Anyone finding the Guard Dog's "Rover and "Dog Breath" don't hit things well?

[Spanky McGilligan]

For me, it seems to me the Rover spends 80% of the time shooting a beam at the ground under the target's feet, and the Dog Breath, I don't even know. I never see the gas effect on a target and the target always appears to come right at me. I never see a target die from it.
The regular Guard Dogs seem to do well, however.

[Alice]

Dog breath is a confusion gas, not damage actually. Made to crowd control with non damage.

[Mitzuriki]

My Dog AR Liberator first kill was abother Helldiver. Right in the head. One tap.

[Iron Horse]

Originally posted by Alice:

Dog breath is a confusion gas, not damage actually. Made to crowd control with non damage.

Sounds useless then. Other 2 rovers actually make the problem go away, not just kick the can down the road.

[Mitzuriki]

The problem with dog breath is that while it has good A.I, positioning wise,it only target single mob at a time, not doing an AoE job well

[darkblade]

Well it does what he should do, auto attack an enemy to blind them, so that you can run away or kill them more ez.

To test it go on the bot front and you see what i mean, when the gas hits something lets say a scout strider, then 1 he will get damage over time but not that mutch and 2 he will shoot everywhere but not you, because he got a blind effect, im my case a whole group of bot ended up shooting a tree instead of me.

If you want to use gas make sure that you dont use it like a flamethrower because you cant, spray them in gas and then switch to your support weapon or normal weapon and kill them, because they wont hit you, you wont die and you can kill them more ez

It takes more gas for hulks, chargers to apply the effect.
But it works the same way as it does with small enemys, a charger will charge into nothing, a hulk just shoots in a radom direction

[Black Eye]

Thats a lot of crap, I always use the Laser dog and it gets me tones of kills

[*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆Prinny☆]

Originally posted by Mitzuriki:

The problem with dog breath is that while it has good A.I, positioning wise,it only target single mob at a time, not doing an AoE job well

At least it moves away from you, and other Helldivers to do it's thing. It moves towards the enemy, rather than just hanging back behind you to shoot you in the head by 'mistake.'

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

Dog Breath is great against stalkers and those Alpha Commander charges and also their silly frenzy mode where they chase after you ad infinitum spamming attacks. Not good for anything else though.

[adobo]

Dog breath is the safest guard dog to have since it actually chases down its target. I think it should change its AI to go after the biggest target it can affect first.

[DrLamp]

Shey should change it's behavior so it doesn't focus on a single target at all. Instead it should spray anything in range that doesn't have the debuff.

[ll62518475]

Originally posted by Alice:

Dog breath is a confusion gas, not damage actually. Made to crowd control with non damage.

It does do damage. Low damage, but it does. However.... its targeting abilities are worse than an 80 year old grandpa's. LITERALLY appears to spray directly where the enemies are, but they dont get affected unless they jump/move up a bit (attacking), or are literally up my face. So its either targeting, spray range, or both. Also, focusing on ONE enemy with minimal damage, in missions that have hordes of them, is terrible. It's A.I. should detect what is affected by gas, and what isnt, and then attack the ones that are not, letting the gas do its thing (a suggestion I read on Reddit). That would be FAR more useful.

Overall, its terrible. Considering that ALL gas DoT has the same confusing effect, the dog is basically redundant, save for a few specific situations.

[Bum Ghost]

something happened during the 60 day update where they turned drones into a 10 meter safety bubble that could possibly kill you, they used to start shooting at stuff farther out
Now they just shoot the ground and sometimes kill something, helldivers included.