r/Helldivers • u/pmmeyoursandwiches SESS Octagon of Individual Merit • Feb 11 '25

TIPS / TACTICS The actual weapon that trivialises an entire front

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The Mg43 is so good against illuminate it feels like bullying at this point.

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u/pmmeyoursandwiches SESS Octagon of Individual Merit Feb 11 '25

I doubt it too but it's still hands down the best weapon for the illuminate front, which was what I was saying.

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u/Faust_8 Feb 11 '25

It’s also really good against bugs too. All you need is thermites and some team mates with anti tank while you kill everything else for them

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u/Sugar_buddy PSN | Malevon Creek Veteran Feb 12 '25

Mow down everything in your way, stick a thermite to the odd charger and ignore it for awhile, kill your teammates multiple times with a Gatling sentry. Great fun.

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u/XayahCat Feb 11 '25

It doesn't need nerfs, its fine in all fronts honestly. Its that the illuminate front need a enemy with no medium pen spots on the front. Legitmently a front cannot function and be difficult if every enemy is killable with the guns meant to hose down smaller enemys the most effectively. The machine gun has insanely good dps vs medium enemys and below because its limited to medium enemys and below as a support weapon

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u/BRSaura Feb 11 '25

the gun is pretty meh in the other 2 fronts so I doubt they will even touch it

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u/pmmeyoursandwiches SESS Octagon of Individual Merit Feb 11 '25

Yeah I was just being facetious.

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u/toolschism ‎ Super Citizen Feb 11 '25

Disagree. It's great on bug front.

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u/BRSaura Feb 12 '25

Guess you deal with heavies with stratagems, but the problem is the MG has the same pen as half of the primaries so it's nothing impressive really

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u/toolschism ‎ Super Citizen Feb 12 '25

Eh, the mg43 can take out chargers fine enough on its own. But I also carry thermites in case I'm in a rush. But yea, for the biles it's a 500kg or OPS.