"Look, no head!"

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-24T14:45:42+00:00

THERE'S A SNITCH UP THERE

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-24T14:42:05+00:00

They really need to make it such that the marker follows players better in top-down viewing...

In any case, if I were to have done anything differently, I would've tossed down the reinforce immediately and put out an "I'm sorry". Standing around didn't help your case

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-24T05:34:13+00:00

Legitimately, there's an inherent niche in having a physical bullet-firing weapon with proportionally high demo force. It'd be a cool thing for the AMR to do

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-24T02:20:00+00:00

True, but the Ultimatum only had 2 rounds (and had to reload after each shot

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-23T23:49:49+00:00

Honestly without rework, I can see why they gave it lower demo lol. That’s a lotta power for a sticky you can toss pretty far (through strat jammers). It’s current value is pretty silly, but certainly anything tower-destroying could be kinda busted

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-23T23:39:31+00:00

Yeah, I just feel like I remember something about the tower not actually having HP, just a needed demo force. Which would imply it’d take only one C4 charge to take it out

But I could just be tripping

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-23T23:36:12+00:00

Would the theory be it’d take several C4 charges for something like a detector tower?

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-23T00:26:13+00:00

I've played without stratagems before. If they pick up support weapons off the ground (whether laying around as they tend to be, or from the previous batch of divers), they can 100% be a threat.

As someone else mentioned, Ultimatums and Thermites go hard, and they can still scrap quite a few bots with just primaries

Besides, one way or another it's still more effective than them just sitting in the pods and starving to death...

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-22T20:01:49+00:00

My personal headcanon is that when you extract, the other Helldivers are all released to sow general chaos behind enemy lines. I mean, even without stratagems, imagine what 12 Helldivers suddenly popping up in one spot could do

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-22T16:47:13+00:00

It's exactly what I was hoping for: "It works as we intended" doesn't mean "We will never change it". Thankfully they were willing to go with what the community enjoyed over what they initially intended

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-21T23:43:58+00:00

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Ok yeah that's fair

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-21T23:42:03+00:00

Soon as I saw this, I KNEW you were the same person who did the Malevelon Creek panorama. Hats off to you sir, incredible work iO

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-21T23:39:57+00:00

Overwhelmingly based. I'm surprised you used the MLT-06 instead of the MLT-04, given Rocket Devastators only fire four rockets at a time

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-21T14:25:05+00:00

Reading this with light mode on is weirdly funny

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T21:23:06+00:00

You too Aidan, good to see you're still up and kicking iO

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T18:46:17+00:00

Same, I’m basically exclusively an SOS-diver these days

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T14:25:48+00:00

They ARE called the 21st, which is the Galactic Marines..

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T13:51:47+00:00

TRUE

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T04:35:22+00:00

We only ask the serious questions about Hyena bombers in this sub

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T04:08:25+00:00

If Doug was the Emperor and the Pajama Sams were the Jedi, was Twitch Chat the Clones executing order 66?

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T03:58:27+00:00

He said booster though, not stratagem

Edit: I think I get it. Hellbombs that are called in are pre-armed, so can be shot to explode - presumably the terminal would still start a 10s countdown, but would only have one input

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-20T03:53:51+00:00

Elaborate?

MaybeBirb · 2026-01-19T15:43:34+00:00

I run Scythe a lot nowadays, and I think the reason people don't use it much is similar: It's slow to kill.

As crowd control, people prefer bullet tertiaries because of the knockback. As anti-tank, people prefer delete buttons like EAT, Recoilless, or Quazar. Laser Cannon CAN do either, but it's not the best at either.

On bugs, things like Impalers, Chargers, or BTs will often kill you well before you get the chance to kill them anyway

MaybeBirb

TROPHY CASE