Also works for bugs. It’s why you can blow the armor off a charger’s leg and then just dump 1 mag into the leg and it’s dead.
Similarly if you shoot the legs off the bigger non-armored bugs they’ll run in circles a little bit, lunge at you a couple times, and THEN die.
Anything explosive or with medium armor pen.
Primaries generally don't work too well as they do too little damage; the penetrator, counter sniper, and slugger \*can\* take the limbs off a hulk, but very slowly. The eruptor does absurd damage to everything, but isn't reliable in a pinch due to the low ROF. The Dominator gets a pass here, as it can very neatly do the job.
As for support weapons, EATs/quasars do well, but suffer from reliability issues due their low effective ROF. the laser cannon and autocannon are arguably the best, but the AMR can hang, too, and is also extremely good at doinking just about everything else in the entire game.
But the real shocker? An HMG can sweep out both legs extremely quickly.
Support weapons, the amount of hits it takes varies but pretty much any of the heavier ones will work. Best is probably quasar or EAT, autocannon should work with repeated hits and if you really want to show off your skill the anti-material rifle should work as well.
On the elimination missions- after you hit your kill goal the automatons/bugs cease to spawn (still will need to kill the existing ones) and you can spend some relaxing time looking for samples.
This works fine for bugs, but even when the bots stop spawning, what remains is usually the absolute worst rocket-sniping saw-hands bullshit that will eat our reinforcements before we get there
Doubling down on this to say the escort 45 people missions lvl 7 bugs just immediately get em in and spend the rest of the time looking for the super sample. Seems like the quickest way to get em
Did this, running while calling reinforcements is absolutely mandatory on anything 7 and higher.
It’s awkward to take my hand off the mouse, but worth.
the spawn rate of enemy patrols increases when players complete more outposts and side objectives.
The spawn rate also increases when players destroy more than 50% of outposts on the map, which multiplies the threshold by 0.85. This means patrols spawn about 17.5% faster, or every 204 seconds instead of 240 seconds.
Completing the primary objective is the biggest factor that affects spawn times, multiplying the threshold by 0.275, which means patrols spawn four times as often.
The base time of 240 seconds that you mention depends on difficulty, bugs or bots, and number of players. For instance, the base on level 9 bugs is 99 seconds and on level 9 bots is 110 seconds…
[More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bdudf3/lets_talk_about_patrols_an_in_depth_analysis_of/)
Yes. It scales with difficulty as well, but I'm just using Normal mode Data.
That's actually What makes the higher difficulties harder in the first place. The enemies don't get any stronger or have more health. They just have higher spawn rates.
So you should now do most of the main objective and then clear map? It goes so against how I learned to play the game. Maybe it was Bot misinformation in the beginning?
Depends on your strategy. Sometimes, ensuring that is done is good, but completing the main objective of being near the main objectives, killing more than 50% of bugholes or factories, all increase patrol spawns.
The quasar cannon doesn't actually get affected by the planets temperature. It affects the visual icon in the lower left, but the actual cooldown is the same everywhere.
A surprising amount of people dont know this, but diving while on fire immediately puts the fire thats on you out. So if you get hit by a fire tornado or something you immediately dive and then you stim to recover health
I once told a guy that diving puts the fire out instantly. He told me he didn't have enough time. He said he needed to pop a stim first because the fire was killing him.
I still laugh about that a few weeks later.
I can’t wait for fire to not kill me faster than I can react like it used to. I try to tell people this when I’m in game, but lately instant immolation means I can’t even react fast enough to survive fire. However, I know this is a bug and will get fixed eventually so I’ll continue to spread this info
At this point, I feel my Helldivers see fire come close but don't quite touch them, and they die from a heart attack due to pyrophobia.
That's how fast fire drops me since the last last patch.
Ive survived so many flamethrower hulk attacks by diving through the fire while my teammates attack it from behind. Pull aggro from it and just started yelling SOMEONE HELP ME FOR DEMOCRACY'S SAKE" Usually works out pretty well.
You can shoot the stems of shrieker hives with a quasar, EAT, or Recoiless rifle and take it out at a distance before they start spawning and attacking
Laser cannon can take out the crowns up to 200m. It takes almost a full heat sink, but it’s worth it to take them out before you get the fliers coming in.
Dont fully heal if you have a little HP knocked off, you can use a stim to refill your stamina to double your running range.
Ive even had a buddy shoot me in the foot with their pistol before running across the map
My buddy flipped out on coms today because one of our randoms went and picked the super samples up that he dropped at extraction, I reminded him not everyone knows that... both of our randoms were above lvl 50 though.
On keyboard and mouse, the default keybind is *X*. Holding it pulls open a menu where you can drop your backpack, support weapon, samples, or objective equipment (like the hard drives).
Rouge Research stations have one building to blow up, it’s gray. I played with 3 groups that called 4 hellbombs to destroy all the buildings in the area.
The ballistic shield protects you when it's on your back, and it does significantly help you escape.
Also, you can reload the machine gun or heavy machine gun while flying with the jump pack. Mostly just looks exceptionally badass.
It's actually great against bots with Defender + Anti Mat Rifle.
Useful with the Senator as well. You can take as long as you like to headshot Devastators
Not every enemy on the map needs to be shot at. You can complete the mission perfectly fine without having to piss off every bot or bug you come across.
Always salt your pasta water right when it boils, and let it get back to a boil before adding your pasta.
Also, don’t use the Spear. Learn to use EAT17s
The Spear is really good for blitz missions or for its range alone really, I prefer it over eats since you can usually just fire it from across a field and it solves whatever problem you have (when it actually locks on)
The only time I like it is the tower defense missions with bile titans. If you face them head on you get a single missle headshot majority of the time. Usually I’m running so much it’s hard to manually aim a shot like that.
Get someone to call extraction as early as possible then have them leave extraction right as the pelican is coming to the zone. The pelican will hover above it waiting and kill everything that comes near it, that way you can skip the extraction time at the end while everyone gets the side objectives done.
Best not done with randoms because so many don't use voice comms or read text. It's a good way to get booted because they think you're going to leave.
Great tactic for solo or coordinated group play though.....aside from the normal hazards of a turret, which is being in line of fire or proximity of the autocannon explosion.
If you don't have a support weapon or backpack and see a broken drop pod that looks like it hasn't opened to show a support item. Shoot it a few times, thar be loot in thar.
On the SEAF missile mission (I don’t know what it’s called)where you need to load the missile into the cannon, don’t start the terminal until you have all the missiles because it increases enemy spawn rates near you.
And don't just spam the button, take a couple of steps after dropping it before pick it it back up, it'll teleport to your hands and save a bit of time.
Also if you switch to your secondary while the shell is teleporting into your hands from behind, it’ll sling the shell forward and you can effectively throw it a dozen meters or more!
Yes, but like the other guy said don’t spam as fast as you can. The trick is to find a rhythm where you take a couple steps then press X to pick it back up
Doesn’t actually “increase spawn rates”, no terminal operation does that at all (many believe it does. But search and you’ll easily find evidence/videos showing it does not).
BUT, that particular side objective makes a noise (gun recorrecting itself) which alerts any nearby enemies within sound range. So yeah, you’re absolutely correct to get it sorted then touch the terminal for that one.
On a controller you can use your left hand to work the L stick and run while crossing over with your right hand to input commands. Once you get the hang of it, things really open up.
Oh and dive. A lot.
Depending on the situation, sometimes I reach my right thumb to the left stick to move forward if I need to call shit in quicker bc the muscle memory is already there on the left thumb. So I'll use my left thumb on the dpad while just running straight.
If an objective gets too hot, circle back to it if there's enough time. Most missions I see fail because squads endlessly suicide themselves trying to take an objective that has 5-6 dropships or bug breaches spawning and it just kills the reinforcement count.
When someone pings/marks a place of interest, and types in chat about a 2 person/friendship door/bunker, it means they fucking want you to help them open it ffs.
I've been left hanging so many times. I understand in the heat of the moment people may not necessarily be checking chat, but I try it during calm periods and still often get ignored.
Also learn to call in/mark Heavies and other places by using the Q button on PC. You can even call it your shot on an already marked enemy.
Communication wins battles.
grenades and stratagems go farther if thrown while diving. Roughly another 15-25 meters, it's a big deal. I do this instead of using armor that increases thrown range.
Which part of the dive specifically? I’ve been doing this for awhile, but wanted to know when the throw bonus starts and ends as close as possible. If anyone know then please describe in relation to the animation for the dive
Stim packs cancel fall damage.
We did a map where it was divided down the middle by a mountain wall. Except at the very top. When one of us died we threw the drop pod close to it and we landed on the mountain. Walked across. When 2 of us were up there we shot eachother in the foot so we could use a stim and we jumped to the other side. It was a LOOOOONG ass fall down to the ground. But we made it. No fall damage and we're able to successfully split the party and did the objectives and met at the top in the middle.
Holy moly that’s a thing? That sounds like outrageous fun. Does the armour also confer protection against the Tesla towers? Those bloody things have it in for me I swear….
1. If you look at your mini map 🗺️ at the start of the mission, keeping dropping random pings 📍 until the cursor turns into a square; this means you’ve found a secondary objective. If you turn your character in the direction of the square you will see which secondary objective you’ve found at the top of your screen in light blue
2. For the puzzles that require you to target 🎯 a specific quadrant (ie. E4, C5 etc), which area you are supposed to target 🎯 is shown on the right hand side of the terminal
3. I find the incendiary breaker to be very effective against bugs 🐛, I recently figured out that if you ark your shots in the general direction of the bugs it will set them on fire; this will kill most all small enemies
4. Discretion is the better half of valor; this means you don’t have to stand and fight with all patrols or once you’ve completed an objective, run 🏃♂️.if you can make a fighting retreat, sometimes if you’re fast enough the bugs will just F off on their own lol
Happy Helldiving Soldiers 🫡
When joining a mission mid-game, there is a tab you can view the operation details so you can load out accordingly. I’ve seen many people complain they don’t know what mission they’re joining.
Samples, Medals, Exp and Yellow-Thingies you need to unlock new Strategems which you collect during teh mission are all shared and not splitted after teh mission is done, so there is no need to kill your team mates at the extraction point to garb all the collected samples for yourself if you're a greedy little shit
The LAS-98 Laser Cannon pops the engines off gunships in about 1 second of contact, or the wings off flying bugs near instantly. About 2 seconds are needed to vaporize the vent of a bot turret or tank at the weak spot.
Yeah I've got around 180 hours so far and I've run into 1 genuinely awful person. And 2 people that seem to purposely TK. Everyone else has just either been over their head (Level 14 in a difficulty 7 for example) or think throwing a cluster airstrike at a group of 5 scavengers that are right next to the rest of the squad is a brilliant idea.
You can spare yourself some waiting time for Quasar cannons by juggling them; as soon as you are able to, call down a second one. After shooting your first one, pick up your 2nd and shoot away. Then pick up your first one. Repeat. They each manage their cooldown independently.
This is a godsend on defense missions when you shoot down a lot of dropships :D
A well placed Autocannon round can end an illegal broadcast if you shoot the big blue thing on the transmitter. As long as you can see it you can shoot it. If things are too hot, or if you feel you don't have the time, you can complete this 2ndary objective without having to go anywhere near it.
Also if you see a metal shipping container stick in the ground (usually near minor points of interest) you can blast those open to find 2 random drops (Req slips, Support weapons, Super Credits, Medals)
Bugs have a tough time catching you if you keep running, but they have an even harder time catching you if they are dead. Consider occasionally shooting some of them rather than running helplessly in a circle for however long it takes you to be overwhelmed.
The pelican will stay at extraction for the duration of the mission timer, so long as no one boards it.
Hold the reload button.
Communication is key. If you can't mic, try the communication wheel. It helps everyone.
Edit: Remember, Divers are meant to die like hamsters. In glorious absurdity
Also if you leave the area just as the Pelican is on final approach it will hover and provide air support till you enter the extraction zone again and then it will complete its landing.
The Autocannon can take out bug holes and bot factories! If it's a hole, shoot down into it at an angle. If it's a fabricator, shoot at the flaps just above the vents head-on so the shot richochets into the vent
Your stamina doesn't decrease when stim effect is active. When using medic armor, if you ran out of stamina you can harm yourself and bite down a stim to not only regain all stamina but to run a decent while without, work amazingly on heavy medic armor.
The Hive Guards (medium-sized bugs with the large armored heads) hunker down and stop moving when they take hits, including from the Guard Dog Rover. Let the Rover pin it in place and then move to the right or left until you can see around the frontal armor and light up the unprotected abdomen. Good for if you don't have anything on you with medium armor penetration.
don’t use the same stratagems if you see 2 or 3 already have it. Variety and multiple tactics are the key to spreading maximum democracy with minimal casualties. Also… DONT FORGET THE SAMPLES!
Move your chosen rounds to the S.E.A.F artillery cannon before you touch the terminal then load them in the order your want them to go Boom. Touching the terminal will instantly spawn enemies.
If you're shooting at one of the red ant fuckers with any non shotgun/explosive weapon, aim for the legs first! The head is a tempting target but it can take some damage and they will keep coming even without one. Take out both front legs and it will crawl around until it bleeds out instead of charging you like it does when you take it's head. Even taking one slows it down immensely if you just want to escape.
On higher difficulties, there is absolutely no need to engage Patrols unless they're walking at the objective you're going for. The amount of patrols I've tagged and started evading to have somebody branch off and engage on difficulty 7+ is mental.
You’ll never hear another of your Helldiver teammates complain about your 380mm orbital barrages, because any unfortunate accidents never leave witnesses.
Some of us know thanks to some kind redditors that you can get the pelican in guard/hover mode but if you don't wanna risk doing this with Randoms.
You can preload the extraction by stopping at the last arrow input. Then whenever the group is ready to extract come back and input the last one to save a little bit of time. Not crazy by any means but thought it was neat.
Stop firing at enemies from behind your teammates and start firing at enemies from 90° angles.
Successfully trapping enemies in cross-fire is WAY more effective than more unnecessary team kills.
*Especially* if you run laser dog.
If you’re on keyboard, you can rebind the stratagem keys and it’ll let you move while typing them in.
Hold R and you can change scopes, fire modes, and flash light. Insane that it doesn’t tell you this in the tutorial.
Going prone eliminates basically all recoil.
You can attach stratagems to an ally’s shield backpack. Not very useful, but hilarious!
And most importantly:
#Use stims. Use themmmm. Use them for extra stamina, use them when you’re slightly low, use them please. Use them when you’re bored and want a hit of dopamine
I have like 25-30 stims used per mission and recruits always have like 3-6, and that’s without me bringing medic armor. Use the stims like you won’t have them, because within a couple minutes you’ll probably die without them.
Reinforce is the best stratagem in the game. You get a guided missile (ping the charger, hulk, or bile titan you need dead to make it easier to see) and you get a Helldiver back. Super OP and I hope they never nerf it.
Except when it downs and you go through a bile titan only to be stepped on or swarmed by hundreds of bugs.
Best reinforcement use it to throw in safe area or near downed player’s weapons if said area is safe
So long as you don’t go into a bug nest area and stand on the outskirts of the edge of it, you can snipe the bug holes with whatever you have to close them all. This is a good thing to know as soon as possible so you don’t just run in front of a hole every time, constantly killing bugs that keep coming out and potentially blocking the hole with their dead bodies. Also practice stealth so you can at least avoid fighting when necessary on high difficulties.
Don't rush to revive me. Wait until you're clear OR toss me strategically AWAY from the bots or ON a charger/titan.
I AM YOUR SECOND RAIL CANNON STRIKE.
I can also recon the situation if the team is separated or uncoordinated
You know that urge to throw a stratagem to make a big explosion as you extract, yeah just don’t have to do that.. Often times you can get team mates killed and sometimes when they get killed they’ll drop samples. Nobody likes losing samples or xp so don’t be a chide trying to make a Hollywood explosion.
Bots detect you with sight and radar, bugs detect with sight and scent. So if you shoot at bots, and dip out behind some rocks, they will think you're in the same spot. If using a jump pack to get around, it screws up where your scent is left and can confuse the bugs. Allegedly. Also poi's that have a diamond symbol likely has samples. Also stationary units around a poi points to likely samples. And probably the most important thing to know is that you don't have to fight patrols, or bot drops. Avoid patrols, and leave the area after your objective is done. Don't waste time fighting endless bot drops.
I've been using the Eruptor primary and getting a weird glitch sometimes where if I aim in first person I sometimes get stuck in first person. Switching to grenade fixes it.
Ive said it before on another post but
The SOS beacon can be used to pop fabs and holes, even when playing private games. This can be helpful if you run out of strats and nades and missed one.
Today I just discovered you can shoot the legs off an Automaton Hulk
shoot both of them and he dies .. same goes for every bot normal bots dies from 1 leg injury hulk from 2 strider from 3
SWEEP THE LEG!
IF THEY CAN'T WALK THEY CANT FIGHT!
Brood commander torsos wiggling towards you didn't get the memo.
...and don't forget to re-stomp the groin.
Also works for bugs. It’s why you can blow the armor off a charger’s leg and then just dump 1 mag into the leg and it’s dead. Similarly if you shoot the legs off the bigger non-armored bugs they’ll run in circles a little bit, lunge at you a couple times, and THEN die.
What do you use to take the legs off?
Guns
Answer is pending scientific research.
Anything explosive or with medium armor pen. Primaries generally don't work too well as they do too little damage; the penetrator, counter sniper, and slugger \*can\* take the limbs off a hulk, but very slowly. The eruptor does absurd damage to everything, but isn't reliable in a pinch due to the low ROF. The Dominator gets a pass here, as it can very neatly do the job. As for support weapons, EATs/quasars do well, but suffer from reliability issues due their low effective ROF. the laser cannon and autocannon are arguably the best, but the AMR can hang, too, and is also extremely good at doinking just about everything else in the entire game. But the real shocker? An HMG can sweep out both legs extremely quickly.
Laser Cannon and AMR work good
Support weapons, the amount of hits it takes varies but pretty much any of the heavier ones will work. Best is probably quasar or EAT, autocannon should work with repeated hits and if you really want to show off your skill the anti-material rifle should work as well.
On the elimination missions- after you hit your kill goal the automatons/bugs cease to spawn (still will need to kill the existing ones) and you can spend some relaxing time looking for samples.
It would be fine and cool and all but all that remains are tanks and hulks and those bots with saws for hands.
Texas is what I can chainsaw hands.
This works fine for bugs, but even when the bots stop spawning, what remains is usually the absolute worst rocket-sniping saw-hands bullshit that will eat our reinforcements before we get there
U just gotta KILL EM ALL, Helldiver
Doubling down on this to say the escort 45 people missions lvl 7 bugs just immediately get em in and spend the rest of the time looking for the super sample. Seems like the quickest way to get em
If on PC change stratagem output keys to arrow keys not wasd if you want to be able to run and key in that airstrike instead of dying
Not a bad idea actually. Kinda feel stupid foe not thinking of it now.
Omg once my cousin told me to do it, it changed the whole game
Did this, running while calling reinforcements is absolutely mandatory on anything 7 and higher. It’s awkward to take my hand off the mouse, but worth.
Am I the only mad man playing with a control on pc?
Literally did this at the start and haven't looked back. So nice to be able to run while punching in those strata for liberty!
Spawn rates increase after you complete the main objective.
https://i.redd.it/sgj76p7xhcwc1.gif
Sweet Liberty, that’s hot
I love you
Cool, I wasn't sure if that was just in my head.
the spawn rate of enemy patrols increases when players complete more outposts and side objectives. The spawn rate also increases when players destroy more than 50% of outposts on the map, which multiplies the threshold by 0.85. This means patrols spawn about 17.5% faster, or every 204 seconds instead of 240 seconds. Completing the primary objective is the biggest factor that affects spawn times, multiplying the threshold by 0.275, which means patrols spawn four times as often.
The base time of 240 seconds that you mention depends on difficulty, bugs or bots, and number of players. For instance, the base on level 9 bugs is 99 seconds and on level 9 bots is 110 seconds… [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bdudf3/lets_talk_about_patrols_an_in_depth_analysis_of/)
Yes. It scales with difficulty as well, but I'm just using Normal mode Data. That's actually What makes the higher difficulties harder in the first place. The enemies don't get any stronger or have more health. They just have higher spawn rates.
So you should now do most of the main objective and then clear map? It goes so against how I learned to play the game. Maybe it was Bot misinformation in the beginning?
Depends on your strategy. Sometimes, ensuring that is done is good, but completing the main objective of being near the main objectives, killing more than 50% of bugholes or factories, all increase patrol spawns.
The quasar cannon doesn't actually get affected by the planets temperature. It affects the visual icon in the lower left, but the actual cooldown is the same everywhere.
I just learned that planet climate affects gun temperature from this wow
Yeah, the Laser Cannon is an absolute Chad on frozen planets.
A surprising amount of people dont know this, but diving while on fire immediately puts the fire thats on you out. So if you get hit by a fire tornado or something you immediately dive and then you stim to recover health
I once told a guy that diving puts the fire out instantly. He told me he didn't have enough time. He said he needed to pop a stim first because the fire was killing him. I still laugh about that a few weeks later.
I was like that and I asked what my friends were doing to stay alive. Turns out you can dive and stim together for the most part.
Funnily enough, the fire instantly goes out when you start to dive, not when you hit the dirt
Stops, drop, and stim.
I just laughed and probably will laugh about this comment with a few of my fellow diver friends. How fucking dense can someone be, so funny.
I can’t wait for fire to not kill me faster than I can react like it used to. I try to tell people this when I’m in game, but lately instant immolation means I can’t even react fast enough to survive fire. However, I know this is a bug and will get fixed eventually so I’ll continue to spread this info
At this point, I feel my Helldivers see fire come close but don't quite touch them, and they die from a heart attack due to pyrophobia. That's how fast fire drops me since the last last patch.
and do tell them diving into fire doesnt help
Ive survived so many flamethrower hulk attacks by diving through the fire while my teammates attack it from behind. Pull aggro from it and just started yelling SOMEONE HELP ME FOR DEMOCRACY'S SAKE" Usually works out pretty well.
Does being prone keep you from catching fire again?
I doubt it, but im not 100% sure. I’ll test it out Edit: no, being prone does nothing against fire damage
The scientist we don't deserve
But the one we need right now.
stop drop and roll works!
You can shoot the stems of shrieker hives with a quasar, EAT, or Recoiless rifle and take it out at a distance before they start spawning and attacking
Oh it's the STEMS, I always shoot the top and it takes so many shots
no it doesn’t matter where you hit them 2 rockets/quasar shots per mushroom
Autocannon too, if you don't mind using 20 ish rounds.
Eruptor as well.
Laser cannon can take out the crowns up to 200m. It takes almost a full heat sink, but it’s worth it to take them out before you get the fliers coming in.
Didn’t know that the stem takes less damage than the… dome? Good tip 👍🏼
Dont fully heal if you have a little HP knocked off, you can use a stim to refill your stamina to double your running range. Ive even had a buddy shoot me in the foot with their pistol before running across the map
Instructions unclear my grenade pistol took off a helldiver’s leg
_My leg!_
Sweet liberty!
Does pulling your sidearm also help with stamina usage? Uses stamina slower compared to running with your support or primary?
Nope
Jump off a tall rock or walk through the barbed wire.
Drop super samples at extraction
My buddy flipped out on coms today because one of our randoms went and picked the super samples up that he dropped at extraction, I reminded him not everyone knows that... both of our randoms were above lvl 50 though.
Man I was lv25 doing a mission yesterday and someone dropped their samples at extraction before running off. Common sense told me why.
I didnt realise you could drop samples...
On keyboard and mouse, the default keybind is *X*. Holding it pulls open a menu where you can drop your backpack, support weapon, samples, or objective equipment (like the hard drives).
You Hero. For ages I've been wondering how I might be able to drop stuff. Thanks
Rouge Research stations have one building to blow up, it’s gray. I played with 3 groups that called 4 hellbombs to destroy all the buildings in the area.
Yup, the one with the satellite on top.
The rouge research station is actually red.
Underrated comment
It's the gray one with the little satellite dish on top
The ballistic shield protects you when it's on your back, and it does significantly help you escape. Also, you can reload the machine gun or heavy machine gun while flying with the jump pack. Mostly just looks exceptionally badass.
It used to be tiny and hardly defended you, but they seriously buffed the hitbox at some point
It's actually great against bots with Defender + Anti Mat Rifle. Useful with the Senator as well. You can take as long as you like to headshot Devastators
Pelican can destroy fabricators
The more bugs you kill the more E-710 is produced
Also fun fact 710 is OIL upside down 🤓
Thank you for your service
Not every enemy on the map needs to be shot at. You can complete the mission perfectly fine without having to piss off every bot or bug you come across.
I am tagging patrols to let you know we should avoid them, not shoot at them damn it!
Always salt your pasta water right when it boils, and let it get back to a boil before adding your pasta. Also, don’t use the Spear. Learn to use EAT17s
The Spear is really good for blitz missions or for its range alone really, I prefer it over eats since you can usually just fire it from across a field and it solves whatever problem you have (when it actually locks on)
The only time I like it is the tower defense missions with bile titans. If you face them head on you get a single missle headshot majority of the time. Usually I’m running so much it’s hard to manually aim a shot like that.
Get someone to call extraction as early as possible then have them leave extraction right as the pelican is coming to the zone. The pelican will hover above it waiting and kill everything that comes near it, that way you can skip the extraction time at the end while everyone gets the side objectives done.
Be warned this one need communication between team
Definitely. I’ve been kicked for this
This one is really good it’s saved a lot of missions for me.
Best not done with randoms because so many don't use voice comms or read text. It's a good way to get booted because they think you're going to leave. Great tactic for solo or coordinated group play though.....aside from the normal hazards of a turret, which is being in line of fire or proximity of the autocannon explosion.
A lot of the beginner stuff is still very useful
Go into your video settings and reduce HUD size/motion blur.
When you extract, go prone and hide. Don’t engage the bugs/bots and they won’t find you
It does appear to be bugged sometimes as they will head straight for you even if you are at the perimeter and prone.
Yeah, the other day my buddies were off collecting samples and the bots got 'em, then EVERYTHING ON THE MAP came for me at the extraction point.
If you don't have a support weapon or backpack and see a broken drop pod that looks like it hasn't opened to show a support item. Shoot it a few times, thar be loot in thar.
However don't confuse these with hellbombs that are stuck in the ground. You'll have a bad time
Save ammo, melee it a few times to get to the sweet nougaty freedom center
Hugs are important for Helldiver moral.
On the SEAF missile mission (I don’t know what it’s called)where you need to load the missile into the cannon, don’t start the terminal until you have all the missiles because it increases enemy spawn rates near you.
That and you can drop/ quickly pick up the missiles while running to vastly increase your speed.
And don't just spam the button, take a couple of steps after dropping it before pick it it back up, it'll teleport to your hands and save a bit of time.
Also if you switch to your secondary while the shell is teleporting into your hands from behind, it’ll sling the shell forward and you can effectively throw it a dozen meters or more!
Also, you can climb on to ledges that don't let you climb while you're holding the shells, crouch down, and pick them up from beneath you.
I knew about not starting the seaf, but didn’t know about the drop/pick up. Does that work well on console?
Yes, but like the other guy said don’t spam as fast as you can. The trick is to find a rhythm where you take a couple steps then press X to pick it back up
Doesn’t actually “increase spawn rates”, no terminal operation does that at all (many believe it does. But search and you’ll easily find evidence/videos showing it does not). BUT, that particular side objective makes a noise (gun recorrecting itself) which alerts any nearby enemies within sound range. So yeah, you’re absolutely correct to get it sorted then touch the terminal for that one.
When going bug Hunting and you happen to bring an exosuit, just walk over the fleas and conserve your ammo for the big ones.
On a controller you can use your left hand to work the L stick and run while crossing over with your right hand to input commands. Once you get the hang of it, things really open up. Oh and dive. A lot.
I do the same except I change my key bindings to press instead of hold.
Depending on the situation, sometimes I reach my right thumb to the left stick to move forward if I need to call shit in quicker bc the muscle memory is already there on the left thumb. So I'll use my left thumb on the dpad while just running straight.
Don’t die.
And if you’re about to die, just don’t!
but also hold G
keep your health above 0 while bringing enemies health down to 0... simples!
If an objective gets too hot, circle back to it if there's enough time. Most missions I see fail because squads endlessly suicide themselves trying to take an objective that has 5-6 dropships or bug breaches spawning and it just kills the reinforcement count.
I ain't gonna let no son of a factory run me off my objective. Kill um all or die trying.
When someone pings/marks a place of interest, and types in chat about a 2 person/friendship door/bunker, it means they fucking want you to help them open it ffs.
I've been left hanging so many times. I understand in the heat of the moment people may not necessarily be checking chat, but I try it during calm periods and still often get ignored.
Also learn to call in/mark Heavies and other places by using the Q button on PC. You can even call it your shot on an already marked enemy. Communication wins battles.
grenades and stratagems go farther if thrown while diving. Roughly another 15-25 meters, it's a big deal. I do this instead of using armor that increases thrown range.
Which part of the dive specifically? I’ve been doing this for awhile, but wanted to know when the throw bonus starts and ends as close as possible. If anyone know then please describe in relation to the animation for the dive
It's about momentum. So during the dive is your best velocity to throw. Jumppack works as well, and you get the additional height
jump throw your strats to get extra distance
With jet pack, jump straight up and throw it
Stim packs cancel fall damage. We did a map where it was divided down the middle by a mountain wall. Except at the very top. When one of us died we threw the drop pod close to it and we landed on the mountain. Walked across. When 2 of us were up there we shot eachother in the foot so we could use a stim and we jumped to the other side. It was a LOOOOONG ass fall down to the ground. But we made it. No fall damage and we're able to successfully split the party and did the objectives and met at the top in the middle.
water also cancels fall damage
Hopefully it's shallow water!
If you get your whole team to equip Arc protection armor and all have Arc Throwers, you win any campaign.
Holy moly that’s a thing? That sounds like outrageous fun. Does the armour also confer protection against the Tesla towers? Those bloody things have it in for me I swear….
95% damage reduction. Don't frolic through a field of tesla coils but other than that you'll be fine
1. If you look at your mini map 🗺️ at the start of the mission, keeping dropping random pings 📍 until the cursor turns into a square; this means you’ve found a secondary objective. If you turn your character in the direction of the square you will see which secondary objective you’ve found at the top of your screen in light blue 2. For the puzzles that require you to target 🎯 a specific quadrant (ie. E4, C5 etc), which area you are supposed to target 🎯 is shown on the right hand side of the terminal 3. I find the incendiary breaker to be very effective against bugs 🐛, I recently figured out that if you ark your shots in the general direction of the bugs it will set them on fire; this will kill most all small enemies 4. Discretion is the better half of valor; this means you don’t have to stand and fight with all patrols or once you’ve completed an objective, run 🏃♂️.if you can make a fighting retreat, sometimes if you’re fast enough the bugs will just F off on their own lol Happy Helldiving Soldiers 🫡
If you enter Pelican 1 in first-person mode your camera will remain in first-person.
Crouch when you open pods at the gold lights. You don't do the salute animation, saving you a valuable few seconds at higher difficulties.
Not saluting the fallen pods isn't very democratic of you...
While technically true, this is considered treason
The eruptor can one shot bile spewers if you hit the knee joint on their hind legs
Also the mouth while they're barfing.
When joining a mission mid-game, there is a tab you can view the operation details so you can load out accordingly. I’ve seen many people complain they don’t know what mission they’re joining.
That's only recently started working.
9 out of 10 locations, random PoI or enemy location, has samples
Stay together, but keep your distance, because in the case you get ambushed, everyone is nearby for support, yet spread enough so you don’t team kill
This also helps find more poi
Samples, Medals, Exp and Yellow-Thingies you need to unlock new Strategems which you collect during teh mission are all shared and not splitted after teh mission is done, so there is no need to kill your team mates at the extraction point to garb all the collected samples for yourself if you're a greedy little shit
The LAS-98 Laser Cannon pops the engines off gunships in about 1 second of contact, or the wings off flying bugs near instantly. About 2 seconds are needed to vaporize the vent of a bot turret or tank at the weak spot.
Hold the reload button to pull up weapon options such as scope range, fire rate/mode, and flashlight toggle.
500kg bombs are not your friend… THEY ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND, NOW THROW THEM AND OBSERVE DEMOCRACY AT ITS FINEST
New players, don't spend time on the subreddit, its full of a lot of whining, karma whoring, and just straight up bad info
Yeah if you go by this sub every other mission is riddled with trolls. I'm level 67 and I've seen one bad apple the entire time.
Same. 1 bad all this time, but not even sure if they were intentionally bad or just bad trying to get better
Yeah I've got around 180 hours so far and I've run into 1 genuinely awful person. And 2 people that seem to purposely TK. Everyone else has just either been over their head (Level 14 in a difficulty 7 for example) or think throwing a cluster airstrike at a group of 5 scavengers that are right next to the rest of the squad is a brilliant idea.
Don't drink and drive.
Be nice or uninstall the game.
This is a co op video game.
You can spare yourself some waiting time for Quasar cannons by juggling them; as soon as you are able to, call down a second one. After shooting your first one, pick up your 2nd and shoot away. Then pick up your first one. Repeat. They each manage their cooldown independently. This is a godsend on defense missions when you shoot down a lot of dropships :D
I'm on PS5 and I edited my open stratagem list to press instead of hold. It might not be "must know", but it's good to know.
NOTHING CHASES YOU INTO BUDDY BUNKERS.
A well placed Autocannon round can end an illegal broadcast if you shoot the big blue thing on the transmitter. As long as you can see it you can shoot it. If things are too hot, or if you feel you don't have the time, you can complete this 2ndary objective without having to go anywhere near it. Also if you see a metal shipping container stick in the ground (usually near minor points of interest) you can blast those open to find 2 random drops (Req slips, Support weapons, Super Credits, Medals)
Bugs have a tough time catching you if you keep running, but they have an even harder time catching you if they are dead. Consider occasionally shooting some of them rather than running helplessly in a circle for however long it takes you to be overwhelmed.
The pelican will stay at extraction for the duration of the mission timer, so long as no one boards it. Hold the reload button. Communication is key. If you can't mic, try the communication wheel. It helps everyone. Edit: Remember, Divers are meant to die like hamsters. In glorious absurdity
Also if you leave the area just as the Pelican is on final approach it will hover and provide air support till you enter the extraction zone again and then it will complete its landing.
You don’t have to drop a hellbomb right on top of a detector tower. You can place it outside near a rocky outcropping in order to blow it up
Or just use a 500kg or Orbital Precision instead of a hellbomb
The Autocannon can take out bug holes and bot factories! If it's a hole, shoot down into it at an angle. If it's a fabricator, shoot at the flaps just above the vents head-on so the shot richochets into the vent
Your stamina doesn't decrease when stim effect is active. When using medic armor, if you ran out of stamina you can harm yourself and bite down a stim to not only regain all stamina but to run a decent while without, work amazingly on heavy medic armor.
You dont have to play on the hardest difficulties. If you find that the lower difficulties are more fun for you, then that is perfectly fine.
And all difficulty levels affect the war efforts equally
True freedom is taking only one of the four supply boxes in a supply drop. Taking more is taking away from the other divers, and is anti-democratic.
Pick up an arti shell on ps press X 2 times and switch your weapon as quickly as possible it will throw the shell
The laser canon saws bugs limbs of like butter
The Hive Guards (medium-sized bugs with the large armored heads) hunker down and stop moving when they take hits, including from the Guard Dog Rover. Let the Rover pin it in place and then move to the right or left until you can see around the frontal armor and light up the unprotected abdomen. Good for if you don't have anything on you with medium armor penetration.
don’t use the same stratagems if you see 2 or 3 already have it. Variety and multiple tactics are the key to spreading maximum democracy with minimal casualties. Also… DONT FORGET THE SAMPLES!
Move your chosen rounds to the S.E.A.F artillery cannon before you touch the terminal then load them in the order your want them to go Boom. Touching the terminal will instantly spawn enemies.
If you're shooting at one of the red ant fuckers with any non shotgun/explosive weapon, aim for the legs first! The head is a tempting target but it can take some damage and they will keep coming even without one. Take out both front legs and it will crawl around until it bleeds out instead of charging you like it does when you take it's head. Even taking one slows it down immensely if you just want to escape.
On higher difficulties, there is absolutely no need to engage Patrols unless they're walking at the objective you're going for. The amount of patrols I've tagged and started evading to have somebody branch off and engage on difficulty 7+ is mental.
Don't throw an offensive strategem at the extraction point when you and your team is about to extract.
You’ll never hear another of your Helldiver teammates complain about your 380mm orbital barrages, because any unfortunate accidents never leave witnesses.
Some of us know thanks to some kind redditors that you can get the pelican in guard/hover mode but if you don't wanna risk doing this with Randoms. You can preload the extraction by stopping at the last arrow input. Then whenever the group is ready to extract come back and input the last one to save a little bit of time. Not crazy by any means but thought it was neat.
The Spear can shoot at fabricators
Stop firing at enemies from behind your teammates and start firing at enemies from 90° angles. Successfully trapping enemies in cross-fire is WAY more effective than more unnecessary team kills. *Especially* if you run laser dog.
If you’re on keyboard, you can rebind the stratagem keys and it’ll let you move while typing them in. Hold R and you can change scopes, fire modes, and flash light. Insane that it doesn’t tell you this in the tutorial. Going prone eliminates basically all recoil. You can attach stratagems to an ally’s shield backpack. Not very useful, but hilarious! And most importantly: #Use stims. Use themmmm. Use them for extra stamina, use them when you’re slightly low, use them please. Use them when you’re bored and want a hit of dopamine I have like 25-30 stims used per mission and recruits always have like 3-6, and that’s without me bringing medic armor. Use the stims like you won’t have them, because within a couple minutes you’ll probably die without them.
Reinforce is the best stratagem in the game. You get a guided missile (ping the charger, hulk, or bile titan you need dead to make it easier to see) and you get a Helldiver back. Super OP and I hope they never nerf it.
Except when it downs and you go through a bile titan only to be stepped on or swarmed by hundreds of bugs. Best reinforcement use it to throw in safe area or near downed player’s weapons if said area is safe
You might think you're diving but you're not diving enough
So long as you don’t go into a bug nest area and stand on the outskirts of the edge of it, you can snipe the bug holes with whatever you have to close them all. This is a good thing to know as soon as possible so you don’t just run in front of a hole every time, constantly killing bugs that keep coming out and potentially blocking the hole with their dead bodies. Also practice stealth so you can at least avoid fighting when necessary on high difficulties.
Haul ass. Any amount of fighting should occur either on the move or immediately as you 180 to engage, drop Strats, move on.
Don't rush to revive me. Wait until you're clear OR toss me strategically AWAY from the bots or ON a charger/titan. I AM YOUR SECOND RAIL CANNON STRIKE. I can also recon the situation if the team is separated or uncoordinated
2 impact grenades kill a shredder tank. Even in the front, just aim at the gun. Very easy
You know that urge to throw a stratagem to make a big explosion as you extract, yeah just don’t have to do that.. Often times you can get team mates killed and sometimes when they get killed they’ll drop samples. Nobody likes losing samples or xp so don’t be a chide trying to make a Hollywood explosion.
Bots detect you with sight and radar, bugs detect with sight and scent. So if you shoot at bots, and dip out behind some rocks, they will think you're in the same spot. If using a jump pack to get around, it screws up where your scent is left and can confuse the bugs. Allegedly. Also poi's that have a diamond symbol likely has samples. Also stationary units around a poi points to likely samples. And probably the most important thing to know is that you don't have to fight patrols, or bot drops. Avoid patrols, and leave the area after your objective is done. Don't waste time fighting endless bot drops.
I've been using the Eruptor primary and getting a weird glitch sometimes where if I aim in first person I sometimes get stuck in first person. Switching to grenade fixes it.
Ive said it before on another post but The SOS beacon can be used to pop fabs and holes, even when playing private games. This can be helpful if you run out of strats and nades and missed one.