Honestly I was blown away by how much of a difference the steering ship module made. It actually feels like steering the hell pod into larger enemies is a lot more feasible of an option when you get redeployed.

Use them tactically*

Don't yeet every reinforce ball into a horde of enemies.

Lvl 150 here. It's true. And people, for the love of Democracy, tag that titan you throw me at. I'll be your guillotine

Helldivers are stratagems but not all of them are orbital precision strikes.

Sometimes it's better to take a glance at what they have at the bottom left as you smash in their reinforcement and decide if you want them in the hoard, on the opposite side of the hoard to you or throw them up a hill or onto a rooftop.

If someone has both their support and backpack on cooldown, and I know they're running diligence sniper rifle, but they have anti tank emplacement ready to deploy.

I'm not going to throw them between 2 chargers and a titan hoping they take out 1 as they land

I'm going to throw them somewhere with low aggro and good sightlines then ping all 3 threats and hope they get the idea to use the AT emplacement to blow the shit out of everything.

It's harder with randoms but unless it's some absolute chad level psycho that's maiming bugs in the hundred with a stun lance, the middle of the hoard probably isn't the best place to always put a diver.

Please learn to break contact and focus main objective good god, some brainless people draw every base and patrols aggro dragging them around the map lmao

Haha, to be fair, this was back when the whole 'meta or kick' dumbassery was in swing before the fix to the railguns charge mechanic and nerf to its uncharged penetration.

Also, that's a tall order asking for practical tips. I don't even know what I'm doing half the time lol.

I'm all for people playing however they want. However...

It's important to remember that this is a team game, as you addressed in the second half of the post. So if you are in a squad, you should kind of take a cue from what the rest of your team is doing. If they are all off doing the secondary objectives, and you just go and extract without them, because that's how you wanted to play, that's not super cool. Same goes for taking called in gear from other players without asking, team killing for fun, and other things that are just general courtesy. Basically, have all the fun you want, until it starts interfering with other people's fun.

I’ve maxed everything just playing for fun

The amount of people telling others whats the right way to play this game in this sub is astonishing.

Diving into prone puts you out when you're burning

Welcome aboard! The Arc Thrower has helped me greatly on bug and squid missions and the Quasar for the bots. Just make sure you’re not around your team if you decide to have some fun with the Arc though.

And if you play regularly and try to hit up all the points of interest on each of your mission playthroughs, you’ll be grinding credits at a decent pace to buy warbonds without having to buy credits with IRL money.

Watch out for joining higher level missions if your on Xbox. The community is pretty nice when playing the easier difficulty levels but once you start doing the like lvl 7 and above people tend to just see the low lvl and Xbox symbol sometimes just kill you for no reason ie. “Your not staying with group” despite me doing side objectives and places of interest and I’m under the impression that difficultly doesn’t scale with player number. Idk could just be a couple of bad games, not trying to rain on your parade at all because it is a really fun game especially with friends, but just my experience.

Ps. Boosters aren’t one time uses so feel free to use whatever ones you like

Some bugs turn invisible. Don't get got.

What front do you play on?

For bots portable HB will be your best friend. You can also use Anti-tank emplacements for most things (command bunkers, factory striders, war striders, gunships). The stratagem jammer should be your top priority if you see one, they will often impede the other objectives especially without a portable HB. Hulks can be shot with medium piercing at their backs but it will take a while, it's preferred to use an anti tank strategem or heavy armor piercing weapons instead. Aim for their tiny heads. War striders take a lot of bullets with a HMG, so it's better to use a commando, expendable anti tank, or recoilless. you should shoot them in the crotch for maximum payoff. Railgun is also pretty good on this front if you're good at aiming. At difficulty 7+ reinforced striders will spawn, for these you will need medium piercing at minimum for one of your guns. Aim at their crotch as well. The senator can drop them in two shots. Your primary can be light or medium pen but it requires a bit of finesse with light pen. Keep to cover and try to pay attention to enemy fire cycles, you can pop out of cover and kill them if you time it right. Watch out for cannon turrets, they will one shot you without much difficulty. Factory striders have a weakspot under their bellies

https://preview.redd.it/r3ekacm660mf1.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=e8678dec119a7c4a7d36d87f5f848fe0246d1f8f

if you shoot here with an expendable anti tank or a few commando rounds they will go down instantly at full health, this is risky as approaching the factory strider can get you filled with machine gun rounds so be diligent you know what the strider is up to (focusing you or others)

Incineration Corps requires fire protection, you can play it without fire protection but you'll die pretty quickly if you take damage. Jet brigade troops explode when they're close, be aware of that before you panic shoot them. Besides that i don't have much else advice for this front, feel free to dm me if you'd like a friend to play with : )

Digging holes for your sentry/mortar/emplacement is quite the viable tactic for bot front, yes. Gives cover from all those flyin lasers.

(although quite time consuming, and you need to find a shovel first) 

I love that I now have an option to strap Super Earth's might on my back and charge into my problems, head on, to bring and any opposer of democracy around me to the light of Liberty.

Yup.

I have literally not played another game since I bought HD last year, 1st week in march.

I bought BG3 and haven’t touched it, Star wars Outlaws, Space Marine 2, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and s couple others… BUT CANT’T GET MYSELF TO PLAY ANYTHING ELSE!!! In 39 years of gaming I have NEVER played anything that has absolutely sucked me in like this. 2,700 missions so far, and I honestly enjoy the game even MORE now

Honestly, I would like to see a PVP shooter in this style.

It has the perfect blend of a more "tactical" shooter with an arcadey style one.

I would like them to just give their take on old hidden gems like MAG or Ghost recon phantoms.

Both of those games had good concepts and would be fun with helldivers' unique feel as well as having arrowhead at the helm.

Have you played Metal Gear Solid V? It’s more stealth-oriented but the movement and gunplay feel amazing, maybe even better than Helldivers imo.

100% agree. The attention to detail is great, especially now that many bugs/issues have been resolved. 

The gunplay really stands out, especially weapon handling to make machine guns feel like more than just high capacity rifles with more spread.

Map generation and being allowed to drop wherever in most cases really stands out to me but I haven’t really played games since the 2008 call of duty and Halo Reach.

Yea MGSV is very similar. Death Stranding also has that smooth but heavy / engaging movement too, though you won’t be diving as much.

Haha! Thanks for the effort to put this together as well and I will be sure to share this with my fellow Helldivers.

Notice to Super Earth High Command: Please reward all in the Ministry of Research with a complimentary case of Eagle Sweat!

EDIT: (Shipping & handling not included)

If you've discovered any other useful tips that are not included in the official SEDUCE document, please feel free to drop them in the comments.

how do you cook the grenades? and throw them back the robots's ones?

It annoys me when I’m out doing objectives or POIs away from the rest of the squad, and one of them dies, and the other 2 players won’t reinforce. I feel bad calling them back in, so far away from their stuff :(

“Don’t slip into aimlessness” should be the #1 tip (at least for some of the people in my group).

Let’s kill the bugs AND get the stuff guys!

Although extracting with all helldivers and dying less will make your impact better, this formula is no longer accuarate since AH has changed the calculations latley. Right now we dont know exactly how the impact is calculated and AH isnt answering anything about it, but it all points at impact being more "equal" across difficulties. We really need all the info ingame so more people know about this stuff tho so please put that in the surveys when they are open.

I guess they don't put it because It goes a bit against the lore that helldivers are crayon munchin "special" units

So if a helldiver is dead, do they count as "extracted"? Technically, they're on the ship as they haven't been launched yet.

I love the crap out of this game but it's becoming exceedingly frustrating to see how many of its mechanics aren't explained within the game itself. We have to rely on wiki, word of mouth, posts like these and "oh, but that guy mentioned it on discord that one time".

What's even more frustrating is people buying into the "game lore" excuse that Arrowhead have thrown out there, and parroting it around like OP. what's the "game lore" reason for the number of deaths or extractions mattering to the liberation progress? If the mission is successful then those factors should not matter at all. It's clearly a game mechanic. We have an end mission screen detailing how much XP and credits we got but they can't do a simple "6 deaths: -2 liberation contribution"?

We get no codex on our enemies, no information on how most of the mechanics work, even that recent poll to name a Megacity "Gun" was held on discord. For how great of a game it is, some of its shortcomings, especially on the QoL/live service aspect, are mind-blowing.

I'm so tired that in this game nothing is explained and all the numbers are lies. Weapon stats (and completely hidden "durable damage), armor rate, mission impact, planet progress - everything is not clear and confuses players. It is so easy to show numbers, it is actually much harder to hide them - you need to come up with something "general and easy to understand" instead of several clear honest numbers.

I want to work in AH only to clear out this mess.

For a year and a half, I had no clue how difficulty affected the campaign contribution since all I could do was base it off that number they give you at the end. So sometimes we’d spam Diff 1 thinking we were helping. We’d also do diff 10, but fast clear instead of full clear.

Then about two months ago, I was reading that wiki article and came to understand exactly how the system is set up and boooooy were we so wrong. I did a spreadsheet to compare full clears of all difficulties and it’s so freaking obvious how much more higher difficulties are helping than lower ones on liberation

I still don’t understand what the number at the end of a mission and op is. It doesn’t seem to jive with any number I’ve calculated

EDIT: I recreated my spreadsheet for calculating mission impact. I'm sure there are errors as it was done pretty quick, but it's all based on the official wiki numbers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10I0vOHR-l040THI7OyyNDYHWeJ0YLkAcKvm7NjXmDAU/edit?usp=sharing

Vindicated for all the times I've been shouting "get in the goddamn ship!" at my screen only to see someone trying to do some fancy trick get annihilated right before entering.

https://helldivers.wiki.gg/wiki/Second_Galactic_War_Mechanics

I think the DSS actions is a step in the right direction.

Non-maxed players need upgrades. So it is upon the vets to keep the DSS fed.

I think there should be more meta-campaign modifiers purchasable by community effort.
Like spending resources on SEAF facilities for liberation bonuses or defensive bonuses in their sector / region / neighborhood.

My suggestion would be a couple of AH provided "progress tracks" for different projects at every moment.
Some could be smaller projects like temporary 5th stratagems or minor local / regional longer-lasting effects.
Others could be really meta-campaign related. Like funding expansions of already existing sites of note (i.e. providing samples for the research center, donating for the deep mantle forge, etc.). This could influence the campaign in semi-foreseeable ways or steer towards unlocking the next upgrade tier.

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