The Biggest Mistakes You’re Making in Helldivers 2 (Pro Tricks & Tips)

In Helldivers 2, there's so many tips and

tricks that not a lot of people know

about, or many people still don't know a

lot of these tips and tricks even after

playing the game for hundreds of hours.

So today I want to share some of my top

tips and tricks and mistakes you should

avoid doing in Helldivers 2 to absolutely

destroy the Helldive level 9 difficulty

mode of the game. So one of the first

mistakes I notice people doing a lot is

choosing where to land on the map. So I've

got this ICBM mission. The main objective

is this launch ICBM primary objective,

but before you accomplish that, you've got

to first do these sub-objectives. And you

might be thinking, oh, I'll land here

because it's nearby this tactical

objective, but there's a lot of red

patches here. You might not want to land

here because you'll be instantly

surrounded by loads of enemies. So a safer

place to land and to be able to do the

objectives in a good routine, in a good

order, would probably be around here.

That way you can hit this one, then this

one, and then go down to this one, and

then this one, then back up to here. Now

this mission is kind of a weird layout

because they've all kind of circled around

the main objective. Another tip is you

could land your party in the middle and

then split up. 2 could go down here and

then 2 could go that way, and then you

could meet up in the center. Try not to

choose too many Eagle airstrikes. You'll

notice a lot of these airstrikes are Eagle

airstrikes, meaning the little jets that

comes out of your main ship is going to be

dropping these bombs. Now you don't want

too many of them because once you've used

them all, you've got to then rearm the

Eagle, and that takes about 2 minutes,

which means you'll have no stratagems to

use for 2 minutes. You need like a couple

Eagles and then a couple orbitals, and

then maybe also a supply weapon or even a

defensive. So I did do one mission one

time with 4 Eagles not knowing this, and

when I had to rearm the Eagle, I was

completely stratagemless for 2 minutes.

So when you first land, what you want to

do is call down your supply weapons. You

don't need to wait until you find a bunch

of enemies to call down your weapons. It

saves a lot of time and it's much safer to

find a safe place to find— to drop your

supply weapons and backpacks and then get

ready for— you see what I mean? Just got

armored Charger showing up here, ready to

eat some anti-tank missiles right in the

face. And that's dead. Whenever you see

these mushroom things, you can easily

destroy them with an airstrike. I don't

know why this guy— this guy's trying to

kill me or something. Be careful with the

electric arc gun because it does easily

bounce from the enemies to your own

members, team members, as I nearly found

out. So I did take down the mushroom with

the 500 kg bomb, and you'll also find some

samples located— oh wait, it's still

there. So I just got the Spore Spewer with

the airstrike. Now I want to show you

what's lying around the spore because

you usually get some common samples and

a rare sample. So 2 commons and a rare,

pretty good. Oh, 2 rares, pretty good.

Now if you're being swarmed, don't make

this mistake of trying to take them all

on. You don't really need to. You can

actually sprint faster than anything in

the game apart from the stalkers, they can

actually sprint faster than you, and these

guys are pretty fast too. But most enemies

in the game you can outrun, so if you are

really getting swarmed, you might want to

just start running. And I would highly

recommend you take the light armor for

this because it just makes you run faster.

I don't have the light armor right now

because I got the Democracy Protects

armor, which is also pretty good armor.

This armor is good because it gives you a

50% chance of saving your life when you

take damage that would otherwise kill you.

So it's pretty useful armor. So if you're

being swarmed, I definitely recommend you

just run and don't try and be a hero, and

don't try and waste all your ammo and

grenades trying to take on a big swarm

when you're kind of all alone. And it's

just better to just run. If you run for a

while, they do eventually stop following

you, which is pretty good. If you can get

the orbital laser, it's really good at

taking down the Bile Titans. And an

expendable anti-tank is pretty useful as

well to take out some of the heavily

armored enemies. But if you can't access

your missiles, then keep running away from

the big scary Bile Titan as it's getting

lasered. You'll see the laser does quick

work of it. It also sets it on fire,

which does additional burn damage. Oh,

there's 2 of them. So that one's dead,

now it's moving on to the second one. And

we ran out of laser. Now when it charges

up that spew attack, make sure you dive

out of the way to not get caught in it,

because if you get caught in it for the

whole duration, it can one-shot you. And

if you're getting chased like this, don't

worry, it can't catch up to you. It might

slow you down with the spew attack, but it

can't really outrun you. So you can then

double back to the Expendables, shoot it

in the bum if you had a clear shot.

Try and get it in the face as it's

charging this thing up, but not like that.

Now if you're lucky, you can actually

stick the supply drops onto its leg or

onto its main body, and this can do

damage. Sometimes it 2-shots it if you can

get 2 hits, or maybe 1-shot it if it's

already taken some damage. In this case,

it already had some damage on it, which

means it only took 1 drop pod and a

missile launcher like that to take it

down. Also, your team members can

drop in and actually land onto the Bile

Titan and anything else in the game and

also do damage to it. Most cases it will

one-shot any enemy, but it'll take a

couple more shots if you're attacking,

for example, a Bile Titan. My next tip is

you really need to stop shooting at

everything you see. So if you see a patrol

in the distance, you might feel like you

want to shoot at it because you've got the

upper hand. You've got the ambush surprise

advantage. But there's not really any

reason to just randomly attack patrols

unless they're directly coming straight

for you and there's nowhere else you can

run to and they're in the way. But

otherwise, if they're just patrolling,

you don't really need to bother with them.

Crouching is a way you can avoid

detection. There is a stealth element to

the game, and crouching does make you

avoid getting detected. There's also

special armor that reduces your chance of

being detected by 30%. So that's also

good. Also, going prone makes you reduce

the chance of being blown up by

explosions, but also being detected. So if

you see patrols patrolling around, don't

feel like you need to engage with every

single thing you see because it's just

going to be a waste of ammunition, waste

of grenades and medkits, and you don't

really gain anything from it. You don't

get any extra XP or currency from randomly

killing stuff. So sometimes, in most

cases, it's best to just avoid patrols

whenever you can. So for example,

I was gonna try land on the Bile Titan on

my— with my Hellpod, but sometimes the

Hellpod kind of glitches and you can't

really steer it. It just seems to

automatically steer or only steers in one

direction. I don't know why that is, but

in most cases it won't do that glitch and

you do have full steering of the Hellpod.

You can easily land on its back. Didn't

really work that time. So another tip is

if you go prone and throw a grenade,

you'll take way less damage and from

explosives and grenades and also rockets,

and also artillery and airstrikes. So if

your ally accidentally called an airstrike

on top of you and you've only got 1

second, just go prone and you should be

able to survive it. So I want to show you,

if I throw a grenade, it doesn't

do much damage. Did you see how much

damage it did compared to standing up?

See, standing up literally kills you, but

if I was prone, it only did a tiny bit of

damage. So definitely use prone if you

feel like you're gonna get blown up. If

you find yourself running low on stamina

when you're trying to sprint, if you

crouch, it actually recharges your stamina

way faster than just trying to run at a

jogging pace or stand still. So I

recommend crouching. So like I said

before, if you can sneak up, you can

actually use crouch to make a lot less

noise, and you can sneak up on enemies.

And do this.

Well, I was gonna try and stick it with

the supply drop and show you that you can

one-shot it, but I missed. If you see

these little crashed pods and you shoot at

it, it will actually explode like that.

But you gotta be careful because it does

pretty big explosion. And I just killed my

person. He's mad. Look at

the chat, he types dot dot dot. I just

nuked him. That's what you get.