• Diligence Counter Sniper for bots, Breaker Incendiary for bugs
• Grenade pistol never leaves my side
• Frag grenades for bots/incendiary impact for bugs
  • Haven’t really found a good nade for bots, still working towards getting stun, I use frag for the shorter fuse time than the default HEs
• Alpha Commander 117 medic armor, the extra stims and stim time are too good to give up

Stratagems:

• Bots: Quasar/POS/Eagle Strike/Shield or Mortar
• Bugs: Flamethrower/POS/Eagle Strike/Laser Guard Dog

I’ll probably go back to quasar for bugs when they nerf flamethrowers against chargers, right now it’s just too good to pass up.

I recently switched from rail cannon to POS for both enemy types because the buff was amazing

Shield lets me get in a few extra headshots at devastators before they hurt me

Laser guard dog makes cleaning up the lower tier bugs a non-issue so I can focus on bigger threats, it is annoying to get killed by it or for it to accidentally kill teammates, but I still think it’s worth it

The trees blocking most of the Eagle stratagems is a bummer, but I guess it makes sense. I have changed my loadout to substitute Eagle strikes with orbital equivalents, or as close as I can get, trees still block, but not as often as before.

Two and a half years and multi-team is just now coming as an experimental mode. Jeez.

A lot of fun, but does anyone else have significantly worse performance on it? Usual bot or bug missions I’m usually 70-90 FPS with dips in the 50s, but Gacrux sits in the 50s and dips as low as the 20s.

Exactly what I do with my ancient series 3, I have had no issues unless I forget my charger. I can go maybe 36 hours before a charge, closer to 30 if I do a few workouts.

That all being said, my fiancée and a friend both have series 3s that can’t even stay alive for 12 hours. I had my watch for a year longer than they did, so it’s not an age thing, I just think the batteries are very hit or miss.

I had a guy who just kept saying stuff like “we need to run to extract” in all caps as soon as we completed the main objective on a hard mission with probably 20 minutes left to finish up the side objectives, pleennttyy of time. I wasn’t the host, but I probably would have kicked the guy after a while because he was getting mad at the rest of us for going around and cleaning up. He didn’t call extraction, but he sat around the extraction area the entire time.

When we did finally get extraction going he called in a 120mm barrage centered on the extract point and it killed two of us as the drop ship was coming in. We had time to reinforce, but that would have been my last straw.

Yep, I’ve had gunship patrols spawn on missions with no towers on difficulty 8 fwiw

We need to get these very sick kids to work in the munitions factories asap

“SEAF forces” -> Super Earth Armed Forces forces lol

Roaming gunships are so much harder than roaming Shriekers haha.

I like the idea of these patrols, but gunship patrols should be a bit smaller, we were getting overwhelmed on diff 8 with patrols of 4-6 that would overlap. I guess that’s also a sign we need to adjust our loadouts more than anything, but I hope it points towards better AA stratagems in the future.

A significant majority, last I saw it was 5k divers at Marfark and 50k at VW

I’m lucky enough to be working from home today. I didn’t play a mission, but I did boot into the game to check out the warbond and see how the liberation of Vernen Wells is going.

After the disaster of the original CE Anniversary, I’m a bit wary about what we’re going to get if this actually releases. I think bringing the MCC over to PlayStation would have been a better move, personally.

You should give the incendiary breaker a second shot, it is the best shotgun in the game and by far the best weapon against bugs, as long as you have a good support weapon for chargers and titans.

I run IB/Grenade Pistol/Incendiary Contact nades/Quasar in diff 7 and 8 missions and am usually above 250-300 kills per mission.

I would have preferred a longer wait for a new warbond that actually added something to the game other than weapons or armour wont use.

In the blog post they said after this one they are going to slow down the release pace of war bonds so they are more meaningful, hopefully the next one is what you’re asking for

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/

I think I need to sit down and farm out super credits on some difficulty 1-3 missions so I can buy the Steeled Veterans war bond to get the breaker incendiary

I haven’t had boxed Mac and cheese in a while, usually Costco’s premade is a favorite at parties so I have also given up trying to make Mac and cheese myself.

Cracker Barrel and the Walmart brand equivalent have been my family’s favorite for the rare occasion where we make boxed Mac and cheese. I grew up with Kraft, but now it makes me feel sick for a while after. I tried the Cheetos one with some friends once when it was new, expecting it to be terrible, and it really upset our stomachs, I was also pretty grossed out at how neon orange it was.

My early 2015 MBP is still my daily driver for programming, I will never regret spending so much on an MBP when they last this long. I went through two windows laptops in four years before this one. It is starting to show its age with only 8 GB of RAM, but I’m going to use it until it melts haha

• Completing your first Daily Challenge will award 250 SP (rather than XP).
• Completing the weekly Ultimate Reward will award 1,000 SP (instead of a misc. customization item).
• Operations Reward tracks will offer up to 15,000 SP (replacing misc. other rewards).

They’re probably going to need to do some adjustments either on the earn rates or the SP prices, because to get the 30,000 SP coating you would need to complete the operation pass and you would need to play once every day and complete the weekly ultimate for a little under six weeks, basically an entire operation.

15,000 / ((250 * 7) + 1000) = ~5.5 weeks

On top of that, no longer awarding the first daily xp challenge, which was a pretty good amount iirc, will slow down operation pass progression.

You’re basically only going to be able to unlock 1-2 items from the exchange per operation pass based off of the prices in the screenshots, that’s pretty rough.

With SP rewards replacing the weekly ultimate reward, we are losing weekly customization items, so they have managed to reduce access to free customization outside of passes to 1-2/month instead of 4 and they’ve increased the grind to get those fewer items.

Yeah, I understand that they didn’t want to take away one of the only extra abilities of the electric weapons in Infinite, but it is such a core Halo thing that people are still surprised when they try it and it doesn’t work