I just can't quit you

I tried the new Eruptor last night. It was cool destroying factories and one-shotting the scout striders. But it just felt soooo clunky. Then I switched back to the Scorcher and proceeded to murder everything in sight. I don't think I can give it up.

- Oooo so it's just a cooldown instead of like a reload? That's good to know!
I didn’t get to try the eruptor on bots yet but it jams on bugs as long as you have a backup like stalwart or rover. It can close bug holes, 1 hit mediums (stalkers included) and the shrapnel spreads well enough that I was regularly getting 5-10 kills when firing into crowds.
- I think not having a backup was my problem. I was using it plus a shield backpack and Quasar. Probably too much heavy damage and not enough to deal with the smaller stuff. I might go for that ship module to add 25% fire damage to the flamethrower and give that a shot. Then I can snipe the big stuff and burn away everything else!

I love the lasers too. I just hate not being able to easily kill the scout striders without running all over the place for a flank or a headshot. Scorcher just takes two shots to the front and they drop.
I run the sickle quasar combo, almost unstoppable. High damage, never run out of ammo, can take down hulks, drop ships, factories Ezpz.

Balance is in a pretty nice spot for a young game. I think there will be some tweaks, but there's a lot of viable builds, which is ideal.

Hopefully they can find out what to do with the HMG and a few of the others.

- Use Stalwart as you would a primary. It becomes viable if you bring a Supply Pack and supply yourself with ammo. The issue then becomes that you don't have a "support" weapon, so you'd have to sub your primary for something that may fill that role, such as the slugger for armor for example. With the new warbond, this build becomes even more viable with the grenade launcher secondary.
- Stalwart shines when you use it as your primary because your actual primary is a bootleg support weapon (for example the eruptor)
- In the early game, it was amazing. Now, I take it to clear chaff on bug missions while using the slugger or dominator for bigger things.
I just watched a video of a solo on Helldiver where they used the HMG to shred Hulks in the face. So I'll be trying that

I'm weird, I love the Jar-5 Dominator. I just finally grinded out and got the Scorcher last night and it was pretty cool.

However, I've been in scenarios where I've been surrounded by bots and the stun and damage given by the Jar 5 was able to buy me enough time to get away.

I think they upped the stagger on the Dominator last patch. I just wish the gun wasn't so slow to aim! It feels like aiming through molasses.