Game Changing Autocannon Tips and Tricks - Helldivers 2
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- Simple must know Tips and Tricks to easily improve your Autocannon gameplay.
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PLEASE do more automaton videos.
For anyone confused as to why that charger strat may not be working for them, they patched it out for some silly reason. They've also made some really weird updates recently to Bile Titans where you can only shoot in their forehead (main weakspot) when they aren't spewing Bile. This takes away those awesome plays you'd see people pull off where they dodge away from the Bile and land a nice headshot for the kill. Devs seem to hate fun and they'll absolutely ruin this games hype if they keep this stuff up. Not even mentioning the nerfs to railgun that make it basically useless as well as the slugger nerf which was completely unnecessary.
All while still having glitches like the fact that only the host does fire dot...
The only thing I don't like about the autocannon is that it can't handle chargers very well. You have changed my life forever. Thank you.
Didn't like* Because the day has a new dawn.
It does this because there is an armour desync bug in the game. So when a charger does its charge and turns around the armour desyncs from its body and all shots will go through, even from your primary weapon. Not sure if it has been noticed by the devs yet.
It also doesn’t have to be the back leg, you can shoot them in the front leg during the turn around and that will work too
I've just uploaded a few clips of my killing a charger with a pistol and a breaker shotgun. It's easy to do under a minute and the only reason I took so much ammo to kill them is I suck at aiming, but even so it's pretty consistent
I think it's intentional, not a bug. The reason for me thinking that, is that it seems like a high skill level trick and at higher levels you can encounter upwards of 10+ chargers.
They would be completely impossible to handle, especially with Bile titans climbing out and other threats. @@Boamere
@@hellcatdave1 guarantee its a bug, the armor will bounce anything except during that animation. no way something moving to the side would make the armor suddenly weak to pistol fire.
here's a tip, you cannot reload cancel by firing your autocannon, you will in fact, fire the autocannon, which is aimed at your feet because you were reloading.
I love this detail. I always do reload cancel in games like its second nature so its really funny blowing yourself up because you want to shoot the gun earlier 😂😂😂
Really? Every time I've tried it it's worked out well enough 🤔
I always hold down the aim though towards my targets, even while I'm reloading it, maybe that makes a difference somehow?
Guys....... Just dive to prone to cancel backpack reloads
You can cancel full load after the first 5 rounds by switching weapon. slightly longer than mid reloads but better than being stuck in place when a charger comes at you or a bile spewer is about to vomit on you.
Also dive works if more urgent and need to create space.
I learned this the hard way with my buddy next to me lol
My biggest tip for it is to never empty reload. Do patterns of firing 5-9 shells, then reload. The empty reload takes probably 3-4 seconds vs the standard reload being super quick, even faster than a lot of primary weapons. Even instances where I’m getting run down, I find that it’s better to stop for one second to reload than fire 10 shots than need to swap to a primary until I get a chance to breathe.
Also it has even more utility
-team reloads(I prefer two people running it, reloading each other)
-2 shotting hulks to the eye
-2-3 shotting tanks, cannons, mortar, and anti-air emplacements
-1 shotting all armored devastators to the head(yes even shield guys!)
^if you miss the headshot, it is a 100% stagger so you can easily get a follow up shot off
-1 shots walkers
-1 shots brood commanders
-great follow up to the railgun leg strat for chargers
-decent AOE for swarms
-spawn with SIXTY ammo. You can literally wield it as a primary and not run out of bullets. I find that a healthy balance of hotswapping between primary for little guys and the Chad cannon for big guys leaves me never lacking bullets
That’s everything I can think of. I unlocked the railgun, thought the gimmick was pretty fun to one shot big boys, then went back to the autocannon because it’s so much more versatile. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Moreover, the Autocannon is way more fun to me. While the Railgun is really strong, i just have less fun playing with it.
You can cancel full load after the first 5 rounds by switching weapon. slightly longer than mid reloads but better than being stuck in place when a charger comes at you or a bile spewer is about to vomit on you.
How is it against Bile Titans?
@@mynickisalreadytaken100% feels more fun
I fully agree, but shield generator backpack is just too good 😢
railgun is pretty cool but im kinda getting bored of it, thanks for showing me how to properly use the chad cannon
While railgun is boring after a while I do think it’s the most fun weapon to use just because it’s satisfying as hell when you 1 tap a hulk or you destroy a tank by shooting down its cannon barrel. Weapons I can hit precision shots with will always be my favorite, weapons that blow shit up are a close second though
@@Xoilenwell then its a good thing that the autocannon is precise and can blow shit up
I had fun with one-use rocket launchers for some time, but now i going to learn autocannon
@@Bogdan221192 not having a support weapon constantly is a big draw back of the one use rpg's, and even though the cool down is short, you still need to wait like a minute every two shots
@@wolfar8278u dont use EATs as your exclusive support weapon when running it. Just drop it whenever you want, take a shot, pick back your support weapon and carry on.
The banking shells off the top of the vents tip is GOLDEN.
Autocannon reload can be started during a slide(hold crouch key while running) which saves some time in extreme situations, also it could be reloaded while while being prone.
Wait you can SLIDE IN THIS GAME???
Yeah but it's not worth it, doesn't let you slide down hills quickly. @@Razruer
@@Strutsss Somewhat useful to slide into cover, but I'd rather dive to prone in those situations
@@Razruerthe slide is surprisingly really bad and short, it doesn't take gravity into account and in almost every instance its better to just dive. The only thing i can think of where the slide would be useful is if you have no cover nearby and you're taking concentrated fire from multiple directions but you can't afford to stop running.
I dont use the slide but rather a quick way to kill some of the enemies trailing behind you. With the reduced recoil and the little bit of distance from the slide, its a nice little piece of move tech
If you hold R you can toggle it to full auto and a loading helper can let you dump the 60 rounds in seconds.
The open door on bot factories is also a valid target to destroy them.
A few rounds into the glowing part on the backside of a tanks turret will destroy it.
The charger leg tip is super handy thanks for that.
I had no idea it had a full auto function and I wonder how hard it is to aim when its firing that way.
@@dominuslogik484 Recommend only doing it while crouched/prone or with armor that buffs the recoil control even more when doing those two actions
Wait, the open door? As in when the factory opens up to spit out the automatons? Never tried there, will have to in the future.
@@dominuslogik484 Hard to control, but if a whole swarm is running down a hill a 10 round volley is like dropping a clusterbomb on them
Nobody seems to have mentioned you can also cancel the full reload after loading and chambering a round after the first clip by pressing C or standing up. You don’t have to fire or switch weapons
thank you so much for this, didn't know that chargers could be so easy to deal with, been using the autocannon a lot, and it's one of my favorite weapons.
You can actually kill chargers with any weapon during that animation. Check out "Animation Vulnerability vs Chargers" from o0Lemon0o for video proof with most weapons.
It's just so silly, excellent power fantasy to have a man portable IFV cannon.
I almost always run autocannon and I thought I knew it all but that charger tip is a new one. Thank you for the great tips!
One tip I'll add is to never let it run out of ammo. Loading from empty takes a lot longer than loading from half twice
You can cancel the reload animation by pressing crouch if you don't want to load both mags
Yeah, I'll usually try to leave at least one in the mag when I reload. Would be nice if it let you single load somehow.
The Autocannon benefits greatly from the Fortified armor perk. Crouch down and suddenly the recoil is lower than it has any right to be.
Also helps with accidentally blowing yourself up when shooting an enemy too close.
To be honest, I don't really see the benefit of the explosion in the first place. if there was an AP/slug version of the autocannon, I'd take that in an instant, even if all the rest of the stats were exactly the same so I don't have to be careful about shooting it at close in enemies, or near allies.
@@FGMagala I’m gonna take a guess and say the explosion is what lets you kill bug holes, towers, spore trees, factories. You need like 5-6 railgun shots to bring down a spore tree while 2 shots and it’s down. The anti-material rifle should be what you are describing but it needs to be buffed. Silly that it’s anti-material but you can’t get rid of a charger’s leg armor.
When they fix armour stats I’ll give this a try. Only armour effects work, besides light armours being the best due to advantages in speed and stamina, since armour ratings are apparently bugged
@@ThishandlefeatureISdumbI haven't tried comparing the railgun to the autocannon since I just prefer the autocannon due to its versatility, but I see what you mean. I forgot about those examples and I think you might be right since I've never heard of anybody managing to destroy the bug holes, towers, or factories without using explosives or an orbital weapon.
Though I do think it's a bit weak that you're forced to only use explosives for them, rather than having the option of expending extra ammo from other weapons.
@@FGMagalaIf they change it to AP/slug, it wont work on bug holes and factories. Its the mini explosions that let you destroy objectives
I absolutely love the Autocannon but sadly I always think to myself "Man I wish I had a Railgun right now" when swarmed by 3-4 Chargers (I am also very bad at hitting that backleg spot)
Funny enough, it actually has some pretty decent usage against Bile Titans, especially if they are distracted by another player. Just lob shots under its belly to blow up the sacs and it wont be able to spit anymore. Does pretty decent damage to it as well
holy crap, good call on the titans.
If youre lazy like me just bring EATs for chargers, use one to hit a front leg and break armor, pick AC back up, one shot to finish em off, if youre cheeky you can even land the EAT stratagem on a chargers head for an instant/near instant kill as well
It’s also about a 4-5 shot to the ass which stun locks it too
If you're a solo player I can see how this could get annoying. I've found when you have a squad and everyone has a railgun though there's a lot of wasted shots. People often shoot the same charger and don't focus the same leg and end up killing it as fast as one person could with more ammo wasted. Whenever there's a 2-3 people bringing railgun I love to bring autocannon to focus on taking out medium targets and objectives.
Charger tip is a new one, but I do have another tip for everyone. You **can** 2-3 shot the Automaton Hulk if you shoot it directly in the red glowing eye. Similar to the charger tip in the video, there will be sparks from the hulk's eye socket after the first shot landed correctly. It's much trickier than shooting a leg of a charger, but it's possible and I have personally killed at least 7 hulks this way.
I've killed a few with the autocannon doing this as well, can confirm. It's good stuff.
You can technically take out a Hulk almost as fast as with a railgun like this. Considering you need to charge the railgun first and the autocannon can place follow up shots fairly quickly.
@@OPgamingstyleamr is faster
Sure but AMR is not as versatile since the autocannon. Only marginally though.@@Nheom
auto cannon is really slept on. it does next to everything besides taking out bile titans just cause the hitbox seems a little wonky and most shots bounce off. and heavy armor head on.
only thing i didnt know about was leading enemies around with it which is actually very helpful for the stealth build i go with.
and for getting those juicy medals and side locations.
It is wonky for killing Bile titans but it makes very quick work of its soft bile sack.
@@megawaffle612 does shooting titan in the mouth do any big damage?
Well, the shots tend to explode there way more often than on any other parts
So i think it pays off
This will be a game changer to how I stealth high difficulties. Though I find it odd that they run towards where the shell struck the surface and not the obviously loud gunfire over behind that hill. :P
This was the one tip that made my jaw drop actually. Curious if I'll be able to use it or if I'll just uh... Get caught immediately like normal 😅
It’s an explosive round. If it hits/detonates closer to them, they hear that sound first because it’s traveling faster than the speed of sound (700’ish mph?) from your muzzle and you’re further away. Science, baby!
A sniper’s bullet will strike you before you ever hear it, ya know?
Even weirder when you consider the fact that they instantly know your position after you throw an offensive stratagem. Didn't even make a sound xD
You should've definitely told everyone how you can quickly reload the autocannon - just reload before fully emptying the magazine. It has two cartridges, each for 5 rounds and they loads separately. If you're not emptying the full 10 rounds mag, you can shove one new 5 round cartridge and you're good to go. But if you emptied full mag, you should wait for a long animation of loading a fresh cartridge, then cocking the gun, yhen loading another cartridge.
P.s. you can cancel the animation of loading the second cartridge by delphine diving, so you can have 5 round quicker, than a full mag.
You showed that a bit in your video, but didn't talk about that
The way I treat my autocannon is that it's a 5 round magazine weapon but I can get up to another 5 if I'm in a pinch.
I was thinking the same thing
The last round is the emergency round
Those are clips, not cartridges. Clips load magazines and magazines load chambers.
@@CrizzyEyes your truth. Didn't know how to name them
@@FuJIuIIoK Glad you understand, I was not trying to be rude, just trying to inform.
For the factory’s you can blow it up by shooting through the door that opens, makes it a lot easier then trying to blow it up through the vents
Very good tips, didn't know you could bank the shells off the top of the vents.
I know i tried a ton when nearby, basically from the vent ricocheted to the door but didnt deal dmg to the building. So i might have to give it a go from a large distance. I know find it super finicky
Tip: Self Reload cancel by diving. All weapons have partial reload animations and will complete the reload when attempted again. And because the Autocannon has 2 reload points that allow it to fire, you can half load by dive canceling.
Didn’t know the charger or bug hole/bot fabricator tricks, that’s very handy. I’ve always loved the AC for specifically walkers, if you aim at the hips you can knock out the driver in a single shot most of the time. If there’s two right next to each other and you aim to the middle side you could even get two in one. Also if you have a recoil perk on your armor, you could take two shots on the charger in a single attack and down it in one go. Half the time I prefer the AC to the railgun honestly, but it’s definitely good to have both on the team for sure.
Easily my favorite weapon in the game, and so many of the reasons are here. Great vid.
I've been struggling with Chargers, thank you!
Awesome video, succinct and directly to the point. Love it and I will be trying this when I get home.
Always have an autocannon in your squad. Once you pass medium, you will see alot of Bile/nursing spewers. The railgun takes these down in the same hits as the autocannon, but the auto cannon can fire 10 times in a short succession. Now add some explosive damage and a long range. It is a fantastic weapon
This. Railgun can actually one shot them in the head but on those missions when you're absolutely swarmed with spewers they will run out of ammo very fast. Autocannon is way better at sustaining damage
@@brohogany9920 Also can't always see the head when they're chasing an ally who is running the other way, it can be a godsent in those scenarios.
Skewers die in one grenade.
Nice.
I was just shooting at the ground to deal with Chargers... Splash damage is pretty useful that way, for example you don't have to shoot tanks/turrets right at the vents or the back - it's enough to hit just under the tower close to the vents and splash damage will still get it.
Now I wonder if we can find a way to deal with Bile Titans relatively quick.
Great video, concise and straight to the point. Those are indeed game changing tips (was afraid of clickbait title but it’s not). Keep it up !
Chargers are a major headache for me so far, i wasnt aware the autocannon could take out the leg armor like this, thanks.
Knew most of these, but the last one will come in handy for the occasional stealth runs.
Thank you.
This is my favorite support weapon for sure, if the Spear tracking wasn't actually dogass the Auto Cannon would have some competition, until the Spear gets fixed the AC is my go to
Funnily enough neither are that good for T9 since the stupid shield generator backpack is so OP.
And the spear just outright sucks.
@@SuperCatacata I only ever play with my friends on the higher difficulties for shits and giggles, I love how the Autocannon looks in 1st person and the Spear is really fun when it decides to work. We barely use whatever's the strongest loadout, but if it's fun it's definitely our thing
Super useful, I was literally about to test some of these things. Thank you!
Nice tip on the Bot Factory! I was super annoyed that I couldn't use the Autocannon on them the same way I could with Bug Nests, now I know that I can.
Thanks!
Great tip for the chargers. As someone who mains the autocannon this is invaluable.
You should make more of these! It's so helpful. Great video!
Dude I love the auto cannon but I didn’t realize just how great it is! 😮 thanks for the tips!
Started using the Autocannon yesterday and I am happy I gave it a chance. Very handy and versatile weapon for many situations.
I knew it was good but I didn't know it can chargers like that!
Thanks mate! Nice info in a concise video. Not with a lot of unnecessary comments. Tokens to you. 👍🏾
These tips were awesome, thank you for sharing!
Dude the two shot charger tip is going to change my gameplay.
Ive been running it with stun nades and an engineering kit armor. Extra nades means that you can reliably stun enemies for guaranteed crits, and the recoil mitigation helps you melt turets and tanks before they get a chance to turn around if you drop prone. I prefer impacts vs bugs but both are fine. Definitely bring a shotgun with it, you don't want to deal with close range bugs using autocannon.
holy moly, everything else i knew, but that sound lure is crazy. im definitely gonna have to play with that one.
bro what an amazing video. this is some really high level tip. good vid bro.
every weapon is like this...and glad that you are showcasing this for the AC
Wow thanks!! Great tips and video!
tank you for represeting us fellow auto canon ejoyer
WHAT?? The back of the legs... my god, I love the Autocannon even more now.
Truely fantastic tips, thanks so much
The sniping factories/nests is huge!! I jumped into a level 6 game with idiots fighting every machine, so I'd scout ahead and bank around sniping all the factories near them. They were a great distraction.
Thank you so much for the charger tip. I was getting such inconsistent results and had no idea why. It has to be the underside of their leg. I ALWAYS though I was getting deflected due to angle.
Already knew all of these.
Good video.
Lvl 112 Auto Cannon Chad here. I feel I’m great, but you can always be a better citizen. Jump shot mastery is key. Jumping while not aiming down sights and shooting is something to practice.
That charger tip! Changing my world right now! :D
Thats really nice, thank you for the info!
Luring enemies away with a shot is brilliant, would have never thought of that
Amazing. Thanks for these
You can use the autocannon to blast yourself decent distances if you dive and ads fire it just behind you, it won't do damage if you get the distance right. I honed this while farming super credits (works with impact grenades too but autocannon shots are more plentiful)
Rocket jumping Helldivers lol
If I master this trick and with a smoke grenade, I can be a stealth ninja, lol.
Did not know about the round impact attracting enemies. Seems pretty useful.
Fantastic guide. Didnt know half of this stuff
Thanks for the info man. Susceibed.
The auto-cannon is rapidly becoming a must have tool.
I had no idea you could close bug holes with the auto cannon!!! That just made taking out nest WAAAAAY easier
Good video, i love these weapon, more than railgun!
One other trick for automaton fabricators is that you can actually shoot through the open door when it lets out enemies. Grenades can go through there too, which is nice for impact grenades.
Autocannon is quickly becoming my go-to support weapon. The amount of ammo it carries combined with the damage it can put out is kind of unbeatable.
concise, love it
My man, helping fellow Helldivers dissolve charges democratically.
Ohhh im battle ready now with this new tip been relying on the rail gun too much
Another tip is reloading before you have two; it takes a lot less time to reload one map/top off vs. stopping dead in your tracks for two of those cartridges.
If you have between 1 shell or half shells in the gun left the reload you get is much shorter where they insert a single clip into the gun (doesn't discard ammo btw)
It makes it much easier to use in high stress situations
I watched this, tried the auto cannon once on an automaton mission and I'm never looking back. Thank you!
The Autocannon has a load capacity of 10 projectiles and is reloaded via 2 clips (yes, not magazines in this case).
The reload time can be problematic in hot fight situations if you have to reload two clips. By reloading with at least one projectile left in the internal magazine, the reload time is much quicker because you reload just one 5 shot clip.
I have made it a habit to reload after spending 5 shots.
Do you lose the rest of the mag if you reload at 5 like with most guns?
@@Ben-wp5rx no, it tops it up. And you can't reload if fewer than 5 rounds are missing.
Thanks. Your explain is the best!
These are actually good tips
so they focus the sound of the boom but not the bang? does this mean the auto cannon is a stealth weapon?
They investigate both
Thank you so much for making this video, I thought the autocannon was underpowered and needed a buff despite being my favorite weapon in the game until I watched this
The last tip is pure gold!
Always remember to feed single clips into the autocannon every time you get to half ammo capacity or less, that way, you can continously feed it without having to go through the longer full reload
Didn’t realize these could close big holes. Definitely going to give them another run on blitz missions
God tier guide! I'm gonna main autocanon! I just started to use it and I'm level 50. Hahaha great video
one more tip for you: when the doors of the bot factories open you can throw a grenade through them to blow it up also. I assume this would work with the autocanon as well
Thank you, didn't notice that you can shut the nest down with the autocanon 👍
Thank you so much.
Honestly been in love with the autocannon since I got it; I just hit 20 to try the railgun but honestly, the autocannon has been so good to me....
I really appreciate the short but informative video format. I'm tired of people taking this same amount of info and turning it into a ten minute video of 90% fluff.
Also, I've been struggling with killing chargers not realizing you have to shoot the BACK of the leg to expose it. I didn't even know you could just blow up propaganda towers.
Reload before being empty. The full reload is long. It has magazines of 5 so you can reload after getting down to 5 or less.
I hope armor gets fixed soon, I liked running around with an auto cannon and heavy armor when I fought the automatons in HD1
My brother in Liberty, Really appreciate the first and last tip! I'm off to spread Democracy to the galaxy!
ahhhhhhhhhhhh the BACK of the leg, thanks so much !
Algorithm oughta be kind Autocanon deserves more love especially since i don’t see anyone using it on Lvl7+ missions
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Good to know. My very first experience when I unlocked the autocannon was against a bunch of bile titans/heavy armor bugs, and it did absolutely nothing. Next round, same. Next, same.
Now I see it’s actually super useful. Hilariously stupid first experience, but glad I saw this vid to realize it really was just a badly timed first (continuous) impression.
It will struggle against bile titans though. It's good for taking out the bile pouch on the abdomen, but not much more. You can deal damage by firing into the lower part of the abdomen, but usually you gotta be right between its legs to do that. Some say they've two tapped them by firing into the open mouth before it spits bile, but I haven't gotten it to work, especially since you need it to face you, so the bile is probably aimed at you
@@samarkand1585 Wait until another player gets the titan's attention and then try to position yourself for a clear mouth shot. Aim for the lower jaw area. If that never seems to happen then you'll need to throw a heavy strategem (500kg bomb, orbital railcannon, orbital laser) if the other players can't or won't take the titan down.
I think most players misunderstand that the autocannon isn't really meant for heavy bugs like chargers and titans. That's a job for a railgun. That's not to say you can't kill chargers and titans with an autocannon but it's more effort and you'd only do it if split off from your team.
I think it's a much better weapon for medium enemies, like spitters, warriors, guards. All of these bugs can be killed by railguns as well of course but railgun runs out of ammo very quickly. Meanwhile I've never ran out of backpack ammo using an autocannon. It's about dividing up and prioritizing different targets.
@@brohogany9920 Chargers and titans are not really a job for the railgun anymore. It just received a big nerf in the new update.
@@SoundsFromBeyond yeah I saw! It will be interesting to see how often it's used now. I for one welcome the change
First time seeing the tip about the Chargers, and thanks for the automaton spawner angle too
Tip for you. If you collect the super samples or any samples, head straight to the extraction and hold down on the dpad then use the right stick to select samples and release the down button. You will drop the samples and you don't have to worry about dropping them in a bad spot. Don't know the input for PC sorry
Me and the bois gonna be loving that charger tip.
After I found out that it could destroy Automaton Fabricators at a distance, it quickly became my favorite support weapon.
This changed my life
For anyone looking for another alternative to the railgun, the arc thrower is pretty damn good too. It can handle up to chargers and hulks, not as well as the railgun, but its much better at handling the medium guys, it two shots devastators, and if you do it to a group of them, you can kill 3-4 in 2 shots. Basically every medium enemy follows that pattern. 2 shots to put basically any number of them down, so long as they're grouped. You should probably still have a teammate or 2 running railgun on helldive, tanks and biles spawn too often there to purely rely on air support/orbitals. Oh, and it does do friendly fire extremely well, i would recommend not firing it at all while there is a teammate on your screen, until you learn how it arcs.
went arc + rover as a duo with a friend yesterday vs bugs.
its surprisingly fun to rain down thors wrath.
especially once you notice that when doing chained shots, its only the first one that takes ages to charge and any follow-up ones in the same chain can be launched as early as "half-charge" which is still enough to zap the smallest bugs in "hordes" or 3/4th charges vs the ones 'one' size bigger
I can't wait to try the Charger trick next time, i love hoe flexible the game is, the Illegal Broadcast sidemission trick was very unexpected and I had no clue it was possible to just destroy them, makes it less annoying in highee difficulty missions
Any trick to make the Autocannon even more useful is more than welcome, not a fan of Meta in any game let alone Helldivers 2, railgun is neat but kinda feels eh, Autocannon gang!
Don't forget Shrieker nests! 9 shots per nest and they're dead, just in time for another reload without going through the nasty long animation.
Here are some you probably know but bares repeating:
Reloading is super fast if you have at least one round left.
Aim down sight makes shooting fast and accurate much easier as the recoil is easily managed, it also have a good zoom. Especially if you have the armor that improves stability when crouched or prone.
Trouble hitting things? Shoot the ground they are standing on, the AoE will do the rest. Great for clearing a big group quickly.
You can shoot enemies that fly in on the drop ship and easily dispatch them before they drop.
Finally, do try buddy loading, this is when you give the backpack to a buddy and they load for you by standing on your right side and pressing E. This allows for you to fire all you want without having to worry about reloading. Just make sure to have good coms cus they now have all your ammo xD It's super effective and hella fun!
Tbh it reloads fast enough that I would rather have the pack myself and have a teammate also firing at the bugs or bots, lol