HELLDIVERS 2 - are you doing your part?

You can get lucky hitting them in the mouth with other weapons but railguns are where it's at, if you find one on the battlefield pick it up as they're great against everything. The single shot and reload is a bit annoying to start with but it becomes second nature pretty quickly. Using it in unsafe mode adds some extra spice too, just don't blow yourself up.

I've seen examples of it online and found it pretty funny that my first experience of playing a mission with a group of 4, one of them decides to shoot all of us so they could take our samples. Think something needs to be done about that.

However jumping on this morning for a few missions with a total random and it was great. Backs to the wall stuff sometimes, helping each other out with supplies and stims. Really cool experience. Game feels good to play too, definitely gonna keep at it

Railguns great, arc cannon also pretty cool. Think jetpack is a bit naff tho unless I'm missing something, doesn't cover enough distance or something

Yeah everyone gets the samples that extract (even if you don't make it back yourself), same as the requisition slips, medals and super credits but they're credited when picked up. Super credits doesn't trigger the message on anyone's screen but the person who picks up (may have been patched but it certainly didn't at launch).

Anyone killing for samples is a prick.

Anyone fancy teaming up tonight for some hard/extreme missions tonight?

You can jump into anyone's game if there's an active mission on the map. You can use tags to call out points of interest or waypoints on the map. All pretty intuitive, I get along just fine without needing to go on voice comms

Definitely doesn't bother to explain itself, but I think it's intentional as much of the fun is discovering it all anyway. Some of the ways to kill enemies are very inventive and they seem to have gone to a lot of effort to have the game react logically to what you do. Only bothered to check the railgun's options yesterday to see it has a safe mode that, when turned off, makes it even better, and more exciting.

The laser cannon is pretty good against bugs but not sure about the bots.

Pretty much everything bounces off their armour other than autocannon, anti-tank missile and recoilless rifle.  Just try and hit squishy bit at the rear.   Sounds so easy 

The railgun pretty much changes everything. The machine gun should be binned as soon as you can get the stalwart anyway and the laser cannon is really a waste of reqs.

Had a very annoying extraction that failed late last night, me and a friend on a suicide mission (largely to collect super samples more than anything else) get to extract, manage to jump in the back of Pelican-1 and it behaved like we hadn't. Get killed by a bile titan while inside it, reinforce, grab the samples and try to get in again and still nothing. Ended up running out of reinforcements and Pelican-1 just pissing off. Guess my next ship upgrade will have to wait a bit longer. Mission was a "success" but felt more of a failure when it shouldn't have.

The mission up until that point had been pretty chaotic anyway, egg hunts can be a real pain at times and this was no exception, the one bright spark was finding the cock rock with super samples while running away from a mass of bugs.

It doesn’t really make a huge difference apart from access to the better weapons and strategems. I would aim to unlock the breaker shotgun, stalwart LMG and Gatling sentry ASAP (shouldn’t take too long). Then you can make yourself useful at earlier levels. 

I dont think I could get sick of the loading screen dropping into the planet. So cinematic, it hypes me up every time.

The game has done something I've been saying for a long time, boss fights where it's you up against some big thing that's got a zillion hit points and has to be attacked at certain weak points before you can damage it are shit. I'd rather have a lot of weaker enemies than a huge boss.

Helldivers 2 has more dangerous units, some rather large in the case of a Bile Titan but they're not bullet sponges or have attack patterns you have to learn, a single well placed shot can kill a Bile Titan or a Hulk and even if you don't manage that you can hurt them if you've got decent equipment.

Your first encounter with a Titan when you're ill-equipped and new to them is horrifying, later on they become a problem when you get a couple of them popping out of the same breach hole at the same time (it doesn't happen too often thankfully). Getting swamped by them and Chargers at the same time is never fun though!

Also annoying is reinforcing onto a Titan, killing it and getting stuck under their corpse, escaping that is pretty much impossible before you get clawed to death by its friends.

I just hit rank 10. After spending most of that time messing around with audio as both Bluetooth headsets had lots of issues I got myself a new headset that connects with a usb dongle and everything now works. Such a great fun game so far and stunning with that great theme track.

I think I slightly prefer fighting bugs as it feels more starship troopers but the robots are kind of cooler and have the bases etc. Adds a little variety at least and I hope down the line there is a third enemy.

I think that's for more experienced players to answer but - at lower levels, and certainly solo - you can be stealthier and avoid triggering a fair bit of nonsense (and there's armour to support this approach). Quite how you do that with a full team not communicating and at higher levels I'm not sure.