Helldivers 2 - Heavy Machine Gun & Throwing Knife Combo on Bugs?! (Solo, Helldive Difficulty) 

Chargers dying to throwing knives is so funny because it means that in a fight between a charger and a random British thug in an alleyway, the charger would probably lose

You can actually take out Bile Titans with HMG by getting under it then shooting out it’s sack, then continue shooting where the sack was until it’s entire butt pops. It will die instantly after BUT, it seems to be very inconsistent damaging that area.

Bro, swap out the shield pack for the supply pack with this loadout and you'll be able to push even harder. Use the new booster and you'll have a similar level survivability as well. You would have had like 50 knifes, 10 magazines for the HMG and 8 extra stims.

We will mark this day as the day auto climb officially died. Rest in peace.

23:55 The previous 500KG stripped its front leg armor, then it spat onto the wound and killed itself

This was genuinely funny. Such a zanny loadout and you still make it look easy!

I gotta be real, HMG against bots is VERY underrated still. I can empathize with wanting more speed and more mags. After jump-packing over a hulk and unloading into their coils for the first time I’m hooked.

The hellpod you can destroy is actually a "supply pod" type that is very rare yes, but it's recognized mostly by it's door malfunctioning and being unable to open entirely c:

I've been lovingly watching your videos since i started playing helldivers man. Keep up the work!

24:07 Titan spit actually has pretty significant splash, even more so since the update with the spit area increase. You can bait the Titans into spitting onto other Titans, Chargers, shield generators, and even rocks too (last time I checked) and it will do a ton of damage back at themselves.

I really enjoy playthroughs where you're just having fun, but some of these insane loadouts are quite entertaining, too!

Leaning into the knives versus chargers was genuinely entertaining and a fun constraint! It's faster to just dump half an i-Breaker mag into their butts, but it's not as fun to watch.

Easily my fav channel for Helldivers content

Another thing I love about the HMG is its ability to destroy shrieker nests. ~55% of a mag destroys one of their mushrooms. I´m pretty sure it also destroys spore spewers, but haven´t had the opportunity to test that yet.

Been running HMG since the buff. It with the sickle are goat 🐐

The hellpods you are thinking of looks like a properly deployed hellpod but the covers are stuck and sparks are coming out of it as it continues to try to open but fail. breaking it reveals a random support weapon or backpack.

The option to disable auto climb has been in the game for a while now. It was introduced in a way earlier patch and that was the first thing I did 😂😂

10:10 that's how it's always been. Full refill of EVERY grenade type

The new predator armor bonus kinda helps with the aim, i was really digging using it with weapons with slow handling like HMG and sniper rifles.

The moment we get to see if its going to be a bile heavy charger heavy or hunter heavy world, this games going to become amazing, imagine all the loadout possibilties

hell yea!

I've recently found out that you can send any capsule like stratagem such as reinforcements and supplies to shut down holes

Best titan strat with 500 is run towards it and under legs then throw below because it will turn around to chase you out the other side which cause the delay for impact

Hi! What keys do you use to type Stratagem? One of your old video shows WASD but i see you can move. I use Q E and scroll wheel up/down. Not the best, but I'm used to it.

the grenade and stim boxes you find have been giving full refills for a while now, like I wanna say since the spear could get ammo from the little boxes on pickup, too

If you dodge a charger or B. Chargers attack you can shoot the weak legs with HMG for super easy kills.

OMG we made it work. *dies right after* One of the best helldivers 2 streamers for sure imo

Takibo you can set multiple actions too the same buttons, i have dodge on space and climb also on space, same with crouch on c and laying down also on c, you can for example set dodge on space single press and climbing on hold or Trouble press, same with crouch, crouch in single and laying down on hold, i love them for doing that i have a disability with my left hand so being able too map everything how you like and need it is perfect

Yeah EMS... or any orbital usually doesn't work well with orbital fluctuations xD On the automaton side, I played some HMG and it's kinda nice, still not as good as AMR/Laser/AC (I suck at it against hulks), but definitely up there. But for BUGS? I haven't tried, didn't expect it to do that well, the damage buff is real against brood commanders. Tho I don't think I'll ever use it without a supply backpack, especially multiplayer, its ammo pool is ridiculously low, even with the slowest RPM & trying not to waste shots (where most other support weapons are braindead on that aspect).

When running HMG and knives i highly recommend the supply pack

Surprised you didn't go with the resupply back pack.

Have you tried the AMR against bugs? I thoroughly enjoy it against bots and bugs. Bugs it can one shot literally everything except chargers and bile titans. Warriors, Hive guards, brood commanders, bile spewers, nursing spewers, stalkers. As long as it’s a clean headshot it’s a one tap for everything and is so satisfying! Bring stuns and chargers are easy to deal with if you just pop their butt. Works against spore spewers and shrieker nests, just takes awhile. Can shoot out bile titan bellies, not sure if it’ll kill eventually or not though

I feel like throwing knives need the Grenade Pistol just because of spawners. Still, the HMG is looking really strong now.

18:55 Shield gen my beloved :) Luckily it didn't break from the enemy attacks and held off just in time to absorb the knock from the bomb going off

I've been running the mini mg sentry with the HMG. I call it down and it gives me time to reload when I need a new mag in the middle of a fight. I've also been taking the scorcher when I don't have an AT for the chargers. I feel like stun and impact nades are too good and the knives really fall short of what they need to do.

Grenade boxes always fill your grenades to the max, even with engineer armor.

I prefer Medium machine gun vs bugs because it still saws through pretty much everything but chargers, spore spewers can be a bit spongey but if shooting them in the face doesn't work then just break out the grenade pistol and pop them in the face. A loadout I've found I surprisingly like is the explosive crossbow for pure utility, the machine pistol as a side arm, stun grenades, Orbital Strike, Gatling Barrage, Machine Gun, and then a flex pick. The explosive X-bow is AMAZING at clearing out hives, I've been able to run through hives and just pop holes on repeat. I think because it's considered a silenced weapon, bugs don't spawn out of the holes as fast.

The shield pack saved you at that Stalker Lair, absorbed the blast of the 500KG and you were more than five feet from the epicenter so the damage was low enough not to kill you after lmao

Hmg Wishlist: Give it a larger magazine OR give it heavy pen (like the strafing run/orbital gattling barrage)

Yeah, I learned pretty quick that orbital EMS is too small and ends too quickly to be useful.

Grenade and stim boxes completely refill your grenades and stems even with armor upgrades. They are way more efficient than supply crates.

The throwing knives one tap stalkers if you hit the head

What's up legend.

The Supply Pack completely refills your knives. It's a game-changer for this build.

My favorite heavy machine gun loadout for the bugs is the heavy machine gun with the supply pack so you can use it as a primary with infinite ammo plus the orbital Gatling barrage because it's perfect for dealing with hordes of bugs that appear out of nowhere and you can take out structures with it and the 500 kg bomb because it's the best way of taking out bile titans until they fix the cooldowns for the orbital strike that for some reason sometimes doesn't actually have the 90 second cooldown. It's also advisable to bring stun grenades because whenever you see a charger the best way to deal with them with the heavy machine gun is you pop a stun grenade and shoot their back out. You can do so provided your accurate with at least half the magazine. Now for the automatons if you use heavy armor your tanky enough to where you don't need a shield backpack so you use the supply pack the same for the infinite ammo and you switch out the 500 kg bomb for the eagle airstrike because it's strong enough to take out factory striders and hordes.

I still prefer the other 2 machine guns on the bug side since they have so much mobility. But the HMG does shred on the bots side, even if the scope is still buggy

Ouch, EMS strike while that stupid orbital scatter is in effect. Even a direct hit EMS often fails to stun a charger probably depending on which animation the charger is doing.

Removing auto climb is probably the biggest feature they added

I think it would be pretty fun to helldive on a planet with low gravity. I mean there are a lot of planets and every single planet can't just have the same size and gravity.

I took it off back in late February. I just constantly hold or press the vault or X button on the controller when I feel I’m close to a step worth enough to stop me from vaulting. 😊

Shouldn't you be able to shot off the end bit of a bile titan so they die or is that not an option with the heavy machine gun

7:54 i dont think the crosshair on the throwing knife is misaligned, i think its just natural deviation. You’re not going to nail a throwing knife in the same spot over and over

I have climb in spacebar (Hold) and dive in spacebar (press, or tap?), I think that's a very confortable combo, Mouse 5 is for stims.

Those hellpods that contain items look like hellpods that are malfunctioning opening all the way, I could be wrong but I think they only give backpacks. I’ve also only ever seen them on easier missions I swear they’re never in difficult missions.

did they "fix" the jump away from spit finally? where you always get hit and basically die as soon as you try to jump away in a 90° angle from spit? super annoying because its basically how you would dodge. if you just run to the side you are fine, but jumping means they hit...

Grenade boxes always refill to full

10:00 The Grenade box always full refills just like the stim box on the map. You're probably confusing it with the resupply

The perfect spit at about 8:10 hit your legs. Every Helldiver hitbox other than torso is explosion immune. Edit for more context: Making every Helldiver hitbox other than torso explosion immune was the quick fix they used to remove multihits from explosions for Helldivers. Bile spit attacks are all explosive damage. Again at about 12:15, and often in gameplay in general if you move around bile spitters right by doing a lot of backing away and to the side from them, you will see this happen where only your legs catch any of it and so no damage is taken.

Can you make a new solos guide with this new meta

If there were orbital fluctuations, then that's why it didn't fall where you asked for it

HMG is really growing on me , but it really needs a bigger magazine

110m rocket pods would have been nice for the chargers

Bile titan , im out peace: squirts itself LOL

damn you woke up like a month after they added the auto climb toggle

They need to keep whatever damage would equal 🟰 killing chargers with the knifes that would make it viable for a high impact single damage utility. Also I know that’s the the thermite was supposed to be but I say BUFF IT THEN

Is there any advantage on running the medium MG over the HMG? Or should you just run HMG

little grenade box fills all grenades to max

What warbond is that armor set apart of

39:07 I think we should be able to carry 2 grenades types and switch between the two like other games (what's the points of armors having huge grenade belts in this game)

I need to use HMG more 🤣 that thing shreds wtf 1) you can just stick a supply beacon on the charger if you have nothing else. I sometimes use spare support weapons just for the lolz 2) granade boxes reaload more granades than the supplies for some strange reason 🤣

Pretty sure the grenade box and stun boxes give you a full refill

If you drop the rate of fire & crouch, the recoil becomes a lot more manageable.

I love using supply backpack with hmg

throwing knife needs the grenade pistol to deal with the nests, I think

I had to turn out climb back on because climb never seems to work on PS5

AFAIK those grenade boxes refill all grenades no matter what just like the stim boxes

orbital ems should be 3 times bigger than it is or have practicly 0 cooldown

the ems strike isn't doing anything cuz it's not hitting where you're putting down the beacon

1:15 Yayyyy 🎉

The EMS strike only works in the very middle of the blue cloud. It maybe stops like 3-5 bugs and the other 20 are unaffected. It’s complete garbage

we going rambo on these bugs

Imagine if it can penetrate the charger and titan armor

Lmao, gratz on remembering to shut of auto climb. 😂😂😂

How is blood running shield gen on bugs lol

Hmg blows out a chargers backside in like a third of a mag.

ems strikes should stun bile titans

The destructible hellpods are not spawning anymore i think, haven't seen them since release

Ik they are gonna fix the 4 knife charger kill but what other utility will they have after. I mean hell they you can’t even do a high damaging melee attack with them. Soon they will be the most useless grenade item in the game.

Madlad took off auto climb. I thought the opening hellpods where on lower lvls only. Could be wrong

HMG ammo needs an increase

10:40 it refills 4 grenades. Whether you have the grenade vest or not. It’s always 4

Grenade box gives back 4 grenades

for sure they are going to nerf that knife dmg

anything the hmg can do the auto cannon can do much much better.

Should have taken grenade pistol for bug holes...the redeemer was unnecessary

Don’t want this to seem negative cuz I love your videos, but have you ever thought about not running shield generator? I’ve always felt that it made the game feel too safe and wasn’t as much fun as jet pack/guard dog. Would love to see some jet pack gameplay from ya but I’ll be watching regardless, keep up the good work

8:08 Patch difference, I bet that would have killed you last patch. They "fixed"/nerfed bile spew by quite a bit

Anybody else having a hard time actually playing the game since the last patch (.402)? I got to the last drill on two Hive Breaker missions and couldn't interact with the drill (sorry, playing solo so I'm SOL in this situation). Next two missions crashed during extract. 2 hours in the game and literally nothing to show for it. Kind of a weak way to make players fail a Major Order, if you ask me...

Knife should do more damage if it's only hitting 1 target

I wouldn’t recommend engineering kit armor because knives dont refill up to 10 with one resupply pack, and it is much better to run something like medic armor or something to preserve your life better while using the supply pack to constantly replenish your knives, stims, and HMG mags.