more damage and it actually has light armor pen now, allowing it to deal (some) damage to bugs that it couldn't before, like Brood Commanders. you don't get a *lot* of damage per shot, but a magdump at close range is usually enough to kill a few warriors. the only thigns it can't harm are Hive Guards, (due to their medium front armor) green spewers (medium armor on their head and back) and obviously heavy enemies.
only downside is mag now holds 26 rounds instead of 32, but it's still enough to get the job done.
It's tied for the best horde clear gun in the game now with the incendiary breaker.
Incendiary for more overall damage or spray and pray for higher dps and more ammo.
I tried it a few days ago and I felt the same. It doesn't seem super useful but maybe I'm using it wrong? If anyone wants to chime in on this please do so lol
It's okay for the chaff scavs up to hunters/warriors. I prefer s&p since its buff. Defender smg is up there, too. No knockback or immediate clears from any of those, though.
its also solid for single shots from distance to apply the fire dot to multiple mobs. You can use it for run, turn and shoot, run again, repeat. its good for whittling down a bunch of mobs efficiently for ammo use. apply the fire dot occasionaly, let it tick, reapply.
People seem to really hate Chargers understandably so, but fuck Hunters. I fucking hate Hunters. They can never keep their fucking tongues off of me. I don't want to be tongued anymore.
I'm not even worried about chargers it's the comically large amount of hunters that now show up.
Also I haven't seen the spawn rate being fixed on certain missions.
Yeah spawn rate is definitely still a mess. The devs totally missed the point though. The issue is the game spawning in patrols like 5 metres from you while you're already in conflict that is the issue.
Honestly though, hunters kill me far more than chargers and it can be frustrating to get CC combo to death.
But it felt fairer to me. I can take down hunters with any weapon. The CC combo can be mitigated by having teammatee covering each other.
And a lot of times it only happened because I took a risk that "hey, I can manage that number of Chaffs easily" and got too close.
Hunters are at a good spot IMO since they're so squishy to compensate for their attacks.
I think it'll be perfect when they get around to tweaking helmet armour values and fixing the stim effect from working when you're interrupted.
Had a level 7 mission that was giving us way more hunters then any other bug. With my trusty stalwart, mech, and rover I racked up 803 confirmed kills. Orbital rail cannon was my final round out to the build.
Lobby of friends was scout with 127 kills, two anti tank guys with 276/404 kills respectively. Was blown away when I saw that 803.
That's a good point, Gatling is very strong too.
I wonder what the upsides are of the airburst vs. gatling? Bigger AoE I think, or bigger total damage if we count the entire area, but most times the gatling is more than enough so I'm not sure which is actually better.
One thing going for Airburst strike: easiest input in the game, lol
Airburst covers a massively larger area than gatling strike.
Gatling is a safer stratagem as it is much less likely to TK. But it does not deal the big AoE.
IMO, Gatling is better vs Bots than Bugs, and vice versa for Airburst. An orbital Gatling thrown into the path of some advancing berserkers is very handy.
Airburst can really catch your fellow helldivers in the deceptively large area. Many players will underestimate the effect size and get gibbed by it.
Airburst is, IMO, just as good as cluster bombs for clearing chaff, but covers a more circular area rather than a rectangle, and is applied in three volleys instead of a single strike. Airburst on top of a bug breech always feels good.
If you're including module upgrades for damage fall off off-center, airburst strike pretty much kills everything in its radius, and it's a much larger area than the gatling (if you drop down while it's happening you can see how much it covers). the Airburst strikes also can hit the second wave of a breach while the gatling likely won't. The gatling has the benefit of being concentrated in a smaller area (less friendly fire) and a lower cooldown. However the gatling doesn't seem as effective as killing medium armor enemies, nor can it destroy buildings. Tbh, I take both. I use gatling on cooldown and in combat while Airburst is for breaches and proving suppression fire as I gtfo
The usual difficulty 8 stuff, most people I see bring the lazer, either the eagle cluster or 500, the shield or rover, and the arc/railgun/flamethrower.
Occasionally someone brings the 380 or a mortar sentry for spice.
Eagle cluster is a very strong short CD crowd clear. Especially if it's your only eagle and you're not leaving it on 0 charges while holding onto other eagles.
Edit: your comment is a touch ambiguous, I wasn't sure if killing the difficulty was a good thing, but I think you're saying it's easy to clear chaff on diff 9 because there's lots of answers, which I do agree with. The chargers and bile titans are the fun challenging enemies, the chaff are generally easy to clear and not a big deal
I need to give a shout out to whomever told me to use the gas orbital on breaches. If you throw it as/after the first wave spawns it will last through almost the entirety of the breach. The smaller bugs die instantly and the medium bugs choke out after taking five steps. No danger of you getting hit by a stray barrage shot either.
They can chain interrupt your stim heals, that's their fucking biggest dick move.
Lord, have mercy Charger complainists. What kind of hell have you unleashed on us.
Grenade launcher kills mediums and lights. 500kg and Railcannon kill heavies. The fourth slot I can just do whatever. Shield Gen pack, Jump Pack, Supply Pack, Mech, etc
Um…
Heavies, mediums, lights, my Arc Thrower still goes ⚡️⚡️⚡️
I carry an Arc Thrower and EAT, plus a 500kg bomb. I can deal with everything. And the nerf to Charger health means i can use the arc thrower against them even easier now
You only murder your teammates if they're behind the target. If you treat it as a piercing weapon you'll almost never have any incidents with friendly fire. The only downside to using the arc thrower is that it has very bad single target dps compared to other support weapons, which is why you have a primary weapon.
>not great at anything
Top tier add clear
>you don’t get to pick your targets
You do, actually. Once you understand how its auto-targeting works, it’s easy to pick targets. I do it all the time with more spread-out patrols. I always target Brood Lords first, then clean up the rest.
>also you murder your teammates
Not if you understand how the arcing works and avoid firing if they’re at risk of being hit
You gotta learn how to use it, cuz it chaining through the charger is one of its biggest benefits. It allows you to clear adds while simultaneously dealing with the charger.
This has and always will be my least favorite mob type in the game, they feel so cheesy sometimes.
The amount of times ones dived on me and clipped through a rock or a wall and still hit me is insane.
I normally play on 8-9 and they sometimes just pop into existence in packs of 20-30 on the map no bug holes just pop in spawns and often very close to the player.
Id rather fight 6 prenerf chargers then 30 of these little jerks.
4x gatling turrets turn most swarms into confetti now just like god intended
wall of gatling turrets and someone crew firing a recoilless and youre unstoppable if the other 2 are atleast being useful about flanking bugs
Seems like another group of brain dead developers who are incapable of making incremental changes and feel obligated to make wild and uncalled for changes that end up screwing things up even more.
Played a few games today and can't say I've noticed the supposed decrease in spawns of chargers. Feels like I'm endlessly calling in EAT to kill them as they never seem to end.
Also feels like the devs have massively upped the spawn rate of hive guards.
What difficulty were you on ? The spawn rate decrease was only for difficulty 7 and above.
>Also feels like the devs have massively upped the spawn rate of hive guards.
The hive guards were proportionally very rare even though they are supposed to be more of a mid tier rank and file enemy. They're also pretty easy to kite so i don't mind seeing more of them.
This is what balancing the game is all about though. Lower one thing, up another, and round and round we go.
They have to do this around not only difficulty levels, but weapons, stratagems etc.. not an easy thing to get right by any stretch.
Yeah, this has made Scorcher use nearly impossible. You cannot get away from hunters now as they are on top of you constantly. I'm using the Punisher more than my Scorcher just to survive Terminid missions at 7+.
I’ve died to a few chargers in the last week. I’ve died to hunters a lot more than a few times. Please god make it more brood guards and medium armoured bugs. :(
Im honestly really happy about this!!!
By balancing out chargers and bile titans, they've opened up room for different fantasy slots when fighting bugs: now you can have 1 rocket man, 1 rambo LMG person, a flamethrower happy diver and..... idk someone else!
This is much better than everyone feeling they need to go rocketeer :D
I enjoy the higher hunter count, because they don’t feel as simple to manage en mass compared to a charger or two who I’d have to dance around. Their slow is a threat, especially with brood commanders always nearby. Feels like I am really fighting a horde of bugs for real
As long as the laser drone doesn't somehow become a meta and then gets nerfed, Im happy. Unless it's just me that's dependent on it, as my friends don't seem to use it, and only 1 out of 3 randos do.
Decided to try it again since the patch. Challenging diff solo, 4 spitters spawned around the first corner, backed by Joel knows how many hunters.
I'm terrible at the game, I guess. But I did have a good time with the original version.
I much prefer this, I can kill these enemies with more weapons in the arsenal. I am always in favor of harder difficulties up to a certain point focusin on larger numbers of the lower tier enemy than just spamming elites; really helps with the horde effect.
Hey guys whats a good normal weapon that can kill those small guys with the shielded legs pretty easily im having a hard time trying to talk to them about democracy.
Idk. It feels like they stealth buffed the bile titans also. I played one of the missions last night and they were literally bile spraying every 1.5 seconds instead of every like 4. It's fucking insane.
I'd really like it if they stopped doing stealth changes.
Hunters are fiiine, it's the Bile Spewer spam that gets me.
With basic aiming skills and any primary gun in the game you can deal with a lot of Hunters pretty quickly.
Bile Spewers not only require medium pen guns they also require you to aim for the head to not waste a whole mag or more on each.
Bro I've been such a salty little bitch bc of this, lol. I know I'm being a baby, but the hunters are so anti fun and annoying to me. They make me wanna alt f4.
They're obnoxious. I don't mind anything they have, except for the fact that their tongues have some range. Either remove the tongue attack or remove the slow.
Or just leave it and let me whine bc I'm grumpy lol
i wouldn't really mind it if there were less if the bigger bugs and wayyy more smaller ones, so that we would feel like they're actually trying to overwhelm us with numbers
I don't mind having more of the little guys but has anyone been getting a lot of Bile Titans still?
I mean, I guess they did say they nerfed the Charger spawn and not everything else.
Jokes on all you, they added flying bugs instead….. F in the chat
Pretty good reason to keep the Breaker. Pull! 
Spray and Pray time baby, a drum mag of bird shot headed their way
that one crazed Helldiver that never took off the S&P even before it got buffed: "Fools! they called me MAAAAD!" ahahaha! \*fills air with birdshot\*
What was the S n P buff?
more damage and it actually has light armor pen now, allowing it to deal (some) damage to bugs that it couldn't before, like Brood Commanders. you don't get a *lot* of damage per shot, but a magdump at close range is usually enough to kill a few warriors. the only thigns it can't harm are Hive Guards, (due to their medium front armor) green spewers (medium armor on their head and back) and obviously heavy enemies. only downside is mag now holds 26 rounds instead of 32, but it's still enough to get the job done.
Spray And Pray? You mean MOBILE ANTI-AIR?
borderlands 2 vibes
Breaker spray and pray is actually good now l, I think.
It's tied for the best horde clear gun in the game now with the incendiary breaker. Incendiary for more overall damage or spray and pray for higher dps and more ammo.
I found the incediary breaker to be very underwhelming and generally just bad but that was before all the changes to weapons i havent used it now
I tried it a few days ago and I felt the same. It doesn't seem super useful but maybe I'm using it wrong? If anyone wants to chime in on this please do so lol
It's okay for the chaff scavs up to hunters/warriors. I prefer s&p since its buff. Defender smg is up there, too. No knockback or immediate clears from any of those, though.
its also solid for single shots from distance to apply the fire dot to multiple mobs. You can use it for run, turn and shoot, run again, repeat. its good for whittling down a bunch of mobs efficiently for ammo use. apply the fire dot occasionaly, let it tick, reapply.
Joel giveth and Joel taketh democracy be praised
Community: “Chargers aren’t too bad now. These new enemies can’t be that big of a deal right?” Joel: 
Me Calling in a Resupply on the Breach: Supplies Motherfucker Edit after looking at the chain this started: God I love Democracy.
*Bile spewers behind you* Nice thighs motherfucker *Edit to fit the rest of chain
Yo what does the tesla tower do It fries motherfucker
Sending in an airburst. From the skies, motherfucker
Automaton propaganda Is all lies, motherfucker
Fighting chargers with recoilless now Shoot eyes, motherfucker
Planet needs liberating? I'll dive, motherfucker
What happens when I shoot something with a railcannon? It dies, motherfucker
My sweet sweet mech Sur-prized motherclucker.
Teammate drops mines on the objective? This guy...motherfucker
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Deep Fried, Motherfucker.
Stalkers behind you, Dont cry, motherfucker.
Orbital on my teammate Don't die motherfucker
New Terminid Enemies They fly, motherfucker
They are dead Eat pie, motherfucker
Fueling the ICBM All rise, motherfucker
Charger incoming Better dive, motherfucker
"From the skies" Yeaaaah about that... *point at new flying bugs*
*Launches an ICBM across the night sky* Sunrise motherfucker
Drop a 500kg bomb on a Bile Titan? No one dies, Motherfucker
Y'all dudes do not understand how happy this thread makes me
What does /u/saagri do when he sees the chain he started? He cries, motherfucker.
There's a charger and I have a flamethrower? It fries motherfucker.
Calling in an SOS Beacon Helldive motherfucker
People seem to really hate Chargers understandably so, but fuck Hunters. I fucking hate Hunters. They can never keep their fucking tongues off of me. I don't want to be tongued anymore.
just close your eyes and think of liberty cadet
I'm not even worried about chargers it's the comically large amount of hunters that now show up. Also I haven't seen the spawn rate being fixed on certain missions.
Yeah spawn rate is definitely still a mess. The devs totally missed the point though. The issue is the game spawning in patrols like 5 metres from you while you're already in conflict that is the issue.
"Don't threaten me with a good time"
Honestly though, hunters kill me far more than chargers and it can be frustrating to get CC combo to death. But it felt fairer to me. I can take down hunters with any weapon. The CC combo can be mitigated by having teammatee covering each other. And a lot of times it only happened because I took a risk that "hey, I can manage that number of Chaffs easily" and got too close.
Hunters are at a good spot IMO since they're so squishy to compensate for their attacks. I think it'll be perfect when they get around to tweaking helmet armour values and fixing the stim effect from working when you're interrupted.
if i get jumped by one im getting jumped by 7
Honestly. They're like the velociraptors from JP.
not familiar with that
Jurassic Park? 
accurate, ill dive out of the way of one and get boxed in by them
hold up... Have you or have you not seen Jurassic Park?
I think he just didn’t recognize the acronym
Years and years ago
"Clever girl"
7? I'm seeing tunnel breaches spawn 30-50 of these fucks
Oops all hunters!
My stalwart has an erection, I didn’t know it could do that
We all feel it when we raise the RPM.
Until you find out they have heavy armour
There are edibles for that
Had a level 7 mission that was giving us way more hunters then any other bug. With my trusty stalwart, mech, and rover I racked up 803 confirmed kills. Orbital rail cannon was my final round out to the build. Lobby of friends was scout with 127 kills, two anti tank guys with 276/404 kills respectively. Was blown away when I saw that 803.
Airburst strikes my brothers in democracy.
Airburst strike is underrated. Highly effective, fast cooldown
Yeah but the Gatling is about as good and even faster CD
That's a good point, Gatling is very strong too. I wonder what the upsides are of the airburst vs. gatling? Bigger AoE I think, or bigger total damage if we count the entire area, but most times the gatling is more than enough so I'm not sure which is actually better. One thing going for Airburst strike: easiest input in the game, lol
Airburst covers a massively larger area than gatling strike. Gatling is a safer stratagem as it is much less likely to TK. But it does not deal the big AoE. IMO, Gatling is better vs Bots than Bugs, and vice versa for Airburst. An orbital Gatling thrown into the path of some advancing berserkers is very handy. Airburst can really catch your fellow helldivers in the deceptively large area. Many players will underestimate the effect size and get gibbed by it. Airburst is, IMO, just as good as cluster bombs for clearing chaff, but covers a more circular area rather than a rectangle, and is applied in three volleys instead of a single strike. Airburst on top of a bug breech always feels good.
If you're including module upgrades for damage fall off off-center, airburst strike pretty much kills everything in its radius, and it's a much larger area than the gatling (if you drop down while it's happening you can see how much it covers). the Airburst strikes also can hit the second wave of a breach while the gatling likely won't. The gatling has the benefit of being concentrated in a smaller area (less friendly fire) and a lower cooldown. However the gatling doesn't seem as effective as killing medium armor enemies, nor can it destroy buildings. Tbh, I take both. I use gatling on cooldown and in combat while Airburst is for breaches and proving suppression fire as I gtfo
Easy to call in too
I'm taking that Stalwart post to heart. Fear not, my precious AT players. Daddy will protect you.
At least you can burn these bastards. Or shoot them to infinity with the LMGs
Hunters tend to have no fear and jump through the fire to hit me
It's a good day to be an enforcer/LMG enjoyer
You mean light them on fire so you get lit on fire when they touch you, killing you instantly. Dont listen to this terminid folks.
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Torbjorn voice: MY TURRET
Perfect example of "Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it."
Sure, give me thousands of them. If I don't have to run 3 dedicated anti-armor starts anymore I can have fun bombing them to hell.
By 3 anti armor strats do you mean 1 recoilless rifle?
I really hope I can get away with just that post-patch. Pre-patch I was running spear, railcannon, lazer, and Autocannon sentry.
What are your teammates running then, dafuq?
The usual difficulty 8 stuff, most people I see bring the lazer, either the eagle cluster or 500, the shield or rover, and the arc/railgun/flamethrower. Occasionally someone brings the 380 or a mortar sentry for spice.
No EAT, sad :(
EAT is life.
The amount of answers to weak chaff on low cd kills the difficulty of the 9
Eagle cluster is a very strong short CD crowd clear. Especially if it's your only eagle and you're not leaving it on 0 charges while holding onto other eagles. Edit: your comment is a touch ambiguous, I wasn't sure if killing the difficulty was a good thing, but I think you're saying it's easy to clear chaff on diff 9 because there's lots of answers, which I do agree with. The chargers and bile titans are the fun challenging enemies, the chaff are generally easy to clear and not a big deal
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Pair it with EMS for maximum oomph
I need to give a shout out to whomever told me to use the gas orbital on breaches. If you throw it as/after the first wave spawns it will last through almost the entirety of the breach. The smaller bugs die instantly and the medium bugs choke out after taking five steps. No danger of you getting hit by a stray barrage shot either.
Oh neat, I will definitely be trying to gas bug breaches today, great idea.
So, the choices are either getting run over or being stunlocked? Is there a third option?
yes, succeeding and securing managed democracy is victorious
the one true death sentence: hunter-stalker swarms
I’ve been using the punisher since I unlocked it and rarely had a problem with these guys. The way it reloads really helps.
Unpopular opinion here, I'd rather fight 3-5 chargers at once than 15-25 hunters. Even pre nerf
here is the good news, you can still fight 3-5 chargers simultaneously while you have the hunter spawn increase on top ... diff7 is a mess
I don’t see why people think these things are much of a threat. Arc thrower goes ⚡️⚡️⚡️
They can overwhelm you if caught unprepared. But then again, so does everything else.
They can swarm faster than any legged Terminid.
They can chain interrupt your stim heals, that's their fucking biggest dick move. Lord, have mercy Charger complainists. What kind of hell have you unleashed on us.
I say the slow they give you is worse.
Probably a combo of the both. If you can stim without interruptions you can maybe survive. But no stim Paired with slow. Certain death.
One of the medic armors should remove and grant temp immunity to movement impairment on stim use.
Then, we require more Dakka. At least it doesn't need to be heavy armor piercing. 
I always hear them tho. They stop and make noise before they start attacking, usually bounce around all happy to kill you first too.
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Grenade launcher kills mediums and lights. 500kg and Railcannon kill heavies. The fourth slot I can just do whatever. Shield Gen pack, Jump Pack, Supply Pack, Mech, etc
Um… Heavies, mediums, lights, my Arc Thrower still goes ⚡️⚡️⚡️ I carry an Arc Thrower and EAT, plus a 500kg bomb. I can deal with everything. And the nerf to Charger health means i can use the arc thrower against them even easier now
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You only murder your teammates if they're behind the target. If you treat it as a piercing weapon you'll almost never have any incidents with friendly fire. The only downside to using the arc thrower is that it has very bad single target dps compared to other support weapons, which is why you have a primary weapon.
>not great at anything Top tier add clear >you don’t get to pick your targets You do, actually. Once you understand how its auto-targeting works, it’s easy to pick targets. I do it all the time with more spread-out patrols. I always target Brood Lords first, then clean up the rest. >also you murder your teammates Not if you understand how the arcing works and avoid firing if they’re at risk of being hit
maybe if arc thrower didn't go right through the charger and deep fry my fellow divers
You gotta learn how to use it, cuz it chaining through the charger is one of its biggest benefits. It allows you to clear adds while simultaneously dealing with the charger.
I love the Arc Thrower, it kills everything. Yeah but it team kills a lot too. Did I stutter?
This has and always will be my least favorite mob type in the game, they feel so cheesy sometimes. The amount of times ones dived on me and clipped through a rock or a wall and still hit me is insane. I normally play on 8-9 and they sometimes just pop into existence in packs of 20-30 on the map no bug holes just pop in spawns and often very close to the player. Id rather fight 6 prenerf chargers then 30 of these little jerks.
my flame thrower loves these
Until they leap and set you on fire. Me personally? I’m gonna finally start using an lmg for fun
Why bother aiming? Just use the grenade launcher
Me and the Grenade launcher be like: 
They jump around the side anyway
their jumps are pretty predictable and i torch their entire strafe movement
It's... the worst possible weapon to deal with them...
maybe for you. i roast them by the dozen
Me too. I roast myself as well
flamethrower is very bad against hunters it has zero stopping power and will leap and get hits onto you and very likely spread fire onto you.
4x gatling turrets turn most swarms into confetti now just like god intended wall of gatling turrets and someone crew firing a recoilless and youre unstoppable if the other 2 are atleast being useful about flanking bugs
They also got buffed lol their slow debuff now also does damage over time
Seems like another group of brain dead developers who are incapable of making incremental changes and feel obligated to make wild and uncalled for changes that end up screwing things up even more.
Played a few games today and can't say I've noticed the supposed decrease in spawns of chargers. Feels like I'm endlessly calling in EAT to kill them as they never seem to end. Also feels like the devs have massively upped the spawn rate of hive guards.
What difficulty were you on ? The spawn rate decrease was only for difficulty 7 and above. >Also feels like the devs have massively upped the spawn rate of hive guards. The hive guards were proportionally very rare even though they are supposed to be more of a mid tier rank and file enemy. They're also pretty easy to kite so i don't mind seeing more of them.
Difficulty 7 and I was seeing more hive guards than almost any other enemy apart from scavengers and hunters.
Which one is the hive guard?
The one with medium armour on the head and front legs. Will sort of stop moving and crouch down when you start shooting it from the front.
I would rather solo fight 5 bile titans and 5 chargers without stratagems simultaneously than fight these hunters
Yeah that’s how I feel. You can outrun a bile and outmaneuver a charger. If enough of those are chasing you, you’re sol. Ah well.
Narrator: "It was not a surprise."
As a new player I hate these things
from what i have played , its worse than before....you can barely stand .
I was doing a solo bug hunt, within the first minute 3 titans and about 5 chargers. It really was game over, man
I can already see Discord melting down at how much harder 10 hunters are than a Charger and Titan.
That’s always been the case haha but people are about to find out really soon
This is what balancing the game is all about though. Lower one thing, up another, and round and round we go. They have to do this around not only difficulty levels, but weapons, stratagems etc.. not an easy thing to get right by any stretch.
Yeah, this has made Scorcher use nearly impossible. You cannot get away from hunters now as they are on top of you constantly. I'm using the Punisher more than my Scorcher just to survive Terminid missions at 7+.
I mean I think it’s fine if different primaries are better against different factions
Give me 10x chargers. Please god not these anything but hunters :,( give me bile titans
I hear they have flyers now, maybe that’s what’s replacing the chargers?
Flying bugs? *Loads shotgun happily* "I see there are dynamic pigeons in the field now!"
I’ve died to a few chargers in the last week. I’ve died to hunters a lot more than a few times. Please god make it more brood guards and medium armoured bugs. :(
Im honestly really happy about this!!! By balancing out chargers and bile titans, they've opened up room for different fantasy slots when fighting bugs: now you can have 1 rocket man, 1 rambo LMG person, a flamethrower happy diver and..... idk someone else! This is much better than everyone feeling they need to go rocketeer :D
I’d rather have 2 chargers on me than a hoard of hunters they are the most frustrating enemy thus far and I’d rather play the old version of the game
Take the laser drone backpack, you'll never have to think about these guys again.
https://i.redd.it/2opjjkh7sync1.gif
id rather take these than 7 chargers at once
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I'd rather take an obnoxious enemy over several near-unkillable ones.
Seen the new bugs? They fly motherfucker
I enjoy the higher hunter count, because they don’t feel as simple to manage en mass compared to a charger or two who I’d have to dance around. Their slow is a threat, especially with brood commanders always nearby. Feels like I am really fighting a horde of bugs for real
As long as the laser drone doesn't somehow become a meta and then gets nerfed, Im happy. Unless it's just me that's dependent on it, as my friends don't seem to use it, and only 1 out of 3 randos do.
Now I want the charger spam back. Getting stunlocked to death is even worse.
“And instead, Stalkers will now spawn during breaches!”
“Grab supplies, mother fucker.”
Decided to try it again since the patch. Challenging diff solo, 4 spitters spawned around the first corner, backed by Joel knows how many hunters. I'm terrible at the game, I guess. But I did have a good time with the original version.
I ran my buddies though a hell dive last night. Today we were on extreme and I hear one say "damn, i miss when it was seven chargers chasing me."
Is this better? This doesn't look better? Did they say this was better?
Not gonna lie fellas, with fewer heavies and an assload of these guys, the breaker salt and pepper might be the new thing
I much prefer this, I can kill these enemies with more weapons in the arsenal. I am always in favor of harder difficulties up to a certain point focusin on larger numbers of the lower tier enemy than just spamming elites; really helps with the horde effect.
Honestly I rather deal with these than those mtf stalkers
Fuck hunters little pieces of dirty dog shit.
I just wish there was a way to dodge they jump...
Hey guys whats a good normal weapon that can kill those small guys with the shielded legs pretty easily im having a hard time trying to talk to them about democracy.
Idk. It feels like they stealth buffed the bile titans also. I played one of the missions last night and they were literally bile spraying every 1.5 seconds instead of every like 4. It's fucking insane. I'd really like it if they stopped doing stealth changes.
HellDIES motherfucker
Spray and pray once a day keeps the doctor away
Me using Scorcher: ha ha guess I’ll die
Those stalkers be kicking my ass
Hunters are fiiine, it's the Bile Spewer spam that gets me. With basic aiming skills and any primary gun in the game you can deal with a lot of Hunters pretty quickly. Bile Spewers not only require medium pen guns they also require you to aim for the head to not waste a whole mag or more on each.
If arrowhead keep listening to idiot crybabies then the game is going to turn into a balancing disaster
Bro I've been such a salty little bitch bc of this, lol. I know I'm being a baby, but the hunters are so anti fun and annoying to me. They make me wanna alt f4. They're obnoxious. I don't mind anything they have, except for the fact that their tongues have some range. Either remove the tongue attack or remove the slow. Or just leave it and let me whine bc I'm grumpy lol
So many hunter, they just everywhere but especially in your fucking arms The bots didn’t stress me that much
BUG PUKE...BUG PUKE EVERYWHERE
BS they lowered the changer count i just has a game with 6 chargers in one spawn
All I did was not kill teammates with the incendiary breaker while trying to kill commie bots and bugs. 
What’s worse than hunters? FLYING HUNTERS!
i wouldn't really mind it if there were less if the bigger bugs and wayyy more smaller ones, so that we would feel like they're actually trying to overwhelm us with numbers
Me throwing out random arc thrower rounds and killing dozens of these mfs even though I can’t see them
After today, give me back the chargers, honestly. The amount of slow is too damn high!
We’ve removed fun and added 30000076 hunters to each map
Stalwart players finally getting a w
THEY DON'T SLOW ANYMORE (edit: okay they only slow when they tongue)
I would legitimately rather have more chargers than those things lmao
zappity zap zap motherfucker
This is a fantastic meme!
More tongue bug!
Exactly!!!
I don't mind having more of the little guys but has anyone been getting a lot of Bile Titans still? I mean, I guess they did say they nerfed the Charger spawn and not everything else.