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Yep, not long after the squid update that hopefully comes within the next week. The presentation is literally done, but I don't want to record yet. I'd rather have it all in one video.

@Antique-nova well im following your reddit post since the last days, and I really liked the guard dog against them on diff 7. Hut since u said in the bugs video that's a skill issue ill just play what you play there

Glad to help! Squids will come soon after the update in a few weeks and it's going to blow every other squid guide out the window.

Problem with the 110mm rocket pods is that they only seem to crack bile titan armour. They will not crack chargers, nor even one shot them most of the time. And then there's the issue of shooting cracked bile titan armour. When you're being chased by a ton of bugs, the last thing you want to shoot is the bile titan and hope that it shows enough of its exposed side to you for you to shoot at. The biggest priority is always the smaller guys. Also, when you're on a forest planet the trees will blow a lot of your shots, even if the bile titan's flesh is exposed and there's loads of janky stuff happening with falling branches that will somehow one shot you full shields and health due to terrible coding. The 110mm rocket pods is a case of being way too niched and they're terrible outside of anything bile titans. It's just not worth it when they're competing against the strafing runs and orbital napalm barrage which are far more versatile. I'm also not a fan of spamming the grenade launcher to the under belly of the bile titan. Even worse when it's doing the vomit attack when the bile attack hit box is so janky. What I prefer to do is just let the bile titan spit on all the bugs on my tail and either deggro it or just strafing run it. There are sometimes when I can just kill the BT in just 2 or even 1 strafing runs at times, but that's a little rarer. The autocannon can one or two shot the exposed flesh of the bile titan, but good luck getting that angle most of the time. Because most of the time it'll be facing you directly and that's how I think you should consider facing most bugs. Not when you have your ideal angle, but the angle they'll present to you most often during battle. The airburst might one shot the exposed flesh of the BT. Hitting the right angle of the exposed flesh on the side when the head is facing you isn't an easy thing to do either. Not when you are trying to escape all the hunters and alpha warriors chasing you too. I thought about 110mm + strafing, but it needs at least 2 strafes on average. So you're just better of with strafes for heavy killing over 110mm because they just fit better when you're being chased.

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Glad to hear it. I have a breakdown video exclusively for bugs. Have you checked that out? I prefer the same armour I use for bots for bugs as well.

@Antique-nova the bug load out rocks, gl good information provided.

Glad you like it. There will be more to come once the devs update the game in about two weeks.

Appreciate it. Murrrrrh feelings were hurt after they buffed the heavy enemies and the 500kg couldn't consistently one shot hulks anymore. If I could throw 5x 500kg bombs instead of 5 strafing runs then I'd absolutely choose the 500kg. Just so I have a faster way of blowing up arty emplacements and detector towers. Lol. I'm also struggling not to just hit the record button on my illuminate guide now, because there are so many squid "best build" guides I disagree with. XD

@Antique-nova yup, i mostly take it because it's cooler than the strafing runs and the roughly 2 minute cooldown is pretty negligible if you've got two sentries for in-between encampments and the encampments themselves take around 2 minutes to run to. If you're playing solo you have infinite recoilless rockets for fabricators, and if you're playing in a group you'll usually have 3 other teammates throwing everything and the kitchen sink at automaton encampments, so i felt like this was a fun option that didn't cripple the build and let me hit a bunch of breakpoints that might have been harder to hit with strafing runs. Plus 500 kg is great against striders and consecutive dropship deployments if i'm put into an awkward position by either. as for illuminate build guides there's definitely stuff that works for them, but idk how comprehensive a build can be atp in the game when the faction is clearly unfinished. Tbh they're such an easy faction at the moment that a specific build isn't super necessary, although i guess that's true for bots as well- automatons don't feel nearly as challenging as they did when super helldive was first introduced :(

There is currently no build I'm aware of that can consistently solo "spread democracy" for bugs without dying or stimming. I've tried every combination I can think of and it's just not feasible. The fact that chargers, spewers and bile titans can spawn out of holes that are at least 6x smaller than them is stupid beyond belief and completely immersion breaking. They should spawn the maximum number of warriors and hunters on screen instead instead of 3 chargers/bile titans and 40 bugs at a time from all directions. If you're running with a team then, yeah you can run this set up.

Thanks!

No problem. Glad my videos are helping. If you want to use 500kg instead of strafing, that's fine. Use whatever is must fun to you. If you haven't gotten stun grenades, you could use gas grenades because that can at least confuse bugs. But get the stun grenade warbond first, I don't remember which one that is. About he scout armour, it should, but you never know with Arrowhead developers. A lot of their stuff is not coded well.

No problem. It's valid feedback and you're being nice about it. Lol. I could add in more gameplay footage in the future and yeah there are many ways of using terrain for bug pathing, but it's basically all the same. Just use some kind of terrain and see what works and what doesn't. After showing a few different examples in this video and the one in the video description, I think that's enough. The rest the players need to learn from their own runs to see what kind of terrain works and what doesn't.

I may do in the future if I find a stronger loadout, because that's what I prefer.

Thanks!

You can, but it's not optimal. Especially for bugs when running is king. Finding better ground and cover is always better than more armour.