If you accidentally kill a player, take responsibility and reinforce him. Help him get his stuff back and cover him if you can. Don't reinforce someone and throw him right back into a gaggle of enemies.
People should also know that the extraction pelican only waits as long as there is time remaining in the mission clock, once that timer hits 0 and the emergency extraction pelican is called in or the timer becomes 0 after you called in the pelican, it will only wait 20 seconds and if you fail to get in then you are done for. Many high level players still don't understand this and ask me to wait and not get inside the pelican but they don't realise that timer is 0 and regardless of wether I get in or not it's going to leave. Got kicked so many times for their lack of knowledge.
If you're short on time, dont call Pelican1 at all. If you already called it, then when mission time hit 00:00 you have 20s to jump in and leave like you said. But if you don't call It at all, the call start automatically at 00:00 giving 2:00 extra time for everyone to reach extraction point with all the samples.
-If you reinforce someone, try to throw them in the direction of their death, so it’s easier to get their stuff back. Also, if you’re far from your team, don’t reinforce them. Have the teammates closest to their death location do the reinforcement. 90% of the time, the players go back to pick up their items -If you have a Rover already, and have an extra one, drop it for a player who doesn’t have one. -Always mention, samples are SHARED -Impact grenades kill those Bile Spewers in one hit. Other grenades (including the incendiary impact) won’t kill them in one hit. -If there’s a diamond on the map and you’re at the location, there’s still some type of item or sample there. Sometimes if it’s a Support Weapon, you have to pick it up and drop it for it to clear. Keep collecting until you see it turn from a diamond to a little checkbox on the map. That tells you that you’ve collected everything -If you accidentally kill someone, I always use the “I’m sorry” voiceover to let them know it was an accident. -HellDivers classic in the setting is MUCH easier to use on console. It switches between Primary and Support weapons, and you have to hold for secondary. Not the other way around
For switching your weapons on PC, I saw that you can change the binding to mouse wheel up for primary and mouse wheel down for support (hit 2 for secondary weapon). Haven't tried it yet, but I will once I get fed up with not changing my weapons fast enough on keyboard. :)
There is just one think I would add that I learned only recently. There are two kinds of Signal Jammer locations that can spawn with the bots. One with bot factories and one without. If your Signal Jammer has a bot factory with it YOU ONLY HAVE TO DESTROY THE BOT FACTORY this will also destroy the Signal Jammer! This is amazing. You can destroy the bot factory from a large distance away and the exploding bot factory will then also destroy the Signal Jammer, so you never even have to enter that enemy base. This makes one of the most difficult secondary objectives one of the easiest!
@@NinjaDemon-454 bro I almost never loot bases, just got for POIs, im in it for the XP and frankly there aint much point in gathering samples when I dont use half the upgrades
Something else to add: make sure you reload a fresh clip BEFORE you pick up an ammo box and heal up before you pick up a stim box. You can't overcarry ammo or stims, and if you aren't quite empty, whatever isn't used is wasted.
I just started playing helldivers and i love it. Normaly i only play solo but this game realy got me to talk to randoms, the community is rly nice and the game gets so much easier with mates
@2:20 Changing the bindings was a major game changer for me. I put strategim menu on R1, quick stim to double-tap L1, and quick grenade to hold L1. Made a huge difference.
To get pelican 1 to hover you need to be more than 50m away. If you wait for it around 35-40 meters you can run away once the timer hits 0 and it’ll hover and give you cover fire with its auto cannon. But as soon as you or a teammate comes within the 50m it’ll land so stay away until you’re ready to board. It has a 300m range for its cover fire. If the game timer hits 0 it’ll land and you have 20 seconds to board. If you stand on the door it’ll give you a few extra seconds after the 20 seconds is up. And if you want to know how far you are from the landing beacon just ping it and it’ll give you the distance.
Definitely learned more than I thought I would going in. I knew taking out titan bile sacs stopped them from spewing, for example, but I didn't realize just how much damage it did to them overall. It'll be nice not having them tank 2 rail cannon strikes and a 500kg and keep coming lol. Also never thought of being able to move while entering stratagem codes by changing the bindings before. I think I just assumed you were locked in place regardless lol. And finally I had already used smoke a bit, but having a better idea of how it works will help a lot. And learning that fabricators can be taken out by throwing grenades through their doors and by gas and smoke strikes is a big revelation for me that will help me a ton. I'm definitely going to be taking the smoke and gas strikes a lot more often now, they seem like they'll compliment my playstyle a lot, especially against bots.
Since you made mention of the shield generator, I wanted to additionally point out that Terminids will try to rush through the shield to destroy the generator. You can use this to distract a large number of bugs temporarily as the generator itself is pretty tanky. With a little practice, you can even use the shield to cause Bile Titans to kill themselves. With good placement, the bile titan will try to shoot the generator with acid but will be just outside the shield. The acid will splash on the outside of the shield and the aoe damage will directly hit the lowest hp body part: it's head.
That quick grenade button switch is a MUST! Like he said it will save you ass! On the resupply we always take the hellpod booster to have full ammo n stuff dropping in, and go to the extraction to drop a supply drop so we have it when we get there after the mission. Also, If you use the Mech or HMG emplacement you can call them in at extraction zone as soon as you drop in and then when you get there after the mission your timer should be up so you can have 2 of whatever you use for extraction. works GREAT!
Thanks Swany! I'm just shy of 100 hours in and some of these were new to me or things I knew but didn't fully understand. Great job with this and all of your content.
Here's a tip if you're running a loadout without a Railgun/rocket launcher/Quasar and your offensive strategems are on cooldown. Like when you're running a grenade launcher loadout. Just throw a support/resuppply strategem on the back of the charger, it reliably tracks and oneshots them. Haven't managed to reliably do it with Bile titans/Hulks/Factory Striders, but for chargers it works great.
Its actually pretty funny he mentions the reticle setting cuz i found it my first couple hours in and tried it for a bit but that shit was driving me crazy i couldnt focus on anything but the circle bouncing up and down, so now i just use my judgement and my player position to hip fire accurately
Totally agree on the quick grenade button. Since I changed that it has been a game changer, I hardly ever used them before I changed it to quick throw.
i know having a visible reticle would be better for combat, but i just love having the middle of the screen be clean while moving around the map and taking in the sights. so much more immersive! also feels way cooler to hit hipfire shots without the extra help. arrow key stratagems are much better though, being able to move around while calling things in is so clutch. great video for new players or for people wanting to break into the higher difficulties!
yeah I'm the same way. I tend to be accurate enough with hip fire anyway that it doesn't matter too much (center of the screen is generally where it's going, and in situations where you need to hip fire enemies are usually close enough to you that sway and the like aren't a significant issue), and with the way I play I don't use it a ton anyway.
I watched countless helldivers "Tips and tricks" vids saying "meh..." then 3:00 in your vid I already think "Damn I need to Do this !!!" congrats dude _
I would also recommend changing the binding on the gesture button. I've found that, fairly often, I'll go to heal with "V" and accidentally also brush my finger on the "B" key. Hitting that initiates your gesture and halts your movement, reload, heal, and any other action. Accidentally tapping that will constantly get you killed if you're in combat or running and being chased by a mob
Thanks man, I've been watching tons of these tips videos trying to get an edge in the game because I'm terrible at it. I'm one of those dummies that never messed with the settings and controls. I didn't even know quick grenade button was a thing, that's very helpful. Your tips are all helpful except the pelican clearing the extraction zone. It's probably because this video is old but when I tried that the pelican left me and I had to re call it to extract me. Very very helpful tips I appreciate it 👍
A quick note regarding your second tip on chargers: I find myself carrying impact incendiary grenades now that I have unlocked them. They're sooooo beautiful for bug breaches, they just coat that hole with a nice warm blanket of burning napalm, and... I'm sorry, was that out loud? Stun grenade still goated for bots, tho, and if you don't have the boomy-burny nades for bugs yet, you have something to save your medals for!
A word of caution about leaning too hard on Pelican 1 for clearing extraction: if the ship takes too much damage, it will immediately leave after picking up a single diver. This will mainly affect sample gathering, but it's something to be aware of.
@@Soleprofit559 My guess is it's intended as a consequence for letting Pelican 1 take too much damage and maybe also as a way so people don't abuse it for cover fire.
Here's the thing about rebinding the stratagem buttons, I have already built muscle memory for the wasd keys so if I were to rebind them I would have to relearn those and that is probably harder then just leaving them.
Same dude lol I tried a few pretend 500s and it's so awkward for my right hand now. And I've gotten so good at reinforcing teammates, I literally roll my fingers and it's done every time without fail, like a twitch. There's no switching this up now. All I changed was instead of holding Ctrl I set it to Tap Once to open/close right when I started
This is how I think of it. I’m going to play the game for at least a few months, and it will take me a week at most to get back to the same time it takes for me to call something in, but after i get over that, I will be better than I was before. However I play piano, so my right hand is pretty dexterous, and it’s almost second nature to be able to take a combination from my left hand and mirror it to my right.
You're handicapping yourselves because you don't want to spend a little time practicing. Getting to move while calling something down can be the difference between winning or waiting for someone to reinforce you
I call down a resupply at strategic points on the map on solo runs. I also drop either sentries or mines in areas behind me where i know patrols are going to come through. Especially at main objectives. My favorite thing to do is to throw a gatling sentry outside of a big bot base to creste a distraction. Then stealth run to the other side of the outpost and hammer them with an eagle strike or orbital gas strike the actual factory building. The explosions are glorious. 😊
On the resup one, also call them in at extraction when you pass by it/drop supps at it and when you arrive for actual extraction. That way you have between 4-8 supply boxes available for stims etc
Great video. Here's an idea. If you could pick everything, what would your "Perfect Squad" loadout be? All four players, armor, all weapons, stratagems, boosters, the works.
To go along with the tip of stealth, simply put, stealth works! If youre not makng a lot of noise, and crouching/prone, enemies are very likely to not notice you. This is especially useful for the more difficult Automatons who usually look straight ahead. You can remain prone and the guys can walk directly past you without noticing. This is vital for high difficulty missions where bot drops can spiral out of control and lock you into combat for several minutes. Its my golden rule of Helldivers: Dont engage every enemy you see! There are no rewards for kills, so it can be best to avoid a patrol if possible, or if you dont think you can efficiently wipe them out at once.
Once I got the hang of solo level 5 difficulty I figured I was good enough to not pull down a team. Every rando mumtiplayer round I've had so far has been entertaining, even if we fail. Last night I started a defence mission and we dropped on the 2 generators powering rocket launches. Failure the second we landed. It was hilariously democratic.
-If you're using laser rover, do not stand with your teammate is between you and the enemy. -If you're using explosive weapon, make sure your teammate is not near your target. Switch to non explosive weapon if you still want to shoot it. -If your teammate drop sample at evac, do not pick it up. -Make sure no teammate is in your vision when using arc thrower. -Make sure no teammate is in your vision when using flamethrower. -Always ping your deployed mines. -Take only one resupply if all 4 teammates are nearby. -Always ping resupply. -Always ping heavy/elite enemies. -Always ping objective, if you're able to see it. -Prioritise heavy unit if you want to neutralise it. Help your teammate to disengage if you want to run away from it. -You can reload recoiless and airburst rocket while prone. Not for Spear. -Always reload behind cover against automaton. -It's advisable to use mortar offensively (to thin out enemy) instead of defensively. Usually on defense there's high chance enemy is near your teammates. -Highground against bug. Cover against bots.
Hidden Tip: Abandoned Hellbombs will detonate immediately when shot with an explosive round. They are a free 500kg bomb airstrike and useful for clearing a mass of enemies or a heavy unit like a Bile Titan.
something that really helped me was to change the button press for the mini map to the same button press as the stratagem menu. one less button press to see the minimap
Hidden Tip: Shrieker nests can be destroyed with rockets from across the map. Be use to aim higher to account for the rocket dropping on the way there. Save you and your team the agony of getting close and triggering shrieker swarms.
Huge tip no one knows about? The HMG emplacement is SO GOOD on bug missions. It can take down an entire Shreiker hive from afar, kill MANY bugs if placed correctly, quick too. Just bring an expendable anti tank for chargers and since it’s so low cooldown I can just get the enemies attention at a base, plop it down and go ham. Even kills hive guards and the big hunter.
HMG emplacement is my favorite thing to pull out when I'm with randoms, because it's always fun to watch them slowly realize just how good it is. I think a lot of people assume it has damage and piercing similar to the automatic gun turrets, when it's more like having two rapid firing AMRs strapped together lol. Obliterates anything short of chargers and bile titans. Just don't bring it to bots, you're a sitting duck for long range attacks when you're in it. One important tip to remember for it though is that it has a very slow turning speed, so you need to be thoughtful about where you set it up. It generally works best when enemies are funneling in from one direction, and it helps to put it up against a wall or on a high spot with limited access in order to limit the number of directions bugs can come from. Most of all, make sure you have at least one teammate who can take out any bugs that manage to reach you from the sides or back. Another thing to consider is that it's mostly useless against Chargers and Bile Titans, so leave those to your teammates. If they get close it's time to abandon it until after they're dealt with. It's very much a stratagem designed for team play, and I wouldn't recommend it for solo dives. Keep this in mind and it'll be immensely helpful for objectives that require you to stick around for a bit or for shredding through bug breaches. I find it to be especially useful when Bile Spewers start throwing bile mortars around on 6+ difficulty, since it's one of the easiest and most efficient ways to take out large groups of them. You'd think being immobile would be a death sentence against them, but they are extremely inaccurate and the mortars are very visible and slow, so as long as you set up far enough away and keep an eye out for any coming towards you it's surprisingly safe. They rarely end up hitting my location at all before I wipe them all out, and if they do there's plenty of time to get off and move out of the way.
Can't recommend enough the computer stratagem remap. I also went with the arrow keys and i am so efficient with calling in strats or reinforcements. HUGE upgrade
as someone who only plays solo - with up to 3 randos - dropping my samples down is not always an option. inevitably someone insists on taking them on a tour of the map. it's great advice if you're 4-manning, but otherwise i trust the position i die in will be safer or further away from the three tanks and two factory striders.
I set my strategem menu to c and made the arrow keys for the inputs. I made macros for all the strategems and now I just swap em around on my mouse buttons depending on the mission.
The extract pelican has an invisible health bar. Once it depletes, it will leave as soon as one diver enters, causing the "insta leave" that can occur.
Step1: drop samples at extraction Step2: tell your teammates that you dropped them on purpose for safe keeping. Step3: someone picks them up and runs straight into an enemy base.
I'm not gonna lie. The thing about PC players using the arrow keys... you're telling me other people just don't have the stratagem codes committed to muscle memory? Because with my current rotation even calling in the 380 is just a reflex. My biggest struggle is the hell bomb call in
I once left the samples at the extraction and they rolled behind the mission area while I was gone. Was able to recover them, but this was stressful enough not to leave them again.
I used to game more on PC, because of the ability to customize controls, fov, and graphical settings. Now that console hardware has advanced, and offers many of these customizations, especially the dual sense edge controller, I find myself preferring console gaming. There's beauty in simplicity, just fire it up and go, everything just works, you get good performance, especially when i get this new PlayStation professional.
"Pick your weapons carefully" Meanwhile, me, running exploding crossbow, grenade pistol, grenade launcher and the Demo-Detonation engineering armor: "What makes me a good Demoman?"
To be honest, I don't risk dropping my samples anymore, I just take them with me. Too many times they've just gone POOF and vanished into thin air when we've come back for them.
If you want the name and details, it's called TR-7 Ambassador of the Brand, and the description reads that it was part of a Yogurt Advertising campaign...
! Fair warning if you're not using a QWERTY ( -> AZERTY) keyboard ! Changing stratagem keybind may cause the following bug : everytime you quit the game, the stratagem binding will revert to WASD and NOT ZQSD. This happened to me and some friends. We have to modify keybinds EVERY TIME we boot the game
The stratagem button change is so important and if you don’t have it you are highkey throwing. I’ve seen so many times randoms try to reinforce teammates die because they have to stop to reinforce and then they get swarmed. Seriously change the settings or else you and your teammates will suffer and cringe as you die every time you try to call something in
@@etuanno in combat on Helldive one second is a long time. Also you can mess up the combination. It’s better to run away from enemies while you type in the combo
Dude, PS5 player here and quick grenade throw?? No freaking way. Thank you so much for that. Also, what's the rail gun like these days? I'm bored of the Quazar and want to try something new. I unlocked it after the nerf so didn't try it. Will it kill a bile titan?
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If you accidentally kill a player, take responsibility and reinforce him. Help him get his stuff back and cover him if you can. Don't reinforce someone and throw him right back into a gaggle of enemies.
Unless that enemy is a bile titan.
or a really pesky tank or strider...it's a follow your gut kinda thing
Ehhh, only two multiplayer matches I had ended badly for me. Strict solo now.
YES!!!! Thank you for this comment!
Very underrated tip right here
These are all great tips! Also remember that samples, supercredits, medals, and req are all SHARED! No need to team kill for them.
Everyone knows this.
You're being team killed because you're insufferable.
Simple as.
People should also know that the extraction pelican only waits as long as there is time remaining in the mission clock, once that timer hits 0 and the emergency extraction pelican is called in or the timer becomes 0 after you called in the pelican, it will only wait 20 seconds and if you fail to get in then you are done for.
Many high level players still don't understand this and ask me to wait and not get inside the pelican but they don't realise that timer is 0 and regardless of wether I get in or not it's going to leave. Got kicked so many times for their lack of knowledge.
You can extend that timer EVER so slightly by standing on the DOOR. Its only a couple seconds but it does work.
sometimes if only one goes in the pelican takes off no timer showing up. Bug?
Cap
@@whatsuphelp That only happens if the Pelican gets Damaged, but it Might be a bug. We don't really know.
If you're short on time, dont call Pelican1 at all. If you already called it, then when mission time hit 00:00 you have 20s to jump in and leave like you said. But if you don't call It at all, the call start automatically at 00:00 giving 2:00 extra time for everyone to reach extraction point with all the samples.
-If you reinforce someone, try to throw them in the direction of their death, so it’s easier to get their stuff back. Also, if you’re far from your team, don’t reinforce them. Have the teammates closest to their death location do the reinforcement. 90% of the time, the players go back to pick up their items
-If you have a Rover already, and have an extra one, drop it for a player who doesn’t have one.
-Always mention, samples are SHARED
-Impact grenades kill those Bile Spewers in one hit. Other grenades (including the incendiary impact) won’t kill them in one hit.
-If there’s a diamond on the map and you’re at the location, there’s still some type of item or sample there. Sometimes if it’s a Support Weapon, you have to pick it up and drop it for it to clear. Keep collecting until you see it turn from a diamond to a little checkbox on the map. That tells you that you’ve collected everything
-If you accidentally kill someone, I always use the “I’m sorry” voiceover to let them know it was an accident.
-HellDivers classic in the setting is MUCH easier to use on console. It switches between Primary and Support weapons, and you have to hold for secondary. Not the other way around
How do you use the voice over
For switching your weapons on PC, I saw that you can change the binding to mouse wheel up for primary and mouse wheel down for support (hit 2 for secondary weapon). Haven't tried it yet, but I will once I get fed up with not changing my weapons fast enough on keyboard. :)
@@randyb5067Hold the ping button. For controller it’s R1.
@@randyb5067 on console, you hold R1. There’s the “I’m sorry” “affirmative” “I need supplies” etc
There is just one think I would add that I learned only recently.
There are two kinds of Signal Jammer locations that can spawn with the bots.
One with bot factories and one without.
If your Signal Jammer has a bot factory with it YOU ONLY HAVE TO DESTROY THE BOT FACTORY this will also destroy the Signal Jammer!
This is amazing. You can destroy the bot factory from a large distance away and the exploding bot factory will then also destroy the Signal Jammer, so you never even have to enter that enemy base. This makes one of the most difficult secondary objectives one of the easiest!
Sometimes the bot fab isnt directly next to the tower in the destroy area.
This is not always the case.
Perfectly good samples left behind from not raiding the remains... 🤔
@@NinjaDemon-454 bro I almost never loot bases, just got for POIs, im in it for the XP and frankly there aint much point in gathering samples when I dont use half the upgrades
Get a microphone and then you can explain it to them
Something else to add: make sure you reload a fresh clip BEFORE you pick up an ammo box and heal up before you pick up a stim box. You can't overcarry ammo or stims, and if you aren't quite empty, whatever isn't used is wasted.
I just started playing helldivers and i love it. Normaly i only play solo but this game realy got me to talk to randoms, the community is rly nice and the game gets so much easier with mates
@2:20 Changing the bindings was a major game changer for me. I put strategim menu on R1, quick stim to double-tap L1, and quick grenade to hold L1. Made a huge difference.
To get pelican 1 to hover you need to be more than 50m away. If you wait for it around 35-40 meters you can run away once the timer hits 0 and it’ll hover and give you cover fire with its auto cannon. But as soon as you or a teammate comes within the 50m it’ll land so stay away until you’re ready to board. It has a 300m range for its cover fire. If the game timer hits 0 it’ll land and you have 20 seconds to board. If you stand on the door it’ll give you a few extra seconds after the 20 seconds is up. And if you want to know how far you are from the landing beacon just ping it and it’ll give you the distance.
Definitely learned more than I thought I would going in. I knew taking out titan bile sacs stopped them from spewing, for example, but I didn't realize just how much damage it did to them overall. It'll be nice not having them tank 2 rail cannon strikes and a 500kg and keep coming lol. Also never thought of being able to move while entering stratagem codes by changing the bindings before. I think I just assumed you were locked in place regardless lol. And finally I had already used smoke a bit, but having a better idea of how it works will help a lot. And learning that fabricators can be taken out by throwing grenades through their doors and by gas and smoke strikes is a big revelation for me that will help me a ton. I'm definitely going to be taking the smoke and gas strikes a lot more often now, they seem like they'll compliment my playstyle a lot, especially against bots.
Since you made mention of the shield generator, I wanted to additionally point out that Terminids will try to rush through the shield to destroy the generator. You can use this to distract a large number of bugs temporarily as the generator itself is pretty tanky. With a little practice, you can even use the shield to cause Bile Titans to kill themselves. With good placement, the bile titan will try to shoot the generator with acid but will be just outside the shield. The acid will splash on the outside of the shield and the aoe damage will directly hit the lowest hp body part: it's head.
Interesting. Will have to attempt this.
That quick grenade button switch is a MUST! Like he said it will save you ass!
On the resupply we always take the hellpod booster to have full ammo n stuff dropping in, and go to the extraction to drop a supply drop so we have it when we get there after the mission.
Also, If you use the Mech or HMG emplacement you can call them in at extraction zone as soon as you drop in and then when you get there after the mission your timer should be up so you can have 2 of whatever you use for extraction. works GREAT!
Thanks Swany! I'm just shy of 100 hours in and some of these were new to me or things I knew but didn't fully understand. Great job with this and all of your content.
Here's a tip if you're running a loadout without a Railgun/rocket launcher/Quasar and your offensive strategems are on cooldown. Like when you're running a grenade launcher loadout.
Just throw a support/resuppply strategem on the back of the charger, it reliably tracks and oneshots them.
Haven't managed to reliably do it with Bile titans/Hulks/Factory Striders, but for chargers it works great.
Doesn't do enough damage to one-shot the bigger guys
@@rayzerot It works if your team runs enough stuff to deal with the big stuff.
Its actually pretty funny he mentions the reticle setting cuz i found it my first couple hours in and tried it for a bit but that shit was driving me crazy i couldnt focus on anything but the circle bouncing up and down, so now i just use my judgement and my player position to hip fire accurately
I feel ya, man. "Ya keep missin'? Then get good, scrub" - Super Democracy commanding officer's advice on low-hit rates.
Probably.
@@richardbonnette490 🤣🤣🤣🤣🫡
As someone who very recently (Like 5 days ago at the writing of this) I thank you for your service and advice as a Veteran
Totally agree on the quick grenade button. Since I changed that it has been a game changer, I hardly ever used them before I changed it to quick throw.
i know having a visible reticle would be better for combat, but i just love having the middle of the screen be clean while moving around the map and taking in the sights. so much more immersive! also feels way cooler to hit hipfire shots without the extra help. arrow key stratagems are much better though, being able to move around while calling things in is so clutch. great video for new players or for people wanting to break into the higher difficulties!
yeah I'm the same way. I tend to be accurate enough with hip fire anyway that it doesn't matter too much (center of the screen is generally where it's going, and in situations where you need to hip fire enemies are usually close enough to you that sway and the like aren't a significant issue), and with the way I play I don't use it a ton anyway.
I legit have PTSD after so many crashes from trying to throw back grenades, it's the most scary thing in the game even after the fix. Nice tips Swany!
I watched countless helldivers "Tips and tricks" vids saying "meh..." then 3:00 in your vid I already think "Damn I need to Do this !!!" congrats dude _
I would also recommend changing the binding on the gesture button. I've found that, fairly often, I'll go to heal with "V" and accidentally also brush my finger on the "B" key. Hitting that initiates your gesture and halts your movement, reload, heal, and any other action.
Accidentally tapping that will constantly get you killed if you're in combat or running and being chased by a mob
I didn't know about the quick grenade button for controller. Amazing. I thought I thoroughly went through all of the settings. Guess not!
Thanks for telling me about the dynamic cross hair. I'll switch off of it once I get back home.
Great refresher for those that I knew, and some new ideas, too. Thanks for putting this together and sharing!
I'm happy this video is today old because I just bought the game.
Thanks man, I've been watching tons of these tips videos trying to get an edge in the game because I'm terrible at it. I'm one of those dummies that never messed with the settings and controls. I didn't even know quick grenade button was a thing, that's very helpful. Your tips are all helpful except the pelican clearing the extraction zone. It's probably because this video is old but when I tried that the pelican left me and I had to re call it to extract me. Very very helpful tips I appreciate it 👍
They either patched the pelican or you left too soon. I haven't tried it in a while so I'm not sure if it still works or not.
@SwanyPlaysGames I was probably doing something wrong. I'm really bad at the game. It's fun though. Thanks again for the excellent tips
FYI, if one of your team mates dies and you are across the map from each other. Let the teammate closest to them reinforce.
A quick note regarding your second tip on chargers: I find myself carrying impact incendiary grenades now that I have unlocked them. They're sooooo beautiful for bug breaches, they just coat that hole with a nice warm blanket of burning napalm, and... I'm sorry, was that out loud?
Stun grenade still goated for bots, tho, and if you don't have the boomy-burny nades for bugs yet, you have something to save your medals for!
A word of caution about leaning too hard on Pelican 1 for clearing extraction: if the ship takes too much damage, it will immediately leave after picking up a single diver. This will mainly affect sample gathering, but it's something to be aware of.
Wondered why it always did that ? Thought it was a bug
@@Soleprofit559 My guess is it's intended as a consequence for letting Pelican 1 take too much damage and maybe also as a way so people don't abuse it for cover fire.
Here's the thing about rebinding the stratagem buttons, I have already built muscle memory for the wasd keys so if I were to rebind them I would have to relearn those and that is probably harder then just leaving them.
Same dude lol
I tried a few pretend 500s and it's so awkward for my right hand now. And I've gotten so good at reinforcing teammates, I literally roll my fingers and it's done every time without fail, like a twitch. There's no switching this up now. All I changed was instead of holding Ctrl I set it to Tap Once to open/close right when I started
This is how I think of it. I’m going to play the game for at least a few months, and it will take me a week at most to get back to the same time it takes for me to call something in, but after i get over that, I will be better than I was before.
However I play piano, so my right hand is pretty dexterous, and it’s almost second nature to be able to take a combination from my left hand and mirror it to my right.
200h same here
You're handicapping yourselves because you don't want to spend a little time practicing. Getting to move while calling something down can be the difference between winning or waiting for someone to reinforce you
expanding on keybinds, binding your leftalt and/or V to a side-mouse button. Melee or grenades would be useful as mousebuttons too. experiment with it
My strategem button is capslock. It's suboptimal when you want to write something, but the position is very convenient.
Just purchased the game today, my best friend talked me into it
I call down a resupply at strategic points on the map on solo runs. I also drop either sentries or mines in areas behind me where i know patrols are going to come through. Especially at main objectives.
My favorite thing to do is to throw a gatling sentry outside of a big bot base to creste a distraction. Then stealth run to the other side of the outpost and hammer them with an eagle strike or orbital gas strike the actual factory building. The explosions are glorious. 😊
On the resup one, also call them in at extraction when you pass by it/drop supps at it and when you arrive for actual extraction. That way you have between 4-8 supply boxes available for stims etc
Great video. Here's an idea. If you could pick everything, what would your "Perfect Squad" loadout be? All four players, armor, all weapons, stratagems, boosters, the works.
To go along with the tip of stealth, simply put, stealth works! If youre not makng a lot of noise, and crouching/prone, enemies are very likely to not notice you. This is especially useful for the more difficult Automatons who usually look straight ahead. You can remain prone and the guys can walk directly past you without noticing. This is vital for high difficulty missions where bot drops can spiral out of control and lock you into combat for several minutes.
Its my golden rule of Helldivers: Dont engage every enemy you see! There are no rewards for kills, so it can be best to avoid a patrol if possible, or if you dont think you can efficiently wipe them out at once.
Once I got the hang of solo level 5 difficulty I figured I was good enough to not pull down a team. Every rando mumtiplayer round I've had so far has been entertaining, even if we fail. Last night I started a defence mission and we dropped on the 2 generators powering rocket launches. Failure the second we landed. It was hilariously democratic.
9:02 that automaton just appeared out of thin air, and it scared me
Took me 200 hours before I changed the quick grenade bind for controller. 🤦♂️
Remember, EAT isn't a support weapon, it's a handheld strategem
I’ll give the gas and smoke a try for sure. Don’t sleep on the really short cooldowns
I love smoke strikes. This exactly what I do when extracting or for hellbombs aside from making an escape
-If you're using laser rover, do not stand with your teammate is between you and the enemy.
-If you're using explosive weapon, make sure your teammate is not near your target. Switch to non explosive weapon if you still want to shoot it.
-If your teammate drop sample at evac, do not pick it up.
-Make sure no teammate is in your vision when using arc thrower.
-Make sure no teammate is in your vision when using flamethrower.
-Always ping your deployed mines.
-Take only one resupply if all 4 teammates are nearby.
-Always ping resupply.
-Always ping heavy/elite enemies.
-Always ping objective, if you're able to see it.
-Prioritise heavy unit if you want to neutralise it. Help your teammate to disengage if you want to run away from it.
-You can reload recoiless and airburst rocket while prone. Not for Spear.
-Always reload behind cover against automaton.
-It's advisable to use mortar offensively (to thin out enemy) instead of defensively. Usually on defense there's high chance enemy is near your teammates.
-Highground against bug. Cover against bots.
Hidden Tip: Abandoned Hellbombs will detonate immediately when shot with an explosive round. They are a free 500kg bomb airstrike and useful for clearing a mass of enemies or a heavy unit like a Bile Titan.
I literally just installed. Perfect timing!
how did you get the blue armor?
Yo my dude this is amazing ❤
something that really helped me was to change the button press for the mini map to the same button press as the stratagem menu. one less button press to see the minimap
Bro that bind literally doesn't work, you can either use the map or stratas, not both at the same time smh
Hidden Tip: Shrieker nests can be destroyed with rockets from across the map. Be use to aim higher to account for the rocket dropping on the way there. Save you and your team the agony of getting close and triggering shrieker swarms.
The nerve of that automaton calling for reinforcements when you destroyed the hulk 😭😂 9:00
This game makes me think my controller doesn't work a lot, and the inability easily play with my friends is crazy
I always take the shield relay on bot missions. It's amazing
Huge tip no one knows about? The HMG emplacement is SO GOOD on bug missions. It can take down an entire Shreiker hive from afar, kill MANY bugs if placed correctly, quick too. Just bring an expendable anti tank for chargers and since it’s so low cooldown I can just get the enemies attention at a base, plop it down and go ham. Even kills hive guards and the big hunter.
HMG emplacement is my favorite thing to pull out when I'm with randoms, because it's always fun to watch them slowly realize just how good it is. I think a lot of people assume it has damage and piercing similar to the automatic gun turrets, when it's more like having two rapid firing AMRs strapped together lol. Obliterates anything short of chargers and bile titans. Just don't bring it to bots, you're a sitting duck for long range attacks when you're in it.
One important tip to remember for it though is that it has a very slow turning speed, so you need to be thoughtful about where you set it up. It generally works best when enemies are funneling in from one direction, and it helps to put it up against a wall or on a high spot with limited access in order to limit the number of directions bugs can come from. Most of all, make sure you have at least one teammate who can take out any bugs that manage to reach you from the sides or back. Another thing to consider is that it's mostly useless against Chargers and Bile Titans, so leave those to your teammates. If they get close it's time to abandon it until after they're dealt with. It's very much a stratagem designed for team play, and I wouldn't recommend it for solo dives. Keep this in mind and it'll be immensely helpful for objectives that require you to stick around for a bit or for shredding through bug breaches. I find it to be especially useful when Bile Spewers start throwing bile mortars around on 6+ difficulty, since it's one of the easiest and most efficient ways to take out large groups of them. You'd think being immobile would be a death sentence against them, but they are extremely inaccurate and the mortars are very visible and slow, so as long as you set up far enough away and keep an eye out for any coming towards you it's surprisingly safe. They rarely end up hitting my location at all before I wipe them all out, and if they do there's plenty of time to get off and move out of the way.
I just thought calling in stratagems stopped your character for gameplay reasons. Absolutely gonna change this
Man the resupply I be doin often af. I love when I have to double back and there’s one there
me with 150 hours: "you can't teach me anything"
Me after seeing this video: "i have alot to learn still"
Can't recommend enough the computer stratagem remap. I also went with the arrow keys and i am so efficient with calling in strats or reinforcements.
HUGE upgrade
I'd say the keybindings were the most helpful. Especially the stratgem as directional arrow keys.
First video that actually did give some decent tips and tricks thank man keep up the good work
8:44 “Hit the charger with a stun grenade and then cook his leg for 4 seconds”.
OMG I died laughing at this😂
“How to cook your charger”
Charbroiled
Reddit tier.
Why is this community filled with man children?
as someone who only plays solo - with up to 3 randos - dropping my samples down is not always an option. inevitably someone insists on taking them on a tour of the map. it's great advice if you're 4-manning, but otherwise i trust the position i die in will be safer or further away from the three tanks and two factory striders.
When I play with randos just communicate it in the chat. Just say "Hey I'm dropping off samples at extraction" and most people get the picture.
I set my strategem menu to c and made the arrow keys for the inputs. I made macros for all the strategems and now I just swap em around on my mouse buttons depending on the mission.
The extract pelican has an invisible health bar. Once it depletes, it will leave as soon as one diver enters, causing the "insta leave" that can occur.
I recommend changing the stratagem list keybind from holding ctrl to just pressing ctrl.
Step1: drop samples at extraction
Step2: tell your teammates that you dropped them on purpose for safe keeping.
Step3: someone picks them up and runs straight into an enemy base.
I'm not gonna lie. The thing about PC players using the arrow keys... you're telling me other people just don't have the stratagem codes committed to muscle memory? Because with my current rotation even calling in the 380 is just a reflex. My biggest struggle is the hell bomb call in
I once left the samples at the extraction and they rolled behind the mission area while I was gone. Was able to recover them, but this was stressful enough not to leave them again.
Good tips. Taking down a fabricator with a gas strike takes skill. I have never taking one down from long range.
Thnx brody! I'm only half way thru the vid and already so helpful. 🙏 🤲🏾 😎
They need to make jetpacks,mines and heavy weapons part of the default kit
3:25 Its a good tip, however I dont think I could get used to other keybinds now, I usually just dive and activate the stratagem while diving.
Hidden Tip: 4 Sticky terminite grenades will kill a charger after the last one explodes due to afterburn.
I used to game more on PC, because of the ability to customize controls, fov, and graphical settings.
Now that console hardware has advanced, and offers many of these customizations, especially the dual sense edge controller, I find myself preferring console gaming. There's beauty in simplicity, just fire it up and go, everything just works, you get good performance, especially when i get this new PlayStation professional.
Thanks for sharing this info..
"Pick your weapons carefully"
Meanwhile, me, running exploding crossbow, grenade pistol, grenade launcher and the Demo-Detonation engineering armor:
"What makes me a good Demoman?"
To be honest, I don't risk dropping my samples anymore, I just take them with me. Too many times they've just gone POOF and vanished into thin air when we've come back for them.
What are the pros to using gas instead of fire? Does the gas do more damage? Or linger longer maybe?
Dope outplayed sponsor! Don't normally see that!
How about diving to put out fire. Its way faster than a stim.
Yes definitely do more videos like this 😊it’s very insightful
If you join a mission, don’t call in extraction while other players are still across the map completing side objectives and clearing bug holes.
6 minutes in this is an exact copy of a two month old video…
What armor set is that in the thumbnail?
Pre order bonus
Pre Order armor.
If you want the name and details, it's called TR-7 Ambassador of the Brand, and the description reads that it was part of a Yogurt Advertising campaign...
! Fair warning if you're not using a QWERTY ( -> AZERTY) keyboard !
Changing stratagem keybind may cause the following bug : everytime you quit the game, the stratagem binding will revert to WASD and NOT ZQSD. This happened to me and some friends. We have to modify keybinds EVERY TIME we boot the game
Actually good tips, nice vid
you can use shield relay to distract a huge ammount of enemies as well
Just bought it today and I'm ready to dish out a hot cup of LIBORTEA !
If you have a scroll wheel that can click to the side, its insane for stratagems
Wow, so many brilliant tricks !!!
My head is spinning lol =)
The orbital smoke strike is great in so many situations. It's strange to me it's so underused.
Idk, I only play on Helldive, and when you almost always only get 3 stratagems in your load out, it’s hard to justify bringing one that deals no dmg.
@@S0LIDSNEK aye, but you don't need damage when you can avoid the encounter all together.
Bonus, it has a low CD and will also pop structures.
@@jasonwaltman3566 I hear you, and wouldn’t mind you bringing the smoke as part of my squad, but when I solo Helldive, I just can’t make it work.
@@S0LIDSNEK fair enough point.
You can make the game a lot easier, if you download s cracked version of voice attack and mske your favorite stratagems into voice commands
As an Xbox player, these tips are very useful to me.
It’s also easier to switch your stratagem button to press instead of hold on pc
The pelican support one i want an ingame tip who tell that, it start to get annoying that there is always a player who make it land for nothing
If you're spilt from your teamates, dont mindlessly reinforce and spawn them across the map without their support weapons and on cool down.
The stratagem button change is so important and if you don’t have it you are highkey throwing. I’ve seen so many times randoms try to reinforce teammates die because they have to stop to reinforce and then they get swarmed. Seriously change the settings or else you and your teammates will suffer and cringe as you die every time you try to call something in
I'd argue I can afford that one second it takes me for the combination.
@@etuanno in combat on Helldive one second is a long time. Also you can mess up the combination. It’s better to run away from enemies while you type in the combo
Dude, PS5 player here and quick grenade throw?? No freaking way. Thank you so much for that. Also, what's the rail gun like these days? I'm bored of the Quazar and want to try something new. I unlocked it after the nerf so didn't try it. Will it kill a bile titan?
Rail gun is pretty good. They buffed it not too long ago. I use it to 1 shot kill Hulks in the eye all the time.
@@SwanyPlaysGames what's the specifics on the buff? Will it head shot a Titan or does it bounce off?
Very helpful
@3:00 god bless you my good sir