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

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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 : )

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.

Diving into prone puts you out when you're burning

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.

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)

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 :(

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

“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!

• Enemies are but an obstacle in this game, they don’t give xp or wtv.

So don’t be afraid to go around patrols that aren’t alerted. It’ll save you so much time, and reinforcements.

• When you go to higher levels, always bring some sort of anti tank weaponry.

• Keep your grenades for bug holes/fabricators/space ships, if not you’ll run out of ways to take out objectives at some point.

• Get democratic detonation as your first premium warbond.

Rebind your stratagem keybinds to literally anything other than your movement keys. It will pay off quickly as the ability to move and type in the codes is invaluable.

Other than that, as long as the main objectibe is cleared the mission is a success. Also all samples, Requisition Slips, and Super Credits picked up in a mission are shared and it does not matter who picks them up, as long as someone does it.

All samples, credits, everything you can collect during a match is SHARED.

If you die and loose all your samples, then someone else comes and picks them up, extracts with them, YOU STILL GET THOSE SAMPLES. Teamwork is important in this game.

Don't sleep on early stratagems, they are some of the best in the game.

There's a dive button for a reason! On fire? Dive! Taking fire from enemies? Dive! Feeling less democratic than a usual Tuesday? Dive!

This may be funny but I'm deathly serious.

Also Democratic detonation, cutting edge, and polar patriots are some of the best early game warbonds.

This is the most "subjective" tip I got: play with friends, and if you don't have any, turn your microphone on and find some divers, show your team that you don't know what your doing but the might of managed democracy flows from you, they will do they're democratic duty and support their comrade.

This. This so much. You can't take cover like against bots and sit like on a firing range. Move. Move. Then move some more. Always think that you're getting surrounded. Always check your flanks and rear. If there's a breach on 180° from where you need to go - then go, don't sit and fight it for no reason.

wow footage of my last dive. strange in this is am moving fairly fast the mission i was in I had no stimms and was crying like a bitch.

The machine gun turret is your best friend. The fast cool down and med pen is a godsend at diverting aggro and mob clean up. Just make sure you give it distance and tell your team you're calling it in.

I don't know if you are talking about the Helldivers part or the chickens, but it happened to me as well as a kid, I threw the feed bucket in the air and ran for my life.

So dumb...

Except that everywhere I run about 20 predator strain hunters jump me…

Keep spamming matchmaking; it will eventually connect.

Hold R to change weapon settings.

Middle mouse button to aim down sights.

Reloading wastes the rest of the magazine.

Use your stratagems. Use your stratagems. Always be using your stratagems.

Focus on objectives. Don't tunnelvision on enemies you don't need to engage.

Diving gives you super-armor. Dive a lot.

When you reinforce to bring back a player, do it near where they died if you can

The game's so recent that we are all beginners :D

i found a way to fix the matchmaking, launch a mission on your own (make sure ur crossplay is turned off) and when in the mission call an SOS beacon and return to your ship, now select that same mission again and people will start to join in (works every time)

Check this..might be helpful

https://heyhowtodoit.com/helldivers-2-tips-tricks/

1.On the automaton planets you can hijack SAM sites which gives you automatic anti air support that blows up all their reinforcements whenever they show up in the sky. 2.Hell bomb needs to be armed after it lands. 3. Instead of wasting your r points on niche stratagems buy the supply pack and the grenade launcher Which makes the early game much easier. 4.You can kill most bugs easier if you hit the joints(like in starships troopers)5. If you kill the units that call in support quickly they won’t be able to get reinforcements, for the bugs is the unit that excretes brownish gas for the automatons hit the guy who is about to shoot a flare gun(red glowing smoke) take a backup sniper just for those occasions. 6. (Temporary cheat) chargers can literally bug out(pun intended) on higher elevation and stop moving. 7. Take a grenade launcher to clear nests. 8. Always blow up the fabricator buildings with orbital bombardment/eagle etc. 9. Hold the reload button to change firing modes and scope distance. 10. You can use your support strategem grenades to stick on enemies and kill them via drop pods. I am sure there are more things I am forgetting now.I’ll add some later.

If you see roaming enemies, make sure you kill them all. After a few seconds of them being in combat with you, they will signal an alert which will trigger a big spawn of enemies.

Hold R (Square on PS5) to change fire mode (depends on weapon) or change how your flashlight works.

you don't need to extract after doing main objectives .obviously you don't get the extra points , but the mission completed are " successful"

I’ve honestly had more success killing chargers by hitting their legs instead of the abdomen, shoot a well aimed AT round on one of their legs to expose their soft bits and even normal rounds can kill it after

Honestly I wouldn't know where to begin. I'd reccomend Commisar Kai's videos, they explain a lot of the mechanics and stuff about the game that AH expects you to figure out on your own.

The tutorial in-game will get you started and throw you into the action without getting in the way or taking annoyingly long. It sets the tone for the story and the gameplay really well. From there, I recommend diving with friends if you can, but playing with randoms is also totally fine for a beginner.

There's been a ton of threads lately about what we think new divers should know. A few quick searches on the subreddit for things like "Xbox diver tips" will tell you an absolutely massive amount about the game and it's cultural norms.

Enjoy the game, clean wipe the map (you’ll want everything), play on a difficulty you can handle. The game is not complex nor that difficult.

1. Spend your warbond medals, you can only save 250 at a time and they fill up pretty quick.
2. Friendly fire isn't.
3. The difficulty levels are real.
4. You can farm super credits quickly on trivial difficulty by exploring minor points of interest (terminid maps are my favorite for this.)
5. If you get a sentry, don't stand between it and the target, you will die.
6. If you die and get reinforced, your hellpod is your first attack upon return.
7. Gas is amazing for crowd control.
8. Speed>Armor (opinion)
9. Requisition Slips are easily farmed in Eradicate missions.
10. SHOW NO MERCY.

Remember that samples are shared. It doesn't matter who brings it back to extract, everyone gets the same amount

It will not be releasing on Xbox One from what I’ve read.

Follow the tips presented to you, remember your training, and keep an itchy trigger finger in the dive button.

Otherwise, have fun and fight the good fight! Here’s some simple etiquette for new players:

Be nice

Don’t teamkill on purpose, say sorry if you do by mistake, they’ll usually forgive you

All currency pickups are shared by all players

Gems on the map are minor POI’s that contain samples and other goodies like shipping containers that can blown open with a grenade, or bunkers with two buttons that need two players to open

Quick play is your friend, expect that every random person you play with is a friend too!

Pay attention to if your bullet bounces off an enemy. If it does, it took no damage and needs something stronger to kill it

If you hear someone say “hellbomb armed, clear the area” you should probably run away from any loud ticking noise if you can hear it

Red stratagem beacons are usually something you don’t want to be standing near

Dying is a part of the game’s experience, don’t get discouraged, just kill the enemy more than they kill you

If you see a bug rear its head up like it’s about to howl, SHOOT IT. If you see a cyborg point his arm into the air with a red flash, SHOOT IT. If you see a weird floating purple spotlight flash blue, SHOOT IT.

I thought you said you were going blind, and I was about to leave you a list of my best build ideas for people who can't see good lol.

Going in blind, though? I think probably one of the biggest things are not to discount the starter equipment, with the exception of grenades. Machine gun and liberator are both excellent weapons, and the starter warbond has a lot of great stuff in it. The regular grenade you probably will never use again once you unlock impact grenades, though.

Weapon upgrades are new and they're good. You got a lot of progression to make it though, so always try to be using new weapons to level them once you hit 25 with the one you've got.

If you wear the shield backpack, blue strategems sometimes get stuck to it. Find out what button you press to drop your backpack and shrug it off before the pod comes down and kills you, then just pick your gear back up once its safe.

It always pains me whenever I see a teammate die due to my Hellbomb that I armed and keep pinging. It’s never intentional, but I have been kicked because of it.

Have fun! Seriously, take your time and try different weapons to see what you like.

Yep, everything makes a noise, but also listen for pings from your teammates, check you hud, or just run away from wherever you heard the que

This is so funny to me. 😂. Yes. But I can only hear it if I’m the one arming it since I’m so close.

Running away is the most powerful weapon you have. You're special forces, not Spartans. Your effectiveness is tactics and firepower, not superhuman size or durability.

Avoiding an engagement is a better strategy than killing every enemy you see. Particularly as the levels go higher, you will get overrun; no reason to bog yourself down faster.

When you do get into engagements, quick and decisive is the goal every time; learn what it looks like when your enemies are trying to call reinforcements, and prioritize killing those calls before they go out. There's a good description in a post above, I won't rehash that here, but it's great advice.

Diving is your second best weapon. Puts out fire, moves even when stunned, helps shake slowdown effects. The training tip about laying down to aim is real; you get reduced recoil and higher accuracy the more stable you are. Prone > Crouched > Standing > Moving, so if you see your enemy when they're still 30-50m out, diving prone to hit headshots at distance can be very effective.

Almost every enemy has a weak point; using them will help you punch WAY above your weight.

Teamwork and coordination will compensate for a lot in terms of lack of skill or equipment. Use the communication wheel if you can't or don't want to use voice. Coordinate your loadout with your fellow divers when possible; every drop over level 4 or 5 should include at least one diver with a dedicated anti-tank loadout, if possible.

Experiment with stratagems and primaries, but not both at once; always have at least one reliable weapon in every drop. Come out of the pod ready to kill.

Currencies are shared; pick up your allies' samples when they die, but leave their gear unless they give you permission. The call-down times on stratagems and support weapons can be pretty significant. The exception is primary weapons; they'll get a new one every time.

And most importantly: Have fun! Welcome to the fight to defend Managed Democracy! o7

Unlike the first game, you really need to genuinely use offensive stratagems to kill larger swarms and enemies. The days of being able to just run through a mission using only your primary and a solid heavy weapon seem to be over. Any enemy tougher than the basic grunts (like bile spewers and some of the tougher warrior strains) can sometimes take an entire magazine or 2 to kill from most primaries, and even many heavies will sometimes struggle unless you hit them in a weakspot. This is compounded by the fact that ammo seems harder to successfully manage than ever.

Even chargers (which you will see a dozen of in any particular mission after difficulty 5+) can easily tank several Recoiless Rifle rounds unless you hit them in particular spots, and even then, they will still most likely take 2 at least, which used to be a feature only the toughest enemies in Helldivers 1 could pull off, and only rarely at that.

Things like bombs and strafing runs are definitely a must instead of just a "nice to have."

You can use a stim on a fellow Helldiver if they’re health is critical.

as the helldiver manual states; FRIENDLY FIRE ISN'T

Lots of you probably already know but i found it by accident and figured I'd probably never find out about it, but holding the reload button lets you alter weapon functionality

Yeah they stink, especially when solo. That being said, I've found that moving to either side constantly will help avoid the initial blast killing you instantly and give you time to dive. I also have found that the expendable rocket will almost 1 shot them, and it's on a pretty low cd as well.

My hot tip is to not stand near my location when I am using the flamethrower. I'm not responsible for where the winds of democracy blow my liberating flames.

Ngl Im glad the game doesnt constantly hold your hand with obtrusive tool tips and pop ups. Most of the tips in here are just things like actually looking at the games settings or key bindings to see what does what. Now the lore perspective is that the training you received is just institutionally bad considering we’re more disposable fodder and less highly trained special ops.

I have come to realize that yes, their face is definitely the way to kill them fast instead of their thorax, (which is weird since most other bugs don't particularly care if you hit them in the head, and some can still move around and attack without it. You also seemingly get "critical hit" markers for hitting their thorax, but not the head) but honestly that seems pretty unreliable outside of shotguns. Their head is really small and aiming on console isn't really known for it's preciseness, especially in the heat of combat, and that's assuming you even have an angle to hit their head in the first place. The rest of their body is so bloated that it basically prevents headshots from anywhere but their front, in which case, you are probably about to get gooped on.

Yeah, cooldowns are much less of a problem than they were in Helldivers 1 IMO. There are some really strong stratagems that can clear a horde on a cooldown of slightly longer than a minute, and that's without upgrades. The fact that they also all have infinite uses instead of only specific ones makes them even more spammable. The new game definitely encourages their usage on a frequent and offensive basis. At most you might want to save one for a surprise bug breach or something, but outside of that, let those buggers loose.