Commando is my favorite pick recently due to this. Plus you can also use it to close bug holes when you have extras. Extremely handy when dealing with mega nests as you don't need to get close to the far holes to destroy them.
actually, 2 commando shots to a single back leg strips the armour, and leaves it at low enough health to die to a few shots from your primary. don't try this with front legs; those are tanky.
@@frostthegreyfurthering on this point. If you strip the armor from a close range and use one grenade from the pistol at that same range, it dies to the one nade. This is good for blitzer/nade pistol users
You know I've generally been a critic of how this game has been managed, even while continuing to play it, and there have been times where I've put it down after getting too frustrated following some crashes, bugs, endless ragdolls, and what have you. You, commissar Kai, have enabled me to not only survive but still genuinely ENJOY playing the game no matter what shakeups happen to it. The emphasis you place on team work and tactics, combined with these fun and effective loadouts, has allowed mant a diver to take on terminids, bots, and even poor game balance itself. Well done sir!
I don’t know why it never dawned on me to use both the EAT and Commando at the same time but thinking about it makes so much sense. That suggestion alone is worth a like. Keep it up! 👍
@hotshot590 still works with my bad aim 6 shots to bring down my solo factory strider was so nice. Plus the cool down is so short I always have a Michael Bay movie ready to roll at all times lol.
This is my Jar 5. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My Jar 5 is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my Helldives. Without me, my Jar 5 is useless. Without my Jar 5, I am useless. I must fire my Jar 5 true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy of Democracy who is trying to kill me. I must liberate him before he shoots me. I will ... My Jar 5 and I know that what counts in Managed Democracy is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit ... My Jar 5 is a Helldiver, even as I am a Helldiver, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my Jar 5 clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ... BeforeGeneral Brasch, I swear this creed. My Jar 5 and I are the defenders of Super Earth. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is Super Earth’s and there is no enemy, but peace!
I've been repping the Guard dog liberator to cover my six on the HMGE manned turret. It's not technically the same, but it feels like having the light Machine gun turret on you in terms of enemy saturation, and that stirs confidence.
One I've been using on the bugs a lot lately. Orbital presion, eagle air, supply pack, stalwart. Primary is jar dominator, grenade pistol and incendiary grenades. I use heavy twigsnapper armor so you can tank hordes while drinking your endless stims. Mow everything small down with the stalwart on 1150 rpm cause you have endless ammo. Swap to the jar dominator for medium enemy's. Grenade pistol for chargers and bug holes. The stalwart with incid nades can handle bug breaches alone. Unless of course a impaler comes to ruin your day.
Laser Team 6'ing with you was hilarious and shockingly effective, Im tickled that its the first loadout you brought up. The actual viability of all those lasers really caught me off guard. With that in mind, I wouldn't miss the opportunity for a video on "fire"power after the Napalm Barrage is at our disposal. Obviously, there's a "meme" method and an actual viable method, the latter of which would be better for a video, but I'm never one to turn down my Fire Unsafety Officer duties. Great and informative video as per usual! Honored to give you a bit of flavor!
For bugs: Breaker Incin, Senator, Thermite grenade, AutoCannon, 500kg, Orb Gatling Barr, AutoCannon Sentry. For bots: Jar-5 Dominator, Senator, HE Grenade, EAT, Shield Gen BP, 110mm Rocket Strike, Orb. EMS Strike. Both have excellent effects on target. So stoked to be part of your Commandos CommissarKai!
Some tips for the Orbital Precision Strike: 1.) This stratagem was originally designed for taking out heavily armoured, immobile objectives - but it can be used on things like Bile Titans and Chargers! You'll just need to make sure you can either lead your target, or trick them into walking under the death beacon right when the timer hits 0. 2.) Keep an eye on map modifiers when using this orbital. Sometimes your stratagems will take 50% longer to call down, taking what was originally 4 seconds to murder whatever's in front of it to a lofty 6 seconds. That doesn't seem like much in text format but it can mean the difference between hitting the target or missing completely!
The Gun Nut (AKA Walking Dakka Platform) is my favorite bug build. I usually take 500kg + OPS with it because of the sheer amount of heavies in D10, plus Peak Physique for faster target acquisition.
Little pro tip that works with most builds, but is especially effective as a machine gunner: You don't have to go into locations with your team. Often times, there are hills overlooking nest/outposts/poi's etc that you can set up on, and lay effective fire from. You may need to call in a sentry or use mines to cover your six, but this can be extremely helpful to increase overall team situational awareness, and can allow you as a gunner to decimate incoming patrols that would be bushwhacking your team.
Take the Blitzer, Rover, and Quasar. Never stop running. Ankle biters closing in? One tap of the trigger from a dead sprint sends a blast of lightning their way and then you're back to hustling. Heavy on the prowl? Whip out your quasar, get your shot in, then put it right back away and keep running. All the while your rover is cooking anything that dares approach and finishing targets that survive your blitzer shots. Pack your favorite buster stratagem for titans and impalers, then for the last slot either double down on busters, pick up some swarm suppression, or split the difference with airstrike. Never stop running, never stop gunning.
Ive personally been having an absolute ball chewing through chaff with HMG/Supply pack with the Patriot Mech and Airstrike on 7-9 difficulty. Mech for rocketing down Shriekers nests from forever far away or rocketing down pairs and trios of chargers and the minigun deletes groups of shriekers. I use the defender for kitting those hunters that get around you, stun grenades to hold a lone charger in place for the HMG or giving you a couple seconds from the hoard to reload the HMG. Keep it on 450 RPM until you need to delete a charger or impaler, switch it to max rpm just for those. Fun note, you can kill an impaler in under a second if you stand in front of them and start firing into the exposed face as soon as they drop the tentacles. You can also snipe the bile sacs out of titans from a good distance and if you can line up the titan perfectly with the airstrike you can hit it directly with 2-3 of the bombs. That combined with HMG into the sacs and open wound in the back from the airstrike will kill it. If possible leave titans to other AT divers but you can absolutely deal with them. Grenade pistol for the bug holes. I like the airstrike over the precision because i can call 3 in quick succession and if i dont need all 3 i can send it back to rearm while i move to the next objective. Note this loadout doesnt do great alone.
I’m finally getting internet back after a month of moving to a new place and setting up things. I’ve been waiting to try out so many of your ideas and this video is now top of the list. Can’t wait for autocannon/amr vs chargers btw
I do like having the Liberator Guard Dog, especially when using a weapon that needs lots of reloading. MGs, grenade launcher, railgun. Keeps the backpack fed at the same time since ammo box update. It's a bit better on the bot front because it targets enemy heads better and faster kill time so it can switch targets more often. Works great against devastators and berserkers. Over cover too!
Been doing a lot of jungle fighting against the bots on Tarsh. Been really loving it. Fighting in the new spooky jungle has some problems. But nothing a good Helldiver can't turn to an advantage. Maybe do a junglefighter loadout? They trick is to hide in the forrest, then pop out, do a lot of damage to their bases and then run behind some trees again. The bots will quickly lose track of you. You don't even need scout armor, the thick fog will hide you from enemies regardless of armor. Skip the eagles and take some heavy hitters like the commando, the eruptor, lots of bombardments and my favorite the thermite granade. The bots won't know what hit them.
Got a few I’ve really enjoyed with bugs: - the Orkin Man (exterminator build): gas em, zap em(blitzer), burn em (nape airstrike) and laze em (back pack). Add something for anti armour and you should be able to handle some breaches on your own. - the Universal Soldier (stalwart, jump pack eruptor, strafing run & orbital; my fave at the moment) a non explosive sidearm gives you greater options. Stally is your pri wpn. Very fast with light armour , and awesome if you use the contours properly with the jet pack. - “My Kit Carries Me” or “the engineer” (HMG emplacement, laser back pack, exo, orbital, arc blitzer) ; basically any tool that isn’t a gun that you can operate to kill bugs for you -the FOO, or Forward Observation Officer (all artillery: orbital, mortar, 120 or 380 mm, eagle or orbital smoke as a defensive tool, w/ Cookout, and high visibility med armour.) This one is tricky, requires understanding of battlefield geometry, but if you can learn to fix the bugs in place using a combo of different fires (smoke, then barrage) you’ll be a force multiplier for your team. Doable without having friendly casualties if you play it right.
SES Flame of Wrath here: Thank you for these loadouts. Since fire damage got nerfed, I’ve been scrambling to rethink my Terminid loadout. “Gun Nut” seems to catch my attention. Aside from the Flamethrower, I found myself using the Stalwart quite often, namely because of its higher ammo capacity and that I can reload on the go. Your advice is invaluable to operations on my side of things, and I’ll have to try out something like Gun Nut next time we’re sent to deal with the Gloom. Flame on! 🔥
Hell yeah Would love to see you try out the barrages. You plop a 380 smack in the middle of a bot base, and you’ve got a REALLY high chance that it’ll clear it by itself. We have begun doing the “380 and Run” tactics when we do Blitz missions and we ended up getting the “gone in 360 seconds” achievement haha 120 and walking barrage are also great. The walking barrage walks away from you so it’s fairly easy to pick the direction it goes
Hi idk if u read all ur comments but u being such a positive voice in the community has inspired me to make a video on helldivers. Thanks for the videos!
Loved this video! Great ideas on the loadouts. Love the idea of picking the weapon you want to use and building your loadout around it. And it was nice to see that I'm not the only one who has forgotten to bring bug hole closers before 😅
Here's my loadout when I go on Diff 9. Its excellent for heavy units, good at bug breaches, good at closing holes, slightly decent at chaff clearing and make you immune to stalkers and spewers. I'm able to do various roles such as scouting samples, doing objectives or nest clearing. Spear + Orbital Precision Strike for chargers/titans 120MM barrage/Eagle Napalm for bug breaches Eagle Airstrike to quickly close holes on small or medium nests Blitzer primary can stagger commander, stalkers and stop the spewers from spitting Grenade Pistol for closing holes HE Grenades for regular missions/Stun Grenades for HVA or Extermination Missions
Hey Kai you should try out using the Pummeler, arc thrower with light armor and jump pack! Really well synergized loadout since arc thrower is all about angle/positioning and distance from target. You will be the most mobile teammate and be able to jump to and from teammates if they need immediate help. Stop the horde descending on your teammates or you with the pummeler, jump to get distance (if you need it) and mow them down with the arc thrower. I use grenade pistol and stun grenades with this but I guess you could change that to whatever works too! Also do not forget that the arc thrower can "finish off" heavies that didn't get outright killed by AT shots/Orbitals/airstrikes. I have killed a few chargers and bile titans that my team only managed to heavily damage. for other stratagems I bring OPS and gatling orbital, can be whatever else tho.
The mention that the commando has stagger is interesting, it goves me an idea for a support loadout: punisher or slugger primary, for hunter/stalker suprises and keeping anything away from your teammates, grenade pistol for hole filling, secondary, stun grenades because it's the quintessential horde movement control. Commando primarily for heavy enemy stagger but its AT capability is also great, orbital EMS or OPS the first for a BIG stun grenade and the second for if you don'thave enough emergency AT on your team already, orbital gas for breaches, choke points and doing something with the tango you've brought the bugs on, and some form of sentry for diatraction and general alternative damage source. The point of the loadout is simply to control the enemy's movement, either forcefully or by exploiting their AI, with your teammates doing the actual killing in a mich more efficient manner. You do have some opportunity exploitation of your own however.
fav is a rn is a full rat build. cookout for the fire dot and stagger, laser dog to kill more on the run, g pistol for bug holes, stuns plus precision and/or 500, 120 for nest clears. never stop moving from point to point and you'll be fine:)
My current favorite loadout: Primary- Halt shotgun (good for stunning anything besides bile Titan) Secondary- grenade pistol for bugholes Thermite grenades- for chargers, impalers, Titans Armor - peak physique Support weapon- MG43 machine gun Backpack- Supply pack 500kg eagle ( for anti tank or objectives) Napalm barrage ( throw on top of bug breaches or in middle of hives) This role is primarily for supporting your teammates with chaff clear and stunning stalkers/chargers/alpha commanders that get too close to you or your team. Find a team mate with a recoiless and stick to them like white on rice. Perfect combo
As a long time HMG enjoyer and litterbug enthusiast despite being the guy who brings the HMG turret to every deployment bugs will NOT ignore your turret and will often go out of their way to destroy it. I’ve had countless dives where Chargers or Bile titans will switch from chasing helldivers to attack emplacements
For when you do a loadout showcase for bots, i recommend what i call "Captain America" -Explosive crossbow -Senator (aka big iron) -Laser cannon -Ballistic Shield -Eagle Airstrike -Rocket Sentry -Any high mobility armor
Explanations: -Crossbow is essentially a mini grenade launcher that makes no noise when fired and can close fabricators with good enough aim -Senator needs no explanation -Laser cannon can kill hulks if your aim on the faceplate is good enough, and it also is an easy way to stop gun ships -Ballistic Shield works with crossbow and senator extremely well and stops small arms fire which there's a lot of on bots. Also fun fact, when the shield is on your back it protects you from any bullets that would've hit your back, so when running away switch to laser cannon -Eagle Airstrike is generally good for taking out bases but if needed can be switch out with another destructive strategem -Rocket Sentry kills gun ships but with good placement acts as either a decoy or the doom slayer as it shreds through a lot of bots. With hulks the goal is to get the hulk in between you and sentry so that something is always hitting the heat syncs on their backs -,I recommend high mobility armor because imo on bots, if you died with light armor, you were probably in a position where you would've died with heavy armor anyways, so might as well get the speed and/or stealth bonuses
@@kaisermaximal8123 I actually just tried something very similar. It's good, I'm a big crossbow fan now. I did walking barrage instead of the sentry for the easy delete-a-base-button. Beautiful solo saboteur loadout.
I was running Gun Nut for a long time; Peak Physique makes it just incredible. These days I've been running Blitzer, Commando, and three sentries. (Usually AC, Rocket, and Machine Gun) It's way more fun than it sounds...
Definitely like the Laz team 6. But I found a curious interaction via Eravin, if you toss shield bubble then the 500 kg you can clear most nests with those 2. With the ship upgrade you can rearm as it drops for 60 sec to get both 500 kg again. So strats of 500kg, shield bubble, MG turret, and Laser Cannon. Otherwise follow Laz Team 6.
for bots I run Las cannon, redeemer, punisher, high explosive (because I don’t have any others i like), airstrike, 380, and shield bubble. Generally works pretty well alone or in a group, the only ammo problem is with the redeemer, and you don’t use that too frequently
Incindiary Shotgun, Uzi pistol, incindiary grenade, auto cannon, orbital precission strike, eagle cluster bomb, gatling centry. Everything that moves will be taught the way of democracy 1, 2, 3 seconds course 😈
Kai I really love the crossbow and I've used it with every armor and weapon combo. It's got some really neat builds now that it's one handed. Look into it and get creative
Grenade pistol, contact grenades, engineer armor for extra grenades and either the AC, or MG and supply pack. And enjoy blowing stuff up/mowing things down with your fave primary
The AC work surprisingly well in bug front now that there is a lot more medium type enemy. It can also act as anti-chaff and destroying objective from far away ie spore spewer and shrieker nest and bugholes. The rest of the strategem can be dedicated to heavy like OPS, 500kg, and railcannon. Sure, you got less protection w/o a backpack but why need it when you can kill bugs faster. Oh, almost forgot, blitzer or cookout, choice between crisper or GP, and stun.
The AC is AMAZING on bugs, but I figured it's a pretty popular choice right now, so I wanted to show off some other support options. I do have an older video with the AC, but it's from back in May. I'll do another video on it at some point. It's a really fun option.
Laser cannon to a bile spewer face has very short ttk I'm surprised you needed the gatling/strafing run for it Edit: I take it back, strafing run works wonders for removing several of them in one swoosh
I run laser cannon but the sickle does a better job clearing chaff in both bots and bugs. Laser dog for bugs, shield gen for bots. Love me some eagle airstrike for general purpose (clears heavies, fabs/nests, and massed chaff), with either a mortar for bots or a AC turret for bugs. Low ammo consumption, lots of supporting fire. I’ll sometimes swap the turret out for a OGB or OGS for clearing bug breaches or bot drops.
For bugs, I currently run: hmg/incendiary breaker with a supply pack for those hungry hungry weapons. I also take the precision strike or eagle strike depending on mood and an AC sentry for bigs or if I'm getting overwhelmed. Did I miss the discord link?
Bugs I tend to Primarily run Punisher since the Stagger and round reload lets me handle nearly all the bugs, including Stalkers. Sidearm is Grenade pistol, mostly for bug holes but sometimes for spewers or the like. Stun grenade for chargers or oh shit. Strats I grab Shield Backpack since I run light armor, Either Quasar or EAT for titans and Chargers, Precision strike, and Airstrike.
I run the cookout, GP, stun G, MG, supply pack, with eas and ops. Ill swap out eas if someone else doesn't grab gas, or napalm. Always ops though, wothout fail it takes out chargers, and BT's with one shot if baited right. It also softens up impalers nicely, and then finish them off with mg on their sides right in front of back leg. So a little.diffrent then the last lo, but the same idea.
I’ve never got on board with the strafing run. The damage area seems too narrow when bugs are usually in groups. Only when you are kiting do they form that “conga line” where this strike would be more effective and that is highly situational.
This is true, however spewers are very fond of the conga line and can be a big bullet sink if you don’t have an answer for them. Since the strafe can also damage heavy threats, I think it has value either way. But it’s definitely not the linchpin of the build, you could definitely swap it out.
Hey can you make a build based on the AMR? My personal one is dillagence counter sniper, amr jump pack, AMR. I like taking the combat knife and standard pistol for the true stealth combat feel. To break bug holes and fabricators I take eagle strike and orbital strike. This build works brilliant for both fronts, use your jetpack to get high ground, lay down and the provide sweet supresive fire with your amr. For truly democeatic fasion taking the trailblazer scout armor and the exo prototype 3 helm makes for a great scout set. Good luck out there fellow divers.
Hmg emplacement & commando are some recent favorites for me. Very disappointed with the 500kg lately. Very surprised how the orbital airburst barrage is consistently dropping 40+ kills on any given bug breach. Dont sleep on airburst.
My usual loadout for bugs is laser cannon, blitzer, laser drone, gas strike for breaches and eagle strike for groups and holes…is that good? I do find myself struggling against chargers tho, I just use stun nades and run
I started subscribing to a lot of Helldiver content creators, but now I am loyal to only a few and you are one of the true Helldiver sir!
what he said^
Yessir
Same here
Quality content
The others are fake news and automaton propaganda!
"Come and take it from me, I have fire immunity, you don't."
You sir, are the Helldiver I strive to be.
For anyone who wants a tip with commando vs imailers, the back legs take 3 commando rockets and are fatal if lost. Have fun :)
Commando is my favorite pick recently due to this. Plus you can also use it to close bug holes when you have extras. Extremely handy when dealing with mega nests as you don't need to get close to the far holes to destroy them.
actually, 2 commando shots to a single back leg strips the armour, and leaves it at low enough health to die to a few shots from your primary. don't try this with front legs; those are tanky.
@@frostthegreyfurthering on this point. If you strip the armor from a close range and use one grenade from the pistol at that same range, it dies to the one nade. This is good for blitzer/nade pistol users
@@ci825 to further further on this point, punch the leg or something. im not even sure if it works but ammo conservation yknow
I've been summoned@@ci825
You know I've generally been a critic of how this game has been managed, even while continuing to play it, and there have been times where I've put it down after getting too frustrated following some crashes, bugs, endless ragdolls, and what have you.
You, commissar Kai, have enabled me to not only survive but still genuinely ENJOY playing the game no matter what shakeups happen to it.
The emphasis you place on team work and tactics, combined with these fun and effective loadouts, has allowed mant a diver to take on terminids, bots, and even poor game balance itself. Well done sir!
So It was a skill issues? (Besides crashes and bugs)
I don’t know why it never dawned on me to use both the EAT and Commando at the same time but thinking about it makes so much sense. That suggestion alone is worth a like. Keep it up! 👍
Very good idea to bring both on Eradicate missions since you’re probably gonna be dying a lot lol
@hotshot590 still works with my bad aim 6 shots to bring down my solo factory strider was so nice. Plus the cool down is so short I always have a Michael Bay movie ready to roll at all times lol.
This is my Jar 5. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My Jar 5 is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my Helldives.
Without me, my Jar 5 is useless. Without my Jar 5, I am useless. I must fire my Jar 5 true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy of Democracy who is trying to kill me. I must liberate him before he shoots me. I will ...
My Jar 5 and I know that what counts in Managed Democracy is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit ...
My Jar 5 is a Helldiver, even as I am a Helldiver, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my Jar 5 clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ...
BeforeGeneral Brasch, I swear this creed. My Jar 5 and I are the defenders of Super Earth. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is Super Earth’s and there is no enemy, but peace!
I think you like the jar 5 but I’m not sure. 🤔
@@Zvertxvif you are good at hipfire targeting or use a crosshair and only ADS whe you're on target you can bypass a lot of the handling issues
@@z33thr33 hm yes and you can bring peak physique for handling issues
Jar 5 is my go to weapon!
@@Zvertxv im not there yet, only rank 30 and got Detonation and Freedoms Flame
You are the one TRUE helldivers channel my man. Literally everyone else is farming hate for clicks... but not you sir.... you are truly the best
he's not one, but he's one of the few.
@@Mr_Bo6r THEE ONE sir THEE ONE
I've been repping the Guard dog liberator to cover my six on the HMGE manned turret. It's not technically the same, but it feels like having the light Machine gun turret on you in terms of enemy saturation, and that stirs confidence.
One I've been using on the bugs a lot lately. Orbital presion, eagle air, supply pack, stalwart. Primary is jar dominator, grenade pistol and incendiary grenades. I use heavy twigsnapper armor so you can tank hordes while drinking your endless stims. Mow everything small down with the stalwart on 1150 rpm cause you have endless ammo. Swap to the jar dominator for medium enemy's. Grenade pistol for chargers and bug holes. The stalwart with incid nades can handle bug breaches alone. Unless of course a impaler comes to ruin your day.
a note: stalwart can kill a impaler in one mag so technically the only way you're really screwed is if a BT spawns and the nukes are on cooldown.
If you shoot a spewer in the face with the laser cannon its a 1.5 second death for them
Laser Team 6'ing with you was hilarious and shockingly effective, Im tickled that its the first loadout you brought up. The actual viability of all those lasers really caught me off guard.
With that in mind, I wouldn't miss the opportunity for a video on "fire"power after the Napalm Barrage is at our disposal. Obviously, there's a "meme" method and an actual viable method, the latter of which would be better for a video, but I'm never one to turn down my Fire Unsafety Officer duties.
Great and informative video as per usual! Honored to give you a bit of flavor!
For bugs: Breaker Incin, Senator, Thermite grenade, AutoCannon, 500kg, Orb Gatling Barr, AutoCannon Sentry. For bots: Jar-5 Dominator, Senator, HE Grenade, EAT, Shield Gen BP, 110mm Rocket Strike, Orb. EMS Strike. Both have excellent effects on target. So stoked to be part of your Commandos CommissarKai!
11:25 i came back to divin' mid shitstorm of whinging and the game is fine, i enjoy your squads enjoyment of the game. Thank you sirs.
Some tips for the Orbital Precision Strike:
1.) This stratagem was originally designed for taking out heavily armoured, immobile objectives - but it can be used on things like Bile Titans and Chargers! You'll just need to make sure you can either lead your target, or trick them into walking under the death beacon right when the timer hits 0.
2.) Keep an eye on map modifiers when using this orbital. Sometimes your stratagems will take 50% longer to call down, taking what was originally 4 seconds to murder whatever's in front of it to a lofty 6 seconds. That doesn't seem like much in text format but it can mean the difference between hitting the target or missing completely!
"Now we're cookin' with photons" 😂
All laser loadout is a chefs kiss
Full squad laser loadout is also a fun time.
Gotta convince your friends to try it though.
The Gun Nut (AKA Walking Dakka Platform) is my favorite bug build. I usually take 500kg + OPS with it because of the sheer amount of heavies in D10, plus Peak Physique for faster target acquisition.
Little pro tip that works with most builds, but is especially effective as a machine gunner: You don't have to go into locations with your team. Often times, there are hills overlooking nest/outposts/poi's etc that you can set up on, and lay effective fire from.
You may need to call in a sentry or use mines to cover your six, but this can be extremely helpful to increase overall team situational awareness, and can allow you as a gunner to decimate incoming patrols that would be bushwhacking your team.
Take the Blitzer, Rover, and Quasar. Never stop running. Ankle biters closing in? One tap of the trigger from a dead sprint sends a blast of lightning their way and then you're back to hustling. Heavy on the prowl? Whip out your quasar, get your shot in, then put it right back away and keep running. All the while your rover is cooking anything that dares approach and finishing targets that survive your blitzer shots. Pack your favorite buster stratagem for titans and impalers, then for the last slot either double down on busters, pick up some swarm suppression, or split the difference with airstrike. Never stop running, never stop gunning.
Thank you, Commissar! Creek Stands!
Ive personally been having an absolute ball chewing through chaff with HMG/Supply pack with the Patriot Mech and Airstrike on 7-9 difficulty. Mech for rocketing down Shriekers nests from forever far away or rocketing down pairs and trios of chargers and the minigun deletes groups of shriekers. I use the defender for kitting those hunters that get around you, stun grenades to hold a lone charger in place for the HMG or giving you a couple seconds from the hoard to reload the HMG. Keep it on 450 RPM until you need to delete a charger or impaler, switch it to max rpm just for those. Fun note, you can kill an impaler in under a second if you stand in front of them and start firing into the exposed face as soon as they drop the tentacles. You can also snipe the bile sacs out of titans from a good distance and if you can line up the titan perfectly with the airstrike you can hit it directly with 2-3 of the bombs. That combined with HMG into the sacs and open wound in the back from the airstrike will kill it. If possible leave titans to other AT divers but you can absolutely deal with them. Grenade pistol for the bug holes. I like the airstrike over the precision because i can call 3 in quick succession and if i dont need all 3 i can send it back to rearm while i move to the next objective.
Note this loadout doesnt do great alone.
I’m finally getting internet back after a month of moving to a new place and setting up things. I’ve been waiting to try out so many of your ideas and this video is now top of the list.
Can’t wait for autocannon/amr vs chargers btw
I do like having the Liberator Guard Dog, especially when using a weapon that needs lots of reloading. MGs, grenade launcher, railgun. Keeps the backpack fed at the same time since ammo box update.
It's a bit better on the bot front because it targets enemy heads better and faster kill time so it can switch targets more often. Works great against devastators and berserkers. Over cover too!
Amazing video, I love how you gave underutilized weapons the spotlight in this one.
Been doing a lot of jungle fighting against the bots on Tarsh. Been really loving it. Fighting in the new spooky jungle has some problems. But nothing a good Helldiver can't turn to an advantage.
Maybe do a junglefighter loadout?
They trick is to hide in the forrest, then pop out, do a lot of damage to their bases and then run behind some trees again. The bots will quickly lose track of you. You don't even need scout armor, the thick fog will hide you from enemies regardless of armor.
Skip the eagles and take some heavy hitters like the commando, the eruptor, lots of bombardments and my favorite the thermite granade. The bots won't know what hit them.
Fun builds and I LOVE the vibe. New sub! Thanks for the info and can’t wait to bring these in. Thank you, Helldiver 🫡
You almost had me confused on what's "Nids". Great video btw
just a note: normal chargers are completely absent from super helldive.
PSA over.
Love the litter bug loadout. Thanks for the video, Commisar.
Got a few I’ve really enjoyed with bugs:
- the Orkin Man (exterminator build): gas em, zap em(blitzer), burn em (nape airstrike) and laze em (back pack). Add something for anti armour and you should be able to handle some breaches on your own.
- the Universal Soldier (stalwart, jump pack eruptor, strafing run & orbital; my fave at the moment) a non explosive sidearm gives you greater options. Stally is your pri wpn. Very fast with light armour , and awesome if you use the contours properly with the jet pack.
- “My Kit Carries Me” or “the engineer” (HMG emplacement, laser back pack, exo, orbital, arc blitzer) ; basically any tool that isn’t a gun that you can operate to kill bugs for you
-the FOO, or Forward Observation Officer (all artillery: orbital, mortar, 120 or 380 mm, eagle or orbital smoke as a defensive tool, w/ Cookout, and high visibility med armour.) This one is tricky, requires understanding of battlefield geometry, but if you can learn to fix the bugs in place using a combo of different fires (smoke, then barrage) you’ll be a force multiplier for your team. Doable without having friendly casualties if you play it right.
I come here for the vibes
the southern accent just makes it so much better
SES Flame of Wrath here:
Thank you for these loadouts. Since fire damage got nerfed, I’ve been scrambling to rethink my Terminid loadout. “Gun Nut” seems to catch my attention. Aside from the Flamethrower, I found myself using the Stalwart quite often, namely because of its higher ammo capacity and that I can reload on the go.
Your advice is invaluable to operations on my side of things, and I’ll have to try out something like Gun Nut next time we’re sent to deal with the Gloom.
Flame on! 🔥
Hell yeah
Would love to see you try out the barrages. You plop a 380 smack in the middle of a bot base, and you’ve got a REALLY high chance that it’ll clear it by itself. We have begun doing the “380 and Run” tactics when we do Blitz missions and we ended up getting the “gone in 360 seconds” achievement haha
120 and walking barrage are also great. The walking barrage walks away from you so it’s fairly easy to pick the direction it goes
Hi idk if u read all ur comments but u being such a positive voice in the community has inspired me to make a video on helldivers. Thanks for the videos!
I do indeed read all of them ^^ I'm so happy to hear I've made the game just a little bit more fun. Best of luck with your video!
Fantastic. Best vid yet!
Loved this video! Great ideas on the loadouts. Love the idea of picking the weapon you want to use and building your loadout around it.
And it was nice to see that I'm not the only one who has forgotten to bring bug hole closers before 😅
Here's my loadout when I go on Diff 9. Its excellent for heavy units, good at bug breaches, good at closing holes, slightly decent at chaff clearing and make you immune to stalkers and spewers. I'm able to do various roles such as scouting samples, doing objectives or nest clearing.
Spear + Orbital Precision Strike for chargers/titans
120MM barrage/Eagle Napalm for bug breaches
Eagle Airstrike to quickly close holes on small or medium nests
Blitzer primary can stagger commander, stalkers and stop the spewers from spitting
Grenade Pistol for closing holes
HE Grenades for regular missions/Stun Grenades for HVA or Extermination Missions
Hey Kai you should try out using the Pummeler, arc thrower with light armor and jump pack! Really well synergized loadout since arc thrower is all about angle/positioning and distance from target. You will be the most mobile teammate and be able to jump to and from teammates if they need immediate help. Stop the horde descending on your teammates or you with the pummeler, jump to get distance (if you need it) and mow them down with the arc thrower.
I use grenade pistol and stun grenades with this but I guess you could change that to whatever works too! Also do not forget that the arc thrower can "finish off" heavies that didn't get outright killed by AT shots/Orbitals/airstrikes. I have killed a few chargers and bile titans that my team only managed to heavily damage.
for other stratagems I bring OPS and gatling orbital, can be whatever else tho.
Good video, I like how you didn’t cry about the state of the game. Will keep watching your channel, thanks.
The mention that the commando has stagger is interesting, it goves me an idea for a support loadout: punisher or slugger primary, for hunter/stalker suprises and keeping anything away from your teammates, grenade pistol for hole filling, secondary, stun grenades because it's the quintessential horde movement control. Commando primarily for heavy enemy stagger but its AT capability is also great, orbital EMS or OPS the first for a BIG stun grenade and the second for if you don'thave enough emergency AT on your team already, orbital gas for breaches, choke points and doing something with the tango you've brought the bugs on, and some form of sentry for diatraction and general alternative damage source. The point of the loadout is simply to control the enemy's movement, either forcefully or by exploiting their AI, with your teammates doing the actual killing in a mich more efficient manner. You do have some opportunity exploitation of your own however.
Just tried the laser, not only was it effective but also fun as hell. Can't wait to try the others
Easiest sub of my life. Amazing video 😂🫶🏻
I had to remind myself this was before the buff patch. Great video.
Love the content, another Gourmet cooked by our truly Commissar!
fav is a rn is a full rat build. cookout for the fire dot and stagger, laser dog to kill more on the run, g pistol for bug holes, stuns plus precision and/or 500, 120 for nest clears. never stop moving from point to point and you'll be fine:)
The Gun Nut is my current fav; trust, it took a lot to get me off the *LET IT ALL BURN* build.
My current favorite loadout:
Primary- Halt shotgun (good for stunning anything besides bile Titan)
Secondary- grenade pistol for bugholes
Thermite grenades- for chargers, impalers, Titans
Armor - peak physique
Support weapon- MG43 machine gun
Backpack- Supply pack
500kg eagle ( for anti tank or objectives)
Napalm barrage ( throw on top of bug breaches or in middle of hives)
This role is primarily for supporting your teammates with chaff clear and stunning stalkers/chargers/alpha commanders that get too close to you or your team.
Find a team mate with a recoiless and stick to them like white on rice. Perfect combo
Actually laughing out loud at "bullet enema"
Fresh from a Level 9 Bug mission, i gotta tell you, laser build is super fun. It's very good at defending against hordes of hunters.
As a long time HMG enjoyer and litterbug enthusiast despite being the guy who brings the HMG turret to every deployment bugs will NOT ignore your turret and will often go out of their way to destroy it. I’ve had countless dives where Chargers or Bile titans will switch from chasing helldivers to attack emplacements
For when you do a loadout showcase for bots, i recommend what i call "Captain America"
-Explosive crossbow
-Senator (aka big iron)
-Laser cannon
-Ballistic Shield
-Eagle Airstrike
-Rocket Sentry
-Any high mobility armor
Explanations:
-Crossbow is essentially a mini grenade launcher that makes no noise when fired and can close fabricators with good enough aim
-Senator needs no explanation
-Laser cannon can kill hulks if your aim on the faceplate is good enough, and it also is an easy way to stop gun ships
-Ballistic Shield works with crossbow and senator extremely well and stops small arms fire which there's a lot of on bots. Also fun fact, when the shield is on your back it protects you from any bullets that would've hit your back, so when running away switch to laser cannon
-Eagle Airstrike is generally good for taking out bases but if needed can be switch out with another destructive strategem
-Rocket Sentry kills gun ships but with good placement acts as either a decoy or the doom slayer as it shreds through a lot of bots. With hulks the goal is to get the hulk in between you and sentry so that something is always hitting the heat syncs on their backs
-,I recommend high mobility armor because imo on bots, if you died with light armor, you were probably in a position where you would've died with heavy armor anyways, so might as well get the speed and/or stealth bonuses
@@kaisermaximal8123 I actually just tried something very similar. It's good, I'm a big crossbow fan now. I did walking barrage instead of the sentry for the easy delete-a-base-button. Beautiful solo saboteur loadout.
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I was running Gun Nut for a long time; Peak Physique makes it just incredible.
These days I've been running Blitzer, Commando, and three sentries. (Usually AC, Rocket, and Machine Gun) It's way more fun than it sounds...
Best HD2 guide on RUclips and having the voice of Barrack Obama and Dave Chapelle combined is just a bonus!
Thank you my good sir !! Your videos are awesome and keep me and I'm sure others are hooked on this game. Keep up the good work
6:18 "If you have a burning hatred of any bugs bigger than my Honda Civic" LMAO
For litterbug build, the Cookout/Punisher/P-Plasma for the high damage and stagger is paramount
and people keep complaining there are no good weapons
yeah nerfs suck but it takes 2 min to search and find a fun new loadout
Only change i would make is on last loadout is swap the guard dog out with the supply pack for maximum lead delivery to evil bug menace!
Liberator Carbine, grenade pistol, stun grenades, AMR. Love it so far
I use the laser loadout a lot and love it. Chews through enemies. I usually pair it with the EAS and OPS, but I'll try it with the strafing run.
I use the Gun Nut all the time! Glad to see the good word being spread
Definitely like the Laz team 6. But I found a curious interaction via Eravin, if you toss shield bubble then the 500 kg you can clear most nests with those 2. With the ship upgrade you can rearm as it drops for 60 sec to get both 500 kg again. So strats of 500kg, shield bubble, MG turret, and Laser Cannon. Otherwise follow Laz Team 6.
This is some of the best Helldivers content
for bots I run Las cannon, redeemer, punisher, high explosive (because I don’t have any others i like), airstrike, 380, and shield bubble. Generally works pretty well alone or in a group, the only ammo problem is with the redeemer, and you don’t use that too frequently
So glad to see good HD2 content and none of the clickbait "t3h deVs haVe dOne WHAT?!?! 😵💫
Incindiary Shotgun, Uzi pistol, incindiary grenade, auto cannon, orbital precission strike, eagle cluster bomb, gatling centry.
Everything that moves will be taught the way of democracy 1, 2, 3 seconds course 😈
Kai I really love the crossbow and I've used it with every armor and weapon combo. It's got some really neat builds now that it's one handed. Look into it and get creative
They really should up the ammo count on the crossbow from 5 to 8 each clip. My only gripe with it is how often I have to reload the damn thing.
My brother in Christ, Beam Team 6 was RIGHT THERE
Grenade pistol, contact grenades, engineer armor for extra grenades and either the AC, or MG and supply pack. And enjoy blowing stuff up/mowing things down with your fave primary
Do not go easy into that good night, rage rage against the dying light
The AC work surprisingly well in bug front now that there is a lot more medium type enemy. It can also act as anti-chaff and destroying objective from far away ie spore spewer and shrieker nest and bugholes. The rest of the strategem can be dedicated to heavy like OPS, 500kg, and railcannon. Sure, you got less protection w/o a backpack but why need it when you can kill bugs faster.
Oh, almost forgot, blitzer or cookout, choice between crisper or GP, and stun.
The AC is AMAZING on bugs, but I figured it's a pretty popular choice right now, so I wanted to show off some other support options. I do have an older video with the AC, but it's from back in May.
I'll do another video on it at some point. It's a really fun option.
Laser cannon to a bile spewer face has very short ttk
I'm surprised you needed the gatling/strafing run for it
Edit: I take it back, strafing run works wonders for removing several of them in one swoosh
I run laser cannon but the sickle does a better job clearing chaff in both bots and bugs. Laser dog for bugs, shield gen for bots. Love me some eagle airstrike for general purpose (clears heavies, fabs/nests, and massed chaff), with either a mortar for bots or a AC turret for bugs. Low ammo consumption, lots of supporting fire. I’ll sometimes swap the turret out for a OGB or OGS for clearing bug breaches or bot drops.
Ngl after always centering my bug loadouts around the incendiary breaker this gives me an excuse to try bringing the eruptor out of retirement.
For bots (Scythe,dagger,laser cannon, thermites, precision, orbital smoke, laser guard dog)
For bugs switch smoke with gas
For bugs, I currently run: hmg/incendiary breaker with a supply pack for those hungry hungry weapons. I also take the precision strike or eagle strike depending on mood and an AC sentry for bigs or if I'm getting overwhelmed. Did I miss the discord link?
Found the discord link! My eyes are not getting any better. ;)
Bugs I tend to Primarily run Punisher since the Stagger and round reload lets me handle nearly all the bugs, including Stalkers. Sidearm is Grenade pistol, mostly for bug holes but sometimes for spewers or the like. Stun grenade for chargers or oh shit. Strats I grab Shield Backpack since I run light armor, Either Quasar or EAT for titans and Chargers, Precision strike, and Airstrike.
Since lasers cause burning you could call it Sear Team Six? Love the loadout ideas
Also the Laser guarddog kills you and your team too
I run the cookout, GP, stun G, MG, supply pack, with eas and ops. Ill swap out eas if someone else doesn't grab gas, or napalm. Always ops though, wothout fail it takes out chargers, and BT's with one shot if baited right. It also softens up impalers nicely, and then finish them off with mg on their sides right in front of back leg. So a little.diffrent then the last lo, but the same idea.
The normal guard dog is actually really good for bots and gets devestator headshots, pair it with the HMG and its goated
I’ve never got on board with the strafing run. The damage area seems too narrow when bugs are usually in groups. Only when you are kiting do they form that “conga line” where this strike would be more effective and that is highly situational.
This is true, however spewers are very fond of the conga line and can be a big bullet sink if you don’t have an answer for them. Since the strafe can also damage heavy threats, I think it has value either way.
But it’s definitely not the linchpin of the build, you could definitely swap it out.
Strafing run does come with the utility of clearing shrieker nests and spore spewers, but I agree it's underwhelming for chaff clearing.
Hey can you make a build based on the AMR? My personal one is dillagence counter sniper, amr jump pack, AMR. I like taking the combat knife and standard pistol for the true stealth combat feel. To break bug holes and fabricators I take eagle strike and orbital strike. This build works brilliant for both fronts, use your jetpack to get high ground, lay down and the provide sweet supresive fire with your amr. For truly democeatic fasion taking the trailblazer scout armor and the exo prototype 3 helm makes for a great scout set. Good luck out there fellow divers.
Hmg emplacement & commando are some recent favorites for me. Very disappointed with the 500kg lately. Very surprised how the orbital airburst barrage is consistently dropping 40+ kills on any given bug breach. Dont sleep on airburst.
Great vid need one for the bots! 😊
Salty n CommisarKai is a great combo
THE HELLWINER 🤣🤣🤣
Hellwhiner its funny, there's another funny name Crydiver
This channels amazing 😂
Legend ❤
Amazing content
Ive had an idea with the grenade launcher and supply pack but I don’t know what else to add to it to make it better
Any loadout can be good. But unfortunately, the only thing we cant choose whether we want it or not are crash-out dummies being in our squads......smh
Democracy.. this is the way..
12:13
Pouncer: Have you heard about our lord and savior communism?
Guard dog: 'bang!' Funny way of saying democracy
My usual loadout for bugs is laser cannon, blitzer, laser drone, gas strike for breaches and eagle strike for groups and holes…is that good? I do find myself struggling against chargers tho, I just use stun nades and run
We need laser turrets 😂
Helllll yeuh bruhther! Let's git sum!!!
Laser team 6... Hear me out... Instead of stuns and GP. Bushwhacker for knock back (works great for stalkers) and HE grenades