i dunno, sometimes taking hipster + t1 ammo and turning your brain off completely during a swarm can be quite effective, and you will get lots of kills. In general i find taking t1 damage with hipster a situational choise. If theres a gunner on the team the barely alive grunt from a headshot will die quickly anyway, and the extra ammo means you get far more damage potential.

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Awesome video and build. Going to give this a try.

Just getting into Deep Rock and I'm extremely impressed by this video. Rock and stone!

Hi, will you be coming back to drg for analyIng the guns now that s5 is here? Would be cool to hear what you say, trying to find the best builds and ur videos are the most detailed and comprehensive.

Hipster is great if you just want the best in slot for your scout primary, and are grinding for xp and not changing builds between missions.

Hi there, I really love your video formats and great editing, easy to digest information. Would you be able to do an update for season 5 in DRG?

comment for algo, great work thank you!

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When you compair average damages between 2 very close calculations... rounding down "for simplicity" is wild.

Very helpful, thanks

Thats why i rock the autocannon, it can one shot brood commanders if you hit there head square on

Arrowhead's disastrous missteps really did a dirty on this channel's high effort content and its fortunes. Sad to see. I hope the OP hasn't been too disheartened by the game and comes back with more videos. Perhaps don't award so much time to the next ones, as deserving of the game you're covering at the moment.

For sweet liberty!

im still a firerate enjoyer on zhukovs

are you planning on making drg videos for this new update?

nice video thanks

One of the most common questions from greenbeards on the drg discord is “I just got 3 bulks on a mission, is that normal?”

Very informative; right to the point; keep it up!

The Dominator is just a much better Slugger

Great vid, thank you!

is there any place to make suggestions for this? wonder on how my builds I run work out that being white wolf/default armor(if thats considered), sickle (grenade pistol, stun grenades), autocannon, orbital precision strike, orbital gas strike, eagle airstrike for bots or light gunner, punisher with autocannon or blitzer with recoilless (or spear if feeling spicy) (with grenade pistol, stun grenades), orbital precision strike, orbital gas strike and eagle 500kg, or if orbital scatter than napalm and airstrike instead of gas and precision for bugs

Your presentation quality is peak ngl

This is the exact video i needed for getting my head around the topic, but unfortunately it didnt touch the subject i was trying to solve! My character is a great old one warlock (to begin with), and the point of it (in combat, at least) is to throroughly abuse hex/bestowCurse, how much would it change the numbers on it? Sure its not going to be the only source of damage, but my conclusion from this video is that a single big weapon would be better by itself while dual wielding has the POTENTIAL of doing something greater if you add effects to the hits be it hex or coating, equipment or whatever else, unfortunately the data on that front wasnt enough. But again, great video! Thanks for it.

oh this is smart gonna try in S5!

You can use great weapon fighting with dual wield provided both weapons are versatile(it says on the wiki, but uppon testing, it doesnt work T.T)

Laser cannon is really hard to fit into terminids, it works amazing against destructibles, flyers, spitters, and any other bug. The problem is it can't do much against chargers and titans, and especially when they add the giant worms eventually lol. Thoughts?

Here I was wasting an entire flamethrower canister on chargers 🥲

OG railgun and one shot bile titan.. good memories

*and then they buffed EFS*

Great build and video. I'm still waiting to unlock the grenade pistol; I wish the it wasn't on the last page of the Warbond I wanted least overall. Seems like it frees up you to run many builds that would otherwise lack important utility.

I have about 100 hours and I'm still learning new things with this game, this video helped a lot, ty bro

In my opinion, two handed fighting should allow more attacks. It makes no sense great weapons hit more times on a turn than 2 weapons.

1:17 Why does the time to kill change at higher difficulty? I thought the damage and health values stayed the same. Is it a variant of the bile spewer that only shows up on level 8 and 9?

I'd love to see your vs. Bot build too :)

I've always thought the scorcher was underwhelming. Not in effectiveness, but in feel. It sounds like I'm shooting a nerf gun with a relatively tiny clip that will occasionally accidently kill me if a hunter does a 'Get Down Mr.President' in my face as I'm shooting it. Pre nerf Slugger, Breaker, and Eruptor FELT like I was shooting something powerful. Even though the Scorcher is unquestionably effective, I just don't get the same satisfying vibe from it sadly :(

very interesting build, i've always wanted to give the scorcher a shot at higher difficulties. although i personally would change the build considerably. 1-i'd use the flamethrower rather than the mg as i think flamethrower performs better than the mg when it comes to killing hoards, can kill chargers if necessary (although scorcher + grenade pistol + stun grenades is probably more than enough) has more ammo and has a mobile reload at the expense of high odds of killing yourself, which is worth it imo. i wish the mg had a mobile reload 2-i'd swap out the shield for the supply back for more grenade pistol and scorcher ammo, both are very ammo hungry weapons. this would also enable for more stim and grenade spam, more stims would also help with the occasional flamethrower and scorcher self damage 3-i might swap the airstrike for something else but i'm not exactly sure what. airstrike is a very good allrounder on paper but in practice i've had great difficulty when it comes to taking out bile titans with it, even though it is possible. i'd probably swap it for eat, railcannon or precision strike if i want to lean more on bile titans (chargers should be no problem with all your other options). if i want more horde clear though, i'd probably go for orbital gas strike or 380. and then i'd probably go eat dirt when stalkers spawn XP

You could also trade airstrike for the orbital precision strike, as it’s still got really good aoe for groups, but it’s very good for dealing with titans

Great as always. Rock and stone!

I never realized the scorcher could deal w chargers like that! if bile titans can only reliably be dealt with by 500 kg or Eat/quazar, I think I'd rather use 1 strat slot for a shoulder launched missile which can handle titans, chargers, AND very distant targets like shrieker nests. equipping an incendiary shotty primary for horde clear. Just 1 strat slot used, and we're versatile / covered for all uses. The other two or three slots can be chosen by feel. Agreed a shield +light arnor. After that is player's choice. This is mainly because I don't like the feel of the 500 kg, nor do I like having more than one eagle strat. I like shield + missile launcher of choice + orbital gas + (pick your fave)

AH needs to hire you

I find Scorcher such a high-risk, high-reward weapon against bugs. It certainly makes sense for this particular build, though. Weapons with high stagger work great with the machine guns for horde clear and crowd control to buy enough time for your reload. I ran EATs or orbital precision strike in my flex slot to deal with the Eagle rearm problem.

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Nice, I'll try it out

One nit pick is your section on the various machineguns you have DPS listed, but the graph is clearly just talking about total ammo/damage possible and has nothing to do with how fast that damage is done (or damage per second)

This is my go-to setup, too. It works everywhere on anything. Machine gun is so much fun.

This is the most based build I've seen in Helldivers.

Your videos are the best resources I've found for getting better at this game. Thank you

Your videos are the best resources I've found for getting better at this game. Thank you

Def gonna try this build as I love the MG (and the Stalwart). I've definitely found that it's high risk, high reward being so dependent on a support weapon for swarm control - if you die and can't get back your support weapon, you're gonna have a bad time. That said, the MG is so fun so I'm definitely gonna give this build a try.