Helldivers 2 - Recoilless Reload Cancel is Fun (Helldive Solo) 

10 bucks says this gets fixed sooner than the Spear's targeting.

Brood Commanders mindlessly charging forward after loosing their head would be nice. Instead of knowing your exact location that is.

Arrowhead watching this: "🤔 The incendiary shotgun seems effective."

Team Reload might actually be a mechanic that gets used if they make it so that anyone can feed ammo to the weapon from the backpack of person holding the weapon and wearing the backpack, you should just be able to run up to someone with a crew weapon and hit E on them to feed from their backpack to their weapon.

Would love a ship module that’s like “reload training” or something that just speeds up your ability to reload your own support weapons

Nah wait a minute. 3 minutes into the video, a 500kg lands on the charger, blows up, and that charger crawls out of the explosion. They gotta fix that damn lightshow lol

Anti-air emplacement counterplay: blow it up, get your Eagle back Atmospheric distortion counterplay: get fucked

You can just animation cancel it by pressing your crouch button. Slightly faster than a weapon swap and easier to shoot straight after than a dive

Fun in the title? 7 days to patch this out

I wish they had intel for the map you were about to play, like heavy hunter or spewers or chargers. That way your squad or you can set up properly

@12:30 Dough: "I just don't know brother, what can I say?" Dough's Diver: "SAY HELLO TO DEMOCRACY!!!"

Arrowhead: "I see you like playing with the recoilless, would be a real shame if we NERFED it"

Devs don't understand the concept of risk management. This game is a delicate balancing act between a massive number of random factors that we have no control over, and it was more or less at the best balance at launch (though it still had big problems). Now, they have steadily layered more and more risk factors while reducing our options to mitigate those risks. Past a certain point, the chaos reaches a critical mass that is largely insurmountable via practical/reasonable means and effort. There is just too many options for the enemies and not enough options for us.

This patrol spawn change was awful, I'm sure someone balanced it correctly before to account for the multiplicative nature of playing with others, then someone saw it and thought 1 person = 25% effectiveness of a 4 man squad like an idiot.

Whoever's in charge of the balancing does not deserve how popular this game is.

Animation cancel makes it a solo-viable weapon and this last patch has shown us they hate solo players so say goodbye to the animation cancel next patch, or even hotfix.

It took you over 10 minutes to complete that radar station because of patrol spawns. Thats nuts and frustatingly not fun, imho. I've noticed that after the patrol "fix" it's signifcantly more difficult to complete side objectives like this in a party with less than 4. Even with localization confusion reducing enemy encounters (bug breeches) the patrol frequency completely invalidates this booster. It needs dialed back a bit I agree.

For the SEAF Artillery, I wish they would bring back the gimmick from HD1 wear carrying the shell allowed you to still use your 1 handed weapon (pistol or SMG). It doesn't make any sense to not have it be that way. It takes away one of the already very limited use cases for SMGs, and makes SEAF Artillery all the more tedious since you can't fight and load at the same time.

I have no idea how do you manage to play through the lvl 9 difficulty solo, while providing such an informative, laid back commentary at the same time. Glad my casual ass stumbled upon your channel!

Thanks for making quality content that is entertaining and informative. You’ve got that perfect middle ground of both. I appreciate you appreciating us watching you but I appreciate you being genuine and consistently putting out really quality content. Please keep it up because you’re by far my favorite creator for this game. 😁

23:15 that "escape" was actually fucking sick xD

With the patrol changes and the devs outlook on solo play, the quasar nerf feels like it was meant to hurt solo players the most over bringing it in line with the other anti tank strategems

This is probably what they did to fix it using more than 1 ammo when canceling animation. Just made it so as soon as it counts as ammo leaving the backpack it considers the gun reloaded

New subscriber here. I found you because of HD2 and I have been enjoying the content. However, I wanted to say I appreciate the fact that you don't use foul language in your videos. I know it might seem like a silly thing to some people, but I have young children and I know I can watch your videos with them in the room without having to worry about hearing a constant stream of degeneracy ;-) I appreciate it 🙂

Bro, I really hope this gets left in, like you said in the video it's much more engaging, fun, and rewarding to have this in. It's basically an active reload from Gears of War.

0:00 AH: "You? Having Fun??" *DIVINE INTERVENTION: ERROR REPORT!*

14:06.. NEVER say that about ion storms, again! The devs already hate solo players and we don't need them getting any more ideas from shit like that!! Silence!

14:48 The shot literally clears the skies. Recoilless Rifle is OP.

The game is a pain now, it became "I dare you to reload"- The game.

2:18 get down mister president

14:48 didn't know they added weather-clearing abilities to the recoilless rifle

Stun grenades are hands down the best grenade. They have let me save my fellow Helldivers’ from being swarmed or crushed on every single mission, without having to worry about friendly fire.

We should have a reload gauge like Gear of War in order to get fast reload when we get perfect timing. The gauge design could be per weapon class.

The white showing in the mag can be applied to most if not all weapons. So you can cut out the last bit of reload animations and save precious time on long reload weapons like the airburst rocket for example.

One thing I do for eagles is that if I need to rearm, but still have an eagle, is throw the eagle then immediately rearm. The eagle you threw will still land and you have already started the rearm.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that notices that certain planets have a certain bias towards certain types of bugs. Estanu always feels like it's plagued with Brood Commanders and Hellmire seems to host more Hive Guards than normal.

Bro I swear the hunters, baby spewers, and scavengers got buffed. Sometimes a full breaker shot doesn’t kill them.

When I know I need to rearm eagles, I pop the remaining ones in a sub-optimal way, because it's still doing *something* and they can be spammed for massive effect. Saves me some ammo in critical moments sometimes.

Playing solo now gives me the same vibe as playing high rounds of C.o.D zombies. Constantly running and barely any breathing room for complicated objects.

16:44 Have you tried looking at orbital airburst instead of eagle napalm+gas strike? Imo its a pretty solid option for bug breaches if timed correctly, clearing the first two waves with the first barrage and keeping it on lock for the remaining barrages. And its CD lines up with the next breach. Also 1 stratagem slot vs 2 and lets you keep the eagle cd alone for the 500kg

I am addicted to recoilless, happy to see you rocking it

Another tips I don’t see many people use is reload while sliding, you can win the 2 meter that can make the difference, it works with any weapon that has to stand still just like the jet pack

There's a huge unnecessary delay after you insert a rocket into the airburst launcher that you can cut short by switching weapons, meleeing, or diving... also, this isn't a bug. While you are able to do *something else* quicker after reloading, you're not actually getting the next shot off faster since you pay a penalty in time by canceling it anyway (melee takes time, diving takes time, switching weapons takes time) but at least you can spend that time *not reloading* even though you're *not firing either*

ARM is my absolute go-to for ending Spewers. One headshot, gone. They're not agile, they frequently pause or freeze and lift their heads. You can shoot it as fast as you want or even can, and has quite a bit of ammo. Just as long as someone else can handle the chargers and titans, the AMR just deletes anything else too. It even lets you use some basic primaries for horde-clear, since it has enough ammo for any med+ armor stuff.

0:49 Honestly i was running the same setup i think it compliments perfectly grenade pistol+stun nades but because of bile spewers i always do impact nades now, they almost always one shot them and it makes it way more manageable

Agreed on spewers, I've been running the AMR mainly now just to one tap anything medium but mainly to handle them at a distance. Fell in love with the Precision strike for Biles and Chargers. Also run same gas and or napalm. Great videos, keep them coming, will try this tip tonight!

So far what I'm thinking is we should have a system in place that can tell us the enemy spread on a given mission and or planet. Something like a pie chart that would be 5% bile titans, 10% chargers, 35% hunters, 30% scavengers/leapers, 9% warriors, 9% brood commanders, and 2% random spawns. I think if we could get something like that mission prep would be easier.

35:00 A brief moment of ya boi getting emotional. Thanks for the content, Brother 🫡

3:04 right in the dome piece

Reload cancel could be a fun game mechanic for every other weapons too. Who ever played Killing Floor 1 or 2 know that.

i'm 95% sure that the fire-nerf was specifically done to mess with the incendiary breaker break-points for light-kills. 12:11 I thought it was a rock until THE APPROACH. 16:02 i feel you on the orbitals, eagles just feel "right" one plane loaded up with a LOT of support that you have to send-away to re-arm or use only what's left on the racks. Meanwhile the destroyer's loaded down with 7-8 HEAVY ground support weapons and it's reloading and firing at 1/3 to 1/6 the rate of the eagle strikes with only 1 single round in the one gun that's being use this time. THEN IT MISSES because there's an un-counter-able "turbulence" in the passive-list. if we could at least double-stack the orbital reloads it would be something (twice the uses if you wait long enough beyond the first cooldown). 23:18 ok that was buggy as hell in the most amusing way. 34:38 i find that vs bugs you can rarely go wrong with gatling or AC turrets. AC can get swarmed a bit more but it can deal with the heavies (if it doesn't decide to tag a new patrol instead), gatling's just a reliable mower of all things not heavily armoured. if i'm feeling spicy i'll take both plus something red with a BOOM for their downtime. virtually useless vs bots tho, they rocket 1-shot the things within a second of their first salvo going out.

aye dough, your my favorite content creator for HD, keep up the good work m8.

44:15 You can stay out of the "landing zone" (be just far enough that the pelican doesn't land) and he will hover in a spot and shot stuff with his amazing cannon. You can also do this on non-emergency extractions by staying in the zone until the timer hits 0 and when pelican approaches, just move out of the zone and he will hover and shoot like before.

I'm glad the content business is looking up for you now! I love your dry wit! 😂

22:27 I feel the helplessness in this moment especially after being smothered in hunters while trying to use the recoiless rifle in peace XD

35:36 No good sir. Thank YOU for the amazing content!

Appreciate how you always see both sides of the coin unlike some other content creators which become outraged without understanding, like solo dives, macros, etc. Somehow empathy is rare these days.

Love the videos dude, you deserve the views. One of the gamers of all time

For the spewers, I find the eruptor to consistently 1-2 tap them, and surrounding tinies. Definitely my favorite gun to run.

Good point on the macros bro. Plenty of people use them. Some even use them then claim they don't, just so they can seem superior.

I feel like patrols should be reduced when you’re at a side objective or POI, it seems to me that the point of patrols is to make moving between areas more interesting and to punish the player for taking too long to do an objective. However, in their current state (specifically for solo in higher difficulties) they’re less of a punishment for spending too long in 1 spot, and more so just make side objectives near impossible. you should get the enemies that spawn at the side objective, any enemies that spawn through reinforcements, and 0-1 patrols. You should only get more patrols past that after several minutes. That way you can actually do the objective assuming you’re going fast, and only get more enemies if you’re playing very safe and slow

Its why the rover is never takin off my back the extra trash clears helps so much

you dont have to change weapons to animation cancel, if you want to cancel the reload animation without switching weapons, tap the strategem button and your character will look at their arm for a split second and keep the weapon out rather than having to swap weapons back and forth. i use this trick with the machine guns and the airburst to cancel the standing up animation. since my sprint is shift and my strategems is set to CTRL i can press them both simultaneously with my pinky and sprint for a second to cancel my animations

Glad to hear you talking about the enemy type spawns being different every game and no way to prepare. It's one of my biggest gripes at the moment. I drop in thinking I'm gonna try out my spicy new stalwart build and then get nothing but chargers. Then I switch to an anti tank build and it's hunter spam. Having the wrong build kills the fun so quickly. Would be nice if there was a planet effect you could look at in load out time.

For radar, if the arrow on terminal is to the left of semi circle you need to move arrow over into, meaning arrow literally needs to move to the right for shortest path while facing terminal to enter it you actually spin radar to the LEFT and vice versa, if you look at terminal and shortest path looks like arrow has to move left while facing terminal then go spin radar to the RIGHT if understand what I mean

Bile spewers take extra damage from explosives. Just like the back of chargers or the underside of bile titans. Auto cannon, granade launcher, or the mech works well. There also seems to be a mechanic where when you shoot them with a high stun weapon like the punisher, it stops them from vomiting? Im not too sure whats hsppening but it happens when I shotgun them in the face.

auto cannon, grenade launcher, some of the harder hitting primaries can mulch spewer face holes, grenade pistol, most nades etc. The issue is if you dont know whats spawning and take an add clear load out you can only fit in 2 anti tank strats which wont handle multiple chargers and titans, especially with ion storms, one less stratagem, scatter, longer call down or cool down, etc. you took 2 add clears strats and the best bug add clear primary and had troubles handling both tanks and adds...and you are better than most divers.

I like the slugger when going up against bile spewers. I usually play with a team though so, they can usually cover the other stuff.

How do U shall throw at art? I learned from a guy on yt on controller drop pick up then weapon switch its just hard to time the buttons right on PC

This seems to be the result of having a 2 stage reload. Can be done the same with the spear but not the airburst since the airburst doesn't have an empty canister to eject first

Fun fact; the airburst rocket doesn't have this system so if you have to jump out of the way of danger right at the end of a reload then you have to restart all over again! I think I just make the game harder for myself

Modifiers should be randomizing effects that could be good or bad but even out to neutral, like you throw a gas strike and a clerical error gets you two gas strikes neither of which were quite where you wanted them. For these long af reloads, they should be active reloads where you have to press buttons and do mouse motions in sync with the animation, that way the dullest part of the game would be an active engaging minigame that can be mastered for faster reloads.

29:44 completing primary obj increases patrol spawns by 4x, unsure if that's changed with the most recent patch but that's what it was tested to be at before

I found that the AMR is actually better against bugs than bots, at least when your aim isn't cracked. It one shots hive guards, brood commanders, easily cleans up bile/nursing spewers. It only can't handle chargers and titans, but even then, you have 3 other stratagem slots, especially if you use EAT. I don't think many people use it, but the AMR is to bugs what the autocannon is to bots

I wish i could remember who i saw this from, but someone suggested that they rework how team loading works with just one change: allow for a teammate to reload your weapon and pull ammo from your own backpack for said weapon, so that your teammate doesn't have to wear *your* backpack. Not only would that make more sense animation-wise, it would give more control to both people so that you dont need an “ammo jockey”. The way team reloads are now, i rarely find a good time to use them. If anyone knows where this idea comes from, please let me know; its such a good solution to what could be a great system.

the shoulder auto cannon seems to do a pretty good job with the bile spewers for me i just aim for the love handles and watch them go splat

Autocannon deals with bile spewers in 2 hits to the head, 4 to the body. It also kills stalkers in 1 headshot or 2 torso shots.

They should add button inputs during the reload to speed up the reload. If you flunk the input, your character slows or stumbles the missile. Under stress this will make the reload so much more intense but it remains interactive like you were saying

Railgun, Eat for the spewers. Perfect loadout. You already get full reload from 1 supply pack. Plus the scorcher or dominator melts them.

@00:48 For the Bile spewers you have to bring a autocannon to effectively deal with them. The issue with that is autocannon is pretty bad against everything else and if there is no bile boys is a waste. I just bring jar-5 if im in a team of 3-4 since it can deal with them ok.

23:21 that quantum ragdoll through the fabric of space time tho.

Diff9 Solo-SEAF is where joy and hope meet up just to perish together. Some very tight plays in this one, GG. Getting rewarded for paying attention to reload animations is something every weapon with a backpack solemnly needs. This could be a nice big unintentional step in a good direction if it doesn't mess with Arrowhead's vision.

The key to the SEAF obj is not to activate the terminal until you have all 5 shells ready to load, because the terminal attracts patrols. Of course, that doesn't matter much if you've already got a patrol tailing you when you get there. And either way, it is definitely more tedious to do solo.

OMG! I forgot the special packaging buff that gives al your rockets back is working now. This is going to be so good

I occasionally like to rock the RR just for variety in my anti-tanks and it's honestly great. On the bugs side unlike the EAT or Quasar the RR is literally just point, aim and shoot, very useful in scenarios where you're in a rush and swapping to the EAT or charging the Quasar takes too long. On the bots side this thing is absolutely cracked at destroying dropships, it reloads just fast enough that you can destroy almost every dropship that gets called in by a drop one by one.

You're a real one for bringing up disabilities. It's the honor system: if you use them, I'm going to assume you need them.

Here for you OhD, love your content👊

You're the only reason i tried using the gas strike but i still prefer the clusters

26:10 note to self: when mobbed, if at all possible, run uphill.

Been loving the spear for titans only and EAT for chargers its been fun for defends and been trying helldive in quickplay and been able to clean up titans with one hit pretty damn often

15:58 that gas strike is wild

I've noticed you look at things in the distance a lot and ask yourself if it's an objective. If you ping part of it, ie: the tower for the radar dish, your diver will say objective located and it'll show up on the map. As far as I can tell this works on every objective, so long as you are able to directly ping part of it.

You're welcome, brother. Thanx for being entertaining af.

love your stuff man

Ehy just wanna say youre my favourite helldivers youtuber, I love your videos, youre hilarious! Please keep doing what youre doing! Imma keep watching!

Hey Dough, do you not like turrets for solo play? Maybe help with ad clear/counteract the "miss strategem" modifier? Im a big fan of turrets so im biased but they're really helpful

The Airburst RPG got the exact cancel too. I had such a high hope for the airburst.

i hate gas orbital because it seems to land so far from where you throw it... @15:10 yes!!! Kind of like Gears of War reloads. @15:50 YES!!!!! Devs really underestimate the POWER of *SIMULTANEOUS*: reloads, cooldowns, ranged fire output, stragetem diversity, etc. that come with additional players.

I use dominator for Bile Spewers since I run laser backpack to take care of the small bugs and therefore don't need to run a breaker. Even with that though, it doesn't feel GREAT. It can deal with one or two amazingly since I can just stagger them to death and they never get to spew. But a group coming at me is when it gets tricky. That's where grenades and grenade pistol come in though

I'm actually loving the recoilless this patch. I run this: Blitzer - recoilless - 500kg - orbital airburst - orbital EMS Blitzer is insane right now cause it ad clears and kills spewers. Orbital ems + airburst combo is actually cracked cause of the low cooldown. And 500kg for quick bile titan extermination. Try it out it's fun