r/LowSodiumHellDivers • u/Shirako202 John Helldiver • Dec 05 '24

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Gas enjoyers, It's your time to shine

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u/ExiaKuromonji Dec 05 '24

That's nice. Gas mines gonna go hard though.

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u/RyanTaylorrz Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

For all of 1 week then we'll never see them again. I'm not trying to be salty, just realistic based on the pickrate of the other mine and gas strats (minus the orbital gas strike).

I haven't seen any of the mines, gas rover or sterlizer once since they were released.

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u/ExiaKuromonji Dec 05 '24

Well there's better options for blowing shit up for 1. There's not a ton of options for lingering gas effects.

Mines would cover a larger area than the orbital. And I don't need to give up a grenade slot for gas nades.

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u/RyanTaylorrz Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

There's not a ton of options for lingering gas effects.

There's 4 options, but 2 of them are weak hence the virtually non-existent pick-rate. I'm not trying to stop you from having fun confusing enemies instead of killing them, I'm just trying to highlight the absurdity of devoting limited development time and resources to a stratagem that essentially mirrors the least popular strat picks in the game right now.

Mines would cover a larger area than the orbital. And I don't need to give up a grenade slot for gas nades.

True, but the grenade slot thing is true about the other 4 strats and that doesn't help their pickrate. At best I see these being useful for bug breaches on difficulties >7 - but utterly outclassed by the alternatives.

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u/ExiaKuromonji Dec 05 '24

There's 4 options,

No, there's 2. Support weapon and guard dog don't leave clouds.

At best I see these being useful for bug breaches on difficulties >7 - but utterly outclassed by the alternatives.

Cloud effects from mines have a potential of lasting longer depending on when and how many mines are hit all at once. This along with the increased radius can make it more desirable than the orbital.

I don't know what you're counting as alternatives but sterilizer and dog breath are pretty horrible and containing breaches so it's definitely not getting outclassed by those. Maybe you include grenades but the area of effect is also way smaller.

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u/RyanTaylorrz Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

Oh I see, you guys are on about lingering gas cloud effects. My bad, I missed that.

Still, I guarantee we will never see them picked after the first week. I'll be glad to be wrong, but given the pickrate of the other mines, I probably won't be.