Helldivers 2 Autocannon Automaton Helldive (Solo Max Difficulty, Tips, Tricks) 

A fellow solo autocannon enjoyer! You mentioned that the scout striders have less armor on their lower halves, but a small tip to save you ammunition: An autocannon shot to the very topmost part of their top shield (in the sloped region with the slit, but you don't need to be precise) will kill the pilot behind the shield in a single hit with the explosive splash damage. This makes them even more trivial to take down, and is one of the main reasons I love the autocannon against bots. Another useful thing to know versus the flamethrower hulks that can get you out of a pinch: if the hulk is closing in and you don't have time to take two clean shots to the eye, or stun it, you can shoot the flamethrower arm with the autocannon which briefly interrupts the fire. I think 4 or 5 shots will destroy the arm entirely, if needed, since it makes for a much easier target than the eye when the hulk is stomping towards you over uneven terrain. Also I wanted to say I really enjoyed your video, and learned a few things from your tips. Thanks!

You had me at, "It looks gun-shippy."

This was a lot more informative and helpful than anyone else I've watched.

19:30 - "whenever i see more red blips on the minimap than i can count in a second" IS a good criteria for cluster bombs, I'm remembering that one, especially.

Everytime i watch this video i feel like ive missed something. So much good info and a good time to boot. This guy is going to have me running 9s sooner than later

This video has everything from tips in the game to fun medical facts. Great content I'll be sure to subscribe!

Your strategy for scouting the objectives with the minimap is actually smth i do everytime, it‘s even better with the scout armor because of the 2nd part, so you can actually do that from like 200 meters away

Hard to believe this is your first video! I like the quotes and your humor. l started playing this game two weeks ago and I absolutely love it! I especially love playing Helldive and this guide has been such a huge help to improving my game play. Thanks for the awesome video!

Thank you for being Intensive care nurse, I've had a fair few life saving trips to hospital myself. Oh, and thanks for the tips!

I love this video. Super useful and this is phenomenal delivery of useful info in a very practical way. Well done!!!

I really like the "annotations" you do with the mini-map zoom-ins, the arrows highlighting what you're talking about! Very chill look at Helldive difficulty, I enjoyed it. Liked and subscribed. Diligence is my favorite primary as well, although I have a hard time not bringing the Scorcher given how it can easily zap scout striders, allowing me to save autocannon shots for larger targets. Nice to see someone who's actually capable of soloing D9 running more-or-less my preferred loadout for automatons. As a tip: diving seems to extinguish fire _immediately_, literally putting it out the moment you begin the dive. I've had more success surviving against fire by first diving, then stimming afterwards, rather than relying on getting the stim off in time. I'm currently enjoying Helldivers around an 8.5 or so. Really enjoying the general gameplay and progression; just some annoying bugs regarding playing with randoms and the occasional frustrating gameplay situations (like instant kills, or being stuck in a deathloop because the game keeps picking the worst possible place for you to reinforce). Seems like the devs are doing their best to keep improving the game, though!

The autocannon being my favorite weapon, I somehow didn't know that you could just shoot the factories with it.

Great video. Appreciate the positive vibes. The game is a 9 for me as well. Bugs and balancing issues are small deterrents from this level of fun factor.

I really feel like you should be getting as many views as Spiked does. Y’all’s vids are some of the best.

Amazing video. Very helpful to not so good divers like myself. Can’t wait for your next video.

Finally, a solo helldive that ACUTALLY looks like a solo helldive, every other solo helldive i've seen is like...super fucking tame, this was action straight from the start! You did better then i can do myself! X3

Awesome video and informative gameplay. My friends and I have recently started pushing the harder difficulties against bots after getting wrecked on lower difficulties when we first started playing and now we enjoy it more than bug stomping. Hit and run tactics and hard hitting weapons are key and it really feels like we're working as a team more to take down objectives quickly.

You have an amazing personality and I loved your feel-good bits of advice and hearing about your ICU work. The gameplay and your tips were fantastic as well! I'll definitely follow your channel from now. Even turned on all the notifications.

A tip I love to give and tell people: Smoke bombs are not useless. Run around a corner and make sure nothing is too close to you, i believe this strat would work best against bots rather than bugs. You want to hug and hide around a rock away from the bots. Hold the smoke grenade out and pull the pin and keep it in your hand, dont let go (it doesnt do any damage) Run away from your spot, and most times you can cancel an entire firefight, this is especially useful for fights you cant win.

Excellent video, I appreciate the gameplay tips AND the "fun facts". The best part for me is your attitude! I usually work with the idea that "mistakes only become failures if you fail to learn from them"

Great job man, I dost ussually give likes but you produced nice vid. Thx and keep up great work

Nice Video! I like your commentary very much, calm and informative.

On a scale of 1-10 I give HD2 a 20! 😁 I hate the bugs but find the bites a funner challenge. I have been looking for a really good video like this. Thanks for posting this! I just got the auto cannon and am looking to do solo runs but my prior loadout on trivial, easy and medium needs to be changed out. Tgere a couple of Orbitals I am close to getting. . However I am using the Orbital Gas on outposts. It does fantastic paired with the Eagle Strafing, 120 barrage and Eagle Airstrike. It took out an entire fuel depot, production facility and ammunition base. Works great especially if you can't get a hellbomb down. So looking forward to playing with the auto cannon!

Exactly the type of video I was looking for. Great info. I’ve been using quasar canon, but the auto canon is a blast to use. I’d give the game 8.5/10.

Great video. So many good tips and vibes. Keep it up!

Great video I like all your comments and little fun facts

First time viewer and subscribed great video.

This is amazing production for a brand new channel. Was this your first?

Suprisingly nice to listen and learn haha great vid I will sub . Also love the not shouting and very calm voice over

Loved the video! Helldivers is a solid 7.5 for me. Was a 10 but I'm getting kinda burned out from all the hunters jumping around and all the bots one shotting my diver. As for advice - a few too many hashtags but otherwise an enjoyable watch :P

This video has been aproved by the Democratic Council of Super Earth. seriusly tho, great video, i learned more about the game from it than i did from 70 hours of playing.

This video is so chill.

16:15, I didn't know this, but still autocannon will more consistently 1shot them if you hit the top in my experience

Great vid. I stuggle from impossible and up. Ill apply this.

Find it easier to kill the hulks with the auto cannon when targeting the feet. Easier to hit and only need 2shots pr foot. Once both feet are destroyed the hulk seize to function :D

Great video. Keep em coming.

10 out of 10 for me. havent enjoyed a game like this since horizon or ghost of tsushima. Even with the bugs i cant seem to not play this game

10. Played lots of HD1, and HD2 is a good thing that didn’t get messed up. :)

Very good video and nice gameplay, hope to see more from you! However you were a bit quiet, had to up my volume to 4x, could just be me though.

Heart. Steel. We. Kill. Get. Up. Onto. War. Cyberstan. Can't keep her down. Legion Go. A New Dawn. Cyberstan. Can't keep her down. Get back up. A new dawn.

Awesome video, very helpful.

Oh geeze, this is good content 🤤

This video is awesome 👌

Now, this was good content. Thank you, and take my like and subscribe!

Thank you

Pair ar15 with jet pack and light armor. It’s god tier

Autocannon is levels above the quasar cannon against the bots

Can u do a settings video or short?

Las Cannons erases Gun ships FAST. Aim for engines.

im a laser canoner but whatever weapon lets you deliver democracy fastest is the best one for you Helldiver

I thought his name was Phallic gaming at first 😂😂

Issue for me with Autocannon is that you cant bring down Bile Titans/Chargers with it. Quasar can. Otherwise I really like the autocannon :D

Nice intel soldier

very good commentary, but decrease the use of saying # (once or twice is funny, but using more and/or unironically got me like [but that's just my opinion :]) also this out of context is so funny: 27:25 💀 (I would give a similar rating too)

I’m a supply pack player

I don't know why but i prefer playing this game solo

you have a really low mic volume

The title says it is instructional. Yet, you clicked and talked so fast that I can hardly follow it

hey, could you make the gameplay audio a little louder, relative to your voice audio? that way, next time, i'll be able to not hear your voice at all and i'll need to use software to filter out your voice audio to understand even a single word. combined with the mumbling and almost-whispering-like-mom-is-sleeping-next-room it'll be great fun. greatly appreciated, thanks! 👍 the sad part about this is that there's good/valuable information here, but it's just almost too annoying to listen to, because you really gotta focus on what slurred-together words are being mumbled. it's bad enough when giving full attention to the video, but i bet people wanting some info to listen to, and having the video up on their second monitor, are just gonna click off within the first few minutes, because they'll need to constantly rewind or don't audibly understand what's said. again: it's a shame that it is this way, because you seem to have genuinely good/relevant information. edit: there's really a LOT of good information/tips here, almost to the point where this should be something of a "must watch" for people struggling with bots. halfway through the video and i found a bit of bad info though, and that's about the little walkers, which you can very consistently one-shot with the autocannon when aiming at the top, as though you were going for a pilot headshot.

I would enjoy the game even more if the early games are not so haunted by trolls which are already level 40 and just fuck up missions for fun... This alone pityful makes the game pityful a solid "5" since I either need luck to find a good party, Solo even early missions already which is boring and annoying or to rely on friends which also play the game... Some sh*tstains even got a nice trick were they wait till everyone is in the evac ship then kill anyone in the plane and just leave the game to make it worthless for everyone and the best part, you are unable to report this person cause they don`t used the chat...