7 Things You Didn't Know About Helldivers 2 ｜ Advanced Tips + Tricks Guide

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to share with you my top tips

for Helldivers 2. So first of all, when

you're landing on a planet, always try to

aim for a mountain. So when you're on top

of a mountain, you're kind of invulnerable

because the bugs, they can't get to you.

They'll just gather around the base of the

mountain trying to get you, but they

can't. Now, if the mountain is too low,

then sometimes bugs can get to the top of

the mountain by digging into the ground

and reappearing at the top. So the goal is

to have a mountain that is high enough so

that they can't do this. And this one

seems like a pretty good mountain. And

then you can just spam airdrops, bombs,

orbital strikes, Gatling guns, sentries,

anything really, and just shoot them from

above here and chuck grenades at them.

And it's a really great way to clear an

area because they literally cannot touch

you from up here. Look, you can just stand

up here, shoot at them, there's nothing

they can do. And it's also a really great

place if you do the Bile Titan missions.

You can aggro the Bile Titan from this

point. 'Cause you can see him off in the

distance, and then he'll come over to you,

and then you can spam stratagems onto its

back. And if the airdrops land on its

back, it might actually one-shot kill the

Bile Titan. So I like to land on the top

of these mountains and then just spam

stratagems on top of it, hoping that one

of them sticks onto its back. It's kind of

tricky if you're far away from it, but

it's much safer to be further away from it

than right in front of it. Then its vomit

spew thing can't touch you. So when I do a

Bile Titan mission, I don't really

recommend taking airstrikes, Eagle Runs,

or orbital strikes because they're not

that great at taking down the Bile Titan,

and it might accidentally hit you and

knock you off the top of the mountain. I

recommend you take stuff like the Sentry

Defenses because they can land on its back

and then spawn out mines or sentry mines

or even a turret. But the turrets usually

get bum-rushed straight away and don't

last very long. But the point is you try

and stick it on the back of the Titan.

And you can also use the resupply drops or

weapon drops. So you've got like the

machine gun, you see that one just dropped

on its leg and one-shot the Bile Titan.

So there's a great way of taking down Bile

Titans. And this trick also works for

everything else in the game, not just the

Bile Titan. The other creatures are kind

of easy to just shoot with the guns, but

the armored creatures like the Armored

Crusher is a real pain in the backside to

try and take down. So that's also a great

way of taking down Armored Crushers if you

just try and stick it with the stratagems

on its back. If you go to the armory and

you go to the armory and then look at your

armor, you might not have noticed that

there's light armor, medium armor, and

heavy armor. Light armor allows you to

move the fastest, medium is just medium,

and heavy armor slows you down but it

gives you more defenses. So you can see on

the left there's stats: armor rating 56,

armor rating 100, armor rating 144. So

that's a lot more armor than light armor,

but But not only that, but the armor also

has armor passives. So for example, this

one has the Servo-Assisted passive,

increases throwing range by 30%, provides

50% limb health. And you see this one has

Scout, markers placed on map will generate

radar scans every 2 seconds, reduces range

at which enemies can detect you, which is

really good if you want to sneak around.

And then this orange one has Engineering

Kit, reduces recoil when crouching or

prone by 30%, increases initial inventory

and holding capacity of grenades, by +2.

This one, the Med Kit armor passive,

gives you 2 extra stims, increased stim

effect duration by 2, 2 seconds.

Democracy Protects. So you can see each

armor set has a different armor passive.

Extra Padding gives you higher armor

rating. So if you want to look at these

armor passives as a way of complementing

your playstyle, then that's a good way to

start. Unfortunately, as for the helmets,

doesn't give you any kind of passive, and

they all have the same stats for armor

rating and speed and stuff like that.

Same for the cape, it doesn't really give

you any bonuses, it's just for looks. And

then we also have the ship management

screen where you could buy new stratagems,

loads of stratagems. You got the sentries,

you got backpack stuff, weapon drops,

orbital strikes, and you've also got

upgrades to your ships. You can see The

ship information here, you can also change

the name for your ship, and you've got

ship modules. So you can get improved

speeds for your sentries so they drop

faster, and they reduce the cooldowns by

quite a lot if you upgrade them. Also

reduce cooldowns and the area effects of

damage for orbital strikes, stuff like

that. So probably most of you know that,

I'm just mentioning it because it took me

a while to actually realize that was even

there. One really great way of making very

quick XP and leveling up fast is do the

defend area missions where you just stay

in one area and you have to kill about

150-175 insects.

And I think I did this on level 6

difficulty and I didn't even take any

damage because I did my little trick that

I mentioned in the beginning of this

video. I landed on top of a mountain—

well, it's not really a mountain, it's

just an elevated rock platform that the

insects can't even get up to. And then

just spam your turrets and then they'll do

all the work for you. I barely even did

anything, I just stood here. Whilst my

team members and the turrets took care of

the rest. And I managed to get about 440

XP points. Took about 5 minutes to finish

this mission. Extremely easy. And because

of all the bonus multipliers you get, get

quite a lot of XP for only 4 minutes, 5

minutes. That's 450 XP pretty quick. If

you're out of grenades and you need to

destroy bug holes, you can actually use

supply airdrops and other airdrops to

destroy the bug holes. For example, I used

the Resupply stratagem and I aimed it

straight at the bug hole, and watch,

it does actually destroy the bug hole. So

if you're out of grenades, that's a pretty

good way of destroying the bug holes. If

you see these buildings, you can actually

destroy the buildings as well using

airstrikes and orbital strikes. And

sometimes if you destroy the buildings,

you might get something out of it. You

might be able to get ammunition or

samples, or even if it's like a a

technical outpost, that's a side quest.

You can just use an airstrike and destroy

the outpost like that. If you see a tiny

little crashed escape pod like this just

lying around, if you shoot it, it actually

blows up into like a miniature nuclear

explosion. Pretty great way of killing a

lot of enemies if they're chasing you.

You can drag them over to one of those

little escape pods and just nuke them.

Try not to ignore the jetpack. You might

not want to use the jetpack because it

makes you lose a slot that could be used

for weaponry, sentries, or bombs. But the

jetpack is actually extremely useful to

get up to higher places so that you're

safe. A lot of the insects— well, most of

the insects can't get up to you if you're

up on top of a mountain or up high on a

rock placement. And it's a great tool to

use to get up high so you can fight the

Bile Titans and hopefully get some sneaky

stratagems stuck on its back to one-shot

it. But if you die, you can actually kill

the Bile Titan by landing on its back when

you drop back in. If you are near the Bile

Titan Titan when you die, it's a pretty

good way to kill it. Actually, one idea is

actually just die on purpose underneath

the Bile Titan, respawn, and then land

straight on its back for a one-shot. But

the problem is you do get kind of stuck

under its body.