God Lord, the Jump Pack is pathetic.

[Karak Sonen]

Where's my jump pack that can cover some actual distance from Helldivers 1?
This pathetic excuse for an jump pack can't even lift you over an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ charger, and has a insane cooldown to boot for how little it actual lifts you.

Am i missing something, or is this aerial device made by people who don't love freedom enough?

[Captain Worthy]

It's designed to be a tool that gets a you into those high ground positions that are just out of reach by regular climbing.

[Karak Sonen]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

It's designed to be a tool that gets a you into those high ground positions that are just out of reach by regular climbing.

Well if that's the design then it failed at it, as you are more likely to just bump into what you try to get on top of just to die an embarrassing death by having a bug snuggle up to your insides.

Jokes aside, there's few uses i can think of for this, at least on the planets we are currently on. At most i can see a niche use for getting over an wall on an automaton outpost.. but that niche use does not outweigh having more ammo, an shield, or some other backpack utility that does far more.

[uSIHitMan]

Use light armor. U get higher

[StIwY]

Jump packs were abused on HD 1, glad it's nerfed here.

[Chaos]

Yeah, I unlock as soon as I hit lvl 8, and all I got was buyer remorse lol.
Like bruh, long CD may be fine if the mobility was great but wtf is this?

[ViperXVII]

+1 ... long CD is fine, make it strategic, but that distance (in both axis) is horrible. Not worth spending a slot on atm and will quickly be unused

[| Zodium |]

Jump pack is worthless. It barely loved you at all. It’s effectively like just having a regular jump key. Which I noticed they removed jumping on release. So pissed. It’s effectively a wasted slot until they fix it. Just keep using either the ammo pack, recoiled pack, guard dog or shield pack until then.

[Captain Worthy]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Yeah, I unlock as soon as I hit lvl 8, and all I got was buyer remorse lol.
Like bruh, long CD may be fine if the mobility was great but wtf is this?

The lighter your armor type, the further you can jump as stated above in the thread.

[| Zodium |]

I even using light armor it’s garbage. Can’t reach most places that would actually make it useful and the movement isn’t helpful to avoid AI since their aim tracks while you move and the hit box on the big dudes is vertically bigger then their model so you can almost never avoid them with the pack. It’s hot garbage that needs a buff plain and simple. Or maybe an armor set that significantly boosts duration of back items by like 60-80% could work too.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

The lighter your armor type, the further you can jump as stated above in the thread.

Even with light armor it's still leave much to be desired, it is nothing but a poor imitation of jetpack from HD 1.

[ึ]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

It's designed to be a tool that gets a you into those high ground positions that are just out of reach by regular climbing.

that would be nice if i didn't jump higher than 7-9ft off the ground

[KageRo]

in hd2 jumpack are meh in compared to Hd1

[SupaPlayer]

It seems like it comes down to the larger problem present in the game right now of vastly underpowered equipment. They have weapons that are already well suited for higher level gameplay like breaker and railgun so we need to hope they buff items like the jump pack to be more or less equivalent to HD1 (but perhaps not with as much range or as little cooldown)

[Daxank]

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

Originally posted by Chaos:

Yeah, I unlock as soon as I hit lvl 8, and all I got was buyer remorse lol.
Like bruh, long CD may be fine if the mobility was great but wtf is this?

The lighter your armor type, the further you can jump as stated above in the thread.

what exactly is the point of making the mobility item be better on people that already have the better mobility?

[The Gut]

Agreed OP. Terrible both in jumping height and cooldown, but mostly cooldown.
Needs no cooldown, and could use more boost height!