What's everyone's favorite setup for HoE Solo/Duo

[Cvxbio]

So what's everyone aiming for on each perk nowdays?. I grabbed myself all the dlc stuff since I hadn't played for a few years, did some HoE's long solo on zerker / firebug which was fairly easy. I tried out the Ion thruster and semi liked It but wonder If there's a better setup overall, so just curious to what you guys run for talents / weapons on each perk nowdays?. I'm a little behind on any "meta" changes If there has been any the past few years.

As always appreciate everyone stopping by and giving their take, have a nice day.

[suddenly]

Bers + Medic, but it's not favorite xD you just can beat anything with this comp

[suddenly]

for HoE i love the most Commando

[suddenly]

and again, ther is a ton of new DLC weapons that are too OP even for HoE, so most likely every class can do HoE w/o a problem

[Bathtub Shitter]

The meta for 6 player HoE can pretty much be used in duo/solo, but you want to focus less on high dps and more on general crowed control and healing your partner. If it's solo, almost anything works if you pick a good position or use proper kiting.

引用自 suddenly：

for HoE i love the most Commando

A good Commando build for duo is scar, 401, and a 101 pistol with RLLLR as your skills.

引用自 Cvxbio：

I'm a little behind on any "meta" changes If there has been any the past few years.

Forgot to answer this earlier.

The skills you choose for most part are still the same, but there are a few skill changes over the past few years worth mentioning:

- support's high cap mags went from 50% to 75%

- zerk got nerfs to a bunch of his skills but is still useable. Just a bit harder to play glass cannon zerk with skirmish and damage skills.

- Surv has a swap speed increase and can now choose his own grenades, a long with flashbangs and gunslinger grenades.

- Swat's tac movement now gives you a vast movement speed increase on top of ads movement speed.

I probably missed some but those are what i recall being the most important. As far as weapons go there's been quite a few ever since 2018 and beyond like the m99, doomstick, Fal, helios rifle, husk cannon, and kaboomstick. Those are all considerably meta.

[Rocknack]

For duo, a medic+ whatever. I’d recommend not to play meta but focus on what’s fun for you to play. I mostly play with randos and the chances of success are slim anyway cause everyone behaves like a headless chicken. Might aswell enjoy myself.

I like Commando. Firebug is a safe bet because extremely reliable crowd control and sufficient means to kill large zeds. Support is just as versatile. Demo is a bit harder for his vulnerability and low speed but very satisfying because of the oomph the explosive weapons have.

And if you got the DLCs you simply must try the compound bow that thing is great.

[Cvxbio]

引用自 suddenly：

for HoE i love the most Commando

引用自 DUNG DEFENDER：

The meta for 6 player HoE can pretty much be used in duo/solo, but you want to focus less on high dps and more on general crowed control and healing your partner. If it's solo, almost anything works if you pick a good position or use proper kiting.

引用自 suddenly：

for HoE i love the most Commando

A good Commando build for duo is scar, 401, and a 101 pistol with RLLLR as your skills.

引用自 Cvxbio：

I'm a little behind on any "meta" changes If there has been any the past few years.

Forgot to answer this earlier.

The skills you choose for most part are still the same, but there are a few skill changes over the past few years worth mentioning:

- support's high cap mags went from 50% to 75%

- zerk got nerfs to a bunch of his skills but is still useable. Just a bit harder to play glass cannon zerk with skirmish and damage skills.

- Surv has a swap speed increase and can now choose his own grenades, a long with flashbangs and gunslinger grenades.

- Swat's tac movement now gives you a vast movement speed increase on top of ads movement speed.

I probably missed some but those are what i recall being the most important. As far as weapons go there's been quite a few ever since 2018 and beyond like the m99, doomstick, Fal, helios rifle, husk cannon, and kaboomstick. Those are all considerably meta.

引用自 Rocknack：

For duo, a medic+ whatever. I’d recommend not to play meta but focus on what’s fun for you to play. I mostly play with randos and the chances of success are slim anyway cause everyone behaves like a headless chicken. Might aswell enjoy myself.

I like Commando. Firebug is a safe bet because extremely reliable crowd control and sufficient means to kill large zeds. Support is just as versatile. Demo is a bit harder for his vulnerability and low speed but very satisfying because of the oomph the explosive weapons have.

And if you got the DLCs you simply must try the compound bow that thing is great.

Thank you guys for the comments, and appreciate the rundown of the changes to the game DUNG DEFENDER. I had an Itch to give the game a go again and managed to get hooked again.

[Schamyl006]

Survivalist with Zed having a chance to explode perk and Medic grenade and always using the Sentinel drone.

[JimmyIowa]

Meta and favorite are two very different things. At least for some players. So it's not clear what you are actually asking for.

Favorite: Gunslinger, Gunslinger+Survivalist

Meta: Medic, Zerk, Medic+Zerk, Medic+Survivalist, Medic+Medic

[Bathtub Shitter]

gonna have to agree with others that medic surv and zerk is still a popular choice for any number of players. Perks like demo and sharp shooter are really only needed when you have big zeds with lots of hp so they aren't really all that great for duos.

引用自 Rocknack：

I mostly play with randos and the chances of success are slim anyway cause everyone behaves like a headless chicken. Might aswell enjoy myself.

Also this.

That quality of pubs has been declining and the game just went free on epic so you'll see a lot of headless chicken players and low levels joining higher difficulties. get ready for that.

[Serious]

Favourite perk was always and still is medic. It would be also my favourite if it would be the worst, not the strongest perk. To be the reason someone survives is even better feeling as a perfect m99 FP oneshot.

I won't say the quality of pubs is degrading, before the zerk nerf all the unexperienced or selfish player choos zerk, since zerk nerf they choose medic. But their quality didn't change a lot. It's just that we were all used to useless and selfish zerk for many years, now we have to get used to useless and selfish medics.

Back to the topic. I don't play singleplayer except for maptesting so i don't have singleplayer favourites.
For Multiplayer it's (if i had to choose just 2 weapons of each perk)
Commando: 401, Scar
Support: M4, Frostfang
Swat: Bastion, P90
Sharp: Beluga, Mosin (Nope, this is no joke^^)
Medic: Hemogoblin, 501 (Because i hate healththrower(-medics))
Zerk: Bone Crusher, Vlad
Demo: SealSqueal, pulverizer (Used only if i trust medic)
FB: Huskcannon, Dragonsbreath
Gunslinger: G18c, SPX
Survivalist: ArcGenerator, Incision

[Cvxbio]

引用自 JimmyIowa：

Meta and favorite are two very different things. At least for some players. So it's not clear what you are actually asking for.

Favorite: Gunslinger, Gunslinger+Survivalist

Meta: Medic, Zerk, Medic+Zerk, Medic+Survivalist, Medic+Medic

You're right, I was just more curious to what the sweat meta looked like nowdays If It had changed at all, but I highly appreciate people sharing their favorite setups and builds too. Afterall we're just here to have fun, sometimes I do like to sweat a little too for funs.

引用自 person：

Survivalist with Zed having a chance to explode perk and Medic grenade and always using the Sentinel drone.

Survivalist looks like a lot of fun to play, I never really thought of getting It up but slowly been finishing It.

引用自 DUNG DEFENDER：

gonna have to agree with others that medic surv and zerk is still a popular choice for any number of players. Perks like demo and sharp shooter are really only needed when you have big zeds with lots of hp so they aren't really all that great for duos.

引用自 Rocknack：

I mostly play with randos and the chances of success are slim anyway cause everyone behaves like a headless chicken. Might aswell enjoy myself.

Also this.

That quality of pubs has been declining and the game just went free on epic so you'll see a lot of headless chicken players and low levels joining higher difficulties. get ready for that.

I personally prefer to play solo when friends aren't on, but one of my friends like to hop Into public so been playing that here and there recently. I gotta say I felt like I was In a old xbox 360 lobby sometimes, we'd have people randomly going like "do you like guys or girls" and the convo just going slowly towards creepy all the way to semi Insane. I'm not a big pub player so Idk how It used to be but my experience here recently after returning to the game has been all sorts of weird, and I've met some questionable players In HoE pubs too prestiged to the max but playing like they just started running away from the group and dying on wave 2/3.

引用自 Serious：

Favourite perk was always and still is medic. It would be also my favourite if it would be the worst, not the strongest perk. To be the reason someone survives is even better feeling as a perfect m99 FP oneshot.

I won't say the quality of pubs is degrading, before the zerk nerf all the unexperienced or selfish player choos zerk, since zerk nerf they choose medic. But their quality didn't change a lot. It's just that we were all used to useless and selfish zerk for many years, now we have to get used to useless and selfish medics.

Back to the topic. I don't play singleplayer except for maptesting so i don't have singleplayer favourites.
For Multiplayer it's (if i had to choose just 2 weapons of each perk)
Commando: 401, Scar
Support: M4, Frostfang
Swat: Bastion, P90
Sharp: Beluga, Mosin (Nope, this is no joke^^)
Medic: Hemogoblin, 501 (Because i hate healththrower(-medics))
Zerk: Bone Crusher, Vlad
Demo: SealSqueal, pulverizer (Used only if i trust medic)
FB: Huskcannon, Dragonsbreath
Gunslinger: G18c, SPX
Survivalist: ArcGenerator, Incision

Appreciate you sharing this @Serious I'm more of a solo player when friends aren't on because of reasons I wrote above to the other guy, though a good HoE group can be super satisfying.

[Sparky862]

引用自 suddenly：

and again, ther is a ton of new DLC weapons that are too OP even for HoE, so most likely every class can do HoE w/o a problem

Wait ... people said DLC weapons are crap?

[Bathtub Shitter]

引用自 Sparky862：

引用自 suddenly：

and again, ther is a ton of new DLC weapons that are too OP even for HoE, so most likely every class can do HoE w/o a problem

Wait ... people said DLC weapons are crap?

some of them can be really good actually like the glock18s or the frostfang. They're definitely not all crap.

[Rocknack]

DÖC weapons may not be necessary to beat the game and some of them are downright superfluous but no one can deny that using a compound bow is fun. Sure, other SS weapons may be better on HoE but every once in a while…

[SunnyC]

Commando.
Scar + medic rifle (the original one.)