• Diligence Counter Sniper for bots, Breaker Incendiary for bugs
• Grenade pistol never leaves my side
• Frag grenades for bots/incendiary impact for bugs
  • Haven’t really found a good nade for bots, still working towards getting stun, I use frag for the shorter fuse time than the default HEs
• Alpha Commander 117 medic armor, the extra stims and stim time are too good to give up

Stratagems:

• Bots: Quasar/POS/Eagle Strike/Shield or Mortar
• Bugs: Flamethrower/POS/Eagle Strike/Laser Guard Dog

I’ll probably go back to quasar for bugs when they nerf flamethrowers against chargers, right now it’s just too good to pass up.

I recently switched from rail cannon to POS for both enemy types because the buff was amazing

Shield lets me get in a few extra headshots at devastators before they hurt me

Laser guard dog makes cleaning up the lower tier bugs a non-issue so I can focus on bigger threats, it is annoying to get killed by it or for it to accidentally kill teammates, but I still think it’s worth it

The trees blocking most of the Eagle stratagems is a bummer, but I guess it makes sense. I have changed my loadout to substitute Eagle strikes with orbital equivalents, or as close as I can get, trees still block, but not as often as before.

A lot of fun, but does anyone else have significantly worse performance on it? Usual bot or bug missions I’m usually 70-90 FPS with dips in the 50s, but Gacrux sits in the 50s and dips as low as the 20s.

Exactly what I do with my ancient series 3, I have had no issues unless I forget my charger. I can go maybe 36 hours before a charge, closer to 30 if I do a few workouts.

That all being said, my fiancée and a friend both have series 3s that can’t even stay alive for 12 hours. I had my watch for a year longer than they did, so it’s not an age thing, I just think the batteries are very hit or miss.

I had a guy who just kept saying stuff like “we need to run to extract” in all caps as soon as we completed the main objective on a hard mission with probably 20 minutes left to finish up the side objectives, pleennttyy of time. I wasn’t the host, but I probably would have kicked the guy after a while because he was getting mad at the rest of us for going around and cleaning up. He didn’t call extraction, but he sat around the extraction area the entire time.

When we did finally get extraction going he called in a 120mm barrage centered on the extract point and it killed two of us as the drop ship was coming in. We had time to reinforce, but that would have been my last straw.

Yep, I’ve had gunship patrols spawn on missions with no towers on difficulty 8 fwiw

We need to get these very sick kids to work in the munitions factories asap

“SEAF forces” -> Super Earth Armed Forces forces lol

Roaming gunships are so much harder than roaming Shriekers haha.

I like the idea of these patrols, but gunship patrols should be a bit smaller, we were getting overwhelmed on diff 8 with patrols of 4-6 that would overlap. I guess that’s also a sign we need to adjust our loadouts more than anything, but I hope it points towards better AA stratagems in the future.

A significant majority, last I saw it was 5k divers at Marfark and 50k at VW

I’m lucky enough to be working from home today. I didn’t play a mission, but I did boot into the game to check out the warbond and see how the liberation of Vernen Wells is going.

You should give the incendiary breaker a second shot, it is the best shotgun in the game and by far the best weapon against bugs, as long as you have a good support weapon for chargers and titans.

I run IB/Grenade Pistol/Incendiary Contact nades/Quasar in diff 7 and 8 missions and am usually above 250-300 kills per mission.

I would have preferred a longer wait for a new warbond that actually added something to the game other than weapons or armour wont use.

In the blog post they said after this one they are going to slow down the release pace of war bonds so they are more meaningful, hopefully the next one is what you’re asking for

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/06/06/helldivers-ii-enlists-the-viper-commandos-warbond-on-june-13/

I think I need to sit down and farm out super credits on some difficulty 1-3 missions so I can buy the Steeled Veterans war bond to get the breaker incendiary

I haven’t had boxed Mac and cheese in a while, usually Costco’s premade is a favorite at parties so I have also given up trying to make Mac and cheese myself.

Cracker Barrel and the Walmart brand equivalent have been my family’s favorite for the rare occasion where we make boxed Mac and cheese. I grew up with Kraft, but now it makes me feel sick for a while after. I tried the Cheetos one with some friends once when it was new, expecting it to be terrible, and it really upset our stomachs, I was also pretty grossed out at how neon orange it was.

My early 2015 MBP is still my daily driver for programming, I will never regret spending so much on an MBP when they last this long. I went through two windows laptops in four years before this one. It is starting to show its age with only 8 GB of RAM, but I’m going to use it until it melts haha

Used Airalo in the EU last year, only complaint was it took a few hours for the data to work reliably, but it was 100% after that. I’ve recommended it to everyone I know traveling.

I live in a really dry climate, so I don’t really notice issues unless I have a spool out on the printer for months, and even then dust is more of an issue than humidity.

To be safe, I bought a storage bin with a gasket on the lid that I store all of my other spools in, and that has seemed to work great.

I’ve been downloading my favorite AH videos all day in case WB decides to pull content, with their history you never know. I was looking into setting up a local NAS last weekend, and all these videos might be my push, I think I’m up to 250 GB downloaded (shoutout to youtube-dl) with the long 1080p60 files, hopefully I can cut that down with some HandBrake trickery.

The writing was on the walls for a while, Achievement Hunter breaking up was a huge red flag, but definitely not the first sign. I have only really consumed their podcasts for the last few years, and it sounds like The Roost will continue for now while WB looks for a buyer, but I think we have to wait for their stream tomorrow to find out what that means in terms of what productions if any are going to continue.

The amount of websites that limit passwords to 16 characters is alarming