It's not looking good: Helldivers 2 players lost another Super Earth city, so now they've got reduced ammo and Stims – oh wait, they're back to normal and we've got free napalm too

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Things haven't been looking good for us 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Helldivers 2 enjoyers. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Illuminate's invasion of S💖uper Earth continue🐽s, and they've just taken another Mega City. And, until now, we've been going into batt🍸le with 50% less ammo and two fewer stims than usual, making the battle even harder. Thankfully, we got some free Orbital Napalm Barrages to compensate us, and our ammo and stims are back to normal after a few painful hours.

Until now, there'd been two ongoing🐼 Major Orders: Destroy 200 million Automatons so we can use their scrap in the war effort, and hold Super Earth. Game master Joel has been deliberately splittiꦓng us over two fronts to make things more tense, and it's been working.

Rather than presenting a simple pass or fail, the fall of another Mega City led to some consequences that made fighting harder, but luckily, Helldivers ꦉare a smart bunch and came up with some ways to save ammo – be sure to take notes should the Illuminate have us cornered like this again in the future.

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Over on Reddit, one player recommended we start using the laser weapons as these simply overheat rather than using up ammo. Overheating does use a heatsink, which is like a magazine, but keep the temper♑ature under control and you can blast all match. The downside is they're not all that good, and one of them even burns you right back, meaning you n༒eed to eat through stims to keep firing.

Some had suggested using Guard Dog stratagems, as these autonomous backpack drones don't use any ammo either. "Arc thrower and Blitzer it is," writes one 🔯player, clearly favoring electrical damage over fire.

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Another ammo-saving strategy is the revelation you can use a portable hellbomb🐠 to take out a Leviathan. Place it on the ground and then call i🔯n a stratagem pod right on top of it. When the pod comes out of the ground and pops its lid off, it'll launch the portable hellbomb, hopefully into the path of a Leviathan.

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And don't forget, you can command the SEAF soldiers to make them follow you and help deal with enemies. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:They're the real heroes.

Now, the DSS is back online, and you can t⛎hank those who've been busy scrapping the 200 million Automatons needed in order to fix it. "BOT DIVERS YOU ABSOLUTE LEGENDS! The DSS is back online!" one . With ammo and stims back to how they were, there's no reason not to get back out into the fig൲ht, Helldivers.

If you've abandoned Super Earth, you could always check out some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best online games you can play instead.

I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here🌊 covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, a💧nd I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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