Between Hulks and Fire Tornados, I'm sticking with bugs, lmao.
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If you immediately stim you should survive, at least that's how I do it.
not since the fire DOT buff. now you need to dive first to put out fire, then stim, and hope you don't get hit by anything bewteen the dive and u stim.
Amazing how many people don't know to just dive when you're on fire. I've seen lots of people just running around screaming and then keeling over and dying.
Dive first to put out fire, I forget that half the time and often the burn damage outpace the stim (it might depends on the host situation).
Orbital Airburst seems pretty underrated to me. The pacing of the shots is perfect for controlling a bug breach. I don't think I've ever regretted picking it. (though, if the fire host bug ever gets picked, I think it will face much stiffer competition from Eagle Napalm Strike).
Yeah, tornadoes also are clearly homing in on you, they aren't random. The diving worked before, same with Hulks. Now it's mostly instant death.
When was that buff? For me just stimming worked just fine yesterday.
Last major balancing patch when they buffed fire damage for everything. Now Hulks feel like they carry a laser of death, not flamethrower.
We need fire resistant armor ASAP.
Honestly depends on how much the flames lick you.
It was the last patch from last week i elieve.
They decided to buff all DoT by 50% without realizing dot damage doesn't work for anyone except network host sometimes.
Yeah last patch Fire damage was increased 50%. The Tornados are insane, you got about .5 a second to stim/dive or you are dead with no chance.
Yeah agreed. Though I think I still prefer having one orbital and one eagle so you still have a CC option while the eagle is rearming. If they ever get the bug fixed I would probably do cluster+gas or napalm+airburst pairs.
Yeah it's crazy that they've buffed the flamethrower damage, then buffed fire damage, then added a ship module that further increases fire damage
Now we just need a fire themed Warbond. Als, give me a fire turret!
A fire rover would be the ultimate team killing machine lmfao
Fire or Arc rover would be an increased difficulty modifier
I will never touch a fire tornado again until they patch this shit. They should honestly be disabled if they're this broken.
I lost like 25+ samples due to an extraction that got swarmed by tornadoes (shocker) that then made everything I dropped bugged out and impossible to pick up again. Super fun.
The biggest bullshit about fire tornadoes is honestly that they're clearly designed in a way to cover the objective area and to chase players. Should just be 100% random. I've had multiple primary objectives and extractions where we simply couldn't do the objective or extract because the fire just happened to go right over it.
I was playing one of the fucking fire tornado planets today and after failing in large part because my understaffed squad could not launch an ICBM *while the whole area was bathed in fire* and once it was over I was like fuck this and switched to a bug planet. We were low on time and only had a couple of reinforces left, and I had to try to sneak up on the final clamp to undo for the silo cover and naturally, despite trying as carefully as possible the animation moved me too close to the fire and I died. I did get the clamp done, but then, ha ha ha, a spout of fire just sat on the console for a minute.
I can't stand AA Defense missions that take away a strat slot, but I *loathe* fire tornadoes. So not fun.
I can't stand AA Defense missions that take away a strat slot, but I *loathe* fire tornadoes. So not fun.
I'm almost certainly in the minority here but I kind of like the fire tornadoes. I don't even mind how they slowly home towards us, it somehow fits the farcical tone of the game. It honestly amuses me to be attacked by a planet. My only gripe with them is how the lower visibility makes it tough to find the super samples rock.
I like the fire tornadoes, but then again I am the guy that shouts "HOLEDIVERS! EVERYONE OVER THE HOLE" whenever I see one of those random instant death pits. Even (especially?) when we're badly outgunned and running for our lives
it wasn't a reset though? the bots attacked it, it's a defense campaign
Thought the escort missions were gonna be a lil better. They feel the same to me, but just seeing the end it looked like ppl were focused on getting samples more than evacuating.
It's like once we hit 30+ the bots just kept coming. There were 4 hulks at one point and I was just being ragdolled left and right
It's like once we hit 30+ the bots just kept coming. There were 4 hulks at one point and I was just being ragdolled left and right
Lucky. Only trophy I'm missing, think I had someone on Reddit give me their psn so we could try.
There is a discord for Era HD2 players in the threadmarks where you can find non-shit people to play with. Also, if you are the host you can kick people who are like that. If you have game set to public and select a mission, people can join, or try an SOS beacon on the planet. Mixed results with that one. Works for me, my friend never gets anyone to join. Don't need game set to public for it to work.
One thing I've seen people do is if you immediately go prone in front of the hulk, they can't shoot the flames downward and it will miss you completely.
I don`t think the game ever tells you that you can do that (if it`s in a loading screen tips I can`t remember seeing it). Before the fire buff patch you could easily just stim to heal the fire and after fire patch it kills you in 0.5 seconds so players won`t have time to learn that the dive can stop it unless they already know.
Diving first is the best way to survive but it doesn't help that half the time you'll press the stim button, hear the sound, and then it doesn't activate at all.
I've been killed so many times because I'm at low health, hit the heal and hear it activate, but it didn't actually heal me.
I think my biggest streak so far is hearing the heal activate sound 3 times before it actually worked.
I've been killed so many times because I'm at low health, hit the heal and hear it activate, but it didn't actually heal me.
I think my biggest streak so far is hearing the heal activate sound 3 times before it actually worked.
This has happened to me so many times. It's tied to the animations, I believe, some of them immediately cancel the stim action yet the sounds still play. Well, animations AND lag.
The annoying stim one for me is when you're on a control panel and you're trying to press up to open a hatch or something and you then end up using a stim when you're at 90% health!
Maxed out the new ship stuff, what people do with their samples is no longer my concern. I also got all the Steam achievements thanks to that random group from earlier.
Woah! That's quite inpressive! How did you manage to get the samples so quickly….?
Asking for a friend….
It's still kinda BS though, that suddenly we're again at 0%, defense campaigns should have a different metric imo.
Imagine we knock over Lesath, it's 1 hour before the MO ends and suddenly they attack and we're at 0% 😂
The winning strategy now would be to just leave the invasion at 99% and knock over both planets near the end of MO, which is kinda cheesy.