Honestly anything works under difficulty 7 as long as you have ways of killing heavies with strats or support weapons, and grenades for mediums.

The liberator (default AR) has gotten a pretty decent buff and is still good at higher difficulties too. The default pistol is also massively slept on. Those two will cover you very well for dealing with light enemies, but at higher difficulties you see a lot of medium armour (hiveguard/devestators), for bugs I think that grenades still work well, but for bots you start to want one of your non-support weapons to be able to deal with medium which is where people start picking up senator/adjudicator/diligence counter-sniper.

I think in general the "good" guns are:
Light AP: Sickle, Breaker Incendiary, Liberator, Peacemaker, Redeemer.
Medium AP: Dominator, Diligence Counter Sniper, Adjudicator, Senator.

For primary, get Cutting Edge and unlock stun grenades and a sickle. It's essentially a better Liberator with (kinda) unlimited ammo.

Against bugs the best support to me is the Arc Thrower, as it bypasses armor and can kill almost anything. Chargers will only take quite a few shots to the head, and bile Titans will need a 500KG , or you could bring an Expendable Anti-Tank as well, as a backup option.

Against bots, I like the Anti-Materiel Rifle with a resupply backpack. You get a lot of ammo this way, headshots will kill devastators quickly, two shots against scout striders, two shots to the hulk's eye will kill it (a lot easier to do if you use stun grenades), and it can destroy tanks and turrets if you aim at the back vent

Struggled to find anything useable. At the moment Autocannon with the new SMG to stagger enemies or breaker incendiary is okay with bugs. But I run out of ammo fast. Been using my senator a lot more than is viable. Even running 5's is proving a weapon challenge.

Machine gun. Cutting edge, ammo backpack

I think under difficulty 7, most guns are good.

Starting at 7, the spawn rates are higher and the tough enemies are more numerous, and in that context, some weapons are more reliable than others and require less specific strategem configurations.

It becomes a question of load out. Like, let's say I want to use EAT as my support weapon, and I grab the basic liberator. I'm going to struggle against bile spewers and brood commanders, so I have to build around that. Some primaries are actually decent against them, and allow more flexibility. I've using the autocannon against bugs. It's good against the medium bugs, not so good against bile titans and is difficult to use against chargers. Because of reload, my choice primary is the punisher. It has good killing power, the rounds reload means I can always top it off, and the knockback means I can allow bugs to get even closer without risking it, since I can shoot a bug once and interrupt it's attack, making it easier for me to find windows to reload.

So I take stun grenades to help with chargers and reloading, and grenade pistol as a way to close bug holes (I can reload on the move, unlike autocannon).

I have no.safe way of hurting bile titans, so I grab orbital rail (even if no kill, it opens the armor for my autocannon) and 500kg bomb (in case of more than one, also decent for big breaches and buildings).

I now have a wopping 1 strategem to fbe flexible with (always eagle airstrike), or I have to completely rely on my team to kill certain kinds of bugs.

There really hasn’t been a meta for a while, I’ve been using a bunch of weapons every other game.

Yes they are pretty well balanced now. There are a few guns that are lacking still but any gun can be used now without worrying about the “meta”

Weapons have mods now. That's up to you.

There are a variety of useful weapons now yes.

Basically every weapon is usable now, yes. Of course, certain weapons are better against certain factions - the Adjudicator's good against regular bugs, less so against Predator Strain bugs. The Constitution isn't great, but that's the only outlier I can think of as being an outright bad gun.

Ballistic shield, super earth flag, viper commando armor. I am the super Spartan.

My favourite weapon is myself because who else is gonna carry the boats, the logs and the portable Hellbombs?

THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON

EXCEPT if you drop a napalm air strike on the nest that i'm about to go clear. i get it, napalm funny, but this isn't Vietnam, you don't need to burn the bugs out of their holes before blowing them to bits

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The customer is always right in matters of taste

Assuming you are just talking about primary weapons :

Infamously overpowered against everything (including fellow divers) : Trident.

Jacks of all trades : Justice, Sickle, Parangon.

Against Bugs : Parangon (strong enough to damage brood commanders + slow effect), Railgun (not for damage, but its stun effect makes it an awesome support/control tool).

Against Cyborgs : Breaker (awesome against hordes of anything unarmored. Cyborg armored units will require antitank weapons anyway).

Against Illuminates : Scorcher (fire DoT prevents shield regeneration), Punisher (one of the few weapons capable of one-shooting scouts in difficulty 13+, but struggles against stronger units), Patriot (illuminates have no armor to mitigate its theoretical dps).

Note that I have only mentionned primaries that have a noticeable advantage compared to others. There are a lot of weapons that can still pull their weights in those situations too, but the list would be too long therefore less useful.

For cyborgs I find breaker is best

For bugs I think patriot (for shredding patrols) justice or paragon are good

For illuminate I just use the trident, but trident (if used well) is a good all purpose sort of weapon

if you gotta pick just one? justice

My Top 6 (dependent on Faction, Lvl, Team)

• LAS-12 Tanto
• SG-225 Breaker
• AR-14D Paragon
• LAS-16 Sickle
• MP-98 Knight SMG
• AC-3 Arc Thrower

They all have their pros and cons, and all have their time and place depending on the situation.

BUT - if you’re new, the Justice is your best bet until you learn all of the guns.

Tanto can be a good beginner gun as well. But please, no Trident. Very over used, and can be a crutch that holds you back from real development.

Best of luck, hope to see you out there!

The new sickle is great. Same with the final gun in the warbonds.

The Slugger is certainly worth experimenting with. I don't guarantee you'll like it, but the ammo buff made it more worth taking overall.

Turrets are still good in general. The ship upgrade that gives additional Eagle runs before rearming is very valuable.

Flamethrower is amazing now! Slugger is strong, breaker is still good honestly. Laser cannon is great now too.

Breaker should still be good, I recommend the laser cannon suooort weapon heard it got buff

Considering the breaker barely got a nerf, it's still pretty good.

The railgun now needs to be used in unsafe mode and overcharged a little but otherwise it's the same.

The shield takes longer to regen when broken completely but it's still the same in practice.

The laser cannon seems good now.

The flamethrower too, though it's too short-range to use vs. bots, a jetpack for mobility is recommended.

the arc thrower it's still my favorite gun and it can take out everything in game as long as you can keep yourself alive. Your teammates might not be so lucky.

The spear has better ammo economy now since you can get more missiles from the random ammo in the map. The lock in is still wonky but it's good vs bots.

Didn't try out the arty myself but a teammate dropped a 380mm and no helldiver got hurt in the process so that's an incredible improvement.

The meteor shower can and will fuck you up, I died 4 times to those damn rocks while fighting bots in Tien Kwan.

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My current bug build is gas and fire, it's fun.

Thats a you question...

Everyone’s gonna say democratic detonation for the thermite nades, crossbow etc. sure that’s a general thing but thermite nades arent for everyone me included.

Depends on what role you like! Viper commandos gives stronger stims and a neat little carbine that throws 45 rounds of screw off at 800rpm, that coupled with the stim pistol in chemical agents makes you a field medic that all fronts will appreciate, not front more so, the amount of times I’ve said “hey I got stim pistol and medic armor, lemme handle your little bumps and bruises” and exited with atleast a dozen lifesaving moments is nuts!

However if being a medic isn’t your speed, I gotta present polar patriots for an amazing ammo efficient plasma rifle that really hits the heavy charged plasma rifle fantasy, polar patriots also has my favourite gun the tenderizer which is basically an “oh crap” weapon, super high flesh damage and it’s a bullet hose, also has the verdict which is a medium pen sidearm think a desert eagle!

The most versatile is urban legends, its armor is 10/10. Congrats you are just better with guns, more mags, faster reload etc. the anti tank emplacement also washes out any type of threat that you can’t rip through with your beefed up guns.

Overall man, each warbond is terrific for its own purpose. Steeled vets concussive rifle is a big crowd control machine and truth enforcers lets you put some real weight behind your weapons too. Truth enforcers has a flechette and stun round shotgun or an smg that will kick like a mule but will also knock over most enemies no problem.

Everyone’s gonna say “get democratic detonation” but not everyone wants an anti tank solution that has you run up and toss a thermite grenade or plink away at crowds with an explosive crossbow.

Just take a look around my man, spill oil!

TLDR Medic and team support: chemical agents/viper commandos. Run and gun: urban legends/ polar patriots/ truth enforcers

90% of people are gonna disagree but the chemical agent warbond is really fun to use and has the nicest armor even if the passive is meh

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Half the fun is trying the toys! I’d say read some descriptions and see if you find something to your likings.

In higher difficulties people get more focused on META loadouts but for id just go for what seems fun.

It will depend on your playstyle..but you’ll probably end up having many.

Democratic detonation is a very solid first choice, after that go for what sounds fun to you.

Everyone will have different preferences but I’ll list what i normally run.

Liberator Penetrator (Primary), Senator or Ultimatum (Secondary) and High Explosive or Incendiary Grenades.

For armour, my preference is any armour with the Siege Ready mod (increases primary weapon reload by 30% and increases ammo by 20%) but it completely depends on your play style.

Stratagem wise, most of the eagles will do the trick (my go to is the eagle airstrike). I’ll pair that with any of the machine gun / stalwart / heavy machine guns and a sentry turret and a rover backpack.

Edit: This is my loadout for bugs specifically, and really only works with a full team. This is NOT a solo loadout lol

This is, without a doubt, one of the worst tier lists I have ever seen. So many weapons so many levels below their actual quality.

I can't even say that you are drastically overvaluing any of them, but SO MANY guns multiple tiers below where they should be.

Counter Sniper vs bots is amazing

Every precision weapon in E tier is solid proof you do not play against bots much. Not at all a fan of this list. Granted it is a "personal selection" so I guess it being entirely your arbitrary opinion means you can make the tierlist this way and it's legitimate.

That said, you did post this to a public forum so I assume you are looking to start some kind of discussion, so I will continue the discussion by saying I strongly disagree with almost every ranking in this list.

I am mildly confident that you only have used a few of these weapons yourself for more than an hour or two and for the rest of the weapons you just copy-pasted whatever the general subreddit's opinion is, hence why stuff like the tenderizer and eruptor are so low. That and you also probably play against bots very little.

Very poor tiering, I must say.

Oh boy...

Liberator and punisher plasma way too low.

Take this all with a grain of salt as I'm going off subjective metrics from my own experience.

I'm a little biased because mine are at 25, but the Adjudicator and Reprimand are both great against all factions.  Both are very manageable with a Vertical Foregrip and Compensator on the barrel.  Cutting down on their vertical recoil is huge.  Also I recommend semi-auto on the Reprimand, at least until you get the Vertical Foregrip.

Cookout and Breaker Incendiary are still top tier against bugs.  Also consider the regular Breaker or Breaker Spray & Pray.  Liberator Concussive is also surprisingly good against them.

The Slugger and JAR-5 Dominator are excellent against bots, both hit hard and cause stagger.  Plasma Purifier and Scorcher are also good picks.

And if the squids ever show their ugly tentacles again, the Sickle is pretty good.  Also the Tenderizer, which I did not expect.

That being said, the Eruptor is great against all factions but less so the bugs since they get right up in your cape a lot.  Defender is a decent pick against all factions, but will feel outclassed by better options.  The Deadeye is pretty great but if you're not accurate, it's not a good pick.

Hopefully that's enough of an array to get you started.

What is important is running a well rounded kit imo. Do you have the following tools at any given time?

1. An Anti-tank option - Thermite, Recoilless, EAT, Spear
2. An Anti-Fab option Typically overlaps with 1 but also you can use stuff like gas grenades, crossbow and the grenade pistol for this function or using a 500 to efficiently close a bunch that are close together in a single use item.
3. An Anti Group option - Oh no we are getting over run.. Good thing you brought Gas grenades/strikes, Orbital Airburst, Eagle strike etc.
4. An "Oh Fuck" option - Typically Orbital Laser but situationally Napalm Barrage for when you have more than just a group to worry about and you need to turn tail and run. Sometimes even just a Gas strike will serve this purpose unless you are camping on it for bug breaches.
5. Armor Pen - If you are running a light weapon you probably want a medium/heavy pen sidearm. If you are running a medium pen primary than you may be able to use a more situational sidearm like the grenade pistol in your loadout.

Many of these can overlap but it is important to think about so you reduce weaknesses by over specializing. If you are running the Recoilless do you really need Thermite grenades? Probably only on bots for cheesing fabs. Think about what enemies are likely to spawn, are you concerned about having enough firepower to drop a stalker quickly or maybe you need something that can drop airships. The only downside to creating builds this way is some niche tools just generally never make the cut because they are outclassed by better options. Landmines should be the ultimate Area denial tool in theory but gas strikes have such a low cooldown and are less of a PvP hazard that they generally dont see use.

Borderline justice for a good marksman rifle in the deadeye, and just a very good sidearm in the Talon. Dynamite is a plus, if you can get used to a longer fuse. Servants of Freedom and Democratic detonation, particularly the latter, have some of the more versatile weapons. Steeled Veterans also ends in the JAR-5 dominator which is a really solid medium pen rifle.

WHen the illuminate come back: note that all of the basic enemies basically have no armor, just lots of HP, and even the fighters are medium armor.

i tend to run adjudicator decebt damage med armour pen and seems solid on all fronts