The BEST Stratagems & Weapons To Unlock FIRST ｜ Helldivers 2 FASTEST Levelling Guide

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I'm going to talk about the best

stratagems and weapons and armor that you

should be getting when you begin the game

that will help you progress the game much

faster than usual. So to be able to find

the best stratagems and weapons to unlock

when you first begin the game, you need to

head over to the Ship Management Module

Center and you press here and then you go

into stratagems and then you'll see all

the stratagems you have here. I have them

almost all unlocked apart from these 2

because they're kind of boring and

rubbish, but these for you will all be

locked and have yellow lock symbols. So

these are the types of stuff you can get.

You can get the gun supply drops, the

orbital strikes, the Eagle strikes, the

bridge strikes, and then also the

engineering bay, which will drop defense

sentry towers. The robotics workshop has

the defense sentry towers, and the

engineering bay will have stuff like guard

dog rover, laser cannon, grenade launcher.

I don't know why they're all not grouped

into one same thing because These drop

weapons should be up here with the other

weapons, shouldn't they? It's kind of

weirdly organized, but whatever. And then

the ship modules, you want to upgrade

these as fast as you can. So you want to

get level 1 unlocks as quickly as

possible, and to do that you need 80 of

these green samples that you can find when

doing missions. And then to get the second

one, you need to get green and also the

orange samples, rare samples. And then to

get the final third one, you will need to

get the green, orange, and the pinks. And

you might need some pinks for the second

unlocks as well, but for the first ones,

just need 80 green samples, and this will

give you basic upgrades such as support

weapons deploy with maximum number of

magazines, reduces damage falloff from

center of explosions, reduces Eagle

stratagems cooldown by 50%, reduces

deployment time for orbital stratagems by

1%, reduces deployment time. So I think

you get the picture, just reduces

cooldowns, reduces deployment time, stuff

like that. So it's really important to be

able to get those as quickly as you can.

For the first one, I'd recommend getting

the— I'd recommend getting the Hangar

Eagle Stratagem cooldown time reduced by

50%. That means you can do all of these

bombing runs, napalms, airstrikes 50%

faster now the cooldown has been cut in

half. And then secondly, also get this

one, reduces Eagle rearm time by 20%,

because once you've used all your Eagle

airstrikes, it needs to go back up to the

ship to rearm. That takes like 22 minutes.

So for your first stratagem, I really

recommend you get the machine gun. Not

many people use this anymore. When they

get higher level, they'll just stick with

the railgun, but the machine gun is a

great beginner weapon. It's really

powerful. It can destroy all of the light

armored mobs really quickly. It's got

massive magazine, really high rate of

fire, and the only drawback is it takes a

long time to reload. And when you're

reloading, you can't really move because

you've got to kneel down and reload it.

But it's a pretty good beginner gun. And

then next you've got stuff like the

anti-material rifle. The Stalwart is kind

of like the machine gun, but you can move

whilst reloading. Not many people use the

Stalwart, and I don't know why, because

it's a great machine gun. It's basically

like the other machine gun, but it allows

you to be much more mobile. Look at this,

the RPM— you can actually change the RPM,

the rate of fire, between 3 different

settings, and this is the fastest rate of

fire, and it just absolutely destroys

everything in the face, shreds everything

that's light armored. Look at this, just

mow down stuff. It is a great machine gun.

I don't know why more people don't use it,

but it's really easy to unlock from the

beginning of the game. It's a very

low-level gun, but it's still a really

good gun. Just because it's low-level

doesn't mean it's a crap gun. And then

obviously you want to move on to get stuff

that's more powerful, eventually aiming

for the railgun. Now most players in this

game will go for the railgun mainly

because it's the most overpowered gun in

the game. It's armor-piercing, can

one-shot nearly everything, and that's low

level and light armored, and even medium

armor and heavy armored enemies, it can

take them down with maybe 5 or 6 shots,

including the armored Charger. Even those

are not very well protected against the

Railgun's offensive capabilities. The only

drawback of the Railgun is it blows you up

if you use unsafe mode. Now, for the best

orbital strikes from the orbital cannons,

you've got things like the Gatling

Barrage, the Gatling— I mean, the Orbital

Airburst, which can do multiple Airburst

Strikes, 3 targeted Airburst Strikes which

just blows up everything. It doesn't

really do very well against super armored

enemies. For that you would need something

like the Orbital Laser, really powerful

weapon. And the Rail Cannon Strike is

probably the best one, it can one-shot

almost anything. One of the most powerful

Orbital Strikes has to be the Laser, and

you really want to be aiming for this one,

try and get it as quickly as possible

because it really helps you out. It's an

automated automatically aimed orbital

laser that just kind of tracks enemies,

burns them, melts them, scorches them to

the ground. It doesn't just work well

against small enemies, it also works

really well against things like the Bile

Titan. And next we have the airstrike,

really powerful but not quite powerful

enough to take down the Bile Titan. For

that you'll need the orbital rail cannon

because this one really can sometimes

one-shot the Bile Titan depending which

difficulty you're using. So those are the

orbital strikes that you really want to be

aiming for because they are quite frankly

the best. And finally, let's not forget

the 500 kg airstrike, basically a mini

nuke. This thing is pretty funny because

this blows everything up and makes this

massive explosion, so that's pretty great

to get early on too. Next, we've got to

talk about the sentries in the game,

basically like towers, defense towers.

You've got machine gun, Gatling gun,

mortars, autocannons. I would recommend

ignore the machine gun because the Gatling

gun is just so much better. And if you get

the machine gun and the Gatling gun,

you'll never use the machine gun. You just

wasted your resources buying it. So go

straight for the Gatling gun. The Mortar

Sentry autocannon, really great. Rocket

Sentry is pretty good as well. The EMS

Sentry is good for the Automaton levels.

Also, the minefields are pretty good.

Incendiary mines and the anti-personnel

minefield are pretty cool because they

just spray out a lot of mines. The thing

is, you do have to be careful. Sometimes

you accidentally walk on them yourself.

Your team members might accidentally walk

on them and then they'll blame you. The

Tesla Tower is pretty powerful, but it is

dangerous because if you walk up close to

it, it will zap you. The only way to avoid

being zapped is if you go prone. If you're

low on resources, then I recommend getting

the Auto Cannon if you had to pick one,

because this thing does so much damage and

it absolutely destroys Charge Chargers,

and it absolutely destroys high-armored

enemies like the Armored Crusher— I mean,

the Armored Charger. Okay, moving on, we

have to talk about the War Bonds because

you get some really amazing guns with the

War Bonds. First one you unlock is the

Punisher, great shotgun. Next one you get

the Breaker, really good shotgun,

probably my favorite shotgun. I still

actually use this shotgun as my main

shotgun even though I'm like level 47 and

I've unlocked nearly everything. The Laz

Scythe is rubbish, it just shoots a beam.

I would not recommend getting this, it

really sucks. And also the Liberator

Penetrator, it does medium armor

penetrating and But it's kind of rubbish.

The damage is really bad, even though it

does penetrate medium armor. And the

Diligence Counter Sniper, pretty rubbish.

The battle rifles kind of suck. The

Slugger Shotgun is pretty good. It does

medium armor piercing, even though it

doesn't say it does, and it can pierce

certain enemies' armor, but not the

Armored Charger. But it's pretty good,

pretty powerful. The Breaker Spray and

Pray is not good. It's really rubbish.

The damage is like half of the damage of

the normal shotgun. It fires really

quickly, but the damage is really crap,

and it doesn't do armor piercing, so all

the bullets just end up spraying and

bouncing off everywhere. So the impact

grenade— I mean, that was a smoke grenade.

That's kind of rubbish. I wouldn't

recommend using that. The Redeemer pistol

is probably the best pistol. It's like a

machine gun Uzi pistol, really rapid fire,

great at spraying down enemies when your

main weapon's out of bullets. And the frag

grenade, that's what you get at the

beginning, but I really recommend the

impact grenade. That's what I still use.

It does same damage as the frag grenade

and the high explosive grenade, but

there's no fuse, so it explodes straight

away. So I don't know why you'd use it—

not use it instead of one of the fused

grenades. I guess sometimes a fused

grenade is useful if you want to like

chuck it down a bug nest hole, but I don't

really find it better than the impact

grenade. Also, don't forget about the

boosters. I didn't realize about the

boosters until later on in the game, so

Page 3, you get Hellpod Space

Optimization, you get Vitality

Enhancement. They've all got different

effects. All Helldivers resist injury.

You've got UAV Recon Booster,

increases Helldivers' effective radar

range. That's pretty good. So don't forget

about the boosters, they do help out a

lot. Also a great way to level up really

quickly and gain loads of easy XP in just

a few minutes if you've got the right

team. Team, the eradicate and thin out the

numbers of automatons or Terminid

missions. They're really easy to do. Look

on the map and you'll see a little

targeted crosshair thing. Kill Terminids

to thin their numbers. Really recommend

spamming those missions as much as

possible. So the trick is to these

missions is you really want lots of

sentries. So this is where having lots of

sentries is a great idea. Definitely want

the rocket one and the mortar one, and the

Gatling gun is great for just mowing down

the enemies. And then maybe you also want

some mines because you got to defend this

very small area. It's gonna get attacked

and swarmed by loads of enemies.

Minefield is actually really useful here.

So you land and then quickly you want to

start deploying your, your Gatling gun and

your sentry. Put it somewhere safe over

there. Your mines, put it over here maybe.

Here because they might start coming from

that direction. And then the rocket

launcher can go over there.

And then you just need to wait because we

got nothing else to do apart from place an

SOS Sentry, try and get some help here.

Then climb up this rock. Being on this

rock makes you safe and invincible to

basically all the enemies apart from the

Bile Titan. We'll be able to spew vomit on

you, and that mortar thing might be able

to hit you with its green, green blobs.

And the green blobs are destroying my

sentries, but that's okay because it

doesn't really matter. So as you can see,

the mortar is just absolutely flattening

them. Really good job there.

So you're not safe from these guys either

up here. And maybe you want to help out

your sentries. So this actually works a

lot better if you've got a team and you're

not alone, because then you'll have— if

they do the same thing you're doing,

you'll have 4 times the sentries, 4

mortars, 4 rockets, 4 Gatling guns. But

I'm alone right now, so this is not a very

good example of what I'm trying to say.

Best thing to do is just go prone so you

don't get hit by the bile and wait until

you get some reinforcements. And then they

can help you out. Otherwise, you're just

gonna keep dying and wasting lives.

As you can see, the impact grenades are

really good against these green things

because they just explode on impact, as

the name implies.