Helldivers 2 - the new orbital gatling barrage is heaven's machine gun 

I love that the description of zero-g breech loading implies that all guns on Super Earth ships are muzzle loaded

Gatling Barrage also scales better the more you have on the team! While Napalm and Gas don't seem to stack with themselves, 4 GB will will be that much more destructive!

This thing went to "meh" to "absolute gold". This thing is incredible now and you can bring it against anything, a very safe, easy to use, fast and low CD jack-of-all-trade. And you can kill titans with it too.

Gatling is also very useful during extracts where the environment forces the incoming patrols into a choke point or bunch up around terrain.

OGB mains when it finally got remembered in the big fix update:

I like to combo it with the orbital 120 mm barrage and/or the airburst strike. Those tend to kill anything that happens to make it through the Gatling barrage.

Gatling + airburst + gas = total bug destruction

I bring this and the humble machine gun sentry on most missions now. My ship is fully upgraded so the up time on these two feels permanent. If I need them.and they aren't up, they are coming very soon.

Ruuning barrage + spear against bots is super fun. A lot of bots barely survive a spear & finishing them off with the barrage is super easy and hits more things with conserving spear ammo

Your armour combo is literally what I've been using too. I knew it would look good!

Orbital Gatling got a lot of love this update, but I’d like to see more changes to the orbitals. A change I’ve thought of is to reclassify the airburst strike to an airburst barrage. 2 options it could be done, either a simple classification change to allow “more guns” to apply, or rework it to act more like the 120mm and cluster bomb combined (maybe a future stratagem??)

Can’t tell you how many time my OGB magically broke Charger legs I love it.

Does anyone else love running orbital airburst and orbital gatling at the same time and always having a horde clear off cooldown?

You've definitely convinced me to at least try it a few times, thanks for the intel.

I tried it out after the patch, but was only so-so on it. However, I did not know what it's radius was, and hadn't thought through the implications of its reduced cooldown time, so I think I may give it another go, and use it much more heavily.

Dessy-chan is back and hitting harder than ever.

This is my go-to breach clearing strat over napalm strike now. It doesn't interfere with my 500kgs and along with ops and the fllamethrower you basically have all your bases covered. Great vid too man, learned a lot 🫡

Another awesome man! Keep up the great content 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Loving the gatling barrage against the bots!

In the words of Tea For Two's Slodier: "This is the gun God would use to shoot someone."

Orbital EMS bug breaches then barrage it, they are up at the same time constantly and you just completely hold down the hole.

Your videos are the best man, keep up the good work.

not you beating the shit out of the scavenger for burping in the beginning 😭

I run 500's, gatling barrage, gas strike, and Spear on the majority of the bug missions. Honestly, if they reduced the Orbital Precision strike down to like 85-ish seconds, i'd run that over the 500KG's and swap the gas strike to Eagle Napalm. But, the OGB puts in work. Definitely the best update in the patch . It would have been the Spear, but that is still broken.

the gift of heaven brought to earth... praise be orbital BRRRT

I use it every bug mission and has replaced the napalm airstrike for me My favorite loadout for bugs is gatling barrage + gas strike (sometimes precision strike for extra anti-tank) and recoilless rifle + strafing run for bile titans (this is my current favorite tech for them )

Orbital has killed me more since the update than any other strat for months, lol. It definitely works

It was already pretty good at shutting down a bug breach for a few seconds before with its short cooldown and decent damage to light/ medium targets, but now it’s one of the best in the game and stacks amazingly with napalm

I'd love to see a pros and cons comparison of gas, napalm, gatling, and airburst. They all seem to fill a similar niche of throwing them directly on top of something like a bug breach to apply a damage over time to all the enemies forced to come through a choke, so it would be nice to see which one is best to bring in a given situation.

Its better than before but Eagle Strafe was better than Barrage was and its still better now. Barrage fills a already saturated niche of "I hope things in that general area dies" but there are better and more reliable options available for that, even Eagle Strafe is competing with it but Strafe is absurdly more reliable, safe to use, faster(denying a area for 10 seconds is not as great as clearing out the area in 3) and versatile in that the Eagle always flies in from behind you so hitting bug nests/fabricators is as easy as lining yourself up with them and using it. Same with objectives like destroy bug eggs/nests/air bases etc. With Barrage its often "oh look, a big mountain in the way and now my barrage is doing nothing" or simply up to luck if a shot will hit the nest/fabricator while the Eagle can find a way in unless the area is completely surrounded by high mountains. I mean I too still like to use Barrage, I am just a bit sad that despite the BIG buffs to it its still a bottom tier stratagem that pretty much does everything worse than the alternatives. Atmospheric Fluctuations or whatever the mission modifier is called is also frustratingly common in higher difficulties making all orbitals quite literally "hit and miss". Tbh orbitals(all of them) need shorter CD or larger payloads, they are shot directly from the ship so no need for a Eagle to carry it to fight which should mean more and larger boom, to really compete with Eagles that are able to dump like 2-5 stratagems within seconds of each other before having to wait ~2 minutes or whatever is just too much value compared to the ~50-60 seconds between orbitals on top of the Eagles generally being more effective and reliable.... maybe in future patches!

I double it up with the Airburst. Throw both and clear the area 🎯

They should really think of stratagem customisation, this might lead to some verity while not over-saturating the roster

Combo the gatling barrage with stun grenade to make sure a bot drop or a bug breach would get hit by the barrage

I usually run either this with 110 rockets or strafing run with precision strike. And for the other 2 a backpack and support weapon

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="196">3:16</a> was not expecting a clip for that

Gatling, Rail and Precision

airburst >>> gatling for me personally

I had an incredible extraction with randoms the other day where we had what felt like an endless wave of light-medium bugs coming at us through a relatively narrow chokepoint. Chucking orbital gatling barrages and eagle strafing runs into that chokepoint was just exquisite

Finally, they actually treat it as

It has a tendency to throw some strays... first game i played with a new group and it ragdolled me with a gas strike in my hand and we lost some (all) divers. Still love it tho, but feel its fire area still isn't densely saturated enough and can let quite a bit slip through, but i guess the tradeoff for faster killing and armor pen separates it from gas strike.

@wallbouncing you can turn auto climb off now in the options - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="97">1:37</a> min. maybe it's old footage but you did it twice in this clip you climbed the resupply

Yo what planet were you on with that super high up view of the Gatling barrage?

Give me an upgrade for 2 charges and I'll bring it every drop

Soooooo you are telling me I have a new best friend? I shoulda checked into this sooner.

Once i killed a bile titan with this thing, its really strong!

They didn't mention they altered the impact pattern to be a narrow stream that moves around the target area instead of the original spread pattern. This makes it noticeably less consistent. These undocumented changes make them look bad. They are lacking in either competence or honesty. They need to work on upping their standards.

"So looking into the shit management terminal, the Orbital Gatling Barrage is described....." am i the only one who heard this haha

umm iv seen the gatling barrage take out drop ships brochacho... takes knowing where the destroyer is and how far from center and then throwing it under neath

USE GATLING + ORBITAL EMS STRIKE ON DROPSHIPS ….. or bug holes, its AMAZING!!!! DROP 1 EMS AND 2 OGB! Give a Try!

Can you do an Airburst Rocket guide/deep dive? I want to like it.

what pc specs are you running on?

What's the helmet you're using?

unbelievable to me that there's people that can just play the game without it crashing or bugging every 10 seconds, from my last 10 games I was only able to finish 1

The divers on our destroyer call using 4 gatlings at once an A1000 in reference to the a10 warthog our eagles are based off.