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Big Takeaway:
- SEAF has now been upgrade to a full 4 man squad with different roles. Will be dropped in by a Pelican with planets with the Heavy SEA Presence tag
- New kind of voteless, one looks like a Deadspace Necromorpth and the other looks like a 10 foot dude with a 5 foot mace that regens if you stop attacking it.
The new big clubber sounds like a perfect use case for fire more than it already was on illuminate due to the hordes. Dunno about the necromorph, they even said shoot the limbs to keep it down. Maybe it has unreasonably high health for a unit of its type and dismemberment is bleedout like when a charger butt is destroyed. Will wait and see what people find and when the wiki gets info.
The new big clubber sounds like a perfect use case for fire more than it already was on illuminate due to the hordes. Dunno about the necromorph, they even said shoot the limbs to keep it down. Maybe it has unreasonably high health for a unit of its type and dismemberment is bleedout like when a charger butt is destroyed. Will wait and see what people find and when the wiki gets info.
The Necromorph go down pretty easy and are not that bad. The Big Clubber is a turret hunting machine that you really gotta focus fire on (and can come out of now where to smash you). Similar idea as the Fleshmob but a bit tougher, slower, and can Regen.
The SEAF Teams are pretty fun, they come down in two squads of 4 at a time and its cool to have a massive battle with a bunch of them along with other Helldivers.
And of course there are the classic Arrowhead glitches. The one I saw is that I had a side objective to kill Overseers on a map that had no Overseers.
From the tiny bit of gameplay that I've been able to get between crashes the limbs are really easy to cut off with almost any weapon, they just keep going until you shoot off their head which is also easy to deal with. The issue is that they'll keep running at you until you blow their head up, and if you don't take off their claws they have a chance of getting back up and slashing in a straight line until they hit a wall and they finally die. They're just hyper aggressive and a bitch to deal with.
Fire at the necromorphs kneecaps, the real legs, 2 or 3 defender smg shots it puts them down permanently, the head is a fake. Elevation is not helpful, they have a jump attack with an audio cue, if elevated they have a tendency to sink through the floor after the jump. Ballistic shield is a hard counter, but at least 1 grenade(giga) is bugged and is not treated as a 1 handed weapon. They can be kited more easily then voteless at least in light armor, and they feign death which buys time and distance. They are very fun to fight and satisfying to kill.
The giants smash aoe is further then its club choreographs, if its swinging it can hit you. Ballistic shield can be one tapped by it, sometimes due to the aoe the shield doesnt even matter. I avoided damage all together jumping towards it in a panic so it might be better to try and dive past it when it swings rather then away. A friend was using the firedog, seemed effective.
The bolter pistol despite being explosive has no effect when shot into automoton fab vents or illuminate ship holes, which is an obnoxious oversight/cunt design choice.
The bolter pistol despite being explosive has no effect when shot into automoton fab vents or illuminate ship holes, which is an obnoxious oversight/cunt design choice.
They probably didn't want to make the grenade pistol outright useless by adding a secondary that can do its job but with the efficacy of a much more loadout intensive weapon like a grenade launcher/autocannon.
I like the gong noises that the Skyrim giants make when they go down. I do not like that the terminid zombie men cripple a limb every single time they touch me.
The new operation finally got me onto the hive worlds again for the first time since 'Into the Unjust' and I immediately remembered why I don't do them, Hive Lords.
I have to ask, does anyone here like Hive Lords? Cause I hate the fuckers. You either skew the loadout to kill him for next to no reward or do your best to ignore him but you can't do that when you get to extraction the big son of a bitch just sits there and flops all over you while reinforcements keep coming.
But I get why they'd make him such a nuisance, if he was less of it no one would bother so I can't just say they should nerf him and in concept he is cool but I just can't stand him.
Does anyone know if he one of the enemies that affects the host more than non-host players? I usually host so my animosity might stem from that, or not either way hate the fucker.
From the tiny bit of gameplay that I've been able to get between crashes the limbs are really easy to cut off with almost any weapon, they just keep going until you shoot off their head which is also easy to deal with. The issue is that they'll keep running at you until you blow their head up, and if you don't take off their claws they have a chance of getting back up and slashing in a straight line until they hit a wall and they finally die. They're just hyper aggressive and a bitch to deal with
Gonna correct you. Shooting off their heads don’t kill them outright. They’re literally slasher necromorphs they’ll do the headless flailing if you shoot off their head first. I love them as Dead Space is my favorite horror game.
The new operation finally got me onto the hive worlds again for the first time since 'Into the Unjust' and I immediately remembered why I don't do them, Hive Lords.
I have to ask, does anyone here like Hive Lords? Cause I hate the fuckers. You either skew the loadout to kill him for next to no reward or do your best to ignore him but you can't do that when you get to extraction the big son of a bitch just sits there and flops all over you while reinforcements keep coming.
But I get why they'd make him such a nuisance, if he was less of it no one would bother so I can't just say they should nerf him and in concept he is cool but I just can't stand him.
Does anyone know if he one of the enemies that affects the host more than non-host players? I usually host so my animosity might stem from that, or not either way hate the fucker.
Should have been a 15 minute mission in a special arena map like the "Survive the onslaught" missions. The Hive Lord could have been a cool bossfight if it was executed properly with it popping in to attack and expose itself in between summoning bugdrops to distract and overwhelm. Someone needs to focus on big damage, someone needs to keep the hordes at bay. I don't see why a dedicated "Kill the big boss guy" mission type can't return from HD1.
Edit: Ninja'd
Also for anyone looking for advice on how to kill the crushers faster without just having to mag dump them to death. I don’t know if their heads or med pen or not but for sure if you have something heavy pen use your heavy pen weapon to destroy their helmets to reveal their head and then shoot the head and they’ll go down instantly. Like the bolt pistol that just came out can pop the helmet in 1-2 shots then do one more follow up to their ugly dome and they’ll go down like a bag of shit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLTltwbS4KY
Big Takeaway:
- SEAF has now been upgrade to a full 4 man squad with different roles. Will be dropped in by a Pelican with planets with the Heavy SEA Presence tag
- New kind of voteless, one looks like a Deadspace Necromorpth and the other looks like a 10 foot dude with a 5 foot mace that regens if you stop attacking it.
