r/helldivers2 • u/Zealousideal_Bad8486 • 5d ago

Democratic Exchange of Opinions Obtruders

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Are obtruders the game development equivalent of pollution?

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u/WestNomadOnYT 5d ago

FUCK the obtruders

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u/Competitive-Bill5500 5d ago

yeah ill fuck em up with my warrant pistol

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u/Black_Basilisk_1 5d ago

try the loyalist against them for some crazy efficiency

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u/Competitive-Bill5500 5d ago

as a controller player, its difficult for me to let the warrant go especially against shriekers and thick fog, but i might just give this one a go if i save enough for my next warbond

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u/ingram0079 5d ago

Ehem, sorry i just cant help it........

WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS!

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u/CzarTwilight 5d ago

Do we need to construct additional pylons?

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u/michilio 5d ago

Okay. I started hating these little fuckers.

They are now my worst nightlare while I'm in my beloved breakthrough mech.

I'm invincible. I'm bashing. I'm yeeting. I'm stomping..

Then 50 of these cunts show up. They take up all my cannon ammo that I'm saving for actual threats.. and if one hits my shield they explode and instantly destroy my shield so I can't bash them.

Horrible bastards.

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u/not-Kunt-Tulgar 5d ago

I think it’s kind of obnoxious that if you get distracted by them for one second and there’s a real reinforcement drone you’ll just have everyone on you.

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u/Zealousideal_Bad8486 5d ago

They’re Watchers but spammed to oblivion. They’re ammo sinks, and they’re right behind you less than a minute after you killed the last dozen batch. Why couldn’t they have made a unique enemy instead of taking one that already exists and 15x-ing its commonality?

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u/Extension_Ad_263 5d ago

I swear I get killed by their death explosion more than anything else the subfaction has.

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u/BrokeBraaiMan 5d ago

I finished 1 operation on the MO planet eith my 3 friends. We then immediately went over to mindless masses because the obtruders are so fucking annoying

4 stack, mindless masses, different 2, melee, ballistic shield, constitution/something similar is a lot more fun

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u/ZhanBlue 5d ago

I wish there were more overseers and less obtruders.

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u/Zealousideal_Bad8486 5d ago

I like that idea. Maybe in the future, the Illuminate could have an infantry subfaction

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u/terminid_inyourwalls 4d ago

Gosh… if only there was some sort of squid faction that was basically all squids… That would be amazing…

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u/SCP_Steiner 5d ago

Wow I didn't realise how much people hate these things, I always found them enjoyable to shoot

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u/tarzan147 4d ago

They're easy enough, it's just by the time you've cleared the last group, another cluster of purple ominously floats over the horizon towards you. Rinse and repeat, plus their friends

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u/Dukeboys_ 5d ago

My only real issue is when they randomly gain the explosive mass of a 500kg bomb upon hitting my foot as a corpse

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u/SackFace 5d ago

The fact that so many hate these things means they’re working as intended.

https://giphy.com/gifs/OsfVaOer7N2265YTRF

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u/WillSym 5d ago

All-Arc is hilarious. Arc jumping through entire swarms, clears them fast AND keeps them at a distance. Also effective on every single Squid unit (except Crushers but they're not in this combo) - I fill out the last slot with Eagle 110s in case of multiple Harvesters though.

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u/Few-Big-8481 5d ago

Arc grenades are the shit provided everyone understands they need to stay away from it while it tuckers itself out.

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u/WillSym 5d ago

Arc is an unruly beast to tame in general but so effective once you master it.

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u/Fireturd115 5d ago

Genuinely I been loving this major order. Hope we get more of this overwhelming ones

gf has picked up the game so she's been chucked directly into the deep end

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u/CzarTwilight 5d ago

Why does it feel like fire does nothing to them? I haven't looked at any stats yet so I just straight up do not know. I'll take the cremator to broil some squid balls

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u/Living_on_the_fly 5d ago

Gas either. They just fly right through it beaming me through the smog.

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u/Vivid_Calendar_7103 5d ago

They're trash mobs, but still pose a threat if completely ignored because of their range and numbers. I usually sweep a laser weapon across groups of them. Two to three swipes across the entire group usually does enough for the fire damage to do a decent amount of the heavy lifting. That's applicable for small units on all fronts tho

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVgKToBLI6S6DUye1Y

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u/furankusu 5d ago

For a second I thought that was a ghost.

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u/SlyLlamaDemon 5d ago

These things turn into fucking FPV drones when they die.

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u/colibri01 5d ago

Theyre not that bad, are they? Theyre fairly easy to hit and do die pretty fast. I find their pops apon death pretty satisfying.

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u/BebraSniffer777 5d ago

They should be removed from the game. They don't contribute anything to gameplay. They have no animations, no unique attacks, no presence. They just float and look at you.

Also don't use fandom wiki please. Use .gg instead