DSS Eagle Strikes

[Perrin]

Never vote for these again. I will be avoiding assisting the defense or liberation of any and all planets that the DSS is stationed at forever. I just "failed" a solo mission with every single death being from a friendly eagle that I didn't call in. I say failed in quotes because I completed the main objective, but not all the side objectives and outposts. I thought the DSS sounded cool. I thought I loved eagle airstrikes. But when I spend all 5 of my respawns because these damn pilots have their targeting computers off like luke ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ skywalker shooting womp rats, it makes me wonder if my pilot was the only one to pass the academy. Disregard the other threads saying to keep the DSS on major orders. You want my advice? Let the bug divers keep it, and I'll keep away from it.

[Chaos]

Damn, I had a feeling changing it from strafing run to bomb strike would cause more Helldivers death but I didn't think it would be this bad.

Isn't this just Orbital meme 2.0?

So AH took DSS off for months to make it worst somehow?

[Quill]

When you see DSS Eagle Strike at the top of the screen don't be near enemies. Think of it like a Mortar Sentry. If an enemy is close to you and you don't run you're dead

[Foxador]

Don't stand near enemies and you'll be fine. The eagle strafing runs only target enemies and it's a very small AoE in a line. They do a way better job of hitting enemies than anything else, so if you're getting hit you're too close

[SupaPlayer]

Yeah I didn’t expect the DSS coming online again after what feels like months would actually be much better, it seems like illuminates really did a number on hacking it so bad that it became worse than it was before

[ChiefCornFlake]

Honestly the DSS just sucks and it's a waste of resources.

[Anticitizen 1]

Hmm, I thought the Eagle Strike was the solitary good thing about the DSS, did they tweak it since launch?

[Foxador]

Originally posted by ChiefCornFlake:

Honestly the DSS just sucks and it's a waste of resources.

Get this man a cookie!

[Kev]

There's such a simple obvious fix to this. Instead of automatic random eagle strikes, just make the DSS bonus that we all get free eagle strike stratagems that don't take up one of our 4 slots. The refusal to do that just seems like trolling now.

[BEASTLYxxNORRIS]

I hate it. I was hoping they would have replaced it with something else too. I hated the orbital barrage prior to the new DSS update more, but man this eagle is ridiculous. Even if you aren't near enemies, it can still easily strike you during it's strafe if it goes into your direction.

[Perrin]

Originally posted by Foxador:

Don't stand near enemies and you'll be fine. The eagle strafing runs only target enemies and it's a very small AoE in a line. They do a way better job of hitting enemies than anything else, so if you're getting hit you're too close

Originally posted by Quill:

When you see DSS Eagle Strike at the top of the screen don't be near enemies. Think of it like a Mortar Sentry. If an enemy is close to you and you don't run you're dead

When the Voteless are swarming me when the strikes start, I only have so much control over this. Many eagle strikes didn't hit me, but those that did were lethal.

[Aethrys]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Damn, I had a feeling changing it from strafing run to bomb strike would cause more Helldivers death but I didn't think it would be this bad.

Isn't this just Orbital meme 2.0?

So AH took DSS off for months to make it worst somehow?

I didn't realize they made it airstrikes instead of strafing runs, why would they do that? It was perfectly fine before.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Aethrys:

I didn't realize they made it airstrikes instead of strafing runs, why would they do that? It was perfectly fine before.

Ikr?
People LOVE eagle storm because of the chance of being killed by one is near zero.
You got to be right on top of the enemy to get killed by strafing runs.

That and the sky being filled with aircrafts is beautiful.

Now it's just another hazard like the old orbital barrage one.

[protocol67]

Originally posted by Kev:

There's such a simple obvious fix to this. Instead of automatic random eagle strikes, just make the DSS bonus that we all get free eagle strike stratagems that don't take up one of our 4 slots. The refusal to do that just seems like trolling now.

I've thought that the randomness itself is the problem with eagle strikes and the death from above barrage. The Helldivers are the eyes on the ground, why not only target enemies that have been spotted and marked? Maybe its a random % of targets that get hit after being marked, but not just completely random death from above.