The Eagle 500KG Bomb Stratagem is one of the least liked in Helldivers 2, mainly due to how the splash and animation don’t reflect the damage. Now, criticism has increased with a recent order asking players to use the 500KG Bomb to take out 200 enemies.
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“Yesterday’s Personal Order was a painful reminder that the Bomb needs a much larger damage radius,” reads the title of a July 14 Reddit thread that goes into detail about how the problematic Stratagem functions, criticizing its small damage radius and long call-in time that allows enemies to move out of the explosion. The 500KG Bomb is supposed to be the crème de la crème of Eagle Stratagems, but it’s often eschewed in favor of the much more popular Eagle Airstrike, which can be used multiple times in quick succession.
The thread creator continued in the comments, saying that the Stratagem also suffers from the massive explosion, making it difficult to tell who lived and who died until the explosion cloud clears. The programming also means that enemies that are seemingly right next to each other are affected differently by the very precise and limited damage cone.
“Animations should be in sync with the AOE,” another player said, adding that “if the explosion animation catches [them], they should take damage.” One player claimed that the bomb killed an average of four enemies and that spamming lower difficulty missions took some getting the order.
