Helldivers 2 (PC and PS5)

Guard Dog Rover backpack.
A mixed blessing, it does a good job zapping the smaller bugs, but also very good at zapping your team mates and you.

Had some really good games and some really bad ones. The key seems to be to not hang around in the same place too long, get in, get it done, gtfo. If you hang around killing bugs you will eventually get overrun.

Thanks, I found it in the Ship stuff yesterday, but need to be level 10 so will be a while in any event.....

I also just had a massive flaw in the game, four of us dropped then three left after about 5 minutes which as far as I can tell means the AI thinks the number of bugs should be for four players for the duration..................... That did not end well for me....

I am looking forward to ramping up the kit although it is going to be a bit of a slog !!

The game doesn't scale the difficulty to the size of the team so, going in with a team is always a better option.

Not had this issue, only fails to connect when joining random lobbies.

Played with you yesterday (although you might not have realised - my call sign is Sudschleife) when we got completely overrun by bugs at extraction, I died with the other two, the destroyer left, and you were running laps on your own around the point trying to hold out , managed it somehow for 90s then got stomped by about 15 bugs as you ran for the shuttle door

Great skills on display there fella. I've not played much this week and suddenly everyone seems to be rinsing suicide difficulty like it's no big deal. Maybe it's because I'm not good at aiming with a PS5 controller...or possibly I'm just not democratic enough!

You can pay solo and on the lower difficulties you'll likely manage, but the game comes alive with others, it's still great fun even when someone is messing up and accidentally killing the whole team with a misplaced air strike or similar.

The bugs themselves are no different in the higher difficulties - suicide level bugs die just as easily as easy difficulty bugs. The scaling comes in numbers and enemy types. You'll get more of the major and elite enemies and greater numbers overall the higher the difficulty.

Looking forward to the big balancing patch to make some options more viable....but I also await the massive backlash from the neckbeards when their meta changes.

I'm enjoying it more now the difficulty is higher - although I do find people quitting as soon as you're on the ropes; it's like if they think you're not going to steamroll it, it's not fun and they're out. Typically noted with low-levellers on high difficulties.....yet the "OMG we're all going to die" is the fun bit!

I'd like a dodge button!

There is but, it's a pretty major trade-off as many of the powerful support weapons require a backpack and, even post nerf, the shield is still very strong.

I did a bit of testing after yesterday's patch - Breaker feels almost exactly the same, just slightly more frequent reloads. Flamethrower is very strong now but, it is very easy to burn yourself to death (as I discovered on multiple occasions!!) It was very good against chargers though and kills them fairly quickly.

Autocannon felt really good against bigger enemies but, I need more practice with chargers what to aim for. Hitting the front legs didn't seems to do very much.

I didn't use the railgun since the nerf so, no idea how that will feel Unsafe mode is the only viable options apparently.

Yes....many times!