Expendable Anti-Tank

[Boss]

Please buff. This was literally my FAVORITE call down on High Levels in Helldivers 1. I understand, maybe, that one shoting big (not giant) things isn't, maybe, how Helldivers 2 works. But given you're giving up an entire stratagem for this thing, on top of the mechanical complexity of having to call it down, grab it, discard it, grab the second... It really needs to be sufficiently buffed. You COULD look at it as an early game junk stratagem, but again... I really loved it in Helldivers 1. Please?

[Vespertellino]

Fair

[Zyhgar The Phoenix]

But it can one shot...

[Polar Test 53]

its actually one of the better support weapons tbh. i would take it over the railgun
but yeah lets buff it lol

[Boss]

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

But it can one shot...

Not in my experience. It's incredibly hard to fast aim with it (you're calling it in under duress, you won't have the nice setup usually like with recoiless). Again, requires you to run around like a nutter. And so far, hasn't 1 shot chargers.

I hear it can with extremely good aim potentially...

I've one shot a tank before with recoiless from hitting it from above, but this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing barely does anything to it. Again, maybe it requires /insane/ aim, but it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tank gun. I'm not looking for "exceptional aim", I bought it to blow ♥♥♥♥ up. Otherwise, I'll just grab 500kg explosive. Or laser. Or orbital autocannon. Or Eagle. Or any number of other options.

And frankly? I want it to function like it did in Helldiver 1. I literally see *no one* run this on Suicide or above.

[Zyhgar The Phoenix]

Originally posted by Boss:

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

But it can one shot...

Not in my experience. It's incredibly hard to fast aim with it (you're calling it in under duress, you won't have the nice setup usually like with recoiless). Again, requires you to run around like a nutter. And so far, hasn't 1 shot chargers.

I hear it can with extremely good aim potentially...

I've one shot a tank before with recoiless from hitting it from above, but this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing barely does anything to it. Again, maybe it requires /insane/ aim, but it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tank gun. I'm not looking for "exceptional aim", I bought it to blow ♥♥♥♥ up. Otherwise, I'll just grab 500kg explosive. Or laser. Or orbital autocannon. Or Eagle. Or any number of other options.

And frankly? I want it to function like it did in Helldiver 1. I literally see *no one* run this on Suicide or above.

"Not in my experience" Well all I am saying is you can one shot with EAT. I don't play bugs at all so idk about them but I find the EAT amazing against hulks if you hit them in the eye its a one shot. Also you can use on EAT in the heat sink of a tank and use a contact grenade as to kill it. Against turrets if you hit the heat sink you can sometimes one shot but you'll put it on burning and you can finish with a contact grenade. I've never been above a tank but if you can one shot it with the recoilless then you should with the EAT aswell.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

But it can one shot...

When? I hit chargers dead in the face with it and it doesn't even stop their charge. They just keep coming right at me. Then I regret not just hitting it in the leg instead because I want some kind of unarmored spot I can shoot after I've completely used up my support weapon.

I love EAT and I refuse to use railgun over it and faceroll through the game, but it's just not the go-to method to deal with these things. I have to run railgun orbital to take out the second charger, and maybe even a turret to deal with the third. OR I could just take the railgun and deal with all 3! this game just hates build variety and sucks off railguns.

[Haych]

I think why I think it's fine as is, is because you can break armor with it, and you get two of em, and breaking armor is kind of 80% of the battle, then the low CD and you can put it in a build where you have other support weapons, and I find that's an interesting balance especially if you are distributing one to your allies so you can all go off and you each have a way to deal at least with one big charger...that to me is a cool enough niche, that the thing is fine.

[Zyhgar The Phoenix]

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

But it can one shot...

When? I hit chargers dead in the face with it and it doesn't even stop their charge. They just keep coming right at me. Then I regret not just hitting it in the leg instead because I want some kind of unarmored spot I can shoot after I've completely used up my support weapon.

I love EAT and I refuse to use railgun over it and faceroll through the game, but it's just not the go-to method to deal with these things. I have to run railgun orbital to take out the second charger, and maybe even a turret to deal with the third. OR I could just take the railgun and deal with all 3! this game just hates build variety and sucks off railguns.

As I stated I don't play alot against bugs so that's not my field of experience. For the charger I just use it to blast off the leg armour then shot the leg with the shot gun but probably better methods. I know for a FACT it can one shot hulks even at 100 meters, I also find it great against tanks with contact grenades if you can see the heat sink. I am just saying it is possible to do so if you don't think its worth it then yeah there's probably better methods or w/e.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

But it can one shot...

rail gun can one shot titans

[tank16365]

BRING BACK C5!!!

[Boss]

Originally posted by Zyhgar The Phoenix:

"Not in my experience" Well all I am saying is you can one shot with EAT. I don't play bugs at all so idk about them but I find the EAT amazing against hulks if you hit them in the eye its a one shot. Also you can use on EAT in the heat sink of a tank and use a contact grenade as to kill it. Against turrets if you hit the heat sink you can sometimes one shot but you'll put it on burning and you can finish with a contact grenade. I've never been above a tank but if you can one shot it with the recoilless then you should with the EAT aswell.

Or you can just contact grenade a tank. Or use a recoiless from safety. Or you can use the Railgun to deal with mechs. Or a grenade launcher plus supply pack spam.

It's bad, man. It's taking a stratagem slot.