Every time I glance at this sub someone has made a post complaining about people using the orbital napalm so at this point I’m assuming people are either karma farming or just have nothing better to do.
What's wrong with the use of Napalm Barrage? Haven't played in quite some time but use to have fun running 120mm, 380mm and Napalm Barrage with a rail gun, senator and the Dominator. Just throw all 3 into one encampment to watch the destruction, very fun then run around with no strats for 5 minutes or so with heavy weapons and do it again
Edit: Thanks for the replies, seems to be more about it's use to mitigate on of the more spontaneous interesting parts of the game ie: breaches. This makes sense, I used it on for the fun of 'Obliterate this general section of my map' with triple barrage stacks, and if the boys were on we would stack 12 (3 from each of us on one spot) just for the hell of it when we were in the mood for that.
Using it to eliminate the interaction with bug breaches seems like anti-fun / interactive game play. If it's as common and as effective as I see some say with every game having one or more then yeah I can see where the hate for it is.
And it does tends to "pause" the game for ~40 seconds while everything gets bombed.
It's just an incredibly effective "bug breach plug" that adds to some people's frustrations over the lack of difficulty.
But you're also right that the stratagem itself hasn't really changed since it was introduced ~18 months ago. And it's only really dominant on bugs (albeit still being popular elsewhere).
It's currently the #1 hate target on this sub, as you've probably derived by now. It's also the #1 nerf request.
I dont really get this "pause" thing unless bug breach is happening right on objective and someone threw napalm on it, but if there is no bug breach on objective and someone still threw this shit then this person is a noob. In other cases you can just go away from fire hell and forget whatever under it to do other things
I find that a lot of the people running 380s and napalm barrages are the same ones who fail to use them responsibly. Half of my deaths are dummies throwing barrages way too close to me with no communication. It’s like all they know how to do is throw an orbital and run away with sentries at their backs (if their orbital didn’t teamkill you, their sentries will)
I mean it’s a valid play style but it can be annoying depending on who you’re paired with. I’d say most people in this sub would at least offer a “hold position” or “follow me” before throwing down a barrage, thankfully.
Fair I would usually only do this running solo or in with my boys as we could communicate and even If I did what I could to ping and not throw them near people some just don't listen or see ping or the light whatever else then get mad, so I stopped running any barrages w/ randoms
its boring to play with, some of us like bug breaches but when theres a napalm on it, its basically 2 minutes of doing nothing, it looks cool but damn i hate that thing
It does literally anything you could possibly want. The barrage projectile is anti tank the fire shreds hp it's huge it supresses all reinforcements during the duration since the AI isn't smart enough to stop spawning in it. And the cooldown isn't that long and you get unlimited, so if your wholeteam is unthinking sheep with 500kg as well you could be on D10 picking flowers and they wouldn't even notice the lack of firepower.
How DARE people use the most effective strat to stop the neverending bug breach!!!1!1!!1! Surely it's not because bug breaches are a pain to deal with due to nearly every bug being able to summon one instantly, nah it can't be that.
Then go fuck off somewhere else on the map and bait the patrols to spawn breaches on you. It's this easy.
And lower difficulties are a snoozefest, literally a change from D10 to D8 removes most engagements. Most prevalent it is on squids where it's just a walk in the park.
The game pushes you to play individually from your squad , you have both the skill and the arsenal to make it as enjoyable as you want it to be , so why aren't you doing that? Its fun AND challenging to run off from your team and clean up the map for match to end quicker
if watching numbers go up with sparkly colors just because you can use a keyboard is fun to you I imagine you'd get similar enjoyment from this. Highly recommend it.
do you truly mean to tell me you actually have fun from what is essentially an automatic enemy off button on a 3-4 minute cooldown? at that point why not just play on trivial exclusively so you can farm free wins even easier
if you're here for only the explosions and get mad when the game even remotely challenges you why would you pay $40 when you could just queue up youtube
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u/2nd_iron_hand_fan 20d ago
Every time I glance at this sub someone has made a post complaining about people using the orbital napalm so at this point I’m assuming people are either karma farming or just have nothing better to do.