How POWERFUL Are MECHS? (Mech Damage Testing) | Helldivers 2 

Correction: Mechs do in fact have a stomp feature tied to your melee key bind. During our sandbox testing, it was bugged and the stomp function was not working for us.

Great video, but a few inaccuracies : - Chargers should be taken out with 1 rocket to a front leg and then machine gun fire - Bile titans can be taken out with two well placed rocket shots to the head. - Star Wars walkers should be shot in the groin area for most effectiveness. - Hulks take 3 rockets from full health. Keep up the great work cross!

They need to fix the exo suit blowing itself up with the rocket pods. If you're turning around and fire the rockets at the same time it'll kill you.

The mechs need one thing and that’s a self-destruct bomb as in Titanfall 2 when you are out of ammo or the mechs are low on health you self-destruct to potently take out the enemies and save yourself

1:37. There is a stomp feature in the mechs and it is tied to the melee button.

Automatons boutta be sitting down with us for sweet cup of liber-tea

This week in hell: Titanfall 2

Lightfall/ Darkness saga producers take note THIS is how you do an invasion.

I’d love it if they added more vehicles. There should be a tank where one person drives and the other shoots, another reloads, the last one can scan or shoot a laser or whatever. Give us a new titan to try it on, too, for democracy!

Mechs need a self destruct code when ammo runs out ejecting you 7 seconds before detonation

I think one thing would be super cool to add to the Exosuit. Give it one single strategem: a self-destruct sequence. Give it like a 5-10 second timer. So if you're getting swarmed or just wanna go out in a blaze of glory. Give it a radius similar to a 500KG. But that explosion only goes off if you initiate self-destruct. If your Mech just gets destroyed on its own, no big kabloomies. It has to be a conscious choice.

Quick thing I found about the bot walkers is so long as your fire at about the leg joints with medium armour penetration it'll disable the Walker

Please remember that once your munitions are spent, *you still have an armored vehicle* Carrying your buddy on your head for fire support can be super beneficial, especially when crossing lakes.

Really hope we get the ability to launch stratagems from inside our exosuits like we could in HD1.

I really hope they add some sort of mech upgrades, or more engineer options that go towards mech. Very fun overall though

Even when it's out of ammo it's still good for transversal. Yiu can also park it at choke points to help block enemies.

ship upgrades that affect sentries should also affect mechs would be nice

Tap-fire after spooling up the chain-gun ❤

the fist game had multiple types of mechs and I hope we can customize ours with a specific loadout later on

I think a simple way to help balance the mech (and HMG emplacement for that matter) would be for it to just eject you when it's destroyed rather than kill you

I found you can shoot scout striders in the legs with the machine gun, but the recoil makes it take longer. I just hope they allow for a little stronger medium penatration or at least some stun power for the mini-gun. I'm currently trying to see if i can make the shield emplacement works with the mech. so far it fits inside the shield and you can fire out of it, its just staying inside is the problem. And mech paired with a sentry turret is great

"Even in death, i serve"

There IS a melee function, although small. On controller, hitting right bumper will make you dash forwards about a yard and a half before walking backwards as if to “shoulder charge” an enemy.

I really really hope they expand on these. Maybe have one that has only the machine gun but you can use stratagems and launch them from the mech at a further distance than normal.

As someone who just beat Halo 4, the EXO-45 feels SO much better than The Mantis, and I think Arrowhead balanced them perfectly with the ammo economy. Having 4 mechs per Helldive is just insane

How they had us unlock this, was awesome. The community goals they present us with are a big driving factor in why I enjoy the game so much.

For the chargers, I prefer to use 1 rocket on the leg and use the minigun to finish it off

The shield generator backpack does still work with the mech and bubbles out over a good chunk of the cockpit of the mech

Cross I would look at helldivers 1 mechs for future content, I have found both of them (obsidian and lumberjack) in a destroyed form in helldivers 2.

Hope they do more Major Orders like this.

There should be a self destruct button that makes the mech blow up like a explosive or high yield explosive round once you’re out of ammo. That would be cool.

I actually love the mechs for bot missions cuz you can snipe turrets and anti air emplacements from like 3 miles away.

You can stack the personal shield with the mech

azte you can stomp in the mech with the melee key if the bugs get to close to save ammo

Solid opinions on the mech, i just wish hed sfop telling people to shoot the legs off of a brood commander

There is a stomp with the mech, I just saw a video on it, it can 2 shot chargers apparently

Be careful walking against things. The very first mech I called in last night clipped into a mountain as I was going around a corner and got stuck 😢 had to leave it so soon.

American Tanks in WW2: *Deflects shot from German tank off its armor* Mech in HD2: *One nade and this super advanced war machine is obliterated*

If you want to save on ammo, you can also just walk over the smaller bugs like the scavengers. Sorry if that was already covered and I missed it😅

The mech feels good. It’s not OP, but effective. I did a couple solo lvl 6 missions and I just deployed it while I waiting for the pelican to extract. It was great.

Make sure to stand still for a sec before shooting missiles. If you are moving there a good chance that the missle geometry will clip into the launcher geometry, causing it to blow in the barrel, instakilling u

I wonder if we'll get more mech functionalities like using strategems as we unlock more of them. In HD1 you could pop strategems in the mechs.

You can combine the shield pack and it works.

The exosuit does not fill the gap after the nerfs. They attract too many enemies and with the amount of heavily armored enemies that are thrown your away, you expend rockets fast.

While the 0 second call in time seems misleading, I noticed that the mech’s call-in time is not affected by the “complex stratagem plotting” modifier, so perhaps the 0 second call-in time is technically accurate in that pelican gets spawned in, but has to travel to you.

Treat em largely like real life tanks. Good idea to have infantry with you. Let it roll over smalls and non explosives and even terrain issues if you need a fast way in. Being a tank with high profile, seek playing it against heavy things while using walls, buildings, even the ledges of hills to expose only what you need too when in fire fights. Something you should honestly be doing often even when on foot. Keep in mind too, she's a make shift moveable platform as such was also used in war for gaining access. Let it be an option for entries into facility angles that likely wouldn't be thought of. Infantry could be left off at that angle, mech moves on as considered the larger concerning threat, infantry makes it's play, and likely will take some heat back in the other direction to use that mech power to the backs of things. If you know something like a turret is out on the field, you might not want to call in that walker till you clear it, or put it down somewhere you know it's safe and only take those long shots when a team mate lets you know for sure it's looking at them well off in another direction. MEANWHILE on lower levels where you want to probably just do some quiet sample pick ups of the lower level stuff perhaps solo, you probably can get away with soloing with these mostly to just go around and using the fact it's got a nice continuing speed without stamina limits and ignores terrain slows. But dont get hung up or second guessing with the things that can hurt you. Chargers for instance. But until you have something like a wheeled vehicle in a little bit, it's a good way to get around faster and basically go shopping for said samples. A mech pilot with a set of radar reading armor and perhaps the radar buffs as well to see your points of interest and making some quick planned routes and off you go. Especially if your objectives are mostly just 'blow stuff the hell up. Without getting hung up in stuff too terminal intensive." If you do that, well, might still want to bring a friend. But I doubt too many will read this long ass comment. I'm not an influencer / streamer with a video to watch here currently. 😋

In my opinion, they should bring back one feature mechs had in the first game: Make them attract enemy attention. In HD1, I'd always bring mechs to annihilate a good portion of enemies on the map, but to also leave behind as a decoy and get away when they were out of ammo. If they could bring that back, I think they'd be in a great spot.

You can fast-strafe by moving backwards while strafing. For whatever reason, you move diagonal at full speed. Possibly even faster than normal. ;D

I feel like for bots, it would be good to use during the ore objective, where they send in like 6 drop ship. Just unload all your rockets on the dropships and machinegun down anything that survives and hop out.

To save rockets even more, one rocket to Charger leg and a minigun burst will do the trick as well. Also I have been able to take down TItans with 3 rockets aiming at it's chin, especially if they are spitting with mouth open. The top of the head is armoured which may be the difference

fun fact! the atalkers actually do not target the person in the mech. i dunno if it's a bug or an intimidation thing.

They're great and very fun to use. But they need to add a self destruction explosion. When all your ammo is spend, you should be able to eject and leave it there as a big bomb.

Quick note pretty sure there will be exist variants soon as the leaked footage showed one with twin auto cannons on each arm.

One thing i saw other streamers experience, as well as myself, is if you are turning there is a chance that the rockets will clip in to them mech when firing them causing the mech to blow up. Take caution fellow helldivers

In my experience if you're accurate enough, you can kill a charger with 1 rocket and bike titans with 2, it does take some skill to hit accurately though

For clarification Elite Bile Titans take 4 rockets to the face, regular Bile Titans can be killed in 2 rockets to the face. And I think for Elite Charges it takes 2 rockets to stripe off the armour on the leg.

they completly invaded war robot community with this one 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

Love the Mechs against Bugs, haven't tested it against Bots

There is melee in the XO suit. It isn’t good, but it’s there

They need a variant of this with an outer machine gun turret for a friend so you can manage democracy even better

2 rockets to the face will kill a bile titan. And if you shoot the turret on a tank it takes 3 rockets. It is also a viable strat to shoot the striders in the hip which counts as medium armor. And there's a bug which allows you to completely negate the chargers charge damage if you turn your side towards the charge.

Cross, forgot to mention that looking right and shooting the rocket will kill you

Something feels off about the machinegun on the mech. On bugs it goes right through the armor on the guards which is medium armor, but on bots it just bounces off the striders and devastators, which is also medium armor. So it seems like the machineguns armor penetration is somewhat in between light and medium, not true medium penetration.

The minigun is probably just using the same stats as the machine gun that players can use

For the mechs try to aim for joints. For example the striders, I believe the leg joints aren't as heavily armored as the main head/body. Haven't tested the mech yet but I wonder if you can do damage to it with the MG.

we need more mechs, and smaller and bigger ones, and the option for the small and big ones to fuse together.

You can take down a charger using 1 rocket (break leg armour) + machine gun and against bile titans if you hit a direct headshot it will only cost you 2 rockets.

1:40 correction there is melee functionality just press F lol, take into account tho that if your legs get hit too much or your mech starts smoking the stomp doesn’t work anymore.

you can go for the legs with striders

Patriot Exosuit + Shield Generator Relay dome - Automotons = profit Also defense against meteor showers!

BUG with the mech- If the mech is a mission stratagem AND you bring the mech stratagem, getting in the mech can completely remove your ability to call any stratagem for the rest of the mission. Inconsistent, but it happened a lot last night

Just to clarify, there is a melee function. However its a small stomp and isnt exactly very useful.

i really love running around in these mechs but iam not sure if its worth 1 spot

5:26 you can also melee stomp the chargers to death. I aim for their legs

Also on M&K at least careful placing pings on your map while in the mech with will still fire and blow your self up if it impacts close

Imagine if the mech had a self-destruct sequence. So you burn through all the ammo and you start running towards a horde, activate self-destruct and you get ejected. The mech explodes about as big as a hell bomb torching everything nearby. That way, out of ammo mechs aren't totally useless.

Man the fucking memes this small update brought is god damn amazing. I love the one about the mechs being fragile as fuck because its made in Tien Kwan.

Shoot the striders hip with the Gatling.

I wish these Mechwarrior had a rocket boost to move outta of situations if needed. But the rocket boost could only be used once like every 3 minutes

would be nice if the mechs have an upgrade that lets you turn the mech into a mini hellbomb so taht the mech is at least useful for something once it runs out of ammo

Chargers I found you can hit them anywhere twice with a rocket and they die.

You can destroy the legs on the Walkers (At-St), as medium armor piercing can damage it. If you say it doesn't, I've taken down the walkers with the Penetrator Assault Rifle

I've two shot a Bile Titan before with the mech's rockets. Some people claim it can be just one, but I'm skeptical. lol

Cuz we have limited amount of rockets, we need a lock-on feature for them!

Tbh we just call down 4 mechs for Extraktion its great fun

There is a melee, it's only unlocked when u buy it though. It's just a tiny stomp anyways

They are pretty good…. When they don’t blow up during the drop that is 💥 🤖 💀

Also you can two shot a Bile Titan if your rockets hit just right.

If you use shield pack in the mech it deflects bullets

I don't know if it's just me but I can melee with the mech, it does a stomp animation that kills most small ads pretty quickly. Why is everyone saying it doesn't have one?

It does have a melee, it can 2 shot chargers when stomping

It only takes two rocket hits to the head of a bile titian to kill it.

Even in death, we serve.

against chargers... use one rocket to take of their leg armor and finish with the gattling dont waste another rocket on a charger titans take 2 rockets to the face to kill the mech is pretty good against bugs, against automatons u die quickly with a rocket hit... also problems when clipping in terrain... try to go between the shipping containers and shoot rockets :D

hey cross there is melee in the mech it just only works on every 3-4 mechs and is bugged

Technically there is a melee stomp attack. It can two shot a Charger so I’m not sure why you said it doesn’t have melee.

the mech machine gun can kill the strider if you hit the joints on the legs

Cross I hope you see this and pin it but the mech does have melee. Its a small stomp attack that can 2 shot chargers if you aim for their legs or you can use the static field stratagem to slow down enemies then just stomp on them as the mech won't be affected by it

There's a "bug" where bile titans can be two shot with railguns if yo have a PS5 player in your group. PC bile titans take quite a bit more.

Aztecross: If you played Halo 5, you remember the Mantis. Me: 5??? I haven't played it but I know Mantis originated in 4