HELLDIVERS 2 - are you doing your part?

Quasar cannon finally my go to against my biggest foe, the sentry tower.

Soo latest patch has added in sandstorms and some other adjustments including

The Patriot exosuit's rockets will now only pierce armor on a direct hit, while the Arc Thrower has had its stagger force increased. Guard Dogs will now fully recover ammo from supply boxes, and fire damage per tick has increased by 50% from all sources. The Anti-Material Rifle has had its damage increased by 30%, and the Breaker Incendiary has seen its damage increase from 15 to 20 per bullet.

I've always wanted to try that rifle. Maybe now it'll be worth it?

Don't think I've picked up a railgun since the day after the nerf, now the Quasar exists not sure I ever will. My pretty standard load out these days is pretty much scout light armour, Sickle, Redeemer, impact grenades, orbital laser, Eagle airstrike, personal shield, Quasar. At some point hopefully HD1 saved loadouts will crossover games.

Interesting and by interesting I mean, aaaargh, eradicate missions have changed again. At the start you'd get a chance to set up defences before anything happened (I remember one automaton eradicate mission everyone set up and I just laid down and just watched the kill count), then it was changed so everything kicked off straight away and I tried one last night and not only had the completion requirement changed to a percentage it was a hot zone as I dropped in. Not sure people will be farming those so much now.

In other news, as Malevelon Creek has finally been taken it's a memorial day for it with a free cape to celebrate.

Dropping dropships with the Quasar can't be underestimated, a few of them in the team makes life a lot easier.

I quite enjoyed blowing up a radio tower with a Quasar from the exfil point I landed on and could just see it in the distance, shame it can't do detectors or jammers though, getting the angle to blow a fabricator is tricky too.

The new blizzard and sandstorm effects are really quite something, especially the sandstorm. Was on Durgen doing some missions and when the sand rolled in making visibility just about non-existent but it also stops the bots seeing you, me and one team mate pretty much stealthed our way into a stratagem jammer site, meleeing some oblivious guards as we did and blew it up with pretty much zero effort. Later on I'm off looking for a mortar site while the rest of the team mop up some fabricator sites and I nearly walk into the base without realising, only stopping when I see the red eyes of a bot about 3 metres away that just couldn't see me even though he's looking in my direction.

On the other hand being in a storm and blundering into a patrol you can't see is not exactly ideal.

Those bots won't kill themselves so I guess we'll have to do it.

It looks like a scene from command and conquer and Joel is moving his troops into position.

Edit: more like Dark Reign

Very disappointing missing out on the Gone in 360 Seconds trophy by 7 seconds after a rocket knocked a couple of us away from the Pelican, doing this one made up for it at least. I have a new love for orbital barrages, they may not kill a lot of things at times but they are really fucking fun.

It looks like the automatons are learning what it means to take on democracy. So what comes next? Terminids getting a big push forward? Third faction getting introduced?

Well you'll be fighting just bugs now as the Automaton menace is over, well done Helldivers I'm sure the signals they were sending out of the known systems were just random nonsense and it's in no way an indication that the Illuminate will make their presence felt soon. Maybe they'll liberate Cyberstan and the Cyborgs themselves will return? Who knows, I'm sure Super Earth is on the path to total victory...