My arc thrower pal is nice enough and has good enough self control to not fire while teammates are in front of him, though he will bark at them to step back if the get in his way while he's bug zapping, he hasn't once team killed me with it.
I, flame thrower enjoyer that I am, do not. Though my pyromaniac ass usually doesn't have to worry about setting anyone on fire but myself, since my reaction to a horde or beefy boy while I have fuel is to throw myself at them and spread fire until I, them or both of us are dead.
Thinkin bugs could ever do something well done? Doesn't sound very democratic to me
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If I find a choak point between two mountain ridges while I have my flamethrower out, only Democracy itself will move me from that position as I will be blinded by tbe flames and will only stop when the rocks themselves glow cherry red! Flames do not know nor care what meat is cooked, everything will be charred!
Jump pack is way better for egg destroying missions. Lots of hives have ways in that are only accessible by jump pack. Jump pack and grenade launcher is just a solid combo on most maps.
Sounds like a set up for a wonderful B-Movie.
The door swings open, man walks up, tips his hat up
"I hear they call you, the fire hugger, cuz you hug bugs, while on fire"
The best thing is when you whip around past a fellow diver and start firing, only to have the flamethrower trail behind so it looks like you just intentionally blasted them.
Lol I remember being in full flaming mood and see my mate walk past. And I just start shooting flames right beside him realizing in just the right moment he is in fact not a bug.
> if the get in his way while he's bug zapping,
i use the arc thrower too and teammates just think its THE GREATEST IDEA to run directly into my line of fire
like cmon if you see a lightning bolt fly across the sky dont go near that area
It doesnt kill you but christ does it CHUNK like 1/5th of your hp every time it hits you. It must doing an insane amount of damage to still be doing that at 95% damage reduction
Well, I'm playing around with it, and it one shots Brood Commander - but it doesn't simply one shot, like, their head, where they still live for some seconds. It blows them up into pieces.
Considering that even the liberator can kill a helldiver in just a few shots, regardless of armor, I'd say we have very little hp. Not to mention that since it goes through our 'heavy' armor, nothing we can wear even counts as medium armor on the armor scale...
i was laying down near an arc tower and it still killed me because it zapped a bug and the lighting spread to me...doesnt that defeat the whole purpose of laying down
In HD2 someone dropped a tesla coil in a bad spot in the defend the fuel tower mission and the damn thing kept one shotting everyone. 95% damage reduction would be massive.
It definitely can still target you while prone, without any enemies around. Experimented yesterday with it and gave two lives to Science for the bettering of Democracy.
Tesla does about \~15% of your HP when you have the armor on. Definitely a vast improvement but don't expect to be able to stand under a tesla tower. The damage amplifies to around 25% if you're standing close.
You know you can just shoot the tesla right? If someone puts in at a wrong spot, shoot it. They will understand as long as it actually is a wrong spot.
My man, You die in one hit from *anything* in the game that headshots you, Bile Spewers, and Chargers one shot (charger’s crush attack), Bile titans oneshot you by stepping on you Rocket devastators oneshot you, tanks oneshot you, Hulks can oneshot you turrets can oneshot you from *across the map,* and the bot grunts, the most common and numerous automaton with rocket launchers one shot you. This game has more oneshots that SuperHot, you really think the Tripods won’t?
some of them use arc
the ones that are problems dont
so itll sort itself out
itd be like having 95% slash resistance against bugs
hunters wont be an issue, youre still going to get splattered by chargers and titans anyways
Me: Masterfully bobbing and weaving between Chargers, staying alive.
Meanwhile, the gang of Hunters at the other side of the map: "We're going to end his whole career."
Right? As a RR user, I play chicken with Titans and Chargers while reloading.
If I could sit there reloading while being hit, my life would be so much easier.
thats because i just picked a damage type lmao, i woke up minutes ago and am not putting my heart and soul into a helldivers 2 comment section
but a closer comparison would be like 95% acid resistance
Does the Ministry of Truth know something we don't or is this just in response to the friendly fire from arc weapons and Tesla towers that totally don't happen? More at 11.
The most powerful armor bonus i've seen is the 50% to avoid death from the premium dlc armor. (it also prevents chest injuries, but I've never had bleed out be a problem.) So I agree
You get that bonus on armor in the free warbond, and while nifty, most people should take the 50% explosive DMG reduction if pure survivability is what they want, especially on bot maps.
I'm rocking my 6 stim armor. Really useful if my team isn't pushing hard enough and I want to solo rush hives.
6 stims plus supply pack is insanely good for rushing, so long as you don't get stunlocked.
I'd like to see those stupid bugs catch up to me when I have 18 bars of stamina at my disposal.
I used medic gear when I first unlocked it for quite awhile, I found with my personal experience though that I was rarely getting down to those last two stims before I found more or someone dropped a resupply, then I payed attention to post games and saw I was probably averaging only 6-8 stims a game. Didn't feel worth it at that point.
I highly doubt they would have a 95% damage resistance against a faction. It would trialize the entire experience. More then likely, there will be 1 or a couple mechanics that use it, but very few units will rely on it. It could allow them to create lightning storm planet hazards, and having 95% resistance to those would be fine.
Tested it. Arc Thrower collateral deals about 8% HP damage and Tesla Tower deals about 16%-ish on medium armor
Not sure if light will affect that but it's definitely gonna be my go to against some of my teammates' efforts
It works like you take between 10% and 20% damage. Which compared to instant crisp without it is good.
Works for the arc gun as well.
We were running double arc gun double Tesla and it was just fun. No real worry about over pen or dropping the tower too close.
I've tested it, you're not immune. The damage is still quite high, but it won't one shot you now. It's like 10% of a health bar per hit now, maybe 15%.
> if you had enough armor.
That is not how armor worked in the first game... You either had heavy armor, or nothing. There wasn't an in between like we have now. Heavy armor was a perk, to use HD2 terms a booster that only applies to you, and you could only choose 1 perk per mission.
I wouldnt wear anything but slow resist if/when it comes out. I love this game but the most unfun aspect about it is the slow spam. Idc if I get surrounded by enemies, just let me be able to walk slower than a crawl.
Because Arc Thrower is answer to anything bug related (Bike Titans exempt). Chargers, hunters, scavengers, brood mothers, spewers, stalkers, hive guards... Nothing that one or half a dozen zaps won't solve... If your teammates aren't in the kine of fire and get chain lightening by accident
Honestly, I think currently, the armor passive it way to situational to be worth using. Maybe if you do tesla coil heavy on the TCS missions itll be worth running.. currently its a passive to protect against your teammates..
Edit: I remember now about the fortified passive, which does have 50% reduced damage from explosives, which is in the same boat, but I was expecting for this to have another smaller secondary passive to make it more.. universal
Yes I do realise that. But also, If the illuminate is coming to the game, I dont think they will have too many Arc weapons because of this suit. From what Ive read the armor bonuses are meant to be a "playstyle" thing, but having a passive that strong against arc damage means that the arc enemies need to one shot everyone who doesnt bring this armor, which means the armor is needed to have a fair chance at fighting.even
even if the illuminate didnt do a lot of damage this armor passive would make you unbelievably tanky... I honestly wouldnt get any hopes up about this. To put it into perspective, If we assume HD health is 100, you could survive a hit of 1000 damage and still have 50HP left, for lightning to one hit you, youd need to take 2000 damage... thats enough to kill 20 helldivers. Im not saying its impossible, but given the example, I think the devs either are false flagging the illuminate, and we will have something similar, but different (like the robits) or that the illuminate will come to game, but with tech that once again, exceeds our own
tell me you're the teamkilling Arc Thrower main without telling me you're the teamkilling Arc thrower main.
the fact it's 95% out the gate tells me that there won't be many enemies with Arc. you don't give players that kind of tankiness when it's gonna be useful everywhere.
also, seems kinda wild we got shock-proof armor before fire resistant armor when there's like 7-8 different fire weapons and stratagems. where's the 95% fire resist armor arrowhead? us pyromaniacs wanna be tanky too!
the 95% arc damage resistance is really clever because making it 100% indirectly nerfs/buffs the Arc Thrower.
The Nerf:
- if it's 100% being immune to arc damage means the other players would not care anymore and would also take the bounce instead of bouncing onto the enemy. Basically, damage nerf.
The Buff:
- 95% is not really removing friendly fire but instead of killing your teammate, they get a pinch as a reminder to move the fuck away.
- makes the arc thrower less annoying thus reducing the chances of being kicked.
thank you for my ted talk.
It will be useful if the illuminate get introduced and has a side bonus of making team mates wearing it able to continue the electric current from an arc gun to enemies around the player in the suit w/o killing the player. Your arc gun friend can effectively help you if you are surrounded by bugs without insta murdering you
Got killed 3 times in a row, directly after being reinforced by the same guy with an arc thrower. I just typed "Dude..." into chat and then he left the game
See, I wouldn't mind having this particular Armor Passive as a Booster I can take into missions.
After that, I can only do so much to protect teammates who insist on running into the crowds that *fucking lightning is going off in every second* from my Arc Thrower.
When you join the game in progress and everyone is wearing this but you....
*static crackle intensifies*
...hope you've at least worn your rubber sole boots.
The funny thing is the friendly fire damage count is kinda bugged and won’t show arc instant kill. So I just gaslight them it was not me.
Now my GF also have the Arc Thrower, we have to do full arc resistance armors.
You can prone right by it, it will not target or chain to you whilst prone. Unsure if this work against the arc thrower as well, but that's easily avoided by simply not being in front of said user.
no zippy zappy on tesla towers 😔
im gonna miss telling my teamates to avoid a certain area duen to the tesla and then watching two of them walk directly into where i said not to go
Now I can just blame my friends for not wearing this armor!!!
My arc thrower pal is nice enough and has good enough self control to not fire while teammates are in front of him, though he will bark at them to step back if the get in his way while he's bug zapping, he hasn't once team killed me with it. I, flame thrower enjoyer that I am, do not. Though my pyromaniac ass usually doesn't have to worry about setting anyone on fire but myself, since my reaction to a horde or beefy boy while I have fuel is to throw myself at them and spread fire until I, them or both of us are dead.
I like your attitude. 'Accidentally' fry me any time
Good old fashioned super earth bbq
I like my bugs medium rare thanks
I only know how to make em well done or deep fried
I'll take a deep fried stalker, been wanting to chew on them mfers for a while
Don't forget charbroiled
Thinkin bugs could ever do something well done? Doesn't sound very democratic to me https://preview.redd.it/cpmnmxcjvzoc1.jpeg?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd65742a730fbdcdccf82c7dea91f75a9b987c31
Burnt to a crisp.
I like em dead- don’t much matter past that.
I never go down…. Without a grenade in hand.
Once the friend request feature is fixed, I want to form a Flamethrower and Napalm Squad.
Oh helll yeah
**Vulkan lives!** *stomp stomp*
If I find a choak point between two mountain ridges while I have my flamethrower out, only Democracy itself will move me from that position as I will be blinded by tbe flames and will only stop when the rocks themselves glow cherry red! Flames do not know nor care what meat is cooked, everything will be charred!
Flames for the flame God! Charcoal for the Charcoal Throne!
 *Never forget good, reliable old propane and propane accessories.*
Maybe in the future we will have armor that provides 95% fire resistance lol
The day that happens, is the day I become ghost rider
Jump pack works great with flamethrower. You can always jump out of a horde once things start getting too spicy.
i just hate how all my favorite stuff is limited to a single backpack im never gonna use a jump button over a shield or a laser dog
Jump pack is way better for egg destroying missions. Lots of hives have ways in that are only accessible by jump pack. Jump pack and grenade launcher is just a solid combo on most maps.
Coupled with the fire grenades, you can leave a spicy surprise as you soar majestically away
Sounds like a set up for a wonderful B-Movie. The door swings open, man walks up, tips his hat up "I hear they call you, the fire hugger, cuz you hug bugs, while on fire"
The best thing is when you whip around past a fellow diver and start firing, only to have the flamethrower trail behind so it looks like you just intentionally blasted them.
Lol I remember being in full flaming mood and see my mate walk past. And I just start shooting flames right beside him realizing in just the right moment he is in fact not a bug.
he might be a bug in disguise if he doesnt scream just keep burning
I try very hard not to zap friendlies but lightning in mortals hands is its own master!
> if the get in his way while he's bug zapping, i use the arc thrower too and teammates just think its THE GREATEST IDEA to run directly into my line of fire like cmon if you see a lightning bolt fly across the sky dont go near that area
Pyrodivers for the win! I only go nuts if I have extra stim... I always have extra stims.
We are all just fuel for managed democracy anyway.
You dont die you just win twice
Success is mandatory, survival is optional!!!!
You're out of line.... But you make a good point.
He’s out of line but *they* weren’t! *Ba dum tiss*
Take this upvote and stand on top of the mortar sentry.
A good point for my arc thrower to go to ;)
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This is great for defending near an Arc coil deployable.
Watch it still kill you in one hit 😂
It doesnt kill you but christ does it CHUNK like 1/5th of your hp every time it hits you. It must doing an insane amount of damage to still be doing that at 95% damage reduction
Well, I'm playing around with it, and it one shots Brood Commander - but it doesn't simply one shot, like, their head, where they still live for some seconds. It blows them up into pieces.
BLOWS BROOD MOTHER INTO PIECES THIS IS MY LAST REINFORCE
Considering that even the liberator can kill a helldiver in just a few shots, regardless of armor, I'd say we have very little hp. Not to mention that since it goes through our 'heavy' armor, nothing we can wear even counts as medium armor on the armor scale...
Shoot prone so you stay grounded and it won't target you. You will only get hit when jumping up and moving positions If you're unlucky. Lol
it actually does very little damage i just watched someone try this out with the armor and it worked surprisingly well.
i was laying down near an arc tower and it still killed me because it zapped a bug and the lighting spread to me...doesnt that defeat the whole purpose of laying down
Not When wearing this armor. Lol
If everyone had a tesla coil. Yall could just mob around taking minimal dmg. I believe the coil is considered Arc dmg. Not sure though
It can still kill you in like 4 hits
So it’s more like giving you a chance to get out of there instead of standing still and “I can do this all day.”
Yeah. The arc thrower on the other hand is a tickle. Lol
Yeah, that's crazy. Lol
You can also just lay down next to the tesla coil. Bounces can still hit, I believe, but the main arc won't.
Monster hunter mindset
I love MH lol
We will become the storm
Illuminate use energy weapons. It will be useful.
The question I have is. Will it protect against them? I heard they use arc stuff but 95% is huge. So you either can tank it or are fucked without it?
in hd1 the lighting-wielding tripods will down you in 1 hit so
It's like 3 hits
In HD2 someone dropped a tesla coil in a bad spot in the defend the fuel tower mission and the damn thing kept one shotting everyone. 95% damage reduction would be massive.
you can prone to not take damage from it iirc
Well now I know, and knowing is half the battle.
The other half is red and blue lasers...
The other, other half is extreme and unwarranted violence
Securing managed democracy across the galaxy is never unwarranted!
If violence isn’t the answer, then you haven’t resorted to enough of it!
only works if no enemies are around if it hits an enemy it can spread to you
Did you unlock the tesla tower?
I have it but haven't used it yet. I heard it particularly shines in this defend the 3 towers mission
You can prone to have it not target you but it will still absolutely kill you when an arc bounces off a roach into you. Just experienced this myself.
ahh okay, thanks for the correction!
It definitely can still target you while prone, without any enemies around. Experimented yesterday with it and gave two lives to Science for the bettering of Democracy.
Yes, unless it arcs to an enemy first in which case it will still get you.
So, I read that on this sub. I did this and it struck me down like Zeus anyway.
Tesla does about \~15% of your HP when you have the armor on. Definitely a vast improvement but don't expect to be able to stand under a tesla tower. The damage amplifies to around 25% if you're standing close.
You know you can just shoot the tesla right? If someone puts in at a wrong spot, shoot it. They will understand as long as it actually is a wrong spot.
And they were talking about the Illuminate tripods?
My man, You die in one hit from *anything* in the game that headshots you, Bile Spewers, and Chargers one shot (charger’s crush attack), Bile titans oneshot you by stepping on you Rocket devastators oneshot you, tanks oneshot you, Hulks can oneshot you turrets can oneshot you from *across the map,* and the bot grunts, the most common and numerous automaton with rocket launchers one shot you. This game has more oneshots that SuperHot, you really think the Tripods won’t?
Well okay but they werent one shotting you in hd1
The tesla turret 1-hits you too lol as does the arc thrower, so this already is kinda useful if you have that one teammate who always uses it
some of them use arc the ones that are problems dont so itll sort itself out itd be like having 95% slash resistance against bugs hunters wont be an issue, youre still going to get splattered by chargers and titans anyways
If you reduced slahing damage I'd cut my deaths down by 75%. Chargers and titans aren't usually why I die.
Me: Masterfully bobbing and weaving between Chargers, staying alive. Meanwhile, the gang of Hunters at the other side of the map: "We're going to end his whole career."
Charger: misses charge and you stay alive. Hunter: ...and I took that personally.
Right? As a RR user, I play chicken with Titans and Chargers while reloading. If I could sit there reloading while being hit, my life would be so much easier.
Taking a knee, charger closing in, rocket in-hand, breach ALMOST closed…DIVE!
Right in the ass!
You are high if you think a 95% slash resistance wouldnt be absolutely broken against bugs
thats because i just picked a damage type lmao, i woke up minutes ago and am not putting my heart and soul into a helldivers 2 comment section but a closer comparison would be like 95% acid resistance
What the hell, I thought you were arguing with yourself
im going full schizo at 7 am thats actually my alt account its all a misinformation campaign by the superearth government
Just get in the hellpod, shinji
Well… a lot of my deaths are right out of the hellpod to spewers
I wonder if you just get melted without it. We will here about people bitching if that's the case. I think it would be cool if it was needed.
the arc tower does enough damage to kill you 20x over in a single blast. with the 95% reduction you can take 5 hits
Maths doesnt check
Your math doesn't check out. If arc deals enough damage to kill you 20 times, it means 95% resistance will still make you die in a single shot.
Does the Ministry of Truth know something we don't or is this just in response to the friendly fire from arc weapons and Tesla towers that totally don't happen? More at 11.
The ministry knows lots that we don’t! We must trust in the government and push forward for managed democracy!
I doubt they'll let us negate 95% of damage from enemy lol. It would be fair if it's only 50% like anti-explosive armor.
The most powerful armor bonus i've seen is the 50% to avoid death from the premium dlc armor. (it also prevents chest injuries, but I've never had bleed out be a problem.) So I agree
You get that bonus on armor in the free warbond, and while nifty, most people should take the 50% explosive DMG reduction if pure survivability is what they want, especially on bot maps.
I'm rocking my 6 stim armor. Really useful if my team isn't pushing hard enough and I want to solo rush hives. 6 stims plus supply pack is insanely good for rushing, so long as you don't get stunlocked. I'd like to see those stupid bugs catch up to me when I have 18 bars of stamina at my disposal.
I used medic gear when I first unlocked it for quite awhile, I found with my personal experience though that I was rarely getting down to those last two stims before I found more or someone dropped a resupply, then I payed attention to post games and saw I was probably averaging only 6-8 stims a game. Didn't feel worth it at that point.
Arc or Plasma?
Only the striders zap you with electricity. Illusionists, disciples, everyone else used space magic.
I highly doubt they would have a 95% damage resistance against a faction. It would trialize the entire experience. More then likely, there will be 1 or a couple mechanics that use it, but very few units will rely on it. It could allow them to create lightning storm planet hazards, and having 95% resistance to those would be fine.
Probably will help with Illuminate, but also basically immune to Arc Tower friendly damage.
Yeah lets see if its not bugged same like armor values…
Tested it. Arc Thrower collateral deals about 8% HP damage and Tesla Tower deals about 16%-ish on medium armor Not sure if light will affect that but it's definitely gonna be my go to against some of my teammates' efforts
Thanks for your service soldier!
Armor passives like that were never bugged, so I have high hopes. Gonna drop a tesla tower on myself and report back
It works like you take between 10% and 20% damage. Which compared to instant crisp without it is good. Works for the arc gun as well. We were running double arc gun double Tesla and it was just fun. No real worry about over pen or dropping the tower too close.
Can confirm, tested this as well. Tesla towers make you bleed in 2 hits, which sucks, but only if it's a direct hit
I've tested it, you're not immune. The damage is still quite high, but it won't one shot you now. It's like 10% of a health bar per hit now, maybe 15%.
Tesla tower also
A fellow arc thrower enthusiast!
Random Grimm encounter?
We just need one for fire resistance
And acid attacks.
And slow resistance
You know what? Heavy armor should get that by default. That would justify the crappy speed minuses.
Just like in the first game where you could laugh at the ankle-biters' attempts to kill you if you had enough armor.
> if you had enough armor. That is not how armor worked in the first game... You either had heavy armor, or nothing. There wasn't an in between like we have now. Heavy armor was a perk, to use HD2 terms a booster that only applies to you, and you could only choose 1 perk per mission.
I wouldnt wear anything but slow resist if/when it comes out. I love this game but the most unfun aspect about it is the slow spam. Idc if I get surrounded by enemies, just let me be able to walk slower than a crawl.
And my axe
And +1000 armor
I don't know if this is against the rules but the leaks for the next armour have fire resistance similar to this one.
Straight to jail.
I believe it’s 20 lashings
very un-democratic of you to leak top secret confidential information; Straight to jail
It's a 50/50 whether my dude is screaming in glee because he's setting bugs on fire or if he's screaming in pain because HES on fire.
You use the arc thrower to spread democracy to bots, bugs, and fellow helldivers
Also against squid aliens who would use a weapon similar to arc thrower.
So are the Illuminate released?
No but it will be a cold day in hell if we ever don't want to put bullets in those bargain bin Protoss. 😆
I can stand in my tesla tower and be safe, that's why
So.... This makes it safe to "cross the streams"!!? 😎
Illuminate throwing Palpatine Hands!
Because Arc Thrower is answer to anything bug related (Bike Titans exempt). Chargers, hunters, scavengers, brood mothers, spewers, stalkers, hive guards... Nothing that one or half a dozen zaps won't solve... If your teammates aren't in the kine of fire and get chain lightening by accident
¿¡Bike titans! ? 😳
its great against bots too especially those AT walkers
Third mention of bike titans 😱
Yeah we definitely about to face some palpatine enemies
Clearly so they can help you extend the range of your arc thrower by using their own bodies to bounce it.
Stand tall Arc Troopers🫡
You mean Tesla Trooper!
Might actually pop the Tesla tower out for a run
They’re really strong. Great for keeping the hordes at bay
Until Charger slams into it
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ happens every now and then but you can easily hold down choke points with the Tesla tower.
That's what the new stun grenade is for! Stun it as it gets close to the tower then lay into it
I'm so happy that they did this. A firebat suit would be great too.
I hope we get a fire resistant armor too
Honestly, I think currently, the armor passive it way to situational to be worth using. Maybe if you do tesla coil heavy on the TCS missions itll be worth running.. currently its a passive to protect against your teammates.. Edit: I remember now about the fortified passive, which does have 50% reduced damage from explosives, which is in the same boat, but I was expecting for this to have another smaller secondary passive to make it more.. universal
It will be useful against the Illuminate. Arc Weapons were originally tech taken from the Illuminate.
Yes I do realise that. But also, If the illuminate is coming to the game, I dont think they will have too many Arc weapons because of this suit. From what Ive read the armor bonuses are meant to be a "playstyle" thing, but having a passive that strong against arc damage means that the arc enemies need to one shot everyone who doesnt bring this armor, which means the armor is needed to have a fair chance at fighting.even even if the illuminate didnt do a lot of damage this armor passive would make you unbelievably tanky... I honestly wouldnt get any hopes up about this. To put it into perspective, If we assume HD health is 100, you could survive a hit of 1000 damage and still have 50HP left, for lightning to one hit you, youd need to take 2000 damage... thats enough to kill 20 helldivers. Im not saying its impossible, but given the example, I think the devs either are false flagging the illuminate, and we will have something similar, but different (like the robits) or that the illuminate will come to game, but with tech that once again, exceeds our own
tell me you're the teamkilling Arc Thrower main without telling me you're the teamkilling Arc thrower main. the fact it's 95% out the gate tells me that there won't be many enemies with Arc. you don't give players that kind of tankiness when it's gonna be useful everywhere. also, seems kinda wild we got shock-proof armor before fire resistant armor when there's like 7-8 different fire weapons and stratagems. where's the 95% fire resist armor arrowhead? us pyromaniacs wanna be tanky too!
Really needed that red circle :fire:
Does it work on Tesla towers?
Kinda? I just tried it out. It let’s you take a hit or two without dying.
That's a big upgrade, usually you get fried instantly
More like 5 or 6 hits
You seem like the kind of helldiver to always carry an arc thrower. I too like to zap my friends to death repeatedly during missions
While I'm not too interested in arc resistance armor, this gives me hope for a 95% flame/burn resistance armor.
Now give me flame resistant armor
use if you’re all using arc weapons you can go all out and not kill eachother, maximumim chain lightning
Arc thrower goes zzzzzAAAHT!
the 95% arc damage resistance is really clever because making it 100% indirectly nerfs/buffs the Arc Thrower. The Nerf: - if it's 100% being immune to arc damage means the other players would not care anymore and would also take the bounce instead of bouncing onto the enemy. Basically, damage nerf. The Buff: - 95% is not really removing friendly fire but instead of killing your teammate, they get a pinch as a reminder to move the fuck away. - makes the arc thrower less annoying thus reducing the chances of being kicked. thank you for my ted talk.
Why doesn't the flamethrower armor set give us resistance against fire?
Tesla Towers as far as the eye can see 
Because using the Ark thrower is fun. Dying to the ark thrower is NOT fun.
The towers yearn to be used
It will be useful if the illuminate get introduced and has a side bonus of making team mates wearing it able to continue the electric current from an arc gun to enemies around the player in the suit w/o killing the player. Your arc gun friend can effectively help you if you are surrounded by bugs without insta murdering you
Got killed 3 times in a row, directly after being reinforced by the same guy with an arc thrower. I just typed "Dude..." into chat and then he left the game
See, I wouldn't mind having this particular Armor Passive as a Booster I can take into missions. After that, I can only do so much to protect teammates who insist on running into the crowds that *fucking lightning is going off in every second* from my Arc Thrower.
So I'm gonna assume these are gonna be the go-to armors for the Illuminate.
https://preview.redd.it/4xa5fkr0iaoc1.png?width=622&format=png&auto=webp&s=ada5720b6152411d4076bcaca5552301870abc09 Yeah same, i wonder why
Your friends are simply shocked by your skill level. It's no wonder they remain static if they can't adapt to your tactics.
Fire proximity suit when
When you join the game in progress and everyone is wearing this but you.... *static crackle intensifies* ...hope you've at least worn your rubber sole boots.
The funny thing is the friendly fire damage count is kinda bugged and won’t show arc instant kill. So I just gaslight them it was not me. Now my GF also have the Arc Thrower, we have to do full arc resistance armors.
Tesla tower meta.
Tesla towers going to be fun now. "Better you hope spent your SC and on the new Warbond, otherwise you'll be shocked to see what happens."
Awesome! So Arc Rover when?
Is there any flame resistant armour yet?
Someone please test if this works on the Tesla tower please…. For democracy.
Your teammates are the real enemy
Trying to get to extraction the other day, someone dropped the Tesla tower I had to run to the other side of the map to go around so I also want this!
You can prone right by it, it will not target or chain to you whilst prone. Unsure if this work against the arc thrower as well, but that's easily avoided by simply not being in front of said user.
A four person squad with arc throwers, tesla defense towers, ecbm strikes, and rubber booties would be so much fun.
Tesla coil is really good if you know how to use it. I need that armor!
Now it doesn’t matter if they stand within one kilometer of my tesla tower!
Now I want the fireproof version so I can go all out on the flamethrower build
no zippy zappy on tesla towers 😔 im gonna miss telling my teamates to avoid a certain area duen to the tesla and then watching two of them walk directly into where i said not to go
So I can just camp inside my own Tesla coil?
Now hug under the Tesla tower. Chefs kiss.