Autocannon vs Autocannon sentry

[Inardesco]

So, I'm noticing that a lot of the shots against a charger with the shouldermounted Autocannon seem to glance off, even at a good angle.

Whereas the autocannon sentry seems to have 0 issues with this and just blasts the fool without thinking twice about.

Is this intended or am I just a bad aim?

[LunarGatta]

It's intended.

Autocannon sentry is likely a higher caliber than the handheld autocannon you use.

Let them charge past you and put a few rounds in it's ass or back legs.

[♠♣The Jester♣♠]

I think it's intended because 1. It can't move and 2. Chargers can just step on it and it'll turn into scraps.

[Kay]

The Autocannon you can carry looks to be around 20-25mm in calibre, though it isn't stated anywhere what calibre it actually is.

The Autocannon sentry looks like it's using the 90mm AT Autocannon from Helldivers 1, which is much bigger

[Inardesco]

Yeah okay, but it's supposed to be an AP weapon, before you get access to the railgun, that should be able to deal with heavily armoured enemies, but useless if half the shots glance off.

[Monk]

Just look at the size of the thing, the sentry is far larger caliber.

As others have said, shoot it's squishy butt (3-4 good clean hits) or let your team mates with eat8/recoiless/railgun break the leg armour first, that's the benefit of a co-op game, you have teammates to help out.

[Monk]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Yeah okay, but it's supposed to be an AP weapon, before you get access to the railgun, that should be able to deal with heavily armoured enemies, but useless if half the shots glance off.

It's pretty much the best option vs the countless medium armoured goes though, especially brood commanders who must die first or get a titan breach.

[Thorp]

Overall, the Charger's hitboxes seem to be tied to animations more than armor penetration. You can use any weapon against the leg armor while the Charger is turning around after a charge and you'll hurt it. Either this is intended game-ification of how Charger armor works, or the hit registration is broken.

https://youtu.be/okWiUwksefQ