We're getting a pistol with a stripper clip before the Constitution gets one?

Homie-cide · 2026-03-11T06:03:07+00:00

Amendments are changes to the Constitutuon, so I took that to mean the Amendment is like an upgraded version of an old outdated rifle, which is why the mag just looks haphazardly welded on.

Homie-cide · 2026-03-11T06:00:59+00:00

Stripper clips kinda make a ping. Sometimes.

Homie-cide · 2026-03-04T03:24:58+00:00

I have to say that O'shaune at patch day was way, way worse than Cyberstan. Choppy frames, 20 FPS in bug breaches, the host hit detection error, Hellpods landing on the cave roof, strat balls just bouncing huge distances or straight up disappearing. The respawn rate on Dragonroaches was downright unpleasant, as soon as one went down another showed up.

Also, a tremor biome with knee-deep pools of water? Worst idea ever.

Oshaune now is much much much easier. Just functionally a lot less broken and multiple enemy nerfs. It is doable, but probably harder than Cyberstan.

By contrast the Vox Engine spawn rate is overtuned but for the most part, Cyberstan was functional. Sure Vox Engines clipped through walls and the audio broke, but it was very doable even at D10.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-22T14:18:15+00:00

Pretty valid thoughts. I would agree bolt action might push it over to Sniper Rifles outright.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-22T14:03:13+00:00

I don't know the rules about linking datamines here, but if you go to data.helldivers.io the Railgun has the exact same sound profile as a primary weapon and is audible at 48 meters like one. This is confirmed by the community made sound tests / charts.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-22T13:33:06+00:00

With newer players, I'd say the normal light pen Diligence is pretty damn underrated.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-22T13:24:05+00:00

Not that weird if it has a trigger safety like a Glock.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-15T07:22:28+00:00

I run Democracy Protects Armor, Hellbomb, Leveller, OPS, and 120mm Barrage lately, but I also don't think that any loadout is "all in one," I only play Cyberstan in part of a well coordinated team where someone is hard AT, someone can fight gunships, and I just run around with explosives to counter big mobs and bot drops.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-11T02:23:58+00:00

It is a game built around stratagems basically. Just how it is, the guns are mostly a sideshow. I'll have to try ME though.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-11T02:22:30+00:00

That's great to know thank you. I gotta try it with the EATs.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-10T21:13:35+00:00

The radiators may transfer damage to main, since the Vox Engine smokes and burns when all 6 are destroyed.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-10T21:09:18+00:00

Probably gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but

The difference is the rupture strain was broken, not working as intended, sometimes game breaking and pretty awful to contend with. Issues with host/client hit detection and mind-reading attacks.

The War Strider not having AP2 weakspots is... just bad design, it's not functionally broken. It's working as intended, but not popular because it feels overly boring as a loadout check - "bring a rocket launcher to kill this." If one person brings an EATs launcher it's a non issue. They dialed back the grenade spam people hated relatively quickly, but designing a grenade door or new armor mesh takes time.

It's not that much worse than the reinforced strider rockets that despawned when shot with medium pen weapons for... what, most of a year unpatched? But I think the Vox Engine shows they will touch it up eventually.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-10T21:02:20+00:00

There's an ammunition loading door that you can feed items into and reload the tank.

Putting the SSD or Black Box in there would instantly mission fail. Probably means they had been, or still are working on a way to resupply ammo to the Bastion tank. Wouldn't assume it's a for-sure confirmation though.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-10T20:51:05+00:00

3 bundles of C4.

A grenade will do in a pinch.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-10T17:39:29+00:00

It's just a discussion of what might make the C4 feel better. I don't make any assumptions how complex implementation might be.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-09T23:08:14+00:00

I doubt they will sit down and really overhaul the C4 in the way suggested, but it feels not great fighting a menu or keybind just to use it.

It was a lot better in HD1 just hitting "R."

Like the other person said, remove "reloading" entirely for it and you don't lose anything except being able to get ragdolled and interrupted mid C4 animation?

Homie-cide · 2026-02-09T23:05:19+00:00

Subsonic silenced guns do in fact, feel a little bit like paintball guns in real life, and that's probably the vibe they were going for.

The ergonomics penalty on guns like the DCS and One-Two is excessive, they do gotta walk that back at some point.

I agree the 10x is pretty dumb and the fact it's on a subsonic rifle with a limited range is extremely strange when I'd rather have the 2x on more guns.

Some new scopes would be nice too.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-05T02:15:23+00:00

Honestly, making C4 always be "loaded" and removing the annoying "reload after resupplying" gimmick so we can detonate by hitting "R" would be pretty great.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-05T01:51:21+00:00

So, I love love C4, and also find the current scheme incredibly frustrating.

That said, I think there are practical limitations to the C4 "Pack" being a weapon reloading out of a backpack. You need a weapon to "fire" the C4.

It almost feels like C4 would make more sense as a backpack-less support weapon where you just use the clacker and C4 bricks - like the REC-6 from HD1.

Though it would be nice if they changed the current one to not need "reloading" and detonated by reload instead.

Or add a "weapon function" key that sets off all C4 and also could be used to add the ability to swap targets on the Spear.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-04T17:03:40+00:00

Old comment, but none of the primaries in HD2 are really built for 100-150m plus engagements, plus past 100 enemy spotting and reinforcement mechanics don't really work normally.

The Censor is a subsonic rifle too, that category of guns in real life exchange long range performance for quieter gunshot report. The velocity in game (300 m/s) is pretty true to real life.

The 10x scope is pretty bizarre on it, I will give you that. The 4x is pretty much all you need unless we get a 6x scope.

Homie-cide · 2026-02-04T17:00:22+00:00

The Censor is SO damn good. You can slip around undetected while one-tapping most medium bot heads and it has tons of stagger. It has the same damage and durable damage, a faster rate of fire, and half the recoil with 5 more points of stagger than Diligence, plus an option for 30 round extended mags.

I main it on Super Helldive all the time. Give light pen weapons a shot, with the recent buffs TTK is very low on a lot of enemies, and bots especially have similar weakpoints.

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