Tips for those who Struggle with the New Enemys

[Nikkö]

The following setups works wonderfully against the space squids.
Medium pen primary weapon
Heavy Pen Senetor Revolver secondary
Impact Grenade, for outposts and hordes alike.

Heavy Machine gun Stratagem - Shreds Triplegged harvesters like tissue paper and does good against overseers too.
Gattling Gun Sentry Stratagem - Horde clearing with an added bonus that it can work as a distraction when you need to run and relocate.
Guard Dog backpack - Clears out the voteless hordes, so you can focus on more important stuff, like harvesters, or mission objectives!
And lastly
500kg bomb or 320 bombardment - 500kg is a good way to clear out large groups of enemys and outposts, and the bombardment can be usefull to deny the enemy an entire area of the battlefield.

'' But Mr. Gamer, i dont like the heavy machine gun! and the watch dog backpack gives me Gas! ''
No worries, Bring the recoiless rocket rifle, it one taps harvesters when their shield is off, since you will take up both weapon and backpack slot for this, bring another sentry for more group safety, the machinegun sentry is very good.
Alternetivly, if you wanna be a total Top G, Bring the supply pack and a Rail Gun.
And as a final note - The Machine gun stratagem works fairly well since it has Medium penetration, but it can struggle a wee bit vs the harvesters, but if you're brave and or do not have the other ones, it can be a good option.
Avoid the Grenade launcher stratagem, it may seem tempting, but the hordes are too fast, and the overseers have good armors vs explosive damage.

Happy Hunting Helldivers.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Nikkö:

Tips for those who Struggle with the New Enemys
The following setups works wonderfully against the space squids.
Medium pen primary weapon
Heavy Pen Senetor Revolver secondary
Impact Grenade, for outposts and hordes alike.

Heavy Machine gun Stratagem - Shreds Triplegged harvesters like tissue paper and does good against overseers too.
Gattling Gun Sentry Stratagem - Horde clearing with an added bonus that it can work as a distraction when you need to run and relocate.
Guard Dog backpack - Clears out the voteless hordes, so you can focus on more important stuff, like harvesters, or mission objectives!
And lastly
500kg bomb or 320 bombardment - 500kg is a good way to clear out large groups of enemys and outposts, and the bombardment can be usefull to deny the enemy an entire area of the battlefield.

'' But Mr. Gamer, i dont like the heavy machine gun! and the watch dog backpack gives me Gas! ''
No worries, Bring the recoiless rocket rifle, it one taps harvesters when their shield is off, since you will take up both weapon and backpack slot for this, bring another sentry for more group safety, the machinegun sentry is very good.
Alternetivly, if you wanna be a total Top G, Bring the supply pack and a Rail Gun.
And as a final note - The Machine gun stratagem works fairly well since it has Medium penetration, but it can struggle a wee bit vs the harvesters, but if you're brave and or do not have the other ones, it can be a good option.
Avoid the Grenade launcher stratagem, it may seem tempting, but the hordes are too fast, and the overseers have good armors vs explosive damage.

Happy Hunting Helldivers.

Confirming it works.

Have a gameplay video of a similar loadout with my own suggestion
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3388259347
It makes the Illuminates incredible easy - and the Guard Dog is a big surprise with the Voteless.

[Nikkö]

Thank you, Guard Dog was the name of that damn backpack lol, i keep forgetting.

[dimi]

I don't get the love for the senator, it felt slow and underpowered when I tried it.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by dimi:

I don't get the love for the senator, it felt slow and underpowered when I tried it.

You need aim to make the most of it. The pistol from Polar Patriot is a good alternative. But most people prefer the grenade pistol instead.

[Cryptic]

what's a 320? you mean a 380?

when the initial post has errors, i tend to disregard 90% of it

[Inardesco]

RR does not one-shot the harversters on the body. You still need to hit the leg joint in order to take it down in one shot. The body of the Harvester is incredibly tanky.

Also 500kg is not recommended imo, since it doesn't kill harvesters. Strafe run is a lot better since it can kill a harvester in 2 passes.

Alongside that, gas strike is much better than 380MM orbital since it has low cooldown, and can be used perfectly fine when theres a group around. It also takes care of hordes very quickly.

Gatling gun is okay, but too often it kills friendlies since it keeps firing while swiveling, and especially in cities they can come from all sides, it can kill your entire group in one swivel.

Gas grenade is also miles better than impact for hordes and can now clear outposts aswell.

[Oobaneko]

Originally posted by dimi:

I don't get the love for the senator, it felt slow and underpowered when I tried it.

Senator is devastating agaist weak spots. It can oneshot Illuminati at head, it can stagger stryder and even shoot of it's arc guns, it can deal with Hulk, it can kill Titan, it's two shots kill Brood commander, it's one shot kill warrior, three shots headshot (easy to aim) kill hive guard. It's purely skill based revolver.
Deagle is less skill depended gun, yet, still very effective after last buff.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

RR does not one-shot the harversters on the body. You still need to hit the leg joint in order to take it down in one shot. The body of the Harvester is incredibly tanky.

Also 500kg is not recommended imo, since it doesn't kill harvesters. Strafe run is a lot better since it can kill a harvester in 2 passes.

Alongside that, gas strike is much better than 380MM orbital since it has low cooldown, and can be used perfectly fine when theres a group around. It also takes care of hordes very quickly.

Gatling gun is okay, but too often it kills friendlies since it keeps firing while swiveling, and especially in cities they can come from all sides, it can kill your entire group in one swivel.

You are mistaken. 500kg can definitely kill harvesters.

[shitass]

You didn't mention arch thrower. That thing is busted for illuminate. It can perma stun every single enemy, even the harvesters.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

You are mistaken. 500kg can definitely kill harvesters.

Then explain the following clip; https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1hj8uq2/what_eagle_do_i_bring_if_harvesters_eat_500kg_for/

Since if it can tank the 500KG straight in the face, I doubt it definately kills them.

Also good job ignoring the rest of the comment by focusing on the one thing you disagree with.

Originally posted by pope francis lamborghini:

You didn't mention arch thrower. That thing is busted for illuminate. It can perma stun every single enemy, even the harvesters.

It also requires 20+ shots to kill a harvester. Which is utterly pointless since by the 5th shot you're already swarmed by voteless.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

You are mistaken. 500kg can definitely kill harvesters.

Then explain the following clip; https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1hj8uq2/what_eagle_do_i_bring_if_harvesters_eat_500kg_for/

Since if it can tank the 500KG straight in the face, I doubt it definately kills them.

Also good job ignoring the rest of the comment by focusing on the one thing you disagree with.

Originally posted by pope francis lamborghini:

You didn't mention arch thrower. That thing is busted for illuminate. It can perma stun every single enemy, even the harvesters.

It also requires 20+ shots to kill a harvester. Which is utterly pointless since by the 5th shot you're already swarmed by voteless.

Again - what you wrote is simply not true and incorrect.

[Inardesco]

And yet I have posted video evidence from a harvester tanking a 500kg to the face. I have also seen multiple harvesters ignore 500kg's in the game.

Either I'm being wrong, or I'm being correct, as shown by the evidence, and you're being wrong. It's not my fault that you're incapeable of accepting the very fact that the video showed a harvester surviving a 500kg to the face.

So the only thing I can conclude is that every harvester you have thrown a 500kg at was already damaged. And thus it can't definately kill a harvester, but it will help in killing harvester. Which honestly is trash for a 500kg since a machinegun can do the same.

[Oobaneko]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

And yet I have posted video evidence from a harvester tanking a 500kg to the face. I have also seen multiple harvesters ignore 500kg's in the game.

Either I'm being wrong, or I'm being correct, as shown by the evidence, and you're being wrong. It's not my fault that you're incapeable of accepting the very fact that the video showed a harvester surviving a 500kg to the face.

So the only thing I can conclude is that every harvester you have thrown a 500kg at was already damaged. And thus it can't definately kill a harvester, but it will help in killing harvester. Which honestly is trash for a 500kg since a machinegun can do the same.

Imho, it's all because of armor plates. It's like ERA armor - it takes whole damage, fall off, but protect actual body from damage. That's why shooting eye is much more effective way. I, actually, oneshotted couple of stryders by recoiless rifle, when hit the eye. And it's better to use HE loads at stryders, if you gonna go for the body.