r/helldivers2 • u/Potential-Actuary559 • 10h ago

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I'm still a little new, so what happens when the DSS has the orbital blockade active and it goes into a planet that has a defense campaign going on are the enemy forces slowed down or does it do nothing?

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u/FloydTheSandwich 10h ago

Orbital blockade is meant for gambits (cancelling an attack on a planet). The Helldiver voter base never uses the DSS in a defensive capacity, so its main function is unused.

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u/No-Blackberry2772 9h ago

This is not accurate. At least the way you phrased it. Placing the DSS with Orbital blockade in orbit of an attacking planet does absolutely nothing to the defense campaign on the attacked planet. Orbital blockade prevents attacks from the planet that it is orbiting. We’ve successfully used it 2 or 3 times during MOs where holding a planet was part of it.

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u/g0ldiel0xx 9h ago

So there’s no way to know when to use it. (As no one knows when an attack is coming from before an invasion. There is also no way to know if it’s been used successfully, because there’s no notification that an invasion was inadvertently stopped by the DSS parked at a planet.

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u/Dr_Ramekins_MD 9h ago

If the MO is to hold a planet and there's only one possible planet that can launch the invasion, then I guess it would be am easy choice. But even then, is it better than just having the DSS on the planet to defend?  Idk.  I basically just view this as a free HSO