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That sounds…terrible

Honestly I’m the type to try one thing at a new restaurant, and if I like it, I’ll never try anything different lol. I do like OPA because it fits my playstyle really well and I use it a lot on Haz5. I typically run it with armor breaking though. The range on it is usually garbage, but again, I like being up close to the enemies rather than far away.

@@benicopter Yeah that's the main issue with OPA, is that you never really get to easily go for prio targets (which is pretty bad in coordinated play), but I could legit see this working decently as a pubbing/solo build that deviates a little from the norm.

Thank you! Much appreciated

He mines faster by pressing right click repeatedly instead of holding it down to avoid the lag after swinging. You can deposit really fast by spamming E instead of holding, but you have to mash extremely fast so he probably has it bound to scroll wheel or on a macro.

this is all only really applicable as host btw

For mining faster, you release right click right as you’re hitting the mineral and press it again. For depositing faster, you alternate pressing E and right click. This one takes a little more getting used to

Understandable!

Not that a recall. I’m pretty sure once you have all the weapon upgrades it just gets you a new paint job or framework

Thanks! It’s a fun build. Even more fun with pheromones since they all bunch up. Double barrel just instantly destroys like 30+ enemies

@@benicopter Yeah, i did a test run with it exactly as you set it up here, but then after that i of course went and tried with pheremone and that is some real efficiency for solo scout. I haven't used Double Barrel much so i still don't have a good feel for the blast aoe, either.

To be completely fair, that’s not the Boomstick’s fault lol. It’s just OPA being OPA and not killing anything

@@flapjackgd937 I feel like OPA do does well here! I tried with Shield Battery Booster solo and it wasn't much better if at all. I would like to try with TEF, though. (Edit: I'm not even a huge fan of OPA normally, tbh.)

Unfortunately not, I’d love to see it too tbh but he doesn’t record

I love that setup! Kinda nervous to try it on 5+ though. The enemies are so tanky it would be hard to kill anything

@@benicopterI’ve found AV drak to be a very comfortable option on h5a. Your killing power is considerably worse than TEF, but you did fine with OPA so that shouldn’t be a huge issue. AoE fear on demand is simply really, really good for a difficulty that punishes hits very heavily. I haven’t tried it with DB, but it’s fantastic with shaped shells, which allows you some instant spitter/mactera clear as well as consistent stuns.

@@flapjackgd937 I appreciate your insight! I’ll have to give it a try 😃

Yeah doing live is very hard - but I’d like to do some more commentary. I had one DD where I added commentary and it was pretty fun

I couldn’t tell ya. The game is pretty balanced IMO. I also feel a lot of it has to do with your playing style. So what one person considers OP another might not. It also depends on what hazard level you’re playing and what your objective is. I would almost never play any of my speedrunning builds on a normal haz5 or haz5+ mission.

The grenade, and there is a pheromone dart in the Boltshark as well.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve tried it. I’m the type that one I find something I like, I stick with it for a very long time. There’s still numerous OC’s I haven’t even tried yet 😬

Field of view mod

Thanks! Just trying to be like you 😉

Thanks! And I agree.

Thank you! I’ve tried live commentary and it’s hard for me to multitask and talk while gaming. Maybe I’ll try again and see if I can make something work

@@benicopter That's understandable, especially for speedrun type high tempo content that you usually make. If could you get it down though I think it'd make your videos much more enjoyable.

Thanks! And I kind of explain it in the description. You typically still get XP for a failed event. I activated it with the intention of just letting the time run out, but saw it was 3 minutes and got impatient. Didn’t want to wait an additional 3 minutes

@@benicopter Thanks for explanation!

Also, you could've prevented your first death if you just resupped after getting the first egg instead of fully depleting your ammo

100%. And I was just greedy - thought I was out of view of the Menace. But knew I had Iron Will anyway so just YOLO’d it

Absolutely! I failed many times as well doing this challenge. And I think it completely changes which enemies are important to focus. I quickly learned that web spitters are a big problem if they hit you. The slow down, low visibility, and increased damage can be derailing to a mission. Normally I wouldn’t think much of them - they were more annoying than anything. But then again, I guess with all the modifiers turned on, every single enemy is a problem…lol

I usually run armor breaking on it, but since I wasn’t really using it much for the swarm fights I thought it would work better to slow some of them down with the electric

@@benicopter ok

No idea! I thought I was in clear which is why I started mining the egg

Its effectiveness scales with enemy count. Every pheromoned bug is like a L.U.R.E. that fights back. Throwing one nade at a medium-sized group of grunts can render the entire swarm harmless for its duration.

When playing solo, with 1 resupply I’d have 12 pheromones. That’s more than enough to handle the swarms, and double barrel just eviscerates the grouped up bunch of enemies. With a full squad I imagine they aren’t as OP since you have to share the resupply

I love aggressive venting as well but haven’t tried it on 5+ yet. I went with OPA because I like the damage it does, and I use it more for the ranged enemies that are high priority (mactera, spitters, etc)

ive used AV an ungodly amount in 5+ and its sick just not really a solo thing. pretty bad efficiency solo because u either have to waste time grouping bugs or waste a ton of ammo overheating. but its not like opa is all that good lol

Personal preference really. I run pheromones a lot because I find it fun to group up the enemies and destroy them. I wanted to try something a little more challenging this run. I think if I played a lot of 5+ pheros would be my main one

Yep. Most high-level scout solos declare ‘pheroless’ if they don’t use them. Being able to instantly shut down a significant portion of the aggro cap for 15 seconds is absolutely cracked

they're all teamplay based, and burst fire is just terrible

@@daneelaart was Most curious about the 3 burst haha

Ojb has some videos using the new Scout overclocks on 5+. Really insanely good player

youre an overcharged winch

I’ve used SBB on lower haz levels pretty much exclusively for tanking damage while ignoring enemies. I’ll have to give it a shot on 5+ and see how it feels

i mean if you need to barely get hit anyway, i can see how itd be better tbf

that one swarmer chasing you at mach 7 ensuring ur always low shield:

Also, may just be on my end but at 6:40, 8:10 and a few other parts it looks like the video file corrupted

⁠@@therealgathethank you! And I didn’t see anything on my end regarding the corruption. What are you seeing?

@@benicopter Checked it out on my phone and seems my computer is just being irate with this one video in particular, alas!

I was excited to hear your thoughts on it in your video, but I guess I’ll have to wait for the next one! 😉

people want the kind of hard that they can handle, anything above that is bad while refusing to play on lower difficulties due to gamer ego or something

Haz 5+8 looks does look fun! The challenge and strategy involved makes it difficult in a fun way. People are complaining about it just bc they are used to haz 5s slower and less punishing hordes. Getting hit by three or four enemies does decent damage, but the game doesn't punish you as badly. With this, people play it exactly like haz 5 and get mad when they can't do the same thing and get punished for doing so.

it limits build options. haz5 double enemies is a nice middle ground.

​@@M1911papThis guy seems to have had a blast with it using cryo grenades and overtuned particle accelerator though lol. Like, I'm sure this hits stuff like autocannon and pgl pretty badly but like, so does every increase in difficulty. It kinda comes naturally that you need good weapons to play a hard mission, and even saying that, OPA and cryos, so its not even that rigid.

Thank you! And I forget the exact FOV, but it's somewhere between 135-140

​@@benicopterThanks! Do you also use the mod that changes the fov of the weapon viewmodels?

@@jonoxis the only FOV mod I use is “More Fov”

Good question... Ryzen 7 5800x processor RTX 3080 32gb RAM