What works for us is to pick a spot on the map to land, circle the map as a team, either clockwise or counterclockwise, covering each other, and clear out every base/outpost/sample, prioritize taking out jammers, artillery, cannons, gunship fabricators, along the way.  Save the main mission objectives for the for very end.
 
You'll sit at ex-fil twiddling your thumbs throwing eagles at rocks, shipping containers, and each other, just for fun.

This right here. I prefer to run as a group of four rather than a duo. It works a lot better.

The biggest thing is to not get bogged down tilting windmills.  If you're not cutting through a swarm to achieve an objective, displace.  4 as one vs teams of 2 can be a double edged sword.  With all 4 together, without communication, there tends to be a lot of unspoken "I don't want to leave that guy behind" or 1 guy gets pinned down and the other 3 try to extricate him until all 4 are just embroiled in a reinforcement depleting, time wasting slog fest.  If they are communicating, or trust each other to be all on the same page, they can all displace their own separate way and regroup at the next objective and bring the full force of the squad down on it in a short amount of time before enemy response can tie them up.

When splitting into pairs, each individual per pair doesn't have the comfort of 3x force multipliers, so seem more inclined to displace, and most objectives can be completed just as easily with 2 as with 4 (with some exceptions) unless resource management has become the primary barrier to success (ie rolling up to a facility with no 'nades, quasar, eruptor, eagles on rearm, etc nothing immediately capable of big bada boom).

Both can be really fun to play.  I give a slight preference to splitting in pairs particularly with known people and a little resource planning between primaries and stratagems.  If only because if the whole squad gets pinned down by those occasional spawnfests we've all endured at one time or another, where there's half a dozen gun ships and 3 drop ships per cohort and tanks and factory striders...man that sometimes impossible to get out of without just casting the next reinforcement beacon as far as you can and hope that guy books it to bring the rest back somewhere else; but sometimes even that's impossible and you get team wiped and dropped right back into the center of the shitstorm.

In pairs, if one pair finds themselves in that situation, usually the game seems to scale the response back a bit vs the whole team, and the unencumbered pair can come in at an angle and just roll them up without a huge mess.

But it all comes down to the people on the squad.

I also try not to actually talk like this (especially with randoms) because I realize planning like this can ruin the fun for some people and frankly I'd rather just follow someone else's lead anyway.  I'm responsible for everything and everyone at work all day every day, I'm happy to, even prefer just going with the flow on in the game


ETA: On that whole break contact and displace thing, I've never equipped Eagle Smoke Strike because I assumed it to be useless but apparently it will kill a bot fabricator just by impact and supposedly helps a lot with bots being able to target you (say when displacing means no cover for a significant distance) but for that to be worthwhile you'd definitely need to be communicating.

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Yeah sometimes I’ll call out things but usually I’m just like “ping it and I’m there”.

I can see smoke being useful but rarely. Maybe if you solo a bit. Gas strikes are fucking awesome on bug breaches.

That's the thing, I'd use it every bot mission if it was "free" (like when they give everyone a stratagem to try it out) but take up 25% of my slots?  That's a tough ask.

Hopefully they introduce class builds. Someone who is straight up support/healer would be cool.

Smoke nades/strats in the current form are a waste of slot.   Just use the local fungi pods or other flora to break LoS.     Breaking LoS works VERY good on bots.   With bots, everyone should be hitting then displacing as often as possible on.   Getting static and "holding your ground" and you will get in a respawn loop, exception being a fast strike to wipe out a patrol before a flare is popped.

On bot patrols,  priority is actually the little bots.  Make sure every one of them gets a round or two from small arms.  Don't worry about killing on the first mag.  As long as you tap them with a round, they will not flare for a bit longer buying you (and squad) a lot of time to sweep clear.  After that just mop up the devastators and hulks, ideally after you have displaced from slapping the little ones down.

Same is true for the bug patrols, but the priority targets are everything smaller than the charger lol.  Is all about making sure everything gets tapped else they will call in a breach real fast.

Biggest thing is avoid patrols.  Way too many people can't resist the urge to shoot at everything they see.

This can't be said enough

No xp/currency for killing more enemies, only completing objectives

Strategic retreat is better than being bogged down for 5-6 minutes using several reinforcements

I can't wait for that silenced AR to drop.  But it will probably suck and be louder than an autocannon, fixed by another rail gun nerf

I remember the devs talking about the lack of "stealth mode" and that they tried to just have mobs react to sight, sound and apparently smell.  It does seem like the bots are highly dependent on line of sight, somewhat dependent on sound, and not dependent on smell at all, while the bugs can seemingly track you for miles even after breaking line of sight (so must be "smell").

Pretty cool actually.

The only parts I've had bad death loops on where with the eye of sauron when the hell bomb couldn't be dropped near enough (bug), and the rest of the squad were just useless so we were WAY overloaded with hulks and rocket devs due to non-stop drops from the F'in eye.    The other shitty one is I had two double towers of flying bots really close together.   And only one other person able to shoot them down.    We clear one by pure Fin luck.  Then ran away to do the other objectives lol.

This sounds like treason.

Sometimes the patrol is about to make contact with the team working objectives. Climb a rock, throw an orbital, and leave no survivors.

Our mission orders aren't to kill everything.  If we did, there would be no more E-710 to power the FTL drives.  

Two. Billion. Bugs.


Sounds like we’re supposed to kill everything to me

It's a renewable resource.

So are Helldivers.

I feel like I did exactly that last one a week or two ago

Hell yeah. I've started lobbing the orbital, then toss a stun grenade. Sometimes you can just cleanem up in one go.

Important to do it quickly so they don't call in a breach

Point of order: the bunker doors requiring two Helldivers to unlock shall henceforth be known as Friendship doors.

Buddy Bunkers

homey hideout

I think there should be a greater than 0% chance a small enemy pops out

I actually had this conversation with my friend earlier. He said “thats evil; I love it”

2 stalkers.

My suggestion was a charger or a hulk. But stalkers or the Kamikaze bots will do.

Nothing like opening those doors to a flamethrower hulk in your face.

I've always assumed that eventually something will eventually come bursting out.

Nah, nothing that big
One of the smaller non explodie guys

I’m fully expecting some type of slow crawly worm that can only bite you but when you kill it baby’s come out and swarm you. Like a spider with babies on its back.

Double door...which evolved to Dumbledore.
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I like how the devs turn glitches and server errors into roleplaying features.

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That’s pretty clever.


Anyone else notice that the center of the super earth logo is over Norway/Sweden (where the company is)?

@gtfoxy


had to hop off had a call about a kid that apparently colapsed died at the gym tonight after doing a set.

Oh man.

It’s all good bud. Thanks for joining in.

I think they built that into the different armor sets. I tend to use the bone snapper set which carries more stims and makes the stim effect last longer so I act as healer and support

Don't forget to send me that text.

I did last night.

Hope I got the number right.

Checks: Holy shit I sent it to the wrong number.

I tried to join game, but removed you instead. You should have a new request from me

This game made me face facts with my outdated gpu. I overheated twice on medium settings and that was all I could stand. I explained to my wife how Managed Democracy demanded the upgrades and picked up a new one last week. Everything is running great now. I just need to look into a headset with mic as I've never been one to chat during a game because of background. Although, every mission I've played so far, everyone has been muted.

Haha epic

I run mute in game and talk on discord

I see it but no matter how many times I click accept it doesn't do anything. I'm out of town today/tomorrow when I get back I'll decline and get a new friend code from you. I remember seeing a bug note related to name changes and friend requests.

3126-6169

@DonKey153

5846-2490

No player found.

If you generate a new number, I think it prevents anyone from using the previously generated numbers.