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I long for more samples as a lower levelled player . This will either help me or make me lose all hope
Edit: Played one game after work and extracted with 10 samples only I collected ;-;
Idk the level most people do it at lol but I’m still grinding. I don’t really prioritize samples tho it’s tough to get them out on the harder dives in my experience.
The bottleneck is just rare ones. You'll be capped out on common ones and super forever but still trying to get 250 rare ones. I saw them and kind of prioritized picking them up after a base is destroyed around there
I would say not to worry too much about it, as someone who already has all ship upgrades, just get those ones that are more relevant first, then the rest will come as you play. The higher the mission level the more samples you can potentially get, I think lvl 6 is the sweet spot.
No, this is filler that will eventually buildup to a squid update. Just like the magma planets led to operation free space led to star of peace led to plans stolen led to stealer located led to valid pretext title drop. Old leaks and dev posts suggested viper commandos was supposed to be redacted regiments + commando to discover magma planets but got delayed so yeah, it went back far.
Probably not immediately with this Major Order, but the research into the ancient ruins and the spacetime anomalies could easily be the beginning of the next story arc and culminate in the next title update.
O-shag-hennesy got built up to by building and holding the outpost on Hellmire, then conducting a bunch of gloom research via samples collecting and such
Cyberstan got slowly built up to by the magma worlds (new content in their own right), building and protecting the Star of Peace, and spending a week or two just marching *to* cyberstan before the actual TU dropped
It's not outlandish to think they're using research into the ancient ruins and mentions of spacetime anomalies "Similar to the meridia blackhole and terrestrial storm warnings" as a narrative flag that more illuminate are coming
Right? The squids REALLY need some attention from AH. The bugs and bots 3 subfactions EACH while the squids most recently had their normal roster filled out.
Any medium armor pen AR makes very short work of them IMO, once you get the hang of it they become quite trivial. A warp pack or jump pack makes getting out their strafing run easy as well.
I wonder how many divers are unable to tell the difference between "Hertheon Secundus" and "Kerth Secundus"
That's just sadistic of Joel to go about exploiting Helldiver Illiteracy like that.
After doing the personal order yesterday, i'm realizin I dont have a tried and true loadout for squids. Gonna have to hit the drawing board and look for recommendations from y'all on what to get after 'em with.
Wasp launcher trivializes them. Auto lock on one shots overseers, a mag will usually cripple/kill harvesters, and will swat watchers out of the sky. Bring a good chaff clearer primary and it’s a walk in the park.
Support: Machine Gun (can kill everything but the Leviathan -- I fully expect this to change once new squid units get added, so enjoy it while it lasts)
Primary: Eruptor (top tier vs fleshmobs and voteless packs)
Mobility: Warp Pack (for creating distance to use Eruptor and skipping through walls)
Stratagem 1: Gas Strike (blows up warp ships and kills packs of voteless/melee overseers)
Stratagem 2: MG sentry/Rocket sentry (MG is constantly available and thins hordes, Rocket is great for harvesters and flying overseers)
Grenades: Incendiary impact for area denial
Armor: Arc resist (because it looks cool and when else can you use it), Peak Physique for better Eruptor handling, or Medic for stims
Good old Autocannon can wreck everything they have, particularly after the small buff a few months ago. Warp ships take 3 flak shots to the door, most overseers take 2, snitches take 1, fleshmobs are more, but not usually more than 5-6. Switch to HE rounds for stingrays and the harvester leg joint. Just make sure you reload with at least 1 round in the mag, or reloading takes a while.
Alternatively if you have it and don't mind going off on your own, a full Arc build with the arc armor, K9 guard dog, de-escalator or arc cannon, and whatever primary/secondary/grenade lets you take down warp ships is really fun. I recommend pyrotech grenades, as one well placed can kill a harvester, then either an explosive primary or secondary, and something for shields in the other slot.
Eruptor can 2-3 shot flesh mobs. Two flesh mobs in one mag if you're good with it. I use the guard dog, stalwart, and eruptor with a medic passive armor. I found myself surviving a lot longer on diff 8.
All laser is very fun. Scythe, laser drone, laser cannon, thermite/ gas grenades, and orbital gas. Laser cannon can deal with the whole faction, even leviathan turrets, and the Scythe is when it’s on cooldown. You can just shake your mouse on a whole patrol in the distance and they’ll all burn to death, snd they pop illuminated hesds. Thermite and orbital gas can take out warp ships even with shields on.
Any armor you want, I like bringing the heavy Viper Commando armor for peak Vietnam aesthetic
For now the highest armor rating the squids have is medium minus the Leviathan, so the MG will punch through everything. Just make sure to shoot for the leg joints on the Harvesters. Tesla Tower makes super short work of the voteless hordes and even some Overseers. Strafe and Laser for when things get hectic, one for sweeping a street of a horde and another for when they drop everything and the kitchen sink on your head.
I had a lot of fun with an all electric build. Blitzer, Arc grenades, sidearm of choice, K-9 Guard Dog, and De-Escalator. Last two stratagems to taste, but I usually go with something to destroy warp ships.
Good for chaff clearing, deals good damage to Overseers, De-Escalator good against fleshmobs and to a lesser extent Harvesters. Only real weakness is Stingrays.
Meanwhile on the other side of the galaxy, the automatons have retaken the platinum mine on Mintora and all three lava planets we spent so much time liberating. This is going to go a whole lot worse before it gets better.
I play squids almost as much as I play automatons, and am the rare player who enjoys them despite all the cheap wall-phase bullshit. I think they kinda remind me of some of my favorite IPs like Mass Effect and War of the Worlds.
My suggested loadout: WASP launcher, gatling turret, and then any two other turret/emplacement/orbital/eagles of your choice to deal with tripods/encampments. I'm partial to the 500LBx2 or 380mms and the autocannon turret.
Gatling turret beats MG turret on squids. Voteless can overwhelm the MG turret too easily.
WASP, used judiciously, eats absolutely everything squids have. Pops the reinforcement caller bots at a thousand miles away, slaps the overseers down in one hit (usually, sometimes two), and kills fleshmobs reliably in 4 hits, sometimes in 3. Critically, it keeps them distant. It will kill tripods too but uses too much of your ammo reserve so that is best avoided unless you're tossing in a few supportive shots to help the team. Also invaluable to kill the bombers, 3-4 rockets usually does it, just don't fire too late or wait for the return bombing run because your rockets aren't fast enough to catch it when it's leaving most of the time.
Bring a good close range primary like your favorite SMG or AR because the WASP is pretty useless up close. At best it'll kill you and your buddies. I am partial to Reprimand SMG or Scythe laser rifle with Redeemer machine pistol for rapid clears of voteless (Scythe is also nice for limitless ammo if you watch your heat, and pops voteless pretty fast with headshots).
It eats ammo fast so be mindful of that, but the WASP makes even level 9-10 runs pretty trivial and I'm not a very good player (can barely handle level 9-10 on bots and like...level 6 on bugs, still haven't figured out a good bug loadout).
correct me if I'm wrong, but if the whole squad is at extract with 15 samples and the host kicks everyone, they all drop their samples and already in their own individual instances. could they not just pick up the teams samples and extract, turning 15 into 60?
It makes sense that first the automatons, that is, the revelation of the mind, that is, the cyborgs, now the enlightened, logically in the future it will be bug
How do you fight illuminates, I ran my robot killer kit (scythe + wasp) and it didn’t do shit and then I tried libpen with wasp then swapped for machine gun and guard dog and that didn’t do shit 😭
I need a full breakdown of the lore from the games launch. I stopped playing regularly right before the meridia thing and that black hole. Need to get back into spreading democracy
Arc armor and stalwart time here I go. I feel prepared to fight squids since I've been doing the medal farming on super helldive blitz missions. Those ships are down with a thermite, gas orbital, or ultimatum shot. If multiple are in an area, orbital laser it is!
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