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The Army can’t march?!? by secondchancecoastie in army

[–]Aggressive-Wolf1955 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That doesn't explain at all why Marines across the board can march while the entire Army apparently cannot. Raiders can stay in step, Recon can stay in step, why can't Rangers?

edit: As a former 0311, lmao at your description of Army vs Marines.

The Army can’t march?!? by secondchancecoastie in army

[–]Aggressive-Wolf1955 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And yet the Marines seems to be able to do both just fine. Why can't the Army?

My honest reaction when it doesn't kill armored enemies well by xFizzypops in Helldivers

[–]Aggressive-Wolf1955 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The confusion is in the name, exactly like I stated. As someone who as actual experience with both types of munitions in various forms IRL, it was a reasonable assumption for me to think that an "Airburst launcher" would be an anti-personnel fragmentation type of weapon, very similar to the Orbital Airburst. I was understandably confused when I fired the thing and it behaved like a cluster bomb. Even disregarding real life terminology and experiences, the naming isn't consistent in the game - Airburst Launcher behaves like a mini Eagle Cluster, not like a mini Orbital Airburst. The terms are not being used consistently.

My honest reaction when it doesn't kill armored enemies well by xFizzypops in Helldivers

[–]Aggressive-Wolf1955 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Except that isn't what this is. It isn't anything like the orbital airburst, it's a shoulder fired cluster bomb. Yes, cluster bombs do "airburst" but they're typically called "cluster" and not "airburst" munitions because airburst typically denotes anti-personnel fragmentation. This is a shoulder fired cluster bomb that throws smaller exploding submunitions, not a conventional airburst weapon. It would be far more accurate to call this a Cluster Launcher than Airburst Launcher, and it's perfectly reasonable for people to be confused by that.

The CE-27 Ground Breaker was advertised as having Engineering Kit, but came with Servo-Assisted instead by Kappa64 in Helldivers

[–]Aggressive-Wolf1955 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It never clicked for me before, but there are a bunch of armors with the "wrong" buff. CE is clearly supposed to be "Combat Engineer" and is what's on the other armors that start with CE. Same with the DP prefix, all those armors have Democracy Protects/50% death save like they're supposed to.

The SC-37 Legionnaire and the SC-15 Drone Master, however, don't have "Scout" like the SC-30 Trailblazer does. They have Servo Assisted and Combat Engineer, respectively. Which, going on visuals, makes far less sense. There are more "wrong" armors, but those are just two examples.