HARDEST Mode in Helldivers 2 (HELLDIVE) 

We're in the Endgame now. Cross has turned into a psychotic Vietnam vet.

Nothing is too hard for FREEDOOOOMMM

“No deaths” Famous last words.

The incentive for Helldive difficulty is the glory and knowing you made .002% progress per member to an objective versus .0001%

“YOU DON’T SPREAD DEMOCRACY BY RUNNING LIKE A BITCH!” - Commander DemoCrossacy Cross at the Battle of the Bug I love how there’s so many difficulty levels for this game, I wonder if the devs will add more 😂

Here’s what our squad does on helldive: We have two runners and two slayers pulling as much aggro and killing shit as efficiently as possible. From what we can tell, if you can focus all the spawns on one area other areas chill out. I play slayer role, and our team takes a rail gun, an auto cannon, breakers, orbital lasers 500kg and rocket pods. Runner team runs stealth bonus armor with smoke orbitals and jump packs to zip around grabbing the main objective and samples. For terminids, it’s been super effective and fun :)

Tip for chargers btw Cross. Put 2 50% railgun shots into one leg to break the armor and shoot the unarmored leg with your primary. Saves railgun ammo and makes chargers much easier to take down.

All these years Cross been yelling "Harder, Harder" while playing Destiny now in Helldivers his face says "Too hard".

Helldivers 1 has three more difficulties higher than "Helldive", with the highest being "The inner circle of Hell". So be prepared that there might at some point be more

Love how the difficulty isn’t more health, but more enemies. The correct way to do it.

I am genuinely so proud of the game, im a Helldivers 1 player and seeing the active playerbase for H2 on PC alone increasing by 100k players each day is mind blowing!

Damn cross ate half the revives

The real hard mode is getting a squad with matchmaking.

I think the 'Meta' for helldive is not so much run from everything but more pick your fights and be able to stand your ground when you need to.

Helldivers is a dream come true for people like me who put thousands of hours in Mass effect 3 MP back in 2012.4 players coop, objectives and extraction fighting against hordes of enemies....no other game has been able to replicate those moments until now.Pure and unaltered FUN

My personal loadout for helldives: Medium armor with additional stim inventory and duration-that extra duration is life saving since you can be getting pummeled and be able to wiggle your way out just in time and still be at full health and some cases save you from a teammates poorly place stratagem. Middle ground of mobility and durability keeping you agile and avoiding most one shots. Gear: Personal shield generator- mitagates alot of damage conserving stims for when your really need them and helps from being stun locked in most situations. *This is optional and can be substituted for a 500kg or my preferred optional the orbital railcannon that's sole purpose is for quick charger kills Weapons: Machine pistol-if your primary runs outta ammo it's always faster to switch to your secondary than to reload. Can change fire rate to semi so it's just like the base pistol but with a bigger mag but I recommend full auto. Breaker No explanation needed. Railgun-"learn weak points and armor ratings, it's a precision weapon" You can one tap bile titans to the mouth/shred a chargers leg armor in 2 shots then dissmeber the leg with breaker or follow up with a 3rd sometimes 4th to secure the kill/one tap bile spewers to the chest (don't shoot the sack on back. it's bait and a waste of ammo unless your using breaker to take them down that way). Stratagems: There should be a good mix of firepower and utility in team composition. Eagle strike- quick call in/decent cooldown, predictable blast for danger close, can plug a couple holes before moving in or wipe out entire groups of enemies and shred armor on beefier targets for quick clean up. Gatling barrage-short cool down, decent lingering time. throw it on bug breeches/choke points/incoming waves. It's main purpose is to thin herds conserving your primary ammo and creating breathing room so your squad can focus on the bigger targets that spawned in with the small fry. General tips: Avoid calling in stratagems on bile titans unless you know your gonna get collaterals. I know they're big and scary but if everyone uses they're railguns properly they can be dealt with quickly before they become an actual threat. Avoid using sentry turrets. They're excellent for defense missions but in mobile missions and open ground theyre more of a liability to get you or an ally killed, limit your movement, aggro unwanted patrols or in quite a few cases be destroyed before they can net any results. Consistent results is key.

The meta for this game is team dynamics if your team has their weapons and stratagems centered around one another you can take any threat instantly, bug breaches dont exsit anymore because all 4 of you drop everything you see when working together

Lol I noticed the editors removed the 7th difficulty, maybe for monetization reasons? Can't have that word on screen in the first 10 seconds?

What makes this game soooo good is that the Enemies are Legitimately trying to kill you AT ALL TIMES instead of just running routines.

6:39 - "HAVE YOU TRIED?!?!" 😂

Now we gotta Helldive with the Automatons. You would get a kick out of endless Annihilator Tanks and Obliterator Hulks.

The sentry sticking to Cross was the best 😂

How many bile titans would you like on screen at the same time? Yes

I don't remember the last time I was so exited to watch gameplays of a new game. I don't even have perspective to buy it right now, but it's so enjoyed just watching it. I am play mostly single player and story driven games, but this game got me in a way I can't explain

The incentive for helldiver level is freedom and democracy. Plus the chaos hahahahahahaha FREEEEEEEEEEDOM.

As a Titan main, watching Cross a fellow Titan fight with such spirit and confidence brings me pure joy. Zavala, Saint and Shaxxx are all SUPER PROUD of you Cross. :')

This is how General Brasch got his first medals

Pro tip for cross/anyone doing higher difficulties: learn to use the disposable anti-tank, one shot to the front of a charger will strip the armor, you get two per drop and the cooldown is so low you can pretty much constantly have one up/on you. Also the orbital rail gun shot or 500lb eagle should oneshot bile titans

The hardest part is getting the servers to let you play.

Absolutely loving the helldivers content, keep it up!

"You don't spread democracy by running like a b*tch!" is gonna have me laughing for the rest of the week.

I love Aztecross so much lol. You're hilarious man! I so much enjoy your content. FOREVER FORWARD!!!!

Shoot the leg of the charger with the railgun (in safe mode) twice. The armor will be destroyed and 4-5 shotgun shots to the leg will kill it. Meaning you have 10 charger kills in one railgun (if you don't refill ammo of course).

16:26 is the greatest shit I've ever seen. Lmao I CAN'T

6:35 this part had me CRYING idek why 😂😂😭 dude said “getting ass pounded over and over”

When you somehow managed to call the sentry down and get it stuck on your head was hilarious 😂😂

Lol one of the devs are watching and rubbing his hands together like a villain as he adds more and more bugs 😂

its amazing really, as you progress through the game you feel yourself improving, from medium being hard to hard being impossible then you slowly improve, learn all the kinks and weaknesses, the best way to take out stuff, when to engage and when to fight then you hit helldive where all your learned knowledge all brings it all together to fight tooth and nail against endless hordes of normal to elite enemies, this game is amazing.

I love how your expectations go from well ace this to I just want to finish the mission.

I had to rewatch that grenade throw into the stalker nest several times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. That was incredible

Ross I've been watching you for a while bro, love the content, but this one... this is 5 star entertainment at its finest. I was laughing the whole time.

Can’t wait to play this, when I can finally get into the servers…

The incentive is more medals and higher percentages of liberation/defence for the planetary objective.

Aztecross is liberating his own difficulty

Omg the turret sticking to your head was so gd funny haha

Bug spawn rate is tied to the amount of nests on the map. Prioritise nests to lower the spawn rate. Godspeed, Helldiver!

Just got done with the platinum for Helldivers 2, what a game 👌🏻

1:40 With the rail cannon I would suggest going for the legs on the crusher or charger after two clean shots you open a weak spot where you can use light armor penetrating rounds to kill it really fast. The real weak points on them are the legs but you have to break the armor first before you can hit its weak points.

Nothing hurt more than seeing you drop your supplies and running back and dying again.

Can't wait till he sees the Inner Circle of Hell Difficulty (Difficulty 15) possibly be added in later. As for the 2nd game I pretty much rushed to lvl 50 within the 1st week and just stress tested loadouts. Best I found was 500 kg bomb, railgun, personal shield, and rail cannon strike, I recommend the scorcher or Breaker as they are great at taking out hunters which will be on you constantly. Soloing is hell too, just avoid any planetary modifier that increase the call in timer and be sneaky. As for objectives, do all main and optional objectives, avoid nests like the plague. You can skip the nests and still get a Glorious Victory.

FREE (and I cannot stress this next part enough) DOM!!!

Feels illegal to be this early to one of your vids! Just bought a ps5 to play this, arrives Wednesday I can't wait!!

whats more impressive than playing this game on helldive is the fact you managed to load into the game in the first place

And yes cross, it's infinite hoards. The longer you stay on a mission the harder it gets, it's a scaling difficulty as said from the descriptions.

This man said "commy aliens" lmfao

If only the servers werent down, i'd be grinding this out right now 😔🙏

as it is now yes there needs to be some kind off endgame reward for helldiver difficulty, with there current cap of 50k an unlocking everything at level 20 you have nothing to really farm for other then samples, also i don't yet understand why the max level is 50 unless thy plan to add more items to your starship that is unlocked at higher levels, but i also hope thy well put in like assault or defend strongholds

Actually, you can kill the entire wave of beetles - you just have to carefully monitor all the beetles, and if one of them raises its face up, begins to chirp and release a cloud of pheromones into the air - then you must kill it immediately, or you will get a new breakthrough with reinforcements. The same thing with bots, the only difference is that bots can ONLY call for reinforcements from infantry - if you knock out all the infantry in a squad in the first seconds, you will quickly clear the area. But in beetles, a breakthrough can be caused by all beetles, from small ones to the brood commander. Only big spitters, chargers, stalkers and titans can't do this - everyone else can do it. Therefore, approaches to fighting them should be different - if the bots have a LOT of armor, then they need powerful guns. But for beetles - you need a weapon that can inflict massive damage on unarmored targets as quickly as possible - the steelwart, for example, is almost ideal, because with its rate of fire you can quickly mow down all the small things and concentrate on finishing off the remaining ones. P.S. The Tesla Turret is actually VERY powerful - but it is EXTREMELY dependent on positioning. If you place it in a place where enemies cannot reach it in the first 3 seconds after entering its affected area, it can fry a very large number of enemies. She just needs about 3 seconds to charge, and of course, so that enemies don’t rush towards her in a huge crowd, she’s still not omnipotent. But if you place it, for example, on a small hill in a narrow place, it will be very difficult for the beetles to pass by it alive. And against bots, any turrets are not particularly useful, except mortar ones. And then they need to be hidden, because they still find them and destroy them.

This must be what Spehs mehreens feel like fighting the space locusts

"NO DEATHS!" *Dies 4 times in first 2 minutes 😂

Another Dominator enjoyer in the wild!?! I knew i liked cross for a reason

Crazy how many people are playing this game. I bought it and did the tutorial but I'm playing fallout new vegas rn so I haven't touched it much since

Special armor and weapons that you unlock with helldive medals you can only get in helldive mode. Sorta like raid weapons in D2.

Lmao!!!! That such a good ass PRO TIP!!! I been saving all my resources to upgrade turret. It work good on small thing but not on Godzilla

When i say i laughed at the turret head issue. That does no justice to the noise that escaped my lips

Most insane part of this is the fact he can actually get into the game

Everyone seems to like that shotgun. It’s very good. I like it too

The sentry getting attached to your head hahhaah

its like playing super mario and helldivers 2 at the same time with the sounds XD

for those that dont know, the big fat acid shooting bugs. instead of shooting the green butt try to shot its head, its their weaker spot.

Main trouble is once you die you get boned cause it’s hard to get your kit back from drops. I’d love to have the backpacks and heavy weapons drop with us.

I feel like they could offer weapon upgrade/mod blueprints for higher difficulties. Nothing too drastic, maybe just being able to change more of the guns, light the liberator penetrator could go full auto instead of being burst. Small stuff but still something. Or adding semi-elemental. They already have heat rounds. And acid is huge in the game and maybe electric, but I think that’s just the arc gun and heat guns.

Putting this here cuz I don't know if everyone knows this trick. You can use the railgun to destroy the front leg armor of chargers, and it opens a weak spot that allows you to use small arms fire and delete them. Its normally 2 shots to the same leg then the weakspot opens up! So you don't end up needing to waste more railgun shots than necessary! I've killed a charger in 2 railgun shots and 3-4 Breaker shots to that weak spot! Makes chargers trivial with good aim and a focus fire from teammates!

side note, u can cancel the long reloads if u melee

There should either be extra gear(cosmetic & stat) that you unlock by doing the highest difficulty or just rare mats/very high exp.

U can 2 or 3 shot chargers with the rail gun if you break the armor on one of their front legs first then shoot the leg again. Thats like the only weak point that does increased damage on them.

In the first game doing helldive will unlock a special cape And there's a special machine gun that is obtainable only by completeing a lvl13 mission

Dam this man really called out the sweaty tank top gamer squad

The turret beacon that stuck to him wouldn't have dropped on him if he didn't run back to the original place he called it lol.

This game looks like a blast but since i got it a few days ago I can barely get in the servers. And when I finally do it says theres nobody else playing no matter if I matchmake or try to directly join someone.

Im surprised yall can even get in the game I've been in queue for 4 hours XD. Games fun though hopefully we can all play at some point.

Bro said "No DEATHS!" and proceeded to die more than his entire team combined 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I mean, it's Helldiver Difficulty but still, that's hilarious 😩😩

Having played Helldive a whole bunch, yes you can clear every bug and enter stealth again, but they'll be back lol

This was fun, and thank you @Aztecross for having me on. It got hectic, and at some point, I had to leave yall to solo some main obj. Felt like that one meme where I'm singing along to maroon 5 while everyone was sweaty like tom cruise. To be fair, completing the main obj is more important than killing hordes of bugs.

Use the railgun, you can kill everything you want. But you have to move constantly. You'll run out of ammo before you clear out a full horde on helldive

Idk if you know this, but the charger's weak spots are their front legs, use the railgun to knock off their armor and unload.

LOL. Quite possibly the best astecross video to date. Lol.

wow i sure hope i can also do this some time today.

I feel like playing the game on the hardest difficulty solo with little to know hud would be fun to do 😌

Man should adopt Rail and Shield Backpack. Makes the game trivial on Helldive. Edit: 10mins in, ah, he is converted! - Also for charges, save ammo. Two shots to the leg, half a SG225 mag to the leg and they're dead. Honestly the shield is great in both solo runs and group play. The amount of times it's saved me from my own teams orbital bombs or a sneak attack from behind. I just fear they'll nerf it instead of making other backpacks better, like the I LOVE the laser backpack, he was my homie, but the amount of times it friendly fires me and team mates is too dam high. I know it's an intended mechanic but the rover backpacks should be the exception. Just don't nerf the backpack.

Need more of this PRO DEMOCRACY energy from you Cross. This is why i only run turrets . Have enough democracy for all these damn roaches

bro didn’t wanna show his stats lol

Hey friends 👋. Is it like Destiny in terms of laps?? Do you have the option to roam around? Or it's strictly restricted to complete missions in a specific area on each attempt??

Dude was gettting torcheddd. By far most deaths on squad lol

2 rail gun shots to the front leg of a charger will turn it orange and you can swap to primary and kill it in about 6 shotgun shots instead of wasting 5+ rail gun shots on the face.

the railgun is the best spear will always be sad also cant wait for him to do automaton on heldive

Everything I hear democracy I laughed.😂😂

I miss anticross lol. "RAGE RAGE F.CKING RAAAAGGGGEEEEE".😂

god, those helmwings is huge disadvantage

Now we need perma death or one life mode difficultly for exoridarny heroes and legends in the making here. Those that win this mode shall be given medal of honor title and fame to be known for the entire galaxy to admire with given respect.