Which backpack is best for difficult 7?

[cees09]

I'm having a hard time to choose between Guard Rover, Supply and Shield backpack. Def shield has been helping me a lot with surviving but there are time I'm out of ammo specially with the Breaker. As for Rover while is useful sometimes it ends up killing teammates.

What do you usually bring for level 7 difficulty?

[CH13F]

depends what you specialize your style for?

-trash clear?
-fast bug hole clear?
-anti-armor / elite?

i myself specced myself for fast bug hole clears because amount of patrols and horde size is quite large in 7-9. i let others run meta build.

shield backpack and grenade launcher. quickly clearing nests, less bugs to dance with. with it i use 2 orbital strats, depending on situation eagles, and lastly for enchantment, if noone picked stamina ench. then.

[MechaDraco]

You can never go wrong with a supply pack. More bullets, equals more fun, and of course more democracy!

However, I have noticed the shield backpack is a common go to for 7 and above, the additional damage mitigation, works wonders.

I honestly have never seen someone use a rover pack at anything above a 6 difficulty, and anyone that does, usually ends up rage quitting.

I personally just choose whatever suits my fancy at the time. Supply pack is probably my most common, but I also sometimes take a Autocannon, and though others can take that pack, I'm usually the one wearing it. Reload's super fast if you can count your shots and leave one round in the chamber.

[Myth Alric]

I have used all of them on max difficulty, and they are all useful. If you are going grenade launcher, I would go with the supply backpack as you can spam it with the extra ammo. The rover is good for killing a lot of the stuff following you around all the time. I wouldn't worry about it killing teammates, if you get a little better at it you can sort of control it.

I usually take the shield backpack if I am going to be close in, like if I am running a flamethrower.

[Drakmoor]

I generally run Rover. It saves ammo, kills a lot of the trash mobs, and helps you find targets in poor visibility.
Downsides are the occasional team or user kills and it sometimes pulls patrols you're trying to skip.

[Land]

I used to go with the laser backpack for a long time but the shield has since reigned supreme for me.
Negates bug attacks (especially that annoying slow from those fast agile buggers), grants some form of CC immunity and recharges quite quickly.
Laser is a fantastic option too but only for the bugs, use only the shield for automatons.

[MechaDraco]

Originally posted by Drakmoor:

I generally run Rover. It saves ammo, kills a lot of the trash mobs, and helps you find targets in poor visibility.
Downsides are the occasional team or user kills and it sometimes pulls patrols you're trying to skip.

Yea, the drawing Patrols part is one of the reasons I hate the thing, but I suppose that depends on play style. It would be kind of nice though to have it so you can toggle the rover on and off, so it's not always out and you could avoid this situation. I'd probably take it WAY more.