How to Not Suck at Steel Division 2- Beginner Tips Remastered 

A few more tips: Falling back also doubles the speed of the unit falling back, along with the reduced damage it takes. Putting your artillery / mortars on "defensive fire" over an area where you know there is enemy artillary will make your AI automatically fire on the correct spot to counter battery. This saves you the time to find the fire at the exact spot where the enemy shells are coming from. Having automatic cover turned on for units(Turned on by default) will make your units get into buildings automatically when close to them. It will also run a few meters to the closest trees/bushes if standing still in the open. Be careful with AT units though, they will move to cover and often lose line of sight if placed in the open near cover. You can turn auto cover off for indiviual units or for all in the setting bottom right. Units take more damage when moving and firing compared to standing still. The hunt order will automatically stop your unit to fire when engaging an enemy. Replacing your move button with the hunt command will cause you problems if you want to run away or into a building and not take the fight. Learn the difference between move and hunt command, it will help you in the long run. Weapons without "M/S" (move & shoot) will not fire when moving. Bombers and rocket fighters will lose their command if you lose sight of the target you selected. It's often better to "Fire position" on a specific area if the line of site in unclear. This way you guarantee that your rockets and bombs fire. Contest the flags early. Seeing where the flags are on the map is a good way to know where you want to focus your attention with your units. Do not wait for your opponent to attack you first. The flags in the middle are always contestable by force in the beginning of the game. If you do not engage the enemy in the first few minutes, your front line is too far back. Remember that tanks (except recon tanks) have "very low" recon visibility and will need other units to spot their targets for them. Open top tanks often have "good" recon however. If you want to play 1v1 without ruining you rank as a new player you can press "Quick play" to play 1v1 without affecting your leaderboard. When setting up your main attack, you want to be able to counter everything (maybe expect air in the beginning). Be sure to have tanks, support weapons, CQC infantry as well as long range infantry. Constantly look at your front line. Where is it weak? Where do you need a new anti-tank gun? What happens if you lose your infantry at the front? Will if totaly collapse or do you have some kind of back up? Learn to beat the AI in the beginning. It's quite challanging as a new player. It took me 150 hours before I dared going into real multiplayer battles. Don't surrender. You WILL lose your first battles so just throw everything you got. You learn by playing the game, not leaving it. When you know you're about to lose you can play more freely and just try to do the best of situation. See you on the battlefield, Commander.

With the hotkeys, remember that they're customizable. I have changed almost every hotkey but most of the most important onrs are mapped to the 11 buttons on my gaming mouse. I've set Hunt/Attack move to default & have it as my right mouse click. The other buttons are: On the scroll wheel - Attack possition/Smoke/Fall-back, two top buttons - Defensive fire/Evac aircraft, five side buttons - Return fire/Move/Unload at position/Unload/Reverse. Then on the keyboard I use Tab/Shift/Control, Z for Line of sight & Space for Stop. That's about it. Everyone's preferances are different but I find this system highly efficient & it has improved my micro speed significantly. Took a while for muscle memory to pick them all up but now I don't even think before I click.

You love to see it! The ever-actual video, for Steel Division. Always needed.

Played this game for ages, and I still suck at it (Not up to online playing standard). But hey still fun though. One of the things I notice is hard for some new players is the fact that you got to accept some Units will have to be sacrificed and will be lost.

Just recently started playing this game again and decided to watch this video before my next match today. It certainly helped! Thanks. Im glad I subscribed

I am really excited to start playing this game. Waiting on some christmas steam sale.

Great overview video, thank you!

Thank you so much for this and your other tutorials it really helped me out a lot to get into Steel Division 2!

This was a good tutorial. I barely knew any of this as a newbie.

Thank you for refreshing my memory

A little worried about multiplayer but I'm also looking forward to getting good enough with AI to feel even a little confident vs players

Just learned that this game is from the Devs of RUSE and i loved that game and it was one of the few ones that even on Console great. Got the game last night and really looking into it playing it.

like this kind of videos the most!

Really enjoying all your SD 2 tutorials and tips. Many thanks again! I have a "noob" question concerning reinforcements that is really frustrating me that I hope you or another fan of SD 2 can answer. Now I understand how to place units in the deployment zones, give an order and set the destination BEFORE launch, but what is the procedure with the reinforcing units. Do you handle these the same way? Or is there a better way, as unless I pause the game to do the pre-launch method, it seems very time consuming and things elsewhere can go to hell as I focus on this! Thanks in advance for the help! :)

Good video, I just reinstalled and lost, I play slow so I need to look to see

Good video just not sure about the game (Icon Wars). With the size of the forces and the battlefield you need to be zoomed out to maintain perspective but the immersion of icons for me is zero. Graviteam would be the same I think. Certainly gives games like Gates of Hell Ostfront the edge for me. Still really on the fence about this.

Great video! would you recommend this game to a newcomer?

dude, why didn't you mention that trucks/halftracks can rehook/reboard troops/etc?

and we're back, with another episode of Steel Division 2....oh wait, you're not Francis John xD

Opinion on Smart orders?

ooolala 50seconds early

Just got this game very addictive. I’m hooked. It’s like enlisted from the generals view. I love it.

What AI level should I be able to beat before moving to people? Medium is pushing my shit in rn.

Why is it Everytime I play as the US I can't win but playing the USSR is easy what's the US strong point or best way to play as them?

I dont have any problem with defence, but i really suck at attack, all my tank assaults gets crushed, simply i just dont know how to break through defence lines. Any tips?

Think I like ruse more still

I just got this game, looks really good, but I got utterly destroyed by the AI. So confusing.. After playing for a while I managed to get my infanterie inside a building, had an AA, an anti tank gun, and was hunking down. I was proud of myself. But then out of the blue.. The AI artillery shoots from way back, in the middle of the forest (how the hell did they spot me) and hits ALL my units.. Their artillery was very accurate, i was shocked.. I lost 85% of my guys in that area.. Then I just quit the game, and figured Ill watch this video.

I am just sooo bad lol

Someone send this video to gonzo pls

I suck so much at this game. I should play more often. Thanks for this video. By the way, if someone know how to play real total destruction mode, I'm interested. I selected it but my game just ends and the enemy still have units.

im going to see if i can convince my freind to buy this game and play against me. that way there is no need to learn we can be shit together

I play AI all the time cause there is no one to play with plus I like to experiment with some fun dumb decks XD

7:00 "It's really not that difficult. If you can't beat the AI, then there's no way you're beating a human player." Thanks for spelling it out for me: I occasionally install the game, try to play the dynamic campaign against AI and lose every single engagement on the map and overall every single battle. Hearing this, I can stop trying to play the game without feeling bad about it lol

Change the title of this video, it’s more like “the very basics for new players but won’t help you not suck in anyway”

Use R to reverse your tanks

I think I will make a video about how to suck at SD2, I am pretty good at making everything wrong.

Why don't you change this to *only play germans* you'll really help out new players since the unbalance of the game leads them to swap over to german by level 10 anyways.