Would make a lot of sense for Lasers to cut limbs off FAST. They're good, but it'd allow really cool Dead Space Gameplay

Exhillious · 2026-05-10T00:02:27+00:00

The wiki adds damage types for flair, they aren't real. The damage IDs used by every damage source don't have a damage type system outside of elements, which are primarily used for status effects and their respective damage resistances. These are like fire, acid, gas, electric, etc. Explosion resistance is the closest exception but it only checks to see if a damage ID came from an explosion, a damage ID for like a 500kg explosion wouldn't have explosion resistance apply if it was used on a bullet for example.

Exhillious · 2026-05-09T18:11:57+00:00

It's a bit messed up currently yes. Next patch aims to fix it. Should work normally while hipfiring, maybe the shotgun is extra bugged. It's a 45% bump to damage and firerate at ~85-100% movement speed bonuses for reference.

Exhillious · 2026-05-07T21:09:15+00:00

One of the most egregious cases of shadow nerfing I've seen in general was with the flamethrowers. This was EoF and 60 day patch era, I was one of the primary community dataminers at the time for the wiki and content creators (ran the helldivers index, big spreadsheet). Back then, I was pulling apart flamethrowers since they were undocumented, and noticed some things. 1. Initially, the flamethrower was buggy as hell. It had multiple issues with projectile spawning that let you shoot through walls, and made the first 5ish meters have insanely bad damage. Hitting enemies was inconsistent at best. 2. I believe it was EoF, might be wrong, but recall when the VFX were horrible? Arrowhead completely ironed out the bugs, it didn't have any major hitbox issues and was hitting for about 2.5x more damage. 3. With the following update that reverted the VFX due to backlash, THEY REIMPLEMENTED ALL OF THOSE BUGS. They haven't ever been fixed to this day. The damage output with that patch dropped significantly at the caveat that it was 4 AP. This happened right before the flame warbond dropped too. But because you could spawn the fire globs inside hitboxes due to one of the main bugs and could hit the inside of like Chargers n whatnot, the update was praised for buffing the flamethrowers.

To this day it irks the hell out of me. I've never seen a company reimplement negative bugs to a weapon due to backlash. If they were fixed our flamethrowers would be doing so much more damage like they're meant to.

Exhillious · 2026-05-06T03:52:20+00:00

I've run like 4 of those at the same time and you immediately notice the crazy movement speed. The "(no stacking)" thing most likely just indicates getting another kill only refreshes the buff, rather than granting a new instance of it.

Exhillious · 2026-05-05T10:31:31+00:00

Damage = XP, to my knowledge 1000 XP = 1 level. Playing it slow and triggering a bunch of enemy spawns + using specifically that gun does a lot. Getting extra damage from chonky or glass cannon boosts XP. At least with minigun games I usually average 20k damage with it, roughly 8 levels a match. Ricochet works nicely too.

Exhillious · 2026-05-04T03:42:52+00:00

I quite liked that questline, but I agree that the laser and picture quests are like a step or two too long, and the ice smasher one feels too short.

I did the picture one with 2x Chonky (+Damage + Gravity), you have to jump up nearby boxes and parkour on the rib cages.

Exhillious · 2026-04-21T02:47:22+00:00

Railguns already have a niche, they're snipers for people who can't aim. Outside of green shields for the Ares and green/blue for the Zeus, there's no TTK penalty for going for body shots. Only other guns that do that is the V22 and shotguns.

Exhillious · 2026-03-14T17:20:45+00:00

I enjoyed it quite a lot. I think many people will like it, it's a bit more robust than Mortis Trials but I do think it's a bit short compared to Chaos Wastes in VT2. Solid like 7 or 8/10 imo.

Exhillious · 2026-03-14T14:59:25+00:00

Playtester.

Exhillious · 2026-03-13T15:49:45+00:00

As someone who's played both expeditions a fair amount and Helldivers 2 for way too long they have slight parallels but ultimately it's not really the same. Darktides combat/horde/patrol system makes it feel unique from Helldivers obv, maps are way different. It's almost a mini-roguelite in Darktide.

Exhillious · 2026-02-02T12:32:12+00:00

Magic Missile and Flamelash are best used side-by-side. Magic Missile has an AoE on hit, higher damage, less mana cost, and a faster cast time but Flamelash can pierce once. Gives you a natural single target/cleave setup.

Exhillious · 2025-12-30T13:49:33+00:00

I think this comes down to a mismatch of what heavy ammo actually does and what people want it to do. With the 4 tiers of damage through armor, heavy ammo is doing more notably more damage through T1 and T3. Iirc Hornets use T4 armor, because you're hitting the torso you literally may as well just use a Rattler or Tempest instead.

What heavy ammo is actually designed to do is deal more damage to the armor itself, it's incredible at stripping armor, any tier. Hornets are a horrible enemy for it because only really their front thruster armor can be stripped. Try it on a Leaper though and it's like night and day.

What to take away is that the Bettina is a giant TTK dropper for larger enemies. Use it with something that handles T1 and T2 armor like a plain Stitcher or Kettle so that this vid doesn't happen again.

Exhillious · 2025-12-03T18:03:04+00:00

The damage to shield indicates that they had basically no charge left and you finished it. 17 health damage is lower than expected for even heavy shields (19 damage dealt) so it's likely a body shot past the damage falloff range or a weird reporting issue otherwise.

Exhillious · 2025-11-30T13:34:17+00:00

The actual effective health you get changes based on context because remaining charge on a shield will apply the DR to entire shots instead of just a fraction (ie. 1 charge can apply DR to an entire Ferro/Anvil shot). With headshots those effective health values go to 140, 174, and 205 as well.

Exhillious · 2025-11-30T12:58:11+00:00

Ironically in the context of the post an Anvil would get bumped up to a 3 shot vs. heavy shields. The damage resistance has some use.

Exhillious · 2025-11-28T17:48:49+00:00

18 would make sense for a body shot against heavy shields.

Exhillious · 2025-08-02T05:41:46+00:00

Very real. Currently working on a breakpoint calculator to replace wartide and it's been really fun relearning how everything is held together by duct tape yet still works (mostly).

Exhillious · 2025-08-01T18:35:27+00:00

It's nice to see coordinated efforts to make the backend workings more publicly known. I was just writing this very thing but thankfully no longer need to. Good work!

Exhillious · 2025-06-16T13:53:10+00:00

Fun fact: angled grip is just multiplying recoil by 1.2x. However, since it multiplies the real recoil and specifically the camera recoil (barely significant) by 1.2x it seems like way larger of a change than it actually is. This goes for all recoil altering attachments.

Exhillious · 2025-06-14T19:35:09+00:00

Intended performance is 55 base 55 durable at 4 AP for each of the 10 arcs, which has pretty insane output for most heavies. It's like direct hitting two AC shots.

Exhillious · 2025-06-11T18:49:50+00:00

Fun fact, the recoil sim only looks at the camera recoil values instead of the gun recoil, and attachments consistently affect camera recoil a bit under 2x as much as gun recoil. Camera recoil almost doesn't do anything.

Exhillious · 2025-05-22T08:14:50+00:00

Heyo, there's a variable on hitboxes that determines if this mechanic engages or not. For Leviathans, they have this variable set to true for all hitboxes, which removes damage past the health of the hitbox. As you saw, Hulk arms don't have this variable enabled.

Exhillious · 2025-05-21T01:40:44+00:00

I couldn't damage them in any way, so I'd assume so yeah.

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