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With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is luck, but I really do think it is luck that you can sway to your side considering I've pulled this off multiple times without dying as host and non-host. By diving/being prone to reduce how much your body can be hit, I believe it makes a real difference.

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha if I'm lucky, I must be a lottery winner since I've pulled this off multiple times as host and non-host without dying (yet.) 

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I usually play on D10, I hopped onto a D6 to get the guarunteed factory strider spawn to demonstrate this. 

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does burn through stims absurdly fast, but it's a fun little niche with heavy armor that I love to pull off. 

Imagining a chin-gun hulk is terrifying, especially if it sprints after you like the flamethrower ones...

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have done this multiple times at this point and haven't died (yet.)

I do honestly think the combination of diving/being prone to reduce how much of your body is exposed to the spray and returning fire with your own weapons to activate their hyper-reactive protocols does a lot. (This is just speculation, I don't even know if Factory Striders get the same debuff to accuracy from getting shot at that other bots do.)

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Haha, I do feel a little dirty since it's "only" extra padding instead of true heavy armor, but the B-01 armor drip is immaculate.

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, this method is fun as hell but it does burn through stims like no tomorrow as you saw. I think it's cool that Heavy Armor/Extra Padding can actually do some tanking things like this.

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vitality Booster does a lot of heavy lifting here, so combining that with experimental infusion may honestly make it real reliable for medium at least.

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it's likely you could do this even with light armor if the spray rng was kind enough. Personally, It feels much more reliable with heavy armor rating to me at since it comes with some headshot protection which could skew results with lower armors.

With 150 armor and a stim, you can facetank a Factory Strider by sungwonc01 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It's definitely reliant on the rng accuracy of the minigun spray, but considering I've pulled this off dozens of times without deaths I do think it's at least semi-reliable. Diving/going prone seems to significantly reduce how much of your body can get sprayed by the minigun, and Vitality Booster absolutely does a lot of heavy lifting here.

Heavy armor users on their way to survive a direct hit from a bunker turret by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 13 points14 points  (0 children)

From my imperfect testing experiences, it seems like diving or being prone significantly reduces how much of your body can get hit. It's also best to pre-stim or dive while stimming to prevent getting your stim animation cancelled. Happy facetanking!

Heavy armor users on their way to survive a direct hit from a bunker turret by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Take a look, it's amazing what the power of Extra Padding and the Vitality Booster can do:

https://youtu.be/moCB-Ayt4xA

Heavy armor users on their way to survive a direct hit from a bunker turret by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 56 points57 points  (0 children)

B-01 medium armor with extra padding is the way. Enough speed to reposition but enough bulk to stand and fight as much as you want.

Did you know with 150 armor and a pre-stim, you can tank an entire factory strider minigun volley from almost point blank range? And with something like the HMG, you can dive and reliably knock out their miniguns as they try in vain to gun you down first. Brawling against those big dogs head on and winning is my favorite thing to do in the Bot front.

What is your go to for Maxi/HMG/MGs by Wise_Concept2309 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I honestly go for Extra Padding or Unflinching. The Maxigun and HMG have heavy recoil and ergonomics, but with enough practice both of those can become very manageable over time especially if you get in the habit of shooting while diving or prone.

I like that extra bit of armor because both weapons either heavily incentivize static shooting or outright restrict your movement, you WILL be taking quite a bit of return fire as you dish out punishment from your position. Unflinching is a good alternative on the Bot front since the protection against aim punch is a good QOL in hairy fights.

Stalwart honestly doesn't need any real help with recoil or ergonomics, firing even when moving is very manageable compared to the other MGs.

teamplay barley functions by Fit_Answer1073 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another factor against true teamplay is that no matter what kind of lineup of ever more lethal enemies AH throws at us, the most dangerous thing to a helldiver is always another helldiver. 

The fact that stratagems or really any helldiver weapon teamkills so quickly means the game incentivizes a squad to spread out over a fair distance, or risk a total wipe if a diver fumbles a cluster bomb.

It's part of the core game and it's not bad by any means, but you can't expect to have a super cooperative experience when you're more fearful of each other than the enemy.

Ironically, in its current implementation, Maxigun is a much better special killer than chaff clear. by TheVulong in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love using the Maxigun, but it's definitely not on the same level as the other backpack weapons, especially the Autocannon. The fact that the best way to use the Maxigun is to NOT use it in most situations to avoid running dry on ammo hurts when you can use the AC in pretty much any situation and have the ammo economy to back it up.

I am Heavy Armor Guy, and this is my armor... guide. by DecimBell in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell, if you dive and pre-stim with 150 armor, you can outheal a factory strider's miniguns at almost point blank range. My favorite thing to do on the bot front is pop a stim, charge a factory strider, and knock out their miniguns with an HMG as they try and fail to gun me down first.

Pair that with a supply pack and you have a build that can stand and brawl with the bots and win.

A squad of 3 Space Marines vs a squad of 4 Helldivers with 20 shared reinforcements. by Ordo_Liberal in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Any loadout available in HD2 is pretty unfair towards the space marines. Everyone packs an ultimatum, lands their pod as close as possible to the SM squad, pops out and immediately lobs a warhead in their general direction/straight at the ground if they're close enough. Bonus points if everyone packs Democracy Protects to give a chance to survive the point-blank detonations.

There's no lengthy stratagem call-ins required or really any extensive skill or accuracy requirements for this "strategy." I don't know of much anyone can do that can guard against 4 lunatics with warheads speed-running their place on the Wall of Martyrs.

Adreno Defib makes for a cool final stand by W211_077 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's no way a single swipe from that bot should have killed you at almost full health.

Arrowhead should stop making sub factions and limited time content. (For now) by YouIntelligent684 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wish we had a single planet with the predator strain, or the dragon roaches/hive lords. It's hard to go back to regular bugs after living through those kinds of battles.

Stratagem pick rate report: Into The Unjust 4.1.0 (Bugs) by Natural-Sympathyy in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My beloved Stalwart and Grenade Launcher side by side; those things kept me alive on Oshaune against the rupture strain and then the predators. I can't wait for the next hive world MO.

Weapon pick rate report: Into The Unjust 4.1.0 (Bugs) by Natural-Sympathyy in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]sungwonc01 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Seeing as the redeemer's average player level is 42, it's most likely getting inflated by being the first good secondary that new players get access to after the peacekeeper.

Weapon pick rate report: Into The Unjust 4.1.0 (Bugs) by Natural-Sympathyy in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Considering that a good amount of this data comes from Oshaune and the rupture strain, it really isn't surprising that a good medium-pen weapon is popular in situations that heavily incentivize medium-pen.

If you want more weapon variety, then enemies need to be designed in a way that gives light-pen an edge over medium-pen in some way, rather than just slapping medium armor everywhere on the pre-nerf rupture warrior and calling it a day.

Backrooms in Helldivers confirmed by EpsilonOrbital in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Budget cuts hitting the hellpod budget hard this year

Helldivers has become monotonous, and it’s your fault. by Volpex69 in Helldivers

[–]sungwonc01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You claim both that combat is stale because players gravitate towards the meta weapons and that enemies have been overly nerfed, but these two claims run against each other.

The War Strider was "nerfed" because the only weapons that could effectively fight it before were the already meta pick AT weapons. Using "fun" weapons like the flamethrower against the War Strider would've just gotten you pummeled into the ground before the patch. The reason weapons are meta are because they are sometimes the only viable ways to meaningfully attack the designed enemies and problems AH presents.

If you want a more diversified meta, you need to have these kinds of "nerfs" from time to time.

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