Holy crap! This update is nuts!

I need to find a good summary of this and I still don't know everything but jeez they weren't playing around with this….

So far all I can say there's gonna be a lot of people using the gaitling orbital

You have my attention

Did they update the difficulty?


I played last night and I've never had so many drop ships come down at Extreme.

I finally got all the basic ship upgrades done. Now on to suicidial + drops!

There are maybe 3 things I want in the new warbond. The booster is probably the best thing in there. The carbine liberator seems like more of the same. Faster fire rate to put enemies down faster than the generic liberator? Though the damage is lower...

Suicide really isn't that bad. You'll occasionally get into spots that seem impossible to get out, but I find that's usually b/c I've been incredibly stupid

here's a video highlighting everything...it's about 20 minutes long but to break it down...

changed the video...think this one is better.....

1 minute into the video - I plan to watch more, but I have a comment about this style of video.

He starts off talking about the rocket sentry, and features zero gameplay with the rocket sentry. I get it, talk about the changes in a video asap, and include generic gameplay. It bothers the hell out of me

yeah that's pretty much how a majority of these go for dang near every game where they are talking about the game but don't need to show it....probably have hours and hours of random gameplay pre-recorded and just talk into a mic and throw it over a video to make it way faster to put out content....

KidDoc said:

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I finally got all the basic ship upgrades done. Now on to suicidial + drops!

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Oh man, you can get super samples on level 6 now

jokershady said:

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here's a video highlighting everything...it's about 20 minutes long but to break it down...

changed the video...think this one is better.....

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Wow I have a lot to learn about some of the hidden mechanics in this game! I really like his bit on recoil.

Anyone have a good video about "durable" body parts? This is the first I've heard of that hidden mechanic.

Nice to see super samples are dropping on 6 + now instead of 7+

i think the durable body parts referes to how easy it is to blow off limbs and arms for enemies....could be wrong but that's my guess

evan_aggie said:

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Did they update the difficulty?


I played last night and I've never had so many drop ships come down at Extreme.

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In the linked youtube he says they decreased big armor spawn on higher difficulty but increased swarm spawns to decrease demand/need to anti armor weapons/strategems.

Did they buff the durability of team mates? Don't want to hurt my tk ratio.

Gonna need more testing, but eagle rocket pods and gatling barrage still don't seem that useful. Rocket sentry is pretty damn good, though. Haven't tested anything else, really

Can't wait to jump in a try things out.

Added this to the first post. Had two no-shows in a row so watched the whole dang thing. Very helpful!

Hidden mechanics including armor pen and durability and squishy parts!




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Some great general tips in this one, stuff I would have never thought of. I'm going to be mapping quick grenade next dive for sure.

I decided to unlock the new warbond. The carbine is pretty much garbage against bots. I haven't tried the armor yet, as I don't see myself needing to melee too many things. lol

The armor is sleeveless. It scares off bots when you bring out the guns.

Had a pretty good time with randos last night- mostly fighting bots but did a bug dive to get my flamethrower duty done.

I did have my first couple of bad TK moments. On a bot mission we were extracting and some jackhole TK'd me then booted me from the game. It sucks because it was a really good run for me using AC vs the bots and I was carrying 4 or 5 of the super rare samples. I suspect he is one of the idiots that thinks the person carrying the samples keeps them all. People are so dumb. Luckily they do have a block feature so at least I can avoid that person in future dives.

The other TK incident was just a single TK because he thought "I stole his gun" after he died. /shrug

When they Tk and boot right before extraction, do you still get credit for the mission and the samples collected by the team?

flakrat said:

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When they Tk and boot right before extraction, do you still get credit for the mission and the samples collected by the team?

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Nope you get diddly. Other than credit for the daily mission which was flamethrower that I was not using vs bots.

The reduction in the call in time for the orbital precision makes it the best strat easily for dealing with heavy enemies. It's always been powerful and does a ton of damage but was hard to be accurate on any mobile target with the 4 sec call in. Really easy to get it accurate enough with that cut in half.

Honestly not sure what I'll need railcanon for anymore.

redline248 said:

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I decided to unlock the new warbond. The carbine is pretty much garbage against bots. I haven't tried the armor yet, as I don't see myself needing to melee too many things. lol

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saw a video for the new warbond....apparently that secondary pistol shotgun is friggin sweet! its a 3-shot that you can set to fire one shell at a time or all 3 at a time....and when it's all 3 you can one-shot a lot of baddies....

the other cool thing about it is you can reload while shooting, meaning you don't need to have all 3 barrells full to take a shot so if you get in a bind just stop the reload animation and take your shots....

looks sweet but for the most part this warbond overall seems kinda weak....especially the throwing knife.....holy crap i saw a video on that and it's hands down more useless than the smoke bombs.....it's worse than The Acolyte....it's that bad....

The knife always seemed like just a fun gimmick. It shouldn't be on the 3rd page, though

The knife is for the memes, but with all the changes to weapons I'm having fun just trying everything. Many options that work well to vary your play style.

This whole war bond just confirmed one of the devs really likes Rambo movies.

This is pretty darn cool.

I'm really developing a hatred or phobia of fire tornadoes

Good job tonight, flakrat. Great playing with you.
Sorry I had to run. Work at 0600.