Orbital Laser charges... why?

[Neckstabba]

Why does the Orbital Laser only has three charges? This makes it so bad.

[Free Luigi M.]

The 3 charges are fine. It's a powerful stratagem.
What really destroys it is the fact it's 3 charges shared between all Helldivers. Including shared cooldown. This makes it unusable by more than 1 player. Puzzling design choice.

[Drasalis]

Originally posted by Joe Chip:

The 3 charges are fine. It's a powerful stratagem.
What really destroys it is the fact it's 3 charges shared between all Helldivers. Including shared cooldown. This makes it unusable by more than 1 player. Puzzling design choice.

Unless that was a recent change that has not been my experience with it all. When my friends brought it along we each had three separate charges that did not share a cooldown.

[Ledion]

Originally posted by SageBitey:

The orbital laser is mid at best, on Hard difficulty it struggles to kill chargers and bile titans, it does eventually get the job done, but it wastes a lot of time doing it. So I'm not sure if that is why someone is having it be more effective is because they are playing on easier difficulties. In my opinion the 500KG bomb is way more efficient at killing bile titans, not so much chargers cause they be moving around a lot, but if aimed well you can take out multiple. For chargers the eagle rocket pods are pretty OK, or try the Spear, or the orbital railgun one taps them. It's all situational on that honestly, a well placed Autocannon Sentry can lock them down as well. The problem of course is when you have multiple chargers running around 5+, that's when it gets nutty, WE SEE YOU BAROSHI.

in my experience, people using the 500kg kill the titan, and half their team every single time they cast it, the laser is safer for the most part, and will chase targets continuously, its used as an encounter reset when you have way too much crap on screen, which happens quite a lot in helldive difficulty,specially on the bot side, thats why is so limited, its way too useful, if you used it to kill a charger then yeah, it's not gonna be worth the slot because those die from 3 autocannon shots either way

[Poop Lord, Lord of Poop]

Anyone who thinks the orbital laser is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ has never used it. Three charges is more than enough with how long it lasts and how much damage it can do.

[Seth Abercromby]

Originally posted by Poopy Jr.:

As of now, orbitals are the weakest stratagems there are from what I can tell. The only one I use is the walking barrage as it actually seems to hit what I want it to hit, but for the most part just stick to the eagle until they buff the orbital stuff.

I think the only orbital that could use a buff is the precision strike one, which imo should refresh a bit faster. You can use it more frequently than the bombing run eagles overall, but being able to 'double strike' with them makes them a lot more useful in close-quarters fights.

Otherwise the Orbitals offer very devastating firepower, the airburst in particular feels very much slept on because what the game doesn't communicate well is that the burst is fired 3 times, and covers a huge area. It can completely wipe all low-armored targets out of a base or annihilate a majority of the force breathing down on you from multiple tunnel breaches or drop ships.

[GyaruSushi]

Originally posted by Neckstabba:

Originally posted by Zero Grim:

can you resupply it like an eagle?

Not sure. It says it has three charges.. so it doesnt seem like it. I dont wanna waste 10k for a stratagem that can only be used three times per mission and also has a very long cooldown.

You'd be amazed at how useful that ♥♥♥♥ is just 3 times.

[AbientAle]

No mission so far for me has gone over 40 minutes, using it every 10 minutes or so, can clear hordes, facilities, get cannon turrets/tanks/misc objectives/titans/chargers I use it as a gtfo my face stratagem strategically rather then a spamagem that just kills teammates as often as it does bugs. -shrug- I like it alot. :P The key thing is that is it is self guided so you throw and it roombas the vicinity for enemies. 4 charges would be cool for endgame upgrade tho.

[Koostec]

Cus its good

[Free Luigi M.]

Originally posted by Drasalis:

Originally posted by Joe Chip:

The 3 charges are fine. It's a powerful stratagem.
What really destroys it is the fact it's 3 charges shared between all Helldivers. Including shared cooldown. This makes it unusable by more than 1 player. Puzzling design choice.

Unless that was a recent change that has not been my experience with it all. When my friends brought it along we each had three separate charges that did not share a cooldown.

You are right, that's how it works. I was told that by another player. After trying it, it's not true at all.

[axXPostmanXxa]

Originally posted by Starvin Marvin:

Originally posted by Neckstabba:

Not sure. It says it has three charges.. so it doesnt seem like it. I dont wanna waste 10k for a stratagem that can only be used three times per mission and also has a very long cooldown.

As of now, orbitals are the weakest stratagems there are from what I can tell. The only one I use is the walking barrage as it actually seems to hit what I want it to hit, but for the most part just stick to the eagle until they buff the orbital stuff.

Certain places have jamming and anti air so you can't use eagles till you clear them. Orbitals are the easiest option there. Make sure at least one person has at least one.

[weirdkid5]

Originally posted by Joe Chip:

The 3 charges are fine. It's a powerful stratagem.
What really destroys it is the fact it's 3 charges shared between all Helldivers. Including shared cooldown. This makes it unusable by more than 1 player. Puzzling design choice.

This isn't true at all. This is a weird myth that is circulating around. Even if believed it until I unlocked it myself.

The laser is individual to each player.