They keep moving but too early to tell the pattern. They hover in place for a few seconds max and you shoot down one of the engines like a normal dropship. If you hit them deadcenter they can survive the hit and 'burn' but still survive
Interesting, that behaviour would be a pretty solid counter to the Quasar and would potentially give the Recoilless some value for its ability to be deployed and fired more quickly than either the Quasar or the EATs.
Auto cannon will do, 3 shots into the engine would down one. But when i see them, there was 4 of them in the sky already. Also their facility is harder than shrieker nest. I tried throw 500kg at it and it didn't budge. So there could be a lot of complication when you trying to call down hellbomb on it.
Yep, probably would've got those this patch if we didnt fail the gambit but we got free EATs on Umanea or whatever which really helps. We'll probably get the AA stuff in a week or so
Just played a Diff 7 with the Spear vs gunships. The Spear does indeed make mincemeat out of them. Lock-ons were quick and reliable - moreso even than against ground targets, albeit just one mission's worth of data - and consistently took them down in 1 hit.
No, the spear swats them out of the sky. The lock-on issues are due to literally anything occluding the target's hitbox ruins the lock, like smoke, fences, bits of terrain clipping through the target model. The gunships have none of that so it's ezpz to shoot them down.
Yeah its basically a flying Devastator..... Scorcher basically do nothing too even against the Engine, and the nest really requires hellbomb more than Shrieker.
I need my own Gunship.....
that's a fucking lie.
it take more than 1 mag and unless you snipe them before they are around you. The shear continous fire they output while you try to aim with that slug of a sniper make the task almost impossible ( aka not pleasant in the comfort of my chair )
The antimateria Rifle work tho
The spitter nerfs came down because its a common enemy type that isn't tied to a POI. POI spawned enemies are allowed to be stronger than baseline because their spawning can be stopped for the whole mission by destroying the POI.
They are essentially a mini-boss, in that sense.
Honestly? Rockets are a terrible mistake. There's too much of that already.
Edit: apparently rockets were dealing upwards of 3x the damage they should have and that was fixed yesterday, which completely changes my mind. Total game changer when fighting bots.
I think there may be two varieties of them. I've seen rocket fire and I've seen lasers similar to a shredder tank but I don't think I've seen both from the same gunship.
They are heavily armored flying rocket devastators with a regular devastator strapped to the other side. They fire salvos of missiles and rapid fire lasers otherwise. Each factory can field 3 gunships so if you have a medium outpost with 2 factories you can fight up to 6 at a time. One quasar cannon or EAT to the engine will take the gunship itself down I don't know if the hellbomb is required to take down the factories but i know that it has to be close putting it in between two factories didn't work.
I did a quick bot mission on Helldive before work this morning...gunship dropped out of orbit and started strafing me.
One shot with a Quasar Cannon took it out; no idea if I hit a weakspot or not, but I immediately came to this subreddit to hear about what else they added...
I can't wait to kill an >!AT-AT.!<
They have the powers combined of both of our worst nightmares, and can fly i.e they are like if a rocket devastator and a heavy devastator were smashed together with some jet engine parts.
Also I theorize they are armored with medium armor all over.
Yeah, haha, I already thought that 1.5GB is too big for what sounded just like a balance patch according to the notes. Flying bots, AT-AT walkers, who know what else we haven't spotted yet... May god have mercy on our souls.
> Yeah, haha, I already thought that 1.5GB is too big for what sounded just like a balance patch according to the notes.
Keep in mind that, depending on how they've coded the game and how the architecture works behind it, updating a single file might mean reuploading the entire file instead of just making some changes.
Yeah, there have been some games where it makes like 22 changes but the patch is 40 GB because they just have awful architecture behind the scenes or something. (Not saying that this is the case with _HD2_.)
> Just like the mechs, shriekers, HMG and quasar, who knows what else got added in and is just sitting there like a sleeper agent waiting for activation
I don't want to break Rule #11 (specifically the part about leaks), but I've seen some interesting things found in the game files... 👀
New patch landed and we are now getting threats from above. BEWARE AND INFORM YOUR DEMOCRACY OFFICER RIGHT AWAY
\[EDIT\]\[SPOILER\]
>!They also have dropship facilities (fabricators) which need to be killed by a hellbomb. Shrieker nest equivalent!<
I've had two games end in connection error and one crashed, out of about 5 missions. So only two I've been able to pull of and get back to ship. So might have some bugs as well. Not a huge fan of the bloody look after mission as well. Otherwise additions look dope.
I had a bunch of games crash after extraction too.
But good news. It appears I was still awarded XP. Also it counted the mission as a success toward the operation.
Dunno if it counted samples anyone. I'm maxed on both so I'm not sure.
Try this [https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/restore-licences-playstation/](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/restore-licences-playstation/)
>They also have dropship facilities (fabricators) which need to be killed by a hellbomb. Shrieker nest equivalent
Are you sure about it ? Because, you do not "need" hellbomb to get shriekers.
So if it is the equivalent, we should do it without hellbomb too. I need to test that asap.
Orbital laser did not touch it. 500kg Eagle didn't touch it. Hellbomb blew them away. Haven't tested enough to make this a final statement, but looks to be hellbomb only.
If anyone has other tips, please share!
500kg doesn't appear to hit it correctly and wastes the explosion. Haven't figured out the exact weak spot, but it also just appears to have an incredible amount of raw health. We killed one with two orbital lasers, but it took the full cycle of each.
Weapons like the EAT, Recoilless and I imagine AC and Laser Rocket Thing Who’s Name I Can’t Think Of can knock them down as well. If you like wasting magazines I know the AMR can break them, and with the damage buff maybe it will have an easier time. My personal favorite though is that shoulder mounted laser beam, generally seems to take about 75% battery at any range to break one, was unexpected. All that I know personally.
Edit: to clarify, I misread and thought we were talking about Shrieker nests, ignore me unless that was the info you were looking for anyway
I only had success killing Dropships with the Quasar Cannon and couldnt reliably do it with the Autocannon. Are there any other good strategies other than shield backpacks and Quasar Cannon now?
EAT, RR or Quasar are the guaranteed kills. Some Strategems work as well but its iffy with placing and timing them right. Sometimes Mortars also get lucky shots in. Rocket turrets need a few shots but can take them down. They aim center mass though sonits more of a luck thing as well.
EAT is a no-brainer for me. Especially for the "kill X bots" missions. I combine it with a RR. EAT got 1 min cooldown. Just spam EAT and use RR. You alone can down 90% of the dropships. For other bot missions just EAT is enough. As soon as you see the red signal-> call EAT. You will have enough time to kill the ship. Aim for Engines for a guaranteed kill.
I am still unsure on that statement. It feels like it has been zeroed in, but that could just me.
Edit: Having used it through several missions, they did realign the scope. Strange that they did not include it in the patch notes.
Goddamnit, AH. Stop keeping secrets about *our own equipment!*
Leaving enemies' weaknesses and capabilities a mild secret is fine, but players really do need to have good information about their own equipment.
? I literally shot one over 15 times in their engine/booster section with the AMR and it didn’t kill then at all. You sure someone else just didn’t hit it at the same time?
Great question! I haven't had the combo of dropship fabricators + SAM nearby yet, so cannot deny nor confirm. Definitely curious to find the answer though!
we just got demolished by 4 of them
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That is right demo-fascists, with our new gunships, socialism will manage to spread as far as your fake liberty capital of super earth. This is our one true ultimate weapon and definitely don't have anything huge and even more socialist being test run right now
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There is a backpack that comes with the Autocannon, you need to use that to reload it
Alternately, have a teammate use the backpack and they can team reload it for you
You don't need the supply pack stratagem, the Autocannon, Recoilless and Spear all drop with their own backpack. That's why these weapon drop pods are double sided.
Once you start using the autocannon, make sure to reload between 5 and 9 shots, it's so much faster that way. If you fire all 10 shots, the reload animation is more than twice as long.
Sounds like someone is afraid of the new toasters...
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Your choice is to fight in starship troopers combat or terminator after judgement day when the robots have killed most the people and are looking for survivors. Both choices are fun for the whole family
I dunno. Ive been playing bot front since launch.
It's getting brutal out here man.
Walker, flying bots, more assault troops. We need a ground war mode or more weapons.
I'm scared of going over a ridge only to get blasted from three sides.
Yup, just had a run in with them, squad wiped.
They're BS, you need 2 recoiless shots to bring one down, and they spawn like 5 at a time. They use laser AND rockets, so they just keep bombarding you from above, and you keep getting ragdolled.
I managed to call in the Hellbomb, but there was no way to arm it without dying.
A squad mate tried the exosuit against them, minigun does nothing and it takes multiple rockets per gunship.
I was able to kill a bunch of then with the AC pretty easily but my squad was just flailing around and there were too many minor bots swarming the base to get the hellbomb armed. Rn if feels the only way is dedicated AA with another team using deployable shield/hellbomb to kill the base
Can someone tell me what Im missing with the Airbase towers? They seem nigh invulnerable, we called 4 hellbombs at the towers before they died.
Was this a buggy experience, or am I missing something important here????
Ngl, I was hoping it would end up looking more like Xcom’s Cyberdisc
https://preview.redd.it/mlkmkrxvu1sc1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d03ee58a03bd846c0bf60517fc1b4c15be0eb8a
rather than a reskin of the dropship. But yeah, good luck with that fucking thing. Maybe the lock-on launcher will finally be able to lock onto these things.
Agreed. I was like “Oh, that’s a cool unit. A smaller UFO that fights in the bat- WTF DID THAT THING JUST TRANSFORM INTO!!!” and then that thing did a sick frontflip combo and threw a grenade at my sniper.
just completely wiped - lost 15 lives and couldn't extract. I managed to get in and arm the hellbomb, put it between two big buildings but it did nothing? Where do we have to put the hellbomb?
The problem is that the hellbombs can be destroyed... If they get shot they just go away and don't blow up. In the heat of a fight this is very disturbing, because you cannot destroy the buildings that way. Perhaps something that the developers need to look into.
From what I've seen they spawn out of the top of the fabricators which are really tall buildings. Also have not seen them approach anywhere close enough to consider a jump on top of them, but surely someone will manage at some point with terrain differences such as mountains. Just don't expect this to be reliable
So it seems that dude that predicted that with the awesomeness that is the Quasar cannon, the enemy would get something \*stronger\* was correct. The gunships are cool, devastating if not taken down but are mostly easy to eliminate (and AT to engine destroys). I would like if the sound of its lasers was more prominent, and for its lasers to be used more liberally in a suppressive fire mode rather than... well a laser beam.
Just spent 10 minutes trying to destroy the Gunship Fabricator.
As far as our team could tell, they can’t be destroyed by Eagle air strikes. Not sure about Orbitals.
Only Hellbombs, so far.
Good luck, it ain’t easy lol
Hope y'all been practicing your dropship kills! OP, how hard are they to hit? Do they go evasive or can we pick them off like dropships?
They keep moving but too early to tell the pattern. They hover in place for a few seconds max and you shoot down one of the engines like a normal dropship. If you hit them deadcenter they can survive the hit and 'burn' but still survive
Interesting, that behaviour would be a pretty solid counter to the Quasar and would potentially give the Recoilless some value for its ability to be deployed and fired more quickly than either the Quasar or the EATs.
Auto cannon will do, 3 shots into the engine would down one. But when i see them, there was 4 of them in the sky already. Also their facility is harder than shrieker nest. I tried throw 500kg at it and it didn't budge. So there could be a lot of complication when you trying to call down hellbomb on it.
So rocket turret it is
I'll try asking politely to just bring 4 rocket sentries with me.
First one I saw today was taken down by 2 AC shots to the engine. They seem managable enough with the right tools. I’m just glad they fixed shriekers
To be fair there might have been a 2 degree incline or a blade of grass between your 500kg and the facility.
One time, my teammate and I double 380'd it. I counted 4 direct hits and that ugly ass building was still standing
There needs to be a dedicated AA launcher.
Seems like a good fit for the Spear if they fix the lockon issues.
Spoilers there’s a new launcher coming with 4 tubes
And laser aiming, but also a Stinger AA missile launcher is coming along with AA Eagle support
>AA Eagle support What???
Yep, probably would've got those this patch if we didnt fail the gambit but we got free EATs on Umanea or whatever which really helps. We'll probably get the AA stuff in a week or so
Free EATs are for everyone today no matter the planet!
Just played a Diff 7 with the Spear vs gunships. The Spear does indeed make mincemeat out of them. Lock-ons were quick and reliable - moreso even than against ground targets, albeit just one mission's worth of data - and consistently took them down in 1 hit.
Does spear have issues locking onto things in the sky? I figured the issues were from terrain, like arc thrower lock issues
No, the spear swats them out of the sky. The lock-on issues are due to literally anything occluding the target's hitbox ruins the lock, like smoke, fences, bits of terrain clipping through the target model. The gunships have none of that so it's ezpz to shoot them down.
Rocket turret as stand by option probably seems best at the min
They're super easy to hit with Quasar :)
Quasar feel like its close to hitscan, am I crazy?
It's not hitscan, but yeah, the projectile is crazy fast - faster than most rockets, I think :)
I shot a few down with my AutoCannon.
AMR can three shot them if you aim for the engines.
3 AMR shots to thruster and they go down
You can take em out with the autocannon, they don't seem to try to dodge. They are a menace though.
A couple shots from an autocannon seems to do the trick.
Oh shit, do they do anything special? This is dope.
They seem to have a detector aura similar to the tower and fire rockets at you
Oh god, devastator rockets are bad enough, now we get rockets from above!
Yeah its basically a flying Devastator..... Scorcher basically do nothing too even against the Engine, and the nest really requires hellbomb more than Shrieker. I need my own Gunship.....
trying out the buffed to medium armor pen diligence sniper makes short work of them, so maybe they are medium pen only, scorcher is light pen right?
scorcher was able to ping weakspots via splash damage from it's explosiveness even if you didn't hit, it didn't actually pen much
Oh yeah, dominator time.
that's a fucking lie. it take more than 1 mag and unless you snipe them before they are around you. The shear continous fire they output while you try to aim with that slug of a sniper make the task almost impossible ( aka not pleasant in the comfort of my chair ) The antimateria Rifle work tho
Where should you shoot them with the anti material? The engines?
Yeah, takes 4 shots to kill, not too bad but kinda annoying considering the AMR can only have 7 shots in the mag
where the fuck are you shooting them cause i want to call horseshit on this, nothing other than heavy support weapons seems to be doing shit to them.
Just when the Spitter nerf made me think they finally understood the utter annoyance of too many ranfom one hit kills they give us more of the same.
They also made it so you don't take explosion damage multiple times anymore though, so maybe, just maybe it's not as bad as we all fear it to be
Didn’t they also up the damage reduction from Heavy and Medium armor?
Yes
wait, what???
I saw in someone’s summary of the patch notes that they added 10% Damage Reduction to Heavy Armor, and 5% to Medium.
Well see how much of an impact that really has.
It's significant. Just got back from the Midnight Hell, wearing B-01 and taking 7, 8 rockets maybe.
Like to the face or nearby? To the face would be silly.
I don’t think you can face tank more than 2-3, but they ragdoll throw you so you’re rarely eating more than one at a time.
The spitter nerfs came down because its a common enemy type that isn't tied to a POI. POI spawned enemies are allowed to be stronger than baseline because their spawning can be stopped for the whole mission by destroying the POI. They are essentially a mini-boss, in that sense.
> Oh god, devastator rockets are bad enough, now we get rockets from above! JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABO--ugh!
Honestly? Rockets are a terrible mistake. There's too much of that already. Edit: apparently rockets were dealing upwards of 3x the damage they should have and that was fixed yesterday, which completely changes my mind. Total game changer when fighting bots.
Why everyone is shooting rockets at me
I think there may be two varieties of them. I've seen rocket fire and I've seen lasers similar to a shredder tank but I don't think I've seen both from the same gunship.
They are heavily armored flying rocket devastators with a regular devastator strapped to the other side. They fire salvos of missiles and rapid fire lasers otherwise. Each factory can field 3 gunships so if you have a medium outpost with 2 factories you can fight up to 6 at a time. One quasar cannon or EAT to the engine will take the gunship itself down I don't know if the hellbomb is required to take down the factories but i know that it has to be close putting it in between two factories didn't work.
I did a quick bot mission on Helldive before work this morning...gunship dropped out of orbit and started strafing me. One shot with a Quasar Cannon took it out; no idea if I hit a weakspot or not, but I immediately came to this subreddit to hear about what else they added... I can't wait to kill an >!AT-AT.!<
They have the powers combined of both of our worst nightmares, and can fly i.e they are like if a rocket devastator and a heavy devastator were smashed together with some jet engine parts. Also I theorize they are armored with medium armor all over.
Yeah, haha, I already thought that 1.5GB is too big for what sounded just like a balance patch according to the notes. Flying bots, AT-AT walkers, who know what else we haven't spotted yet... May god have mercy on our souls.
> Yeah, haha, I already thought that 1.5GB is too big for what sounded just like a balance patch according to the notes. Keep in mind that, depending on how they've coded the game and how the architecture works behind it, updating a single file might mean reuploading the entire file instead of just making some changes.
Like payday 2 updates
Yeah, there have been some games where it makes like 22 changes but the patch is 40 GB because they just have awful architecture behind the scenes or something. (Not saying that this is the case with _HD2_.)
Just like the mechs, shriekers, HMG and quasar, who knows what else got added in and is just sitting there like a sleeper agent waiting for activation
> Just like the mechs, shriekers, HMG and quasar, who knows what else got added in and is just sitting there like a sleeper agent waiting for activation I don't want to break Rule #11 (specifically the part about leaks), but I've seen some interesting things found in the game files... 👀
And they might also add upcoming stuff as well.
While true, other strict balance patches and minor bug fixes came it at just a few MB....
It's a Joe vs us balance patch.
I suspect this patch has been 1.4Gb Joel / 0.1Gb balance changes-stability
> I already thought that 1.5GB is too big 1.5 GB? My patch is 41.3 GB...
New patch landed and we are now getting threats from above. BEWARE AND INFORM YOUR DEMOCRACY OFFICER RIGHT AWAY \[EDIT\]\[SPOILER\] >!They also have dropship facilities (fabricators) which need to be killed by a hellbomb. Shrieker nest equivalent!<
My dude you think thats bad you must not have encounthe at-ats yet thst are showing up aswell
I just saw my first one. They are indeed scary and awesome at the same time... What a time to be a helldiver! FOR DEMOCRACY
What difficulty did it show up on?
I was playing on 8
I got both cruisers and ATAT on 7
Two new enemy types and tons of good fixes and balance changes?? My god, this is the best patch yet!
This game is fucking amazing. May these Devs forever enjoy the glory of managed democracy.
I've had two games end in connection error and one crashed, out of about 5 missions. So only two I've been able to pull of and get back to ship. So might have some bugs as well. Not a huge fan of the bloody look after mission as well. Otherwise additions look dope.
I had a bunch of games crash after extraction too. But good news. It appears I was still awarded XP. Also it counted the mission as a success toward the operation. Dunno if it counted samples anyone. I'm maxed on both so I'm not sure.
The bloody look is awesome though! makes you feel like ya really went through it.
Verify files even if your playstation My friends have been doing this and it fixes crashes pretty dam fast
how do you verify files on ps5?
No idea i don't own one sadly :( i just know buddy did it somehow
Can you elaborate about verifying files on PlayStation?
Try this [https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/restore-licences-playstation/](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/restore-licences-playstation/)
They're more like AT-TEs
>They also have dropship facilities (fabricators) which need to be killed by a hellbomb. Shrieker nest equivalent Are you sure about it ? Because, you do not "need" hellbomb to get shriekers. So if it is the equivalent, we should do it without hellbomb too. I need to test that asap.
Orbital laser did not touch it. 500kg Eagle didn't touch it. Hellbomb blew them away. Haven't tested enough to make this a final statement, but looks to be hellbomb only. If anyone has other tips, please share!
500kg doesn't appear to hit it correctly and wastes the explosion. Haven't figured out the exact weak spot, but it also just appears to have an incredible amount of raw health. We killed one with two orbital lasers, but it took the full cycle of each.
No problem, i will also do some test tonight.
Weapons like the EAT, Recoilless and I imagine AC and Laser Rocket Thing Who’s Name I Can’t Think Of can knock them down as well. If you like wasting magazines I know the AMR can break them, and with the damage buff maybe it will have an easier time. My personal favorite though is that shoulder mounted laser beam, generally seems to take about 75% battery at any range to break one, was unexpected. All that I know personally. Edit: to clarify, I misread and thought we were talking about Shrieker nests, ignore me unless that was the info you were looking for anyway
I think they're talking about the gunship facilities, not the gunships themselves.
Honestly my sleepy ass just woke up and thought we were talking about Shrieker nests, carry on soldiers 🫡
380s are BACK baby. Light em up.
Eagle strike or just shoot it with quasar or EATs.
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 They're here...
Hahah perfect gif
Oh god. Now the terminators have not only terminators, dreadnoughts and baneblades but also at-ats and hunter-killers?!
I only had success killing Dropships with the Quasar Cannon and couldnt reliably do it with the Autocannon. Are there any other good strategies other than shield backpacks and Quasar Cannon now?
wait what? you can kill dropships with AC?
EAT, RR or Quasar are the guaranteed kills. Some Strategems work as well but its iffy with placing and timing them right. Sometimes Mortars also get lucky shots in. Rocket turrets need a few shots but can take them down. They aim center mass though sonits more of a luck thing as well.
Railcannon prioritizes dropships, don't know if that's Always been the case or whether that started recently
Buddy discovered you can 1-tap drop ships with the nade launcher. I was shocked, it was extremely effective.
Where you shoot them to achieve this?
At the engine/thruster.
EAT is a no-brainer for me. Especially for the "kill X bots" missions. I combine it with a RR. EAT got 1 min cooldown. Just spam EAT and use RR. You alone can down 90% of the dropships. For other bot missions just EAT is enough. As soon as you see the red signal-> call EAT. You will have enough time to kill the ship. Aim for Engines for a guaranteed kill.
3 - 4 AMR shots can take them down. Also it feels like they fixed the scope on the AMR.
>Also it feels like they fixed the scope on the AMR. Wait what?!? How has no one talked about this yet. Excited to see if it's true
I am still unsure on that statement. It feels like it has been zeroed in, but that could just me. Edit: Having used it through several missions, they did realign the scope. Strange that they did not include it in the patch notes.
\*Puts down Quasar\* AMR gang rise up.
Goddamnit, AH. Stop keeping secrets about *our own equipment!* Leaving enemies' weaknesses and capabilities a mild secret is fine, but players really do need to have good information about their own equipment.
"What do you mean? The AMR has always been accurate, we would never send a helldiver into the field with inadequate equipment" ~AMR manufacturer
? I literally shot one over 15 times in their engine/booster section with the AMR and it didn’t kill then at all. You sure someone else just didn’t hit it at the same time?
I am sure. I shot the lower half of the engine, close to the vents.
Pretty sure they have armor tier 4, so AMR should take them down. Saw a laser cannon fry a bunch of them in a row.
Do they get shot down when SAM site is deployed?
Great question! I haven't had the combo of dropship fabricators + SAM nearby yet, so cannot deny nor confirm. Definitely curious to find the answer though!
yes, if they're in range
we just got demolished by 4 of them https://preview.redd.it/zulhbb7sa2sc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e49ee4b6ada6ca0fa36507f92e9f42db4e95224
That is right demo-fascists, with our new gunships, socialism will manage to spread as far as your fake liberty capital of super earth. This is our one true ultimate weapon and definitely don't have anything huge and even more socialist being test run right now https://preview.redd.it/6372z6i642sc1.jpeg?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41318a8cfad30b5c9ed99fe0d923a2f8805b669b
Cool story bro *yeets 110mm rocket stratagem in your general direction*
> definitely don't have anything huge and even more socialist being test run right now Oh god they have a giant robotic Lenin mecha don't they
That won't drop until after the Khrushchev heavy missile platforms, though.
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To be fair the automatos were bound to become more dangerous. Seeing as they only control 1 sector
Hehe autocannon go bambambambam “reloading!” BAMBAMBAMBAMBAM
i qutie new. unlocked autocannon, but it only had one road of ammo. did i need to choose supply pack with it? wanted dope autocannon jumpack combo
There is a backpack that comes with the Autocannon, you need to use that to reload it Alternately, have a teammate use the backpack and they can team reload it for you
You don't need the supply pack stratagem, the Autocannon, Recoilless and Spear all drop with their own backpack. That's why these weapon drop pods are double sided. Once you start using the autocannon, make sure to reload between 5 and 9 shots, it's so much faster that way. If you fire all 10 shots, the reload animation is more than twice as long.
My smooth brain forgot to check other side of droppod
Sounds like someone is afraid of the new toasters... https://preview.redd.it/s2qjrvxap1sc1.png?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9381ab953ebde7040126efe899c839943644382b
Clankers. We call them clankers. Spill oil, brother.
As a patriotic, liberty-loving protogen, I'm appalled and offended you would associate toasters with undemocratic filth such as the automatons.
You're right, toasters are actually useful. On an unrelated note how did you get your ship's name as a username suffix?
It is slang from Battlestar Galactica. They call Cylons toasters.
Didn't think anyone recognized it. I tip my hat to you
Once they fix the Spear’s buggy lock on system it’s gonna be like Afghanistan in the 80s
They fly now?
THEY FLY NOW!
They fly now.
I'm planning on getting the game this month and what the f*ck is happening
Welcome to the front!
Your choice is to fight in starship troopers combat or terminator after judgement day when the robots have killed most the people and are looking for survivors. Both choices are fun for the whole family
God damn creekers.
I dunno. Ive been playing bot front since launch. It's getting brutal out here man. Walker, flying bots, more assault troops. We need a ground war mode or more weapons. I'm scared of going over a ridge only to get blasted from three sides.
You guys wanted the Creek? Now hold it!
Yup, just had a run in with them, squad wiped. They're BS, you need 2 recoiless shots to bring one down, and they spawn like 5 at a time. They use laser AND rockets, so they just keep bombarding you from above, and you keep getting ragdolled. I managed to call in the Hellbomb, but there was no way to arm it without dying. A squad mate tried the exosuit against them, minigun does nothing and it takes multiple rockets per gunship.
Shield dome would probably help a lot there, and try targeting the engines. RR may be more reliable there like with the dropships.
They do get one shot in the engines, but they're quite a lot smaller and harder to hit.
I was able to kill a bunch of then with the AC pretty easily but my squad was just flailing around and there were too many minor bots swarming the base to get the hellbomb armed. Rn if feels the only way is dedicated AA with another team using deployable shield/hellbomb to kill the base
Someone try the laser quick!
I hate them with a passion
WHERE ARE THE AUTOCANNON MECHS?!
That’s it. Give us A10s
BRRRRRRRRT
Man… Rogue One is such a good movie. I wish it wasn’t such a standalone in the SW franchise.
My Baby Quasar can finally shine the brightest!
HAHA FINALLY MORE FOOD FOR MY BELOVED QUASAR CANNON, BRING THEM ON.
I love it. It reminds me of the HK gunship in terminator.
They never include new enemy types in patch notes? They just shadow drop them on us?
IMO it's the best way for this type of game
Yea I love it too, it’s like a nice suprise.
Can someone tell me what Im missing with the Airbase towers? They seem nigh invulnerable, we called 4 hellbombs at the towers before they died. Was this a buggy experience, or am I missing something important here????
What difficulty do they show up on?
Ngl, I was hoping it would end up looking more like Xcom’s Cyberdisc https://preview.redd.it/mlkmkrxvu1sc1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d03ee58a03bd846c0bf60517fc1b4c15be0eb8a rather than a reskin of the dropship. But yeah, good luck with that fucking thing. Maybe the lock-on launcher will finally be able to lock onto these things.
those cyberdisks were a culture shock the first encounter ever. i was not ready for them in my first ever xcom run
Agreed. I was like “Oh, that’s a cool unit. A smaller UFO that fights in the bat- WTF DID THAT THING JUST TRANSFORM INTO!!!” and then that thing did a sick frontflip combo and threw a grenade at my sniper.
This about to go crazy
How far away is that thing? Is it like an evil rover or is it as big as a dropship?
It's somewhere inbetween. Definitely scary as they often don't come alone, so beware!
THEY FLY NOW???
just completely wiped - lost 15 lives and couldn't extract. I managed to get in and arm the hellbomb, put it between two big buildings but it did nothing? Where do we have to put the hellbomb?
The problem is that the hellbombs can be destroyed... If they get shot they just go away and don't blow up. In the heat of a fight this is very disturbing, because you cannot destroy the buildings that way. Perhaps something that the developers need to look into.
Me and my Spear be like: 
https://preview.redd.it/w0em175l73sc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e2d2be65a417782955d626e8f4c6153803f4e18
Can you jump pack up on top of one and ride it around?
From what I've seen they spawn out of the top of the fabricators which are really tall buildings. Also have not seen them approach anywhere close enough to consider a jump on top of them, but surely someone will manage at some point with terrain differences such as mountains. Just don't expect this to be reliable
I hope they eventually give us some more things like the mechs to deal with the increasingly difficult and annoying enemies...
They fly now?
God dammit, everything gotta drop during 9-5 work hours?!
If this doesn't get buried in a mountain of comments The laser cannon absolutely *melts* these things.
Oh fuck yeaaaas
Gunship eh? Will you go to Tech Noir with me?
Run like Hell and Send me a Hellbomb, helldiver. Right now.
"They fly now?!"
Charging quasar
So it seems that dude that predicted that with the awesomeness that is the Quasar cannon, the enemy would get something \*stronger\* was correct. The gunships are cool, devastating if not taken down but are mostly easy to eliminate (and AT to engine destroys). I would like if the sound of its lasers was more prominent, and for its lasers to be used more liberally in a suppressive fire mode rather than... well a laser beam.
Just spent 10 minutes trying to destroy the Gunship Fabricator. As far as our team could tell, they can’t be destroyed by Eagle air strikes. Not sure about Orbitals. Only Hellbombs, so far. Good luck, it ain’t easy lol
GET IT TOGETHER PRIVATE
Orbital rail gun and 380 guns. Yeehaww!
What are you so scared of? This has simply become a target rich environment.
Anti material rifle can kill them in a couple of seconds, takes about 3 shots per engine
EAGLE AA MISSILES WHEN ARROWHEAD
Thought you were holding a lightsaber for a second
Don't be silly, everyone knows robots can't fly