Helldivers 2 - Factory Strider Weak Spot Guide & Tips 

0:54 “backshots, aim above the opening vent. On the behind.” Oh Dough, you scoundrel you. Lol

Wow I've killed 1 pre bot push back and now I've lost count of how many I've ran against since the thay came back... I had no idea the striders had been changed thank you for doing so much of this testing

At 7:36 you mention the guns being able to shoot through rocks, this is because the guns are inside the rock meaning the bullets are spawning behind the wall that's supposed to stop them. It's really fun when three heavy Devastators use this to pull off a team wipe from the other side of a large rock.

Jeez. I went into a mission with the objective to kill one of these behemoths completely blind. I figured they'd be about as durable as a hulk or have some easy weakness like the tank. I spent 30 minutes trying to kill it and only succeeded by going out of bounds and standing under the strider so it gets pelted with explosives over and over again.

I brought autocannon sentry to a solo helldive and watched it solo the factory strider while i kept it distracted

9:33 nothing weird, no hitbox issue. Eruptor's damage is mainly concentrated into its fragment, not the explosion itself. So if you hit the minigun directly, it won't cause much damage. Meanwhile when hitting like between the two miniguns and the fragments spread toward both sides, you might 1-shot destroy the miniguns.

It's really refreshing to have a creator give a brief intro and jump straight into the point of the video in a well spoken, concise, and clean manner. The chapter/section layout is awesome to help people quickly navigate. The no BS approach is much appreciated. Glad you aren't trying to sell us G-Fuel. You have my sub Sir. That being said, you should really do a video on the grenade launcher. It's probably my favorite weapons to run currently and highly underrated for dealing with pretty much everything bot/bug, minus massive units/Chargers/Hulks. You do have to run a supply pack with it to really make it shine (90 rounds total with spawn in). That and +2 nades/50% recoil reduction light armor for bugs. Then 50% explosive reduction/50% recoil reduction medium armor for bots as the recoil reduction really helps you land full auto direct impact hits on certain medium targets. It crushes light and more importantly medium armor targets, which I find teams struggling with in 9 difficulty sometimes (especially them fatties). I tend to run orbital railgun/rocketpods/precision strike/orbital laser as my 3 and 4 slots depending on mission type to help take out massive units. Then a scorcher as a primary (secondary in truth) which you can just blow through rounds with the supply pack. The scorcher will still do work on a charger's rear if you really have to play "if you can dodge a wrench" with one or two after you run out of anti-big boy stratagems.

Man I been fucking loving the laser cannon on bots lately. I can kill hulks very consistently with it and it drops the fuck out of gunships too.

did you test out anti material rifle?

1) Laser Cannon should not have recoil. It shoots LIGHT! Super Earth damn it. 2) Spear should be manual targetting, Hold to lock in and shoot. We can get more consistency when hitting weakspot this way.

Useful breakdown. Thanks for being so straightforward.

This is all useful information, but I would say for ease and repetition I've found an Orbital Laser combined with Eagle Airstrike to be a consistent method for dealing with these quickly and with minimal risk. It will either be outright dead, or very close to dead and ready to be finished. If Orbital Laser is not an option, 2 Eagle Airstrikes will usually bring them close to death's door. Eagle Airstrike is my workhorse call in for all kinds of situations.

Since no one here's yet, I just wana thank Ohdough. My favorite helldivers content creator (including Thiccflia) Its always so helpful and I learn something new. His honesty about when he dislikes a weapon with no sugarcoating really helps!

The orbital laser doesn't target a specific place on the enemy's torso. It aims at the ground at the center of its hitbox. Its firing angle changes (not sure if random, pseudo-random, or if it's predictable), and tends to miss both walkers and bile titans as it gets further from vertical since it's actually targeting the ground and can shoot around the torso, at which point it only hits the legs, and only when the enemy is turned the correct direction.

Love the content my guy. Quick question/wishlist item. Is it possible at the end of the video, you could throw up a chart with the number of shots to kill per weapon or strategem. I personally try to take notes so that when I'm playing, I can keep track of my ttk (your videos helped a ton with this). So, I believe others like myself would enjoy a visual chart similar to your tier ranking chart. Just a thought. I know that would mean more work for you and who wants to math more 😅. That's all. Aces.

been super lucky each time i come across one of these bois. always with the erupt, and ALWAYS one tap those mini guns, without fail, love it to bits and back.

No matter how many of your videos I watch, I can't help but hear "Howdy, and Hello. I'm Dough Hooker doing good, and today..." Every time I try to hear "hope you're doing good", and I still can't lol. Love your content!

Lovely advice .... what about when there's 3 OF THEM!??!, with 7 Hulks running around, dozens of Devastators, and 7 GunShips above ... also while next to a Strat Jammer Tower? That was my problem .... we failed heroically. Been a while since a failed mission, but that situation got the best of us.

armor penetration values range from 1-10. 1-2 is light armor pen 3-6 is varying medium armor pen 7-10 is heavy armor pen as far as I've been able to test with modding tools, nothing needs 7-10 currently as those values will deal damage to any target at any angle, and most things don't need higher than 4 to effectively kill, the laser cannon is a great example, only has 4 pen but that's enough to kill hulk's eyes, laser tower vents, tank turrets and the factory striders weak points along with any lower class of medium armor. hulks themselves aren't even heavy armor because you can damage them anywhere with just 5 armor pen

TL;DR all of the weak spot 1. armor plate the flat spot between the front and the hind leg and the flat spot at the back can be blown up with anti tank weapon revealing medium armor spot. 2. head the flat red box on top can be blown off with anti tank weapon revealing the brain. Major weak spot but does require heavy armor pen to damage. the eye also work but require heavy armor pen. 3. vent/heatsink when deploying bot 4 vent/heatsink pop up above the leg and another on e on the angled part at the ass require medium armor pen. 4 center mass the belly door ,the flat spot between the hindleg vent/heatsink can be damaged using medium pen weapon. 5 joint the foot the neck joint and the joint that connect the upper thigh to the lower leg require heavy pen weapon. Note that the leg joint red armor plate that are facing backward can be blown off to increase the damage area

How in the hell? Was fighting some of these recently, and literally watched one of them tank and 20 autocannon shells, 7 impact grenades, 3 quasar shots, 2 airstrikes, 1 precision strike, and 3 500kg bombs. We just kept hitting it with bigger and bigger explosions until it finally went down.

Damn my boy scouting out that dope ass Intel we all desperately needed. O7-Helldiver

0:46 "family friendly of course" 😂😂 ok, you are the guy im watching for now on. You are about business. Keep up the good work.

It's heat vents or radiators, since they vent, or radiate away the heat. Venting uses something to carry the heat away, like air, while radiating means it's just hot and emits lot's of infra red. Thanks for the video, cheers.

nice work man

Enemies that require more strategery are cool. Dropping three of them on you at once is kinda lame though. My bot loadout is getting kinda stale since you have to deal with so many things in a specific way in a short period of time or risk getting overrun.

I think the difference in armor pen for the exploding crossbow vs the scorcher is down to enemies having different armor levels for explosions versus direct damage. My guess is that the tank heatsink has medium ballistic armor and light explosive armor, but the factory strider miniguns are medium ballistic and medium explosive. Crossbow and Dominator have medium-AP on their projectile and medium-AP on their explosion, the plasma weapons have light-AP on those.

For everyone wondering: The "vents" on the back that go up and down, are part of the leg system. On the front two legs they protrude sideways out. They are basically pistons pushing the legs. Also, how on earth do you find so many factory striders to test on? I've not even seen a SINGLE ONE OF THEM! Not on 7, not on 8, not on helldive.

bruh you cant just be posting backshots on youtube like this

@ 8:50 Keep in mind that Armor has values between 0 and 10. The fact that something says "Medium Armor Penetration" doesn't mean it will penetrate *all* of the medium armors, as "medium armor" is actually a range of values, some of which might be beyond the true penetration of the weapon.

The resident AT-AT PhD on youtube - OhDough! Love it, keep it up :)

Things I want to see in the game... • suply pods show up on map • HMG emplacement doesn't auto kill you when it dies

Thermite just can't decide if it wants to be useful of not

It's hitting the side due to position on map. One or the tips stated strategems are more angled toward the perimeter of the play area

We are going to need that, as they are dropping on valuable asset missions now

Airstrike is capable of one-shotting the Factory Strider, you just have to land it on the Strider's lenght, not it's width. (more bombs get direct impact) But as with everything in this game, its really inconsistent.

I like how the anti material rifle just cant hurt the big turret and also doesn't affect the vents, but can totally wreck the clearly armored doors to the bottom of it.

You forgot about the AMR. I took one down with the AMR while my team was scoring around, but I'm the chaos I can't remember where I shot it, but it was somewhere on the face

5:22 Id be interested to see the map position for those two lasers. since the beam always comes from the center of the map there appears to be a dead zone and it would be cool to figure out where that is.

Haven't watch dough for almost a year. glad to see he doing well after escape from that hellhole call dauntless .

My squad just spams it with 380 rofl. We have no idea how tough or squishy it is because 380 does the trick.

You can 1 shot it with eagle airtrike, but you need it to be perfectly horizontal and in top of the stratagem so most bolb directly hit it

I've had success with the EAT, dropping them in 2 shots. First into the square on head, then second straight through the hole it makes (aim where the square would have been).

So, on menkent (aka bot hellmire), any other recommendation to replace laser cannon, or is laser cannon still recommended even with the shorter fire duration?

Exactly one time I one-shot killed a factory strider. It was being lowered from the dropship and I struck it on the neck with a quasar cannon. I suppose it was just angled perfectly to get in under the armor from slightly forward of it.

If you're in a group, it take upto around three bad orbital lasers. I suggest tossing the laser behind it and have it facing you to have better odds

Thanks, as an autocannon enjoyer it's been bugging me that I don't know how to damage these.

The orbital precision strike had worked really well on striders for me

I use the mech to destroy the factory strider, trying to find the weak spot, but however it took me 6 or 7 shooting at the head of the factory strider

I think sone weapons have one armour pen value on their projectile and the explosive penetrates based on its range rather than a pen value, or maybe a explos ons get boosted pen values. (It would explain the no-pen GL support weapon killing things by shooting a nearby rock (because ie bounces off enemies and the ground, poor things worse than the pistol at this point).

How many bullets do they take with the AMR in the eye and behind? and does it break the hull at the other weak points?

i dont think the things on the top are vents its a factory so it some sort of hydraulic maybe its for stamping metal plates?

Can you stun grenade the walker? If so, the laser cannon might be the best option

The Spear can one shot the Factory Strider if you hit the face weakspot (Eye area) by locking on and walking close enough to get the hit while the rocket goes up

Eagle air strike does way more damage vs strider if you call it in facing the side instead of the front.

Hmmm why not test it with Railcannon strike, I feel like the Railcannon strike + one air strike will do the job, not sure about the update version with 2 cannons on the back

Eruptor I’ve heard has a dome shaped explosion, not a full sphere. That could be what is causing hitbox shenanigans.

Should bring this up for these guys. Orbital Precision Strike is a 380 shell, great for these and other objectives.

You haven't been able to get a one shot on the walker with Airstrike because you're playing solo. I've only been able to do it myself by hitting it from the side so the eagle drops more bombs across the length of the thing. If you aim the eagle right, it's fairly consistent. I'd say I get the one shot about 2/3 of the time.

They also need to fix the issue of "ghost guns" that if youre shooting the turrets from the side, breaking one blocks shots on the other even if its not there.

strafing run does awesome too. head to butt and should kill in one pass. blows the pistons up

I just learned the autocannon has a burst mode

@OhDough land the eagle from the side. The eagle bombing run hits all across the length of the strider Taking it out

If the eyes take heavy pen to it it, why does the laser cannon consistently take them down so fast? Laser cannon is med pen I believe? Like 4-5?

0:54 what shots? 🤨😏

Orbital gatling barrage has been surprisingly effective against factory striders.

The most chill strider factories I've ever seen

You mean to tell me they buffed laser cannon face damage and I've been melting the rotary cannons and running under this whole time? Also why no flame thrower test? I know it probably doesn't work and shouldn't, but it saves me a lot of time and pain if I can just see it in a video.

thank you

Can scorcher do damage to the opened weak spots?

First time fighting the automatons as a lvl 4 noob with my friend....first mission was a facotry strider thingy probably shot like 20 anti tank missiles at that guy the thing was far away tho so probably didn't bit weakspots

Might be a bug but if you blow up the gun on top you can blow it up with the starter orbital strike

Helldivers figuring out the weakness of the strider

Can the quasar cannon do any good against this thing?

Need more testing whith pression strike. I have a feeling it does more damage then railcannon. Also can you make more testing s with recoiless please in case you have team reload?

Do either EMS orbital or mortar stun them?

Wait, when did Shield Emplacement start flashing before it disappears??

Buddy. Buddy. I know it's nerfed. But I needed to test it since last night, I'll try it. But I was doing a defense mission(the one with the 8 missiles and gates) I accidentally brought the rail cannon. And well.... I don't know if it was a coincidence that maybe my teammates damaged it though.. But I shot ONES (unsafe) on the shoulder or arm and..DED. two striders. Literally I wanna test it was a little disappointed this video didn't explain they weapon. I really carried the laser cannon just for the striders(plus it's great on gunships)

The crossbow panel is impact damage + explosive. The miniguns for whatever reason do not take explosive damage.

Can you throw a grenade into it from below, when it opens up to drop the bots?

Heavy machinegun on max RPM, to the underbelly, is both fun, and fairly effective.

God everyday im reminded how good the spear could be then crushing reality sets in and im reminded how truly ass it feels to finally get the targeting to work only to be known you need at least 2 maybe more to kill what ever your trying to aim at

this is so much more fun to fight then bt in myine opinion

I just use arcthrower against every enemies. I just love cutting edge tesla tower and of course arc thrower. Feels like playing as palpatine

YOU. ARE. THE. BEST.

I had 2 back to back bad lasers and it still didn't take it out... that was fun lmao

Does unsafe railgun shots do damage?

iv had good luck with the precision orbital against them

Crossbow was really good but after the balance changes plasma punisher its my best friend

I don't like it, but the scorcher and plasma punisher don't do worthwhile damage to it because their projectiles themselves don't have the armor penetration level for it, and it's projectile armor pen differs from the AoE's armor pen (which is why it shows deflections . The crossbow, however, does have medium armor penetration on it's projectile impact and also has a higher impactDmg:AoEDmg ratio.

I would call those pistons moving up and down hydraulics.

More testing for liberty!

Really wish the weakpoints were more telegraphed. The eyes on the front are a weakpoint but are a different color from all the rest of the automatons. When my group first faced one, we were shooting all around at the various red lights trying to get a hit indicator. The other weak points being lighter colored metal panels is kind of frustrating, too. How are you supposed to figure that out except for looking up a video like this? I feel the tactics for defeating an enemy should be shown to the player so they don't have to seek guides.

Autocannon once again the best choice for bots, undisputed.

Kinda feels like the model is unfinished, since I had to look up a video on how to kill the damn thing. Most of the bots bigger toys have some kind of obvious weakspots, like the big red vents on the turrets, tanks & hulks, but apparently this one doesn't

How do you give yourself ammo with the resupply backback?

Lot of people don't know how to deal with it , mostly rely on strategem

10 auto cannons to the face on level 9 = eliminated walker

Anyone with some insight for a AMR user ? Is the eye a viable option ? Something else ?

Seems fun it just stands there while you kill it