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My wife uses satchel charges to blow me up on purpose every single mission. Best use imo.
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Me too. Engineer is my main and all 3 weapon overclocks I've gotten for him so far have been for the Breech Cutter. 
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Mar 14, 2020 18:37
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Laser pointers the patch notes. "We're rich!"
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Mar 21, 2020 18:45
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That was the 3rd part of the elite deep dive this week. Being the weakest link on the team, I went in with 2 deaths and came out with 23 deaths. I had no idea how to stop my engineer from instantly dying on revive when surrounded by grunts that spawn tons of parasites when you blow them up. Maybe I should take the invulnerability on revive node on my armor...
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Mar 22, 2020 15:02
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The bobble head on the bar and the dice in the drop pod are endlessly entertaining. Best patch ever.
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Mar 26, 2020 16:52
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SkySteak posted:I am not quite sure how viable it will be going forward but a Breech Cutter specced for a wide beam, stun, and using the electrocution OC pairs wonderfully with the Stubby Voltaic SMG spcced for electrocution. Right now I'm loving the spinning death OC on the breech cutter and though I lack any OC's for my stubby I'm liking that a lot too. Seems to be very ammo efficient and I'm just melting larger bugs between the two. I do miss tactical nukes though just for the "fun" factor.
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Mar 26, 2020 19:42
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KazigluBey posted:Anyone come across the new item drop event? Does it have a sound queue or is it just visual? Would love to know what I'm looking for. There's a helmet in the ground you hear beeping like a cargo crate battery. Activate the helmet and it puts a waypoint of sorts on your terrain scanner. Go there and loot the thingy.
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Mar 27, 2020 00:11
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Gotta agree with the earlier assessment of Return to Sender on the Breach Cutter, it's goddamn great. Liking it a ton better than Spinning Death and the vanilla overclocks. Running 11123 for mods and it's extremely effective at both taking out swarms and massive damage to large targets while giving me plenty of ammo. Loving the BC hitting stuff through walls too. My step-son just trapped my wife at the new pickaxe terminal and refused to walk away so she could move. So much maniacal 12-year-old laughter.
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Mar 28, 2020 21:01
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How do you get a charged shot to explode with Thin Containment Field? I've never been able to mine stuff with it.
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Apr 27, 2020 16:04
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isndl posted:Assuming you're landing the follow-up shot properly, you should try to detonate a little further away from the minerals; the terrain carving effect fizzles if you're too close to anything that's not ordinary dirt/stone. I find it easiest to fire parallel to the mineral vein for better control on the detonation distance. Follow-up shot? What sort of follow-up shot? That's what I'm missing.
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Apr 27, 2020 23:28
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The wife and I just played this game for 14 hours straight and hardly noticed. I'm now over the 400 hours played mark and it's still a blast.
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Apr 28, 2020 07:23
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Out of the last major weapon overhaul, are there any weapons that are big winners or losers and went from "just the worst out of the two" to "easily the best" or just equal with their counterpart? Breech Cutter became the best weapon in the game. Everything else is at least equal with its counterpart now (except maybe the M1000) so personal preference is the only criteria for picking which weapon to use.
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May 3, 2020 21:34
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Finally got EM Refire on my 2 star platinum Engineer and I'm in love. Release day best day
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May 14, 2020 00:46
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You can try to pry the cryocannon from my extremely cold dead hands ever since it got buffed but it probably won't work.
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May 16, 2020 17:49
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Stage 2 of the elite deep dive a few weeks back was 10 aquarqs and a dreadnaught with mactera plague. That was pretty fun.
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May 25, 2020 17:25
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The wife and I were able to do the EDD by ourselves this week, our first attempt at doing so. Feels good. I remember when we couldn't handle the regular deep dive without a full team. I play engineer and she plays scout so that helps a lot too.
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Jun 20, 2020 14:13
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I've run into them 3 times and wiped twice before a recent hotfix changed them.
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Jul 1, 2020 13:23
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Killed the Tyrant Weed 3 times before noticing the Tyrant Shards on the ground you can deposit in Molly for credits and xp.
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Jul 16, 2020 02:58
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Wife and I are still duoing the EDD and we failed the 3rd stage on the trip back to the drop pod. I really want that cosmetic but doing the entirety of 3 stages again 
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Jul 21, 2020 15:14
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"Mined" in terms of what gives xp means "hit with your pickaxe out of the wall". Blowing it out of the wall with C4 or Thin Containment Field or Fat Boy or a detonator, etc. is not "mining" and depositing it doesn't matter.
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Jul 22, 2020 05:30
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I use RTS and switched from 3-line to plasma trail awhile back and I've been loving the extra damage to oppressors and other big targets. It didn't take too long to get effective at aiming it.
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Jul 29, 2020 12:28
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Breech Cutter ignores armor, walls, and everything else except BET-C's force shield. Four shots kill an oppressor with RTS, 20% of the ammo, and it works from any side of the bug. Slower than a scout using half his cryo grenades and 2 shotgun blasts but still not bad at all.
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Jul 30, 2020 06:05
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Playing other shooters I can't stop trying to power attack anything that comes close. And I often let things come close because I feel my power attack cooldown is up so it's time to conserve some ammo.
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Aug 23, 2020 09:26
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In practice, I use it on one or two missions and get reminded that it's a little wonky and low-damage and switch back to Return to Sender.
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Sep 6, 2020 00:17
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DRG isn't in early access anymore.
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Sep 19, 2020 12:48
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Fishstick posted:While we're on builds, what are some solid cryo builds? I have all the OCs but I don't know if its because of cryo cannon's weird reload cycle naming or just what I'm expecting from a gun but I just have never been able to get CryoCannon to "work" for me. I'm a big fan of Perfectly Tuned Cooler and 32231. Freezes crap fast.
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Oct 5, 2020 20:56
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Q'ronar. Especially when I'm playing scout and can't get through the armor or freeze it.
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Oct 11, 2020 19:42
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The only thing I'm not liking about escorts is how long it takes to fill the drat fuel cells and the minimum time to clear it being around 30 minutes for 8k xp.
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Oct 24, 2020 16:34
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Once you've played for awhile and have all your upgrades and most optimal overclocks it's not really a problem playing with even the worst pubbies, though I admit I only do hazards 3 and 4 and I'm used to carrying my wife all the time. I'm over 700 hours played now and still love to jump into random games.
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Oct 28, 2020 21:27
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After all the cryocannon discussion a few pages back I've spent days trying different builds. I can vouch for a Snowball build being super effective now though it doesn't seem to freeze mactera as fast as a Perfectly Tuned Cooler freeze power build. I can't stand the "freeze in a 5m radius" mod over shatter with Snowball though. I'm too often on my own and you really notice a ton of bugs being left frozen instead of falling to pieces when no one's helping you. I just don't have time to pickaxe all those bugcicles since my secondary weapon is a mining tool. Scratch all that though. Ice Storm AABAB is the way to go for me now. Sure it goes through ammo but you are the winter god of death with it. It still freezes stuff close to you plenty fast with the upside that bigger targets will be nearly dead in that short time and easily finished off. Kills mactera and grunts so fast while still keeping you and the team safe with lots of freezing. It may have made driller my favorite class over engineer.
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Nov 13, 2020 17:49
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Unsinkabear posted:Why not just run shatter with Snowball? That's what I've been doing. I do. It was a reference to the discussion pages ago where someone was advocating not sleeping on the freeze in a 5m radius node - I think the same guy that advocated Snowball. Sorry for the confusion.
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Nov 13, 2020 21:54
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Went to do a 4D with the wife just now - double driller deep dives. The regular dive made it some 5D time cube poo poo as we encountered 7 detonators.
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Nov 21, 2020 14:45
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Getting every weapon overclock didn't seem to take long. Getting the one beard I want on my gunner though... Every other class has it! 
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Nov 26, 2020 10:26
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Wife just gave me an early xmas gift of an Oculus Quest 2. There's no game I want in VR as badly as this one. Just imagining actually swinging my arm to pickaxe minerals out of the wall. 
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Dec 4, 2020 22:23
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Maggot.
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cage-free egghead posted:Dumb question I'm sure but what is the mod that people typically use for the EPC to farm minerals? I've just been using Magnetic Cooling Unit as that's what I've got and it just takes some clever timing but the output doesn't sound the same as others who are doing it more commonly. The one that reduces the cost of the charged shot so that its cost is only 4 when paired with the mod that does the same. I forget what it's called though. Heavy Hitter if you think the EPC needs to do double duty as a weapon and mining tool (you heathen). When you get really good with TCC you'll delete packs of bugs with the implosion as well as mining so reducing the cost of the charge shot by half works really well.
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Jan 8, 2021 23:51
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Using the same argument used against Heightened Senses, Field Medic is just a dead slot when no one dies or someone beats you to the downed teammate making it at best situationally useful.  There's nothing wrong with situationally useful so just run whatever gets you out of the situations in which you find yourself the most. Personally I gave up FM for HS on every class a long time ago since I play with random pubs and am separated/soloing constantly. It saves ammo when you instant kill a grabber or gives plenty of warning to shoot the tentacle reaching for you from the invisible leech. Plus I can freeze all nearby bugs as a driller or scout or blow them all up fast as a non-hyperpropellant engineer or auto-cannon gunner so I wasn't finding a single insta-rez or faster rezzes all that useful unless I was completely out of ammo. Iron Will is always my other perk for wipe recovery or to fix my own mistakes. I haven't had a situation where I've gone "man, if I'd had a Steeeve tanking a lone grunt 20m away we would've completed that mission" but I've constantly been glad of HS and IW even if I don't use them every single mission.
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Jan 24, 2021 13:49
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Dogen posted:Someone was saying you only had to promote one class to use ocs on any class, you just had to have all mod tiers unlocked, so technically you don’t have to have a promotion. This is correct unless it's changed in the million years since I had someone unpromoted. The single promotion unlocks the ability to gather overclocks from machine events, the weekly assignment, and the 2 deep dives, not the ability to equip overclocks. You do have to be playing a promoted dwarf to do either deep dive however.
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Feb 6, 2021 04:02
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The ooze cannon seems too much like how most people mod the flamethrower in that it's just a DoT + slow. The rest of it I want RIGHT NOW!
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Feb 26, 2021 21:53
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All I want is a VR mode for this game more than anything else in life! Seriously, though, all that looks like just what I need to get back to playing this game regularly even sans a VR mode.
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