I am really surprised that you didn't mention the Laser Cannon. It is one of the best weapons for Factory Striders. Another fantastic Strat to bring is the HMG Emplacement.
I haven't had a chance to try them out since the were re-added, but you used to be able to blow of the face place with heavy pen weapons and then destroy it rather quickly from the font with most med-pen (iirc) weapons. Did they removed this?
I did not even know they had the mini guns or that they spawn devastators since every time I have seen them in-mission they are instantly replaced by 4 glowing suns of 500kg explostions, 32 grenades, 2 cluster bombs and a orbital lazer.
The Hellbomb tip at the end made me think of the SEAF Artillery Mini-Nuke shells. Are those as powerful as Hellbombs or do they fail to take these out in one shot?
Only 600 views in the first 11 minutes? Takibo fell off. (This is just a comment for the algorithm, I have known about this channel for like 3 days and appreciate the content 😅)
Takibo pls try the orbital gas strike against a bug breach. Imo it works just as good if not better than the ealge napalm. The bugs dont make it out of the breach since they die almost instantly (basically like napalm) but i see its use better because of the recharge time. Which is 75 seconds! making it always ready for the time delay on the next bug breach. Pls try it out. I always make sure it lands on the breache and i constantly get 40+ killsstreaks. I think its really slept on
id only found one strider so far so all i could have contributed was, they die pretty quickly to three orbital lasers being called on them at once, lol
I just got a mission with 2 of my friends when every drop keep dropping 2 of these. We fought around 20 of Factory Strider on one mission. I have to tell you, 2 Stratagem Jammers on the map didn't help. I'm very happy to watch this video, let me see what is your approach towards this guys...
@@turtlesrprettycool3379 I don't know that anyone in the HD2 discourse has lied about such things, but I do see some differences in how people go about testing mechanics. So far I have found the most value in Takibo and Eravin's content. Possibly "trustworthy" was the wrong word to use here when really what I meant was that I like the way Takibo tests and presents information
I think AC sentry is worth a mention, it does require you to kill the top turret first but once that is done just drop the AC miles away and it's done.
When they brought them out the first my buddy and I both landed on one. 4 hellpods kill it, we had a good time putting an autocannon turret on one and temporarily turning it into a friendly gun platform lol
getting under the factory strider was always the way i went, i used the eruptor and that’s capable of destroying the miniguns on its head in 1-2 shots, after i destroyed the miniguns and the big cannon on the back, essentially turning it into a big walking robot puppy, throwing a stun grenade at its underside as its spitting out devastators actually cancels it and no devastators will drop, from then on i just unload mags on its underside
Awesome vid! As an LC main, I'd just like to shout out that the Laser Canon crit bonus works WONDERS when shining it in their eye. Ive found 3-5 seconds of sustained fire reliably takes them down, and id be remiss not to sing praises anytime my big beautiful laser pointer is useful
@@a_bar_of_soap totally agree - the LC is such a useful tool against bots for killing heat sinks (towers, tanks, hulks), emplacements (arty goes down in 3 seconds from any distance), and just good ole fashioned bot-head-popping! Only things it don't do well with are large groups, AT-RTs, and at blowing up Fabs (ALL of which the Eruptor handles with ease for a killer pairing)
Paused @2:03 First time seeing a Factory Strider on 4 yesterday; killed within 60sec via: x1 Orbital Cannon Strike x1 500kg Air strike Thank you for attending my TED talk.
1 mini nuke from an artillery also wrecks these things so if you get a mini nuke, note what slot its in and save it for when you need to take one of these down
Maybe its just the weird explosion shape and RNG of the 500kg, but I have 1 shot 2 separate factory striders with them. One was a direct hit to the head, the other was under its belly. There is something there, but there are enough more consistent methods that figuring out how the 500kg works is probably not worth it.
I have a stupid question: what is your keyboard and mouse assignment? Or to put it another way, why did you change the key assignment? And the sunglasses function on my helmet is broken. I'll probably have to ask HQ if I can get a replacement
I was playing a SUICIDE level eredication defence mission and 4 of these mfs dropped on us within 10 seconds of each other. We barely made it out of there alive
Didn't see it mentioned, they also have a weakpoint on their face, right where their "nose" would be. There is a thin strip where medium armor pen weapons can kill it, you can even use the normal laser cannon to kill both miniguns and the face.
Blow off the top turret with the quasar cannon and then throw the laser stratagem. Also two hits to the under belly from the quasar cannon will kill it no problem. Done this several times already on strider hunting missions. Out in the wild it's a different story.
Easiest way I found was to drop a shield generator emplacement and then thump it in the face with a quasar cannon. The shield will tank all the minigun shots for quite a while before it gives up and it's definitely longer than the time you'll need with a quasar to fire two shots into it's face.
I'm glad they didn't tell us. Dropped into a mission and it spawn. Holy F that was a scary moment trying to figure out how to kill it with my load out I was using.
I found two 500s to be fine on it and with a team it's very easy to get to 500s off cuz they're so slow moving. Haven't played with the airstrike too much on it.
As a level 9 nerd, these things come in 2 to a bot drop, sometimes. That happens, I'm throwing a 380 and fucking running. One of them, I have 500 kgs and precision strikes for that. And the gatling guns on the chin are FAR more deadly than the cannon turret, IMHO.
man, those are bombs the eagle airstrike drops, not rockets. simple difference is that rockets are self propelled, bombs get all their propulsion from the plane dropping them. other than that, nice vid and thanks for the info, soldier 🫡
Summary of the video: There's a new mission to kill the factory striders. You can shoot the cannon off the top and turrets off the front, but this isn't effective for killing. You can shoot the vents as they open, but this is also really slow. You can kill it it with 380 barrage if it hits but it's rng. The 500kg bomb isn't good. It's under belly is very weak, but you can't realistically get to it in a full fight. The nukes around the map will one shot it if it's close to one. The auto cannon backpack weapon is likely the best weapon you can use against it. It will kill the turrets and cannon quickly, and even kill the strider with about half a mags worth of well places shots in the red light on its face. The eagle air strike can kill it if it's perpendicular to you and you hit it with most of the bombs. The orbital laser usually needs to be combined with other strategems like the rail cannon to kill it.
The fact that you need to say "as we have said earlier" many times, and mention "in helldivers 2" so many times too, says little about the quality of your videos. It's obvious that your forcefuly extened the video duration and it's a pain to watch. Minute 4:40 and you are still introducing "in this video, you will see..." C'mon
Seen ppl say these were hell… 1st 1 I seen was at end of a lv9 difficulty during evac and it got dropped on top of a stranded hellbomb and it went flying/rag dolling 200 feet in the air 😂 easiest enemy yet
If you hit a 500kg bomb under the strider it should one shot him, I did it once. Easier on standing targets, mine was luck it went right under its legs.
don't get how yous are still playing it so much it's the same shit over and over nothing has changed since launch and the crashes and the amount of bugs they haven't fixed is insane I've just quit after realising it has absolutely no depth to it atall and then the crashes and connections lost all the time is just making it unbearable 😴
Just wanted to ask about something. Just an hour ago on Martale, a bot planet, and saw someone doing a mission to target Bile Titans. Has anyone else seen this?
Worth noting the units that are set to be killed in a mission to kill them are tougher IE a strider or Titan kill mission will have a tougher one than what you find en mass in diff 7
there 100% should be a difficulty 9 "eliminate factory strider convoy" mission or something where its 3 or 4 factory striders walking in a line or whatever
the reson why the eagal airstrike is good aginst them is because the side of the strider is weakness too. u can use lasor canon to kill it from the sides one eagal air strike and one lasor canon or the other way around
Why are we going through the “dozens of other non effective ways to kill the strider” before you get to the efficient method. Just spit it out already.
I actually thought it was helpful to understand all the nuances of the unit. I've been having a lot of trouble dealing with them and didn't know like anything about these
If you toss a stun grenade while it’s deploying devastators out of its belly it will fail to deploy them. Spill oil!
Man thanks for not just these long gameplays for me to learn from but the commentary tips and tricks 😅
Our squad has found that one orbital laser and an eagle air strike make for a quick take down of a factory strider and the support bots around it.
Cooincidentally, I always carry both. Except for when they do that 1 Strategem down nonsense.
I think that's the effect currently for all players. I hate it lol @@9unslin9er
@@9unslin9er And even then I carry both. AC + Eagle + Laser is all you need. Although I gotta say, It's tiring to always play this one loadout.
@@squeezyjibbs6643 I am genuinely puzzled at people who pick AMR over Autocannon.
@9unslin9er I'm not. I enjoy both. Better accuracy/scope, better mobility and free backpack slot make it worth picking up.
I am really surprised that you didn't mention the Laser Cannon. It is one of the best weapons for Factory Striders. Another fantastic Strat to bring is the HMG Emplacement.
I literally only watch this channel and ohdough for quality helldivers info.
Thanks for everything 🍻
I haven't had a chance to try them out since the were re-added, but you used to be able to blow of the face place with heavy pen weapons and then destroy it rather quickly from the font with most med-pen (iirc) weapons. Did they removed this?
I did not even know they had the mini guns or that they spawn devastators since every time I have seen them in-mission they are instantly replaced by 4 glowing suns of 500kg explostions, 32 grenades, 2 cluster bombs and a orbital lazer.
The Hellbomb tip at the end made me think of the SEAF Artillery Mini-Nuke shells. Are those as powerful as Hellbombs or do they fail to take these out in one shot?
I fought one of these solo today. Straight up felt like a boss fight.
"Any problem can be solved with a sufficient amount of orbital bombardment"- Sun Tzu probably
Only 600 views in the first 11 minutes? Takibo fell off.
(This is just a comment for the algorithm, I have known about this channel for like 3 days and appreciate the content 😅)
Takibo pls try the orbital gas strike against a bug breach. Imo it works just as good if not better than the ealge napalm. The bugs dont make it out of the breach since they die almost instantly (basically like napalm) but i see its use better because of the recharge time. Which is 75 seconds! making it always ready for the time delay on the next bug breach. Pls try it out. I always make sure it lands on the breache and i constantly get 40+ killsstreaks. I think its really slept on
It is a dot, so sometimes it works, and others, it does nothing depending on who the host is.
Walking barrage Gem works better especially if u are not spotted by the walker. It can hit 2 or 3 times when its standing still not moving.
Can you kill the miniguns with the Senator?
Anyway a AMR sniper can hurt it?!
I tend to run Amr jumpack a lot and shoot tanks in the back or 2 shot hulks.
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id only found one strider so far so all i could have contributed was, they die pretty quickly to three orbital lasers being called on them at once, lol
what is with hellfire? i know they are highly underated and i use them but i couldnt tell if they are usefull against them
I just got a mission with 2 of my friends when every drop keep dropping 2 of these. We fought around 20 of Factory Strider on one mission. I have to tell you, 2 Stratagem Jammers on the map didn't help. I'm very happy to watch this video, let me see what is your approach towards this guys...
I was using the patriot exo suit against the factory strider and it took me 6 or 7 headshots until it finally destroyed
Would love to see you and ohdough coop a helldive
How about the spear?
I once destroyed a strider with a singular orbital laser, don't know how tf
little early, so loney
"E"limin-ATE lol
When you need to skip half the video for the actual point....damn....
vid starts 5:04
Another long video that doesnt explain how to kill him.
Dawg needs to get to the damn point smh 🤦🏽♂️
As a Autocannon main, this is such great news for me. God damn auto kept on winning
AC fans keep on winning
My fav support weapon, though it takes up backpack slot
Hell yeah, helldiver! For democracyyyyyyy
Autocannon + shield emplacement = Factory Reset
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH ITTTTTTT!
I was literally just looking for a Factory Strider video from a trustworthy source.....and here we are.
Why would any lie about how to kill a factory strider?
Can't answer your question. But I can for sure say that he is talking lies here
@@turtlesrprettycool3379 I don't know that anyone in the HD2 discourse has lied about such things, but I do see some differences in how people go about testing mechanics.
So far I have found the most value in Takibo and Eravin's content.
Possibly "trustworthy" was the wrong word to use here when really what I meant was that I like the way Takibo tests and presents information
@@PaperMage236i see
U got Thiccfila. U got Crazymrpipz. U got a few homie
I think AC sentry is worth a mention, it does require you to kill the top turret first but once that is done just drop the AC miles away and it's done.
Well, 78 meters as that is maximum engagement range.
Common eagle airstrike W
still the goat. I take it over the 500 every time.
From a fellow helldiver appreciating of all the liberty you spread
Does the uploader get that money or are you paying YT to have the comment boosted?
It says when you click on the thanks option you “directly support the creator”
70% to the creator and 30% to youtube iirc @@sephiroth8377
@@TheTheoryofZ
That's cool
@sephiroth8377 the poster gets something like 80 percent of the donated amount.
You can also spend 5 to 20 mins on top of it and devestators will take it down eventually.
When they brought them out the first my buddy and I both landed on one. 4 hellpods kill it, we had a good time putting an autocannon turret on one and temporarily turning it into a friendly gun platform lol
That’s just wasteful
@@thisiswhatilike54 whooosh
getting under the factory strider was always the way i went, i used the eruptor and that’s capable of destroying the miniguns on its head in 1-2 shots, after i destroyed the miniguns and the big cannon on the back, essentially turning it into a big walking robot puppy, throwing a stun grenade at its underside as its spitting out devastators actually cancels it and no devastators will drop, from then on i just unload mags on its underside
In my experience about 5-10 seconds of the laser cannon beam to the underbelly takes it out the most efficient and consistently
Ive been using SPEAR.. from across the map.
2:22
-I have a high-velocity cannon pointed at your chest
-I can dodge it
DefendTheHouse discovered if you call in a Patriot Exosuit on it, the clipping insta-kills the strider
Mortars are also a great way of dealing with them
U never mentioned blowing off the sides covers
or head cover siting on the nose
Awesome vid! As an LC main, I'd just like to shout out that the Laser Canon crit bonus works WONDERS when shining it in their eye. Ive found 3-5 seconds of sustained fire reliably takes them down, and id be remiss not to sing praises anytime my big beautiful laser pointer is useful
even in helldivers, piss in eye is effective
Laser cannon really is underrated, I feel
@@a_bar_of_soap totally agree - the LC is such a useful tool against bots for killing heat sinks (towers, tanks, hulks), emplacements (arty goes down in 3 seconds from any distance), and just good ole fashioned bot-head-popping! Only things it don't do well with are large groups, AT-RTs, and at blowing up Fabs (ALL of which the Eruptor handles with ease for a killer pairing)
Paused @2:03
First time seeing a Factory Strider on 4 yesterday; killed within 60sec via:
x1 Orbital Cannon Strike
x1 500kg Air strike
Thank you for attending my TED talk.
1 mini nuke from an artillery also wrecks these things so if you get a mini nuke, note what slot its in and save it for when you need to take one of these down
Maybe its just the weird explosion shape and RNG of the 500kg, but I have 1 shot 2 separate factory striders with them. One was a direct hit to the head, the other was under its belly.
There is something there, but there are enough more consistent methods that figuring out how the 500kg works is probably not worth it.
I have a stupid question: what is your keyboard and mouse assignment? Or to put it another way, why did you change the key assignment? And the sunglasses function on my helmet is broken. I'll probably have to ask HQ if I can get a replacement
I was playing a SUICIDE level eredication defence mission and 4 of these mfs dropped on us within 10 seconds of each other. We barely made it out of there alive
Didn't see it mentioned, they also have a weakpoint on their face, right where their "nose" would be. There is a thin strip where medium armor pen weapons can kill it, you can even use the normal laser cannon to kill both miniguns and the face.
Eagle Airstrike is your bread and butter. Secret MVP.
never run a mission without it, whether its bots or bugs
I am missing one extremly strong option in this which is the Autocanon sentry it is really fast taking them down
Blow off the top turret with the quasar cannon and then throw the laser stratagem. Also two hits to the under belly from the quasar cannon will kill it no problem. Done this several times already on strider hunting missions. Out in the wild it's a different story.
4:30 in and you haven't gotten to the point yet, this is a bit silly man
Proffesional yapper in its glory
Easiest way I found was to drop a shield generator emplacement and then thump it in the face with a quasar cannon. The shield will tank all the minigun shots for quite a while before it gives up and it's definitely longer than the time you'll need with a quasar to fire two shots into it's face.
I'm glad they didn't tell us. Dropped into a mission and it spawn. Holy F that was a scary moment trying to figure out how to kill it with my load out I was using.
I just orbital laser it, I’m not getting close to that thing
jesus this video drags on for ever. Stop that.
No exaggeration, your channel is the most reliable for hd2 content, keep up the great work
Autocannon chads, we win again (as usual)
Shhhh, I don't want to be nerfed.
Brood commander missions are also found in difficulty 1 btw.
I found two 500s to be fine on it and with a team it's very easy to get to 500s off cuz they're so slow moving. Haven't played with the airstrike too much on it.
As a level 9 nerd, these things come in 2 to a bot drop, sometimes. That happens, I'm throwing a 380 and fucking running. One of them, I have 500 kgs and precision strikes for that. And the gatling guns on the chin are FAR more deadly than the cannon turret, IMHO.
man, those are bombs the eagle airstrike drops, not rockets. simple difference is that rockets are self propelled, bombs get all their propulsion from the plane dropping them. other than that, nice vid and thanks for the info, soldier 🫡
Summary of the video:
There's a new mission to kill the factory striders.
You can shoot the cannon off the top and turrets off the front, but this isn't effective for killing.
You can shoot the vents as they open, but this is also really slow.
You can kill it it with 380 barrage if it hits but it's rng.
The 500kg bomb isn't good.
It's under belly is very weak, but you can't realistically get to it in a full fight.
The nukes around the map will one shot it if it's close to one.
The auto cannon backpack weapon is likely the best weapon you can use against it. It will kill the turrets and cannon quickly, and even kill the strider with about half a mags worth of well places shots in the red light on its face.
The eagle air strike can kill it if it's perpendicular to you and you hit it with most of the bombs.
The orbital laser usually needs to be combined with other strategems like the rail cannon to kill it.
The fact that you need to say "as we have said earlier" many times, and mention "in helldivers 2" so many times too, says little about the quality of your videos.
It's obvious that your forcefuly extened the video duration and it's a pain to watch.
Minute 4:40 and you are still introducing "in this video, you will see..." C'mon
Seen ppl say these were hell… 1st 1 I seen was at end of a lv9 difficulty during evac and it got dropped on top of a stranded hellbomb and it went flying/rag dolling 200 feet in the air 😂 easiest enemy yet
Just died from a factory strider, got respawned, landed directly ontop of it, killed it then exploded and died again.
10/10 game
The orbital laser? No, no, with Democracy we can hit it with the FOURBITAL LASER!
Me and my squad were in helldive, got 4 of these bad boys on our main objective, just threw everything we had till they died xD
I have killed multiple factory striders with the 500 kilo bomb with one hit. You just have to throw it on top of its back near the vents.
If you hit a 500kg bomb under the strider it should one shot him, I did it once. Easier on standing targets, mine was luck it went right under its legs.
don't get how yous are still playing it so much it's the same shit over and over nothing has changed since launch and the crashes and the amount of bugs they haven't fixed is insane I've just quit after realising it has absolutely no depth to it atall and then the crashes and connections lost all the time is just making it unbearable 😴
I find it extremely odd that the eagle airstrike can take these guys out in one hit but they always seem to fail at killing hulks.
Eagle Airstrike has always been a better option than the 500kg
500kg as a cringey reddit meme pushed it way too far from its true worth
Did you try the thermite granade? I doubt it can oneshot but hoping to find a ok use for it.
On difficulty 7+ Factory Striders are a normal occurrence, which is why there is no mission for them after 6.
The precision strike also work wonder on those. One precision strike nearly OS them, and it's quite easy to pull it under their feets
We had 4 of these drop 1 rocket into a tower defense new map on suicide mission level... We died very quickly
Just wanted to ask about something. Just an hour ago on Martale, a bot planet, and saw someone doing a mission to target Bile Titans. Has anyone else seen this?
never fought one that close. last night we were killing them from half a map away with a dozen quazar shots or so.
You think they'll ever fix the FOV impacting the size of your scope?
I swear the bellhivers devs will see that the AC is being used a lot and then proceed to make it worse. They have done it before several times.
What gun are you using in the first clip btw, I don’t know why o don’t recognize it.
Worth noting the units that are set to be killed in a mission to kill them are tougher IE a strider or Titan kill mission will have a tougher one than what you find en mass in diff 7
Bro all you did was talk about nothing for 10 min before actually getting to anything g important
there 100% should be a difficulty 9 "eliminate factory strider convoy" mission or something where its 3 or 4 factory striders walking in a line or whatever
Destroy factory strider factory.
They’d be dropping more striders than you are sent to destroy. That factory strider factory idea though. Thats some high level bullsheet.
The padding of this video was unreal.
And all that for the most mediocre advise on the market.
If you land on them you can have the bots try and shoot you down (and therefore, shoot it's underbelly)
the reson why the eagal airstrike is good aginst them is because the side of the strider is weakness too. u can use lasor canon to kill it from the sides one eagal air strike and one lasor canon or the other way around
Why are we going through the “dozens of other non effective ways to kill the strider” before you get to the efficient method. Just spit it out already.
So much talking for nothing that's helpful
He wants to make longer videos for the YT ad algorithm.
I actually thought it was helpful to understand all the nuances of the unit. I've been having a lot of trouble dealing with them and didn't know like anything about these
I mean he gave timestamps so you can check out the content you care about without watching all the extra info that some people do care about
Hahaha you saved me alot of time
I literally saw one strider being dropped by a dropship in the command bunker mission
Man, I'd really like you to repeat yourself more to draw out the video length
Two 500KG kills them thou.. but yeah perhaps not the best cost efficientcy
A second one kinda ruins your Strat though, no more laser, rail cannons on cooldown,
Thank you for the video I die 30 times to these factory striders lol
I feel dumb for not thinking about the hellbombs littered around the map
Please stop ending every sentence with that same intonation it's driving me insane.
How does this respond to an EMP Strike?
They made the bile titan immune to stuns, so I bet they did the same here. Will have to try.
@@PaperMage236 Yep. Although it prevents it from deploying devastators
holy shit my guy is really padding for watch time with this one
Throw 2 eagle Airstrikes at it. You’re welcome.
Correction.. "The biggest automaton unit so far."