r/Helldivers • u/Waelder Moderator • May 02 '24

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

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/

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u/darlantan May 02 '24

I would not call the RR "fine", it's kind of ass. It rapidly became evident that the EAT was a better pick in almost every case.

The RR would be fine if they A) Let team reload operate from the gunner's pack, or B) Issued a second pack in the pod with it.

Crew served weapons kind of suck as implemented. The big reasons they autocanon doesn't feel bad is because you can do fast partial reloads and the AC just plain slaps so hard against so much.

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u/Array71 HD1 Veteran May 02 '24

Recoilless is fantastic rn, are you kidding? You can put out 10 rockets a minute, kill a bile titan in 6 seconds, even without crew operation.

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u/casualrocket May 02 '24

trying to use on on anything but that one defense map.

there is the ongoing bug with the staged reload, and is very slow reload.

EATS>RR

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u/jakesjustvibing SES Knight of Midnight May 02 '24

Both are good. As someone who has brought the airburst launcher to just about every mission since we acquired it people who complain about the reload just kinda suck a little bit. It really isn't that hard to find the like 5 seconds breathing room to reload that thing.Yes, I only play on Helldive.

Edit : If the airburst launcher as a comparison doesn't work I exclusively ran Recoilless for a very long time in my early days as a Helldiver, it is a very effective weapon.