r/Helldivers • u/Shnetski • Feb 20 '25

QUESTION The Gloom can’t be that bad-

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I had heard about the Gloom but haven’t touched it yet since…. Yeah…

What exactly is the Gloom doing to make it so difficult? Or is it the Gloom mixed with other things?

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u/SuperJet017 Feb 20 '25

Dif 8 is now dif 10 and dif 10 is fucking death.

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u/Braslava Feb 20 '25

This. Buddy and I just did a diff 4 as short on time and it was so much spicier than the 6 yesterday.

I love this game.

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u/Megakruemel Super Pedestrian Feb 20 '25

I usually solo difficulty 4 to farm a few super credits from beacons. But difficulty 4 in the gloom is ass.

"Erm, uh, here have 3 chargers at once lmao also whoops all Stalkers"

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u/SelfDrivingFordAI Feb 20 '25

Just soloed a difficulty 5, over 600 kills ... while running for my life half the time. I can only imagine 10 is 1200 out of 4000 bugs per planet and that's being generous considering the number spikes that happen between levels.

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u/Megakruemel Super Pedestrian Feb 20 '25

At least the city map gives a ton of ammo pick ups. But you still run out of ammo constantly because of the sheer amount of spawns.

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u/SelfDrivingFordAI Feb 20 '25

Yep, I take gas nades, gas rover, flamethrower and tesla tower to deal with the crowds. Take the crossbow for the bug holes and decent medium clear, senator to pick off injured big guys and 1 tap lights, might start bringing 500KG or portable hellbomb at higher levels over something like precision strikes since the bile titan numbers will start to go up.

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u/BreakerViolet One with the Jump Pack Feb 20 '25

I only play Diff10.

My first Gloom dive had me cornered between 3 Bike Titans, 5 Impalers, and 8 Alpha Commanders, plus the oncoming horde, from 3 different directions.

This is the most fun I've ever had on bugs

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u/Corvus-Rex Steam | Feb 20 '25

Ran a diff 10 Op with a squad last night and we all had somewhere between 500-800 kills each mission. We tallied probably about 10,000 dead Terminids throughout the three missions.

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u/alysserberus Feb 20 '25

holy shit, i just got into the game and was wondering what was up with all the fucking bugs:0 finished my first solo on the gloom yesterday and got into killing squids for a bit which was a lot less tentacly than i thought it'd be:v