Ugh played a mission awhile ago and got killed like 5 times by someone on the team using it.
it's probably bugged in it's current state and will be better once the major build update releases
It's the enemy-detecting AI on the weapon: it isn't happy about us fighting Automatons. Could this be the reason why the Spear is also unreliable? Clearly, yes. Be a smart helldiver: Use dumb weapons.
Okay, even I knew the airburst was going to be a fodder killer, but I didn't expect it to be THIS BAD at killing gunships
I haven't played the game much, but me and other teammates got killed a few times by friendly fire from a new weapon. That explains a lot.
I did get the airburst to kill 14 tier 1 bots that were grouped up, so that was fun. Aimed it over their heads and that worked.
Then it bursted during extract off a rock or tree or vending machine or something 5 feet in front of me and I died hah.
Then it bursted during extract off a rock or tree or vending machine or something 5 feet in front of me and I died hah.
Just got 24 kills with a single air burst rocket launcher shot on Helldive. Super satisfying, lol. Clears out hordes of baddies like a hot knife through butter.
It's great until you kill your entire team lol or yourself. I don't get the principle of how it applies its burst.
Sometimes I get it work really well, other times I end up killing myself and teammates
Ew, had a really dumb experience. Jumped into a mission midway, geological survey on suicide. Get my bearings and equipment and squad up. They tell me to head across the map to one of the survey sites they're not approaching. Uh, ok, sure, I can try to solo that. I get there to find they'd clearly recently tried and failed. The mining pod is already down and absolutely covered by about two dozen devastators and a shitload of other bots further out. I start doing my best to clear them out, running my ass all over dropping 500kgs, etc, and then I start getting chat messages asking what I'm waiting for, do the objective already. Nah, screw that. I'm out.
It would have made more sense to open up access to Choohe first, assuming you would get experimental anti tank mine on that planet, and then decide which one to liberate first if this were a single player game. They probably purposely put the stratagem with more utility behind the longer route.
Did you pick up the supply pack it drops in with or did you just pick up the launcher?
Oh, it's like the Autocannon? I didn't realize it haha.
It's hilarious that it ends up killing more helldivers than the mines ever would. It is perfection made democratic.
I had 11 friendly kills before using the weapon today, after using today, I'm at 32, went back to the quasar cannon…
Are the samples available in rescue missions glitched? I played a couple this morning (difficulty 4/5) and after we completed the mission we'd wonder around the map looking for samples. Although it'd show the map had basic and rare samples we could never find any rares at all, only basic ones. Am I missing something?
Rares are usually clustered on those maps on PoIs which can be hard to find with the rescue missions being compressed to like 15 minutes
We checked PoIs. I assume we didn't hit all the PoIs on the maps but the fact that we hit a bunch on each and got zero Rares seemed really wierd. Unless they show up at particular ones that are easy to miss. That's why I'm wondering if there's something specific to look out for. 🤷
Not sure about diff 4/5 but on 7/8/9, almost all the rares are found at just 3 out of 10-15 POIs on the map.
Might be! These PoIs at difficulty 7 have like 9-10 rare samples each.
yeah i posted the CM confirming it like yesterday or the day before
it's a major build update with tons of fixes according to him
the Spear lock on fix for example was apparently done 17 days ago and is coming with this patch
there will be, according to the CM, the big patch first and then a smaller patch/hotfix after too
I expect it to be on tuesday cause that's when they usually patch
Nice. Looking forward to it. Hopefully some new stuff too and good balance changes that makes us use different weapons and strategems
The big new patch will also include new Warbond stuff even though it wont be live for weeks, so expect tons of leaks. As for rebalancing, basically the only nerfs are to ammo economy (less reserve magazines), and of the 24 changes most are buffs.
New Warbond is on May 9th
Sunday is the start of my week 😅 Plenty of time to get the credits.
I'm guessing they're going to nerf the eruptor max mags. 12 is a lotFor everyone else:
Extract on a Level 9, the Super Destroyer has already left. And I have the opportunity to save or kill my entire team that's getting pushed on from atop a hill as we're huddled in a rapidly deteriorating bubble shield. It's literally what the airburst was made for. I can shoot it, and it'll explode the entire crest of the hill. Allowing us to push back up and exfill. Only thing is, I'm behind my teammates with the Airburst. Inside the shield.
Well there's only one way to push through the glitches of the weapon. I push out of the shield, take my shot, it explodes in my face on the incline of the hill. I die. It kills the bubble shield. My team mates die after the shield pops. Mission Complete, Extract Failed.
Lovely gun would indirectly team kill again.