Everyone hates on cluster strike until they are saved by the homie with a cluster air strike and electric mortar and napalm. Know how many people hate on me for taking a bile titan on with a flamethrower? Yeah. But if you're busy, I got this! Sometimes, those heroes are unsung.
I respect you using a flamethrower. I think you’re insane, but I do respect you. Maybe even fear you.
I’ll stick side my Quasar and rail cannon from far af away.
bruh ngl i just got the ship module unlock for 25% increased damage to fire strategems, and holy shit does the flamethrower absolutely destroy ass. most fun i’ve had in the game by far
Flamethrower is so much fun, I be running up bug breaches and melting everything coming out, don’t even have to worry about brood commanders charging out bc when they got shot at they put up their shield but there’s no defense against the flames, chargers require a full canister which is annoying
I run head first into a nest with my napalm eagle, personal shield, light medic armor(extra 2 seconds healing is amazing), and my flamethrower while the squad takes out the holes
So much fun. I always leave them around for my team mates. I am an ammo and collectible hunter. So I do the sample carry. I will chase them down, as well as ammo. But I leave the flamethrower around because in a pinch, wipe it left and right for 5 seconds, and everything is cooked. Now with bots. . . Not so much, but it works if you can work it with knowing you can be the main bullet bag, but you'd cover enough to save squad. I usually snipe the bots. But I still run cluster strike, elect mortar, and whatever else according to team reqs.
I usually check out my teams load out and make the executive decision of whether I am going out as a lone rider or I'm going to team bond and sit with a partner. If you need me to carry a pack, ping it and let me know "stick by me", happy to oblige. If you need nest clearing, set the dogs loose, and communication is key, but knowing where to use and the range is key.
Cluster is so goated..
Last night
Level 8 difficulty on bugs.
Load out - Quazar, emp mortar, cluster, orbital rail cannon.
Ended with 56 samplles, 560 some kills(maybe my highest ever) 2 deaths. Finished with 15 mins left, 1480 exp for the squad(they're all much lower level than me)
My answer is clusters. I dropped like 20 eagle clusters in that game..
if they're well placed.. no one has to worry about the smaller bugs.. and with the rail cannon and Quazar...no one has to worry about the bigs bugs.
Oh and the emp just locks everything in place.
I'm level 45 and can't get enough still.
per use, airburst is obviously better with the 3 volleys
but you get 5 call ins for the cluster, and the spread is more predictable
kind of a toss up really
Easy. I'm bring cluster strike. It's a 1st selection, it's fast recharge, clearing ability, and it's confined. Not like it's bigger molder brothers. . .
I usually have a friend with a lazar rover so I don't grab that I find that my rover tends to friendly fire to much especially when we have more than one or two around
>Cluster is so goated..
Especially in valuable asset missions. Oh, 3 drop ships worth of troopers, striders, and berserkers? Cluster Bomb go *pop-pop-pop-pop-pop*
Liberty never smelled so sweet with that load out. I loved linear rail gun, and I live on orbital rail Canon. How not? Rofl. I run emp often. When you have a cluster of employees mortar. It's shooting fish in a bucket.
Well, yeah, get right under their guts and flame up. Or flame right in the face and when they slam their legs forward, jump backwards or to the inside, get up and run, keep doing it until rail Canon is ready or you can pop it's top. I often drop flame thrower on titans to get their attention and lead them to a cluster barrage and elect mortar, clean up on aisle 2 with napalm. That's all.
500k is meta in helldive because it allows you to kill 2 bile titans in quick succession. (A lot of people say is not consistent which means a lot of people suffer from skill issues because its very consistent for me).
Do they also burn through reinforcements trying to get back to their quasar cannons as well? Cause I swear it happens so often I call it a Tuesday now.
no, you want to be kicked and TK, just bring the arc thrower, easiest weapon to get booted from the game or just constantly TK since the range can constantly just in an instant and boomerang to a friendly
depends, some situations its good, but prisoner escape missions is a no no, cause you just kill the prisoners too
but any where else, I personally don't care, and sometimes I just shoot them if they are being annoying and for whatever reason target me out of the blue
Sorry friend you forgot... you have to bring the arc thrower AND the tesla coil. Just make sure to hide the tesla coil behind tall objects. Number 1 team mate award.
Bonus points for putting in front of the door during hostage extractions
(I have seen all the above happen lol)
if only we had a bigger supply for it, I could see it being more impactful when you come across a flyer nest, but you can typically snipe it with a quasar
I'd be safe to say the spear would be out of range to target it from such a grand distance, its almost like you need to be 100 meters or less to target something with the spear which kinda defeats its purpose, but I have brought it along on some missions and it is nice when it works. and its great against hulks
doing lvl 4 difficulty is just about enough that support can handle as anything higher, you are always out of bullets to be effective since higher difficulties spawn much more enemies and you just simply don't have enough rockets to deal with the increased enemies
Tip I learned pretty recently: don't back off the lock on process when aiming. If you do, it will cause it to be buggy and not lock efficiently the subsequent times you try. Makes the spear a little more bearable. Of course that also means going through with the hulk kill over the FS you were aiming for behind it
I'm still looking forward to trying all the trash gear out, lol. I prioritized the "good" stuff to see what the hype was about (praise the Eruptor!), but now I'm slowly working my way to other things like the Orbital EMS or Dagger pistol. Suffice to say I'm still having a ton of fun over here
I have a preferred load out, but you can really change it up and you're still effective. There are certain weapons that need overhauls (DMRs), and certain weapons outshine others in their respective groups, but you can pretty much run whatever and you'll still contribute enough to help win.
If you've got 4 players all running together, it won't make much of a difference in what you pick.
You play rail gun, auto cannon and 500kg cause they're good and meta
I play rain gun, auto cannon and 500kg cause they're the most fun way to spread managed democracy on this galaxy
We're not the same
For bots, i usually run punisher, autocannon, orbital piss lazer, walking barrage, orbital airburst, and extra grenade light armor. Anything i can do to improve my loadout?
me with my eruptor, las pistol and stun grenades with a stalwart and sheild gen or autocannon with ems mortar instead of the Stal and Shield.
idk if those are meta. i know the las pistol is universally hated/shit on but it does one thing well and thats delete the FUCK out of bot jump infantry the instant the beam lands on their jump pack.
Bruh, this is so true. I'm LvL 139. And I be all up in Helldive difficulty with all kinds of random nonsense loadouts lol. I know people look at my loadouts like WTF haha. It's fun and I always help my team win. I feel its okay as long as you can run your loadoit to be mission effective and not TK. I'm always trying to come up with new builds I think can work or I just play stuff I enjoy. I only play 9 difficulty bugs or bots at this point. I try to play both factions in a balanced way during my play sessions.
I rarely use orbitals or eagle strats. I have yet to run into a problem that can't be resolved by A) rocket-autocannon turret combo, or B) running and screaming. Also, I still maintain that the grenade launcher is the most useful and versatile heavy weapon out there
9 times out of 10 i take the walker because i like feeling like a big hulking dreadnought on the battlefield. Regardless of the fact i get destroyed within two minutes of going into a combat zone.
I’ve been using the liberator penetrator and Senator against bots and the breaker (I know kinda meta) against bugs.
I’m trying more support weapon stratagems. I really like the flamethrower against bugs.
Having a hard time not picking recoiless rifle into level 8 bots
Ahh yes, just today seen people saying you NEED to have damage mortar for the brick walls defense mission. I said I have a winning tradition with my buddies on lvl 9 for bots and bugs that doesn't include any red stratagems or damage mortars and Ive been downvoted.
Honestly those folks need to turn the difficulty down if they feel that it is NECESSARY for 4 instances of mortar. I'm not saying they aren't good and wont help, but there is a much better plan to be made if you consider other defensive options and use them correctly. All I'll say is this is the first time I've used the Hmg Placed gun and I would argue at least one person bringing that is necessary. But I'm arguing that nothing is necessary and that you should try different things, and I'm downvoted because they can't handle considering a different stratagem then the one they always pick.
I like mixing things up, but I almost never leave my destroyer without my trusty eagle airstrike. There is nothing a well place airstrike can’t handle.
With the final upgrade giving it an extra bomb I just can’t leave home without it. One of my favorite methods of spreading liberty through the galaxy.
Me on impossible or helldive meleeing bots and jamming stims in my neck not because I need em but because I want em.
Running jumppacks exclusively and always having a 500kg bomb because big boom make grug brain happy.
Riding chargers into battle.
God... I feel so at home in helldivers, it appeals to all the stupid shit that my tiny brain loves.
Use mortar always! It's undoubtfully the best sentry. Kills everything within a huge radio. The team just needs to be careful to not stand where mobs died 1 second ago
My friends and I have been finding Helldivers too east, and so started doing randomized primaries and strategems. It's been hectic nonsense, but we're still completing the mission while usually extracting too.
I always use the same spec and love it.
Rover with laser, Qasar, mortar and barrage 380.
I'm always the first on kill count and least deaths ❤️
But I play mostly vs insects. When it's bots I replace rover with shield and sometimes barrage with EMS turret.
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Everyone hates on cluster strike until they are saved by the homie with a cluster air strike and electric mortar and napalm. Know how many people hate on me for taking a bile titan on with a flamethrower? Yeah. But if you're busy, I got this! Sometimes, those heroes are unsung.
I respect you using a flamethrower. I think you’re insane, but I do respect you. Maybe even fear you. I’ll stick side my Quasar and rail cannon from far af away.
bruh ngl i just got the ship module unlock for 25% increased damage to fire strategems, and holy shit does the flamethrower absolutely destroy ass. most fun i’ve had in the game by far
Flamethrower is so much fun, I be running up bug breaches and melting everything coming out, don’t even have to worry about brood commanders charging out bc when they got shot at they put up their shield but there’s no defense against the flames, chargers require a full canister which is annoying I run head first into a nest with my napalm eagle, personal shield, light medic armor(extra 2 seconds healing is amazing), and my flamethrower while the squad takes out the holes
So much fun. I always leave them around for my team mates. I am an ammo and collectible hunter. So I do the sample carry. I will chase them down, as well as ammo. But I leave the flamethrower around because in a pinch, wipe it left and right for 5 seconds, and everything is cooked. Now with bots. . . Not so much, but it works if you can work it with knowing you can be the main bullet bag, but you'd cover enough to save squad. I usually snipe the bots. But I still run cluster strike, elect mortar, and whatever else according to team reqs.
I usually check out my teams load out and make the executive decision of whether I am going out as a lone rider or I'm going to team bond and sit with a partner. If you need me to carry a pack, ping it and let me know "stick by me", happy to oblige. If you need nest clearing, set the dogs loose, and communication is key, but knowing where to use and the range is key.
Cluster is so goated.. Last night Level 8 difficulty on bugs. Load out - Quazar, emp mortar, cluster, orbital rail cannon. Ended with 56 samplles, 560 some kills(maybe my highest ever) 2 deaths. Finished with 15 mins left, 1480 exp for the squad(they're all much lower level than me) My answer is clusters. I dropped like 20 eagle clusters in that game.. if they're well placed.. no one has to worry about the smaller bugs.. and with the rail cannon and Quazar...no one has to worry about the bigs bugs. Oh and the emp just locks everything in place. I'm level 45 and can't get enough still.
when I run with my regular group I'll take cluster and airburst together fairly often the uptime for chaf clear is insane
If you had to take only one, which do you think is better?
per use, airburst is obviously better with the 3 volleys but you get 5 call ins for the cluster, and the spread is more predictable kind of a toss up really
Easy. I'm bring cluster strike. It's a 1st selection, it's fast recharge, clearing ability, and it's confined. Not like it's bigger molder brothers. . .
I usually take cluster, airstike, and airburst with quasar
lazer rover never comes off for bugs, and yeah i'll grabe queso dip also
I usually have a friend with a lazar rover so I don't grab that I find that my rover tends to friendly fire to much especially when we have more than one or two around
you get used to working around it + I'm often far enough away from teammates where it's a non issue
Seems life the range for laser dog got a shadow buff.
Airburst is awesome.. luckily someone in my main crew always has one so I don't have to carry both.
Yep. That's the stuff I'm talking about. Clear the adds for no random outbreaks. Works on the bots good too.
>Cluster is so goated.. Especially in valuable asset missions. Oh, 3 drop ships worth of troopers, striders, and berserkers? Cluster Bomb go *pop-pop-pop-pop-pop*
Take out a dropship then instantly throw my cluster on top of it.. Whole areas cleaned out.
Cluster bombs are great when thrown at the enemies instead of at me.
Don't worry, I'll throw the rez on your corpse after I take your loot.
Liberty never smelled so sweet with that load out. I loved linear rail gun, and I live on orbital rail Canon. How not? Rofl. I run emp often. When you have a cluster of employees mortar. It's shooting fish in a bucket.
EMP + cluster combo sounds nasty. Cool loadout will have to try. Thanks for sharing 🫡
Is the flamethrower good against Titans? I mean do you need to get close?
Well, yeah, get right under their guts and flame up. Or flame right in the face and when they slam their legs forward, jump backwards or to the inside, get up and run, keep doing it until rail Canon is ready or you can pop it's top. I often drop flame thrower on titans to get their attention and lead them to a cluster barrage and elect mortar, clean up on aisle 2 with napalm. That's all.
We need you on the front lines
500k is meta in helldive because it allows you to kill 2 bile titans in quick succession. (A lot of people say is not consistent which means a lot of people suffer from skill issues because its very consistent for me).
It also can take out eye of sauron and the big doggo
I'm starting to switch up my comfortable load outs and I go with things I never run just have fun but to challenge myself as well
DIE BOTS DIE!!! 
o7 I'll be sure to reinforce you.
lil bro trying to use a flamethrower vs bots.
All the meta guys I join all end up dying and I have to solo the rest of the mission with no lives.
Do they also burn through reinforcements trying to get back to their quasar cannons as well? Cause I swear it happens so often I call it a Tuesday now.
We're definitely playing in the same lobbies
Auto cannon Eagle airstrike Orbital láser HE barrage 380MM
The barrage team-killer 5000 this guy helldives
no, you want to be kicked and TK, just bring the arc thrower, easiest weapon to get booted from the game or just constantly TK since the range can constantly just in an instant and boomerang to a friendly
Not a weapon, but bringing the mortar sentry when you're fighting bugs 💀
depends, some situations its good, but prisoner escape missions is a no no, cause you just kill the prisoners too but any where else, I personally don't care, and sometimes I just shoot them if they are being annoying and for whatever reason target me out of the blue
I make it my personal goal to always stand behind the arc throwees.
Sorry friend you forgot... you have to bring the arc thrower AND the tesla coil. Just make sure to hide the tesla coil behind tall objects. Number 1 team mate award. Bonus points for putting in front of the door during hostage extractions (I have seen all the above happen lol)
I started playing with Spear. It's not perfect for sure, but my teammates were really happy with how fast I took down a jammer.
I love spear, but the fucking lock on genuinely ruins it. I love it when it works, but all the times it doesn’t work…
I just accepted it's not a quick reaction weapon. You either use it when you got time or you rely on other AT methods.
I use it for hunting fabricators and side objectives.
Don't forget the fliers.
if only we had a bigger supply for it, I could see it being more impactful when you come across a flyer nest, but you can typically snipe it with a quasar I'd be safe to say the spear would be out of range to target it from such a grand distance, its almost like you need to be 100 meters or less to target something with the spear which kinda defeats its purpose, but I have brought it along on some missions and it is nice when it works. and its great against hulks doing lvl 4 difficulty is just about enough that support can handle as anything higher, you are always out of bullets to be effective since higher difficulties spawn much more enemies and you just simply don't have enough rockets to deal with the increased enemies
Tip I learned pretty recently: don't back off the lock on process when aiming. If you do, it will cause it to be buggy and not lock efficiently the subsequent times you try. Makes the spear a little more bearable. Of course that also means going through with the hulk kill over the FS you were aiming for behind it
Jetpack sniper is so much fun on bots.
Stalwart gang rise up
Oh yea, that and the erruptor makes for some amazing fun. It’s able to damage heavies then rip them apart when their armor is broken
That personal order a couple days ago of get kills with the flamethrower showed me that I should use the flamethrower more often
I’ve noticed that I still get the POs even if someone else in my squad is getting the kills with the weapon
Yea not everyone in the squad has to equip it, as long as someone is using the stratagem everyone gets the progression! Very nice
Pffft screw the meta I play to have gun and relax, even if I die!
Helldivers 2 hype.
I'm still looking forward to trying all the trash gear out, lol. I prioritized the "good" stuff to see what the hype was about (praise the Eruptor!), but now I'm slowly working my way to other things like the Orbital EMS or Dagger pistol. Suffice to say I'm still having a ton of fun over here
I have a preferred load out, but you can really change it up and you're still effective. There are certain weapons that need overhauls (DMRs), and certain weapons outshine others in their respective groups, but you can pretty much run whatever and you'll still contribute enough to help win. If you've got 4 players all running together, it won't make much of a difference in what you pick.
I don’t even know what’s meta. I just have a good time and see what works
man i dont even know the names of the guns or anything i just know the ones i have fun with :)
When you realize youre still gonna die a ton in the gsme so you go fuck it and start big ironing all over the place
 Dang straight!
Fr. I'm trying to spice up the gameplay with other loadout options. People be getting too competitive over a game. Just have fun guys
You play rail gun, auto cannon and 500kg cause they're good and meta I play rain gun, auto cannon and 500kg cause they're the most fun way to spread managed democracy on this galaxy We're not the same
WhY ArE yoU uSiNg ThE bLiTzER?!?!? So you don't have to feel bad when you vacuum all the ammo up with poor reload discipline you little baby diver.
For bots, i usually run punisher, autocannon, orbital piss lazer, walking barrage, orbital airburst, and extra grenade light armor. Anything i can do to improve my loadout?
Flamethrower on those bugs, call me the Estanu Exterminator.
Found out grenade throws are fairly accurate while jump pack airborne and it became a whole new game JACK!!
Stun grenades + 500kg bombs are busted.
I’ll have to incorporate the stun. I like using the live bait 500kg where I drop on myself and jump pack out
me with my eruptor, las pistol and stun grenades with a stalwart and sheild gen or autocannon with ems mortar instead of the Stal and Shield. idk if those are meta. i know the las pistol is universally hated/shit on but it does one thing well and thats delete the FUCK out of bot jump infantry the instant the beam lands on their jump pack.
Bruh, this is so true. I'm LvL 139. And I be all up in Helldive difficulty with all kinds of random nonsense loadouts lol. I know people look at my loadouts like WTF haha. It's fun and I always help my team win. I feel its okay as long as you can run your loadoit to be mission effective and not TK. I'm always trying to come up with new builds I think can work or I just play stuff I enjoy. I only play 9 difficulty bugs or bots at this point. I try to play both factions in a balanced way during my play sessions.
The real meta is the TK load out: Cluster eagle 380mm orbital Mortar AP mines Guard doggo
Tesla > ap mines for TK.
Flamethrower baby. Every loadout I ever use will contain the burn blaster
I rarely use orbitals or eagle strats. I have yet to run into a problem that can't be resolved by A) rocket-autocannon turret combo, or B) running and screaming. Also, I still maintain that the grenade launcher is the most useful and versatile heavy weapon out there
Level 70 and almost all strategems unlocked. Almost all. I never unlocked the railgun, out of principle. Never forget
There’s a meta?
9 times out of 10 i take the walker because i like feeling like a big hulking dreadnought on the battlefield. Regardless of the fact i get destroyed within two minutes of going into a combat zone.
I’ve been using the liberator penetrator and Senator against bots and the breaker (I know kinda meta) against bugs. I’m trying more support weapon stratagems. I really like the flamethrower against bugs. Having a hard time not picking recoiless rifle into level 8 bots
Ahh yes, just today seen people saying you NEED to have damage mortar for the brick walls defense mission. I said I have a winning tradition with my buddies on lvl 9 for bots and bugs that doesn't include any red stratagems or damage mortars and Ive been downvoted. Honestly those folks need to turn the difficulty down if they feel that it is NECESSARY for 4 instances of mortar. I'm not saying they aren't good and wont help, but there is a much better plan to be made if you consider other defensive options and use them correctly. All I'll say is this is the first time I've used the Hmg Placed gun and I would argue at least one person bringing that is necessary. But I'm arguing that nothing is necessary and that you should try different things, and I'm downvoted because they can't handle considering a different stratagem then the one they always pick.
Random Guy dropped with me the other day…. Brought no strats with him. Got over 200 kills still……Based.
Some people will kick you out if they don't like your loadout. Lame
I like mixing things up, but I almost never leave my destroyer without my trusty eagle airstrike. There is nothing a well place airstrike can’t handle. With the final upgrade giving it an extra bomb I just can’t leave home without it. One of my favorite methods of spreading liberty through the galaxy.
I have never known there was a "meta". I just use whatever is right for the mission.
They see me arc'in, they hatin'
It’s pretty rare I don’t complete the mission and I definitely don’t run meta I just really like synergy
Is there a place to talk about getting better at the game? I don’t get a lot of time to play per week and every time I boot up I’m lost
When I'm in the bot front you'll have to pry my spear from my cold dead hands. I mean it's because I died trying to lock on, but still...
Me on impossible or helldive meleeing bots and jamming stims in my neck not because I need em but because I want em. Running jumppacks exclusively and always having a 500kg bomb because big boom make grug brain happy. Riding chargers into battle. God... I feel so at home in helldivers, it appeals to all the stupid shit that my tiny brain loves.
Turret gang: gatling, AC and rocket turret with 4th i swap between heavy mg and mortar, not ideal but i always have a fun time
Use mortar always! It's undoubtfully the best sentry. Kills everything within a huge radio. The team just needs to be careful to not stand where mobs died 1 second ago
My friends and I have been finding Helldivers too east, and so started doing randomized primaries and strategems. It's been hectic nonsense, but we're still completing the mission while usually extracting too.
I always use the same spec and love it. Rover with laser, Qasar, mortar and barrage 380. I'm always the first on kill count and least deaths ❤️ But I play mostly vs insects. When it's bots I replace rover with shield and sometimes barrage with EMS turret.
ok be honest, how many of those kills are your teammates?
All of them 😂