other-games

[tranquil glen]

From stuff like suitcase flight

[formal canopy]

Never had that happen

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/hitman-throw-briefcase-jetski-gif-15758520

[tranquil glen]

For those who play New World, REMEMBER First Light

[mellow dune]

Death Stranding 1 finished

[tranquil glen]

nice, still consider it walking simulator?

[mellow dune]

Walking sim with extreme emotional trauma and 100 hours of cutscenes

I'm ngl I almost couldn't bring myself to do the trek

[tranquil glen]

do the trek, youll uhh see the true end

[mellow dune]

I did it

In the end

||Sam being the BB in the flashbacks has fucking thrown me sideways||

[formal canopy]

Oh he dies?

Jesus

[formal canopy]

||Bb is the baby you carry right?||

[mellow dune]

||Correct. BB is Lou, however at the end end of the game you remove them from the pod. And is revived||

THIS HAS LEFT ME AN EMOTIONAL WRECK

I HAVENT CRIED OVER A VIDEO GAME SINCE TITANFALL 2 AND THAT HAD A 40 FOOT DEATH ROBOT

[formal canopy]

||The baby gets revived? ||

[mellow dune]

||Deadman suggests taking them out of the pod just in case something happens. Granted he did mention that there was a 70% catastrophic failure rate

Guess Lou built different||

[tranquil glen]

||As is SAM||

seems to me like a char named SAM in all media can survive FUCK ALL

[mellow dune]

||OK but Sam is functionally immortal unless he is killed on the beach||

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/lotr-sam-crying-gif-10990057

[formal canopy]

I’m confused lol

[verbal plume]

Next best place is the crash zone

[mellow dune]

It's Hideo Kojima

[tranquil glen]

about?

[mellow dune]

It's not meant to make sense

[verbal plume]

definitely get the defense before going there

[mellow dune]

||Lou's revival||

[dapper juniper]

Im missing 2 peices

[formal canopy]

It certainly is

[mellow dune]

(Keeping it spoiler tagged because Bjørn is playing through rn and is on chapter 4 😭)

[dapper juniper]

1 hull and 1 engine

[mellow dune]

Pretty sure engine fragments spawn on the grand reef

[dapper juniper]

And I found a mushroom bione

Grand reef?

[formal canopy]

I heard Death stranding has like a hour long cutscene

Is that true?

[verbal plume]

its just the mushroom forest

[mellow dune]

Yes

[dapper juniper]

Ah k

[verbal plume]

but theres parts in there

[mellow dune]

Uh most of chapter 13 iirc

[dapper juniper]

Yeah it's where I found the moonpool

[mellow dune]

Is a cutscene

[formal canopy]

The fuck?

[dapper juniper]

And 2 hull parts

[tranquil glen]

yall gettin me confused between 2 diff games

[mellow dune]

They're talking bout subnautica

[tranquil glen]

ik

[mellow dune]

Biome due north of the Degasi floating island

[tranquil glen]

but both convos goin at once makes it confusing imho

[verbal plume]

Have you seen a big hole in the ground

[mellow dune]

I lied

Cyclops parts you're looking for can spawn in

The Blood Kelp Zone, Dunes, Grand Reef and Sea Treaders path

[tranquil glen]

have they seen the giant EDGE of the map?

[verbal plume]

lol i dont think so

[dapper juniper]

In subnaticau?

[formal canopy]

How big is the map?

[verbal plume]

not ready for that probably

[dapper juniper]

Uh

[tranquil glen]

even i had the gear but not the mindset to see what lay beyond the edge

[dapper juniper]

I think I'm in the mushroom forest near the dunes?

[mellow dune]

Thankfully subnautica map is static so it's easy to track down parts

[verbal plume]

send a picture

[dapper juniper]

Just if the place?

Of*

[verbal plume]

Yea just where you are

[verbal plume]

yea thats the forest

so go west

[dapper juniper]

Btw my depth limit is 200

[verbal plume]

the dunes are there, it has parts spread out on the ground

if you need to get out at 200 and reach the bottom thats fine just be aware of your air

[verbal plume]

just look for crashes

[dapper juniper]

Yikes

A leviathan destroyed my seamoth and then ate me

[tranquil glen]

iirc theres limit and theres fuck u im out depth

[tranquil glen]

what game?

[formal canopy]

Metro exodus

[tranquil glen]

damn i was thinkin that was some extractor game lol

[dapper juniper]

Rip I might be tough out of luck on those last 2 parts now that seamoth is destroyed

[formal canopy]

https://x.com/charlieintel/status/2021728913383465425?s=46

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL)

Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment has “laid off most of its staff” just weeks after the game’s launch

X · Feb 11, 2026, 11:31 PM

[dapper juniper]

I finnaly did it

Finished the blueprint

Now just for the cyclops resources

...

Thank you both btw for the two locations

Barb and trade

Also thanks to the exploration I got a lot of stuff.. most of which I can't make yet cuz modifcation station wasn't included in what I got lol

But alot nonetheless

[split ridge]

😍

[dapper juniper]

Ur doomed?

[upbeat bolt]

Invite if you ever want to murder in multiplayer

[split ridge]

I'm playing it on steam, can xbox and steam play together?

[upbeat bolt]

Go to make a lobby then confirm setting then room code like back in the old days lol

[split ridge]

That's great lol
I'm limited on time tonight because I need to get up early but I might try opening a lobby sometime in the future

[upbeat bolt]

Heck yeah just @ me I'll play if awake

[verbal plume]

Nice though!

[dapper juniper]

I just need 2 stalker teeth

[dapper juniper]

And then I'll have the cyclops

[dapper juniper]

I got the teeth!

Time to make me new home

[steep badger]

Another studio falls?

Are all game studios running off threading budgets?? Why does one game failure bankrupt an entire company? No cash reserves or anything?

[tranquil glen]

https://youtube.com/shorts/LJ9xiwSoenE?si=qtwA0H-PGiZeyLtj

Hehehe

[formal canopy]

https://youtu.be/vRhK2HLrgzE?si=ydf7ncAhib3stgdL this looks like something I’d see in a dream lol

[dry copper]

Kinda hate how there's that one apex predator you can't effectively hunt in Subnautica. You basically have to cheese it with a stasis rifle and a thermoblade.

[obtuse reef]

Throw back to the time a reaper leviathan chased my Cyclops from the rear of the gun island to the safe shallows

The funny thing is that reaper leviathans are just fast enough to keep up with a cyclops but too slow to actually attack it

Ghost leviathans just aren’t a threat if you’re careful, and I don’t know about the sea dragons

[dry copper]

Sea dragon fires fireballs no?

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, but the main issue is the leviathan aggression

Ghost leviathans are relatively passive, since they’ll ignore the cyclops if it’s turned off

[feral ginkgo]

Ghost leviathans are there as a border guards.

[obtuse reef]

Reapers will actively attack and pursue the cyclops upon seeing it, regardless of its noise level

[primal willow]

Ngl this looks fire

[mellow dune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/567176587003559937/1471494818390605915/2026-02-12_13-10-12.mp4?ex=698f23d7&is=698dd257&hm=08bf629a5ab05684c2ce0c81155be183e09f116b69b633cedb0b9d3408594a1e&

Rank 7 bots was a mistake

[obtuse reef]

Yes, mainly, but there are a few that spawn in areas not required for progression

There’s one that spawns in one of the blood kelp zones, and there’s also a few that spawn in the grand reef

[mental rose]

I think one is also guaranteed in the area with the big tree before ILZ

[hot sluice]

which game is this about?

oh its uhhhhhhh

hexen or something

[hot sluice]

Try d10 if you think this is bad (why is your liberator penetrator shiny what have you done)

Oh yeah if you don't have antitank, a way to destroy vox engines is to shoot the vents on them and then toss a grenade into their open hatch

[hot sluice]

What's that music you have modded in, i recognise that

I was gonna say prototype but idk

[mellow dune]

my game is now a psychological horror where the interred dreadnought of Tim Curry hunts me down

[mellow dune]

update from the front

[mental rose]

Huh.. why'd the embed break

https://tenor.com/view/ra2-red-alert2-westwood-udo-kier-nicholas-worth-gif-19587447

There we go, fellow Red Alert enthusiast

[mellow dune]

im a tank now

LOL

[mental rose]

Still wondering if they'll ever add exoskeleton as a prototype armor class to HD2.

[obtuse reef]

All the leviathan spawns are static outside of the ones in the void

And I think they can respawn in the crash zone, but otherwise they do not respawn

[hot sluice]

Eh I'd just use the other version of the armor if you're fighting bots

It's a shame the passive wasn't buffed honestly, its a cool idea.

[hot sluice]

a bug mo has popped up

People are as usual whining about bugdivers

I wish all people complaining about bugdivers a very nice NO

[mellow dune]

bug divers accounted for like a good majority of the deaths on the march to cyberstan

[hot sluice]

People are gonna play the front they want regardless

[obtuse reef]

I only bugdived as a palette cleanser from bots

[hot sluice]

Yes there were over 500 mill dead in the sector oshaune is but that's because before 4.1.0 the new strains at the time were apparently very overpowered.

[obtuse reef]

Getting shot in the face by fifty heavy devs can only be so entertaining for so long

[hot sluice]

Smoke nades

My beloved concealment tool

Sure they'll fire into the smoke but its not as accurate if they can't see you

[obtuse reef]

I love the grenade shield

[hot sluice]

Also fire near em to suppress them if needs be, they actually do have suppression as a mechanic

[obtuse reef]

I am aware

I actually benefit a lot from that mechanic because I prefer laser weapons, so I don’t waste ammo on suppressing fire

[hot sluice]

Oh I'd not use lasers on bots outside of the trident honestly

At least, not the cyborgs cause their armor has some durable % and your durable damage with laser weapons is very bad

[obtuse reef]

The sickle is pretty good, and so is the scythe

[hot sluice]

For devs if you aim at the head yeah

I wish the sickle didn't have that 0.5s chargeup to fire

[obtuse reef]

I wish the sickle worked more like the trident does

Now that I’ve tried the trident I want every laser weapon to work like it

[hot sluice]

Idk if its a joke by the devs or not but the sickle seems to keep getting bigger on the super destroyers

In what way do you mean work like it?

They won't make it cooldown as fast.

[obtuse reef]

The way the lasers fire

[mellow dune]

THIS FUCKING BLITZ MISSION HAS 6 VOX ENGINES???

[obtuse reef]

Like a 40k lasgun

[mellow dune]

i get ITS ANNIHILATE FORCES BUT FUCK ME

[hot sluice]

Orbital Gatling Barrage

[obtuse reef]

Just try using them as cover and pretend the problem doesn’t exist

[hot sluice]

EMS Strike in my experience didn't affect it

Unless you want to run close to one and kill it with a grenade but that's a very dangerous gambit

The community is divided on whether to nerf their spawn numbers or not

I just say leave em as is on d9 and d10 personally

[obtuse reef]

I think they should be easier to kill if they want to keep up the spawn rates

[hot sluice]

They're not actually as tanky as they seem

You can kill them with a peacemaker and a frag grenade if you're careful

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, there’s the grenade method, but I mean using conventional AT weapons should be more viable against them

[hot sluice]

You have to shoot the glowing heatsinks and then a vent opens and nading the vent will kill them

[obtuse reef]

I know

[mellow dune]

theres like 6 of them spread out so like if i go near one the other 5 will jump me

[obtuse reef]

But that shouldn’t be the only way to do it

[hot sluice]

I don't want their hp nerfed because seeing the recoiless most of the time is bad imo

[hot sluice]

There's a reason I take smoke nades and a leveller

[obtuse reef]

There are other AT weapons that should be more viable

[hot sluice]

like what

I would buff the belt fed gl, its very very poor damage wise imo

[obtuse reef]

EAT, Autocannon, quasar cannon, AT stratagems like the railcannon

[hot sluice]

none of those need buffing

[obtuse reef]

No, I mean they need to be more viable against vox engines

[hot sluice]

the eat's can 1 shot a war strider in the leg, the quasar is perfectly fine, the autocannon is fine, the ORS is fine also

I don't think the vox engines are a problem honestly

[obtuse reef]

Recoilless mains are gonna be on every faction regardless, might as well let the other ATs be useable too

[hot sluice]

They could dynamically reduce the spawns as we push harder into cyberstan regardless

Plus, this is not the hardest enemy to fight

[obtuse reef]

I dunno man

[hot sluice]

There will be something harder, likely a "siege engine" coming in the future.

[mellow dune]

dont the Vox Engines have like

11k HP

[hot sluice]

its believed to be mostly ap5 11k hp with a 70,000/s bleedout on fatal damage done

[verbal plume]

i forgot there's no seamoth in below zero for a second there

[dry copper]

What is there?

I never played it, but own the game

[verbal plume]

the seatruck!

you can put modules on it. fabrication, aquarium, storage modules

lol

[dry copper]

Looks like a train

[mental rose]

That reminds me of Iteron from EVE Online, lol... 😅

[dry copper]

I was thinking the train from Metro Exodus

I should play that game

I never finished it

[mental rose]

I need to replay it to see the bad ending

[obtuse reef]

Any of the Gallente haulers are very similar to the sea truck

[steel grail]

U definitely should finish it. Its a nice wrap up to Artyom's journey

[tranquil glen]

is metro linear rpg or afixed char dev for all

[steel grail]

If u're asking abt lvl design then its pretty linear. U get to a zone and u can explore and backtrack a lil but when u get back to progressing, u move to a new zone altogether and cant go back to previous one

I dont wanna spoil anything for anyone but gameplay wise and story wise it has to be linear to make sense and for immersion of course

[mental rose]

Do you get more gun experience the more you kill things with it in a mission in HD2?

[tranquil glen]

maybe, kinda? Not entirely sure can probably test by just not using primary in a mission... kinda wonder if its just "get exp for equipped gun"

[obtuse reef]

Gun experience is tied to the experience you gain in the mission afaik

[mental rose]

Ah

[obtuse reef]

Cause I’ve joined pretty late and still gotten a good amount of xp for my gun

[mental rose]

Can you only customize primaries? 🤨

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7bx9T-6pb0o

[tranquil glen]

atm yes

[edgy viper]

I got the game recently. Im still preety early on. Just unlocked the seatruck

[mental rose]

Gotta say, I'm starting to like Scythe.

[austere lance]

God if this game actually is as good as it looks it's gonna be generational
https://youtu.be/srQ-NtGNBpY?si=fWDyR2gpdunxhqTk

https://youtu.be/BOy81crUgtw?si=DT42JpCDNjKXRgqI

[verbal plume]

let's hope

im still not hooked but the world looks really good

[austere lance]

That combat video and the world video have me interested, it takes Fable interactivity to a whole new level 👀

[verbal plume]

i still haven't seen anything about the story ngl

[austere lance]

That Life in Pywell video covers it kinda

Ah, this is the one that covers some story
https://youtu.be/MfZCV8EySac?si=FkHo3lLjsPP6hIUW

[verbal plume]

also, i redownloaded fable 2 on my brothers xbox with my save

[steel grail]

Whoa! Ds series is on sale

[verbal plume]

turns out i did have a halo, i actually just didn't remember it at all

😭

fable is so goofy

dudes farting randomly and shit

crimson desert looks good but

too good to be true

[torpid lynx]

I mean it’s Fable 🤣

[verbal plume]

@austere lance did you see the spider-noir trailer

looks sick, i think

[austere lance]

There a new one?

[verbal plume]

yes!!

[tranquil glen]

GOD new world Cave is so fuckin goated

[verbal plume]

came out today

[austere lance]

Dope. I'll check it out after I finish the new Predator movie

[verbal plume]

https://youtu.be/HgMbkitzhEM?si=ZuH-u1T7Zs6USKKo

[austere lance]

So uh, they gonna keep his Uncle Ben origin? 💀

[verbal plume]

its produced by the spiderverse team

so probably

[austere lance]

Idk about that 😅

[verbal plume]

we'll see

it's amazon so they very well could tbh

i think it's TV-MA

so they really could honestly

[formal canopy]

Need Re9

[verbal plume]

nms update is sick

i really really need light no fire

please!!

[dry copper]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2589500/Whisper_of_the_House/

Steam

Whisper of the House

Welcome to Whisper Town—a cozy and heartwarming game about decorating, organizing, and uncovering little stories.…

Price

$11.99

Recommendations

3784

[verbal plume]

watch them reveal kingdom hearts 4

thats too good to be true

[formal canopy]

I’m just here for Wolverine lol

[verbal plume]

new dead or alive 🥀

New control!!!!

holy shit that looks crazy as fuck

oh im definitely getting this

a lot more combat focused than the first

which i like

finally, a good star wars racing game

looks great too visually

yooo

new castlevania

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-homelander-the-boys-homelander-sad-homelander-its-peak-homelander-peak-gif-14542009839452529163

[verbal plume]

God of War 1, 2 and 3 remake @austere lance

thats crazy

[austere lance]

Yee

(I've never played God of War)

[verbal plume]

Oh damn lol

no kingdom hearts 4 💔

[formal canopy]

Another mid state of play what a surprise…

[verbal plume]

Not even anything wolverine or blade related either

[verbal plume]

i thought it was all sick, what?

[austere lance]

MGS 4 being free of PS3 prison is cool. Also John Wick game

[formal canopy]

Saros looks cool and we got more Tokon and 007 and that’s about it

[verbal plume]

007 looks mid

[austere lance]

Death Stranding 2 on pc

[verbal plume]

sadly

john wick game looks sick though

[austere lance]

As someone who doesn't give a shit about Hitman, agreed

[formal canopy]

Jeez

[verbal plume]

it looks clunky asf

like a 360 game

i doubt itll be smooth

[steel grail]

That game was a big part of my teenage gaming addiction. Especially God of War 2

I was too young to appreciate the story but man the combat was fun

[verbal plume]

they showed off john wick, god of war remakes, the new control gameplay, pragmata

the new control looks so fuckin good

[verbal plume]

It looks like a worse Hitman

Hitman 2 is peak

[barren sparrow]

Eyyy Death Stranding 2 on PC in March

Have to finish the first one

[verbal plume]

if you've never played control i definitely recommend it.

the second looks very different

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/IA71hdzim0M?si=mO7qFpcGm2RV_zKL

[verbal plume]

looks genuinely so good

the fact you can walk/fight sideways on walls is sick asf

[austere lance]

Immediate buy

[verbal plume]

so different from the first but in a good way

[dry copper]

Is that Alan?

Oh nm...

I'd love to see Alan in Control

Alan Wake

Reuniting with his sister

That video is hilarious. Dude is walking around a geometrically impossible world and he's surprised, not by the environment or the sounds but a baddy flying around

After seeing equally fucked up monsters for like a solid 2 mins before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0We-UgJKJp8

[austere lance]

He was in the first Control, lol

He had a whole DLC dedicated to his darkness interacting with the Hiss

[austere lance]

Well yeah, he spent years locked up in the Oldest House because of the FBC

[verbal plume]

https://youtu.be/SwC3NaY5zAU?si=YnabMbfjY1oKQ6U7

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/get-real-ai-generated-scary-gif-23612840

[dry copper]

https://klipy.com/gifs/in-a-world-of-pure-imagination-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/minecraft-minecraft-movie-hellspawn-sheep-hell-that-stupid-sheep-from-the-minecraft-movie-gif-3257100974656444187

minecraft movie legit looks ai

[formal canopy]

When the devs have dark humor

[mental rose]

No new RE remake news from SoP...
Sadge

[verbal plume]

metro exodus is good

[mental rose]

I have zero respect for these devs after they publicly smeared Knight's Path. 😒

[steep badger]

bruhhh 💀 🤣

[hot sluice]

Just mission completion stuff afaik

[hot sluice]

For now yes

[hot sluice]

It's alright, just very bad durable damage because its a laser weapon, but all laser weapons from what I know have bad durable damage.

[obtuse reef]

The trident has pretty decent durable damage from what I’ve seen

Pops the agitator’s armor off in a few hits

[hot sluice]

its 6 durable, that's very low

If its adding all 6 beams its 36 but overall a light pen assault rifle is going to be better

Plus you're gonna want to hit its head instead of its armor or just use a senator and headshot it

[obtuse reef]

The main benefit of the laser weapons is that they’re infinite, as long as you have good trigger discipline

[hot sluice]

Yeah and counterbalanced by poor durable damage, that's the way they balance them

The beam spread is very random with the trident

Not a bad weapon at all but headshotting a devastator is very rng at times

[obtuse reef]

You can also somewhat reliably hit their abdomen, which is only light pen

Less effective but more reliable

It’s also easier if you get right up to them

[tranquil glen]

What yall mean durable?

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-still-there-hello-turret-portal-portal2-gif-23641862

[obtuse reef]

iirc durable health is the amount of health certain body parts and armor have on enemies

So it’s the amount of durable damage needed to be taken for the armor to break off or the body part to be severed

It’s one of the many hidden stats in the game

[hot sluice]

Durable is meant to represent the explosive force of a projectile

high hp low armor targets like fleshmobs have high durability for example

Destroying their heads transfers the damage to their main health pool at a 150% conversion iirc

[obtuse reef]

I know brood commanders also have really high hp but you can pop off their heads if you do enough durable damage to em

[inland oasis]

im gettin real sick of goddamn stratagem balls being so bouncy and not just sticking to the damn surfaces

[obtuse reef]

It’s cause of the bot buildings

It’s so your stratagems don’t land on the roofs (doesn’t work all the time, but whatever)

[hot sluice]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sN8s9AWkKrA

[inland oasis]

its fucking annoying i just quit cuz it happened literally like 5x in a row

holy hell im irritated now

[hot sluice]

I'd remove strat bouncing outside of objective strategems personally

[inland oasis]

turret balls should just STICK

[hot sluice]

And reinforce pod stuff so you don't reinforce someone onto a roof they can't get off of without dying

[inland oasis]

excluding walls

[obtuse reef]

I had a supply pack land on top of a roof because it bounced and eventually just decided “yeah, here’s good”

[inland oasis]

there was literally no reason for it to do it in the places im trying to place sentries. like dead center of 2 corridor killzone areas

[hot sluice]

Comment on that vid also

[inland oasis]

but no. BOING off we go to the next POI

[hot sluice]

"PSA, for accurate damage calculation against targets that are both durable AND armoured, like the gunships thrusters (medium armour and 85% durable), don't round down until you've considered the damage loss against armour you don't overpenetrate. EG. DCS does 200 damage, 50 being durable with medium pen. So against the front gunship thruster it's (500.85)+(2000.15) = 72.5. This is not the damage you deal, as the AV and APV are equal you must multiply this by 0.65 first to get 47.125. It then does drag calculations to see if the bullet loses damage over distance, and only THEN does the final damage round down"

[inland oasis]

ffs xD

[hot sluice]

I think its meant to be an alternative way to do damage reduction basically

You can't really figure this out properly in game either cause it doesn't tell you

[inland oasis]

im going back to bugs just cuz of that xD

[hot sluice]

Light pen weapons have better durable damage usually

explosive weapons iirc have full durable

[hot sluice]

Simplest explanation here

"to explain it simply, some parts of enemies (typically the squishy bits) have a durability stat which decreases the regular amount of damage done by a weapon by its percentage (it's why shooting a charger in its butt with a primary weapon doesnt do that much in terms of actually killing the thing). the percentage decreases with damage dealt but it still takes some time to chew through

durable damage ignores that stat and deals that amount of damage to the health pool

so it basically means that light pen weapons are now more viable in terms of going for the weak spots of le big guys"

(source reddit)

From what I know destroying a durable part tends to be considered a Fatal part meaning it'll cause a bleedout on the target

think brood / alpha commanders when you destroy the head and they go down like, 3 seconds or so later

Another explanation on that reddit post also

"
Let's talk dum dum-

Medium pen is full metal jacket- passes through but doesn't mess up meat (enough)

Light pen is hollow point. Once it penetrates the fleshy meat is explodes in fragments and tears that thing apart.

If you shoot a soda can with medium pen... Pass through.

If you shot it with light pen- explosion.

Now make that soda can a chargers dumper, or my favorite - an impalers face.

This is why the stalwart should ruin those weak points faster than the MG.

On the bot front- sometimes you have to spray and pray... your medium is going through armor and doing some damage.

Light pen- weak points, maybe arms and legs... But chest armor... Nothing.

Comprendo?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/comments/1oe01zo/what_does_durable_damage_mean/ source

And there's also overpenetration which occurs iirc if your attack's armor pen level is 2 above the target

This is why I don't complain about light pen weapons as there aren't actually as many genuine ap2 things as people keep thinking

Voteless are all ap0 iirc

This is why also the devastator change to having no durable on their arms is from what I can a pretty nice change

[tranquil glen]

ah, so things i dont need to worry about bc of my playstyle shoot till dead

the best bot is a dead one

[hot sluice]

Ultimately, use whatever you want

I really like the jar-5 dominator on bots but I've moved to the tenderizer and kept the default rof selected cause its very nice for chaff.

This is why the senator is nice too, can't remember how many eye shots (and specifically the eye because the hitbox is quite small) to a hulk you need, but a senator can 100% destroy hulks easily.

[hot sluice]

This system is also why that buff to the Anti-Materiel Rifle back during update 4.1.0 was so big.

As now, it can 1 shot a hulk to the eye if you're within like, 30 metres or so

A direct eye shot but still, very impressive stuff.

[tranquil glen]

i just use revolver if im within such range, or support weaps

ngl i should learn to warp pack more, all i use it for atm is bunker farming

[obtuse reef]

I love the trident

It’s everything I wanted out of laser gun, except for the accuracy

[tranquil glen]

i use shotgun primaries mostly preferably with round reload

[obtuse reef]

I also love the double freedom

And the halo shotgun

[tranquil glen]

i dont own that bond yet

[obtuse reef]

Honestly, both the guns in that bond are good

[tranquil glen]

i think i tried it due to teamate death before an didnt like it

[obtuse reef]

The halo AR has pretty good damage, but the recoil and ammo consumption are a bit of a problem

[tranquil glen]

(at this point in gaming i dont often care if guns are good, just the fire type of them)

[obtuse reef]

The halo shotgun deals good damage with relatively tight spread, only downside is the light pen

[tranquil glen]

used to main eruptor and now i main the blue round shotgun

[obtuse reef]

Slugger? I honestly kinda hate the punisher platform guns

My eyes have been opened to the glory of 8g and 4g buckshot

[tranquil glen]

yea, tbf im also in cqc alot anyhow if im not using my support

[obtuse reef]

I used to love the punisher, but I’ve moved on

[tranquil glen]

even sometimes if i am im still cqc

[obtuse reef]

The trident is a pretty good sniper ngl

If you’re okay with gambling

[tranquil glen]

also i kinda quit cyberstan lol even at d5 its bit chaotic

[inland oasis]

those damn cyborgs

[tranquil glen]

barely managed to complete a d7

[obtuse reef]

I need to fight bugs as a palette cleanser

[inland oasis]

aggro: ABSOLUTE

[tranquil glen]

esp when they spawn in groups of 3s it seems like

[obtuse reef]

My talents are being thoroughly put through their paces with Cyberstan d10

[hot sluice]

These are the actual ap2 enemies

"Alpha Commander (Head) • Berserker (Chest) • Bile Spewer (Head & Butt Plates) • Bile Titan (Underside) • Brood Commander (Head) • Charger (Leg Flesh & Underside) • Charger Behemoth (Leg Flesh & Underside) • Elevated Overseer (Head) • Hive Lord (Mouth & Inner Flesh) • Nursing Spewer (Head & Butt Plates) • Spore Charger (Leg Flesh & Underside) • Shrieker Nest • Spore Spewer • Stalker (armor) • Overseer (Chest armor & Torso) • Watcher (Body & Horizontal Fins)"

[obtuse reef]

I can sometimes do a D10

But man, those vox engines suck

[tranquil glen]

bro as i said prior "ah, so things i dont need to worry about bc of my playstyle shoot till dead"

[hot sluice]

The double freedom can 3 shot fleshmobs in volley mode (fires both barrels at once)

[hot sluice]

The mag being that small is awful but the recoil felt fine to me

[obtuse reef]

I know how the double freedom works, I’ve got it to 25

[tranquil glen]

ive been told they spawn as low as D6 but in the d7 run i did had not seen one

[hot sluice]

Vox engines can be killed with a peacemaker and a frag grenade if you're careful but that's not realistically always happening

[obtuse reef]

They spawn damn near constantly

[hot sluice]

(if you shoot the glowing vents, a hatch opens)

Orbital gatling barrage is nice to tear off their guns iirc

eagle strafing run CAN work but there's a lot of anti-air

[obtuse reef]

You can’t throw a rock without hitting a vox engine

[tranquil glen]

or just orbit laser/railcanon and kill it

[inland oasis]

i wish we got a week of the stratagem bug once again 😭 xD

[hot sluice]

I don't think a railcannon can 1 shot it

[inland oasis]

LET ME RAIN HELL

[obtuse reef]

It cannot

[hot sluice]

Solo silo on a direct hit can iirc

But they're ap5 and have 11,000 hp apparently

This is also not the biggest bot enemy we'll fight, they've implied there's another.

I reckon we'll get a bigger version of a vox engine.

[tranquil glen]

isnt this just the dragons version of bots?

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, the siege engine was present in the first game, so maybe we’ll get one of those once we get close to transcendence

[inland oasis]

Vox Fabricator

[hot sluice]

Also the bug mo got removed entirely because of cheaters apparently

[obtuse reef]

It got reset

[tranquil glen]

ofc it did

if bug = use bug

for them anyway

[hot sluice]

I'm sure people will blame bugdivers for everything as per usual

[tranquil glen]

i missed it 😭

[obtuse reef]

Apparently there was an exploit that people were using to auto complete missions

[obtuse reef]

Actually, people seem to be rooting for the bugdivers

[tranquil glen]

nah for that i'd blame the squiddivers

[hot sluice]

I'd not blame anyone except the people going into D10s unprepared personally

I don't care for brainrot faction whining tbh.

[obtuse reef]

Bugdivers are actually doing something vital to the MO for once

[inland oasis]

i blame the bastards still frozen in there cryopods

[tranquil glen]

🤣

[hot sluice]

I blame YOU kzzzzzzt (I'm joking)

[obtuse reef]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-helldiver-automaton-bot-danger-close-gif-5323524643327444753

[tranquil glen]

I blame the captain of the ship

[obtuse reef]

I had the democracy officers bitch ass talking about the gloom while we were on Cyberstan

Like, my brother in Liberty, we’re on the bots homeworld

Shut up about the things we’ve already seen

[tranquil glen]

when will we have MO to outright remove the gloom tho fr, and apparently my lore friend told me we cant just glass cyberstan, even tho the bots have 30 other planets

idk actual numbers 30 is estimate

esp considering each is "a system" which means itd have maybe other planets too

[inland oasis]

i mean from a gaming POV you dont wanna fully eliminate any of the factions. thats just deleting content from the game lmao

[tranquil glen]

say hello to penta 🤣

and what the three or four plaents the squids took?

true, im not saying to eliminate the faction just cyberstan itself

[obtuse reef]

It’d be good for propaganda

Think about how good it looks to successfully wrench the most fortified planet in the galaxy other than super earth from the bots and take control of it

[tranquil glen]

maybe like "gain 100 million samples from cyberstan to charge a unique cannon to shoot it"

also iirc ammo reinforce from DSS is eh, id rather have infinite laser beam access

[obtuse reef]

Also, iirc we’re also there to ensure that the star of peace plans don’t get used by the bots

[tranquil glen]

whats the difference between dss and star of peace? ive never understood

[obtuse reef]

Star of peace is a weapon mounted on the DSS

[tranquil glen]

ah

[obtuse reef]

Which is why the DSS was damaged when it was first fired

[tranquil glen]

omg bethesda isnt just a company, but a region

in maryland

[obtuse reef]

Yes

[hot sluice]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1r3ltiu/i_hate_hackers/

requirements reduced at least

[hot sluice]

They won't, cyberstan will have resources on it that super earth wants.

Also firing the star of peace onto it would damage the dss again

[hot sluice]

In lore yes but outside of the game its super earth just making shit up to fight the bots

Propaganda moment tbf

[obtuse reef]

I already stated that it looks really good for propaganda

[inland oasis]

imagine we turn cyberstan into a diver social HUB xD.
Useless, but would be neat

[tranquil glen]

why did new world get so good near the end 🥹

https://tenor.com/view/new-world-my-beloved-new-world-my-beloved-mmo-anissuh-gif-18335552353942585376

[inland oasis]

Wooo new car 😄

oh god im gonna throw up! its an E-car! damn things electric 😭

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/chiguireland-chiguire-nft-gif-25446689

[mental rose]

The clankers with riot shields, can anything shoot through those?

Also is there damage difference between Recoilless and Disposable AT?

[tranquil glen]

i prefer being able to carry multi rounds not just calling in 2 shots of AT

that way if i dont use it i can bring it to next obj

[inland oasis]

https://medal.tv/games/gta-v/clips/m6XOIp5kFuA8ZoZHU?invite=cr-MSxjV2gsMTY4MzE4NDcx&v=33

[tranquil glen]

bro wanted u to repair

agh Software figting bugs 😭

[dry copper]

Bethesda is also a hebrew word that means house of mercy

It's from the gospel of john

[tranquil glen]

i see

yes it auto suggested to change to that

[hot sluice]

Devastator shields are immune to all damage, you want to aim for their heads if possible, or their legs to stagger them or destroy their arm.

As for recoilless vs EAT, Expendables are thrown away after being fired and have a lower cooldown compared to the recoilless.

Can't remember the damage difference but the recoilless does a lot of damage but you are forced to use the recoilless backpack to reload or have a teammate do a team reload for you

EATs can 1 shot a war strider if you hit their legs which is nice

It's like

68s cd ish i think maybe 70 for EATs ?

[inland oasis]

Speargun lol

Might not get thru but the effect’ll help a lot

Or does gas not work on bots. I forget tbh

One side of me says no cuz machines. The other side says yes just cuz. It’s a game lol

[hot sluice]

gas works on all factions

I'd not waste a speargun shot on a devastator unless it was an emergency

You only get 12 shots

Destroy their arm and shoot em in the head or just bring a diligence and 1 shot them in the head

[inland oasis]

“only”? Lol. If anything it’s the most ammo effecient one. Being as it can be refilled as well from resupplying.

I take it as my bughole buster for the most part lol

[dry copper]

I started watching Dirk Gently Holistic Detective yesterday

It's so weird.

It's Elijah Wood's eyes personified.

Dude looks perpetually confused and offended

[tranquil glen]

me: searches fo4 gifs

discord: have some fnv gifs

[dry copper]

me: searches fo4 gifs

discord:

https://klipy.com/gifs/lol-funny-117

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/H_gLXjKFYQg?si=yENIU89QAjt0ebvS

[mental rose]

So many Hulks...
Cyberstan on difficulty 8 is hell

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kG3cEBwEj5w

[hot sluice]

Yes only, so wasting it on a devastator is pointless imo.

The speargun is good but 12 shots is not a lot to work with

[inland oasis]

It’s plenty more than enough lol

[mellow dune]

@barren sparrow I think I need help

I've been rebuilding so many of the roads on Death Stranding 😔

I've donated resources to or even directly rebuilt like a good 70% of the roads between Lake Knot and South Knot

I'm seeing other players starting to piece together roads towards Mountain knot so I'm gonna focus on that later

[barren sparrow]

I still haven't progress past finally of episode 3, was a bit preoccupied. Though I think that I'll be able to get back to it soon

[mellow dune]

You'll be getting back in at a hell of a good time

Road infrastructure is really nice now so you can get to places easily

[barren sparrow]

Nice

[mellow dune]

Yea I finished it all. Working on maxxing out all of the links

Along with well. Helping the others build roads

We do a little material transfer

[hot sluice]

I prefer it on bugs mostly honestly.

[mellow dune]

Bugdivers: We finally got an MO! Let's go!!
Cyberstan subplot:

[viral pebble]

Am hype as hell for the upcoming Space Marine 2 update, but GOD would it kill them to post an actual release date?

[obtuse reef]

We’ve learned that bad things happen if you give a concrete release date

[viral pebble]

Really? Shame.

I just wanna play a techmarine already qwq

[obtuse reef]

KSP2, GTA VI, and probably more examples I don’t recall

[viral pebble]

Oh, thought you were referring to Space Marine 2 specifically lol

[obtuse reef]

I was more just speaking generally

[hot sluice]

I'd hardly say finally, bug content has been plentiful

[austere lance]

I'm finally trying Kingdom Come Deliverance and this is the most abysmally clunky and painful shit I've played since the N64 days

[verbal plume]

it's really not that bad

but tbf you called rdr2 clunky so

[hot sluice]

Rdr2 is VERY slow paced

Especially looting things

[verbal plume]

slow paced does not equal clunky

Lol

i also never got the whole "looting takes forever" thing

it takes about the same time in rdr1 except it plays a cinematic every time in the first

[hot sluice]

It takes like 4 seconds per body + there's the whole leaving guns on horse thing

[verbal plume]

do you actually even know what clunky refers to?

[hot sluice]

Loot a building and watch how long it takes opening things

[verbal plume]

it means unresponsive

i've got over 150 hours in rdr2

[hot sluice]

I didn't mind it but its 100% fair criticism imo

[verbal plume]

trust me, i know

[verbal plume]

it's legit the same in rdr1
red dead just tries to be pretty "real"

it's not for everyone, sure

but that is legitimately NOT clunky

the game is very responsive

[hot sluice]

yes

Not everyone likes slow paced games tbf

[verbal plume]

slow paced games DO NOT equal clunky

[hot sluice]

X reacting me is pointless, I know what it means

[verbal plume]

i don't know how many times i have to say it lol

clunky refers to unresponsive controls dude

rdr2 is anything but that

[hot sluice]

I'm not saying they do, idm it but it might feel clunky to others

There was a time RDO had its animations universally sped up and it feels very fast in comparison

[verbal plume]

🤦‍♂️

this conversation is pointless

[hot sluice]

Agree to disagree ig, I think my point was misunderstood

[verbal plume]

im just repeating myself at this point because you seem to think a slower paced game means it's clunky when that's not what clunky actually means....

I 100% agree that rdr2 is a slow game

but it's not clunky

[hot sluice]

.

[austere lance]

It's not just the combat. The menus are wack, the movement controls are weird (why is X jump and B sprint), and the UI for basically everything just feels awkward

[verbal plume]

im talking objectively, not about people's feelings

[hot sluice]

B sprint is odd yeah

[verbal plume]

skyrim sprint is LB

[hot sluice]

It can be rebound at least

[verbal plume]

people like to make things seem more complicated than they are

A is used for interacting and Y is used for mounting, crouching is left stick

kcd isn't the only game like this

[mellow dune]

Everyone knows the correct way is

A to jump
B to crouch
X to interact

Y just exists for some other purpose

[quaint saffron]

The game i made doesnt have a crouch so it is A to jump, B to dash, X to interact, and Y as "Secondary Interact" (For example : X to Fire Cannon, Y to Reload Cannon)

[verbal plume]

plenty of games don't use the "normal" way of controller mapping

[tranquil glen]

nah

warframe be like X to interact (on pc)

[steel grail]

How many u guys use controller while on PC

[split ridge]

I do

[steel grail]

I had to get one for a few games like Arkham series and Shadow of war

Feels weird switching between controller and MnK

[inland oasis]

I’m confused my rdr2, A is run, x is jump, B is melee, and y is for vehicle interactions etc. lol

Same as gta for me

[tranquil glen]

i dont know xbox ngl

[inland oasis]

x would be sprint, square would be jump, and circle would be melee then. converted to PS lol

[tranquil glen]

square kinda makes sense (was often swapped back and forth with A from nintendo) and why the fuck is any of the rest of that that

[dry copper]

What this valentines day is gunna be like

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6RW4t7T05x0

[mental rose]

How much of a difference does medium vs light pen make?

Penetrator has less damage-per-shot but is otherwise identical

[hot sluice]

the liberator penetrator is more about convenience than anything else

Many targets that are chaff are ap2 and below but mostly like ap0 or ap1 (unarmored 1 and 2)

It depends on the enemies you're fighting

The liberator has better durable damage than the liberator penetrator

its like

90 standard 23 durable vs 65 standard 15 durable iirc

the dps of a lib pen is like 640 or so, its actually quite low all things considered

[mental rose]

Is durable damage like how fast it can strip armor or smth?

[hot sluice]

posted this yesterday from a subreddit comment but the simplest explanation is

""
Let's talk dum dum-

Medium pen is full metal jacket- passes through but doesn't mess up meat (enough)

Light pen is hollow point. Once it penetrates the fleshy meat is explodes in fragments and tears that thing apart.

If you shoot a soda can with medium pen... Pass through.

If you shot it with light pen- explosion.

Now make that soda can a chargers dumper, or my favorite - an impalers face.

This is why the stalwart should ruin those weak points faster than the MG.

On the bot front- sometimes you have to spray and pray... your medium is going through armor and doing some damage.

Light pen- weak points, maybe arms and legs... But chest armor... Nothing.

Comprendo?"

Source is https://www.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/comments/1oe01zo/what_does_durable_damage_mean/

It's a way to calculate more damage mechanics that lets them sometimes design high hp low armor high durability enemies like fleshmobs for example

[mental rose]

Oh, it actually follows irl ballistics.

[hot sluice]

Yeah hd2's gunplay is weirdly in depth for a third person shooter

They calculate drag (damage falloff based on the gravity affecting the shot), penetration slowdown, overpenetration (applies if you're 2 AP above a target's part ap you're firing at), weapon ergonomics (its why some of them "drag slowly" across the screen, the hmg for example has literally 0 ergonomics because heavy pen weapon but the light pen weapons usually have the best ergonomics and more ammo)

the caliber of the weapon affects it too, drag is highest usually on shotguns and pistols / smgs

It's why the AMR buff of into the unjust patch 4.1.0 was massive because it can now within around 30 metres 1 shot a hulk if you directly eye shot it which is a VERY nice breakpoint to hit

[hot sluice]

Some enemies do actually have ablative armor

Overseers and those new agitators i think they're called, the ones with the masks that buff other units?

Medium pen is about convenience to fire through body parts is the best tldr i can give

And then you get your weird cases like the dominator having ZERO damage falloff and the warrant too

The game tells you for some reason next to none of this, no breakpoints or nothing

[mental rose]

Speaking of then, is there a flechette shotgun in game?

[hot sluice]

If a shot ricochets your attack's AP isn't high enough, if the hitmarker is grey you do 65% damage because you're matching the armor and 100% if red hitmarker

Remind me what a flechette does again

[mental rose]

It's a cluster of metal darts

in games typically shreds flesh

[hot sluice]

There's a monster of a double barrel shotgun if you wanna really do some damage that can have a volley mode to fire both barrels which after 3 volley shots at pretty close range can 1 shot a fleshmob but the gun has 40 shots only and like 50m range or something silly

[mental rose]

Whereas slugs are good against armor

[hot sluice]

There is actually a slug shotgun called the slugger which is medium pen funnily enough

Quite nice vs bugs due to its incredible stagger and rounds reload meaning you can fire and reload repeatedly and if carefully aiming enough hold off a fair sized swarm yourself of bugs

Good vs flesh is your light pen weapons mainly

[mental rose]

various slug designs

[hot sluice]

There's no dedicated flechette rounds from what I know but there is a nice fire shotgun called the cookout which is a rounds reload shotgun like the punisher iirc

breaker incendiary exists too but that's burst fire only iirc and it never felt good to use to me

[mental rose]

Flechettes

[hot sluice]

bleedouts of some enemies do actually exist

depends on the enemy overall but an easy example are these

http://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/Alpha_Commander

If you destroy their head they'll bleed out and its an example of one of the only ap2 targets in game but its why the liberator concussive for example is so good against them with its 35 durable damage

They also will lock onto you even when bleeding out which is annoying

Ah

There is a flechette actually

https://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/SG-20_Halt

"armor piercing flechettes"

You can also bind a quick weapon wheel button so you can switch between rounds if required as the light pen rounds with this one are mainly for stunning

[tranquil glen]

I always slugger i think, having come from heavy pen Eruptor

[steel grail]

So anyone here been playing overwatch?

Im confused about it. Did it come out as a new game again? Or is it still the same game with 2 dropped?

[tranquil glen]

overwatch two

[obtuse reef]

I found this in a trash can

not useful to me, but I find it really funny that I found in the trash of all places

[tranquil glen]

sir.. that requires legendary items, take that shit

[obtuse reef]

no, I meant I already have the bp

of course I took it, but I just don't need it

[mental rose]

Wait a minute... am I to deduce from this, that guns before this upgrade are muzzle loaded??

Ugh... what do I spend my samples on.

[obtuse reef]

Yes. Wait until you learn about the meth that gets put in the crews food or the fact that Super Destroyers have dedicated HR staff

Muzzle loading massive cannons like that is probably still automated like with the mortar sentries and also probably much easier in zero G

It’s also most likely much cheaper, since Super Destroyers have to be basically mass produced to replace ones lost

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/madscrap-cannon-pirates-shooting-gif-25915353

[mental rose]

Or the fact "paid for bathroom breaks" apparently boost crew morale

My god, these descriptions are hilarious. 😄

[obtuse reef]

I mean, you’d feel pretty good if you made a dime every time you shat on company time

[obtuse reef]

Also, there’s an armor description that boils down to “we had a contest to figure out what was the best color for arctic camo. White won.”

[mental rose]

Speaking of, the Eagle upgrades are prolly the most outrageous ones.
"Let's get rid of most leg room and all safety features, so we can fit in more ammo/bombs" 😂

[obtuse reef]

That’s a very super earth way of thinking

[mellow dune]

OK but

Zero-G breech loading is funniest

[obtuse reef]

it's probably not one of the worst ideas that super earth had

[mellow dune]

There's also one like

"After months of research the ministry of war has decided the best course of action was adding more guns"

Or something along those lines

[obtuse reef]

I mean, there's using illuminate technology to turn a planet into a black hole that very much doesn't look like a black hole and being surprised that squids came out and shot us in the foot

I'm actually kinda glad the scientists who came up with that idea got executed

[mellow dune]

I love all the controversy HD2 has gotten into and people forget its a literal political satire 😭

[obtuse reef]

It doesn't help that the game attracts a lot of the people who genuinely don't realize it's satire and take everything at face value while still supporting Super Earth

[mellow dune]

I'm all for blowing up Socialist robots because its funny!!!!

Cyberstan is literally a Stalingrad Analogue

Brutal Freezing urban warfare against a dug in foe that embodies socialism/communism

[obtuse reef]

I believe Super Earth are the good guys through the merit that everywhere else in the galaxy is a really not good place to live if you're a human (shocking that centuries of warmongering kills foreign relations). Other people think Super Earth is geniunely right in everything they are doing

their aesthetic is definitely meant to call back to the USSR

[mellow dune]

I believe that super earth are the good guys because they canonically made the UK a wasteland

[obtuse reef]

I mean, this alone tells you all you need to know

if you google "communist statue" you will get something almost exactly like that

[mellow dune]

HD2 fans when their overly political satire game is doing political satire

[obtuse reef]

these're the same people who watched Starship Troopers and didn't get the joke

[mellow dune]

Do I believe Super Earth is bad? Sure. No one's perfect lmao
Do I give a fuck? No. I paid £30 to shoot robots, cockroaches and sentient calamari. Let me have my fun

[obtuse reef]

I find it amusing how super earth, through being complete and total assholes during the first galactic war, went full circle to being the good guys because they dragged everyone else down to their level

[mellow dune]

The underlying haha parodies are fun sure but at the end of the day for me it's just kill everything

[mellow dune]

True!

Keep in mind the first year of this war wasn't a war

It was a...Special Military Operation

(Boy I wonder what they're referring to there)

Anyways the Red Alert 3 Vox Engines still traumatise me

But they're funny none the less

I was playing with my friend who's a Big command and conquer fan and they say the Cyborgs remind them of Tiberium sun

Also man fuck the uh

The shotgun Cyborgs

They do so much damage and i usually gotta mag dump em with a lib pen just to kill em

[hot sluice]

God no all the factions are terrible.

Like, all of them.

[obtuse reef]

yes, I know

[mellow dune]

Yea that's the joke lmao

[hot sluice]

This is why I don't use the liberator penetrator and senator them in the head instead.

[mellow dune]

No ones the food guy

[obtuse reef]

Super Earth just happens to pretend to not actively want your organs

[hot sluice]

Or introduce my tenderizer to them

[mellow dune]

I don't have that warbond but the lib pen I keep around since there's a ton of devastator spam

Works fine for them

[hot sluice]

Just shoot em in the head

[mellow dune]

My usual loadout is

[hot sluice]

A light pen dilligence can 1 shot them + they removed all the durability of their arm so you can break the arm instead

[mellow dune]

Lib Pen
Ultimatum
Shield Grenade

[hot sluice]

if its a conflagration devastator simply cry and pray it doesn't set you on fire from 30m away

They should change those enemies they're too much

Minimum pellet count to ignite you

All I want

[mellow dune]

I hope they nerf the spawn rates of the vox Engine I'm tired of having like 6 of them spawn at once on an eradication mission

1 or 2 i can handle but not 6 when you factor in all the little squishies with them

[hot sluice]

Tenderizer, Senator, Smoke grenades, eagle strafing run, eat, supply pack and 4th thing i forgot + the superstore medium siege ready for bots

liberator carbine, senator, incendiary grenades, breaching hammer, supply back, eagle strafing run and rock solid light armor for bugs

[tranquil glen]

have u tried the eruptor?

[hot sluice]

The eruptor is honestly comically overkill most of the time

[mellow dune]

I don't have that warbond either

I don't play that much to farm SC and I'm a F2P

[tranquil glen]

fair

[hot sluice]

nice gun but i think it has way too much ammo and don't understand why it has 6 mags on a heavy pen primary

[tranquil glen]

oh so u arent swarmed that often or have found other ways to deal with swarms?

[hot sluice]

wait i forgot the railcannon strike on bugs

for illuminate, double freedom, senator, incendiary nades, railcannon, hmg iirc, eagle strafing run and supply pack

[mellow dune]

I've bought 4 warbonds

Cutting Edge - Sickle and Blitzer was fun
Freedoms Flame - I am a filthy arsonist
Servants of Freedom - Ultimatum and the WITNESS ME BACKPACK
Bunker busters - Armour is honestly drip even if the passives are half ass...I suppose the medium armour is nice

[hot sluice]

double freedom with 3 volley shots aka 6 shots if not in volley mode at close range = goodbye fleshmob + you can like 2 or 3 shot a stingray from like 50m away

1680 damage ish in volley mode, 860 i believe per trigger pull w/ medium pen

pretty sure it 1 shots or 1 volley shots a hulk from behind too

[mellow dune]

I wish they didn't patch the Vitality + Inflammable armour on the DE Sickle

[hot sluice]

warrant secondary on illuminate sorry not senator

[mellow dune]

Shit was fun

[hot sluice]

they didn't

wdym patched it still works

[mellow dune]

For like 2 days when it released it would do actual 0 damage

[hot sluice]

vitality boost inflammable heavy and keep firing or go prone and take much reduced damage

[mellow dune]

Then they made it do actual damage

[hot sluice]

oh that was before they woulda changed the sickle cause it used to start light pen before ramping to heavy eventually

eagle strafing runs TEAR through hive lord armor

It's very hard to hit yourself with it also since it fires in a straight line from where you were facing when throwing the beacon direction wise

its also just a nice strategem overall since you get 5 of them

[mellow dune]

My bot loadout rn is

[hot sluice]

the siege breakers passive would be better if it used your stamina before your health honestly

I DID use the dominator before but switched to the tenderizer

dominator is great, zero drag at all

Supposedly there's different ammo types coming including a fire and gas one?

[mellow dune]

Lib Pen
Ultimatum
Shield Grenade

Supply backpack
Quasar or MG, depending on what team comp is like
Orbital Gatling
Orbital 120 (to go with the 380)

[hot sluice]

The leaks hd2 has had are enormous honestly

I'm surprised to see someone using the lib pen honestly, I think its genuinely a not great weapon

It's designed to be convenient I suppose but I value light pen a lot

[mellow dune]

Lib pen saw me through the battle of super earth and it hasn't failed me since

[hot sluice]

Tbf the player was weaker overall then

[mellow dune]

Almost got it max level

[hot sluice]

It woulda done like, 45 damage ballistic ish back then

[mellow dune]

It does what

65 now

On a 45 round mag

My Lib pen is so close to max level, sitting on 21/25

[mellow dune]

I'd agree with you but I've been using the trident a little and I just don't like light pen

Then again could just be the trident having ass spread

Like I'm shooting a bot and half of my Beams are going 90 degrees off to the right

[mental rose]

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought about good 'ol NOD Cyborgs

Also I still believe the Cyborg Commando is probably one of the scariest units in the Tiberian universe.
Imagine bots having an infantry unit that can destroy tanks in 2 shots.

Or how about modified Factory Strider that looks like this?

[mellow dune]

Very true

[azure cosmos]

I found a great game that you can play normally if you have a spare hour (I only was able to play the demo)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2085540/Stick_It_to_the_Stickman/

[inland oasis]

That is a fun one lol

[azure cosmos]

absolutely hilarious

[inland oasis]

Yea there’s a lot of creative builds in it too

[azure cosmos]

I would show you a build I got whilst running Jogger rn, but I'm not leveled up enough to do so.

[tranquil glen]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-dance-dance-dog-dog-dance-gif-8210878118751222541

[austere lance]

Trying out Kingdom Come Deliverance was a mistake, I have learned that it does in fact hit my weapons grade medieval-focused autism like crack and I just put 21 hours into it in three days 💀

[inland oasis]

When Henry gets more sleep than you 💀

[steel grail]

Man I love razer products, especially the mice. But its ridiculous how nearly all of them have the same issue of scroll key failing after a few months

And logitech has the same issue but with double clicks

[lethal rose]

‘Fortunately’ for some Logitech mouses, a DIYer can open it up and restore a bend to a spring mechanism, whose flattening over time caused double-click issues.

[steel grail]

Yeah at least thats an option I guess

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWIf0PObuNk

[dry copper]

wow. Luxembourg free public transit

It costs over $100 a month here for public transit every month

[mental rose]

Is there a specific ship module line that I should focus maxing first?
HD2.

[tranquil glen]

whatever u prefer best

i have less than 1k samples left

total

to get

https://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/Ship_Modules

may want to look at specific modules for what u would want

[mental rose]

Also I just noticed the Helldiver taps their gauntlet computer when typing in chat.

Cool detail

[tranquil glen]

aye

sometimes i dont think thats true when busy (like in another terminal) but idk

[native parrot]

I love diegetic game features like that

[mental rose]

It's definitely true when on your ship

[obtuse reef]

it's also true when in a mission

[native parrot]

Might be because youre already typing on a console

[obtuse reef]

anyone know what SCP this is?

[native parrot]

The staircase or the shopping cart?

[obtuse reef]

the floating shopping cart

[native parrot]

I cant find anything

It might be part of a larger one, as all searches are coming up with either department store related scps or scps that a re a shopping cart and something else

[obtuse reef]

I was just making a dumb joke

[hot sluice]

First upgrade I'd immediately get is 50% reduction in eagle cooldown

[native parrot]

I havent played scp games, but it wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if a shopping cart scp existed

[obtuse reef]

thing is, I'm playing ARC raiders

[native parrot]

Ohhhh

I dont play that either, lol

[obtuse reef]

that cart has been around for a little while

[native parrot]

Orange suit made me think D-class, lol

[obtuse reef]

you think they'd give a d class a gun or actual gear?

[native parrot]

I was focusing on the cart, lol. And I thought it was like hazard gear

[obtuse reef]

I mean, the set I'm using is basically just a hazmat suit

it's only cosmetic tho

here's what it looks like from the front

[mental rose]

NMS-looking helmet you got there

[tranquil glen]

yes

they do

not neessarily a gun but exploratory, "for science/ testing"

[obtuse reef]

I have apparently killed 1,377 total ARC

I have killed many a robot

[dry copper]

This actually got me a little hyped now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo

Ryan Gosling could sell ice to an eskimo

[feral ginkgo]

https://tenor.com/view/rayan-goslin-gif-11804732405125585746

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMR685ovZC0

[steep badger]

That game is getting a movie??

How would they even explain it? AFAIK that game didn't even have much lore

[formal canopy]

I’ve accepted that this game will never get a ps5 patch but I really wanted to do a low honor playthrough so idc

[dry copper]

Predator Badlands is on Disney+ now streaming

[prime pivot]

Just watched it

[dry copper]

That was fast

[prime pivot]

Weta FX did the CGI

[dry copper]

aaahahahaha, https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680880/Forspoken/

Steam

Forspoken

Mysteriously transported from New York City, Frey Holland finds herself trapped in the breathtaking land of Athia. A magical, sentient bracelet is inexplicably wrapped around her arm, and Frey discovers the ability to cast powerful spells and use magic to traverse the sprawling landscapes of Athia. Frey nicknames her new golden companion “Cuff…

Price

$69.99

Recommendations

5264

Still $100

$70 USD is $100 CAD

Close to

One imagines a game that gets shafted as hard as Forspoken was, they'd consider deep discounts

[verbal plume]

eventually maybe

just gonna take forever cuz of gta 6

[austere lance]

Had been for a couple days

[formal canopy]

This still $60 lol

[verbal plume]

DS3 is peak

but that's too much

thats why i bought it 3rd party

i wanna 100% it but that "unlock all gestures" is gonna kill me

dumb trophy

[austere lance]

Just get the Fire Fades Edition for $20 or less, lol

Comes with both DLCs

[formal canopy]

Sekiro was also 60

Idk why Cod and Fromsoft games so expensive even years after they released

Scariest blind enemy ever

[tranquil glen]

lol

[tranquil glen]

yea

[austere lance]

I hate librarians, lol

[tranquil glen]

cant wait to see if Hideo makes a DS3

[tranquil glen]

New World so pretty

[fathom sluice]

Chat should I get cairn?

[verbal plume]

a knight of the seven kingdoms is great

[steel grail]

I haven't tried it yet but based on the experience I had with their previous title, u should try it

[austere lance]

Christ that new episode is BRUTAL

I read the novella so I knew it was coming but they made 5x worse in the show 😭

[torpid lynx]

i thought that game was shutting down

[inland path]

that Ashes Of Creation has turned into a real hot mess

stuck in development hell for years, and now the main dev is getting buried in lawsuits

[formal canopy]

My top games only in terms of story

[idle saffron]

Arkham City, not Knight?

I loved them all, but that was my personal fav

[verbal plume]

So good man

[verbal plume]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-dunk-egg-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-munching-gif-16914459695435783988

[formal canopy]

I oughta shoot you in the back of your fucking head

[mental rose]

And the fact they speak garbled english directly into your mind.
I think they're psychic.

[mental rose]

Are they still called that in Exodus?

I think they were called Blind Ones or smth.

Ah, here it is.

[formal canopy]

I forgot how much riding horses there is in this game…

[verbal plume]

I still wish you could buy a carriage

😔

[steel grail]

This is such a stressful mission with or without achievement attached

[dry copper]

Welcome to Monday

This is me before coffee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mlSPVA1r0E

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxsE8dvbs4

[steep badger]

we're all a joke to these people

[formal canopy]

And mfs mad I rate this a 7/10

This game looks better than I remembered what the fuck??

[feral ginkgo]

#other-games message
Here’s some pictures from the game, if you think that looks good. I taken them.
🤠
📷

[formal canopy]

Turn off HDR

The dark images are really really dark

[feral ginkgo]

That’s the neat part, on Xbox there is no HDR setting.

[dry copper]

NEATO

[tranquil glen]

It is Jan 31,2027

[primal willow]

Anyone here plays overwatch ?

[mental rose]

Uhh... I think quickplay connected me to a cheater.
Got 20k requisition, 6500 XP and my medals are capped. 😅

From difficulty 7 mission

Welp, it is what it is.

[tranquil glen]

uh yea

[mental rose]

No ridiculous amounts of samples tho, fortunately

[obtuse reef]

I’ve been at max samples for Liberty knows how long

[tranquil glen]

well this is what it costs to max ship

[obtuse reef]

Yeah, I’ve maxed my ship

I’m max level

[tranquil glen]

I am 3 levels off maxing

[obtuse reef]

I have a bit over 600hrs

In game, that is

[tranquil glen]

i sit at just over 250 hours

[obtuse reef]

I also almost exclusively play at D10, because I hate myself

[tranquil glen]

I can only do barely a d10 in premade lobbies i cant do it publically, maybe thats cuase i like to fuck around instead of locking in

[formal canopy]

Ye

[mental rose]

I only barely survived D8 in pubs.
So many Vox Engines... 🥶

Is the Railcannon Strike good? I haven't seen anyone use it yet.

[primal willow]

What role do you usually play as ?

[quartz ferry]

We are not getting this major order done 😭

[obtuse reef]

It has a pretty long cooldown but it’s basically a free “fuck that bile titan/hulk/war strider” button

[austere lance]

When in doubt, blame the bugdivers

[tranquil glen]

YES

I love it

500kg, laserbeam and railcannon

and whatever support i care for at the time

[obtuse reef]

which is odd, because the bug divers were actually pretty useful this MO

[obtuse reef]

I did a thing

[tranquil glen]

Lets goo

[obtuse reef]

round or two after that I got curbstomped by a queen after heroically saving two people, one of whom gave me a reactor in return for rescuing them

[azure cosmos]

congrats bro.

[tranquil glen]

Someone made a Hamner meme

Hampter, but hd2 hammer

https://youtube.com/shorts/UnkawOp_ciw?si=8vxzH4xlKpBgoZBB

Hamner

[tranquil glen]

💀 https://youtube.com/shorts/2MUU5Sv8gpU?si=fAdCLkQPnQxV8S4X

[steep badger]

Chess?

[idle saffron]

Arc Raiders

[mellow dune]

fun fact with the bubble in HD2

as long as you're at least 20 meters away from the hellbomb you can bubble up and survive it

as opposed to the 27 meter minimum safe distance

[hot sluice]

Inconsistent but yes, and also you wanna go down the tree to buff your orbitals a bit

If you're fighting on cyberstan I'd honestly mostly not bother with eagles, too much anti-air

[hot sluice]

I wish the playerbase would stop being so genuinely obnoxious about bugdivers

They had an MO and they helped, boo hoo someone doesn't want to fight all the factions, who cares

[hot sluice]

Every company ever now mostly, welcome to capitalism where we're now moving onto data as an even more invasively used commodity.

[verbal plume]

handsome jack defenders in 2026?

why did discord make me reply to something from a year ago

ah fuck it

[hot sluice]

Well it was lilith's fault that bl2 happened since she punched the relic into his eye

Ah how I wish borderlands would stop making stories atp

[verbal plume]

i really had high hopes for 3

then it was bad

haven't even looked into 4

[hot sluice]

FIGURE IT OUT LILITH 🤓 , ava says, gearbox cutting a scene from the game that would have salvaged her character and not made her half written.

Tbf I'm too much of a borderlands 1 fan which is a very different game

[verbal plume]

i guess

[hot sluice]

God I wish they'd just oust him from gearbox, he's a PR nightmare.