My friend says when they get swamped they spam grenades around themselves going out with a bang. But with stuns I've forced my way out of situations that definitely should have killed me

I was hesitant with stuns at first but now it’s basically the only grenade I take

The thing that made Stuns awesome was the next warbond releasing, since it had the Eruptor and Grenade pistol. Because when you can have "explosive utility" (removing obstacles, hitting protected enemies, closing fabs/bug holes) in your primary/secondary slot, having non-explosive grenades isn't as bad. It's also why I think we should have at least one heavy armor penetrating primary somewhere (and/or that the Thermite needs a huge buff), because it would indirectly fix a lot of what's wrong with the Support Weapon and Stratagem balance right now (That is to say, because it's the only "slot" that can deal with heavy armor, the pick rate will inevitably be skewed towards the choices that do that job best).

With the release of the grenade pistol, I bring stuns on every mission now. They're sooo good man, makes chargers a non-issue and I regularly save teammates about to get trampled

yep, i run grenade pistol with impacts, but when someone stuns that charger/devstator-squad/hulk-mid-barrage I SEE YOU.

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were they not toned down a bit? Also this week we get acid resit slow booster, might be BIG game changer to dodging combos

Stalkers are even worse, now. Good luck killing one before it kills you without the right support weapon.

Is it based off the direction when thrown? Or is it the direction before it land?

@@elfireii328 direction when thrown

I'd say more often than not you'd rather have it spread out horizontal infront of you so it covers a wider area that they can't walk around. You'd only want it in a line between you and them if there's a choke point where they have to walk through all of it.

since its a hunter planet, id say putting it perpendicular is better. hunters try and flank, so covering a wider area will get more bugs

@@infectedpotato117 perpendicular, thank you lol. Couldn't think of that gd word 😘

IMO solo-play should be allowed to use a 5th stratagem instead of a booster.

Buff is confirmed not working properly hold your horses

yep , used it against bugs , did 4 shots ......closed the game

@@JackRigby-nz5uo Do they seriously not test their “fixes”??

@@bender5271 They said they did but it didn't come up in tests

@@bender5271 its their " PhIlOsOpHy"

It's inconsistent exactly because of the small radius. It means you have to be pretty precise. Tie that with the long delay before explosion and it's pretty hard to judge where to throw it, especially since Titans and Chargers are somewhat unpredictable.

500kg is the least precise eagle strike in the entire game and often times gets less kills than the Strafing Run. Half the time Airstrike is better for anti-armor.

i run without a backpack most of the time, gun only if i can rely on a team-mate, the ground drops are too unreliable and the game now LOVES to swarm you with medium/heavies from the 15-seconds mark right up to the 45 minute mark (depending on call-in-modifiers). DAKKA on a timer can only do so much versus carrying a reliable source of damage with an ammo pool (and we all know that's not going to be the primaries).

It certainly works. More often than not you’ll end up with an either a flamethrower, LMG, Stalwart, or AMR, so it’s not a bad choice if you don’t mind those weapons. Occasionally you find a Railgun in the little ground bunkers, and of course there’s always that Break Action Shotgun that shows up…

@@mkv2718 and all of those are still better than airburst...

I think its way inconsistent in hitting targets, even when bunched up, in comparison to airbust. Correct me if im wrong there, but i think gas strike would be more consistent

as far as i can determine there are 4 types of maps and yes, one of them is a wilbert map...unfortunately it comes with nursing spewers... -nursing spewers + wilberts -bile spewers + bile wilberts -yellow jumpers + hunters - more heavies than usual (not sure on this one)

Sporger

it's a spore spewer.

Bugs really became too annoying somehow. It all went from badass Starship Troopers roleplaying to constant stress and tourettes

weirdly the change makes teh CROSSBOW the direct-fire weapon (with a nerfed AoE Range) and the eruptor is now the long-range HE-grenade-launcher with terrible AoE damage-proliferation. utterly ass-backwards. The shrapnel is what made the eruptor interesting, the crossbow should be a de-facto personal grenade-launcher (the bolt itself should be made out of explosives with a tip just big enough to stabilise and penetrate more dangerous foes. that said they have a 40 direct-damage to AoE swing on them now so the real choice is "double the rate of fire or the ability to kill holes/factories?" Both have been fundamentally standardised into sub-par grenade launchers (and the GL was ALREADY pretty sub-par).

for this I would of been better off with gas strike ye

100% positive

They used to be mowed with stalwart easily, now you need MG.

with 0 stratagems

All of which is undermining the game experience, making it less fun. It was supposed to be a cool starship troopers experience, not rage inducing anxiety.

For me, grenades and grenade pistol cover that "blind spot" between what the machine gun can take out and EAT power.

i find field-finds too unreliable to lean on. Nice when/if it does work out but i find i can live without pretty much anything, except a useful support weapon

yup

Don't sweat it. The difficulty does not actually matter that much anymore, since every difficulty inundates you with a constant stream of enemies, and the basic gameplay of constantly needing to run is the same. And for that, a mid difficulty mission that's mostly hunters and spewers can be worse than a Helldive full of Commanders and Titans (Since you can kite those forever, as long as you have stamina).

You'd pretty much have to run away from everything heavy, might be interesting but I doubt it would go well