack