HELLDIVERS 2 - You Can Take Down Gunships Easily

I think the problem with gunships is not necessarily the gunships themselfes but all the other things next to them shooting at you and hindering you while you‘re trying to focus them

I love taking the Las cannon for gunships despite its drawbacks. I use it to become the dedicated AA squadmate, and only ever pull it out again to backstab a tank, hulk, or cannon turret. Its much more like an opportunistic utility tool then a dedicated weapon.

I'll say that the laser cannon has been working really well for me on level 7, though I've also been fighting on a cold planet. It's got a really nice crowd clear aspect to it, if you sweep across a crowd at head level, and I've had pretty decent luck vs Hulks and tanks with it.

For bots I use the autocannon a lot. The stationary reload just means I get to really learn how cover works. There is a beauty to the minigame of putting solid objects between you and the enemy.

Gunships are the one thing that make me hate using quasar. The cooldown on it means you're 100% gonna get a volley of rockets on your location. I would switch to the auto cannon or anti mat if I didn't want be able to take outposts out from a distance and run a jump pack

Smoke to protect the Hell-bomb.

The night vision filter looks sick that should be an armor passive or something bro

That sass combined with your generally positive demeaner was an interesting combo.

Sorry, but I don’t like the night vision filter. I like seeing the footage clearly.

My worst enemy ever is poor preparation and bad aim. Also I keep dropping my supports on the factories because I keep dying at them and trying to re-up AT the factory. This video helped me see why my current strategy and load out are bad, time to make some much needed changes. Thanks for the insight, Jebbs

I do have a counter point to the autocannon taking away a backpack slot, taking away that slot gives you additional stratagem slot that the backpack would take up. Its not for everyone but its a not a pure negative

The autocannon sentry does a pretty good job as well

I used to main the autocannon, and I loved it. Picked up the AMR during that daily order a while back, and I absolutely fell in love with it for bots. AC is still great! I just enjoy the AMR more these days.

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Gunships are easy until you have an annihilator tank deployed because the gunship passed your location along to the little guys at the base of the factory, broiling you in combat while a second gunship spawns and is able to blow you out of cover.

4:10 I think the laser cannon's niche is against static objectives. Bunker, mortar, turrets... Along with teammates who are ammo-hungry and clear well. Free bullets aren't worth much if some ammo packs are left for you after the group's eaten their share.

Usually run with scout passive med armour, amr, plasma punisher, senator, impacts, EA-Ts, orbital laser, and ems mortars. Can usually get around the map without too much issue, and can handle most everything. Hulks end up being about the worst part. And factory striders. Drone factories aren't too bad if the teammates aren't schmucks.

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While its absolutely fair to prefer the AMR over the AC I don't feel like comparing the AC to a double stratagem combo is fair at all due to the opportunity cost especially considering that one of the three automaton operation modifiers reduces your stratagem slots to 3. Without the supply pack the AMR has ammo economy issues only holding 6+1 magazines with 7+1 bullets in them and resupplies only 1 mag per ammo box and 3 mags per supply brick (the ship module that gives full ammo is still bugged). 7 ammo per magazine without an extra round chambered from the previous one combined with a 4 shot breakpoint means you can't even kill both gunships without reloading. The AC on the other hand has 10+2 clips with 5 rounds each that kill gunships with only 2 shots and resupply for 2 clips per ammo box and 5 clips per supply brick so 20% more max ammo and between 17 to 35% more efficient resupplies on top of having up to 100% lower breakpoints against a few enemies. You lose out on extra stims but with the exception of lobbing impact grenades behind a tank to kill it from the front you can use the AC for everything you would need an impact grenade for and it lets you take stun grenades without sacrificing much of anything. (and you can kill tanks without a clear shot at its vents by shooting the side of their turret with the Scorcher or using the extra Eagle/Orbital that you can take thanks to the extra open stratagem slot, edit: or use impacts anyway but reserve them for tanks and use the AC for other stuff) Both weapons have their strengths and weaknesses but the autocannon is extremely efficient for its cost, so much so that Im afraid it might get nerfed.

I'm praying for a Helldivers/Battletech crossover so that Jebbles and Tex can do a collab and prove that they aren't the same person. Great video!

The laser cannon has been the go to Support Weapon for Bots for me. Unless I plan on playing close range with the Arc Thrower which is also strong now, the Laser cannon does what the Autocannon does but without a pack and has infinite ammo. The only drawback is it can't deal with mediums as well as the AC or Fabs. The cannon deals with Hulks (more easily than you think, just shoot their legs off which is super fast and ez eye hole shot) , Tanks, turrets and Gunships. It can also be used for the Devastators but the Dominator and Scorcher are better for that role. Now, if there is a Factory Strider... Yeah you're dead but that's why you have a dude who uses a Quasar.

Using the slugger's reload/shoot "glitch" with the senator.... I hadn't thought of that!! Intriguing....

I wish the railgun took the gunships down easier.

Short answer: autocannon Long answer: a fucking autocannon

Always when papa helldiver posts

great vid, AMR is the bot melter for sure

One word: Autocannon

Funny enough, the method I have personally used would be shield generator relay. I find it fun to just run and throwing one near the gunship factory and putting a hellbomb inside of it has been my fun/ let me solo it approach. lately I don't use backpack slot to often because I prefer to run recoiless or autocannon. Edit, I was also one of the people who would use the scorcher to shootdown gunships, by aiming for the cockpit.

Any thoughts on the HMG now that is has a 3rd person reticle? The red dot is still off though. I'm trying to find alternatives to the AC and AMR.

Question out of the two new stratagems we're fighting for in this major order which do you think would be better? The anti tank mines or the airburst rocket launcher

I use Spear + EAT combo for everything however I barely leave enough resupplies for my teammates. The positive is that I clear all gunships, Hulks and tanks for teammates.

Me generally with a Spear: "Do I really want to waste a precious rocket on this?"

On the ReShade front, I've been working on adapting an awesome nightvision preset with a toggleable ECOTI module with some folks. So far we've got sets for green, white, amber, red, and white filmless tubes. If you're interested I can get the files packed up for sharing.

Thoughts on turrets? I often take the Autocannon turrets as distractions when playing solo and have found that setting them up on the slope opposite them to direct their fire is pretty good cover for both the bots in the base and is more accurate than I am to distract and drop the gunships. Just need it to be far enough to not get immediately rocketed into the ground by the gunships.

My issue is that I dont always bring a weapon that can deal with them. I usually take other stratagems to fill the gaps but gunships dont really have anything other than support weapons that are effective against them. Autocannon turret I think can deal with them but they usually target ground enemies

Autocannon is the best imo. two shots to the thruster, and it's goodnight.

how do you feel EATs go against gunships? seems like they'd be pretty decent at the very least bc it calls down 2, so you can shoot both gunships that spawn and then blow up the facility afterwards

Only take the laser cannon if your accurate against all other bots. Its rewarding, if you can aim.

Controversial take, Spear is actually really good at taking out Gunships. It one shots them and can track through the weird dodges the Gunship take. The only real downside is the slow reload and that can be mitigated with a buddy reload. Also I supposed you lack enough ammo if the first hellbomb gets taken out and you have to stick around longer than the initial assault.

Gunships were the sole reason I switched from the AMR to the Auto Cannon. After this vid, I may just switch back.

Night vision filter makes it look like Gears of War.

main thing i dislike about them are not the ships themselves... but how bad it is to play with the railgun when it comes to them. takes forever. so stupid how they nerfed it to the ground

I’d love to use the amr but I keep running into an issue where my game tanks to 20 fps when I scope in first person

I think the main complaint of the Autocannon you had is a very strange point to focus on, as your 'build videos' made me start running the Recoilless Rifle for dealing with the big bugs during Estanu runs. But, hey, opinions change all the time, stagnation breeds complacency, and complacency in spreaders of managed democracy is a fascist's wet dream. I definitely need to practice more with the AMR, I've gotten a bit too used to other weapons and my AMR game be lacking.

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7:10 my five second opinion is if it’s supposed to be NV, it’s gonna need a LOT of film grain. Like more than default Left4Dead film grain.

Nah, laser cannon is fine vs bots. You need to take a good primary though. Laser only for hulks, tanks, turrets, gunships, striders. Primary needs to handle everything else to it's face. AMR is too strong vs bots, but weak vs striders. Team reload is strong vs gunships, and keeping double fabricators free of air craft.

I feel like this video is specifically about me and others like me

WDYM I suck at it? I'm a pro at it, it's just unfortunat that my mates allways stand under it. 😂

Don't like the night vision filter. Plain footage is better.

LASCANNON NAYSAYER. ITS GOOD AT DEALING WITH EVERYTHING BUT FABS AND DROPSHIPS you my good sir have a skill issue. it can consistently drop gunships, pop cannon turrets, tanks, hulks, and is good CC if you have nothing else. yea sure it has downsides, but it also has infinite ammo (when used right) and is an overall swiss army knife