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How to deal with the "Extreme difficulty"? (lemmy.wtf)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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I played the Extreme difficulty for the first time today and oh boy was I not ready for it.

The jump in difficulty was rather extreme and I’m mostly wondering how I deal with the bugs coming up from under the ground?

Also, the red bugs are hard to kill, because my bullets are not strong enough. Which weapon do you recommend?

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Explosions force burrowers to un-burrow, including plasma explosions and stuns (although I've had mixed successes with the latter).
The burrower warriors (= the red bugs) have medium armor (or pen3) on their faces, I don't remember if the Helldivers Mobilize warbond has a pen3 primary but if it does, try that one; otherwise, you can use the MG or the HMG, among other support weapons.

Other than that, it depends on the warbonds you've got so far; what have you got so far?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Burrowers is difficult to handle. I figured out I could throw grenades at them, but that seem kinda expensive.

    I'm only at page 5 on Helldivers Mobilize warbond, but I can see that there's an assault rifle with medium armor penetration on page 6, so that's what I'm gonna work towards!

    I'm using the R-63 Diligence, but that's not powerful enough. Only got light armor penetration.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In that case if you specifically want to build up for the burrower strain missions, you should get the Democratic Detonation warbond as your first warbond (besides, 95% of the playerbase says it's the best one).

    It has a grenade pistol with 6+1 shots, which is generally kinda weak (imo), but it can destroy holes/fabs/ships AND poke burrowers, as long as you can hit the ground without the grenade bouncing away.

    If a secondary is not enough for you, it has a mini-rocket primary with heavy penetration and shrapnel, and an explosive crossbow with comparable damage but medium pen; the former hits hard (bugs and helldivers alike), the latter is one-handed and you can expect to survive when using it in CQC. Kind of.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The Gas-Harpoon also gets them up if shot at the ground. AND continues to do it's thing for a bit when they come up.

    But yeah, you want some medium AP on your primary. It'll make you life a lot easier against bugs.

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