Helldivers 2 - How to Master HELLDIVE Difficulty (Highest Difficulty Guide)

In today's video, I want to show you some

tips and tricks for doing the highest

difficulty level in Helldivers 2, the

Helldive mode. So I'm assuming you want to

do this because you want to farm samples

so you can upgrade your ship modules. If

you want to farm XP and medals and

currency points, then you're better off

doing the defend missions, the eradicate

automaton forces missions, because that's

much faster and much easier. But if you

want to farm samples like super samples,

rare samples, then you're going to want to

do these missions like this one where you

have to run all around the map, and this

is the best way to collect all the

samples. You have to go all around the

map, go to the secret or the mysterious

unknown locations, and pick up all the

samples. This mission's pretty good— allow

shuttles to collect essential E-710 fuel.

You've got to go to 3 different objectives

around the map. And also the ICBM missions

where you've got to prepare and launch the

ICBM— you got to go to 4 different

locations, which will take you all around

the map and you'll be able to collect lots

of different samples. Now my favorite

planets are Estanu, during the day because

it's bright and open, and also Krimzika

during the day because it's bright and

open as well. I don't like the night

missions, it's hard to see anything. And I

don't like those dusty sand planets, like

Hellmire is a horrible planet, it's just

dusty, sandy, foggy, you can't see

anything. And also,

um, Erata Prime, horrible planet,

it's just a sandy desert sandstorm, can

barely see anything. So I don't like those

planets. Being aware of your surroundings

and being aware where the enemy patrols

are and constantly checking your radar.

It's very important when playing Helldive

difficulty mode. So I highly recommend

that you upgrade your bridge on your ship

management and you get the nuclear radar

as soon as possible. It needs 80 common

samples and 40 rare samples,

the orange ones. And first you need to get

targeting software upgrade. And it's

really useful because it increases enemy

ping radius on minimap by 50 meters,

which means you're going to be able to see

where the enemies are on the minimap much

earlier than you usually would be able to.

For the weapons, I really like the Slugger

Shotgun. It's really high damage and it

also penetrates medium armor. For some

reason it says light armor penetrating,

but when I tested it out on armored

enemies— my favorite weapon is the Slugger

Shotgun. Does high damage, even penetrates

medium armor, but for some reason it says

light armor penetrating here, even though

when I tested it out on the armored

walkers, it definitely penetrated their

armor. So it's very good for armor

penetration, does a lot of damage. I also

like the shotgun Breaker, and the Breaker

Spray and Pray, I thought it'd be good,

but it's actually kind of rubbish. It's

got very high fire rate, but it does half

the damage of the other shotguns, and it

doesn't penetrate medium armor. So when I

shot this at the walker, the armored

walker, the bullets just bounced off its

armor plating, so it wasn't very useful.

And I like to go for the Redeemer Pistol

for the sidearm and the Impact Grenade for

the grenades. And for the armor, I highly

recommend light armor so you're quick and

nimble. And you should get the Scout armor

passive that reduces the range at which

your enemies can detect you by 30%, which

makes it even easier to sneak by patrols.

You really don't want to be engaging

patrols if you don't have to because it's

just a waste of ammunition, waste of

grenades and stratagems, and you're

risking losing your life just to fight a

patrol when you wouldn't really have to.

Next, I want to talk about my favorite

stratagems for group play or even solo

play when doing Helldive. Difficulty

missions. I really like the orbital laser.

It just deploys this laser that burns

everything, and it's really effective

against the Bile Titan or high-armored

enemies as well. So that's very useful for

dealing with swarms and high-armored

enemies. The rail cannon strike is also

really powerful. Single target shot, very

strong. It can one-shot the armored

Chargers, and it does a lot of damage to

the Bile Titans. I've never seen it

one-shot a Bile Titan, but usually one

rail cannon strike and a bit of lasering

from orbital laser would take down a Bio

Titan pretty fast. I really like the

expendable anti-tank missile launcher

because it drops 2 of them, don't have to

reload, and the cooldown time is extremely

quick— only 70 seconds. You can be

dropping this every minute basically.

There's never going to be a time where

it's going to be on a long cooldown. So if

you need a quick, high-damage, explosive,

long-range weapon, then this is great.

And for the last stratagem, you really

want some kind of backpack. Now there's

quite a lot of backpacks to choose from.

You got the jetpack or the jump pack,

very good if you need to escape and get up

to a higher elevation to be safe. Or you

can get the energy shield, the shield

generator pack's pretty good if you want

some defense in case you get snuck up on.

Or the guard dog or the guard dog rover.

I kind of like the guard dog rover, it's

like a drone that has a laser gun Very

useful for just mopping up the weaker

enemies so you don't have to waste your

time on them. So those are the stratagems

I like to choose. And then you've also got

the boosters, which I can't click on any

of them for some reason. So when you start

the game, you want to start launching down

your backpacks and your weapons so you're

ready. Don't wait until you need them to

start deploying them. Deploy them straight

away. There's no reason not to. You can

see everyone else is doing the same thing.

So now everyone's ready, got all your

missiles, got your backpack ready. It's

time to go towards the objectives. So you

can see a patrol over there. Really, you

shouldn't engage the patrols unless you've

got noobs in the team that just start

firing at everything. You don't have to

engage everything. Also, going prone or

crouching reduces the chance that they

detect you. Stealth is an aspect of this

game. And you do make noise. So if you're

sprinting, the enemies are going to detect

you more easily. So it's better to go

crouching or go prone if you're too close

to the enemies and you want to sneak by.

So make sure to keep an eye on the minimap

often so you're

always aware of what's around you. You

want to always be panning the camera

around like this so you don't get snuck up

on. Being aware of your situation, your

environment, your surroundings is very

important when playing on Helldive

difficulty, just so you know what to do

and there's no surprises. So you can see a

patrol is coming up over there, but

they're coming straight towards our

objective, so we kind of have to engage

them. So what I would like to do here is

use my missile launcher on this armored

Charger, but no,

he's still alive. Yeah, using a missile

there was a pretty good, good idea, I

think, but he's still alive even with a

shot to the head. So you want to be

careful with these Chargers. They'll just

rush at you. On Helldiver difficulty,

sometimes you have like 4 of them

attacking you at the same time, but just

one is not really too much of a problem.

And you can see this Slugger Gun basically

one-shots almost everything, and it can

also penetrate armor. If I can find an

armored walker, I'll show you that the

bullets do actually penetrate them. And

you also reload it round by round, not

magazine by magazine, so you never waste

any clips. Was it magazines? I'm not

really an expert on guns. I don't know the

difference between a clip and a magazine.

So you got some— I think— I don't think

the Brood Command is armored, is it? No,

it's not. So we're kind of getting

surrounded here and overwhelmed. It might

be a good idea to move away because

you really don't want to get swamped or

run off the edge of a cliff.

Being aware of your surroundings is, like

I said before, very important. And you see

the rover, it's so good because it allows

you to fall back while still putting

pressure on the enemy. So the little ones—

oh no, these are armored guys,

but I want to shoot it in the face so I

can show you the slugger does penetrate

its armor. Watch. Oh, it's dead. Oh, they

all died. Never mind. Oh, there's some

over there. Watch this, watch, watch. You

see, it's not bouncing off the armor,

it's actually penetrating, and you can get

a headshot on the armored walkers.

So I just killed 2 of them with barely any

shots. I used like half the— half the

magazine. Well, not the magazine, I used

half my bullets on my shotgun to take down

2 of those. Usually they're kind of

annoying to take down if you've got an SMG

or an assault rifle.

Also, it's a good idea to use your minimap

to ping places so your team knows what you

want to do or what you're going to do,

and it just makes for better coordination

if you use the minimap communication

tools. So we want to go over there— where

is it— activate the E-710 pumps.

So it's that little base over there, it's

probably swarming with enemies. Okay,

we've got a Bile Titan. I want to do

orbital laser.

Well, maybe a rail cannon would have

finished it off. Oh my god, I nearly got

sprayed.

There we go, rail cannon,

easy. So if you look at the minimap, you

can see where all the enemies are, and I

think that's mainly because I got nuclear

radar upgrade, which allows you see

enemies from a further distance, so you

can really get a good view of the

battlefield if you get nuclear radar.

See, the rail cannon one-shots the

chargers. And then here, this is where you

get the super samples, the most rarest

samples that you want to get. They're

usually found around this rock which kind

of looks like that, and then they're

usually found just scattered around it.

Super uranium, super uranium, super

uranium. Get a maximum of 6 from this

mission. Now you want to be careful

because if you die, you drop all the

uranium. Someone else can come and pick it

up, but I had this one problem in the

previous mission where the guy who was

carrying all the super samples and stuff,

he wasn't near the evacuation site when we

called for evac, and then someone got on

the evac ship and triggered the evacuation

scene, which is only like 30 seconds, but

he wasn't close enough. And the evac ended

up taking off without him, and we didn't

get any of the samples because he wasn't

on the evac ship. So you gotta be careful

to make sure the guy who's carrying the

samples— make sure he gets on the evac

ship and make sure he's there when you

call for the evac ship to come down. When

you're doing Helldive difficulty, you'll

get so many Baal Titans. Look at all this,

and I've got no lasers, no anti-tank

missiles ready. You can't really do much

apart from just stay safe, keep a

distance, wait for your cooldowns to come

off cooldown, try and pick off these

weaker ones like that,

and just don't get stepped on by those

things. Got 30—

no, 2 minutes until my orbital laser comes

back. There's not really a lot you can do.

3 Bile Titans, oh my god.

Another little trick is if you hold X, it

opens up this dial thing.

And so I finally got my anti-tank

missiles back. See if this can actually do

anything. Oh, I hit its leg. I don't think

that's a very good place to hit it. That

one's dead. Maybe hit it on its stomach.

You can see this slugger shotgun is so

good against these softer targets. It's

still alive, what? I really need my

cooldowns back. And for some

reason I've lost my rover backpack.

Where's he gone? Quick, summon another

Sometimes you accidentally get into

situations where you're being chased by a

massive horde and you've got barely any

ammo left and you're desperately trying to

stay alive like this. Just keep kiting

them, I guess, until you get somewhere

safe enough. Problem is

I'm out of ammo.

And then it's at these moments you really

appreciate having the light armor.

Eventually you can keep running until you

get some distance. I'm out

of ammo on everything and I wasn't able to

pick up my rover. Things can get pretty

tense on Helldive difficulty. One good

tip is, so when you're getting the

samples, there's a risk that if you die

you lose the samples and then your team

have to run all the way back to where you

drop the samples. You can actually drop

the samples without dying by holding down

X Opening up this dial, this radial menu,

and pressing Drop Samples. And then you

can drop the samples there and pick them

up later. So what you can do is you can

actually drop them off at the extraction

point, which is up there. So if

you want to be safe and bank the samples,

place them somewhere safe, you can just go

over to the extraction point, drop them,

and then go back to the mission, and then

they're ready waiting there for you to

extract. There has been a few times where

the person carrying all the samples and

the super samples and the rare samples,

he died, and then he was at the opposite

end of the map and it was just too hard to

go and retrieve the samples. Or he was too

far away from the evacuation dropship and

he was carrying all the samples and he

couldn't make it back to the dropship in

time, and then we lost all the samples

even after finishing the mission. So you

gotta be careful with the samples.

They're basically the whole reason you're

doing this is to farm samples so you can

upgrade your ship and stuff like that. So

you really don't want to lose the samples,

and you want to protect the person who's

carrying them, or just drop them off at

the extraction zone where you can pick

them up later. So those were my top tips

for Helldive difficulty, highest

difficulty for Helldivers 2. Hope that was

helpful. Thanks for watching, and bye!