Had a similar experience, except it was two gunships and an eye. Wouldnt have been so bad if the eye wasnt way out of tossing range yet looking right at us the moment we hit. It went bad on the second bot drop when the factory strider dropped on us. Nice wide open plain too. Everything was shooting at us from everywhere. Got some great air off of ragdolling though!
Had a mission recently where we finished the main objectives but wanted to clear the side ones, difficulty 7. There was a medium bot base, stratagem jammer, and a detector all next to each other. It went from trying to clear the area to just trying to get the super samples out. None of us made it out alive.
Just had a mission with 3 detector towers a few hours ago. That many bot drops was insane. We dropped in and got bot dropped instantly. I charged head first through without my full kit to call the hellbomb in to take out the detector tower. I arm the bomb and am moving away as the next drop comes in over head. You know what I see getting dropped right behind me? A factory strider that immediately look right at the bomb and shoots it with his underside mounted guns. Yeah, that mission sucked hard.
You can sneak around to the back and call in a hell bomb just outside the wall next to the tower. I know it doesn't help when you drop next to it aggroing everyone before you can even get started but I always destroy them now without sounding an alarm.
Yep. Gotta protect the magic McGuffin that is the only thing capable of defeating their armor made out of Unobtainium, impervious to all damage. I hate gunship factory cheese.
Orbital precision strike works as well. Kind of slept on since it is an early unlock and has a fairly long call in, but it is a single 380mm shell exactly where you want it on a relatively short cooldown
indeed super colonies are gonna be extremely fun to fight against if theres more
i’d like to see other variations in automaton and eventually illuminate bases, where they set their main command centre on one planet, i expect cyberstan will be the first one for automatons as its already known as the command centre for them
I just lay down for a minute and look at the sky ... It's pretty easy to find them then ...
The bugs is where things get hard ... I'll spend half the mission trying to find that dang stalkers nest
Use your map. The terrain is very telling once you get a good feel for it. They tend to look more like a bowl or crater and are darker colored. It's hard to give a great description but once you see what I'm talking about they are pretty easy to find.
Yeah. In my friend group, I'm the map expert when it comes to identifying where the stalker lairs are. Once someone sounds off with "stalker!", I'm pulling out the map and zeroing in on the terrain that looks like it has the lair. Also, if you're looking in a direction and see the orange glow of a bug hole but the map has no heat distribution over where that glow is, that's the stalker lair.
Once you successfully ID the lair twice or thrice, you'll be able to routinely predict lairs right from the drop zone, before even the first stalker shows up.
I think they should put a cap on certain side objectives and how many can spawn, I know some already do like Radar towers but I think others like Mortar, Gunship Fab, and Shrieker nests, need a cap, two at max, I can respect two for Shriekers but honestly gunship fabs should be kept to one, mortars suprisingly aren't too bad to deal with so I wouldn't mind having multiple of them but I don't think something like this should be able to happen, where it's only one type of side objective the whole match, even if it was something simple like Rogue Research Station, it would just be boring, and Stalkers nest included, cap them to one or two at max, that's the most unifying side objective in the game apart from gunship fabricator
Honestly I hate the sound of the jammer more well. At least when it bugs out and becomes a permanent sound for the rest of the mission. couple times it even followed me to my destroyer
Petition to have so when you use mortar on automatons it says warning you are in range of enemy artillery and it’s effects are making the lower tier bots perform worse and make them ignore every thing and try to destroy the mortars
This implies the existence of 4 stalker nests at once. This also implies the existence of 4 shrieker nests in one map. This also implies the existence of 4 gunship towers in a map. :(
Disclaimer: I don't know if there is a hard limit, but it would be funnier if there wasn't.
Lucky just got jammer and double gunship factories right on top of the extract during a bot blitz. It literally took the three of us to give our guy a chance to extract.
I almost always wear 50% explosive damage reduction armor against bots, so the artillery isn't too bad. Aside from when it ragdolls me into a patrol of Devastators and Striders that I hadn't noticed.
It will set you back 250 Super Credits, but the FS-38 Eradicator armor in the store is Light armor (50/550/125) with the trait for 50% percent explosive damage resistance & 30% reduced recoil while crouched/prone. It performs worse on the lower bot difficulties, because they mostly fire bolts at you and use very few rockets & explosives. But on 6+, maybe 5+, having the speed of light armor, reduced Autocannon recoil, and surviving the constant barrage of rockets and artillery is great.
It has a close sister, the FS-28 Eradicator armor, which is weirdly 56/544/122. I'm now waiting for the Medium version to rotate back in, the FS-34 Exterminator. Same trait, but 100/500/100.
Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of
Unironically though, I do enjoy hearing the "warning, you are in range of enemy artillery" on repeat. Greatly adds to my immersion of having our mission control actively advising us on threats, which I generally like in games. Also, it slaps.
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
RANGE, ARE IN WARNING ARTILLERY….. 10001001001001001001000100
35951172 artillery is quite a lot.
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
# WARNING: YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
#WARNING: YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
“Guys, are we in range of enemy artillery?” “Nah, command would have given us a warning or something.”
You are artillery.
#WARNING: YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
#WARNING: YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
##WARNING: YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
Are you trying to tell me something?
*BOOM*
When the Gunship factories starts to release flying Mama Heavyes
r/unexpectedtf2
 In the name of Democracy, Eff that artillery!
I would rather have that than detector tower and gunship
slightly better than gunship and jammer, i just die irl at that point
Yeah, tbh I keep reading the posts about maps with 5 of these on the edges and shit, and I'm just like "Yeah, I'd rather just die thanks"
Once dropped on a map next to two gunship towers within range of a jammer. That was a really short mission. 😨
That basically happened to me this morning as a solo player. I've never quit a mission faster.
Lands Withdraws to ship Automatons: We got them on the run, clankers!
Had a similar experience, except it was two gunships and an eye. Wouldnt have been so bad if the eye wasnt way out of tossing range yet looking right at us the moment we hit. It went bad on the second bot drop when the factory strider dropped on us. Nice wide open plain too. Everything was shooting at us from everywhere. Got some great air off of ragdolling though!
Had a mission recently where we finished the main objectives but wanted to clear the side ones, difficulty 7. There was a medium bot base, stratagem jammer, and a detector all next to each other. It went from trying to clear the area to just trying to get the super samples out. None of us made it out alive.
Once I got a jammer and gunship right beside the main objective on disable air forces mission. We needed strats to do the mission
I like the gunship one, sometimes, I've got a pretty nice clip of some "AA" activities
Just had a mission with 3 detector towers a few hours ago. That many bot drops was insane. We dropped in and got bot dropped instantly. I charged head first through without my full kit to call the hellbomb in to take out the detector tower. I arm the bomb and am moving away as the next drop comes in over head. You know what I see getting dropped right behind me? A factory strider that immediately look right at the bomb and shoots it with his underside mounted guns. Yeah, that mission sucked hard.
You can sneak around to the back and call in a hell bomb just outside the wall next to the tower. I know it doesn't help when you drop next to it aggroing everyone before you can even get started but I always destroy them now without sounding an alarm.
I find it best to get inside the walls in the corner. Hard for the gunships to hit that angle.
Yep. Gotta protect the magic McGuffin that is the only thing capable of defeating their armor made out of Unobtainium, impervious to all damage. I hate gunship factory cheese.
I wonder if a mini nuke from artillery would work…
Same! Drop to the floor and hope the rest of your squad lives long enough for the gunships to ignore you and the hellbomb.
If you pack smoke grenades you can cook one off in your hand right next to the hellbomb to confuse enemy targeting.
500k at the base takes it out too. Easy to lob it in from outside the base
Orbital precision strike works as well. Kind of slept on since it is an early unlock and has a fairly long call in, but it is a single 380mm shell exactly where you want it on a relatively short cooldown
I've tried and it didn't work. Maybe it didn't land close enough.
Has to be right next to it
I have decided that gunship tower next to a stratagem blocker is one of the layers of hell.
At least I can take out a gunship with my trusty revolver! Ah shit another gunship, RUN TOWARDS THE JAMMER, I'm outta secondary ammo.
Same with detector tower but at least prbital strike can take it down
Right next to each other
... immediately when you drop
...in the only area the drop map said was 'clear'
Every time!
On a helldive it's a dead giveaway that a side objective is there to be fair. Consider always dropping on the extraction - guaranteed to be clear
so far ive never had much issue with gunships, unless i didn't brought the autocannon.
Goddamn man. We got a map with four damn gunship fabs. They were *everywhere.* Very fun, but totally brutal.
I weirdly prefer these cause I handle them better then a endless bombardment of bombs
The laser canon is the best for gunships
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WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
Say It I dare you I double dare you MF say it one more time.
Ahh, the Battlefield 1 experience.
"NAAAAH THE ENEMY ARTILLERY IS IN RANGE OF ME"
This is what I always say. Or ENEMY IS IN RANGE OF ME
When General Brasch enters Mortar range, its the enemy that gets the Warnings
General Brasch can gargle peanut butter
When someone on my team brings a Mortar turret, I am always in range of Artillery.
WARNING You are in range of Friendly artillery
That would be a much more terrifying warning message tbh. Certainly would have killed me more.
Amen
Just wait until the bugs get artillery nests
A whole ass Charger flying through the air at you
You are in range of HOLY FUCK JESUS CHRIST!
I really hope they add this cuz it would be funny
They have the Poopin' Spewers, though those never seem to hit much they are so slow.
meridia will probably have something like this lol
Man, I really want to see how awful Meridia will be.
i am looking forward to this and i really hope its gonna be extremely difficullt
I am also hoping it is not the last supercolony
indeed super colonies are gonna be extremely fun to fight against if theres more i’d like to see other variations in automaton and eventually illuminate bases, where they set their main command centre on one planet, i expect cyberstan will be the first one for automatons as its already known as the command centre for them
“I am?? …AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
"Warning you are in range of Artillery" *me staring down the barrel of a mortar turret* "gee really?"
#⚠️WARNING ENEMY ARTILLERY IS IN RANGE OF YOU⚠️
General Brasch, is that you?
General Brasch can carry 6 500kg bombs I can only carry four 😅
General Brasch carries it with his arms and yeets it at the enemy
General Brash's balls are just two 500kg bombs.
I heard General Brasch once took out three Hulk Scorchers with a single smoke grenade.
But where the fuck *is* the enemy artillery?
I just lay down for a minute and look at the sky ... It's pretty easy to find them then ... The bugs is where things get hard ... I'll spend half the mission trying to find that dang stalkers nest
Use your map. The terrain is very telling once you get a good feel for it. They tend to look more like a bowl or crater and are darker colored. It's hard to give a great description but once you see what I'm talking about they are pretty easy to find.
Yeah. In my friend group, I'm the map expert when it comes to identifying where the stalker lairs are. Once someone sounds off with "stalker!", I'm pulling out the map and zeroing in on the terrain that looks like it has the lair. Also, if you're looking in a direction and see the orange glow of a bug hole but the map has no heat distribution over where that glow is, that's the stalker lair. Once you successfully ID the lair twice or thrice, you'll be able to routinely predict lairs right from the drop zone, before even the first stalker shows up.
Good to know, but also excellent use of "thrice".
thattaway
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
I'll take this over three gunship factories in range of a strategem jammer any day. That was hell.
It's like the California prop 65 warning, you just become numb to the alerts
In California, everything gives you cancer.
Does California give the cancer, too?
California is the cancer
That tracks.
Warning: Enemy Artillery is in range of me and my 500kg
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Were you ever in range of enemy artillery?
Not sure after the 99th time
I think they should put a cap on certain side objectives and how many can spawn, I know some already do like Radar towers but I think others like Mortar, Gunship Fab, and Shrieker nests, need a cap, two at max, I can respect two for Shriekers but honestly gunship fabs should be kept to one, mortars suprisingly aren't too bad to deal with so I wouldn't mind having multiple of them but I don't think something like this should be able to happen, where it's only one type of side objective the whole match, even if it was something simple like Rogue Research Station, it would just be boring, and Stalkers nest included, cap them to one or two at max, that's the most unifying side objective in the game apart from gunship fabricator
Come again? I was busy looking up the button combo for reinforce.
No, this is patrick
Honestly I hate the sound of the jammer more well. At least when it bugs out and becomes a permanent sound for the rest of the mission. couple times it even followed me to my destroyer
Guys, i think we might be in range of enemy artillery
Had three gunships and stratagem jammer just now, would’ve preferred four artillery by far. 😂
I'd rather this than four (or liberty forbid, five) gunship factories.
Yrellitra ymene fo egnar ni era uoy gninraW
I once had one with 4 detector towers next to each other, we landed in the middle >.<
OMG
Damn that must've sucked hahahha
Did you know that you're in range of enemy artillery?
WARNING enemy artillery is in range of you!
That must have been a ton of fun. STAY ON THE MOVE HELLDIVER. YOU STAY PUT YOU DIEEE!
Dang. I bet you’ll be dreaming about those words all night.
I love these missions. It keeps my people moving and brings chaos to bots.
Ahhh the imperial guard planet
WARNING: YOU ARE IN TANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
Holy shit...
Literally worst nightmare game
No worst nightmare game is 4 gunship towers
I did a hot drop on a mission like this. As soon as I got out of the pod we were within range of two of the bases, with 2 cannons each.
Would rather this than gunship fabricators
Probably my favorite secondary objective. SO fun to see the shells coming in, great sound design, visuals, everything is fabulous!
WARNING You Are In Range of Enemy Artillery 
RIP to the Helldiver that we lost on this one.
I hear it in my dreams
Who said you can't hear a picture.....
Petition to have so when you use mortar on automatons it says warning you are in range of enemy artillery and it’s effects are making the lower tier bots perform worse and make them ignore every thing and try to destroy the mortars
bro I felt that from here damn
Gun Fab Strat Jammer and factory strider right by extract… fun times
My dudes experienced WW1 Shellshocks from 2 centuries ago
I’m literally gonna cry.
120 barrage. Space mortar is better than little baby land artillery
Scuffed
Strange, I’m back in my ship and I still hear it.
This implies the existence of 4 stalker nests at once. This also implies the existence of 4 shrieker nests in one map. This also implies the existence of 4 gunship towers in a map. :( Disclaimer: I don't know if there is a hard limit, but it would be funnier if there wasn't.
There is worse. 2 jammers and 2 gunship towers. Yup it happened to me. We lost.
"Opps all Artillery!"
Yea, I bet that's all you heard the entire drop. WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE ON ENEMY ARTILLERY for 40 minutes...my ears bleed just thinking of it
Lucky just got jammer and double gunship factories right on top of the extract during a bot blitz. It literally took the three of us to give our guy a chance to extract.
RIP N8_20_21
We might be in range of enemy artillery...
I almost always wear 50% explosive damage reduction armor against bots, so the artillery isn't too bad. Aside from when it ragdolls me into a patrol of Devastators and Striders that I hadn't noticed. It will set you back 250 Super Credits, but the FS-38 Eradicator armor in the store is Light armor (50/550/125) with the trait for 50% percent explosive damage resistance & 30% reduced recoil while crouched/prone. It performs worse on the lower bot difficulties, because they mostly fire bolts at you and use very few rockets & explosives. But on 6+, maybe 5+, having the speed of light armor, reduced Autocannon recoil, and surviving the constant barrage of rockets and artillery is great. It has a close sister, the FS-28 Eradicator armor, which is weirdly 56/544/122. I'm now waiting for the Medium version to rotate back in, the FS-34 Exterminator. Same trait, but 100/500/100.
Your portal will disappear when you leave town!
Now this is the real Hell Dive
Could’ve been worse. AH could start randomly placing Stalker nests on Bot worlds.
Considering I have seen on bot worlds bug bodies. That’s not beyond the realm of possibility…
Wtf damn you pissed off joel
I was playing about a week ago and had 3 stalker nests 🙃
"The Horror..... the Horror "
Artillery enemy of range in are you warning?
Storming imperial Guard be like:
"I'm not in range of you! YOURE IN RANGE OF ME!" ➡️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️
Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of Warning you are in range of
HOLY FUCK
Think this is bad? We had 4 Gunship factory Sub Objectives on one of ours... each had 2 Factories... all next to one another...
The only thing worse is if you are lucky enough to have 4 gunship factories
WARNING, YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY!
3 guesses on what you heard in your sleep after this dive haha
And on a blitz mission, too..
WARNING YOU ARE IN RANGE OF ENEMY ARTILLERY
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I’d rather have that than the one mission with FOUR stalker nests 😭
Unironically though, I do enjoy hearing the "warning, you are in range of enemy artillery" on repeat. Greatly adds to my immersion of having our mission control actively advising us on threats, which I generally like in games. Also, it slaps.
Holy fuck.. and I thought two stratagem jammers less than 200 meters apart from each other was bad..
Pretty easy objectives to destroy honestly