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While they’re still busy with their latest big task, a recent order in Helldivers 2<\/a> has seen criticism of the Eagle 500KG bomb come back to the fore. Why? Well, because it’s still killing barely anything that doesn’t lie within the epicentre of its blasts.<\/p>\n

Hey, if nothing else, the fact we’ve returned to talking about a stratagem that folks have been wanting changed for a good while now could mean that Arrowhead is finally gathering data to help do just that. Plus it means a limit to the amount of chatter that can be being had about the idea of splitting enemy forces in two and whether or not that’s a tactic that’d make Sun Tzu tear his hair out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arrowhead’s been doing a lot of asking folks to kill a bunch of things<\/a> using different weapons lately, with a recent example being it asking players via a Personal Order to do in 200 foes using the 500KG bomb. Obviously, you don’t have to do every one of these orders, since all they do is provide some extra medals for your trouble, but the folks who have weren’t best pleased to find that the device still doesn’t do what they want it to.<\/p>\n

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While they’re still busy with their latest big task, a recent order in Helldivers 2 has seen criticism of the Eagle 500KG bomb come back to the fore. Why? Well, because it’s still killing barely anything that doesn’t lie within the epicentre of its blasts. Hey, if nothing else, the fact we’ve returned to talking about a stratagem that folks have been wanting changed for a good while now could mean that Arrowhead is finally gathering data to help do just that. Plus it means a limit to the amount of chatter that can be being had about the idea of splitting enemy forces in two and whether or not that’s a tactic that’d make Sun Tzu tear his hair out. Arrowhead’s been doing a…<\/p>\n

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