Helldivers 2 is a fun but rather challenging game. Whether you're struggling on Helldive or any difficulty at all, this thirty minute guide/ramble will hopefully help you out - including strategems, armours, or the most important thing of all, strategy.
Patrols and heat:
/ lets_talk_about_patrol...
Third party sites for the store/other things:
divers.gg/
helldivers.io/
00:00 - Intro
02:14 - Mission Modifiers
04:04 - Strategems
15:22 - Grenades and Boosters
17:38 - Armors
19:37 - Starting the Dive
21:53 - Mission Behaviour, Objectives, Samples
24:34 - Patrols, Outposts, Fighting and Extracting
28:58 - Random tips
My number one advice is that you need to really understand the enemies properly to deal with them. There are a variety of weapons and enemies and the way damage works in the game is not all intuitive. Most games work with a health bar system, and hitting weakspots simply does more damage to that one health bar. I'm not saying that doesn't exist in helldivers at all, but for the most part the ways to kill enemies in helldivers 2 completely circumvents it. Think of every single part of an enemy as having its own health bar. Every limb is a separate health bar. Additionally, enemy's armor is a separate system from weak points. A weak point can be behind heavy armor, and an exposed part can be very beefy. The absolute best example of this is Chargers. If you spread out your damage on a charger, it will take AGES to kill it. But there are some conditions that will instantly kill the Charger. Stripping his head armor or damaging one leg enough will instantly finish him off. Additionally, popping his ass will incapacitate it, and die after a few seconds. As a result, there are some very quick and reliable ways to kill chargers. 2 seconds of continuous flamethrower focused on one leg. An Anti-Tank rocket to the face. An Anti-Tank rocket to a leg, stripping the armor, then focusing it down with any weapon. Stunning the charger, then popping the ass with 2 seconds of heavy machine gun fire. Then there's the other side, understanding the enemy's attack methods and tactics. Hunters will attempt to flank you before striking, so when you have a bug breach, you should progressively back off, disallowing that so that you can deal with all bugs coming from the roughly the same direction. Bugs will generally chase down the player, so unless you can create a lot of distance, they will stay aggro'd. Finish off hordes COMPLETELY, don't leave any stragglers, or you will get more bug breaches and get overwhelmed in the future. Meanwhile on the bots side, bots don't aggressively pursue divers nearly as much. Additionally they are fairly stupid and blind at times. If you break line of sight, they can easily lose track of you, allowing you to flank them or disengage, as they will just check out the last spot they saw you. They are also slow and won't chase you endlessly, so often times if there's a bot drop and you don't need to be there, just run pre-emptively and move on elsewhere. Generally speaking trying to face bots fair and square will leave you helplessly lost. Bots set up bunkers outposts with many tools at their disposal to prevent head-on attacks. Stratagems are especially effective at just chucking into objectives before you hide. Even stratagem jammers can be dealt with relatively easily if you can avoid a dropship there and sneak in. There are surprisingly little enemies once you're actually inside their little bunkers. Oof, this comment ended up very long. TL;DR understanding your enemy is key.
Good comment bro 👍
I sure hope the last part with the jammers is true.. but now my problem is getting in, in the first place
@LunarEdge7 spears one shot those radar jammer from a good distance.
Yo, make a video with all this and I’d watch it.
@@LunarEdge7one of the easiest ways i found to get in is to use a jet pack with your secondary to sneak in and call the hellbomb
"Each helldiver is equipped to take out a small army. 4 helldivers, thats like 4 armies I'd say" and she's not wrong. Remember you need something for small, for big and middle. Even with cool downs bringing something for each can help alot. Lvl 65 atm and that's the only advice I'd give... oh and STEALTH IS NOT SHAMEFUL 😂 Even as a heavy.
This feels like a somewhat canon guide in universe
"BRASH TACTICS"?
Everything we do is canon
380 is wildly underrated. It can destroy most buildings that require a hellbomb. It's my go-to "I don't wanna fight my way in there" stratagem. You just gotta hope lady luck is on your side.
The orbitals are not very accurate lol
it's good for throwing deep into large bases. I've had it clear a few before
380s are a dice roll at best, and dangerous at worst. When a fellow diver throws a 380 on objective, it's kind of annoying. I know 4 divers on objective can do 5x more work in the same time as a 380. And they can work on the objective. It is annoying because it denies an entire area from being pushed properly.
The spear is probably the most effective base and defense clearing weapon. You just need to know how to use it and how the computer targeting system works. For one, having the higher ground makes using it much more effective. Always make sure to get to higher ground than your target or find a hill/rock before aiming. The target needs to be in complete view in order to be targeted. The computer does not recognize parts of a target as we do, therefore if part of the target is obscured by say a rock, fence, other target, even flag, tree etc it will not target so you have to position yourself to get a clear shot. It's not that great at heavy units, as one might expect, but once you learn how, You can quickly and easily take out bases, fabricators, turrets, and gun ships from nearly halfway across the map
If you know how to use it, your team will absolutely love having you on their side
One thing that I think you should've mentioned is that against bots fabricators that were apart of a base housing a side or main objective do NOT count as outposts, you can safely kill the objective and just leave the fabricators, in any case they will spawn bots which take up the spawn cap, making less enemies spawn. (Example: You see a detector tower and stealth your way towards it, *You place the hellbomb on the ground below the hill (which will destroy it if placed correctly)* arm it and then leave, if there was a fabricator on the other side of the base you dont have to worry about destroying it as it is *NOT* Counted as an outpost structure, you will still get 5 stars leaving these fabricators alive.
Man that Blue Uniform is so good i want it so bad
You're one of the first guy i heard to say orbital rail isnt that good and i agree, taking out one guy in a swarm game is not a very good stratagem. Ive seen some players who had issues with clearing outposts and buildings(either improper usage of stratagems or not knowing how to approach the situation) so ill put how I deal with them. Spookes already hinted and talked about on some of the ways but here's a dedicated list. Light outpost : eagle airstrike Medium outpost : eagle airstrike Large outpost : Orbital laser or multiple eagle airstrikes Spore spewer : any rocket launcher Shrieker nest : any rocket launcher 2 times illegal broadcast : any rocket launcher, shoot the screens mortar : eagle or cqc it by hitting the vents Every else that needs a hellbomb : hellbomb it (note that there are of course just my approach(mostly low risk) of dealing with them with least effort, there are multiple ways to deal with each of them, also there's a player's preferred method so feel free to add more advice. (edit : grammer)
Note that you can take down the spore spewer with any weapon also
"Grammer" ;)
@@tbone9474 💀
@@hopefulXime shit really? Even submachine guns also work?
Illegal Broadcast: AMR, AC, airburst grenade, impact grenade, probably not thermite.
Genuinely one of the hardest matches I ever played was on a lvl 5 mission, I didn't know that hulks could spawn on lvl 5 and I didn't know that patrols quadrupled once you finish the main mission, me and my duo learned that day 😭
It’s all about taking cover, rotating the map and the armor and weapons you quip! Helldive is a piece of cake!
That Illusive Man theme... Gosh so many memories... Ekhem, great video, thanks:D keep up the good work
Yooo great tips but also great video! Hope your channel pops off!
Great guide friend, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on your channel. Would love to see some of your helldive play 👍
Good to hear your voice again Glad this has blown up for you
Really well explained, so good video man.
If you're with a squad and need to engage a base or patrol, take aim on an enemy you know you can kill quickly and wait until the rest of the squad either pulls aggro or opens fire, then wipe as many enemies as you can as fast as you can. Don't just open up on the first target you see because the rest of the patrol will spread out, move to engage you, and/or call reinforcements. With bots, small enemies are priority in these ambushes as the big ones can't shoot a flare. And be mindful that stray rounds may aggro groups behind your target, including cannon turrets. Their range is always more than you think it is.
I'm amazed how many people don't consider troopers to be high priority. I guess that's the real difference between stealth players and those who just want to blow everything up.
extracts are some of the coolest parts of the mission, plus that music goes so hard
amazing guide
That AMR shot on that Hulk across the map, respect!
Lvl 43 here. Using light armor with increased throwing range all the time except some Defense blitz missions. There I like marshmallow.
nah the 30% detection distance scout perk better
@@darkstormww7479 Not with the modern patrol spawns where patrols are constantly spawned on top of you and out of sight. It's shocking how quickly Scout armor went from meta to functionally useless.
@@ShadowFox64 modern patrol spawns only really affects solo players, but AH is going to revert it they say
cool guide man.
I use the 120mm and 380mm barrages on bot missions during search and destroy or sabotage air base types because there is large concentrations of enemies and bases. Although they are still only worth it with the servo assisted kit most of the time because you want it as far from you as possible. It’s even better if they don’t even see you at all. If they don’t see where it was thrown from or where you are then a whole base can be wiped out without a shot being fired back.
This is one of those games that comes around once and a while and knocks it out of the park. It’s actually a nice change to have human players be enthusiastic about the gameplay, the lore, and playing together. I’m very excited to see where this game goes in the future. Now go spread some democracy, HellDivers!
This game is deceptively difficult.
The games called helldivers I’m sure you were gonna dive into a ball pit
cool guide !
Great vid
I'm happy i reached level 10, now i can actually last in hard matches. Just got this last week and in loving it on my steam deck.
Hell Dive with friends because randos are either toxic or they quit before completing the operation. Also bot killers are usually more toxic than bug stompers
sorry to hear that my fellow bot killers are toxic, shameful behavior tbh
You must be playing with newbies because I only see that happen with new players that give up early.
I think people with friends already play with friends. Random players usually do random because they don't have friends. Drive a corvette guys cuz a Honda is too quiet
I am always a random, and I helped out as much as I can. Please don't judge randoms so easily.
Good job, nice video
I thank you for your inherritant view on this game. Altough well spoken, your mic is givings lot of reverb. Keep it up.
Keep the reverb up?
Arc thrower underrated
I want the video “tips on how to be the 300+ hour solo god” you speak of
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Avoid unnecessary combat is the biggest tip i can give. Especially biletitans and tanks if they aint in the way just run past em
Trying to run away but hulks are catching you? Two choices; 1) Leg the hulk, this slow them down by about 90% 2) Pop a smoke strategem as both orbital and eagle are useful. If Bots can't see you, they'll shoot your last known position, so drop a smoke and move sideways afterwards. You'll lose 'em every time... unless you hit another patrol.
Considering how blind they are, if you're hitting another patrol, it's because you're running away too fast or waiting too long to start running away so the other patrol got close.
BUT, did you consider dying for liberty? There IS a third choice. A primary choice. I sense cowardice and will alert my democracy officer right away
noticed I did a lot of yapping across multiple comments so I put it all in one: Comment 1: One thing that I think you should've mentioned is that against bots fabricators that were apart of a base housing a side or main objective do NOT count as outposts, you can safely kill the objective and just leave the fabricators, in any case they will spawn bots which take up the spawn cap, making less enemies spawn. (Example: You see a detector tower and stealth your way towards it, You place the hellbomb on the ground below the hill (which will destroy it if placed correctly) arm it and then leave, if there was a fabricator on the other side of the base you dont have to worry about destroying it as it is NOT Counted as an outpost structure, you will still get 5 stars leaving these fabricators alive. Comment 2: when running my helldives if I notice the team calling in extract at about 20 minutes I tell them to wait because we prob left something (Im a 5 stars lunatic), its harder with randoms but Id rather play with them than my friends who are stuck at around level 20-30 and like bugs more. If you get out way before 10 minutes on the mission clock you left something behind, whether its an outpost or side objective you arent getting 5 stars. Comment 3: My Bot loadout: Autocannon support (He says its ammo hungry but I disagree, while autocannon sniping bot fabs I can go around the entire map with almost just a single autocannon, when it does run out I can either resupply or call in a new one almost instantly), eagle airstrike (same dmg as 500kg but more AoE and more uses per eagle rearm), orbital precision strike (Literally a Rail strike with a way lower cooldown), Orbital Laser (As he says its good for clearing bot bases, I use it on the relatively flat one that has 4 fabricators and a ton of hulks on it, any experienced helldive player should know what bot base layout im talking about)
Bot loadout MO: Autocannon support (He says its ammo hungry but I disagree, while autocannon sniping bot fabs I can go around the entire map with almost just a single autocannon, when it does run out I can either resupply or call in a new one almost instantly), eagle airstrike (same dmg as 500kg but more AoE and more uses per eagle rearm), orbital precision strike (Literally a Rail strike with a way lower cooldown), Orbital Laser (As he says its good for clearing bot bases, I use it on the relatively flat one that has 4 fabricators and a ton of hulks on it, any experienced helldive player should know what bot base layout im talking about)
Know your enemy, I use different builds for Terminids and Automatons so don’t be afraid to try things out on the lower difficulties. You can also ask to use peoples support stratagems, most will call you down one. This is a training manual tip, but the number one thing that gets people killed is they panic when being swarmed which is common in higher difficulties.. Don’t panic, and you’ll be able to get out of most situations.
Good job with the video! Lovely accent
3:12 radar jam is severely crippling Not seeing a patrol flanking from over a hill is death embracing and not knowing how big a group is to run or if also a severe downside
I couldn’t help thinking it sounds like learning Helldivers from Creepy Dave.
localized confusion DOES work but it works in a ways that the tool tip doesn't explain well, it's basically a 10% increased cooldown between the bots or bugs being able to call in a bot drop or bug breach, it is very noticeable on higher difficulties and can really give your team those few extra seconds to breath and recoup.
4 auto cannons is AWESOME! Double team loading… I’d be ok with this being a temporary meta.
The AUTO CANNON SENTRY IS A GOAT ITEM!!!! (vs bugs for sure )You just gotta be super mindful where you place it or chunk it far away from the fight and make sure you're not in the line of fire. Gun downt he enemies going for ur turret while the turret kills everything else lol. Also I've watched it gun down bile titans gloriously while I take the titans aggro =D
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Localization Confusion does work. You'll notice it more during eradication missions, where you're often sitting on your hands waiting for the next wave to arrive. I wish people would stop taking this to eradication missions.
The localization confuser just adds 10% or smth to the cooldown of bug breaches and bot drops. So basically extending the grace period between enemy call ins by like 5 seconds.
If you're low on super credits: PLAY LOW DIFFICULTY MISSIONS!!!! Level 2 missions have the possibility of spawning radar towers which can show you every location of loot on the map, and have such a small spawn pool for what can spawn in bunkers, shipping containers, and supply pods, that you're able to get up to 50 super credits per run!!
hell yea
My lvl 134 10-star general advice is: Use breaker+railgun bugs, Scorcher+Railgun bots and git gud...On both instances 500kg+orbital laser(laser being the most optional since most of the time you olnly get 3 strats anyways). Playing with other ppl is just to increase the difficulty of helldives so if you want ez games just solo.
That armor is so blue. You look like the flag of Finland.
I can't imagine EVER using light armor
I can imagine not using light armor, but for the most part I stick with the lightest.
I as a somewhat scout(Light Armor mostly in front of all other) is always fascinated by me fellow divers. Sure its only difficult 7 but as soon as I Ping a patrol I sneak around I hear the first gunshot into the group and what happens? Bug breach or Bot drop! Why you love fighting so much?
I’ve learned something from being a new player and experiencing the release of a new warbond… save some medals beforehand.
Save up, but beware the medal cap. I think it's 250 right now.
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when running my helldives if I notice the team calling in extract at about 20 minutes I tell them to wait because we prob left something (Im a 5 stars lunatic), its harder with randoms but Id rather play with them than my friends who are stuck at around level 20-30 and like bugs more. If you get out way before 10 minutes on the mission clock you left something behind, whether its an outpost or side objective you arent getting 5 stars.
Play helldivers with me, Spookes 🥰
If you thought I wouldn't catch any mass effect 2 song in your background, you were wrong.
“There’s no Fomo!” And this is how I find out they had pre-order armor. Arrowhead you better make that openly available, soon!
I wonder how pros deal when ur teammate toss ur reinforcement in middle of robots 😂😂😂
Try to use power steering to get away from the big crowd, and go prone as soon as you land. Unless you're pretty much in melee range of a bot, they won't see you. But that's with scout armor, might be a little harder with something Else
Robots are easy, in fact the only time I have killed any bugs are in the tutorial. I also play solo, so like when I encounter a tank I just destroy what I need to and then run, most of the enemies you don’t actually have to fight. You can just run.
You say the samples won’t disappear at the extraction point, but I have seen exactly that. RIP 5 super samples.
Always messed up when I'm reinforced towards the enemy knowing daym well we have to take cover
14:42 lmaooo PLEASE?!😂
You can throw grenades through the factory doors? I always aimed for the vents exclusively
Yeah brother. A lot of people try and give up because there's actually 2! Sets of doors in a fabricator. The second set opens when releasing a new wave of bots, but close when the first set do. If the spawn cap is reached then the second doors don't open. If you observe carefully you can see it happen. I set my lighting to low detail so your ability to see it may vary. It may be pretty but I hate being blinded every objective that we activate >__
Wait, how did you customise you armour colors ?
It's a starter armor I think. Check your armory
@@Karazu1kun you have it in blue somehow, are those mods ? Because I didn't get those
How did you change the color of your armor
It's a preorder armour set
i hope they add a 10 11 and 12 difficulty
Thing is with teammates,it has never worked for me planning around them Once they get they're weapon or backpack they won't get u one So I need to forsake team planning and be selfish to get my stuff
Walking Barrage > 120mm > 380mm.
380mm is great
@@kamikeserpentail3778it CAN be great if you get lucky. I like running it on solo playthroughs, but it's too inconsistent and requires team communication to use safely.
Recommending eagles for taking out bile titans is wild, they don't do shit against bile titans
Bought it 4 days ago and I have killed almost 2k automatons but only like 50 terminids💀
I rather battle against the automatons myself . The bugs aren’t as much fun for me
How do you drop samples on PS5?
How is your armor blue and white?
I want that blue armor so bad 😢
Yooo whered u get that blue armor
pre order, wish i did back then, that looks sick
Preorder bonus armor
You can still buy the codes online for a few bucks
@@StepBro399 where at?
14:52 what is that blue armor
what armour is that
Where the blue helmet come from?
You start with it
best advice still dont drop your squad into suicide, first think then call for reinforcement.....PLEASE!!!!!
Man, I would rather have three slots than bug spores. Don't disable my mini map. God damn. And honestly, I kind of find solo helldive to be easier than with a team. Because when I go solo I can look at the situation and think where am I going to approach from? Where am I going to retreat to? Should I create a diversion? Which targets are the top priority? When I play with a bunch of randoms? They just run in shooting and then run to the next location and things can fall apart very quickly... It's why some of them complain about bot towers sniping them from across the map but those pretty much never shoot at me. 380 barrage takes a long time to land, and then lasts a long time. It's a great diversion to draw enemy reinforcements to a location you don't plan to stick around. And the precision strike is just good in general. I hear eagle strikes can't take down the eye of sauron, but precision strike works for me every time.
Am sorry, but Fassion first. Always! Dark Souls has tought me well!
TLDR: It’s a commando game , play it that way.
What does that mean?
@@kamikeserpentail3778 we are commandos , jump in hit the targets get your stuff and leave. No need for long pitched battles and 40k style mauling your way across the map nonsense, that’s not what this game is.
I get hit once by a stalker my shield is gone and all my life is gone and 50 other bugs coming at us . How is this fun? I
Watch out for stalkers then. Change your computer's graphics so it will show further distance.
Audio level could be louder
For the love of god dont throw respawn into a bunch of enemys unless yourvtaking out somtjing big with the hellpod
6:22 the guy with the Asian name in the chat 😂
Team? Y'all have teams? I can't even add friends by searching ID Tags
I swear you said bungholes and not bug holes
A tip for dealing with shriekers: go prone to shoot at their nests. Shriekers can't swoop down low enough to hit you if you're prone.
What language is this supposed to be?
Brah this game is easy and is the only game on the planet dat dont need a guide wtf?!?!?
Easy??!! I guess you never faced 5+ bot ship drops or bug holes at the same time.
Wrong wrong n wrong. The laser strat is a must and lasts very long!!! Ive taken down TWO bot bases with one laser cause they were close enough but not close enough where i thought it would be able to clear both but traveled all the way to the second and smacked it!!!!!! You just gotta know how to use it. This dude has no idea wtf hes talking about off rip. Erupter, 500k, laser orbital, quasar(against bots), Stalwart(against bugs) to compliments the slow reload of eruptor, and auto cannon sentry!!! This load out is my meta and i can wipe whole planets dolo with it. Use it and if u still getting smacked its cause your just trash at the game so work on your aim, learn how to be more situational aware, laid down your autocannon far away as its got massive range as a fallback position so if u get overwhelmed u can run towards it and have it hold u down for the crown. 500k learn when to throw it and lead enemies as it takes a couple to land and explode. Whatever you do don't listen to this dude as he just regurgitating nonsense he heard other people who don't know anything say
This game would be infinitely easier if healing worked properly. It’s either bugged or the mechanic they have right now that constantly stops the animation and takes forever to heal sucks donkey balls.
hell with the fire damage buffed we drop like flies
@@sergeantblue6115I’m with you. They made the 95% resistance arc armor. We need at least a 70% fire dmg resist armor. The flame thrower guy has killed me more than any arc throwing Helldivers ever have.
@@Kitz419 the Hulk can headshot u with the flamethrower leading to a instakill with no counterplay.
@@skeley6776burns your brain fr