Helldivers 2： Recoilless Rifle vs Bile Titans (2-3 Shot Tactics)

Today I want to talk about the recoilless

rifle and how it's so powerful it can

actually destroy bile titans in 2 to 3

shots. Now most people seem to ignore this

weapon because I don't see many people

actually using it when playing Helldivers

2. I see a lot of people using the railgun

or the grenade launcher, but I think the

recoilless rifle is actually extremely

underrated and should be used more. So in

this video today, I'm going to be showing

you how you can either 2-shot or 3-shot

bile titans using the Recoilless Rifle.

Now it really depends where you hit the

Bile Titan with this weapon. Sometimes I

have taken it down in only 2 shots if I

hit it directly on the head, or when it's

about to charge up its vomit— vile

bile-spewing attack, and then you hit it

right in its mouth, or you hit it in its

belly or in the side and then the head

again. You can sometimes do a 2-shot kill,

but if you don't hit it in the right

places, you can still get it in 3 shots.

At most 4 shots, although it's very rare

for it to take 4 shots to down this

monster. So the best way to use this

weapon is if you've got lots of distance

between you and the Bile Titan, because it

takes quite a long time to reload this

weapon, maybe a few seconds, and you're

going to need to reload at least once or

maybe even twice. So make sure you spot

the Bile Titan from a safe distance far

away, and this is a pretty long-range

weapon, so you can get away with just

shooting it when it's very far from where

you're standing. If you accidentally hit

the legs instead of the main body, it

won't really do that much damage. So if

you end up accidentally hitting the legs,

it might take you 3 shots or even 4 shots.

You really want to aim straight for its

belly or its head area. That's where the

maximum amount of damage can be found. So

when you get this weapon, it also comes

down with an ammunition backpack. If you

don't take the backpack, you only get 1

shot But if you decide to take the

backpack, then you have a few extra shots,

which is highly recommended because

there's just no way you're going to

one-shot a Bile Titan with this weapon.

It is powerful, but it's not that

powerful. Even the railgun can't 2 or

3 shot kill a Bile Titan. I've tried it

with the railgun. You can maybe get a

one-shot kill if you're really lucky and

you aim straight for its mouth as it's

charging up its vile attack, which is very

tricky and very difficult. But if you aim

for its body with the railgun, maybe it'll

take 6 shots or 5 shots to kill a Bile

Titan. Much better damage with the

Recoilless Rifle. However, if you do

decide to take the Ammunition Backpack,

then you'll be sacrificing a backpack

slot, so you'll be missing out on cool

things like the Jetpack, the Shield

Generator, the Guard Dog Rover, or the

Supply Pack. Any kind of backpack, can't

use that now. You've got to carry this

Ammunition Backpack, so it is a bit of a

trade-off. Yes, you do get amazing

portable missile launcher power, but you

gotta sacrifice your backpack for it. I do

recommend this rifle over the expendable

anti-tank missile launcher because even

though that's also pretty powerful, you

only get 2 shots and the cooldown for that

is about 1 minute. So every 1 minute you

get 2 shots and you can't really 2-shot

kill a Bile Titan using the expendable

anti-missile anti-tank missile launcher.

The recoilless rifle I think is superior

to the autocannon, the railgun, and also

the anti-tank missile launcher. So yeah,

this is a pretty good weapon for taking on

things like the Armored Chargers and the

Bile Titans. And to unlock the Recoilless

Rifle, it is found here on the Stratagem

ship management page, and you'll need to

be level 10 or something. I can't remember

now, it's been such a long time since I

unlocked it. And it does have a 3-second

cooldown time, not very long, and

unlimited uses cooldown time 480 seconds,

so it's like 4 or 5 minutes. It's quite a

lengthy cooldown time, just like all the

other weapons. For example, the railgun

has the same 480 seconds. Actually,

nearly all of them have 480 seconds apart

from the expendable anti-tank missile

launcher, which is only 70 seconds. So

yeah, using any of these weapons is gonna

have a cooldown time of 480 seconds. So if

you do die, I do find myself running back

to where I died and to pick up the weapon

again instead of having to wait 480

seconds, which is a very long time. So

this is a very powerful weapon, very

useful for high-armored enemies. I think

it's better than the autocannon. Problem

with the autocannon is the bullets

actually ricochet off a lot of the armor.

I found when I was attacking armored

Chargers with the autocannon, the bullets

kept bouncing off its armor. So the best

way to test this out is if you go to level

5 difficulty and you choose the Attack the

Bile Titans mission, and then they'll give

you 2 Bile Titans. That's pretty easy to

handle. If you go to level 9 difficulty,

you'll just be bombarded with tons of Bile

Titans, and sometimes you get 4 or 3

coming at you at once. To also assist you

killing Bile Titans, I think the 500 kg

bomb is pretty good, airstrike's pretty

good, and also the rail cannon is pretty

good. If you combine the recoilless rifle

one-shot with a rail cannon strike, that

would easily usually two-shot a Bile Titan

even at level 9 difficulty. This is level

5 difficulty. I don't think the health of

the Bile Titans is any different compared

to level 5 or level 9. So what you want to

do is find somewhere safe to land, maybe

on top of this little mountain. Have a

look around the area, see what's around

you. Call in the recoilless rifle. It's a

shame you can't call them in on top of

these little rocks, they just bounce off.

We'll take 3 seconds,

jump off your little mountain,

and grab your recoilless rifle and the

backpack. So you've got about 5 shots in

there plus 6 in the chamber— 1 in the

chamber. And look at your minimap, so the

Bile Titan should be somewhere in this

direction. Just gonna ignore my group

because I don't really care what they're

doing. And see if we can find a Bile

Now the Recoilless Rifle does have a

scope, but I don't think it's very useful.

It doesn't really zoom in at all, and it's

harder to aim because all the yellow

circles kind of blocking your view. I

think it's much easier to aim just like

that with the default view.

So I have spotted the Bile Titan over

there, and this is actually a good

distance to shoot it from because you'll

be able to reload in time before it gets

anywhere near you. So I think that shot

hit it.

I think— did that kill it? No, that was 2

shots. So if I can get it on its bum— that

was 3 shots.

Uh, problem is I can't really see where

I'm shooting because it's so far away, so

I'm not Not really hitting the maximum

damage area, so it's now bleeding. That

was 4 shots. 5th shot,

it's still alive. Okay,

that's interesting because usually it does

only take 2 shots.

And now I'm out of rockets, so I'm kind of

screwed. Hahaha. What you can do now is—

oh my god. An armored Charger. If you're

quick, you can get a rail cannon to

finish it off. Yeah, finished off easy.

See, only took 5 shots. Recoilless rifle,

really good weapon. It's also pretty good

at taking down these armored Chargers. I

called it an armored Crusher once. This

idiot in the comments got all mad. He was

like, oh, when you said armored Crusher,

I clicked off the video. Stupid weirdos.

Sorry if I don't remember every single

enemy name perfectly. Like, what are those

called? Little bug things? Armored

crushers? Who cares? It's just a game.

So pick up some supplies, reload your

bazooka. Why is it called a recoilless

rifle? Number one, it does have a recoil

coil. Look at this. No, actually it

doesn't. Okay, it doesn't have a recoil,

but number two, it's not even a rifle.

It's more of an RPG.

See, it's pretty good at killing the

Chargers as well if you shoot it up the

bum. I don't know why this game has like

an obsession with just destroying bug

holes and shooting things up the bum. I

wonder if that's intentional. So I guess

we'll go for the second Bile Titan, see if

I can actually 2-shot it this time instead

of 5-shot it. I should change the title of

the video to how to 5-shot— no, 6-shot a

Bile Titan plus rail cannon Using

all your cooldowns. Oh look,

there's a magic giant mushroom over there.

I don't know if I can hit it from here.

If I aim slightly higher— oh,

oh my God, I got the Spore Spewer from

here! It does kind of travel downwards,

so if it's far away, you want to aim

slightly higher. I guess there is gravity

in this game. So I did not know— is that

another mushroom over there? I don't know

if I can hit it from here.

No, I missed. Is that even a mushroom?

Imagine I can hit it from over here.

Aim slightly lower. Oh,

I got it! Oh my God,

I just one-shot the mushroom from half the

map away. Did you see that? You just gotta

aim slightly higher. So maybe 2-shotting

Bile Titans is not that easy, but great

weapon for shooting down magic mushrooms.

I don't know why I keep calling them magic

mushrooms. Okay, I can't find the Bile

Titan, but I'll test it out on this

Charger. Got one more shot, I think.

Unfortunately, it doesn't— oh, there it is

over there. I've only got 2 shots left.

Maybe I'll sneak around, see if I can

ambush the Bile Titan. Oh, this is

perfect. I might sneak up on its bum. Ah

crap, someone else snuck up on my bum.

Stupid Chargers. Maybe I can get it from

here. Oh, right in the gut! I got

one more shot. I've got a Charger coming

at me. Oh, he's ignoring me now. Oh my

god, this is not good. Come on, reload.

Oh, I was 1 second away from reloading.

Let's see if I can land on it. Oh my god,

I'm gonna land on it. Oh, I landed right

on its head. If you can't 2-shot it with

the Recoilless Rifle, just drop pod onto

it. Now where's my Recoilless Rifle? I

forgot where it was.

Over here.

I think it's nearly reloaded. Oh, it is

reloaded. Oh, this is the anti-tank thing.

The anti-tank thing's pretty good because

you don't need to reload it. Look. Oh,

nice. Now where's my recoilless rifle?

This is not looking good. Now I'm slowed

as well. Oh, my armor just gave me

the 50% lifesaver thing. I love this

armor. 50% of the time, if it's gonna kill

you, you'll survive it. Where's my rocket

launcher? There it is.

Pick it. Oh, that's a flamethrower. Oh,

there it is. Oh no, no, here it is.

Then the backpack. Oh, it's got a char— oh

no, that's the anti-tank thing. What?

Get out of the way. Kill that Charger

Oh, I killed the Charger with it. Where's

my recoilless rifle gone?

Oops,

I've lost my recoilless rifle.

Maybe, maybe it's over here.

Is that an anti-tank thing? Why are there

so many lying around? Oh, the anti-tank

thing's nice. Still didn't kill it though.

God, these Chargers are so annoying.

They just don't want to die.

And even if you blow its armor off, it

still doesn't do that much damage if you

shoot where the armor was. Oh,

my team is dead.

How am I just outrunning everything?

Where's my— oh, I got an airstrike. Go on,

just do that.

Come on. Oh, I need to kill myself with

it. Where the hell's my— oh, there it is.

Recoilless rifle.

They reload so damn slow, don't they?

Why am I just soloing everything?

Oh my God, give me a break.

Okay, where's the recoil? Oh, there it is.

I'm gonna die though.

Did you know if you dive and throw a

grenade at the same time, you'll take less

damage from the grenade?

And I lost my shotgun. Did you know

sometimes when you get thrown into the

air, it bugs out and you lose your main

weapon? Really weird.