Illuminate Help/Advice

[Zockgunn]

I took a break and came back when they dropped the new faction so far I like them yet the same time I'm not sure what to use exactly to handle the fodder, elite, and the walkers there's also the pylon that affects your stratagem button inputs by changing the sequences I read the text your supposed to destroy power sources before you could destroy the pylon itself. At first I kinda hate them mostly because I decided to go solo thinking it wouldn't be that hard compared to the bots or bugs. (and I thought players would join me mid mission like normal yet that hasn't happened yet unless the devs made changes?)

[Silly frog]

If you need weapon advice, then I’d recommend focusing your support weapon on chaff clear, like a machine gun or arc thrower. Primary should focus on those overseers, an assault rifle or shotgun works. Stratagems should be something for area denial, a sentry or minefield. Make sure to bring something for destroying warp ships, like a 500kg bomb, which also doubles as a tool for taking out harvesters.

[Daliena]

Use the SOS beacon to make it more likely that people queueing for quick play will end up in your missions.

Everything in the current Illuminate roster can be killed by medium penetration at most. The Voteless zombies have no armor. Aim for the head if you can, otherwise they also keel over very fast to gas or fire.

The Overseers (staff + shield or rifle + jetpack) guys have light armor, I believe? Their armor breaks off when you shoot it, so you need to repeatedly hit the same spot, not just spray all over them, to kill them.

The tripod walkers have two weak points, the eye which has light armor IIRC, but a lot of health, and the leg joints between the legs and the main body, which have medium armor but less HP, and if destroyed, the walker dies immediately. The medium or heavy machineguns are excellent options for buzzsawing them in half.

I've been using the Plasma Purifier for a primary (two charged shots drops an Overseer and the aoe can help blast hordes of Voteless), with either medium or heavy MG depending on what I feel like to take out the tripods.

Guard dog to help keep the swarms off me, orbital gas and eagle strafing run round out the kit.

[Azion]

Whats been working for me is the crossbow for the overseers, grenade pistol for the spawners, and the Stalwart for taking down shields on ships/harvesters.

500kg bomb and liberator guard dog is a must.

[[Asgard] Thor]

Rapid fire weapons in general seem to be a good idea against the squids. Also don't sleep on the Patriot Exo suit. Rapid fire the shields and missile harvester joints or UFO doors. Step on the voteless to conserve ammo.

[Zapp Brannigan]

I'd recommend taking the Orbital Gas Strike, it does great against hordes of Voteless and it's capable of taking out landed warp ships without even needing to disable their shields.

[Raymond]

all the weapons that were considered "S-tier" against bots and bugs are worthless against illuminate, and all weapons that were considered garbage are god tier against illuminate. If you brought your fav loadout it won't work.

[Mercurio]

my go to weapon atm is the ARC-12 Blitzer which is effective at dealing with the Voteless and can stunlock overseers making them easier for team mates to take down quickly but can deal with them in like 4 to 6 shots, It can down the watcher drones but will take a few hits so its not perfect but with it can arc into groups and has unlimited ammo with a good RoF so makes a solid starting point, For the spawners i uses 500kg bomb and 120mm barrages as they can punch through their shields but you can also take them out by firing on them still the shields drop then throw a nade into the glowing doorways

[Alice]

You need some kind of rapid fire middle damage for the zombies and for shield popping

The only heavy armor unit is currently the tripods, and only on the body does it have heavy armor, My go-to to take them down is MG-43 to the leg joint, right where it connects to the body, even an eagle strafing run at the right angle can pop the shiled and sheer an leg off in one go

You need some kind of bomb for the factory ships, and tbh thermite is probably not the way to go, as good as it is you'd probably get better results from an impact, regular HE grenade, and now the gas grenade being able to blow structures while also providing THE BEST CC for huge crowds of zombies, and it will kill 90% of the horde the cloud spawns in while also confusing them and the aliens

It's up to you but my current setup is Xbow, laz pistol, and MG-43 to cover all my bases on foot, and an eagle strafe run to clear shields if I don't happen to have the MG on me in that moment

Besides strafing run tbh stratagems are up to you, but big booms are less effective here I think.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Forget your usual weaponry, you'll need bullets here. Every can die with medium pen, so don't bother taking those. Take fast reloading stratagem, like eagle strafe, orb/gas strikes and bullet barrage, as well as miniguns, flamethrowers or ARK weapons.

[Alice]

Originally posted by Azion:

Whats been working for me is the crossbow for the overseers, grenade pistol for the spawners, and the Stalwart for taking down shields on ships/harvesters.

500kg bomb and liberator guard dog is a must.

My brother in christ the xbow can deal with the ufos! Free up that pistol slot!

[Zockgunn]

Originally posted by Raymond:

all the weapons that were considered "S-tier" against bots and bugs are worthless against illuminate, and all weapons that were considered garbage are god tier against illuminate. If you brought your fav loadout it won't work.

Yeah I quickly learned that with the Auto Cannon while perfect against everything on the Bot front is pretty underwhelming with the squids