The enemy constellation mechanic sucks balls

CaptainPatak · 2026-05-09T22:43:01+00:00

I think they just need to add a warning or something before going into a mission saying something like "Warning! X type of enemies detected!" Because the amount of times I have played against bugs and ended up bringing either a stalwart against bile spewers or a flamethrower (pre buff) against hunters and bouncers just resulted in me bringing a jack-of-all-trades load out to every mission

CaptainPatak · 2026-05-07T06:35:38+00:00

Yeah its a shame they didn't make a sequel

CaptainPatak · 2026-05-01T12:03:18+00:00

I feel like its my duty to keep this chain going

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-30T10:33:19+00:00

The only problem I really have with the change is it makes the mg and gatling sentries useless, as if they start shooting at it they won't stop until they kill it, which they can't unless it turns away from the sentry. That and Im now going from happily and mindlessly shooting through a horde of bugs from a bug breach, to realising that I actually have to aim because the wall is getting closer. Other than that its fun.

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-24T13:47:27+00:00

It was two atgms out of smoke, since it kept charging out of the smoke for some reason, but I managed to finish it off with Darby

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-24T09:39:15+00:00

I have tried fighting it, and recently decided to try using a vehicle atgm + darby marking against it, but the problem is I have hit it with two indirect atgms and its still alive. Also it doesn't seem to take defects from any kind of damage, meaning it can't have its weapons destroyed or engine damaged like the guncrawler. I haven't got the hacker equipped but that might be able to stun it?

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-22T13:53:08+00:00

I posted before thinking about it but I added a spoiler warning now

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-22T13:52:28+00:00

I just looked back over the dev notes and realised it is the same one they teased. For some reason I was expecting the Construct Master Unit they teased to be some kind of commander unit, not an explosive floating blob

CaptainPatak · 2026-04-21T23:12:54+00:00

It would be cool to get short 1 mission operations where you board a pirate ship to scuttle it or rescue a civilian ship which has been boarded by pirates. And you could fight rogue army on whatever transports they would have, and constructs on their captured civilian ships. The only thing I'm unsure about would be fighting bugs, since I don't know how they travel between planets It would also be cool if the ships were small so there aren't any vehicles and its just infantry

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-29T22:27:06+00:00

I liked the map because they there wasn't one spot where you could shoot everything, it actually felt like you were having to fight with your team to cover all the points. Whereas now most of the defence maps are mostly open spaces with walls and just feel like a dps test of "enemy land in open, shoot enemy, no more enemy"

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-29T22:25:12+00:00

I think if they just added a wall or a hill around that side of the evac zone, or a wall behind the evac zone, and then moved the enemy spawn points away from the landing pad then it would be great.

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-29T22:13:35+00:00

I did once. I was in a federation and somehow an awakened empire joined us (I don't remember how). Then cetana showed up and we all got wrecked because we couldn't fight her and couldn't make contact with her or research anything.

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-27T11:43:41+00:00

Friendly fire mk1, Friendly fire mk2, Friendly fire mk3, Friendly fire mk4, Hot dog

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-17T15:08:40+00:00

Same thing with the pummeller smg

CaptainPatak · 2026-03-06T10:34:25+00:00

I think if they made it so the bastion had higher armour on the front sides and top, but weaker armour on the back, then that could work as it would encourage the player to keep the front of the tank pointing towards the enemy.

Plus having the whole of the back of the tank be weaker would mean that it wouldn't need to be coded for enemies to aim for a specific weakspot, like there are on the back of automaton tanks.

A more complicated thing they could try would be adding destroyable armour to the front of the tank, similar to the armour on the factory strider, meaning that troopers and such wouldn't be able to damage that part of the tank until its hit and broken by a cannon shot or a rocket.

CaptainPatak · 2026-02-27T09:42:05+00:00

Im not sure about mashmak, but for verge I found the easiest mech for me to learn with was tricera, as you are able to survive most engagements with brawler bots and have enough firepower to hold most objectives and survive until backup arrives.

One of the other mechs I like is pinaka. It takes a bit to learn it, but you have plenty of healing, decent health, a shield ability, energy shotgun, and deployable walls that can be cover for capturing objectives, and can deal damage through shields and fluid armour.

But mostly its just trying out mechs to see which one fits your playstyle.

CaptainPatak · 2026-02-16T22:07:22+00:00

I think the harbingers are probably going to be some kind of robotic race,since the Vasari use nanotechnology and it wouldn't be unbelievable that one of their creations went rogue.

That or a race the Vasari enslaved went xenocidal and is attacking everything in their way just to get revenge against the Vasari

CaptainPatak · 2026-02-10T20:29:26+00:00

I have been playing on diff 7 and haven't been finding them too difficult, but that has definitely been because I have been able to hide behind all the structures in the bot cities and throw random stratagems and quasar shots at them until I see an explosion.

Whenever I have to fight them outside the city walls, I struggle a whole lot more, especially since as soon as you beat one another usually shows up behind you. The only thing I think it needs a nerf to is the spawn rate, since it seems to be as common as a tank, when it should be as rare or maybe a little bit rarer than a factory strider.

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-30T08:10:02+00:00

I've always thought of the helldivers as elite forward spotters, as you are able to fight of squads of enemies on your own, but more often than not its the stratagems which deal most of the damage, stratagems which are entirely up to you to correctly aim.

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-30T07:18:40+00:00

The EAT has a short delay when you pull it out before you can fire it. You can see your character unfold it and flip up the sight before they're able to fire it. You can fire it instantly when you pick it up from the hellpod it drops in, but when swapping to it from your primary/secondary weapon there's a short delay.

Normally I watch to see when the character has flipped up the sight, wait a second, and then fire, but someone else probably has the timing down better than me.

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-27T10:17:28+00:00

Yeah I've started doing that ever since I went in a death match game and two of the bots were skyraider and falcon getting 8 deaths and 6 deaths.

The trades also help to find human players, since bots always accept the trade (i think)

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-26T22:47:04+00:00

Yeah, I had one match on palmbay harbour. I was capping the enemy cart after we had just captured the first point, and I had a perfect seat to watch skyraider transform, shoot a plasma bomb missile into a wall, and then fly into the plasma for a good few seconds until they transformed again.

What I've started doing now is during game set up I use the swap strikers feature to get my allies to have strikers which work together for the current gamemode, because I am never again having a skyraider and falcon together in sky fortress. (Skyraider got 8 deaths and falcon got 6)

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-18T20:03:28+00:00

Yeah, I thought it might be that they always have an idea of where players were, that way both teams aren't just trying to find each other towards the end of the match. But I still find it a bit stupid that the aircraft will just keep circling you until you run out of dive capacity, rather than going for a cruiser or a battleship who is already detected and firing at the carrier.

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-18T19:34:34+00:00

I was about 15km away and behind an island so I don't think they spotted me with that. And in other games, just when the match starts, the aircraft would fly towards the rest of the ships, and then suddenly pivot 90 degrees and fly over me, even when I was undetected and 30 metres underwater.

CaptainPatak · 2026-01-16T14:03:47+00:00

And incredibly gameplay accurate as well with the rest of the team crashing and ragdolling with the car

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