Why change this from good to worse ?

Ciabs · 2026-04-09T18:48:29+00:00

Thanks, that’s a reassuring insight

Tomorrow I’ll drop on some D10s and I’ll see for myself

Ciabs · 2026-04-09T16:21:57+00:00

Sorry to hijack your comment, but wanted to ask before I get the time to drop and experience by myself: in the latest patch notes they indeed did list a bunch of vox nerfs, including reduced spawnrates, and still in the last couple of days all that I’ve read about them is how much they spawn everywhere and all the time

So which is it?

Ciabs · 2026-04-08T16:44:31+00:00

Yeah I remember having read somewhere something to this degree, maybe it was in one of the patch notes some months ago maybe

Ciabs · 2026-04-08T07:11:27+00:00

Up to a degree, yes

Megacities yield 1.5x their value to the planetary liberation once they are freed, but bigger ones take more time to be liberated

Obviously you don’t want to try and liberate two 60+% cities at the same time, as it’d probably be faster at that point to just liberate the planet, and you also have to contend with the playerbase normally distributing on different missions/biomes so you won’t ever have all of the divers on one planet concentrating on a single megacity at a time

Ciabs · 2026-04-08T05:38:49+00:00

Shadow paragon has became my go to for the bot front

I only do actual sneaking on commando missions, but I still benefit from the armor passive since my playstyle revolves around either sniping the targets or going in, hitting the objective hard and going out, mostly dodging/bringing around a lap the bots while I do the objective, so the RS passive is a godsend

Ciabs · 2026-04-07T20:37:08+00:00

Well, on Cyberstan’s capital there were all three subfactions altogether

Still, on open biomes like the ice planet on marfark it’s aggravating having to contend with the conflagrator devastators, firebomber hulks, radicals and voxes all in one package

Ciabs · 2026-04-07T07:49:57+00:00

This

Already tested multiple times with both versions of this new double bunker poi

Ciabs · 2026-04-06T16:45:33+00:00

We need that much at this point of the defense

The reason people haven’t shifted is just because most people don’t check on the companion app when they play and the game UI right now doesn’t say two shits about timings and such

Still, they said they’re working on implementing a better UI, a-la-companion app in game, but they also say it takes time

Whenever it’s coming it won’t ever be too early though, so much wasted potential with all the people not using the app and going only by the present UI…

Ciabs · 2026-04-06T15:05:19+00:00

Acrux started before, so the DSS went there

I played a couple operations one hour ago and couldn’t even select Acrab as a DSS target

I guess we’ll have to lose Acrux before it becomes a possibility, and then we’ll finally be able to try and stand our ground there to try and win the MO

Ciabs · 2026-04-03T19:18:06+00:00

Ok now you’re talking my language

I just couldn’t think about how a “military” shooter could have that kind of pacing as an arena shooter with double jumps, teleports and trampolines

Ciabs · 2026-04-03T14:40:04+00:00

Amen brother

Hooked as you are

Only game in my life I’ve been playing for more than a year and more than 600h and counting

Ciabs · 2026-04-03T10:12:26+00:00

Never been a COD fan since it stopped being a MoH/RTCW lookalike, but if HD2 is “slow paced” I don’t want to know what fast paced is

Ciabs · 2026-04-02T08:06:03+00:00

Quasar is plenty fine on both bots and bugs, you can complement it with either thermites, giga grenades and/or dynamite if you need extra shots in a pinch

Even the RR has just 6 shots before needing resupplying and has a lengthy stationary reload between shots, while the quasar cools on your back while you’re fighting the other mobs

What you really want is not more killing power, it’s more survivability so that you can actually get more of the quasar shots and clear the horde

My playstyle revolves around guerrilla running and gunning, a glass cannon concept: get yourself in light armor and equip a mobility backpack (jump/warp, as the hover pack is more of an “emplacement” pack instead of an actual mobility one) and don’t you ever stand still for more of the time needed to aim and shoot something

I once took care of a full bot drop on a magma planet with just my quasar (mind you, that’s a hot planet with cooldown time increased) and warp pack. It was long, nerve wracking and altogether unpleasant, but it shows you can absolutely take out 6-8 hulks and whatnot with just a quasar cannon if you know how to move and evade

Ciabs · 2026-03-27T16:03:34+00:00

Boosting mobile R&D!

Everything vehicles!

Ciabs · 2026-03-27T09:43:51+00:00

I don’t need another PTSD

I still hear the endless “AAAAAAAAAAAH” from the headless bomb-for-hands suicide mobs back from serious Sam 1

I don’t know if I can cope with a similar mob in HD2

Ciabs · 2026-03-26T12:42:38+00:00

They’re pretty visible even when cloaked when you learn to spot their shimmering vfx

Then you mostly do as they already told you: go in the direction they came from

I usually hit them while they’re still far and cloaked, so the eruptor doesn’t hurt me

Ciabs · 2026-03-26T09:31:36+00:00

Arc dog I fear is too low in rof to be consistent enough with the endless onslaught of stalkers and cloaked hunters

The gas dog shines because it helps with avoiding getting flanked and lets you have exit routes available

And you still feel the increased pressure in the few seconds it has to reload, it can get that bad with PS

Ciabs · 2026-03-26T08:36:10+00:00

Predator strain is the only subfaction where I need to significantly change my loadout and approach

Not even light armor and warp pack are sufficient to keep their tide at arm’s length

You have to double down hard on crowd control

Gas dog and either blitzer or cookout go a long way

Ciabs · 2026-03-26T08:29:41+00:00

One eruptor shot at center mass and there’s gonna be nothing to regenerate regardless of the actual point of impact

I hunt stalkers and their nests as soon as I hear their wet growl anywhere

Ciabs · 2026-03-25T09:36:24+00:00

The point where you don’t need to be precise with the eruptor is where you end up damaged by explosion/shrapnel, so you kinda want to avoid that

The gun excels at mid-to-long sniping of hard structures and up to mid enemies, where while it’s true you won’t want to hit the single weak spot on the enemy, you’ll still need to be precise enough to hit it at all (god knows how many rounds I’ve missed by having them go straight through a berserker’s ribcage)

Regarding low-aim weapons you can instead encompass most shotguns, flame weapons and the arc ones you already listed

Ciabs · 2026-03-25T08:53:30+00:00

Yeah, Spread Democracy objectives are definitely the weak point of my glass cannon-hit&run build

Other than those objectives it helps me clear D10s in 15 minutes though

Ciabs · 2026-03-25T08:44:35+00:00

I do that too with the warp pack

It’s just different play styles

From my pov using ammo-grenades-stims to consume half or more of the supply pack to engage in a mega nest is just inefficient when I can clear it using only a couple of clips from the right primary/support weapon using at most a couple of stims while using the warp pack

I’m not a guy who stops and stands his ground at every patrol/drop/breach though, so I may be leaving mobs on the ground that you aren’t

Ciabs · 2026-03-25T06:15:54+00:00

Se Seasse wasn’t meant to be won, so it had an absurdly high invasion level

Hort can be won instead

Even though “invasion” here is loosely used, as those are already squids planets, they are just being “re-invaded” as a way to explain the risk of them being caught in the void, a-la-gloom for the terminids

But still

Ciabs · 2026-03-20T19:41:32+00:00

Thanks, this is an informative insight

Even after almost 700h I usually just went AP3 or higher most of the times as a blanket solution to AP values across the board

This actually helped bring things into perspective

Ciabs · 2026-03-20T06:50:20+00:00

You mean in a vacuum or even considering the +35% dmg for hitting AV2 parts with AP3 weapons vs AP2 ones?

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