No but I can provide cover fire to those placing hellbombs. HMG Emplacement are good counters to gunships as long as you're getting them before you're surrounded by them.
Short bursts, aim for a single engine. I've never had major problems with ammo with the HMG Emplacement. Plus I'm just tryna to thin the horde and kill the gunships. Everything else, my AMR handles.
I was running a supply pack/HMG yesterday alongside a Spear gunner, and between the two of us we cleared a double gunship fab + strategem jammer without breaking a sweat. I was spraying while he was reloading, and he was shooting while I was reloading. Supply pack kept us both topped up, and just like that we stormed the base. It helped he was running the Eruptor and was a wicked good shot against the occasional devastator.
yeup, i kinda despise the increased amount of gunship fabricators because i never bring loadouts to handle them. I gotta adapt though and be prepared. I just love my full loadout explosion boomy eagles and orbitals.
not automatically, but if you press down on the d-pad (or something else on pc), you’ll give yourself one box of supplies. you’ll get 11 MG belts (and 10-14 stims, depending on armor/boosters) before you need a new supply pack, so given the timers involved, you can basically use the MG instead of your primary to good effect
A little bit of panic in my life
A little bit of AMR by my side
A little bit of HMG's all I need
A little bit of dead ships is what I see
A little bit of Spearing in the sun
A little bit of PLAPing all night long
A little bit of hellbombs, here I am
A little bit of chaos makes me a man (Ha!)
Edit: Formatting
On the one hand, gunships are definitely one of the more/most annoying bot enemies. On the other hand, popping them out of the air with an automation is one of the most satisfying experiences in the game.
It always seems like the whole team is ready for them and they are nothing or nobody can deal with them and you are trying to take them out alone against all odds.
I think they're fun, I just also think we really need a strategem that works against them other than the orbital laser. Flack shot, eagle air-to-air, w/e.
Having to take a support weapon that works against them (since running isn't really an option) feels more proscriptive than any other enemy.
WHAT? YOU ARE A HELLDIVER, YOU ARE ELITE FORCE OF SUPER EARTH! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DIVE INTO HELL AND DO WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE! NOW GO BACK THERE AND FIGHT! FOR SUPER EARTH
One thing that's given me hope for these maps is that you're not fucked if you see the fabricator first. If you stay more than 150m out, you can prepare. Have one of your team members trigger a bot drop someplace far away and then immediately assault the gunship fabs. There are cool downs on the bot drops, and that significantly decreases the threat you face on the ground.
You'll likely never see 5 again, but you'll be better prepared if you do.
Na, spear and hmg cant output enough kills fast enough on their own. Fine if there are like 4-5 gunships, but more than that your gonna have a bad day without the other two having capable support weapons. And looking at the amount of fabs, there definitely will be more than 4/5 gunships haha
Laser cannon is even more effective against gunships. You can stay at a great distance and still swat them from the skies.
Quasar misses are too expensive nowadays, otherwise that'd work fine too.
Pro-tip: the only thing other than a Hellbomb that destroys them is the Mini-Nuke SEAF artillery shot. I have knocked down probably a half dozen in this way.
A guy I regularly play with said a direct hit from a 380mm while the bay doors on the top are open (right as the gunship launches) will destroy them too. But I have never seen that in person and dude is sometimes a story teller, so grain of salt on that.
I have witnessed 2 being destroyed by orbital lasers, so I would guess when the doors opened intense situations.
A laser guard dog can destroy the smaller bot fabricators when the doors open too.
The best way to deal with any gunship fab is as a team. 1 player rushes, everyone else covers with at least 2 players prioritizing shooting everything down. And you dont even need mics, just be one of the dudes shooting and someone will rush lol
And This is why I wear heavy armor, I swear I've seen this before, as much as I enjoy the speed light armor gives you I despise these gunship towers even more that's why I took it upon myself to be that one guy in heavy armor that bum rushes these towers to hell bomb it
- Be host/squad leader
- Loose over 50% reinforcements to gunships spam as soon as we spawn
- become commander erwin
- lead glorious suicide charge 🫡🫡🫡 see you in hell divers
- only 1 man survives, objectives destroyed. Victory for super earth
https://youtu.be/YW7A-7uY-o0?si=IyXvH_ypu2iseKKd
I want to call in a support helicopter that stays near the helldiver for the same amount of time that an orbital laser does, but it shoots enemies in the air and on land with a Gatling gun and targeting missiles. The heli could even have a scatter shot to defend against incoming missiles.
Hooooly mother of Democracy…
This! This! This! It's such a good time to be a E/HMG main.
My HMG Emplacement is salivating
Wait do those destroy gunship fabs??
No but I can provide cover fire to those placing hellbombs. HMG Emplacement are good counters to gunships as long as you're getting them before you're surrounded by them.
I hear cover fire and i start to grin
And then you run out of ammo!
Short bursts, aim for a single engine. I've never had major problems with ammo with the HMG Emplacement. Plus I'm just tryna to thin the horde and kill the gunships. Everything else, my AMR handles.
only times I've run out of ammo with HMG emplacement is on those helms deep missions and a couple times when covering against bugs
Helms deep is a fantastic analogy
I run out only when i have nothing to shot at so i play
My spear is shivering with anticipation
I was running a supply pack/HMG yesterday alongside a Spear gunner, and between the two of us we cleared a double gunship fab + strategem jammer without breaking a sweat. I was spraying while he was reloading, and he was shooting while I was reloading. Supply pack kept us both topped up, and just like that we stormed the base. It helped he was running the Eruptor and was a wicked good shot against the occasional devastator.
Dream team
I'm kinda new to the game, where am I looking lol I don't see anything.
Look in the background between the 2 forefront fabricators
Don't forget the one off to the right that's behind the little shelves/frame. I missed it at first then saw the antenna.
yeup, i kinda despise the increased amount of gunship fabricators because i never bring loadouts to handle them. I gotta adapt though and be prepared. I just love my full loadout explosion boomy eagles and orbitals.
haven’t used it myself (hmg supply pack is life), but the laser cannon seems so good against gunships that it’s borderline unfair to them
so the supply pack actually reloads the hmg when it runs out??
not automatically, but if you press down on the d-pad (or something else on pc), you’ll give yourself one box of supplies. you’ll get 11 MG belts (and 10-14 stims, depending on armor/boosters) before you need a new supply pack, so given the timers involved, you can basically use the MG instead of your primary to good effect
https://i.redd.it/icnf8aq1b19d1.gif This got the song stuck on my head so now you guys too
A little bit of panic in my life A little bit of AMR by my side A little bit of HMG's all I need A little bit of dead ships is what I see A little bit of Spearing in the sun A little bit of PLAPing all night long A little bit of hellbombs, here I am A little bit of chaos makes me a man (Ha!) Edit: Formatting
once i caught a fish alive?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Target rich environment!!!
“Captain! They outnumber us 3-1!” “Then it is an even fight.”
On the one hand, gunships are definitely one of the more/most annoying bot enemies. On the other hand, popping them out of the air with an automation is one of the most satisfying experiences in the game.
It always seems like the whole team is ready for them and they are nothing or nobody can deal with them and you are trying to take them out alone against all odds.
I think they're fun, I just also think we really need a strategem that works against them other than the orbital laser. Flack shot, eagle air-to-air, w/e. Having to take a support weapon that works against them (since running isn't really an option) feels more proscriptive than any other enemy.
This made me cackle.
Yeah ngl I’m pretty confident in my abilities in this game but if I got 7 Dropship fabs all overlapping each other I’m heading back to shop 😂
WHAT? YOU ARE A HELLDIVER, YOU ARE ELITE FORCE OF SUPER EARTH! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DIVE INTO HELL AND DO WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE! NOW GO BACK THERE AND FIGHT! FOR SUPER EARTH
8
8? I only count 6. Could you show how you've counted 8
I’ve sobered up since then yeah 6 must have missed the two
I sure hope 2 or 3 of yall brought an auto cannon
We brought a Spear and an HMG. Safe to say we failed that mission.
One thing that's given me hope for these maps is that you're not fucked if you see the fabricator first. If you stay more than 150m out, you can prepare. Have one of your team members trigger a bot drop someplace far away and then immediately assault the gunship fabs. There are cool downs on the bot drops, and that significantly decreases the threat you face on the ground. You'll likely never see 5 again, but you'll be better prepared if you do.
That should be enough, if you also have someone with a supply pack and HMG or Quasar combo would be good.
Na, spear and hmg cant output enough kills fast enough on their own. Fine if there are like 4-5 gunships, but more than that your gonna have a bad day without the other two having capable support weapons. And looking at the amount of fabs, there definitely will be more than 4/5 gunships haha
Laser cannon is even more effective against gunships. You can stay at a great distance and still swat them from the skies. Quasar misses are too expensive nowadays, otherwise that'd work fine too.
Man this makes me wish there was abandon city maps. Like imagine fighting between a bunch of tall buildings like that
Yes, if the buildings don't suddenly start shitting out Apache Helicopters lmfao
True😅 I was thinking more of how eire all those factories on the skyline looked and wanted that, but minus all the gunships
lol yeah, engagements would be more interesting and unique maybe also good time to allow Pelican Air Support assuming Eagle-1 may struggle here too
Here me out. Battlefeild style levelusions. Knock over buildings with weaponry
and maybe objectives to knock out specific buildings that are now automaton command bases
I dropped into a FRICKING BLITZ mission and there’s was four and a jammer off spawn Fucking hell
Yet not 1 gunship. Impressive
Oh that's because we're 15 seconds before inevitable demise. We dealt with the first batch, but the second one included all 5.
Pictures taken moments before disaster
Ooooo that looks fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is gunship fabricator number 5🎶🎵
A little bitta’ ragdoll, in the air
 One gunship fabricator, ah ha ha Two gunship fabricators, ah ha ha
Damn they are going to try and kill you by giving you epilepsy.
How the fuck did OP end up on Cyberstan?
Please help.
I'm trying but unfortunately it's a bug MO.
I love taking those out. They are hard and frustrating and i love it. Idk why people hate it so much
I like them.. ...just in controlled numbers..
wish you could destroy these with bombs or something
Pro-tip: the only thing other than a Hellbomb that destroys them is the Mini-Nuke SEAF artillery shot. I have knocked down probably a half dozen in this way. A guy I regularly play with said a direct hit from a 380mm while the bay doors on the top are open (right as the gunship launches) will destroy them too. But I have never seen that in person and dude is sometimes a story teller, so grain of salt on that.
If he didn’t upload a clip of it then it’s hard to believe. That’s something I would think people would brag about like crazy and clip.
Artillery is also great for stratagem jammers, for anyone that needs to hear it
Damn I thought they were deliberately out of artillery range
I have witnessed 2 being destroyed by orbital lasers, so I would guess when the doors opened intense situations. A laser guard dog can destroy the smaller bot fabricators when the doors open too.
I've heard downing a gunship immediately and the corpse falling into the bay can take it out so maybe that's what happened?
Is there anything that can blow them up except Hellbombs?
Mini Nuke SEAF Artillery, since both are the same explosive type and payload.
6
I can count 6 plus a super sanple rock
I'm genuinely surprised no one in this thread has made a joke about a certain date in 2001
in this case the towers fight back
0 o 0
I think I saw three once
Clearly a automaton vacation center, if you sneak close you can hear them calling out what planes are taking off soon!
I had a spawn like this once, but we had the perfect loadouts to deal with it. Most satisfying thing ever
o7 The worst I ever saw was this, but two of them were in range of a stratagem jammer, trust me when I tell you that that is a fresh kind of hell
https://preview.redd.it/ll1bn1vc329d1.jpeg?width=1099&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50acda8245b4898c71a102d95928cec22ed5f8d6
Hope you had smokes and a shield relay. Makes this situation trivial to handle.
People hate gunships but I love them, there a real loadout check
Most i’ve seen in a game so far are 5 total gunship fabs. That shit is tough.
IS THAT FUCKING # 5?!
This is ragdoll city
And Joel said 'Fuck this squad specifically'....
The best way to deal with any gunship fab is as a team. 1 player rushes, everyone else covers with at least 2 players prioritizing shooting everything down. And you dont even need mics, just be one of the dudes shooting and someone will rush lol
And This is why I wear heavy armor, I swear I've seen this before, as much as I enjoy the speed light armor gives you I despise these gunship towers even more that's why I took it upon myself to be that one guy in heavy armor that bum rushes these towers to hell bomb it
My Autocannon is hungry..
https://preview.redd.it/p9xt4ullu29d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3345a69319471695192bdf4b938f4f16f0ef8ed4
Christ and I thought two Strategem Jammers being right next to each other on a Blitz mission was bad, this is the worst.
- Be host/squad leader - Loose over 50% reinforcements to gunships spam as soon as we spawn - become commander erwin - lead glorious suicide charge 🫡🫡🫡 see you in hell divers - only 1 man survives, objectives destroyed. Victory for super earth https://youtu.be/YW7A-7uY-o0?si=IyXvH_ypu2iseKKd
So I started blasting.
I would love to be in this mission
Spear go brrrr
"I am not a bot."
EAT This!
Common walking barrage W
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to support with Railgun…”
Trying to decide if it’s 5 or 6. There’s a blocky bit by the rocks in bottom right that might be the corner of a third emplacement of them.
I want to call in a support helicopter that stays near the helldiver for the same amount of time that an orbital laser does, but it shoots enemies in the air and on land with a Gatling gun and targeting missiles. The heli could even have a scatter shot to defend against incoming missiles.
6? (Looks like one might be on the left)
Is the one on the bottom left a factory strider?
I'm so sorry you had to experience this.
7? Sweet Liberty.
Remember that map when we had 5 gunship facilities within eyeline of each other? Garbageman remembers.
5 fabricators?!?! Holy MOAB!!!!
I count 6 on screen, so there could be 6-8