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Unexpected useful strategems? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Hindufury@lemmy.world to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca

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Hey I was wondering which stratagem you tried out on a whim but ended up really liking? I've been switching it up especially since I read that EAT spam can mess up missions, as that was one of my go-tos.

For me it has to be the gatling barrage. It peppers a concentrated area and can hurt all enemies from what I've seen. I love using it for Breach suppression and yesterday I didn't see anyone shoot any rockets, so I swear it knocked down a dropshop on an elimination mission.

Its use case is definitely limited, but when that case is present those repeated explosions feel nice to see.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I saw some dude making pretty clutch work out of orbital smokes while in quickplay last night. Allowed us to quickly disengage from huge fights and made extraction tolerable against bots. Made me decide to equip smoke grenades for a few missions with him and now I'm kinda seeing the value of smoke in bot missions.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Similar idea but EMS mortars are essential on bot missions for me. Along with 6 impact grenades!

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the thing about smoke - you can drop smoke and shoot them, or you can drop an airstrike in the same slot and get rid of them at once. Same for nades - throwing an impact into a freshly landed bot dropship is way better than throwing a smoke for a few seconds of them being inaccurate

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Smoke and air strikes are very different. Smoke allows to disengage and avoid patrols. Bots are often too spread out to be taken down by one air strike.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I make good use of the eagle smokes instead of the orbital purely because I can use it more often than the orbital one.