How to Improve at Helldivers 2 in under 9 Minutes

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you how you can

improve your Helldivers 2 gameplay and

skill level in just a few minutes.

So trying to input stratagem inputs whilst

on the move is kind of tricky unless you

rebind your key bindings. So by default,

WASD actually controls the arrows for your

stratagem inputs, but the problem is when

you're running and you open the stratagem

menu, the WASD keys stop making you move,

so you stand still to input the commands.

Now I've changed my key bindings like

this: go into Mouse and Keyboard, Change

Bindings, scroll all the way down to

Stratum. And you might think this is kind

of weird, but I've changed up to scroll up

on my mouse, down to scroll down on my

mouse, left to— it's the first side button

on my mouse— and then right to the second

side button on my mouse. And I've got the

open Stratum list on So this is how it

works. I hold down E to sprint.

Now I'm moving with W to go forwards, and

now I press Alt to open my Strassrum menu,

and I hold it down. And then to do the,

for example, Eagle 500 kg bomb, I scroll

up once, I press the side button 2,

and then I just keep scrolling down, and

I've activated it. The cool thing is,

because some of the Strassrum inputs

require multiple inputs in the same

direction, like 500 kg bomb is down,

down, down. It's up, right, down, down,

down. To do down, down, down, I scroll

down on my mouse and I just keep scrolling

like this, see? And it activates it

straight away just by scrolling down

continuously. Now this way I can sprint

and move and also input my airstrikes and

my stratagems. Now I do have to get used

to it a little bit because it's kind of

weird using scrolling and side buttons for

left and right, but like this Yeah, you

can get used to it, and it's pretty cool

because you can sprint, have your Stratum

menu open, and also use your mouse to

input the Stratum commands. Now I've also

changed my key bindings, so F does dive,

X does interact, E does sprint, and Q does

heal. So that might be a weird way of

doing the key bindings, but for me it

works pretty well, and you can get the

Stratums out and ready whilst you're

running so you don't have to stand still

to do a Stratum. So it's very good to

change your key bindings for Stratum

input. My next tip to improve your

Helldivers 2 gameplay would be to

definitely equip the light armor. So

there's a lot of armor— medium armor,

heavy armor. Unfortunately, heavy armor

and medium armor doesn't offer better

armor rating because the game is kind of

glitched and they haven't fixed this. So

heavy armor, although it looks kind of

cool, you should ignore it and go straight

for the light armor. Now the best light

armor is the one that reduces your

percentage to be detected by enemies by

30% because this just makes sneaking

around the level and avoiding patrols much

easier. So go for light armor and you can

just sprint much faster. Now if you go to

the War Bonds page, there's actually a

thing called boosters, and they're these

things. So for example, you got this one,

the Hellpod Space Optimization Booster.

This gives you fully stocked ammo,

grenades, and stims when you come out of

the Hellpods. The next page will give you

Vitality Enhancements, allow all

Helldivers to resist injury. But one of

the best boosters has to be on Page 9— no,

page 8— no, page 7.

You've got the Stamina Enhancement.

Increases all held over stamina capacity

and recovery. This is so useful if you're

sprinting and you're constantly running

out of stamina. That will really boost

your stamina. And next, if you're kind of

low level and you've just started the

game, you want to level up quickly as

possible and gain loads of currency and

points, I recommend doing these missions,

the Automaton Automaton, Automaton

missions. I would recommend doing these

ones called Eradicate Automaton Forces.

Kill all Automaton to reduce their

numbers. This is a really easy level. You

just stand on a base and you bombard the

enemy with sentries. I'll show you. So you

want to go down and get some sentry

defensive sentries, and if you have them,

get the EMS, the rocket sentry, the

autocannon, and also the mortar.

Extremely useful. And don't forget your

booster. Boost yourself.

So what you want to do as soon as you

land, you want to head over to this kind

of higher elevated level and then start

spamming your sentries like this.

Place one there,

place one here,

place one there. Make sure they're spread

out so they don't hit each other. And

finally, the mortar— very useful— is

placed here. And now you can basically

just kind of go AFK, and it should take a

few minutes to destroy all these

Automatons dropping in. You don't really

have to do anything. It would help if you

actually had a team who also spammed a

bunch of turrets because that'll make it a

lot faster. I don't know why this guy's

bugged, but his body is invisible. Look at

that. Next tip, go invisible so you don't

get seen, so you're just a floating head.

So So as you see, the turret starts

shooting at the dropships, but it doesn't

do enough damage to actually blow them up

because I don't have enough team members

doing the same thing. And you can see the

Destroy Automatons is going up quite

nicely. They're dropping off a bunch of

baddies over there. And there you have it,

just a few minutes, mission complete. Got

a bunch of credits and requisitions and

medals, and it was very easy. I didn't

even move, basically. And as you can see,

we extracted everyone and we're getting

75% bonus for mission time. Remaining,

and we've got a total of 275 XP, but it's

gonna get an extra bonus of 100%. So if

you do this on higher difficulty levels,

obviously you get a higher bonus to your

rewards. And we also got a bunch of

medals. That was pretty easy. I would

recommend doing this on a higher level so

the bonus multiplier is like 200%, 250%,

times the initial 300 XP, you get like

1,500 XP nearly. My next tip would be to

use terrain to your advantage. You can

actually climb up these little rocks and

even climb up to high mountains buttons,

even though it looks like you wouldn't be

able to, just by pressing spacebar and you

automatically climb up ledges. And this is

great because some of the enemies, like

the Armored Charger, can't actually get up

to this location. And most of the enemies

in this game can't even touch you as long

as you are elevated on a rock platform or

on top of a building. Although some of the

buildings can be destroyed by the

Chargers, these rocks, for some reason,

they cannot be destroyed. The smaller

rocks can be destroyed, but these big

rocks, the Chargers can't do anything and

they just kind of give up and they stand

there waiting to be put out of their

misery. So it's kind of a good tip if you

need to survive— wait for your airstrikes

to come off cooldown, wait for other

things to come off cooldown, just climb up

somewhere high and you'll be pretty safe.

Also, all enemies in this game have weak

spots, and some of them are armored like

this Charger. This Charger, you can crack

open the armor using armor-piercing

weapons, and that will reveal the soft

gooey orange flesh that will be weak to

your normal weapons, and then you can take

them down like that. If you're trying to

take on a Bile Titan all by yourself,

make sure you have a lot of distance

between you and the Bile Titan so you can

reload your weapons. If you've got a

recoilless rifle, which is extremely

powerful, it takes a couple seconds to

reload, so you don't want to be too close

to the Bile Titan before you start

shooting at it. When you're launching down

from the Hellpod, make sure you move your

Hellpod, and you can actually steer it,

and you can land on top of mountains like

that one that one, or that one. Any

mountain, you can actually land on top of

it with the Hellpod, and it can actually

be very useful because you can then spam

airstrikes down at the enemy whilst being

completely safe. Now, like I said before,

using terrain to your advantage,

extremely useful. And something that can

help you take advantage of the terrain

even better is the jump pack. So look at

this little rock, kind of hard to get up

to, but with the jump pack, we can easily

get up to it. And you also grab onto the

ledge if you're just about to miss the

ledge, you can easily get up to it. The

railgun is probably the most powerful

weapon in the game. You'll see nearly

everyone using this, and that's because

it's basically one of the most powerful

weapons. Look how much damage it can do

against nearly everything. You can nearly

one-shot basically all these tiny little

guys. See, that guy got nearly one-shot.

This guy, if you aim for the weak spots,

you can one-shot it in most cases.

I can't fucking hit it. So like I said,

you can actually one-shot them if

you, um— there, finally, I one-shot him.

So look at this little guy. One shot.

The railgun is definitely very powerful.

So if you come across a patrol, try and

crouch out of sight. If you break line of

sight, they won't be able to see you, and

they won't really bother with you if you

go prone and disappear. This is great if

you kind of run out low on ammunition and

supplies. You don't really want to engage

every single enemy you come across,

especially the patrols. They— there's not

really any real reason to attack them

unless they're in your way or they're

attacking you.