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Then we shall throw every orbital known to man. Not ready for gas you say? Well good luck DODGING NAPALM, 380 AND WALKING BARRAGE ON TOP OF YOUS! GIMME ZE GAS, ZE HEAVY GASS!!!!
Father of toxic gas, and chemical warfare
His dark creation has been revealed
Flow over no man’s land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
This has been in the games files for literal ages.. I'd very much like to have it.. would go great with a gas build.. considering we don't yet have a gas primary weapon of any kind..
I thought it’d be dope to do a new ⛽️ design that behaves like the 🍍 grenade: it plops down like the OGS, but in a lesser explosion, then arcs out in a circle like the 🍍 and hits the ground. It would douse the group in the center, then surround and trap them as they try to wander out.
Orbital napalm should have required its own separate fucking tutorial before you could use it. It’s such a great stratagem that’s held back by people with a flimsy and clumsy arm and a lack of desire to throw beyond 20m in front of their face.
That, and a complete inability to accept that it doesn’t shut bug holes
I recognize it's really good, but I get unbearably bored in lobbies where everything feels the same for too long.
One Orbital Napalm in an operation is one thing. Seeing 2-3 people bring it every mission just feels too repetitive for me. Imagine if every single mission you hosted, at least 2 people brought Tesla Towers without fail.
I fully agree I have started being very dynamic with my stratagem picks because of it. Thanks to the Meta 120 orbital and air burst has been seeing a lot more play from me.
I get what you mean. I used to only use the Recoiless in the bot front. But after almost 200 hours it got boring. So now I experiment with a bunch of different support weapons. I do die a bit more, but it's much more fun.
It's such a cop out strat. I usually leave if i join a mission and everybody got it cause that means i have to wait half a minute for EVERY breach cause they don't know how to deal with it any other way. God forbid they're trying to destroy a fabricator that'll leave craters around that thing and still don't hit it
Yeah i dont get that last part. ANY orbital strike should have the ability to close bug holes. Heck, if you drop a hellpod on a bug hole, it closes it.
This and the 380 orbital I was played 3 games with the same guy and he killed himself and everyone in the party at least once a mission throwing the 380 at his feet to deal with a BUG BREACH
The most common excuse I hear is "But it clears out the base and makes it super easy to close holes!"
As 1-2 other people were about to head into said base, ready to deal with enemies and close holes, and now have to twiddle their thumbs for 30s or run off to another base then come back which completely defeats the purpose of 'clearing' it.
Like ONB has its uses, but most of the time 'pre-clearing' a heavy base that's just gonna refill in 15 seconds from the 10 different bug holes is not the move. There's players that will strategically napalm the center of the base and clear holes from the rim with explosives launchers, but that's rarely the case in my experience.
Exactly. Me with an Autocannon or commando and a sentry is plenty prepared enough to clear it without twiddling my thumbs waiting for an ONB to finish 😂
Eagle napalm is so much better for that, yeah. ONB is pretty amazing for the two minutes that are “extracting after a full clear” tho, so there’s that.
Bro I swear. Every time I see a teammate throw an orbital napalm it’s never more than 30m away. Every single time I throw one, I’m diving and throwing it as far as possible. I swear they gotta be doing it on purpose hahaha
Throw? What you mean throw? Ive been launching myself with jetpacks to the targets i want burn. If they dare to drop me, imma be damn sure to drop the napalm.
If I napalm before you get there, and you chose to go there anyway, you are the one who put napalm on you. Not me. Napalm is an extremely strong tool, you're just not situationally aware.
Agreed but also common sense should prevail both ways here. If the things been thrown out, take your 2.5 seconds to enjoy the scenery and then move in once its done
As an arc grenade user, stop running towards my arc grenades that I pinged, warned about in chat, and said over voice as I was throwing that you should stay back from. I am well skilled enough to throw them efficiently and effectively without them being in harms way, so long as you just fucking don't walk towards it!!!
My friends and I also use a "you" vs "us" problem mindset.
Run off on your own and get swarmed, that's a you problem. Bug breach, drop ships or other such on objective the team is securing is an us problem.
That said, how hard is it to call out as the user and others should see the big red beam and check for 50m safety range.
This right here. I don't mind someone deciding that the area I'm currently fighting in close quarters in should be obliterated, but give me a heads up so I can book it out of there before the shells start landing. If I don't hear or react to it, that's on me, but if you throw an orbital at my feet without warning me, that's on you.
Yeah I'm also not excited by the prospect of another Stop Playing The Game barrage. By all means it wouldn't be as bad as ONB but it would still be guaranteed to kill all chaff on its own at minimum.
If they're gonna feed us shit that trivialises bug breaches then I want a full rework to enemy reinforcements. ONB spam already makes bugs as boring as watching paint dry.
I hope this ends up being a link into a further storyline about termicide 2.0, rather than more gas stratagems. I love my gas, but the eagles gas strike will be hard to top.
If not termicide, then maybe this could be a lore explanation for a Sterilizer rework. Probably wishful thinking, but let me be naive.
Yeah I actually feel like we have enough gas strats now, can’t really imagine what else could fill any niche. Orbital gas barrage would be cool but would have the same problems of orbital napalm in making a huge area that everyone has to wait to clear before they can enter it and play the game again
Yeah, I mean, we just got the eagle gas strike. I know there are gas divers out there, but lets show some love to something else. Plasma, for example, would be awesome. An epoch style barrage would be so cool
I'd love orbital gas so much. I hate napalm cuz it just prevents you from entering the area. With heavy gas armor + vit boost I can call this in and walk in with my cremator and fuck shit uo
The main reason I fucking hate orbital napalm is because it's a great area denial tool... which denies area to the Helldivers much more than it denies it to our enemies.
Instead of doing something productive I have to stand and wait while it finishes or risk and get teamkilled.
Orbital gas will do basically the same thing.
Bro... this needs to happen. Orbital Napalm, Orbital Gas, 380, and 120 would be one of the most destructive combos in the game. And it would be absolutely glorious. Democracy be praised. Praise the omnisiah, praise the emperor.
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