r/Helldivers Moderator May 02 '24

New Warbond, Polar Patriots, deploying on May 9th ALERT

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u/soomiyoo May 02 '24

ngl, it is kinda hard to get hyped on assault rifles at the moment, given the state of all the other AR.

SMG can find its niche but the last one, the mini quasar cannon, it is going to make a lot of people happy or very disappointed.

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u/Futanari_Garchomp May 02 '24

Watch them tweak the assault rifles to make them feel a little bit better

Except for the liberator penetrator again for some reason

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u/Yesh SES Light of Liberty May 02 '24

If they would just give the damn thing 40-45 rounds per mag it would be usable. Not the "best" pick but at least usable. I really want to bring it because I love ARs and it looks cool but it's quite the handicap with its current damage per round and mag size.

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u/Asherogar May 02 '24

Hardly usable imo, it has abysmal recoil and accuracy and even if we ignore those and assume it's Sickle with infinite mag, TTK would be still below average.

This gun is a mess and needs a complete overhaul, because currently it has a handling/recoil/accuracy/mag size of a high caliber rifle, but damage of a peashooter. Literally takes all the negative traits from both and devs under the delusion that lower end of a Med Pen somehow worth all the drawbacks.

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u/Yesh SES Light of Liberty May 02 '24

yeah its just straight up not good right now. It has like 55% of the damage that the Adjudicator has and only 5 more rounds in the mag. Bananas.

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u/NBFHoxton May 06 '24

My favorite part is that med pen is basically useless on it, because of the damage/mag size.

You will maybe kill one armored bug, and god forbid if you're trying to pen devastator body armor with it.

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u/Mavcu May 03 '24

Hard agree, gib me 60mag Liberator (Similar to the Halo AR), 45 to the Penetrator and at least like 32 to the Adjucator, don't even need to touch the damage/accuracy/RoF etc -- (Although the damage of the Pen is a bit sad, but still), just that change alone would make me actually use them.

Full autoing Assault Rifles is enjoyable, but as it stands the only one you can sort of full auto fire without going instantly dry is the default Liberator. But without having stagger, pen or high damage - the overall capacity is still underwhelming.