Helldivers 2 - Easily Complete "Retrieve Essential Personnel" SOLO (Helldive Difficulty, Guided Run)
2024 ж. 31 Нау.
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Talking a little bit about the "Retrieve Essential Personnel" mission and how to very easily complete it completely solo, without requiring a competent team haha
Enjoy!
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my inner loot monster screaming seeing you walk past those super samples.
I spent half the mission sneaking around 4 different patrols all headed for my team to secure samples. The stat screen said it all. 43 kills and 37 samples extracted. The loot goblin within me is extremely adaptable to any circumstance when it comes to securing the shinies
I found the common samples to be a lot more important. like the super samples are rare but you don't need a lot of them, the common samples though you need like 80 for every level of upgrade. I'm almost level 50 have most of the ship upgrades but I still need a lot of common samples, have plenty of all the others to finish all the upgrades (maybe I should play on lower difficulty more)
@@zwenkwiel816 i think i only have 2 level 3 upgrades left but rare samples are the bane of my existence. For relaxed solo play at difficulty 3 i get plenty of common samples. Helldive teams get plenty of super samples. But I can't be arsed to solo higher than 3 (I don't want stress, I want to chill), and half the teams in helldive still don't understand what samples are.
Have max supers and still can’t for the life of me run past em. Feels like a crime leaving uranium behind (also love securing it and having the team go off in chat)
@@zwenkwiel816 I have 3 upgrades left, enough super samples for all of them but am incredibly short on commons and rares
This was the only mission I was having trouble soloing for Automatons and this just pretty much confirms it for me, the bots are just easier without the teammates lol.
Always have been
watching you step on that mine made me feel better about when I do it
agreed
Dying two times per mission to a mines is Super-average count and it's normal. Keep on keeping on spreading democracy through out galaxy, and always complete the quota on death-accidents!
I love that you found a use for the smokes
Smokes are amazing for bots. I pretty much always take orbital smoke for automaton missions
Huh…I commented on his other exterminate video saying that this type of mission is much more difficult, he never fails to teach me something about Helldivers 2.
Wow what a great strat! Appreciate the video matey. This mission along with the 'kill a certain amount of' missions are what i struggle with the most. Gone from an absolute nightmare to now 1 of my favourite missions. Big thanks 🤝
these uploads are dope
Very well explained! Thank you!
We've been losing all these missions lately, this helps a lot! Thank you
Love your content
Nice guide helped alot with this mission type.
thanks for showing this, I keep belligerently trying to do things like coordinate antiair to shoot them down but in my experience unless everyone is always hitting their shots before the drop you eventually just get overwhelmed and have to just wing it. I hate that the only consistent "planned" method seems to be running off the bots...
I really enjoy watching ur videos because I have the same exact playing style as you but you are just 10 times better
Considering now, with the 10 planet defense and the introduction of the Factory Strider I made a newer recalibrated strategy for taking on this mission using your video as a guide. I took as follows. Orbital Laser Jet pack Mortar Sentry (Explosive Variant) Quasar Cannon. Equipment: Primary: Scorcher Secondary: P-4 Senator Grenade: G-23 Stun Body Armor: SC-30 Trailblazer Scout (Light Armor) Helmet was also a trailblazer scout Cape was Blazing Samaritan, if that’s any importance. (Info) Took me a couple of tries to finally extract the hostages. After I ran away from the base and came back finding it somewhat empty I threw mortar sentry out and it took out some targets. I went in and got out the hostages using this videos method and eventually I got hit with a Factory Strider, I ran and came back did the same thing after the strider was gone. I kept the stun grenades in case of any heavy units in base that were guarding. I shoot the ground to help me move faster with the scorcher. It works. I only used the laser twice within the span of 15 minutes, once during the first trip back to the base finding it empty then seeing a strider, Second being again an empty base, no strider but some stragglers and used a quasar cannon and stun grenade on two hulks. Then used a laser orbital strike again after seeing the first dropship dock outside. Took care of most enemy units there although I saw only one hulk on that ship so I guess that was probably luck. Regardless I hope this info helps for current hostage rescues. When a drop ship enters the area throw a laser at its location before the other 2 arrive. You’ll need to be quick.
Congratz for finally getting that Skull Admiral 🍾
17:35 i like how you pointed out that you see the rock so the comments dont go berserk
meanwhile the current top comment...
Two videos in one day? Damn, this is quite cool gift for fool day xd
i usually throw a grenade at the fence between the two locations to speed the cycle up, you might be able to do it with your jump pack call in instead if you want to use stun grenades
Solid strategy! I had feeling (but stiil doubted) this could work, kiting enemies away from the scientist, because they prioritize the player and returning only when most enemies are gone. I wonder if this could work with other support weapons, to slow down hulks by shooting their legs? (medium pen. like autocannon, quazar, laser cannon, hmg, etc.) Hulks die if you shoot off both legs armor.
After 40 seconds in, they seem to come in every 100 seconds. These are NOT timestamps on the video, but the timing for when the reinforcements come in. 14:20 - 12:40 - 11:00 - 09:20 - 07:40 - 06:00 - 04:20 - 02:40
I think the reason why that first group stayed inside the main obj was because of the smoke, I would probably leave a ping on the obj and make sure it was empty because landing the smoke, then use another smoke when they try and drop on you outside of the obj.
14:19 is when the first botdrop happens, at that time you need to be outside of the obj (the top right shouldn't have the count xx/50 ) then when it happens you run in again, repeat
Really enjoy your videos, you're very good at this game and I aspire to learn from you, so I can help Cadets and lower lvls more effectively. I enjoy the endgame missions, however I found myself gravitating towards helping newer players.
How would this work with team mates? Just spread out all 4 in different corners and have one person run into the base and activate all three doors periodically? Though new patch has supposedly made this easier so will have to play one of these again and see how they are
No idea why this worked for you. No matter how far I'm away from the objective, I see the dropships in the distance spawning right over the objective. There is no way on earth I am able to get ANY personnel to actually go to the door (mine just bundled in front of it without actually going in)
Take it with a grain of salt, KZheadrs only post the charmed runs
Do you have a video on your keyboard bindings?
We got the creak!!!
Just before the Update came that made it easier😂
Amazing. I wish I could make it look this easy
Can you please do an updated guide for this since the changes? Now that the bot drops don't drop on top of you they end up actually dropping between you and the objective when you try to bait them away. I have no idea how to do this solo now.
Can you make a solo run for the eradication mission against bots?
Can u explain your new keybindings pls?) I tried probably all combinations but always stuck with open strategem menu and no movement, seen that comment on previous bugs video but still cant find a way to make it work.
i use the arrow keys instead of WASD, I can run whilst calling stratagems now
when i do this the drops sometimes dont drop on me but in the middle regardless of where iam any tips with that
The last hour while fighting at tebit the Creek was taken from us again
What would happen If you destroy one of the dropships per wave with Q cannon? New one spawns or will there be half of the enemies to kill/ control?
In my experience you can stem the tide if your entire team is REALLY on point but that's hard to pull off
There's like 8 ships per wave so even with a squad of 4 running quasars you get run over. Not to mention the bots on the ship actually dying being a crapshoot.
@Jamesington did they change this? i remember things getting destroyed with the ship when shooting it down. Lately though even the smalls seem to make it out alive
So how do we do this on 7+ with randoms? 3 people fight at the edge of the map while one stays at base uncontested? Also, maybe this works because after a certain distance enemies will despawn.
how do you get 0 bot drops outside of main objective area? even in level 7 diff, i get bodied almost every time OUTSIDE of objective due to 3-4 bot drops non-stop and massive enemies like tanks and factory striders.
Can you make a video on how you rebind mouse5 and W to open strats?
Wouldnt the Breaker armor (+2 grenade) be more effective for this strategy?
Speed and endurance is more important with this playstyle.
@@Mrmcspiceythe breaker armor offers tbe same speed and endurance though?
@@Reverae Yeah, that's true. I personally prefer scout as I prefer the 30% reduction in visibility. It helps you not take the fights where breaker helps you once they start. Either would be good. Just preference.
I challenge you to complete a helldive solo icbm mission with only 1 stratagem of your choice
When you‘re in a full squad you can also have 3 divers distract the enemy and 1 doing the objective, did that once on difficulty 7 and a grand total of 10 bugs appeared at the objective (and I still managed to die somehow)
I've never really used light armor. Wild what you can do with it
I dont think you should FOCUS on one of the modes (bugs ¨or¨ bots), have a nice split and its refreshing. I think the tryhard gameplay is always more entertainment. Keep it up boss.
I Fail, tried on ps5 today on 7, when I go far way wait the bots drop ship and back to the base, they immediately drop more robots again, thats impossible...
Can't see they point of the smokes when I tried this. I just run the same strategy with eagle airstrike to clear the base of stragglers then lure them away all the same. The smokes sadly don't seem to do anything
pretty easy to patch this one out. simply make the reinforcements only concentrate on the main objective region. but anyway. like always = nice vid! :)
well it then leads to 2 results, the bots give chase to a wild goose and end up in bum fuck nowhere and ends up like in this video, or they just get pelted by pock shots at range, especially when the missile silo strategem comes in
new to the game sir. How did you know that the bots are calling in reinforcements? whats the indicator for that? Can i see it in my mini map?
Under the compass, top center of the screen it says "bot drop detected"
When a bot raises its hand up and emits a red light it’s attempting to call reinforcements and when it fires a flare reinforcements have been called
Can you show us how it’s done with a dualsense?
Anyone know if he made one for the Bug side? I'm still struggling at figuring it out how to do solo...
Thanks
Can you do one for bugs as well?
This is pre patch from this week, right? I think the mechanics changed and lowered the amount of scientists needed. I wonder if it works the same way?
Helldive diff is still 50 so idk
Seems the bots drop on the objective now or at least close to it, so this strategy may no longer work.
Will you upload a vid with a way to do this solo without cheesing game mechanics? No judgement, but this isn't really my style.
By just fighting the bots head on? He specifically said that isn't possible solo.
Also we did this missions on suicide last night and got destroyed. We are not terrible either there was just so many hulks and tanks couldn't deal with them fast enough. Wish I knew that running away was a viable strategy haha
Mission is basically undoable on higher difficulty without running
Do the bots that you lead out previously despawn?
Seems like it, I think there is only a certain range on non statics
How are you not loosing the extraction when you leave the area ? It cancels when I do .
That's only the evac shuttle you call in. After that one leaves, or if the timer runs out without calling it, there is an emergency evac sent two minutes later. You will not have any stratagem for those two minutes, but you don't have to stay at the drop.
Bro brought out the ninjitsu build 😅
Videos like this just hammer home how crap I am
What FOV do you play on?
Hahaha, funny how you just rub the tip of the rock just to edge us a bit 😂
Do you play on maxed FoV?
It's so funny that less than 12 hours after you posted this they fixed the mission lol. it's alot easier now.
The bots don't disappear for me they just wait at the objective, am I doing something wrong?
You need to aggro them if they don't follow you such as shooting at them
@@Reverae That doesn't work for me, I just end up getting chased forever and when I finally make it back there's still tons of bots there. Is there anything else I should do?
@@Capt.Crack420 Hmm not sure, I haven't tested this tactic yet with the new update where they spawn the bot drops further away from the objective
They really messed up with this mission type. The best way to approach it, even in a group, is to metagame the game's spawning and despawning systems. And you get a bunch of samples to boot. They should've made bots focus their attack the objective itself, but less frequently. Right now trying to play the mission the "intended" way just... doesn't work on higher difficulties.
They just made the mission type easier lol
automatons mindset is just well trained and disciplined but it makes them predictable, so far they havent fielded good field commanders at least. As for actually killing everything in the way on this mission, i dunno man, i grounded 6 dropships back to back with a stockpile of EATs and they kept coming, soooo
4:39 😳 wow lol
TLDR?
I hate doing this mission on burning plannet. Even if the burning tornado is not presence, they would still get burned.
Firenados are the worst. they always seem to spawn consistently on the extraction point.
Now how can you adapt this strategy for a squad?
If everyone follows leader it will work just the same. Just make sure you all have jet packs.
Nice trick! This works because you are free to roam around the map. Are you able to complete the bot defense missions solo on level 9? With the tiny map and no place to run?
yeah, the factory striders kinda make this guide obsolete, doesn't work anymore
So I was just doing this mission on 5 and the bots were dropping in 3 - 6 ships every like 20 seconds or so.
Had same experience last night in a duo. Turned to shit very quickly with 3+ hulks running around scorching eevryone as well as alot of berserkers and heavy devs.
I think that happens if you stay at the main objective site.
you can blow up that fence so you dont have to keep going around it lol
What primary is that?
Scorcher. It’s the last gun you get in the main warbond. Very good against bots. Pretty much ignores armor. But you need to be accurate as it has little ammo.
@@isaacmerk248 thank you
This video combined with OhDough doing something similar with bugs has convinced me this mission type needs adjustments. The best way to do it shouldn't be so counterintuitive and so unlike how every other mission works.
I agree i think maybe a longer timer (like 25 mins) and tone down the enemy reinforcements a bit
They need to tone down the reinforcement timer for this mission and the thin out mission, they're literally almost impossible in Solo,, and still really difficult in coop
The mission is hard on the hard difficulty, your conclusion to that is that its needs to be nerfed? Taking advantage of game mechanics is not the intended way to beat the mission, there's nothing "counterintuitive" about it a monkey can understand the mission.
It's not intended to be played solo. it's a co-op game. If you can't solo on Helldive play a lower difficulty, there are after all 9 of them. Stop asking for the game difficulty to be nerfed just so you can feel accomplished.
@@ramrod1016 I don't think anybody's asking for "easy mode", just tweaks to janky elements or weirdly unintended conditions that are still issues on lower levels too. Elements in this game that can a mixed bag sometimes (like the armor ratings, the Director Tower beacon bug, misaligned ADS, headless bug breach calls etc.) that the devs have admitted were unintended or plan to fix eventually. This game can be challenging and hardcore but there needs to be balance and optimization too.
12 hours later they made these missions easier anyway
I think this strategy is the intended way to beat this mission. Think about it in eradicate missions you are stuck in a very tiny map where you just kill. Here the map is just big enough where you can employ this strategy no problem. Personally my two tweaks would be to lower the amount rescued from 50 to 40. And to add "noise makers" in the surrounding areas/POI to draw enemies away from the main objective. This way it encourages this strategy to be employed and that there's clear indications that this strategy is the optimal one by encouraging players to leave the main objective.
You really think the strategy of running back and forth to take advantage and cheese the AI pathing, scouting, and spawning, instead of actually shooting enemies and being in gunfights, you know like the entire point of this game? Come on man put your thinking hat on you're smarter than this
@@rogumann838 the map size was just big enough for this strategy to be implemented otherwise it should have been the same size as an eradicate mission. The idea is not far fetched. We have tools for stealth (smoke) and there is a line of sight mechanic that allows you to stealth enemies too.
Counterpoint, it shouldn't be. No good reason for a mission titled "evacuate personnel" to be 75% running away from where you're supposed to be evacuating the personnel.
Helldivers Gear solid 2
Tried it. Was getting laser beamed from across the map. Drop smoke while I'm running away, literally getting laser beamed from across the map. Pretty sure these bots have IR vision and shit.
Doesnt work at all in vandalon 4
Everytime we have a defend planet from now on, I'm just gonna host private games and run this strat. This shit is just impossible with randos.
To evacuate personel one must first learn how to evacuate yourself.
how is ur character so fast
High FOV + Scout armor + stamina booster
Congrats on Skull Admiral.
honestly harder with a team ngl, also on the tiny island map
Team needs to be coordinated, 3 fight away from objective to hopefully get the bot drops and one stays on objective hidde using alot of smokes. Doesnt always workout though and sometimes you have to draw them away and reset.
Ninja vanish
So the most intense mission becomes 17 minutes of the most boring =\. They really need to change these. (thanks for the video though!)
dude isnt even getting tanks dropped on him on level 9 what the hell.
he only got a single tank and didn't even have to deal with it
dang those 130 fps!
now do eradicate, those seem impossible
"So the bots have a massive army ready come at us. And we're 1-4 people." "We cant just face them in open battle!" "Then what do we do?!" "Dont worry, I have a plan." "Yeah?" "Uh huh?" "When they approach with their army.... We run... Away." "..." "..." "GENIUS SIR!" "FOOLPROOF PLAN SIR."
Day 3 of asking for your favourite loadout combinations
Well this still seem hard lol
I just don’t get it😂😂 ggs tho
I hate ubanea so mutch .... 😂 tank tank tank tank.... devastator devastator with shield and rockets walker walker shredder tank........ -_-"
RIP video. lol, just patched sorry man...after the work, that has to suck.
Lets hope the devs don't see your video 🙂
This mission is so sht, the fact put best players are resorting to cheesing it says it all. Unless you do something like this or have a highly competent coordinated squad its impossible to complete. Would be so luch better if it was tiered eg. 30 scientists completes the mission and then every 10 after gives you the equivelant of a side objective. At least currently it helps the war effort by putting people off defense missions so they focus on liberation.
This is just sad, really shows the issue with this mission when the meta becomes don't engage.