#weapons experimentation

Good news for our warriors on Meridia: High Command has noticed the difficulty in fending Terminids off the drills and is dispatching additional A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentries to all active Super Destroyers in response. It's a smart choice, as EMS effects can safely prevent most Terminids from even moving. The only remaining struggle will be stopping the highly resilient Bile Titans and extracting alive amidst the Shrieker swarm. 

Similarly to Bile Titans, Shriekers are also immune to the impairment wrought by EMS, which means they'll have to be dispatched the old-fashioned way—with plenty of bullets. Some soldiers have begun taking a variety of bullet hoses with them in order to protect their squad against these fliers. A powerful combination we've personally recorded footage of is the simultaneous use of assault rifles, machine guns, and ballistic sentries. This staggering throughput of bullets clears the hordes from the sky with minimal risk of friendly fire.

Additionally, many heroes have taken to learning the Shrieker's attack patterns in order to find the most effective evasive maneuvers. Two popular strategies are to use the surrounding walls and cliffs as cover, limiting the possible directions of aerial assault, and to move unpredictably. Once they've started a divebomb, Shriekers have little steering control, and even groups are easily dodged by constantly switching directions. Finally, diving into prone seems to be effective at avoiding divebombs and giving a trooper just enough time to inject themselves with a stim in order to keep going.

This is Michael Adams, reporting to you on Super Earth's latest!

Not long ago, Super Earth's High Command pre-approved a temporary requisition of the Orbital Gas Strike stratagem for all active Super Destroyers. This is an uncommon event due to the cost, which means it will not last long. The Helldivers had better take full advantage of it while they can.

Additionally, the Helldivers' personal orders of the day, as intercepted by us, appear to involve the utilization of the FLAM-40 Flamethrower in the eradication of at least one hundred foes!

We cannot help but notice the timing of these events, only two weeks after Super Earth corrected a major error in their production lines for all corrosive and incendiary compounds used by SEAF weaponry that had led to a high rate of 'dud' shipments with little to no effect on targets. It's clear that the Helldiver's trust in the efficacy of our more slow-burning tools has been shaken, such that High Command deems it necessary to corral them back into regular use.