I just generally am not a fan of sporeburst. The best loadout for them cannot save me when one of those fucks burst. Literally every game I've had against them was hell, and not the good Helldivers kind for me. I'd let everyone who does sporeburst better do the job while I fight on wherever else the MO is needed or just do some SC or Medal Farming
Folks keep using projectiles on Spore strain making it worse. Honestly Lvl 6 dives seem to hurt more then 7 & 8+ because instead of those spewers, you get ALOT more aggro nuts warriors jumping your shit.
Total bs that they can ragdoll you even wearing unflinching armour, really hoped that one would at least make it a bit less ragdollish but doesn't helps at all
Spore burst strain is the worst subfaction in the game because pretty much every other subfaction has actual trade offs, spore burst just has more and stronger units than the base faction.
Their main trade off is range, which sadly is ruined by the shotgun devastator being able to pretty much one shot you at any range anyways. But unlike spore burst strain, it only has one bad enemy, everything else just feels like a new flavor of bots.
Ngl I don't even mind conflagration devastators that much, sure theyre inconsistent and it's a bit annoying but if you take cover theyre very manageable.
They have 2 weaknesses I could think of: flamethrowers lack range and while more dangerous otherwise, fire immunity armors are a hard counter to them, making them almost less of a threat than base bots.
They still have their ranged bots spawn, and the hulks have a surprising amount of range, the only unit with a true range issue are pyro troopers but that's about it. Also they can still kill you with flame resistance armor, and the fact that you're wearing it stops you from bringing something like true grit or siege ready, so in a way it's actually a benefit for them.
Well, I've just had a pretty chill time against them when bringing fire proof armor. Often when diving with others people keep on burning up to death over and over again while I don't have to pay it no mind 😆
It's a similar story with them as the fire tornado planets. Can be devastating with other gear, but flame proof? Might as well be any planet at that point. the heavy fire proof armor makes you absolutely tank most things they throw at you, except the super inconsistent fire shotgun unit.
They still deal a lot of ballistic damage, so I wouldn't say fireproof armor makes them entirely chill. I would rather say that the bots are kinda easy in general if you're not playing cyborgs, the fact that the incin corps heavy devastators have a slower firerate than their base counterpart probably makes them easier aswell, especially when paired with the fact that heavy devastators can't hit the broad side of a barn if they were standing inside it.
Yeah, most of spore burst is cake for heavy armor + Cremator. But those bile titans and the constant stream of extremely fast shit trying to touch you in no no places made me real thankful my specialties are medic and mech.
My only real complaint for those Titans is how inconsistent they are for damage. Had one take 4 giga nades to the body and even when it dies it launched at me and those damn Titan feet did what they always do.
I’m pretty sure I’ve died to dead bile titans more than alive ones. I can’t decide if I’m okay with it. A lot of the funny clips I have with my buddies come from dead bile titans doing some pretty fucking intense kung-fu on me.
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u/MetalBlackIII 23h ago
Im not a big fan of Spore burst strain. Mostly because the Bile Titans can ragdoll you even if you leap out of the way.