I would just like to point out that they aren’t the same damage. Baton does 50 damage (same as normal melee) while the Lance does 110 (same as Constitution’s melee). These are 100 and 220 if using Peak Physique.
Fun fact, the gas grenades got buffed in their demo force. They can now destroy those tesla towers in a pinch -- along with warp ships, fabricators and bug holes. They're by far the best grenade for Illuminate imo. This build seems super fun, I'm totally doing it. I haven't tried the Pummeler yet against the squids, but stunning those Overseers sounds hilarious lol
I like the "bullet" build, its a pretty fun one: Base equipment: Urban light armor (you can use the heavy one too, I just like being fast) A liberator of your choice Smg sidearm (or grenade pistol to blow up ships if you are not that committed to bullets) Turret resupply booster Strats: Bullet drone backpack Machinegun / Heavy Machinegun Machinegun turret Gatling turret You can swap one of the turrets for the eagle strafing run or orbital gatling It looks like a joke build, but it works surprisingly well. The liberators are great to clear small guys. The machinegun and hmg can drop anything the illuminate have with ease, even the harvesters if you aim for the leg joints. The drone and turrets will keep you safe and help a lot against both the voteless and the overseers. That is, unless they decide to kill you xD
Finally a man of culture bro this has been my exact build I've been running for the last few months!! This build has all of your bases cover and that buff they did to the guard dog made this even better I usually run the adjudicator for the medium pen and a grenade pistol to handle the fabricators
Very well thought out loadout! Might I suggest you try the halt shotgun with 3 sentries and the guard dog backpack for your stratagems. Use the stun on everything that gets close and let your sentries take care of the rest. Use the halt to stun chargers, stalkers, alpha commanders, illuminate.. anything that's not a freaking tank. This build consistently gets me tons of kills while also being really cinematic and forcing me to get good at reacting to different situations. Stagger your sentry placements so you always have one coming off of cool down. I recommend bringing the autocannon sentry and rocket sentry along with gatling. If you put down the ac sentry stick a thermite on the heavy to help it out. The rocket sentry should fair well by itself without the grenade. Also bring the new sentry resupply booster as you'll be constantly needing more thermites. Engineering armor is okay for two extra but I personally prefer scout armor so I can locate enemies better, and sneak past patrols and ambush when ready!
I was thinking about something like this but I wanted to use the ballistic shield.. but honestly, the stratagem isn't fun to use. I'll swap in the guard dog and see how it feels.
I use a "Rooftop Sniper" build. The AMR and Jump pack with a 500KG and turret or mine of players choice. I've actually found a use for mines, they work really well in urban environments. I've gotten whole swarms of voteless with mines, and the ones that don't explode block off intersections.
It was mentioned on the Helldivers discord that you do not need to use the melee button to get the Peak physic bonus. That you needed to use the melee button was apparently some misinformation that was going around. I just wanted to mention that and not blame anyone.
interesting theme build, For Illum build i use: Blitzer for infinite ammo, excellent crowd control, senator, thermite . Strategems; 500kg, commando, Guard dog rover , Mech with auto cannons
Enjoyable build! I will say trading out the rocket pods for the Tesla tower did bring me a lot more success. It brings those voteless in like moths to a flame and consistently gets the little drones too. Was surprised with how well the peacemaker worked.
@@IronNomadGaming Yo so, just played 2 full games with the loadout (tried to do a solo mission, but quit halfway through cuz i got frustrated) and...yeah i like this loadout a lot! Funnily enough i actually found myself using up my pistol ammo first instead of my smg lol, idk maybe i just like the basic pistol even though it's not that great. The stun smg works like a charm, whenever i had a spare quad launcher available and there weren't any harvesters, i'd build up stun on an overseer, two tap them with the rockets, then build-up stun on a jetpack overseer and two tap them with the rockets, then call down a fresh quad launcher. And if there's a harvester? Unload the whole thing. But yeah, fun build and very creative too!
Damn, I really like new urban environment. Almost always I play in pair with my good friend, so we used making our kinda "Pair builds". For "squids" My dude is going with heavy armor, a machine gun, and some turrets, while I prefer medium armor (with arc resistance), an ARC Thrower, and some orbitals and airstrikes. Basically we always move together, utilizing both defensive and offensive approach. For bots tho, the only thing we change, swapping machine gun for railgun, and arc resistant armor, for more grenade capacity (damn I love some thermite)
I know this is wierd to say, but the peacemaker actually is a damn good sidearm against the voteless. Its lightning quick to draw, and since it provably has the highest ergonomics in the game, you can pop zombie heads quickly.
I cant describe my excitement when I saw the opening from Operation Raccoon City that was my first game online therefore my username lol Vector and Hunk are one of my favorite characters in the re verse, im definitely making this combo ty very much!
Not using this with either the ballistic or directional shield is criminal. Especially since you opted for light armor. It makes you immune to all of the larger units attacks outside of harvester beams. Really a no brainer to bring one of these to a cqc themed illuminate loadout instead of rocket pods, which are completely worthless outside of harvesters, which are already covered by the commando.
I really don't find myself getting cooked outside of the Harvester beam. BUT I will say I tried out the shields, and they just didn't gel with me. That last spot is a flex though because by then the kit is more than enough.
@IronNomadGaming I went with a riot shield, stun stick, stun/flechette shotgun and it just didn't really do very well against them. Funnily enough the constitution did better than the flechettes in cqb.
Try knight and Bshield with your choice of stun rod, with the new armor. Chem grenades and tesla work well together. Your choice of support weapon for enemies the commandos fine. The shield just protects you from enemies shooting you while in melee or friendlies. Works better vs illuminates. edit: run this at 10s, its fun but not optimal
*In the warbond section I say the STUN BATON, I mean the STUN ROD. They do the same dmg just different ranges. Anyways.. enjoy the video!
I would just like to point out that they aren’t the same damage. Baton does 50 damage (same as normal melee) while the Lance does 110 (same as Constitution’s melee). These are 100 and 220 if using Peak Physique.
Fun fact, the gas grenades got buffed in their demo force. They can now destroy those tesla towers in a pinch -- along with warp ships, fabricators and bug holes. They're by far the best grenade for Illuminate imo.
This build seems super fun, I'm totally doing it. I haven't tried the Pummeler yet against the squids, but stunning those Overseers sounds hilarious lol
Sweet liberty... gas grenade is the best then. I haven't tried to use them for structure damage.
I like the "bullet" build, its a pretty fun one:
Base equipment:
Urban light armor (you can use the heavy one too, I just like being fast)
A liberator of your choice
Smg sidearm (or grenade pistol to blow up ships if you are not that committed to bullets)
Turret resupply booster
Strats:
Bullet drone backpack
Machinegun / Heavy Machinegun
Machinegun turret
Gatling turret
You can swap one of the turrets for the eagle strafing run or orbital gatling
It looks like a joke build, but it works surprisingly well. The liberators are great to clear small guys. The machinegun and hmg can drop anything the illuminate have with ease, even the harvesters if you aim for the leg joints. The drone and turrets will keep you safe and help a lot against both the voteless and the overseers. That is, unless they decide to kill you xD
Finally a man of culture bro this has been my exact build I've been running for the last few months!!
This build has all of your bases cover and that buff they did to the guard dog made this even better
I usually run the adjudicator for the medium pen and a grenade pistol to handle the fabricators
Very well thought out loadout! Might I suggest you try the halt shotgun with 3 sentries and the guard dog backpack for your stratagems. Use the stun on everything that gets close and let your sentries take care of the rest. Use the halt to stun chargers, stalkers, alpha commanders, illuminate.. anything that's not a freaking tank. This build consistently gets me tons of kills while also being really cinematic and forcing me to get good at reacting to different situations. Stagger your sentry placements so you always have one coming off of cool down. I recommend bringing the autocannon sentry and rocket sentry along with gatling. If you put down the ac sentry stick a thermite on the heavy to help it out. The rocket sentry should fair well by itself without the grenade. Also bring the new sentry resupply booster as you'll be constantly needing more thermites. Engineering armor is okay for two extra but I personally prefer scout armor so I can locate enemies better, and sneak past patrols and ambush when ready!
I was thinking about something like this but I wanted to use the ballistic shield.. but honestly, the stratagem isn't fun to use. I'll swap in the guard dog and see how it feels.
I use a "Rooftop Sniper" build. The AMR and Jump pack with a 500KG and turret or mine of players choice. I've actually found a use for mines, they work really well in urban environments. I've gotten whole swarms of voteless with mines, and the ones that don't explode block off intersections.
STOP! Lol this is literally my next build.
It was mentioned on the Helldivers discord that you do not need to use the melee button to get the Peak physic bonus.
That you needed to use the melee button was apparently some misinformation that was going around. I just wanted to mention that and not blame anyone.
I feel like it worked when I tried it, but I don't know what's real anymore other than the feeling of voting democratically.
I love the little Starcraft 2 intro Song you put in the background
Secretly a SC channel...
interesting theme build, For Illum build i use: Blitzer for infinite ammo, excellent crowd control, senator, thermite . Strategems; 500kg, commando, Guard dog rover , Mech with auto cannons
Enjoyable build! I will say trading out the rocket pods for the Tesla tower did bring me a lot more success. It brings those voteless in like moths to a flame and consistently gets the little drones too. Was surprised with how well the peacemaker worked.
Yeah that flex spot I wasn't 100% on because I felt the kit was already complete.
this is a really interesting build, i might give it a shot.
The biggest take away is pummeler is a sleeper for being able to stun the jetpack squids and take them out, then commando is supreme for harvesters.
@@IronNomadGaming Yo so, just played 2 full games with the loadout (tried to do a solo mission, but quit halfway through cuz i got frustrated) and...yeah i like this loadout a lot!
Funnily enough i actually found myself using up my pistol ammo first instead of my smg lol, idk maybe i just like the basic pistol even though it's not that great.
The stun smg works like a charm, whenever i had a spare quad launcher available and there weren't any harvesters, i'd build up stun on an overseer, two tap them with the rockets, then build-up stun on a jetpack overseer and two tap them with the rockets, then call down a fresh quad launcher. And if there's a harvester? Unload the whole thing.
But yeah, fun build and very creative too!
Damn, I really like new urban environment. Almost always I play in pair with my good friend, so we used making our kinda "Pair builds".
For "squids" My dude is going with heavy armor, a machine gun, and some turrets, while I prefer medium armor (with arc resistance), an ARC Thrower, and some orbitals and airstrikes.
Basically we always move together, utilizing both defensive and offensive approach.
For bots tho, the only thing we change, swapping machine gun for railgun, and arc resistant armor, for more grenade capacity (damn I love some thermite)
I've got a buddy I try to duo with but he's spare parts lol
I know this is wierd to say, but the peacemaker actually is a damn good sidearm against the voteless.
Its lightning quick to draw, and since it provably has the highest ergonomics in the game, you can pop zombie heads quickly.
Right?! I actually enjoy it over the verdict and I've been a big verdict fan since it got medium rounds.
I cant describe my excitement when I saw the opening from Operation Raccoon City that was my first game online therefore my username lol Vector and Hunk are one of my favorite characters in the re verse, im definitely making this combo ty very much!
I want them to bring it back to steam!
The orbital gas breaks the ship spawners through the shields.
Gas nades also do structure damage now, which is nuts.
Yooo the intro is resident evil operation raccoon city
Had to dust off the ps3 after I made the intro.
Not using this with either the ballistic or directional shield is criminal. Especially since you opted for light armor. It makes you immune to all of the larger units attacks outside of harvester beams. Really a no brainer to bring one of these to a cqc themed illuminate loadout instead of rocket pods, which are completely worthless outside of harvesters, which are already covered by the commando.
I really don't find myself getting cooked outside of the Harvester beam. BUT I will say I tried out the shields, and they just didn't gel with me. That last spot is a flex though because by then the kit is more than enough.
You look like Keanu Reeves
This is the greatest compliment I've ever received in my entire life.
@IronNomadGaming your welcome
You know what i was thinking about something police themed. I tried to make a riot police loadout but it just wasn't working, I'll try this instead.
I've had the same thought with a riot shield and the 1 handed weapons but ya it might only be a lower tier difficulty build.
@IronNomadGaming I went with a riot shield, stun stick, stun/flechette shotgun and it just didn't really do very well against them. Funnily enough the constitution did better than the flechettes in cqb.
Try knight and Bshield with your choice of stun rod, with the new armor. Chem grenades and tesla work well together. Your choice of support weapon for enemies the commandos fine. The shield just protects you from enemies shooting you while in melee or friendlies. Works better vs illuminates.
edit: run this at 10s, its fun but not optimal