Helldivers 2 - The BEST Stratagems For Solo Players (High Difficulty Tips)

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you my favorite and

best stratagems to use when doing solo

play on higher difficulty levels. So I'm

going to be doing level 8 Impossible

mission on this icy planet. So for my

first favorite stratagem, I really like

the Rail Cannon Strike. This is really

powerful. It can one-shot kill basically

everything. It can one-shot kill the Bile

Titan as well. And the great thing about

this is it it automatically targets the

biggest and largest target in close

proximity to the beacon. So you don't

really have to be very accurate when you

throw the stratagem. You can just throw it

in the general direction of where the

enemy is and it will automatically choose

the biggest and the toughest guy, which is

really great. And then next I like to

choose the Orbital Laser. This thing is

amazing for cutting down things like

Armored Crushers, even the Bile Titan,

and basically anything else that gets in

its path. It will just laser them, set

everything on fire, is great. So with the

Orbital Laser and the Rail Cannon, you've

got 2 very powerful single-target

stratagems that can destroy armored

enemies and high-health enemies. And then

my next favorite stratagem has to be the

Jump Pack. I think the Jump Pack's kind of

overrated— I mean, underrated. I think the

Shield Generator is overrated. So I've

seen other videos where people recommend

the Shield Generator, and I can kind of

understand why they recommend it. Gives

you extra survivability in case you get

hit. But if you're in a situation where

you're being ganged up on by loads of

enemies and you're being swarmed and you

need the shield generator

to keep you alive, then number one,

you've kind of really messed up. And

number two, if you're in the same

situation, I think the jump pack is

actually more helpful because you can jump

out of the way and onto mountains. You can

jump up to elevated rocks and platforms

and even jump up onto the roofs of little

buildings. And that will make you

basically invincible to nearly everything

in the game apart from crushers, some of

the ranged insects, and obviously the Bile

Titan. But you'll be safe from a lot of

the enemies just by standing on top of a

building or standing on top of an elevated

platform. So I really recommend the jump

pack just because it can get you out of a

sticky situation where you're safe, and

then you can just orbital bombard the

enemies that are waiting at the bottom of

the mountain or platform you're standing

on. So for the final stratagem, I like to

go for— I like to go for something that

can get rid of swarms of enemies because

we already have 2 stratagems that are good

at taking out high-armored enemies. We

need some crowd control. So either the 500

kg bomb or the napalm airstrike is pretty

good. I kind of like the 500 kg bomb.

And then for the equipment, you want light

armor, preferably this one, the Scout

Armor, because it reduces the range at

which enemies can detect you by 30%,

which means you can ignore a lot of

enemies early map just by running past

them, and they won't even know you're

there because you've got 30% increased

chance to not get detected. Or you might

go for this one, the Legionnaire Light

Armor gives you 30% increased throwing

range, which is pretty good if you're up

on top of a mountain, you need further

throwing range, and then that's pretty

good as well. But I prefer the stealthy

tactics. So we're just going to launch

into a mission and I'll show you what solo

play is like with these stratagems.

So ideally, when you land on the planet,

you'll land somewhere safe or somewhere on

top of a mountain, and then you can spam

the airstrikes onto the enemies around

you. But if you've landed somewhere on the

ground, that's a good place to spawn your

jump pack. It looks like we're gonna spawn

on the ground because unfortunately it

didn't launch me near to any of the

mountains. But usually I like to go for

the mountains. And then first thing,

we've got some of the jump pack. That

thing will keep you alive. By Jesus,

I can't tell you how many times I've

survived being ganked just because I ran

away and then I jet-packed up onto the top

of one of these rocks. So definitely get

the jump pack straight away. Now we're

gonna look for our location— I mean,

objective. We have to find Terminid holes

to close, and there's a big mushroom over

there. We could do the mushroom. So we're

just gonna look for some enemies. It's

kind of hard because there's like this

fog. I would have liked to have spawned on

the mountain to give me some visibility.

Okay, so you can see we've got some

enemies over there. I don't think they

would detect me at this range. We want to

get somewhere up high and safe so we know

what we're dealing with. So somewhere up

here would be great to get onto. It's kind

of tricky though. Ah, we got, we got up.

Uh, you see, you see this? Watch. So this

is a great location to do the I think the

500 kg bomb would be pretty good here.

They don't even know I'm there. Look,

watch this. We just stick it on its back,

or close enough. It's funny,

they instantly know where you are. He just

crushed his own thing. Yeah, the 500 kg

bomb does kill the Armored Crusher. And

then you see I'm up here, so I'm kind of

safe from these other things trying to

gank me. Look. And there's a— what's

that? A Brood Command over there and a big

mushroom. Having the extra 30% throw range

might have been— oh my god, okay, this is

not good. So I'm gonna do maybe a laser

would be good here to sort these guys out.

These guys can actually jump. This is not

looking great, but the laser should sort

them out. Some of them will get on top of

here, so you gotta be careful.

The laser is wrecking them. Oh my God,

the good thing about laser is it also sets

everything on fire, so you would not be

able to survive this if you weren't on top

of this mountain. It'll be very hard.

You'd be kiting them all around whilst

they chase you and be reloading. So I've

like obliterated them already.

Okay, so you might want to head over to I

can't really tell where there's any bug

holes yet because of this fog. You see

what I mean with the stealth? I can see a

bunch of them over there, armored Crusher

as well. I don't think they've seen me.

So having this stealth light armor is

really cool. I think it's 30% less chance

to be detected, and if you crouch, you're

much less detectable as well. Stealth is

an aspect of the game many people don't

really seem to realize it. Now this is a

great explanation— I mean, example of why

the jetpack— the hell was that? Armored

Crusher. So I'm gonna use jetpack to get

up here. Watch this.

Well, it nearly worked, but most of the

time you can grab onto the edges if you

jump back up. So I'm gonna do— I've only

got a rail cannon, which is not very

useful. I'm just gonna hide here until my

laser orbital strike comes back off which

is 5 minutes. We've only got 7 minutes

left for the mission, so we don't really

have 5 minutes. You could kill that one

guy over there maybe. Watch the laser— I

mean the rail cannon. It'll automatically

target the biggest thing, which is the

Armored Crusher, and boom, one shot,

dead. Pretty good.

So we kind of have to rush because I

didn't realize this mission would only

have— I think it was 10 minutes. It's not

very long. We really gotta find some of

these bug holes quickly. I can't find any.

I think there might be some over there.

Try and grenade these guys. You might be

wondering why don't I take any support

weapons, and that's because I don't

really need them, to be honest.

And the support weapons run out of ammo

quickly, and if you land on the top of

a mountain, you can't really call them

down. I just find them to be more of a

liability. I'd rather have airstrikes.

And I think the shotgun's good enough if

you want a good weapon. The Breaker

shotgun, great weapon.

Oh, what's this? A flamethrower. You can

always find weapons just lying around like

that. I can't see a thing.

I have no idea where the bug holes are,

but unfortunately there's not really a

stratagem that will stop time from ticking

down. But I think you see my point with

the jetpack and stratagems I've chosen for

high difficulty solo play. I could take

out the mushroom. I got the Eagle Bomb,

500 kg. Watch this. Oh,

I stuck it right on the top! And they're

coming, and then you want to jetpack up

here to safety. Oh,

oh, look at that! See, saved by the

jetpack. What are they going to do now?

They're just gonna stand there like

idiots. Apart from this guy, he really

wants to get up. And this guy too. Oh my

god, I'm out of bullets.

Wow, these guys are actually getting up

here, which is— now if this happens, you

might wanna run and

heal. Oh, I don't have any stims left.

That's weird. I don't remember using any.

And then we could jetpack up here and miss

the ledge. Not good. So keep on running,

it's okay. Well, I've run out of ammo on

my shotgun already. Can't be right.

Oh, there's a bug hole.

Just waiting for jetpack to come. Oh,

okay, didn't even see that. Yeah, I

stepped on one of the explosive plants.

Okay, this is what I'm talking about. Oh

no. I was gonna land on top of that

mountain, but I wasn't close enough to it.