Helldivers 2 - BEST Backpack Stratagems Complete Guide (Backpack Tips)

Today we're going to be talking about the

best backpacks in Helldivers 2. So there's

quite a few backpacks we're going to test

today. We've got the Supply Backpack,

we've got the Shield Generator Backpack,

the Jump Pack Jetpack Backpack— that was a

tongue twister— uh, the Guard Dog Rover,

and there's also a few other backpacks

we'll test out after these. So my personal

favorite has to be I really like the jump

pack because it allows you to jump to

safety, but there's different situations

in the game that requires different types

of backpacks. So the shield generator is

really good against automatons because

they shoot a lot of lasers and rockets at

you. The Terminids don't really have that

many ranged enemies. They've got a few

that spit out this green bile, but mostly

they're melee enemies. So the shield

generator, although it does defend you

against melee attacks, you You shouldn't

really be within melee range anyway, so

this is more for the Automaton levels.

And the Supply Pack's really useful for

supplying people, and the Guard Dog Rover

is really good for crowd control because

it can help mop up the little small bugs

for you. So I'll show you the Jetpack

first, or the Jump Pack. So this is really

good. So for example, let's say you want

to get up there onto those cargo

containers. You can't actually jump up

there because it's too high up, but with

the Jetpack you can do this. And there you

go, you're basically safe. You can use the

terrain to your advantage. So if a bunch

of enemies are chasing you down and you

don't feel like you can get away, you can

just jetpack up to safety and wait for

your airstrikes to come off cooldown and

then airstrike them. But certain enemies

like the Armored Charger, the Bile Titan,

they are strong enough to be able to

destroy these containers and structures,

so you're not going to be completely safe.

And there's an enemy patrol coming to

check out my backpacks. What are they

doing? It's like they've come to see the

backpacks and they're randomly dying.

Hopefully they won't detect me if I go

prone, even though my bright orange armor

is not very good camouflage. I don't think

the color really comes into any effect

when it comes to stealthing. Yeah,

they're just gonna walk past everything.

So yeah, like I was saying, the jetpack is

really good for getting up to high places.

You can even use it to jump up to rock

platforms like that if it's not too high

up. So it's pretty good little useful

jetpack to increase your mobility. So next

we've got the Guard Dog Rover. Gives you

this little drone. You get this little

drone with a laser gun on top and it'll

randomly shoot these little bugs for you.

Sometimes it shoots you as well, which is

not great. It's not great at killing those

armored guys, but it's pretty good at

killing the small little weak bugs. It

keeps accidentally shooting me. So you can

basically one or two shot the tiny ones.

Problem is it starts trying to kill the

armored enemies, which it doesn't do any

damage against. So it looks like they're

trying to interrupt my presentation of

jetpacks and backpacks. So you can see

it's doing a fairly decent job at helping

me take down these swarms of enemies.

But yeah, it's, um, it's kind of useful,

I guess, as long as you're not up against

too many armored enemies. It's pretty

good at taking out these guys. It's just

some extra firepower. There is a rover

that shoots a machine gun, but I find the

laser gun to be more powerful, does more

damage. Also, the machine gun rover keeps

running out of ammo and needs to be

recharged a lot. So it's not the best.

And next we have the Shield Generator. So

this creates a little bubble around you

and gives you quite good defense against

enemies. So you can see, defends you

against a few hits from melee enemies.

It does only defend you from a few hits.

It's not that strong, but it does recharge

quite quickly, as you can see.

And it's pretty good if you're getting

swarmed and you really need some help to

create a bit of distance from the enemies.

So you can see you can take a few hits

like that, and also it prevents you from

being crowd controlled. So with the shield

up, you won't get slowed, you won't get

knocked around, you won't get knocked off

your feet. It's, um, it's pretty useful

apart from when you blow yourself up like

that. And then next we have the supply

backpack. So this is pretty good because

you're basically just a walking ammo

supply person. For example, if you just

waste all your bullets, chuck a few

grenades, use up your

clips, and then press

5, you start grabbing from the backpack

and you refill your grenades, refill your

stimpacks, refill your ammo. It's actually

pretty useful if you like to spam

a lot of grenades. So you get a total of 2

grenades per little yellow box. So you get

2, 4, 6, 8 plus your starting 6, you get

like 15 or 14 grenades to use all at once.

So if you like to spam grenades and you're

constantly running out of ammo, then the

Supply Backpack is pretty good. Also,

your allies can come up to you and just

help themselves to some supplies. So it's

a pretty good backpack if you want to

supply people and have loads of ammo,

loads of grenades, loads of stims. It

really does increase your survivability

and your longevity before you need to

start calling down airdrops or searching

for ammo resupply boxes.

God, this gun's so good, this Breaker

shotgun. Great damage, great rate

of fire, probably the best shotgun.

Okay, so next we have the Guard Dog, kind

of like the Guard Dog Rover, but it shoots

a normal machine gun instead of a laser

gun. So if I can find some enemies—

there's always enemies coming when you

don't want them to, then when you want

them to come, they don't come.

Okay, here's some enemies. So you can see

it just shoots this pretty basic machine

gun. It's not bad at taking down smaller

insects like those, but obviously it

doesn't have any armor-piercing

capabilities. I don't really know

what the difference is between this and

the laser one, but it's already needed to

recharge. Look at that. That was kind of

lame. It seems to need to reload or

recharge very often, whereas the laser gun

doesn't really recharge, it just

overheats. But it doesn't overheat as much

as this one needs to reload,

so I'd always go for the Guard Dog Rover.

If you wanted some kind of drone. But

yeah, it's pretty good, not bad at taking

out the smaller bugs. For some

reason it's not doing anything here.

Actually, it seems to do more damage than

the Guard Dog Rover. It's killing these

things way faster than the laser can. I

think it does more damage, but the

trade-off is it reloads more often, so you

have to choose which one you want, I

guess. I actually kind of like it. Look at

it's pretty

strong. It's just completely destroying

these things. It kills

them faster than I can kill them with my

own gun. And then next we have the

Ballistic Shield Backpack. So this is more

useful for automatons because they always

shoot things at you. Problem is you can't

use this with your main weapon. You've got

to use a one-handed weapon. So maybe if

you use the SMG, which is one-handed, you

can use that with this, and you can use

your sidearms with it. So it's pretty good

if you want constant defense against

incoming lasers, incoming rockets, also

incoming bile spew. It'll probably defend

you from that. So if we go and test out

the ballistic shield against the

automatons See how strong it is.

It might be better than the shield

generator because the shield generator,

okay, it doesn't defend you from— I

mean, I don't know if that rocket would

have one-shot me. I nearly died from one

shot anyway, but that might have killed

me if it wasn't for the ballistic shield.

It's not very good, to be honest.

I feel like the shield generator would be

much better at defending you. And then

finally, we have these weapons. These

weapons have an ammunition backpack. So

for example, the autocannon has one clip

or one magazine, but it also has

an autocannon backpack which allows you to

recharge— I mean, reload the gun. And also

Also, a team member can help you reload if

you just focus on firing. They can reload

the gun for you. So without the backpack,

you wouldn't be able to reload. So you got

to think, do you want to only have one

magazine and have a different backpack,

or do you want to be able to reload but

then lose the backpack slot to the

ammunition backpack? And then for the

spear missile launcher, Oh no, the

recoilless rifle missile. I don't know why

it's called a rifle when it's a missile

launcher. It looks like an RPG. So we've

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