done with eagle cluster bomb

[Wolfmaron]

3 striders idling in point of interest, throw cluster beacon in front of them

none of them dies. this ass weapon is only design to kill Helldivers that own the strategem

[Wolfmaron]

with extra bomb upgrade mind you

[Noob Herder]

Not sure if it was nerfed, it used to do decent dmg b4

[Vintorez]

Striders have always been less affected since their height makes it less likely for the actual explosive to hit the rider, it has to be much closer than other enemies.

That said the regular Eagle Airstrike has always been more useful, one less charge and a somewhat smaller area but works on armored targets.

[ArielDotUk]

I mostly use the cluster bomb to clear a line of enemies whenever there's a huge amount of them, tho on high difficulties it could be less useful as the effectiveness of it decreases with medium armored enemies

[Imnuktam]

I have pretty good luck with that one, but it does seem to get helldivers more than others. The more I use it, the more Napalm has become my go to and my favorite. I dont even have the extra bomb upgrade or the 25% buff to it and it is still just so deadly when fighting bugs.

Perfect wall of death that they walk on through screeching and burning.

[fmlstudios]

Yeah... ive found its main use to be hampering the line of enemies pursuing during a tactical retreat

[Wutever]

Why you running Cluster vs. bots anyway? Airstrike is so much better. ♥♥♥♥, it's probably even better against bugs since Cluster is unreliable against anything bigger than a Warrior.

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by Wutever:

Why you running Cluster vs. bots anyway? Airstrike is so much better. ♥♥♥♥, it's probably even better against bugs since Cluster is unreliable against anything bigger than a Warrior.

You run both. Airstrike hits a lot harder, but with only 3 charges per resupply, while cluster has 5 and hits a wider area.
Cluster is still pretty good at softening up groups, it does take out striders often and can kill or atleast severely weaken devastators. It is a bit chaotic in it's effectiveness though.

[_MAGS-EMPTY_]

Dude cluster is ineffective against anything but chaff. TYL.

[Wutever]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Originally posted by Wutever:

Why you running Cluster vs. bots anyway? Airstrike is so much better. ♥♥♥♥, it's probably even better against bugs since Cluster is unreliable against anything bigger than a Warrior.

You run both. Airstrike hits a lot harder, but with only 3 charges per resupply, while cluster has 5 and hits a wider area.
Cluster is still pretty good at softening up groups, it does take out striders often and can kill or atleast severely weaken devastators. It is a bit chaotic in it's effectiveness though.

That's the biggest waste of stratagem slots I've seen in my life.

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by Wutever:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

You run both. Airstrike hits a lot harder, but with only 3 charges per resupply, while cluster has 5 and hits a wider area.
Cluster is still pretty good at softening up groups, it does take out striders often and can kill or atleast severely weaken devastators. It is a bit chaotic in it's effectiveness though.

That's the biggest waste of stratagem slots I've seen in my life.

Chaff clear, heavy clear, and a 500kg for even heavier clear, all with only a few seconds in between and a mere 2 minute cooldown to resupply them all.

You'd be surprised at how many either bugs or bots you can hold off with a 3 eagle+support weapon loadout. And this is at dif 7+

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Originally posted by Wutever:

That's the biggest waste of stratagem slots I've seen in my life.

Chaff clear, heavy clear, and a 500kg for even heavier clear, all with only a few seconds in between and a mere 2 minute cooldown to resupply them all.

You'd be surprised at how many either bugs or bots you can hold off with a 3 eagle+support weapon loadout. And this is at dif 7+

I've never liked running multiple eagles because you have to manage the rearm cooldown. If I run just the 500, I know after I drop both, it's going back to rearm, if I run the 500 and cluster, I have to drop all 5 clusters and both 500's before it will rearm. It's a little too much micromanagement for me. (Yes, I know you can manually rearm).

Obviously playstyles differ though and if you're making it work, more power to you.

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by Axis of Lint:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Chaff clear, heavy clear, and a 500kg for even heavier clear, all with only a few seconds in between and a mere 2 minute cooldown to resupply them all.

You'd be surprised at how many either bugs or bots you can hold off with a 3 eagle+support weapon loadout. And this is at dif 7+

I've never liked running multiple eagles because you have to manage the rearm cooldown. If I run just the 500, I know after I drop both, it's going back to rearm, if I run the 500 and cluster, I have to drop all 5 clusters and both 500's before it will rearm. It's a little too much micromanagement for me.

Obviously playstyles differ though and if you're making it work, more power to you.

Manual rearm, if you have any eagle strats equipped, you can manually tell them to rearm with it. If you feel like a depleted one will interfere with the next couple engagements, I will manual rearm, and be soldier mode for a bit.
Edit: Visual for reference https://i.imgur.com/FTGemmL.png

[Wutever]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Originally posted by Wutever:

That's the biggest waste of stratagem slots I've seen in my life.

Chaff clear, heavy clear, and a 500kg for even heavier clear, all with only a few seconds in between and a mere 2 minute cooldown to resupply them all.

You'd be surprised at how many either bugs or bots you can hold off with a 3 eagle+support weapon loadout. And this is at dif 7+

You don't need chaff clear vs. bots. Between Airstrikes and you actually shooting at stuff there's no chaff left to clear. That Cluster could literally not be there and you wouldn't know the difference. Well, you would know the difference since now you would have space for something that can deal with actual threats or make your life otherwise easier, but not against chaff.

There's also the matter of only having 3 stratagem slots on many bot operations. In that case you literally have no space for something as pointless as Cluster.

Oh, and not having your entire stratagem bar become unavailable the second an AA emplacement is nearby is nice too...

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by Wutever:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Chaff clear, heavy clear, and a 500kg for even heavier clear, all with only a few seconds in between and a mere 2 minute cooldown to resupply them all.

You'd be surprised at how many either bugs or bots you can hold off with a 3 eagle+support weapon loadout. And this is at dif 7+

You don't need chaff clear vs. bots. Between Airstrikes and you actually shooting at stuff there's no chaff left to clear. That Cluster could literally not be there and you wouldn't know the difference. Well, you would know the difference since now you would have space for something that can deal with actual threats or make your life otherwise easier, but not against chaff.

There's also the matter of only having 3 stratagem slots on many bot operations. In that case you literally have no space for something as pointless as Cluster.

Oh, and not having your entire stratagem bar become unavailable the second an AA emplacement is nearby is nice too...

Originally posted by Deadoon:

it does take out striders often and can kill or atleast severely weaken devastators.

Did you even read the last post you replied to or did you forget about it already?