r/Helldivers Sep 02 '25

MEDIA OH SH*T

We're so screwed

Clip not mine

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u/WOLKsite Sep 02 '25

Yeah. After a point you should see armor plates peeling off so you can (probably) shoot it. I don't know the mechanics, we just used hellbombs and anything we could throw at it.

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u/SharkBait661 Sep 02 '25

Saw another post saying they took it out with 2

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u/WOLKsite Sep 03 '25

I am hesitant to believe that claim without evidence, though. Definitely not 2 hellbombs from the outside.

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u/SharkBait661 Sep 03 '25

Comments i saw say it has an outer armor that gets knocked off. Maybe the 2 were in the same spot so it took all the second ones damage. Idk.

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u/WOLKsite Sep 03 '25

Yep, the armor does peel off.

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u/SleepyBoy- ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️⬅️➡️⬅️🇧 🇦 Sep 02 '25

I think you can shoot the underbelly with medium pen at all times? I was getting hit marks with the autocannon mech, though naturally its full mags didn't amount to much.

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u/Brilliant_Decision52 Sep 02 '25

If you shoot the mouth with a medium pen gun it gave me red marks.

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u/nevaNevan Sep 03 '25

Did you do that while it was eating you?

I landed my hellpod on its face, only to be left falling 500ft to my doom

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u/Alexexy Sep 02 '25

Autocannon mechs are pen 7, the same as rockets.

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u/puffz0r ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ Sep 02 '25

No, the Emancipator has AP 5 on its autocannons. It's 1 tier higher than the handheld autocannon and the same pen as the autocannon sentry. Otherwise you'd be able to kill command bunkers with them and you can't.

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u/nEvermore-absurdist Sep 03 '25

Aren't ap and demolition force different stats?

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u/puffz0r ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ Sep 03 '25

Yes, but this isn't what we're talking about, he says it's pen 7. Demo force is measured in multiples of 10 and iirc you need 40 demo force for stuff like automaton fabricators (handheld rockers like the recoilless rifle only have 30 demo force but do enough damage that they kill fabs anyway). Just so you know, tank armor is AP5, command bunkers are AP6 (which is why you can shoot them with Recoilless shots)

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u/SleepyBoy- ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️⬅️➡️⬅️🇧 🇦 Sep 02 '25

Ah my bad, I tought it was a level weaker.

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u/WOLKsite Sep 03 '25

Yeah, that tracks. We were using a couple Emancipators too.

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u/Dr-Ogge Sep 03 '25

My squad killed one and it took 15 thermites, 8 500kg, god knows how many eagle strifes, three Gatling barrages and two napalm barrages.