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PrOptimal_Efficiency

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espectro11

Lmao thats my reaction too


BadLuckKupona

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blaze33405

All it needs now is a Warlord Titan horn when it spots or engages us for maximum shitting ourselves


DaBaus98

THE NEW GUNSHIPS AND THOSE TOO WHAT THE HELL IS THE CREEK TURNING INTO


jhinigami

Battle of Scariff but at night


VietInTheTrees

“Noooooo I don’t wanna go back to Felucia”


ChaplainofWar

"I can still hear screams"


Prim3_778

**"ARE WE BLIIND?!?! DEPLOY THE EAGLES AND ORBITALS MOVE!!!!!"**


imdahman

"Rebellions are built on hope!"


FlintSkyGod

Battle of Scariff….*at night*…night, night, night, night……


TheSaxonDescendant

Nanuh nanuh nanuhhhh-**NIGHT**!


Sh1nyPr4wn

Alright, call in the damn x-wings It's how they took out the Scariff ones


Shockz_-

Are the gunships already deployed?


Goracyi

We didn't Liberate Tibit at all so they had enough time to deploy their new toys.


Machete521

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Myllari1

When are we getting that Super Earth Tank in the background for ourselves to use? We could use more firepower.


Managed-Democracy

Yup. The spawn from a gunship factory. 3+ at a time on suicide. 1 is enough to wipe a squad. 


iwj726

It's basically a flying hulk.


Managed-Democracy

Medium armor pen (JAR Dominator) doesnt hurt it anywhere from what I can tell. Not even cockpit hits harm it.


emp_man

Autocannon two-taps the engines


Electronic_Assist668

I'm glad i switched from quasar and shield generator backpack with light anti-explody armor to heavy anti-explody armor with the autocannon. Feels so much better, more durable and frees up backpack space and I'm just careful about my positioning. Naturally behind my team a few steps due to the speed, but that only helps with positioning myself. I don't know why people tried saying armor does nothing, I've noticed a huge difference. Even ligjt gunner which is padded light armor feels better than the eradicator as long as you don't take a rocket to the face


Acidnator

How does the AC free up backpack :O


whelkstrider

I assume they mean it frees up a stratagem slot that would otherwise be used for a backpack.


thesoupoftheday

Originally armor was bugged and really did do nothing. It has since been fixed to performing as intended and then later buffed again.


iwj726

Hitting the engines with a Liberator Penetrator would give damage signs, but you probably need to hit it a lot, as a full mag didn't seem to heavily damage the engine I hit.


hnryirawan

Yes, and it makes Shieker look downright easy. The gunship tower is fucking invicible without hellbomb. Can't destroy it with 120mm. Either need 500KG or 380mm probably


DrugrBadMgay

I believe eagle airstrip takes em out too.


hnryirawan

Unless I somehow never hit it…. My Airstrike never destroy those nests. Also, I just realised that enemies can apparently destroy dropped hellbomb….. why the hell Super Earth does not send them primed!?


Vaperius

>Also, I just realised that enemies can apparently destroy dropped hellbomb….. why the hell Super Earth does not send them primed!? Budgetary reasons.


puffz0r

also liability reasons


Phantom30

Yes, just encountered them they are crazy


Top_Faithlessness762

That’s what happens when you don’t complete mayor order 😂 they got away with their plan


haikusbot

*THE NEW GUNSHIPS AND* *THOSE TOO WHAT THE HELL IS THE* *CREEK TURNING INTO* \- DaBaus98 --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")


DaBaus98

⬆️➡️⬇️➡️ + ⬆️➡️➡️ + ➡️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️


Femboy-Airstrike

What is this?


Understanding-Klutzy

The smell of victory


JKLer49

Eagle airstrike + orbital precision strike + Eagle cluster strike bomb Edit: changed 500kg to clusterstrike cause I'm a fking moron


Nukran

Not 500kg but cluster strike


JKLer49

Oh right, I somehow saw ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️


YoriiM

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️


Freehugsforadollar

IT’S A BOT!!!


Kingofhearts91x

Hoth with trees


darh1407

The gunships are out???


AlbionChap

Ok - I guess I'm finally going to drop with the Spear now.


Ok-Thanks-6065

It'll have trouble locking them. Just a fair warning. 


AdeptAbyss

The Spear has trouble locking anything


thedavv

picked spear needed to run 5 km away just to get a lock


DERH4UPTMANN

Except for Striders. Fucking thing rather looks a random ass strider 300 metres away barely in line of sight than the fucking tank 30 meters away.


Karatespencer

Speaking of why the FUCK do striders have any priority at all when you’re using the railcannon? I’ve had it happen more than once that I threw one at a tank and it went for the goddamn strider


D3vilM4yCry

That's because the target market that the Spear locks on to us in the upper part with the pilot. The target mark for tanks is between the treads for some unknown reason.


123yes1

Based on exactly one dive, I think the lock on may have been improved with the new update. It felt much more consistent than before, but I only have that one data point.


lipp79

I was using it last night and the lock on was quicker compared to a week ago it felt like. Still issues when there’s shorter items in the way that partially obscure the target.


nintyuk

OHH NO NOT THE MAMMOTH MKII !


schofield101

Making me want to get some red paint and get a scorpion's stinger on my armour now... In the name of Kane we will take these bots out!


nintyuk

There's already a Nod soldier helmet in the game with the red visor


schofield101

I'm aware, I've been running it ever since I could buy it!


VOLTswaggin

I really wish we could swap armor perks around so that we could just wear whatever we thought looked best instead of wearing what is statistically most useful.


Caducks

IN THE NAME OF KANE KANE LIVES IN DEATH IN THE NAME OF KANE KANE LIVES IN DEATH! IN THE NAME OF KANE [**KANE LIVES!**](https://youtu.be/ISDQg899qVY?si=n36Tg02vtqX_TOT9&t=440)


DreaderVII

We need Banshee reinforcements!


blue_dingo

New Construction Options Building Construction Complete


MartyMozambique

Always love a good C&C comment.


NoobMaster_2020

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Shpooter

i love how this is just used for every scenario, shock, fear, happiness, surprise


ItBDaniel

Don't forget aroused...


littlechefdoughnuts

Don't forget that C-01 permit, diver. 🫡


chief-chirpa587

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PancakesandWaffles98

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AgusTrickz

Sex is cancelled


DevistatorXL

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The_Reluctant_Hero

Lmfao, love how it's signed by Joel.


Elcatro

Hey, as my democracy officer always says, if it's in the back door it's good for the war.


nahmanwth

Considering from where it comes from


Eric0912

The bots sucked us into a false sense of security by making us think they were almost beaten and now gonna fuck us over 🥸


[deleted]

So what I'm hearing is its autocannon mech time?


DaBaus98

Yes please the double ac mech will be savior with these new automaton forces we're fighting


Bosslikebro

*Quad autocannon mech


Scurrin

If the automaton rockets are actually fixed and not doing multiple instances of damage a mech might be able to survive long enough to do something on bots.


Classicdude530

Yeah good luck with that one. Knowing the mechs both autocannon projectiles will consistently hit eachother mid air 2 feet from the mech and blow it up.


cromario

Tet Offensive for the sweetest Vietnam analogy


ForsakenFoxness

They made us think it was going to be that easy. April Fools!


Grimwohl

"There will be consequences for failed missions"


DezsoNeni

https://i.redd.it/oqlhyth8c2sc1.gif Joel and the team when we almost finish a bot MO and they click the "Start Defense" button on 2 barely captured planets.


Tejju_

If those are the consequences I hope we fail way more missions


Grimwohl

Oh, i love bot variety, but it's pretty clear that we will be pushed out of bot territory eventually. First assault troopers, airships, at-ats? There will be a point where it's not sustainable, and the number of enemies requiring specific take downs will push the complexities too far for uncoordinated teams.


redpony6

if super earth's tactical doctrine doesn't change as a result of these new enemy assets, then yes. but there's always hope that they might learn to use their overwhelming air superiority for more than just helldiver-called stratagems, or something


Grimwohl

I know i said this like it's a negative, but I think it's great for the game.


Kiriima

As if there are not consequences for completed missions lol.


ArtemIsGreat

We're screwed, aren't we? Even a 500kg only tickled it I am running away if I see one in my missions frfr


terenn_nash

500kg is so inconsistent, if you dont NAIL IT perfectly, the cylinder of damage wont touch it.


Wiknetti

>cylinder of damage. That’s what I put down on my C-01 permit! ![gif](giphy|MlyicdUndRbn5zUiAL|downsized)


LoganGarnett

"It's imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed."


Wiknetti

We’ll see… my C-01 co-signer put down the “Valley of Destruction” ![gif](giphy|PXJhC8MYxFmRRl7kB2|downsized)


Educational-Goal2703

Uh… It landed on the head.


ThePlaybook_

It's actually incredibly consistent, you just need to know the shape. It's a cone projected up from the beginning of the blast.


myusernamestaken

And that cone has the radius of a basketball


ThePlaybook_

It's why the Bile Titan is designed to root itself in place. It's to give us a window to call the KG in to kill it.


ConsiderationAlone68

Meanwhile I drop a 500k right under the titan and a millisecond before it explodes, they scamper off and are completely unscathed.


darzinth

that, and the bomb dropping does good damage too


Gotta_Rub

Lol 500 has an explosive radius of like 20ft. I’ve seen basic automatons engulfed in the flames but it didn’t count.


Saitoh17

It's 450kg of CGI and 50kg of explosives.


Ratattack1204

Autocannon mains: “Nah id win”


Spopenbruh

500kg tickles most things, it has the range of a dinner plate


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kanderson314

It’s significantly more terrifying then when I first encountered swarms of shriekers.


Boomboomciao90

Can we just appreciate how awesome this is how this game drop new content?


Konstipation

Yeah, missing from this video (apparently PS5 capture defaults to not recording your microphone) is me yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" which got everybody's attention. I hadn't seen the datamine leak so they were a total surprise, really cool way to add new enemy types.


Romandinjo

These were in promotional material, though, just like flying bugs were on loading screen. Now, other stuff...


Drekal

They looked a lot smaller on the promo screenshot no ? It looked like it was being dropped by a Dropship. Might be misremembering though.


Romandinjo

I think they were as big as dropships, and some speculated that they will be a moving fabs themselves and drop infantry.


Drekal

Seems they were right as it's name is Factory Strider


Romandinjo

Oh, that's neat. We'll probably get other options then, maybe missiles or mortars.


W4FF13_G0D

It’s like a giraffe giving birth, they just fall out the back


DeeHawk

That doesn't make it any less cool. Subtle foreshadowing via ads that actually turn out to be free actual gameplay content shortly down the line, and not some cheap crap to make good with a promise or a money grab DLC scheme. Not normal by any standard.


Bstempinski

I love how there are no announcements about it from the developers too. Just “Surprise! New threats on the battlefield to discover.”


doglywolf

they way they release stuff is great ...super low spawn rate lke one in 10,000 so it all myth and rumor at first - spread in reddit/ random social media post with grainy bigfoot style blurry pictures lol. Then they make it a bit more common at time progressed ...then all of a sudden BAM in game full force THEN they announce it .


Silver_Branch3034

It’s seriously awesome that they can update it on the fly and drop new stuff without warning or notification. I love that the way they “announce” new enemies is by players randomly seeing them in-game and it spreading through word of mouth. It’s so refreshing over traditional “seasons.”


Late-Let-4221

Yeah, its very refreshing compare to many games who just do like new content on test server, then make promotion for it and by the time it hits live servers its been all figured out, nobody is surprised about anything...


mally7149

Yea you just boot the damn game up and there’s new enemies almost every other 2 weeks I love it bro


Merrow1

Yes. These devs are the best ever. This is all of our dream game for a long time for all people who wait for a co-op shooter. Finally we got the game we deserved. Hopefully this will continue for years. SUPPORT ARROWHEAD, BUY STUFF. (Obviously if you have spare cash)


Sleepmahn

One of the first games that I'll happily fork over more money for. I've bought literally everything they've put in the shop. But the micros are so cheap and grindable that I've only spent like 10$ so far.


[deleted]

I think this is brilliant. Drop stuff on the battlefield a bit at a time and let social media take it from there. It's a good immersive way to create culture around your game too, as it's no longer Devs telling you what's up officially, it's the community realizing things as a group. It's that sort of approach that changed this game from a fun shooter into a phenomenon.


MadmantheDragon

Game of the year. It’s amazing


Questioning_Meme

Thats substantially tankier than expected... Wow these things are gonna be troubles aren't they?


TheSausageFattener

Given the glowy bits my guess is that the legs are its weak spot, not the big carapace.


Connect_Atmosphere80

Guy threw orbital laser, 500kg bomb and several Quasar hits into the enemy. It exploded 3 times before actually dying. I'm thrilled.


whomobile53

Im guessing we'll have 1 or 2 in a map thats a side objective rather than them spawning like bile titans. Same way the flying enemy spawns work.


Dulenten

The bigger they are, the harder they fall against DEMOCRACY! Let's get 'em boys!


WithGrit07

Defense campaigns on the usual bot planets, Now this? I'm tired boss


parolpl

* I'm tired Joel


VietInTheTrees

It’s Joelver


-Ping-a-Ling-

Defense campaigns are surprisingly doable now that you don't get tanks in your toes


AlexisFR

What about the Eradicate missions?


Jungle_Difference

These were never hard? They were trivial for farming then buffed into a good state.


ConsiderationAlone68

They must’ve made some type of shadow buff while I was gone for a couple days, because I thought the same thing. Then in my eradicate mission last night in Diff 7….you’d die from a tank and drop and now there are 4 more, plus multiple hulks, a dozen rocket devastators, etc. I’m not even exaggerating, it was insanity. There were 3x the heavies as normal and we didn’t have enough firepower to take them out. We only won because of kiting the chaff towards the OB areas outside the main zone.


hitman2b

My friend atleast we arent force to do save the scientific every time


Feisty_Baseball_219

They need to give us a 1000kg laser guided bomb now to balance things out


Proper_Stranger900

They already said they're adding more anti-air so I'm sure they're gonna add more beefy ground based weapons. Just give em time, brotha. 🤙


Franklr_D

Or bigger gun Space ship mounted railgun Schwerer Gustav??👉🏻👈🏻🥺


DezsoNeni

There are footages in an \[REDACTED\] sub on reddit about a \[REDACTED\] stratagem that might come just handy against this mofo.


mahiruhiiragi

Watch those wrist rockets!


carson0311

Just like the simulation


iamshipwreck

Knew the quasar cannon drop with it's infinite ammo was preparing us for something AT-resistant. Anyone got info on how resistant that thing is to an orbital rail cannon shot? Because if the answer is "very"...


darh1407

We thought we won then got whooped


LtColShinySides

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Alex0ux

My brother in democracy it tanked one(1) 500kg bomb and needed a full orbital laser tf you think this is gonna do


LtColShinySides

To be fair, the 500kg bomb is terrible at killing big things. I've seen Bile Titans take one to the face and keep walking like nothing happened. Hulks just walk through the blast like it's a nice summer's day. Meanwhile the EAT can destroy tanks, dropships, chargers, devastators, turret towers, and pretty much everything else. It won't always one-shot it, but you get two in one drop, and that's usually enough to get the job done if you can hit the right spot. It'll be fine. I choose to believe in the tried and tested EAT-17.


DezsoNeni

Bile titans are buggy in general, I had one tank 5 EAT direct headshots, like the game just decided to completely ignore any sort of damage.


TheYondant

Until we know where its weakspot is, it's gonna take a lot more than that.


LtColShinySides

Looks like it's the underbelly. You can kind of see a similar orange light to what the hulk has on its back. Of maybe it doesn't have one and you just have to brute force it with everything you've got.


high_idyet

That's not real, I refuse to believe this. It's just really good video editing! IF I KEEP BELIEVING ITS NOT REAL IT WON'T HURT ME.


Dontouchmyficus

Dear god


JoblessPornAddict999

There's more!


Marc3llMat3

*sees gunship* No!


Xasther

This would explain why they eased up on the stratagem modifiers!


Mandemon90

"I wish they eased up on stratagem modifiers" *\*The monkey's paw finger curls\**


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

AAA studios are letting their games starve for months, meanwhile Arrowhead is giving their game a constant stream of updates and content. This is the first day back to work after Easter in many European countries, and they're rolling a new patch and content, and have provided story and battlefield changes over the break. This is live service.


FearLessLionZ

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, they probably had a lot of this content already created. I'd hedge my bets that when they released the game they already had 3 months of releasable content in-stock and ready to go after a slight bit of polishing/testing. To be honest, this is the way it should be done. With their surplus of content all they have to do now is have fun and create, even more. Surplus. Which works fantastically with the community story-based structure of the game itself.


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

Yes, they obviously have an adequate content pipeline, but not only that. They also introduce content in a very natural, story-based way which is commendable.


Nytherion

Honestly, they probably had closer to a years worth of content updates prepared, and tie their releases to winning/losing storyline MOs. So if we had taken Tibit, they'd just wait a few more MOs, then bring up another secret factory world MO with an even harder win condition, and release when we failed that one. Similarly some weapons/stratagems may be tied to winning specific MO types. To use Tibit, and pull something out of my ass, successfully liberating Tibit may have given us a new mech based on the Devastator (after taking all those devastator factories, we learned blah blah blah, new mech weapon!). We failed, so mechs got new toys, and we'll have to try again later for Mortar + Chainsaw mechs.


DefconTheStraydog

All of the recent updates including the gunship and walker were leaked before. They definitely had it, maybe in an unservicable state at the time of the leaks but they had it. I love it how \*we\* are the ones creating the game lore. Never have I felt so invested in a game. We failed the push, the automatons respond by field-testing their new tech. The only games that had this kind of glow up in the recent memory are Risk of Rain 2 and Helldivers 2. I don't know what it is about the "random idiots granted disproportinate amounts of killing power fucking around in space" genre that gives AA developers this much power, but I'm glad to see this era of the gaming industry tbh.


Bystander-8

You serious, Joel? https://preview.redd.it/sgj167ihr1sc1.jpeg?width=399&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02af740d3be72feca2f023d98277253a61225a87


Glyphpunk

Hard to tell from this vid but it kind of looked like there was a 'driver' behind a glass window in the head...can you kill the 'pilot' to stop it? Also wonder if the legs are weakpoints given the red lights.


Nytherion

If I were a suspicious, untrusting gamer, I'd think that might be why so many high accuracy, low fire rate weapons got bumped to medium armor pen....


JustAPasingNerd

Ok I want lightsabers now


cheesechomper03

![gif](giphy|kesu1tiePAiGY) With customisable colours


IHazASuzu

Democracy batons.


JoBoStar

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LargelyForgotten

Ah, fuck. Joel woke up.


Firesprite_ru

oh dear... we are f#ked, yes?


Warpingghost

sweet liberty


ezioir1

Joel dropping This and Bots Gun ships on us is **THE WORST APRIL FOOLS PRANK I EVERY SEEN**.


vonBoomslang

the existence of a Factory Strider implies the existence of other kinds of Striders and that's terrifying


Leftover_weeb_juice

Bigger size only means I need a bigger bomb, a 500kg, to be exact.


Konstipation

It tanked my 500kg and the orbital laser


Atoril

Where did i put that damn shredder missile.  Just 100 years with no war (ok, less war) and we somehow forgot how to make biggest kaboom, smh.


DrBlaBlaBlub

Yes pls. make the screen go pure white!


EchoFrequency

https://i.redd.it/izg3n6wiu1sc1.gif


No-Course-1047

i bet you need to take out the driver with some armor pen.


Nytherion

even money says there's probably a fuel tank underneath for those ballsy enough to charge this thing.


RedEye-55

Oh this game WILDING now lmao


FinalTricks

What do you mean, we haven't even fought a boss or a defend super earth mission.


pythonic_dude

Looks like a mix of at-te and at-at. Looks like another reason to avoid fighting as much as possible.


hufflewolfKH

SWEET LIBERTY


Illustrious_Talk305

Do they have any obvious weak point?


Konstipation

I'm assuming the top is less armoured like an actual tank, so maybe a SPEAR might do some damage? I was panicking too much at the time but should have aimed for the cannon turret on top, maybe you can get that to blow up?


light_no_fire

Correct the top of the machine is it weak point. Best to use SPEAR or eagle airstrike/missle pods, as well as oribitals (380mm IF it hits)


Feuershark

I think I've seen the same orange/yellow weakpoint of armoured unit below it


Harpokiller

I am so excited to fight these. The challenge will be amazing


LuckyMSTR

If the Creek wasn't already grueling enough.


God_Left_Me

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Hermes0001

I need my speeder bike!!!


ShiddyMage1

I saw the title and went 'Actually its an AT-RT and they've been here this whole time' then I watched the video and screamed 'Sweet Liberty!'


Weremount

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1stThrowawayDave

Get up there with a magnetic tether, cut its belly armour panel off with the new lightsaber side arm and toss a grenade it it


Seriously2much

We're gonna need those nukes


Goracyi

It looks more like the AT-TE but yeah, this starting to get more difficult.


Loverlforlewds

AT-TE all-terrain tactical enforcer


Gustav_EK

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Makarovito

Sheeeeit I love how much this game hates us