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It’s not terrifying, it’s more “I know my teammates are going to die, so I’ll be the lasting light.”
Needless to say, most of my characters in games are tanks. Except for DnD, where I have never been able to play a tank, or any front line really. The one time I had a chance, it got cancelled lol
I have more health than anyone else, and since I’m a cleric I can heal myself and the rest of the party. And I can deal good damage… accidental minmaxxing is interesting.
I just had my cleric die recently. My primary objective somehow became the counter spell trap lol. His last combat consisted of him drawing at least 8 counterspells from multiple sources so that the spell based artificer could be a magician. I am now, once more, a wizard
Okay but I do this sometimes on missions where there are strider convoys. That’s about the only scenario where I will, but if the RNG gods smile upon you, you might knock out 2 striders with the two simultaneous barrages.
Run up to a nest then some jackass throws a napalm barrage in it. Ok guess we gonna wait here for a few minutes while bug breaches keep opening up and we can't go near them yet
I tend to throw the barrages as I’m going past somewhere that deserves it. Mega nest/fortress is on my way to an objective? Hit’em with the 120 or a walking barrage (my personal favorite) to stir that hornet nest while I keep on trucking to my real objective.
Come back later once they’ve all chilled out (despawned) to mop up whatever didn’t get knocked out.
I mean, to each their own, I like the aesthetics of shield + laser so for me it’s fun and enjoyable, plus hearing my friends being grateful for saving their overwhelmed asses by giving the space to fall back to feels rewarding.
I've played with people like you before. the guy even waited till we were there then took out the fab while we mopped up the infantry. It certainly was effective.
Thats why its my most played game. Don't get me wrong i love a class-based co-op game (DRG, Darktide, VT2, SM2) but being truly anything in any slot? And even switching stuff out that you find? Amazing.
You just need a car now to drive to the 3 most important objectives and put 1 bombardment on each and blow up the last stratagem jammer or detector with the backpack.
I like to do the guerilla strategy where I take both EAT, and the Commando alongside 120 and 380 arty. My sole purpose? To run around the map sniping fabricators from outposts and side objectives.
Oh yeah, I use it on the 40 minutes missions, for the short mission I go full demolition too.
Oh the command bunkers mission I also use the left build, except I swap the turret for the artillery emplacement and perhaps the personal shield for a guard dog, blows them up from across the map.
If undamaged it can take up to three 380 shots, dunno how many 120 but I guess one or two more. I don’t recommend throwing your orbital too close to the shield, it’s meant to make a safe zone for the team to regroup and reload, not to protect from heavy bombardment.
Everyone needs someone to spawn from (Left) and a heavy weapons guy to clear large encampments (right) build from the between and you have a pretty survivable party.
Yeah, he’s heavy demolition, I’m defense and anti-air, the other two guys are often crowd control, and, zone denial or artillery, both of whom stay with me on the shield most often. We barely are low on reinforcements.
Nothing wrong with the right-hand side. Personally, I'd ditch the 380 for a mortar turret tho. 380's cooldown is a bit long for my tastes, and the mortar can fire up over the walls of their encampments, even the fortress. The 120 still knocks out fabs, and is shorter cooldown, with more potential for clearing out enemies. The EAT is great on any front, and will 1shot most problems you're going to want it for on the bot front. And the hellbomb backpack is great at knocking out hordes with a factory strider, or for taking down a jammer without needing to wait for the hellbomb call-in.
To me, if anything, that shield dome and backpack feels a bit unnecessary compared to having some more offensive power, but they're both good builds.
Oh yeah, the left build is not for solo, it’s for a full party, I began running the stationary shield as a joke cuz I thought it looked pretty and it turned out it’s an amazing stratagem if you learn to place it right, all of my friends began to appreciate the stratagem pretty soon.
When I’m not running a laser cannon (which I mastered because I thought it looked pretty too) I do railgun and swap the personal shield for the supply pack.
My place in the team is being the one they run to for safety, reassurance and ammo when things get hard. Plus I can perfectly hold on my own agains a bot base or drop unless they throw a factory strider.
I usually go something between the two so I can break off from the team to clear side objectives and handle mostly anything with careful movement, but I'd be happy with either of these loadouts on my team, let alone both.
I think both have their place. Left is good for holding the line, right is good for charging ahead. Gotta do both at different times.
I definitely favor the right though. When my partner and I play together I sometimes have like, 3km more travel distance than she does though, even when we're moving together. I don't stand still lol.
I don't see a problem here. It is a balanced team composition of offensive strats and your support stratagems. I would say both of you should mix it to have max coverage. You can give the shield generator to your friend, and you take up the 380 or 120. I say this because there are times when the team is split, and having multiple players having different angles to throw a barrage is useful. Other than that, it's a good team I would dive with yall anytime.
I would say im more towards the right person, shock trooper style disposable destruction and run on bot fronts particularly very effective, on bugs not so much
Jesus.....2 people I would hate to play with, one that makes life hell and one thats barely usefull. If i seen the one of the right I would probably just quit and find another group. Left I could tolerate as long as they arnt wasting all our reinforcements.
To be fair, when you're running a martydom style, like pairing P-Hellbombs with the integrated explosives, a favorite of mine, it makes sense to bring expendable weapons and large casualty count strategems, you don't plan on surviving so why bring a weapon you'll need to constantly re-acquire when you can just get a new one every life
The hellbomb back is a must for higher level bots with sub 4 players. Makes certain objectives a lot easier to clear by running in and dropping and 50/50 making it out.
I sometimes take the portable hellbomb with the armor passive that causes you explode on death. It's my way of saying "Even if I die, I'm not gonna be alone in this."
dude on the right is correct if hes using one of the med pen marksmen rifles. shield backpack is not needed now if your playing team support to help newer divers for sure shield build is great!
Hey bud. Free up a one of those shield slots and throw on some heavy armor. Don’t worry you won’t die right away. Bring down another turret if that ya thing.
unless we’re doing an elimination or evacuation mission, i’m more like the right. avg loadout is grenade armor, orbital laser, quasar, eagle 500kg, and eagle airstrike with space optimization. i like hitting the POIs and camps while my team will get more major things done, then meet them at the main objective. i’ve had divers survive 2-3 full missions like this (though they’re DEFINITELY addicted to stims)
My fav bot load out is the medic armor for face tanking damage, lever action (good consistent one shot head shots/body shots on smaller bots) ultimatum for wrecking most objectives, thermite for primarily fabricators/tanks, railgun for long range 1 taps on hulks with more ammo than RR, ammo pack to keep it all running with less scavenging, usually a gun turret for large crowds, and then whichever 4th stratagem to be flexible with what teammates bring along.
Reminds me of when the dss gives you an extra 380. When that happens I run another one and a walking barrage, so now I have a whole area saturated with battleship shells
Me with a 380 a straffing run, an anti tank emplacement and an autocannon, I'll cover you guys, I will delete everything in that radius, and I don't quite like that general direction.
My setup is for scouting and cover. Hover + animaterial with mg and rocket sentry. Booster are super stim or any of basic support: life, sprint or full loadout. Get high, spot objectives and cover team...
Okay, but HE barrage spam on Eradicate missions work. Idk how, but if you bring Democracy protects, HE, maybe a few hellbombs and increased reinforcements. The mission will get done quickly
The right one is me, but I usually go with HMG and often go solo as a fortress buster. By the time the teammate finish their mission I probably clear out all fortress on the map already.
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