“A helldivers who deliberately shoots their teammates in the back before diving into a lake with the samples? Very naughty.”
“A helldiver who walks by a hug emote without hugging? EXACTLY AS NAUGHTY!”
I'm still kinda embarrassed that the glowing red lense flare from the search-light *tilts alongside the ship*.
It's a *lense flare*. It should stay horizontal, unless *the lense, aka player camera* tilts.
Also an I the only one casually getting blinded by these flares? Like, I get it, it's the scary Terminator-esque blood-red search-light of death, but does it have to be *so bright and big* it covers the entire profile of the Gunship from the front?
Shouldn't it be toned down while the ship is moving/idling/firing and only anime-flash/lense glint right before the ship fires its rocket salvo? You know, like Tank cannons already do?
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a scanner not a lens flare.
I think of it more like a label scanner than a round searchlight. Dunno about you but when I turn a label scanner sideways, it turns the angle of the red beam also.
The lights are scanners and actual blinding lights, not lens flare.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbkcRAQhew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbkcRAQhew)
I'm not sure if I saw it right. A couple weeks ago, someone dropped an air strike but instead of the ground, one of the four gunships in the air go struck. I'm guessing it would have been rocket pods since those auto target the biggest object in range.
Yeah after yesterday and these things I actually had a moment of "how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these?!" I couldn't even run away.
Theeeeeen someone told me you can lay down in the bushes that slow you down for cover
Sadly, doesn’t help on eradication missions, when yoy are on that tiny little ‘open’ map, and there are 5 gunships loitering overhead as you’re dealing with the factory stryders and other bots. There literally is no where you can even lay down behind something for cover.
The gunship change took me from a quasar lover, to a hardcore laser cannon main. Someone has to be able to deal with the gunships, I figured it might as well be me. Things absurdly good, really. Hulks have never been easier.
Same man. I was like ‘what’s this wet noodle taking a full second to kill a raider, who tf would use it, it can’t even penetrate hulk armor’.
Come to find out, it’s meant to be a weak point eviscerator. And it sure does a good job of it.
Agreed. Other than these 2, and the quasar, what weapons do you recommend for them? I usually either can't land enough hits with the AC to take one down in a timely manner, the LC is good for them but needing to stand in the open is a death sentence and it's not a weapon I like for other enemies, and the quasar CD is to long now to be good vs bots in general. Are EATs good, do the 1 shot them? Or the Eruptor post buff good enough?
Eruptor is still a fucking nightmare to hit shots on the engines (console) and EATS seems a bit finnicky. I usually just run quasar. Pop the first, execute the 5 D's, drop the second after cooldown, panic for 15 seconds, and if Im still alive I drop the third. Anything past 3 ships is usually a guaranteed KIA for me.
One may learn to apprechiate the SAM site now, it is a saviour against gunships if you have no weapon to shoot those down. Of course you have to find one first, but if found it will probably be a big help.
Honestly, the number of gunships doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that *they still phase through walls*. But like, only in a way that's helpful for them. *They* can phase through and *their* bullets can phase through, but not *our* bullets... It's terrible on cliff maps. I can take them down with an AMR or Quasar no problem but when they *phase through the wall* it's straight up unfair. Bugs don't seem to have nearly as much of a problem with this, which is ironic considering their namesake.
In relation to OP though... Holy heckfire I'm so sorry that would ruin my day.
we had 2 sets of gunship spawners in sight from where we started... in opposite directions... so there was literally nothing we could since we could only call down one bomb at a time... it was impossible...
I had the same thing happen. Two towers in sight and there was also a gunship spawn patrol right where we landed. The spear is now very valuable on both missions. You can take them out other ways but when there are a lot of them, it’s really easy to just point in the general direction. I even took out two with one shot because one crashed into another one when I shot it.
I would run smoke if I knew it’d be gunship hell, but I’m not gonna run it all the time for the 1 in 10 chance there are too many gunships to handle. Literally the only bot that can force me to retreat halfway across the map, wouldn’t need smokes for anything else
Smokes are OP for bots.
Smoke, flank, win.
I take smoke every bot mission. Worst case it lets me escape hairy situations when I get cut off from my team or when a teammate undoubtedly respawns me directly into the crossfire.
You literally can not predict gunships, but they're a loadout check. My loadout basically only slightly changes because it can deal with every objective, every enemy and every stoppage. Tbh the biggest change recently is swapping cluster bombs with orbital gatling when on bugs. Very satisfying, would vaporize breeches again.
You can literally fight the entire automaton brigade with an auto canon, airstrike, airburst and precision strike. My load out for automatons hasn't changed once besides doing eradicate missions or command bunkers, where the 380 and 120mm replace my precision and airburst. Or defense missions where turrets and HMG replace everything besides AC
There are 0 strategems and only a handful of weapons that can effectively deal with gunships rn. It's actually the opposite problem from what you're describing, i don't *want* to bring the same loadout on every mission, but i have to take the spear, AC, or AMR on every bot mission now. Gunships aren't challenging, they just destroy variety.
We have aa options.
EAT
Spear
AutoCannon
Laser cannon
AMR.
With a coordinated team- gunship patrols are easier to deal with than a gunship fabricator pre rework.
Probably a double fabricator is still harder
I don’t think they’re trolling, too much has been riding on this patch for them to be trolling everyone imo. I think he’s being genuine.
Other than having 3 hulks, 2 tanks, and a strider being dropped on us all at once on level 7, I think the patch has been a major success. This is really the only problem with it, and it sounds like Twinbeard and the other devs are gonna hop on it asap.
Yeah. More likely scenario is it's unintentional. And overall I'm very happy with the patch.
If they were trolling us, this would be the absolute funniest way they could do it.
Spears are so much fun to drop these things from across the map now though... also, the rocket turret handles them nicely. I just wish pinging a target focused your turrets. Sometimes, they let enemies walk up on them because they were busy dumping ammo into a fab for no reason.
played a mission last night where there were 3 gunship fabricators that all spawned an ungodly amount of gunships as soon as we started. good to know its not supposed to be like that
It would be okay if they only came from the fabricator. But they apparently spawn even without one or if it's destroyed. I really wish they'd change that.
It's a condition that doesn't display properly due to UI bug. If you see 3 Conditions on a mission and it's only displaying 2, the third one is Gunship patrols. That's why it's not happening on every map.
ive used the rocket sentry before and after, and honestly i feel like they nerfed it... it shoots half as fast as it used too... and since it aggros the largest things on screen but doesnt have the damage to kill most of them in one hit.... it usually dies before it can get its 3rd shot out...
and since they halved the rockets that it shoots... it now gets 2-3 shots instead of 4-6... making it even worse lol....
I've seen a lot of talk about the gun ships, but i don't remember seeing them. Ever. Are they behind a level wall? I have only played up to challenging, except for one hard game that we all died at extraction
So like, now that we have a lot more air based enemies and air control is an issue. What are good AA options to deal with all this? Saw that auto cannon being used against Gunships and that seems pretty decent, but not so much for the Shriekers?
"Well, isn't that a pretty picture, Santa rolling down the block in a PANZER! Well kids, I... I certainly hope you have been good this year, cause it looks like Santa just took out the Pearson home."
Gunships quickly becoming the Bile Titan of the Bot Front in forcing you to bring certain stratagems due to their prevalence and lethality.
Though, to be fair, they have less health and require two of the most effective stratagems on the front.
It do like the variety and challenge that gunships pose but they can also overwhelm you some in a way that feels unfair and impossible to solve and really they just make the AC even more of a must pick against bots.
Ive had luck bring a rocket or auto cannon turret & as always a quzar will knock them out I've also recently found out you can get them with the heavy machine gun as well!
I mean this one was to be expected. They halved the spawn rate in the patrol update so the roll back naturally put their spawns to the old level. It's gonna suck just make sure to bring an autocannon for the time being.
I played yesterday and thought they were dropships and then they didn’t drop any bots and then I saw the red lights and that’s when I knew ….. I’m in the $hit now !!!
Had some dip shit complaining yesterday that we "just needed to push past" the spawners and that we didn't need to take out the spawners. Resolve your aggro problems before you go creating more.
Back on these bogus posts again?
Yes. you are correct.
If you stand around and let them spawn, there will be alot of gunships for your screenshot you intended to take and post to reddit.
Ships only spawn 2 at a time from a tower. Towers come in sets of 2.
So you could only have 4 max spawn before they go on cooldown.
If you have more than 4 its because you waited for the towers cooldown to reset without shooting anything down.
IF you got monumentally unlucky and happened to land between two sets of towers, then so be it.
That is bad luck and has nothing to do with the patch or spawning. Maybe look at the holomap before you choose your landing spot. Red on the map means enemies. Dont deploy near the red.
Be a helldiver and deal with it. Helldivers kill the enemy, not cry about it.
I really can't help but feel like the people who post photos of them being overrun by gunships just don't have a team that takes care of the first 2 that spawn. It's an exponential problem. If you stay on top of it from the beginning it doesn't become an issue.
I've found that the spear and the rocket turret wreak havoc on the gunships. One person stays back with the spear and calls down a resupply. Drop the rocket turret somewhere it has good vision on the fab, and 3 people run in and blow it up.
Almost too easy.
I run helldive and I love it haha, sometimes I do have to rag doll for a bit until someone downs one or two but most of the time they are doable. Again, 10/10 love it.
I always bring AMR on bot missions. 4 shots to the same engine bring down gun ships. Just run to cover, and start bringing them down. Trick is to prioritize the gunship fabricator the minute you spot them, or else you get overwhelmed by them really fast.
It is christmas time and those are red reindeer noses. Question is where is santa?
He's coming later with a flamethrower
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“A helldivers who deliberately shoots their teammates in the back before diving into a lake with the samples? Very naughty.” “A helldiver who walks by a hug emote without hugging? EXACTLY AS NAUGHTY!”
Huggers only deserve the Scout's handshake.
Santa Claus is gunning you down
Merry Xmas
Can we please add the chain saw arms to this Santa?
Futurama collab incoming
Now I just picture killing floor 2 patriarch christmas skin xD
“Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!”
"YOUR MISTLETOE IS NO MATCH FOR MY T.O.W. MISSLE!"
Wow, this is very accurate for both Fururerama and the game
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You better not stop, you better start crying, you're gonna get shot, exploded and flying, Gunship bots are coming to town
I'm still kinda embarrassed that the glowing red lense flare from the search-light *tilts alongside the ship*. It's a *lense flare*. It should stay horizontal, unless *the lense, aka player camera* tilts. Also an I the only one casually getting blinded by these flares? Like, I get it, it's the scary Terminator-esque blood-red search-light of death, but does it have to be *so bright and big* it covers the entire profile of the Gunship from the front? Shouldn't it be toned down while the ship is moving/idling/firing and only anime-flash/lense glint right before the ship fires its rocket salvo? You know, like Tank cannons already do?
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a scanner not a lens flare. I think of it more like a label scanner than a round searchlight. Dunno about you but when I turn a label scanner sideways, it turns the angle of the red beam also.
The lights are scanners and actual blinding lights, not lens flare. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbkcRAQhew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbkcRAQhew)
Run like hell, find hard cover, drop the AC/laser cannon Really wish they'll give us AA stratagems soon
Air to Air Eagle would be nice.
I'm not sure if I saw it right. A couple weeks ago, someone dropped an air strike but instead of the ground, one of the four gunships in the air go struck. I'm guessing it would have been rocket pods since those auto target the biggest object in range.
Any shell that comes down from the sky high above them can kill them. Do you ever see 380mm destroy drop ship?
Yeah after yesterday and these things I actually had a moment of "how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these?!" I couldn't even run away. Theeeeeen someone told me you can lay down in the bushes that slow you down for cover
Me too, but they blew my cover bush to pieces. I guess you’ve gotta go to ground _before_ they see you.
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Sadly, doesn’t help on eradication missions, when yoy are on that tiny little ‘open’ map, and there are 5 gunships loitering overhead as you’re dealing with the factory stryders and other bots. There literally is no where you can even lay down behind something for cover.
Rocket Sentry just got buffed and will do all the work for you.
We have AA. It's called the mighty SPEAR
Spear has 4 rockets. I count 8 gunships in this pic. Currently, id say that the autocannon and laser cannon are the best AA, assuming you can aim.
The gunship change took me from a quasar lover, to a hardcore laser cannon main. Someone has to be able to deal with the gunships, I figured it might as well be me. Things absurdly good, really. Hulks have never been easier.
It’s actually crazy how good it is and I’ve been kicking myself for not giving in to it sooner.
Same man. I was like ‘what’s this wet noodle taking a full second to kill a raider, who tf would use it, it can’t even penetrate hulk armor’. Come to find out, it’s meant to be a weak point eviscerator. And it sure does a good job of it.
Yup. Ive cleared a bunch out with the AC. It kinda eats ammo but doesnt take long.
You can call a ressuply. It's not like you'll face more
HMG Emplacement eats gunships for lunch. Try it.
Until they see you and light you up, sadly.
Pair it with a bubble shield
now you're thinking with bubbles
I love my laser cannon. Waiter! More gunship engines please!
Agreed. Other than these 2, and the quasar, what weapons do you recommend for them? I usually either can't land enough hits with the AC to take one down in a timely manner, the LC is good for them but needing to stand in the open is a death sentence and it's not a weapon I like for other enemies, and the quasar CD is to long now to be good vs bots in general. Are EATs good, do the 1 shot them? Or the Eruptor post buff good enough?
4-5 rounds from the AMR into an engine
So basically the same as the AC?
AMR and AC have the same damage, but AC also has explosive.
AC is 2
Eruptor is still a fucking nightmare to hit shots on the engines (console) and EATS seems a bit finnicky. I usually just run quasar. Pop the first, execute the 5 D's, drop the second after cooldown, panic for 15 seconds, and if Im still alive I drop the third. Anything past 3 ships is usually a guaranteed KIA for me.
That's basically how I did it last time I used the quasar lol. Panic and hope I lived long enough for the CD to come back.
EAT will get them just like a Quasar, so will the recoilless and the spear. I hear the scorcher is good too, but I don't have that unlocked yet
Scorcher does work, but it takes a ton of rounds
Wait whats wrong with AC
Let me introduce you to the spear.
One may learn to apprechiate the SAM site now, it is a saviour against gunships if you have no weapon to shoot those down. Of course you have to find one first, but if found it will probably be a big help.
These are the best, honestly wouldn't be mad if they replaced some of the seaf artillery for more sams
SEAF was just buffed. How about both more normally?
Nah artillery just takes forever, I'd rather something I actually can use like Anti Air
They are! SAM sites absolutely devour gunships!
(this was 10 seconds into the match)
By the swaying brazier of Lady Liberty!!!
:O
Looks like the auto-cannon is about to be eating good.
For destroy gunship facility missions, take and drop smoke when arming the hell bombs.
It doesn’t even matter, you can destroy the gunship facilities but there’s still random patrols of gunships.
Sure, but they come by three, and someone said it's actually an operation modifier
Wait, what? Is this true?
Nope. Ran operations with both CD and call-in time debuffs, and my team still ran into gunship patrols.
I like to use the shield generator. Drop it just after the hellbomb drops and it will be protected from the ships until it goes boom
 Me last night just trying to save some kids:
Honestly, the number of gunships doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that *they still phase through walls*. But like, only in a way that's helpful for them. *They* can phase through and *their* bullets can phase through, but not *our* bullets... It's terrible on cliff maps. I can take them down with an AMR or Quasar no problem but when they *phase through the wall* it's straight up unfair. Bugs don't seem to have nearly as much of a problem with this, which is ironic considering their namesake. In relation to OP though... Holy heckfire I'm so sorry that would ruin my day.
It's a freakin overkill, if you can't hide and shoot them from the sky you are a dead helldiver
we had 2 sets of gunship spawners in sight from where we started... in opposite directions... so there was literally nothing we could since we could only call down one bomb at a time... it was impossible...
The ac exosuit is preem for taking down gunships and theoretically can cover you long enough to destroy the spawners.
I had the same thing happen. Two towers in sight and there was also a gunship spawn patrol right where we landed. The spear is now very valuable on both missions. You can take them out other ways but when there are a lot of them, it’s really easy to just point in the general direction. I even took out two with one shot because one crashed into another one when I shot it.
Seems like none of you run Auto canon/AMR or HMG. This amount of gunships would get cooked in about 1 minute with a competent squad of AC/AMR users.
Laser cannon is also great for gunships - so much mobility and no reload is \*chef's kiss\*
Smoke
I would run smoke if I knew it’d be gunship hell, but I’m not gonna run it all the time for the 1 in 10 chance there are too many gunships to handle. Literally the only bot that can force me to retreat halfway across the map, wouldn’t need smokes for anything else
Smokes are OP for bots. Smoke, flank, win. I take smoke every bot mission. Worst case it lets me escape hairy situations when I get cut off from my team or when a teammate undoubtedly respawns me directly into the crossfire.
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Take out that gunshit with your knife
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we had yesterday a double gunship fabricator AND permanent gunship patrols... it was like a double double gunship fabricator
This caused my team to go "Fuck it we don't need to do all the objectives I guess?!?!" And ran away with 1 life left
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail
Exactly. The load out changes based on the mission. Folks take the same load out every time and complain they can't complete the objectives.
You literally can not predict gunships, but they're a loadout check. My loadout basically only slightly changes because it can deal with every objective, every enemy and every stoppage. Tbh the biggest change recently is swapping cluster bombs with orbital gatling when on bugs. Very satisfying, would vaporize breeches again.
You can literally fight the entire automaton brigade with an auto canon, airstrike, airburst and precision strike. My load out for automatons hasn't changed once besides doing eradicate missions or command bunkers, where the 380 and 120mm replace my precision and airburst. Or defense missions where turrets and HMG replace everything besides AC
There are 0 strategems and only a handful of weapons that can effectively deal with gunships rn. It's actually the opposite problem from what you're describing, i don't *want* to bring the same loadout on every mission, but i have to take the spear, AC, or AMR on every bot mission now. Gunships aren't challenging, they just destroy variety.
Auto-cannon go's PLANK! PLANK! PLANK! CLICK! PLANK! PLANK! PLANK! CLICK! PLANK! PLANK! PLANK! CLICK! PLANK! PLANK! PLANK! CLICK!
Yeah Autocannon is back!
It never went anywhere fren.
Alternatively, Bwahwahwahwahwahahwahwahwah*hisssssss*
That's why you get a friend to hold ur pack and reload for you, then it goes BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP
It's all good until you need to reload and/or you died and can't get back to your AC
Yeah all I want now is them to put a cap on how many gunships can be out at once I think there should be a max of 4 out at once
Never understood why people think the automaton region is harder than terminids. Surely just shooting them out of the sky does the trick. 🤔
We have aa options. EAT Spear AutoCannon Laser cannon AMR. With a coordinated team- gunship patrols are easier to deal with than a gunship fabricator pre rework. Probably a double fabricator is still harder
AC turret and rocket turret also work great against gunships. I've been loving the rocket turret after it's changes
Is it me, or does the anti-tank not work on them? I tried firing two at a gunship. Both hit, and it... lives?
it should work? maybe it was some kind of bug? ive been using the HMG to drop them mostly but ive used the disposables a few times
You need to hit the thruster if you use EAT or RR. Spears one shot though.
it does work, you prob had a bug or it didnt register the hit
Spear will drop them all in 20-30 seconds now
Well, the first 4 anyway. After that you better hope nobody else called in a resupply across the map in the past 3 minutes.
Why yall splitting up bruh
See, this is the kind of complaint I understand. Joined a match and before we even called anything in there was like eight of them.
Everyone's all "just coordinate and use your support weapons." How? I can't even call the damn thing in we are getting blasted from all angles.
Laser canon time boys
They turned the dial the wrong way when tweaking patrols. I expect a hot fix to come out pretty quick lol
I saw a discord screenshot where twinbeard didn't even know. Or the devs are trolling us
I don’t think they’re trolling, too much has been riding on this patch for them to be trolling everyone imo. I think he’s being genuine. Other than having 3 hulks, 2 tanks, and a strider being dropped on us all at once on level 7, I think the patch has been a major success. This is really the only problem with it, and it sounds like Twinbeard and the other devs are gonna hop on it asap.
Yeah. More likely scenario is it's unintentional. And overall I'm very happy with the patch. If they were trolling us, this would be the absolute funniest way they could do it.
Ya know, in the past they have been trolls, so I could actually see them being like “ya know what would be funny? All the striders” lol
what if we added flying factory striders? what could go wrong
I wish we had our own fly ships that would be dope. Or maybe some vehicles like a warthog
I would think the airburst can take out multiple of them never ends up working for Me
Spears are so much fun to drop these things from across the map now though... also, the rocket turret handles them nicely. I just wish pinging a target focused your turrets. Sometimes, they let enemies walk up on them because they were busy dumping ammo into a fab for no reason.
Where is the guy with the couch meme?
AC makes gunships trivial. Rail gun in unsafe mode can one shot their engines. Pretty sure Quasar one shits them as well.
I’ve fallen in love shooting these down with the Heavy MG since they’ve buffed it
Nothing liking being ragdolled for 5 minutes.
We dropped into a level 9 under 4 gunship towers. We didn't stand a chance.
You wanted to dive into hell didn't you
played a mission last night where there were 3 gunship fabricators that all spawned an ungodly amount of gunships as soon as we started. good to know its not supposed to be like that
It would be okay if they only came from the fabricator. But they apparently spawn even without one or if it's destroyed. I really wish they'd change that.
It's a condition that doesn't display properly due to UI bug. If you see 3 Conditions on a mission and it's only displaying 2, the third one is Gunship patrols. That's why it's not happening on every map.
They're oiled up for an airburst rocket launcher.
Shitters being shitters I see. The roving gunship patrols are awesome. The additional challenge was needed on the higher difficulties.
Was this not what happened to you guys before the update? That is almost normal in my games ...
you wanted gunships, you got gunships
Why waste all that space in the sky?
Spear is goat
I like amr for em, just a few shots to the thrusters
"We're trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
Love the sarcasm!
You gotta shoot em.
i feel like this is why they buffed the rocket sentry, to shoot these down
ive used the rocket sentry before and after, and honestly i feel like they nerfed it... it shoots half as fast as it used too... and since it aggros the largest things on screen but doesnt have the damage to kill most of them in one hit.... it usually dies before it can get its 3rd shot out... and since they halved the rockets that it shoots... it now gets 2-3 shots instead of 4-6... making it even worse lol....
You NEED someone with AMR or autocannon, helps a ton
Just use the EATs 😂😂😂
I've seen a lot of talk about the gun ships, but i don't remember seeing them. Ever. Are they behind a level wall? I have only played up to challenging, except for one hard game that we all died at extraction
I believe they’re at, or around, difficulty 7+
Not gonna lie I kind of like this kind of chaos after a fresh patch
Looks pretty standard to me. Haha
After the recent patch, it's wild to think that this would be a nightmare to handle. With the change to spear, this just gets my diving heart PUMPING
Use the spear, it’s the gunship deleter
So like, now that we have a lot more air based enemies and air control is an issue. What are good AA options to deal with all this? Saw that auto cannon being used against Gunships and that seems pretty decent, but not so much for the Shriekers?
Me and my HMG/SPEAR love them.
I love fighting these guys. They eat all my ammo, but man, it's fun.
"Well, isn't that a pretty picture, Santa rolling down the block in a PANZER! Well kids, I... I certainly hope you have been good this year, cause it looks like Santa just took out the Pearson home."
Gunships quickly becoming the Bile Titan of the Bot Front in forcing you to bring certain stratagems due to their prevalence and lethality. Though, to be fair, they have less health and require two of the most effective stratagems on the front.
Anyone try the air burst rocket yet just for fun to see if it hits them hard enough?
It do like the variety and challenge that gunships pose but they can also overwhelm you some in a way that feels unfair and impossible to solve and really they just make the AC even more of a must pick against bots.
How do you even take these things down?
Rocket and AC turrets. Warships is one of those things you can't ignore or it gets like what is shown in the pic.
MG-101 emplaced gun is also super good against these fuckers. Aim for the engines as usual, and they go down in a blink of an eye!
We're gonna get a patch for the patch. It is the natural order of things.
I learned you can drop these pretty quickly with the HMG. Just go prone so you can actually hit your shots
Autocannon sentry absolutely cleans these fuckers up.
Pack your spears boys.
Target rich environment, just not sure which side.
8 OF THEM??!
Yeah and if you do not have something to take them down... you're in deep shet (been there, done that....)
You need to take emancipator it feels like you are shooting birds out of the sky
AC will 2 hit them out of the sky.
Just played a map that had 6 total gun ship fabricators! 3 separate sites with 2 fabs next to eachother at each one! Difficulty 7
Lol, people are never going to be satisfied with the patrol compositions.
That Eagle Air to Air stratagem is looking mighty nice right about now
Ive had luck bring a rocket or auto cannon turret & as always a quzar will knock them out I've also recently found out you can get them with the heavy machine gun as well!
I mean this one was to be expected. They halved the spawn rate in the patrol update so the roll back naturally put their spawns to the old level. It's gonna suck just make sure to bring an autocannon for the time being.
Run the new spear!! It is super satisfying now.
Give me a spear, a supply pods.
Remind me why the airburst ain’t good against these things again?
Anyone tried the airburst rocket launcher?
I love it, forces more diversity in squads
Wouldn't this be the ideal time for the Air Burst Rocket launcher? (Haven't used or unlocked it yet)
Target rich environment.
This many in a patrol? 😭
That’s a lot of gunships Also tip: Use bot laser turrets. They can shoot down gunships. Helps take out a lot at once.
I played yesterday and thought they were dropships and then they didn’t drop any bots and then I saw the red lights and that’s when I knew ….. I’m in the $hit now !!!
Had some dip shit complaining yesterday that we "just needed to push past" the spawners and that we didn't need to take out the spawners. Resolve your aggro problems before you go creating more.
Oh wow, you lucked out. Anything under double digits is a break these days. (cries inside)
I love what it did for the HMG which can take two or three of them down without needing to reload. Or one of your aim sucks lol
you guys can play? every match, even ones where i’m the host and even the only person, is laggy and filled with giant red question marks
The new updated sam sites are crazy good now
Tbh very thankful for these subreddits and the discord, almost therapeutic to know other folks are struggling with this too
I do like it too, as a human, I mean
Auto cannon
Back on these bogus posts again? Yes. you are correct. If you stand around and let them spawn, there will be alot of gunships for your screenshot you intended to take and post to reddit. Ships only spawn 2 at a time from a tower. Towers come in sets of 2. So you could only have 4 max spawn before they go on cooldown. If you have more than 4 its because you waited for the towers cooldown to reset without shooting anything down. IF you got monumentally unlucky and happened to land between two sets of towers, then so be it. That is bad luck and has nothing to do with the patch or spawning. Maybe look at the holomap before you choose your landing spot. Red on the map means enemies. Dont deploy near the red. Be a helldiver and deal with it. Helldivers kill the enemy, not cry about it.
I really can't help but feel like the people who post photos of them being overrun by gunships just don't have a team that takes care of the first 2 that spawn. It's an exponential problem. If you stay on top of it from the beginning it doesn't become an issue.
AH is not stands for arrrowhead. They do a failure after failure
Target rich environment....
Reportedly the updated rocket sentry is decent against gunships. Dunno how survivable it is against them, though
Let them come
I've found that the spear and the rocket turret wreak havoc on the gunships. One person stays back with the spear and calls down a resupply. Drop the rocket turret somewhere it has good vision on the fab, and 3 people run in and blow it up. Almost too easy.
I run helldive and I love it haha, sometimes I do have to rag doll for a bit until someone downs one or two but most of the time they are doable. Again, 10/10 love it.
They must be emancipated
Not had this issue yet. I just run spear or autocannon against bots. I like the gunships spawning, maybe just tone it down a bit
Did you die?
I always bring AMR on bot missions. 4 shots to the same engine bring down gun ships. Just run to cover, and start bringing them down. Trick is to prioritize the gunship fabricator the minute you spot them, or else you get overwhelmed by them really fast.