6 HUGE Mistakes You’re STILL Making in Helldivers 2 (Tricks & Tips for MAX Level)

People seem to still be making these

massive mistakes in Helldivers 2. I see

them doing them all the time, even on

level 9 difficulty, even when they're

level 50. So I thought I'd make a video

just talking about mistakes you might be

making or someone else might be making,

so you can eventually learn how to stop

doing them and stop being a noob,

basically. Okay, so first of all, if

you're playing Helldive difficulty and

you're not using the railgun and the

energy shield backpack, then I don't know

what you're doing. You're holding the

group back. Okay, maybe you don't like the

Railgun and the Shield Generator and you

want to play with other weapons, and

that's great and everything, but you have

to understand that if you're not using the

best weapons and the best backpack, which

is the Shield Generator plus Railgun,

then you're kind of like a weak link in

the group. You're just going to be a bit

of a liability. You're not going to be

bringing the best firepower that you could

be bringing, and you're basically just

taking up a slot in the party that could

have been utilized by someone who actually

has a the proper loadout for Helldive

difficulty. Secondly, if you're going to

be playing Helldive difficulty, then you

need to be communicating with your team.

I see so many people just running around

the map doing their own thing, not telling

people what they're doing, not even

pinging the location on the map saying I'm

going there, I'm going here, I'm doing

this. They just run off to some side

objective and you don't even know where

they are, what they're doing. You really

need to communicate. Also, I don't see

enough people using the marking ability.

So if you aim at an enemy like this and

then press your, your button to mark—

mine's T, yours might be Tab or X,

I forgot— and then you mark them, it will

show up on the map and alert other people

of the enemy you just marked. It's useful

because sometimes you get patrols

ambushing you and your other players might

not be aware, and you might need to give

them a friendly little hint that there's a

patrol coming up. And yeah, it just makes

the game flow a lot better if you actually

use your communication tools. This is a

team game after all, a co-op game, and if

you're not communicating with your team,

then you're kind of hamstringing your

team's efforts, basically. The next thing

I want to talk about has to do with

samples. So some of you might not know

this, but you can collect the samples and

then choose to drop them without dying.

You hold down X, open up the menu, and

press Drop Samples. And something some

people like to do, including myself, is

you collect a bunch of samples, and if

you're nearby the extraction points, you

drop off the samples at the extraction

point. The reason for doing this is so

that in case you die in some far part of

the map, that means you don't have to go

all the way back to where you died to

recollect the samples. You can just leave

the samples at the extraction point and

then pick them up again when the

extraction has been called. So one

annoying thing I've noticed people doing

is they don't understand what you're doing

when you do this, and they decide to pick

up the samples that I've left at the

extraction point. They pick up the samples

and then they come and follow me, or they

go off somewhere on the map, and then they

die. And then I have to go and retrieve

the samples by running all across the map,

and it's just kind of annoying. If you see

samples that have been dropped off at the

extraction point, don't pick them up and

then carry them to the other end of the

map and then die, which means someone has

to go and collect them again. It's kind of

annoying. So I just got kicked from my

group and I don't know why because I was

participating in the match and I got more

kills than everyone else. Oh wait, the

host has left. I didn't get kicked, but I

do get kicked quite often, not because of

any fault of my own, and it's kind of

annoying. I think the main reason is

because they were playing with friends and

they forgot to set the game to friends

only, and then I accidentally joined and

then they're like, who the hell is this

guy? And then they kicked me. If you don't

want to play with randoms, make sure in

your settings you've set the game to

friends only so that I don't waste my time

watching loading screens only to load into

the map and then get instantly kicked.

Another thing I noticed when people are

farming this level where you just spam

sentries, they tend to just go AFK or they

just stand here doing nothing. You know,

there's actually a total of 10 samples you

can get on this map, and it'll be nice if

you just actually went to get the samples.

They're not too hard to get. So you want

to get light armor, maybe the shield

generator. There's a sample here, there's

one over, one over here.

I don't know where all 10 are, but I

usually get 6 or 7, and it's really quick

to get the samples. It's not too

difficult. There's one over here. So it'd

be nice if people stopped just standing

around the top bit whilst they let

the sentries do all the work. And actually

went and got the samples because I need a

lot of samples so I can upgrade my

modules. That'd be great. Thanks. Also,

don't forget to take a booster when you're

doing your loadout. I've seen so many

people forget to choose a booster. They

press ready and this thing is still empty

here. There's loads of good boosters like

stamina boosting, calling reinforcements

booster, radar booster. They're all pretty

good. So yeah, don't forget to choose a

proper booster. To complement your team.

Also, if you're dropping airstrikes, make

sure you're not gonna drop one right on

your teammate. I've been killed so many

times by stupid noobs who keep doing

airstrikes right where I am, and the

airstrike covers quite a larger distance.

It's not like a precision strike, it's

like a bombardment. Don't chuck aerial or

orbital airstrikes in the area that your

team members are standing in. That's kind

of— should be kind of obvious, but I've

seen it happen so many times, it's just

getting kind of ridiculous at this point.

Another thing I have to talk about is if

you die and you drop your weapons, your

support weapon, your backpack, usually

your railgun and shield generator, if you

see someone else die and they drop their

stuff, don't pick up their stuff because

they want to pick up their stuff once they

respawn. It's kind of a dick move if

you've accidentally killed them or they

died and then you take their stuff before

they had the chance to recollect it,

because if they recently just spawned in a

railgun or backpack The cooldown time on

the railgun is probably going to be

something like 6 or 7 minutes, or maybe 5

minutes, and then they're going to have to

be without the railgun or the backpack for

up to 7 minutes. So it's not very friendly

or team player friendly if you take

people's stuff. If you see someone die,

res them, spawn them in nearby to where

they died, and leave their stuff so they

can come and pick it up, and they'll be

very appreciative. Also, don't call in the

extraction shuttle if everyone's far away

from the extraction location. People might

be doing stuff like farming samples,

trying to finish side objectives, trying

to do other stuff, and then if you call in

the extraction, it begins the, the timer,

the clock, to start ticking from 2

minutes, and then everyone has 2 minutes

to get to the extraction point. They might

not have time to get there. And they might

be carrying samples. And if the shuttle

takes off without them getting onto the

shuttle, then you would have lost all of

your samples. This one time we spent like

30 minutes on this mission, and one of us

got like 30 samples, loads of rares, a

bunch of super samples, and he was

carrying nearly all the samples, but he

was at the other end of the map. And then

some noob called in the extraction, and

everyone said, okay, we accidentally

called it, but let's not get onto the

shuttle, because once you get into the

shuttle you've got like 30 seconds or

minutes to get into the shuttle,

otherwise you get left behind. So the guy

wasn't close enough to the shuttle to be

able to get into the shuttle, and he ran

out of time, and the shuttle just took

off, and we lost all of the samples even

though we spent like 30 minutes doing the

match. And it was kind of annoying. So

yeah, make sure you don't call the

shuttle, and if the shuttle is called

before everyone is near the extraction

point, then just don't get onto the

shuttle until everyone is ready to get

onto it. Also, don't randomly shoot at

patrols in the game. I've seen so many

times when there's a patrol off in the

distance that was easily avoidable, and

then some noob just starts shooting at the

patrol because a lot of people think that

they need to shoot at every single thing

they see in the game. But sometimes there

really isn't any need to start shooting at

patrols when they're obviously walking in

a different direction. It just wastes your

ammo, wastes your grenades and your health

kits, and you might needlessly die.

There's no reason to. You don't get any

extra money or extra XP by killing

everything in the game. You don't get any

XP by killing enemies. This isn't some

kind of RPG MMO game. If you see a patrol

in the distance, really the best thing to

do is to go crouching or go prone and

sneak around it, or just hide behind a

rock and let them go past so you can slip

by and then continue onwards to where

you're trying to go to. Always check the

minimap to check where the enemies are,

because the minimap is pretty good at

showing you where the enemies are. It just

shows this yellow splodge where groups of

enemies are, so you don't really have any

excuse to accidentally run into a patrol,

because it should be pretty obvious where

they are if you're checking your minimap.

When you're sprinting and running off in

the direction towards your location that

you're trying to get to, you should always

have the minimap open so you're fully

aware of what's around you. But don't just

stare at the minimap Also pan the camera

around like this, run in the opposite

direction of the camera, so press down

whilst you're running so you can see

what's behind you, what's around you like

that, whilst also checking the minimap.

It's kind of like driving a car. You don't

always want to be staring into the

rearview mirror or the side mirrors. You

need to be looking into the mirrors every

few seconds and then having a glance

around, looking forwards obviously,

looking sideways, checking the mirrors

again. My driving instructor always moaned

at me because I would have this habit of

just staring into the mirrors or just

staring front— into the front all the time

without paying attention to mirrors. And

then he kept having to remind me to always

check everything, always check around you,

check around your 360 camera pan, check

your minimap, see what's going on, zoom

in, maybe, maybe put some markers down

where you want to go so your teammates

know what you're going to do.