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Recording summary · February 2024

6 HUGE Mistakes You’re STILL Making in Helldivers 2 (Tricks & Tips for MAX Level)

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Overview

Players in Helldivers 2 frequently make costly errors on high difficulties, including running suboptimal loadouts, neglecting communication, and mishandling sample preservation at extraction.

Team coordination involves configuring lobby settings to friends-only, collecting samples during sentry farming, selecting beneficial boosters, preventing friendly fire from strikes, and reserving dropped support gear for respawning allies.

Efficient mission execution requires avoiding premature extraction calls, bypassing unneeded patrol fights using stealth, and keeping continuous situational awareness through minimap checks, camera panning, and pinging.

Themes

Recommended loadouts for Helldive difficulty, including the Railgun and Energy Shield Generator backpack.

Tactics for sample security, such as gathering samples during sentry farming and dropping them at extraction.

Lobby management and squad etiquette regarding boosters, friendly fire avoidance, and support equipment retrieval.

Extraction protocols and patrol avoidance techniques to prevent premature departures and unnecessary combat.

Situational awareness practices, including minimap monitoring, 360 camera panning, and marking targets for allies.

Developments

Daniel mistakenly believed Daniel was kicked from a match before realizing the host had left.

A player called in extraction while a teammate holding nearly all samples was across the map, causing the shuttle to depart and all samples to be lost.

Another person repeatedly reminded Daniel to check his surroundings, pan the 360 camera, consult the minimap, and place markers for teammates.

Uncertainties & gaps

Daniel does not know the locations of all ten samples on the sentry-farming map, typically locating six or seven.

Daniel is uncertain about the exact button used for marking on different setups, citing Tab, X, or Daniel's setting of T.

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