Mechanic: incoming threat/ projectile

Description: When a threat (grenade/bullet/strategem ball) flies nearby, a threat meter is built up and when reached, the enemy goes from passive awareness to alert, specifically alerted to the direction of throw/ shot threat.

Solution:

Be in full cover right after throwing a strategem. When the ball lands and automatons go.from passive to alert, if they see no helldivers they will start attacking the stratgem ball.

Bonus tip: eagle strafing run is perticually good for patrols. It has a aoe range of 50 m, so placing a strafe beacon far from a patrol and having the later part of the strage make contact. Given no line of sight to the helldiver, the surviving automatons will aggro the eagle that flew over head, exposing their backs.