Helldivers 2 - 10 Huge Mistakes To Avoid! 

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Helldivers... Don't listen to @Legacy Gaming. We do infact need a Auto cannon, gatling turret and machine turret. For Democracy.

As someone with a speech impediment, I really appreciate such an indepth ping system for when I'm playing with rando fellow Hell Divers.

Imagine making a not-starship-troopers game that was more Starship Troopers than Starship Trooper

if u see someone spamming follow me and marking a spot go there it might be a safe that requires 2 players to open and inside u can get up to 3 rewards medals, super credits, cash or guns

Don’t sleep on the disposable rocket launcher. I call it in as often as it is available so the map is littered in launchers. Hitting a Drop Ship in the engine will prevent the reinforcements from dropping in. Having these everywhere means a teammate with a different support can pick one up, take out the drop ship and pick their preferred support back up

Legacy just got to say the point of stratgems is to call them in. It doesn't matter if one becomes negated because they overlap. We take out the threats of super earth with extreme overwhelming force.

Another tip because virtually everyone online is doing it wrong, or not even bothering to try. The Drop ships you shoot the engines as they have less armour and are vulnerable. Take 1 engine out and it becomes unstable and falls to the ground and blows up.

Had a bug Today where i spawed without weapons or granads but my stratagems also had no cooldown. Having 10 gatling turrets was really fun

I’m not a high enough level to have any boosters unlocked, but I think the issue with players not equipping them is that most games have boosters as a one time/limited use. This leads people to think they’re saving boosters since they’re wanting to not waste it so they can have them when they think they need it at higher levels and difficulties.

All really helpful and common sense tips! Also, for the love of democracy, if you're joining someone else's game, the least you could do is follow their lead. Me tagging a secondary objective while a random went and called extraction with 20 min left was disappointing.

Sometimes I like to do the primary objective first, then explore the map and hit the secondary ones, so if I die the job still gets done. (That’s mostly when I play solo)

I just bought this game yesterday. With just a few hours played I'm impressed with the community so far. When I accidently killed one of my teammates I was so prepared for something toxic coming my way. The guy just laughed it off as said "I'm one of the good guys" lol. Also not really knowing what I'm doing and kind of running in random directions I was happy that other players don't get all bent out of shape and instead give friendly hints how I can be more helpful to the mission. I hope the community stays cool. This game is an absolute...blast... hahah :p

Keep in mind that for the complex stratagem plotting effect, you are looking at a 4 minute extract timer. Head there early and be prepared for a long fight.

For those that do not know. At higher levels the bugs start shooting 1hitkill plasma out their butts. So those shields do help. And as for chargers, with the shield it will negate their attack so u won’t go flying (also work with the environment effects on different maps)

Agree. You dont need to stay and fight everything. In HD1: running away, repositioning was king at harder difficulties, thats still true now. At Helldive difficult 9, the concept of getting 2+ bile titans at once is very likely and the team should be kiting them

I got a weird tip. Don't use the handle unknown. Kept getting kicked and couldn't figure out why, even on runs I carried. Turns out there's a lot of stuff that kills you and blames unknown, acid for example

actually that's the crazy thing i Joined a quick play with a level 40+ leader and a lvl 12 ally with me also lvl 12. unknowingly leader had no mic and decided to hot drop us in a Hell Dive 9 difficulty of pure attrition and after the first time around with absolutely no coms we somehow stopped dieing every 3 seconds.

my TIP is that u can turn your hip fire targeting reticle on at all times. not sur y thy set it to off but its a must for run&gun

I said for anything above 7-9, go to main OBJ, then do sides so you can at least get it done. One Caviot if it's on the way

When your teammates run straight into your orbit strikes lmao 🤣 like broo can you read??

Minor overlooked (but important feature!) is to identify the call-in of other players, by looking at the base of a statagem call-in. it will display the name and time of the strike being called (so if it is a cluster-bomb, RUN, for example) Also wish you at least mentioned the stratagem scramble modifier for Automatons, and how to get around it - so many players still think this is a bug. But yes, the moment you did your stratagem call sequence (before you throw it), the list (top left) will SHOW you which stratagem was activated (the orb in your hand will also be blue or red). So if it is the wrong one, just re-do the stratagem before throwing it, check, and if it is correct, THEN throw. You can also cancel any stratagem you still have in your hand by just swopping to a weapon, or re-doing another stratagem call-in

I just downloaded this game two days ago. I still don't have a mic set up yet, but sticking with the team and dropping supplies at every event has helped me pull my weight. This is the best online game I've played in years.

Always check the planet effects. Strat scramble is a real thing and not you going crazy. And in harder difficulty don’t just chuck reinforcements into the enemy mass. More often than not they will die. Especially in helldive difficulty. They are not grenades

Going straight to main objectives then extracting without secondary objectives is the fastest way to get XP by a significant margin. It is helpful to do this when rushing lvl 20. At that point objectives are worth it for medals and samples.

Biggest mistake is actually “not having fun”. I’ll listen to people scream over a voice chat about doing all the stuff you mention to the point everyone is miserable (I’m usually cracking up because leading randoms is like herding cats). You specifically mention running a load out that you don’t like playing with….while that is certainly the meta you need to ask yourself what you’re actually doing with your life is you don’t even like what your doing in video games.

Running into enemies fleeing other enemies because they’re not tap checking their radar when fleeing. Wiped a impossible because the dude with the shield pack was the worst one and not cooperating with the team

- A common mistake i see is people calling in reinforcement right on top of the point where their team was just overrun. You can throw re-enforcement beacon just like regular orbital. Turn around and throw it away from the wave of enemies to give your squad a chance to come back into safety ..... unless your trying to drop pod a bile titan there no need to drop me into the middle of a bug nest. - if your team are running for an objective you can complete sequence for your support weapons on the go then throw it far ahead of you. By the time it is called in 10 sec later you will just be running past it and can pick it up without slowing down your squad. - Keep an eye on your cool downs. When running to next objective is perfect time to send eagle back for re-supply. still have your shield or guard dog, go ahead can call one in for a team mate if they are not running a pack. -if you have expendable tank rocket, go ahead and drop it ever time it is up. even if you don't wind up using it in a fight, it will probably be ready again to call for your next fight. If your team mate calls in tank rocket don't feel like you shouldn't use his weapon like most other support items. If there are two chargers, and you don't have a suitable support weapon to deal with one, go ahead and pick up the second rocket, use it, then pick your original support weapon back up.

Good stuff here. A few minor additions: if a strategem air strike is on the way, don't waste ammo shooting bugs in the impact zone. Let the airstrike take care of them. Don't drop machine gun turrets in the center of the drop zone. It's a great way to get shot in the back. Put them on the perimeter. Grenade launcher + supply pack is a great loadout for near-infinite grenade spam.

The high levels without boosters are probably people like me who started with the premium warbond. You don't get one until the very end with that path.

We need more like this. New to this game, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing first time in. I only had the basic tutorial which doesn’t address many issues.

The friendly fire thing..if you’re in the front and you know your team is behind you shooting..just CROUCH. Then the people behind can stay standing and shoot right over you no problem.

I've never said this about a video about a video game, everyone (they plays Helldivers 2) needs to watch this, I need to watch this. Thanks

After talking to a few higher level people who don't appear to run boosters, the common consensus is they have the first couple but spent poorly going for more gun unlocks than focusing on the page unlocks to get to the boosters. If you spend on both credit panels you don't get far into the pages very fast. Especially if you spend on the premium page.

SO many sleep on Boosters. Important tip. I've been focusing 100% on maxing the base Warbond mainly for the plethora of great booster options. The Steeled Veteran one gives just one (I think) and the amount of impact it provides is incomparable to the Mobilize warbond boosters.

One of the most important modifiers you forgot to mention is the one that scramples your strategems. I have died so many times to people calling in eagle strikes at the beginning of the game because they didn't stop to check if they got the right strategem. xD the modifier is usually only present on higher difficulties though.

Thus far this is one of the few games the toxic trolls haven't reared their heads yet we all just want democracy! Teamwork makes the dream work

I love the autocannon on all difficulties. And I have a friend who uses a recoilless. Its a really nice synergy, and because of how the autocannon reloads, you can solo wield it (giving up a shield backpack) its great.

I keep having players drop minefields on on the entire team lol

Great video, very informative!

Good video. I think a lot of people know by now but when you do a side objective like a nest or a factory it increases enemy presence and when you do a main objective it drastically increases enemy presence so you might actually want to run around and collect all the samples before you do your objectives.

I keep getting so high that I forget that the red beacons are airstrikes and just walk, right into them. Ope

Love the video. Can you do one on every objective in the game and the best way to tackle them. I have seen a video on that yet

4:55 They might not have all the boosters in the game. Two people picked boosters and maybe the 3rd guy only had those 2 picked?

Number one: Don’t fight everything that moves!

It’s crazy how many people don’t use boosters and throw stratagems right on top of you when you’re running around with a charger or something like that

That's my biggest gripe right now ... people bee line the orange objective and then call in the evac You just waited in ques to play this game, you've dropped down and now the interesting fun bit is the bit you want to rush through and get away from!? You're going to be high level with no ship upgrades or new weapons/armour! Plus, you're playing the game to kill bugs and bots .... so you'd want to spend as much time on planet doing that right? So why are you rushing!? I know there is more experience if you get the mission done more quickly but so what? It's not that much in the grand scheme of things

Great video - thanks!

Another thing about voice chat that I think A LOT of people are missing.... You don't need a headset microphone to communicate verbally with your teammates. On PS5 you can speak directly into your controller.

Stamina Enhancement is GOATed. Run for days. Enemies cannot kill me if they cannot catch me.

Well made video, thanks.

I have a sick OCD with trying to complete every side objective on the map. I linked up with a great team last night and when you’re blessed with a conscious team…no feeling like it lol

definitely watch where you throw stratagems. I was playing with a random last night and he kept throwing the 380mm bombardment at our feet

I love the first rule is someone need to take charge and lead the team basically and I started doing that on my first game with friends that got Hd2 when it dropped and had a couple weeks on me 😅 LIVE TO FIGHT FIGHT TO LIVE…FOR SUPER EARTH

8:38 Stun Grenades are your friends for preventing patrols from calling reinforcements. Open with 1-2 Stun Grenades and have your team UNLOAD on the small bugs and Commissars.

Use what you want don't worry about the meta. Only thing i would say is above all else extract the samples

racing against the clock is usually what cuts short how many optional objectives you can do, at least until vehicles are added into the game; divide and conquer so that every mission doesn't feel like it's always down to the wire

5:00 most of these people are the people who only do mortar farm. because it's don't matter in that kind of map. 6:00 in some map there will be map effect where the game will randomly make your strat change to another one that avaiable. im try to called resupply and i kinda remember it by hand so i just press and thrown.. turn out it's an air strike and i wipe the whole team. whoosp. 7:20 just met this myself. my team waste 15 reinforcement on side objective because bot keep coming and they won't falling back. i have to kinda force them out by leave by my self and when some one die i called them down at my position instantly. i use reinforce so much i can finish it in 1second.

Staying too long is so real. Just last night a simple nest destroying objective took 15 minutes to clear because patrols came in and called in more breaches and we had run out of grenades to close all but one bug hole. It was chaos lol. We should have just ran.

Lol, I love this game. Great info.

I love it when i play and ppl waste time w secondary or looting dies to it and havent done any main then they quit and im left one just 1 diver and we fonish it up w no respawns😂😂😂. Dnt quit ever. Just see it through.

Not gonna lie, all those are very solid tips, but for the love of Democracy, the most important and underutilized is communication!!! I would argue that even when using mics the ping system is a invaluable tool... Depending on perks or boosters, droped pins on the map will ping enemies around it, not to mention that for know objectives to show on the compassé it must be marked by someone (in fact here's a bonus tip: stalker lairs should be a priority, and those have a peculiar rock formation, if you know what you're looking for and try to pin it on the map and it shows as a square objective marker than is a 100% sure that's a stalker lair) and marking priority targets and patrols is the best way to show enemy positions since many planets have poor visual conditions (i.e. show don't tell..lol)... But what amazes my is the sheer number of players who never ever ping nor say anything in a multiplayer co-op game...

Speaking as a new player (level 5). I had no idea hot spots were even a thing

I would like to say one thing for higher difficulties. Extraction is not a necessity, although more of a personal opinion, unless if you have a great number of samples or any number of super samples, i personally wouldn't really consider extraction, instead i would just look around for minor pois. My very limited experience with quick play and randoms have always been people rushing to the extraction right after main even though we've done the radar station and most minor pois haven't been looted. Generally, extraction is not mandatory or rewarding without samples

Communication is key in this game, purely because without that you are in for a bad time regardless with a random team or with a good team with friends. Strategy is another key factor in picking out which missions you do first because I usually do the hardest ones firsts that way I don’t completely screw up the operation at the end. Always pick the planet on the faction that needs the most attention. For your efforts will be wasted if you are focusing on a faction that is not an immediate threat. Example is with the terminds, automatons are the immediate threat right now. And finally, always have a plan before you go into a mission, and get a feel for each of the missions so that you can have a strategy on how to handle every situation regardless of difficulty!! Trust your brother in arms and they will trust in you. Semper fi Helldivers!!! As always, fight hard, fight the good fight, and long live DEMOCRACY!!!!

Sometimes the game won't let me equip a booster so don't judge too harshly when a player doesn't have one equipped.

Any survivors from Malevolent Creek here? hate that godforsaken place

Other tips, graphic settings: 1) Turn off Motion Blur. 2) Turn off BLOOM (or get blind in night maps). 3) Set sharpness to 1.0. Less blurry shit.

On difficulty 7, you are completely fine to mess around with your stratagems and wepons. The shield relay is not that good in general, but you can use it if you feel like it. It's important to try new loadouts in your preferred difficulty level (excluding 8 and 9. Those are for the pros).

I like to complete the main mission early and then clear out the map…in case we have to extract ASAP.

So yea I’m level 8 and know nothing about boosters cause I don’t have any cause it’s not mentioned anywhere. I honestly thought those were drop pod decorations.

Now those are some Brasch Tactics, use em or die tryin.

Its fun suggestions :). But i play since start only hardest difficulty acailable, drop hot loca, choose unlocks what is most fun rather then whats good :) and basically dont use literally almost none of the suggestions and i can remember only one lost game kinda early. (Lvl 15+ going suicide dificulty with 2x turrets and 2x mines :) having a blast). Also its not a brag cause i dont feel that im somehow rlly good on this game at all.

Correction: i would argue you need to shoot things in your way, shoot things depending on mission. If you're defending a point for an operation, every patrol in the area will b line it to you, on top of what the objective spawns. Especially on the harder difficulties, I've found it worth it to wipe patrols BEFORE engaging with the objective. Especially the scientist, icbm or any upload objectives, it's far more safe to engage squads early rather than let them all come to you doing the objective.

Fun fact,bile titans are considered small on their home planet

Also: Stop splitting up to get objectives on harder difficulties especially. Top Kills: it’s not about who had the most kills it about did we succeed on our objective and run a solid mission. Top Take Away: Be a clear host and call out your map plan. Level 9 is not that hard if you stay as a team and don’t agro every little movement of life that you see.

For the boosters, even when no one is using a specific booster, the boooster is greyed out where you can't even use it. I noticed this happening many times while I play this game.

Autocannon turrets is fucking fantastic. You just have to throw it out of the way of everything so it can do its job without getting destroyed right away, chargers will literally change course to destroy it if you throw it while being chased, but if it shoots them just a few times they die before they can even get to it.

btw radar secondary objective marks all spots of interest on the map

Shield backpack does work against bugs and melee attacks as well as blocks status effects

Its genially so frustrating when the entire squad fragments. It not only makes the mission impossible, as fragmented solo's can NOT take on the army of bugs / bots. But its also even MORE frustrating when you're the one dropping pins, and the team just ignores it. This is very rare, but I have encountered one squad that did exactly this.

Enemy spawn rates quadruple after you do the main objective, so do the primary objective last.

4:57 there needs to be saved presets. i genuinely forget to put boosters on but i’m not even high level and get to play a lot

Sorry to be asking a newb question here: When I join a randoms group I get to the loadout screen without seeing what mission I embark on. Is there a way to see the mission type in the loadout selector so I can accomodate my loadout for it?

Maybe the book "Starship Troopers" written by Heinlein gets a boost. An old classic, Hugo-winner. It's very most rightwing - and takes itself seriously, unlike Helldiver's but mostly a good read nonetheless.

Rule #1: Stop calling down reinforcements into the middle of the enemy’s forces!! Get some space and throw the transponder away from the enemies. And if you really want to be helpful. Stay and lend support until it drops. Nothing worse than spawning in the middle of a group of enemies. Basically a waste of reinforcements.

There’s a bug with boosters I believe, doesn’t always let you equip one. Even if the other players them and it isn’t the one you’re trying to put on

Bit of an add on to the stop shooting everything is JUST BECAUSE I PINGED IT DOESNT MEAN FUCKING FIGHT IT. the amount of times I would ping a patrol so we can avoid it just for one person to shoot it.

I think new player might be under the misconception that boosters are 'consumables' like in many other games Remember me myself wondering this as a freshly baked cadet

got the game yesterday put 8h in already and killed a few team members after throwing stratagems and they sprint towards that area after I've thrown it

I think your missing "don't pass up an opportunity for a well deserved hug."

Most of the time I've accidentally killed my teammates with strategems was because i equipped an orbital and was killed by a teammate and the strategem activated where it dropped

Drop off your samples at extract before doing optional task.

why the hell didint they teach me this on mars .... so much missing info filled in

The main helldiver difficulty loadout rn is just 4 orbital lasers 4 railcannon strikes 4 shields and a mix between railgun and gl or recoiless but always a minimum of 2 railguns. Well this setup is for bugs. Robots require just mortors😂

You can get boosters in the requisition center?!

The latest patch increased the capacity and they did it again… 458,709 players. God damn 😌

I dunno, I mark and ping things and people walk paste them. Those glowy coaches, two button doors, anything. Some people just have blinkers on.

i dont like when ppl dont drop with skills equipped or start shooting ppl in the evac ship dropping thus rewards. tends to be lv 20-30 dropping on a medium/easy mission.

Dude, made a video on based on something everyone figures out the first week of play.