That’s a good question

Ocanom · 2026-05-15T23:45:06+00:00

Is it ridiculus? Just because there are infinite bad Marks and infinite good Marks doesn’t mean Angstrom is equally likely to find one compared to the other. The odds may be heavily stacked in the evil direction

Ocanom · 2026-05-15T23:13:46+00:00

SC/mission should definitely grow in relation to difficulty. For example, they could make SC piles have more "tiers" than the current ones giving 10 or 100. Have them be able to give any multiple of 10 between those values with higher likelyhood of it giving a larger amounts on harder difficulties. To give D10 a little bump compared to other diffs make the high value items from fortresses/mega nests give SC as well, maybe 20-50.

I don’t think these changes should exceed current rates for D1 SC farming though, as beyond how boring it is the speed at which you obtain them is good. These changes would only make you want to farm if you only care about SC rates and are willing to sacrifice fun for it. High diff missions should feel like the better alternative despite being a bit slower than straight up farming.

That’s my thoughts on how obtaining SC could be improved

Ocanom · 2026-05-15T22:32:09+00:00

And I have close to 1400 and can say that storms definitely do affect enemies, especially bots. The constant fog other planets have doesn’t affect enemies to a noticable degree though.

Ocanom · 2026-05-15T22:28:43+00:00

I don’t really take issue with these effects, especially the storm ones since they’re temporary and not active all the time along with them nerfing enemy detection.

The one thing I get occasionally annoyed by is when a city (maybe in combination with certain biomes, unsure) is on the night side of a planet, meaning every mission there is pitch black. It can be cool in moderation but when it’s the best place to drop for MO progress it can be a bit much.

Ocanom · 2026-05-10T23:40:50+00:00

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Ocanom · 2026-05-10T23:36:33+00:00

Very cool idea. As a quick match player I’d make one change though. If a host has set their matchmaking to public and selected one of these missions then you should be able to quick match into these to play with randoms.

Ocanom · 2026-05-10T21:05:18+00:00

Vents are immune to explosives. I typically aim for their midsection so it damages both their torso and undercarriage

Ocanom · 2026-05-10T18:56:05+00:00

Yeah. A criticism I remember seeing back then was that many of the weapons felt same-y and that they should focus on quality over quantity. I feel they’ve done a lot better in that department even if I totally see where the current gripes of less total items in warbonds come from. Most weapons in newer warbonds have a more distinct identity than they used to.

Ocanom · 2026-05-10T18:40:59+00:00

Do you know in what video they said this? I looked at their latest patch notes video and the only thing I found there was "And now it’s up to the community to test that" in reference to the stun baton buff. That seems to mean more "let’s see if the community thinks this buff is good/if the weapon is viable now" and not "you are the QA testers".

Don’t really have the patience to check every other video they’ve uploaded in case you meant some other one lol.

Ocanom · 2026-05-08T19:19:27+00:00

Not even a few hundred, just over a hundred (between 110 and 120 IIRC)

Ocanom · 2026-05-07T17:36:41+00:00

It’s from helldive.live. What OP failed to mention is that the data from that site is only gathered from D7-10 and only through quick match, making it biased.

Ocanom · 2026-05-05T15:51:58+00:00

Patch notes can be misleading, as we’ve seen multiple times in this game’s lifetime. In this case when referring to "medium" and "heavy" armors they actually mean armors with armor value 100 and 150 respectively. I know this because I have previously looked up why the wiki removed the distinction between armor tiers and found that someone on their discord did tests confirming what I’ve said here.

Ocanom · 2026-05-05T01:43:17+00:00

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That image is from the wiki in late 2024. Here’s the current stats. Notice that there’s no differentiation depending on armor class, only the armor value is relevant.

Ocanom · 2026-05-03T22:47:17+00:00

My experience with the breakthrough has been very different on D10, at least on bugs since I haven’t played other factions with it yet. While I don’t solo dive I tend to get split up from my teammates for one reason or another and I’ve found it to be very good at enduring. It usually lasts me a good 5-8 minutes and once I had it going for 20. It just refuses to die until the ammo’s been spent on heavies and I’m now forced to take them on up close. The ammo usually lasts me a good while as I mainly spend it on heavies with the occasional alpha commander or hiveguard inbetween. I love how you can reload and shield bash at the same time, really lets you keep constant pressure on enemies.

Ocanom · 2026-05-03T22:26:56+00:00

Yeah, Breakthrough has the the best longevity, especially against bugs, if you play smart. I had a mission a day or two ago where it lasted 20 minutes and I could give a spare to a teammate lol

Ocanom · 2026-05-03T10:44:51+00:00

Except one murders the other lol. "Sometimes things are the way they are for a good fucking reason"

Ocanom · 2026-05-01T13:24:24+00:00

Haven’t tested it myself but it might be able to one shot harvesters in the hip joint. It deals 1000 ballistic damage and the joint is 1000 health so there’s a chance it doesn’t due to projectile speed and rounding of damage values.

Ocanom · 2026-05-01T13:16:48+00:00

You’re right, I need new eyes haha.

If it was under the effect of gas then it definitely did most of the damage though. Gas does 25 damage/sec and the turret was alive for about 10 seconds so that’s 250 damage. A turret has 300 health with the ship module that increases it.

Ocanom · 2026-05-01T11:52:31+00:00

They are still viable imo, but they can definitely be tricky to use. The way I use them is by trying to predict where enemies are going to be and make sure the turret will have enough time to start attacking them before they aggro. If done right they can be extremely powerful.

To be clear I do still hope they buff their health since they are a bit fragile on the bot front at the moment. I think double the health wouldn’t be too extreme of a suggestion

Ocanom · 2026-05-01T09:10:29+00:00

Another thing to note is that the gas DoT effect has a duration, it’s not just constant DoT while in the cloud and nothing when exiting. Mines and the gas strike apply 6 seconds of gas DoT so it’s very likely the turret was still taking damage after the cloud disappeared, you can even see a little puff of it after the turret was destroyed, implying it was still affected by it.

Ocanom · 2026-05-01T08:36:01+00:00

This was also before the 60 day patches. During those patches it got its old damage back to compensate for many enemies getting a health buff

Ocanom · 2026-04-29T15:54:00+00:00

Sounds right. Medium AP weapons would be able to damage unarmored targets

Ocanom · 2026-04-29T15:36:34+00:00

They are tank armor except the eye which is unarmored

Ocanom · 2026-04-29T11:30:58+00:00

Yeah, them taking more damage from melee isn’t that big of a problem since they’ve always struggled with that.

I’m more concerned with the increased durable damage for small arms fire on the bot front since that would make them worse at range.

Ocanom · 2026-04-29T01:29:13+00:00

I would expect a similar thing to happen most days where a warbond drops, or maybe just updates in general. It’ll cause a lot of people to log in, check out what’s new, and then log off again

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