Helldivers 2 - SOLO Beginners Guide For Higher Difficulties

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're playing Helldivers 2, and I

want to make a solo guide for beginners in

Helldivers 2 because, well, obviously it's

supposed to be a multiplayer game,

supposed to play with your friends, but

the game seems to be having problems with

matchmaking, and I can't really seem to

find a way to play with other people, and

I've kind of been forced into playing by

myself. So I thought I'd give you some

tips how to survive better and just play

the game better as a beginner. So first of

all, since you're on your own, you want to

be a jack of all trades. The stratagems

that you pick before loading out and

launching onto the planet is very

important. Basically, you want a weapon

that can deal with swarms and weapon that

can deal with high-armored enemies, and a

stratagem that can deal with high-armored

enemies, and also some stratagems that can

also deal with swarms. So I like to go

with Orbital Precision Strike. This is

very powerful against a single target or

multiple targets if they're in the same

area. And then we've got the Expendable

Anti-Tank Missile Launcher, very powerful

especially against really big creatures

with high armor. And then we've got the

Gatling Sentry, really great at just

mowing down swarms of enemies and

protecting you, and also kind of like a

way to set up a bit of defenses whilst

you're kiting enemies. And we also have

the Machine Gun stratagem, also very good

for mowing down swarms. So those are the

stratagems that I advise for solo play.

So as you can see, we've got quite a lot

of time to be able to complete the

objectives in this mission. We've got

about 35 minutes— actually, it's 40

minutes, but you know, it's been 5

minutes. And I'd recommend that you go for

the main objectives marked with orange on

the minimap. If you press Tab, it will

open the minimap, and the blue little

thing is like a side quest. So first of

all, I want to, um, get rid of that group

of enemies that's coming towards me, and

I'll just show you. So you want to be able

to destroy the swarms easily whilst also

have enough power firepower to fight these

bigger guys, and Gatling gun should really

help you. Also, don't be afraid of using F

to melee them in the face. It usually

takes about 2 melees in the face to take

down most of the bugs. Even the bigger

bugs can go down in a few hits. Oh, I hate

those guys, the big bums that spew things

at you. Those guys can like one-shot you

if you're not careful. So look at the

Gatling gun just absolutely tearing them

apart whilst giving you some good

defensive cover. And then you can also

throw down maybe a machine gun. Why not?

And the Gatling gun— the Gatling gun is

already finished. There's another big

group of enemies over there. I'm going to

call down an orbital airstrike. Now it

takes 5 seconds for the orbital airstrike

to actually hit the ground, so you want to

time it so it hits the enemy. Not like

that. Maybe time it a bit better next

time. And then you've got a lot of big

guys here, so you really wanted the

machine gun there. So that guy's down.

You've got a Charger over there, you've

got a bunch of little guys. So you really

want to be on your feet and agile

so you can kind of kite these guys around,

because this guy is— you really want to

move out of the way of that guy as well.

So out of bullets now, maybe switch over

to the sidearm. So this guy, he'll charge

at you like that, and then you just shoot

him in the bum. So my next tip would be

learn how the enemies move. They all have

an attack pattern that's easily

memorizable. So this guy will just charge

around because he's called Charger. I got

some grenades here. Where are my grenades?

He's just kind of stopped moving and the

grenades don't seem to— so he stopped

moving. I think it's glitched. Oh, he

died. Yeah, it's kind of glitched, but if

it does glitch out like that, then okay,

if you're gonna give me an easy time,

then I'll take it. Then we'll get down a

resupply. Also, another tip, you want to

remember or memorize the stratagem inputs.

So Orbital Strike is right, right, up.

And then expendable anti-tanks down,

down, left, up, right. If you are used to

playing games like Tekken, maybe you're

good at memorizing combos. It's kind of

like that. But when you're being chased

and you're under pressure, it is kind of—

well, it is kind of hard to call the

stratagems down whilst you're being chased

by a load of stuff. It makes it a lot

easier if you just memorize it. My next

tip would be, so when you're on the

loadout map choosing a place to land, You

can land directly at the objective. See,

I can just click on the primary objective

and actually land there. Now that's kind

of dangerous because you see all the red

glowing, that's where all the enemies are.

So you land right there, you're basically

landing right in the middle of all the

enemies. So you better be good at being

quick on your feet. It might be safer to

land here so then you can approach at a

distance and like scope out the area. So

I'll show what happens if you just land at

the objective if you want to be lazy.

Also, a little mini tip. Sometimes, you

know, you can move and control the pod as

it's falling. You can direct the pod

towards a little mountain or a little

cliff, and you can actually land on top of

a cliff or like on top of a little

mountain sometimes, and then you're

basically invulnerable because the bugs

can't reach you. I don't know if I can do

it this time. There might be a little

mountain, like a little rock like this.

So you can land on top of it and you're

kind of safe. So as you can see, I started

the objective download or upload thing and

I'm now just surrounded and I'm swarmed by

loads of them. I got a Gatling gun down,

so hopefully that would help me out a bit,

but I don't know, this could get pretty

ugly even if I'm on my rock.

Okay, so we finished our objective. We

have to get to the extraction point, and

you can see there's a lot of red on the

map, and there's a massive horde of

insects coming straight to me. Now what

you could do is fight them, or you could

just run around them. There's nothing

really stopping you from just running

because they can't really catch up to you.

Just run, run until you get to the

extraction point, and then try and quickly

pull down some orbital strikes or place a

Gatling gun if you're quick enough. So

don't feel like you have to fight every

single patrol or swarm of bugs you see

that are in your way. You can go around

them. So if you're wondering where to get

the new stratagems and weapons and stuff

like that, it might not be super obvious

if you're new. If you turn left here at

the beginning part of the ship and go to

this computer terminal, go to Ship

Management, and then go to number 2 for

stratagems, you can then see the entire

list of stratagems you can unlock. For

some reason, you can't grab this little

bar and scroll up and down, you've got to

use your mouse wheel. So you've got loads

of different stratagems. You've got all of

the, um, kind of weapons that drop down.

So you've got flamethrowers, you've got

autocannons, you've got the Stalwart

anti-material rifle. So these are all

great weapons for when you're up against

some tough insects. Then you've got all

the orbital cannons. You've got the

Gatling barrage, airstrike, 120mm barrage.

Now most of these are kind of like AOE.

They, they bomb an area instead of just

one pinpoint precision target.

Now if you want precision, then you might

want something like— then yeah, you

probably want the orbital precision

strike. So these are all under bridge,

and then these all under hangar. So

they're being launched from different

parts of the ship, and then you can

upgrade different parts of the ship from

the ship module area. And there's loads to

upgrade in the ship, but you're gonna need

these little green circle things, and I

have 29. Now you can get the green circle

things by going to the research facilities

on the map marked by the blue science

flask, and you can also destroy the

buildings with airstrikes to be able to

get more green balls. So you've got to do

side quests to be able to get the green

balls, upgrade your ship modules, and to

be able to get these, you've got to get

these yellow R currency things you get

from completing missions. And then you can

buy stuff like, yeah, these different

orbital laser, orbital strikes Jump packs,

got a jump pack boost pack thing, it's

pretty cool. You got different backpacks,

supply packs, and you got this guard dog

thing which is pretty cool as well. It's

got like a— it's like a drone with a

machine gun attached to it, so pretty good

for self-defense. Um, my favorite is the

Gasoline Sentry. Now as for the weapons,

you have your armory here which is where

your weapons are kept, but to get more

weapons you press R and you go to the war

bonds And you can see you start off at

page 1 and you've got about— you've got

13— well, I have 13 war medals up here. I

think they're called war medals. And then

you use those to buy things in here like

armor sets, outfits, grenades. I got the

shotgun here. Shotgun's pretty good. And

then you scroll down and then you can get

access to the next level of upgrades. I

got the Diligent battle rifle. I got this

Uzi kind of machine pistol. And then to be

able to buy the stuff in the next one,

you got to spend at least 36 medals in the

previous one before you get access to the

next one. And as you can see, keep

scrolling down, you get more access to

more and more powerful and cool weapons.

Look at this, the Liberator Penetrator,

the SG-8S Slugger. They just kind of look

like more powerful upgrades of the base

weapons, to be honest. This one's 60

medals, but it's basically just the same

shotgun but reskinned and more powerful.

And then you got this one, looks pretty

cool, the Plaz-1 Scorcher. Interesting,

but it will take a long time to get there.

You got to get to, I don't know, like very

high level. You gotta get a lot of medals

to be able to unlock all this stuff. Now

as for the best beginner gun, so obviously

you get the Liberator in the beginning.

Very good gun, it's very rapid-fire,

great at taking down swarms of insects,

and it's not bad against medium-sized

insects as well. Pretty fast reload time,

so it's a pretty good weapon. Just because

it's the beginner weapon, don't think it's

rubbish and try and ditch it as soon as

you can, because I got the shotgun

thinking it'll be better and But it's not

really— okay, it does way more damage,

look, it's got 360 damage versus 55, but

it's kind of like pump-action, and every

shot you fire, you've got to pump it in

between each shot, and that's quite a long

time to be pumping. It's not really

rapid-fire. So if you find yourself

getting surrounded and swarmed, it's not

very good. Same goes for the marksman

rifle Diligence. It's very powerful, very

precise, but you're not really going to be

doing rapid-fire if you're getting

swarmed. So keep that in mind. If you

ditch the Liberator, you're gonna have to

at least carry the Redeemer pistol to have

a rapid-fire weapon to take down swarms.

When you're solo playing, you really want

to be a jack of all trades and not have 2

weapons that are rapid-fire. Have one

that's rapid-fire and maybe one that's

single-fire but does more damage. My next

tip is, and it might seem kind of silly

because it seems kind of obvious,

Reloading. So in most games you can just

reload whenever you want to because it's

not like real life. In real life, if

you've got a magazine with 30 bullets and

you only shoot 5 bullets and then you,

you reload it and you chuck out the

magazine, then you've just wasted 25

bullets. But in most games it's not like

that. You use 5 bullets, you've got 30 in

your pocket, you reload. Now you've just

still got 30 bullets even though you just

chucked out the entire magazine. So the

reload system in Helldivers 2 is a little

bit more realistic. Closer to realism. So

if you shoot like 10 bullets or only half

your mag and then you decide to reload—

hold on, let me kill this guy. So if

you shoot half the— I'm trying to explain

but I keep getting attacked. So if you

shoot just a few bullets like that, you

can see on the little minibar the magazine

being depleted. But I've only got 3

magazines, so if I press R and reload,

now I've only got 2 magazines and I lost

the other magazine even though it was

nearly full because I decided to reload it

when it wasn't even empty. So you've got

to be more tactical with your reloads in

this game compared to other games.

And maybe you'd find that like an

interesting way of playing the game

because it makes the game more

strategy-based. Instead of just spamming

reload whenever you can, you've got to

actually think of when you reload. Try to

reload when you've run out of bullets,

not when you've got the ability to reload.

So yeah, just keep in mind reloading is a

very important part of the game, and it

does get very stressful because you're

being chased by all these insects and you

keep running out of bullets. You gotta

keep remembering to press reload, and you

might think, oh, I've got some time now,

I can reload, but it's probably not best

to reload unless you've actually used up

your entire clip. So I'm out of ammo now,

so I'm going to use my grenades to kill

these guys. They just keep on coming,

don't they? So maybe I'll put down

resupply. A Gatling sentry.

Where should I put the Gatling sentry?

The Gatling sentry is so useful. I put one

over there.

Yeah, ammunition is not super available,

so you've got to kind of be careful. I'm

getting butchered here.

Hopefully that Gatling gun will actually

do something and help me. Thanks, Gatling

gun. Come on, Gatling gun, help me! Why is

it not helping me? I'm nearly dead.

Oh, I survived that just thanks to the

Gatling gun. So yeah, those are my tips

for solo guide beginners to Helldivers 2.

Hope that was useful, and, uh, yeah,

thanks for watching.