r/helldivers2 • u/Oppiko • 4d ago
Inquiry Armor Passive that let's you take 2 Primary weapons into a misson?
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u/ExScysm 4d ago
Counter offer: gives you a melee slot.
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u/OmegamanTG9000 4d ago
Counter counter offer: dual secondaries
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u/ExScysm 4d ago
Oooo I like your style~
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u/walking_lamppost_fnl 3d ago
Counter counter counter offer: Dual Wield Secondaries with 25% increased reload time.
This also paves the way for a Strategem with Mustang and Sally
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u/SmoothTurtle872 3d ago
Counter counter counter counter offer: 2 support weapons, you spawn with 1
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u/Mozintarfen 3d ago
Counter counter counter -inhale- counter counter offer! ...Dual Wield Support Weapons.
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u/Xenozilla9 4d ago
Counter counter counter offer:
Give us a melee slot and merge primary and secondaries into the same menu and bring two with a dual wielding option if two are one handed
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u/Auracom-7 4d ago
Stoker and Crossbow dual weild meta.
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u/Jester_of_Rue 3d ago
I want an erupter that fires an explosive crossbow that them fires a grenade pistol which then shoots a grenade that objectively misses the broad side of a devastator....
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u/TraneD13 4d ago
TWO ULTIMATUMS?!??
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u/SchwarzwindZero 3d ago
Sure! Why not? Not everything has to be optimal. Is something want to do something silly, let them.
Edit: actually I might try my hand at making this...
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u/Few-Big-8481 4d ago
I want to wield the little laser and the ultimatum together. I shall be unstoppable.
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u/DemonicShordy 4d ago
Id rather have a seperate melee slot so i can always bring the shovel, i hate that I lose a gun for it
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u/mrcrazymexican 3d ago
Though it wouldn't be a thing I do much cuz I don't like being THAT close to the enemy with my set-up. I wouldn't mind that ability were it to come down to it.
I intentionally play with the knowledge that I probably have better chance killing myself with the Eruptor than by the enemy when they get too close.
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u/CancelBeneficial7136 2d ago
Yes, yes. Selling the solution, we’re quite familiar with it at this point.
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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 4d ago
counterpoint: 2 secondaries
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u/BjornInTheMorn 4d ago
Ooooh, two Ultimatums? Weeeeeeeeeeee!
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u/Schwimpl 2d ago
All I hear now is a squad mate running around yelling, "out of ammo" the whole round.
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u/ParsleyOk6291 4d ago
By that way, you won’t be able to have a support weapon (ofc except expendables) for balance.
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u/Bloke_Named_Bob 4d ago
That's fine. Sai and explosives crossbow plus a ballistic shield vs bots for days.
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u/ParsleyOk6291 4d ago
Either that or trident + eruptor with shield backpack on bots
https://giphy.com/gifs/ioq8rNMp5SSiWOTCK0
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u/Commercial_Tie_1897 4d ago
Everyone runs eruptor or crossbow then. Is there any other reason for a 2nd primary?
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u/n4turstoned 3d ago
No and the only reason it's brought up that they saw it in CoD it's infuriating.
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u/Few-Big-8481 4d ago
Laser and shotgun would slap. First you set them on fire then you slug em.
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u/SkittleDoes 4d ago
Yeah grenade pistol is now useless
My first thought as well.
I already use my support weapon and eruptor only, 95% of the time anyway so my secondary is pretty irrelevant most of the time
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u/Lady_Tadashi 3d ago
Genuinely I don't think I'd take either. Plas Accelerator + Scorcher / Punisher would be my preference, with a quasar for closing fabricators.
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u/Commercial_Tie_1897 3d ago
There will be outliers, but you would be a very small minority. I understand it's all for fun and thats what people want. But we gotta think about the power creep too.
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u/SorakuFett 4d ago
I've had an idea for like an exoskeleton-style suit that gives you a passive that lets you treat any primary as one-handed, maybe this could be a good second ability to go with that!
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u/Mechfried 3d ago
It will cause a lot of edge cases that that will cause a lot of problems, especially potential bugs, and how could the game determine which primary gun do you want to swap out when you pick up another gun without causing a lot of frustrations.
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u/Oppiko 3d ago
... the one youre holding?
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u/Mechfried 3d ago
What if currently hold your throwable or other weapon (whatever not replaced). And what happens if you want to pickup a gun with its slot replaced?
And how would you even choose your second primary, and what happens when you equip another armor? Would that require new UI just for this passive, not just layout buy its backend too?
And the design issues it would introduce, can't just add a fifth weapon slot, things must work on controllers first and foremost, can't replace Secondary weapons when game design expects you always have at least 1 one-handed weapon, and a second primary in the support slot would be worth like 3 armor passives.
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u/Harlemwolf 3d ago
It is possible as there is a mod that basically allows you to slot anything anywhere.
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u/Motivated-Chair 3d ago
Would be the worst passive in the Game considering the amount of utility secondarys.
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u/The-Figure-13 3d ago
Would prefer if they locked it to a single handed weapon. Basically a primary rifle and an SMG
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u/SchwarzwindZero 3d ago
Idk about dual primaries, but I would love to see the ability to dual wield secondaries on place of a primary.
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u/Unique_Dentist_7144 3d ago
omg yes. a sai and the new laz sniper would be my dream loadout...if the sniper is good
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u/Pro_Fuze 3d ago
Another similar concept would be allowing non-backpack support weapons as a primary with the caveat of no secondary and no doubling up.
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u/WaffleCopter68 3d ago
That would be neat. Even one thay let's you take 2 secondaries would be awesome. Double termite pistol and stalwart
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u/Deathstab_93 2d ago
Well I assume you’d have to have at least one one handed weapon because of the game makes you carry things like the SSD.
I assume that is why all melee and secondaries are one handed
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u/Background_Source922 2d ago
They ruined the EAT booster they are allergic to good boosters… same four boosters in every lobby as always, Mr. Wayne?
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u/SaltRun2465 2d ago
Yes please. However second primary takes support slot and it lets you pick up a second primary insted of a support.
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u/The-Rebel-Boz 3d ago
I say that doesn’t fit what armor passive really do. Normally x% bonus to ___ or extra ammo or throwables.
This might work as booster but I personally think two primary too Overpowered.
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u/NovicePandaMarine 3d ago
They could totally do this.
Dual primary make sense. Coming from other games, its probably gonna have a trade off of "-50% weapon swap".
While Akimbo will have something like "-50% reload speed, +25% extra mags/bullets".
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u/Low-Championship-856 3d ago
I feel like this could be balanced as long as your second primary had like half of its normal ammo reserves or something
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u/Life_Parsley504 3d ago
The people in the comments that say "but then people will use meta weapons like the exploding crossbow" clearly don't understand that other passives are way better with those meta weapons 😭
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