sometimes the orbital rail will choose a strider instead of a hulk standing right next to it so its a bit rng too

means sometimes it wont shoot the biggest target

Angle depends on the position of your destroyer. Look in the sky and wherever your super destroyer is that's where the orbital comes from, so you want the bile titan facing that direction

Most shots, comes from where your ship is placed on the map.
So, unless you are able to calculate some advanced path map calculations, then it will be mostly luck.

As with all Orbitals, angle matters. Depending on where you are on the map, trajectories can differ. Closer to the edges things will tend to come in at a sharper angle, and nearer the center things will tend to come straight down.

With something like the rail cannon, even though the laser marker is over the enemy they can move in such a way that it allows for a miss or a grazing shot it seems. It's almost random, at least in terms of player agency affecting the outcome.

All that to say, the physics simulation in the game actually allows for non-100% chance of your stratagems doing what they say on the tin, and I think that's amazing.

Did we all post the same text within min of each other? I am sure I checked before I started writing.

real talk if you ain't doing this to the basic Reinforce and 500 you're not diving enough.

Have fun till it last coz THE ORDER IS OURS! Time to celeb...

I mean liberation od another planet.

https://preview.redd.it/vqt91otzhjif1.png?width=1807&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d87fef549ad25792342041deb85bb909ff24bd7

=D

Etho!

I have a stream deck and a plugin that adds helldivers 2 stratagems so it’s just a button to call them in, it’s sweet.

Whats the autoloader like?

Where’s the playground?

Now stick a playground on top

I’m not familiar with Helldivers, so this reminds me instead of Marvin the Martian’s Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

I’m trying it for the objective and found it works best on bugs in nest/breaches. But it always kills me and my teamate too much so it’s annouing

If you want more accuracy, invest in the Eagle strikes, either Cluster or Napalm

I find them great to clear out enemies in heavy nest fights before blowing the holes.

Killing your teammates, apparently. I never bother. It's far too unreliable.

That's a big ass cannon.

When you're over a bot planet sometimes you see super destroyes get annihilated when looking out the bridge windows, this may be the cause

Referenced in files as "content\objectives\obj_cyborgs\cyborg_orbital_cannon"
Also included with Gunship to scale.
Special thanks to thejudsub (from Helldivers Archive) for figuring out the texture business

i wonder what caliber that is. If thats the gunship next to it then thats like easily 800mm or sum

“I wont miss”

This cracked me up, the hulk shooting at the end lol.

Does it always end in me getting shot in the head with a rocket?

Because I already have stratagems that do that. In fact, they all do that 😉

It reminds me of the gravitational weapon from Gantz. The idea is really good 👍

This is stunningly good concept art

Railcannon and Laser should be grouped together. Limited uses with 60s cooldown. 4 for Laser, 8 for Railcannon. Give a ship upgrade that increases all limited use stratagems +25% more charges. Have Railcannon instant kill any enemy Bile Titan or Hulk and lower. 

Boom problem solved, for both even.

Yeah and orbital bombardment on helldivers compared to 40k is just unfair. 40k orbital bombardment disintegrates planets while helldivers create a big explosion and just leaves a small crater 

It really should be like 20-30 seconds longer than the OPS. Its only real draw is the autoaim and even that's a bit finicky. idk if it's been buffed but the last time I used it it wasn't reliable for killing bile titans or factory striders at all. It's basically there to delete hulks and chargers.

and in that respect it's inferior to EATs.

Eh helldivers orbital bombardment is a tactical asset, versus the strategic asset it is in the other sci-fi settings.

Literally the entirety of Halo's story comes about because the Covenant enjoy a massive advantage in space, and can spam orbital bombardments to completely skip over any ground fighting, with the Halo games mostly taking place in the few times they need to actually take a ground objective. When humanity doesn't get its shit kicked in around a planet's orbit, you can see a bit more use of orbital strikes as a tactical asset. See Halo Wars and using ODST squads supported by MAC rounds for a perfect prototype of helldivers.

Warhammer 40k is... yeah, the entirety of the setting is there to justify cool dudes in power armor fighting each other with swords. Orbital strikes absolutely get used, it just tends to be a thing that instantly ends a battle as entire cities get vaporized by macro cannon rounds.

Air Raiders: I call in the orbital lasers whenever I want to talk to the crazy lady on the radio.

So just like DSS v1 orbital bombardment

Helldivers 2 upgrades be like: "By spending 7000 common samples and 5600 rare samples and more Super Samples than you can actually have at one time, we can install an autoloader instead of having the crew EVA to reload your cannons so you can call in your Railgun 5% faster! Only the best for Democracy!"

Helldivers 1 upgrades be like: "Gimme 5 samples and a chicken sandwich and we can cut that cooldown shit in HALF!"

EDF!!!! Helldivers orbitals and airstrikes are child's play compared to the ridiculous nukes u get in EDF lmao

lol, the number of times one of us has tossed out a railcannon strike that targeted something tiny because someone else killed the heavy...

They should give it like, 2 or 3 charges on separate rotating cooldowns. As if they added more railguns to the super destroyers but each one still needs that cooldown.

Because it's so damn powerful. If we had orbital lasers with a cool down similar to other orbitals it would be so overpowered that most other orbitals would be largely irrelevant. 

The only down side to orbital laser is that, on the bug front, it'll lock on to Chargers and Bile Titans while simultaneously being suboptimal at dealing with either of them due to their armor. Over on the bot front though, the laser can literally sweep through and destroy most of a large outpost.

It's a cost-reward thing. You bring an extremely powerful stratagem, but you're sacrificing a slot that can provide you with a more consistent output. It's a fair price considering how powerful an orbital laser is when you're not just dumping it like an oh-shit button.

I think the orbital laser is very well tuned.

A lot of bug players here I guess. Because this thing is insane against bots. Absolutely wrecks everything not a factory strider, extremely generous tracking, moves to a new target after killing its current one, and lasts a long time. An amazing panic button when you’re overwhelmed, too.

Without the 3 use limit and long cooldown it would be overpowered.

Because people spammend it in an infinite loop. When the 3 uses weren't there, 4 people with orbital lasers just deleted everything. One Person throws his Laser, then the next one and the next one and the next one. When the 4th player finished, the cooldown of player 1 ran out and the circle started again.

It's a balance decision and it's a good one. So you have to think about what are you gonna delete from existence. I only use the laser on bot commando bunkers missions.

You mean an auto aim strategem like the orbital Railcanon strike that has unlimited uses?

"Command? Fire on this beacon until it stops moving or you run out of ammo."

I’n of the mind that AH shouldn’t have listened to the soft majority completely. There should have been an option to have kept the DSS to fire with impunity.

This is how the abusive balancing cycle of the Eruptor started. AH listening to players who whined too much and adapted too little.

Equips Heavy Armour with Fortified passive

Runs into heavy base

Throws Martyr Barrage

Throws Shield Generator

WE LIKE TO PARTY

It continuously explodes just close enough to knock you over but far enough to deal a minimum of damage

Sort of.

The DSS on launch didn't specifically target you, it just shot blindly into everything.

The traitor debuff is more like this post, since it focuses on you

that is the traitor stratagem

Get a car, get traitor status, drive around the map clearing all enemies and let your allies finsih the missions.

Request for Broken Arrow approved. It's been an honour, Helldiver.

*By joining the heroic Helldivers, a citizen relinquishes the need to obtain any form of personal consent.

• The Ministry of Freedom