Anyone else disappointed with the EXO suits?

[OriginalGregory]

I don't know what I was expecting but damn they are boring, they don't even provide any real advantage and aren't that viable for anything above 6 difficulty. They're way too slow for Terminids and way too soft for Automatons. Most situations just better off using the breaker.

[Nihil]

Nope. I love them.

[pi73r]

Skill issue. Having one turns difficulty 8-9 bugs into ez mode for a while when used correctly.

[WebsterHelios]

https://youtu.be/HhDe315kKqY?feature=shared Some titanfall 2 could leak into helldivers 2 and that would be awesome. :D

[Daliena]

Took out three Bile Titans who were all charging my boys at the same time on an Eradication with a mech. They aren't invincible tanks, but they pack some serious punch.

[Ethreality]

This reminds me of the dreadnought from Warhammer 40k. The story is that the exosuit is experimental , I believe there are going to changes to it and I also think there will be upgrades to to the strat with the ship upgrades. All I think it really needs is higher armour values to take more ranged hits since its got a huge hitbox and a shorter cooldown from the ship upgrades.

[harpoonGun]

Very situational. On a bug defense mission we all called one down and just slammed the entire area until extract and it was fun. On a nuclear launch mission we staggered the call-ins one at a time so that we basically always had one up while the others provided support, and that worked really well too. But yeah they definitely aren't a massive game changer, just an added boost at the appropriate times

Edit: I should add it was difficulty 7

[Bestdadever]

Originally posted by JuX:

The mech is incredibly strong against the bugs and fun to do so.

It made helldive so much easier, as it can pretty much slaughter the entire breach single-handedly. It even kills hordes of chargers faster then the overpowered railgun ever could.

i agree its great im not sure what people are complaining about.. the only thing i would say it that it can get one shot with one rocket.. its way to week and should be able to take hits.. it should have hitpoints that you can see so you know where your at. but thats my only complaint.

[Firestorm🗿]

Originally posted by Tarkus:

Definitely could use work. Too fragile for automatons imo (bugs are mostly fine, just don't let them get too close) too little ammo in the Minigun and the fact that you can kill yourself while turning is kind of janky.

But they have come in pretty handy a couple of times when there were multiple Chargers or Bile Titans.

Not as utterly useless as some people make them out to be but they definitely need work:
Would love the ability to change out the arms before mission, so I could take two miniguns
Would love the possiblity to send it back for a rearm and regain one use of the stratagem.

This. I would love to be able to have Pelican 1 swoop in to retrieve my Exo to rearm it when it runs out of boomies.

[Echowing]

Mechs aren't a one-man army, they're just a tool. Think of them as a mobile sentry gun rather than an automatic win button.

Work with your teammates - let the mechs cover big waves and heavier targets, while the infantry keep the mechs covered from smaller targets they can't easily deal with.

[FireMage]

Did 2 difficulty-8 mission today with 2 other randoms. One guy picked an extra drop of the EXO, we used the free one during the mission.
We played against bugs - the EXO did wonderfully - we tried to stagerr them so that only one EXO was in use at the time. For breaches and busting nests they are great. For defending a point during geological survays thay work like mobile turrets where they cover one or two whole fronts while the rest of us cleaned our other sides.
Against bugs EXOs are great. Against bots they can be good but you need to be more carefull becouse of all the shooting and explosions the bots have.