It’s cool to see a creator focusing on the tactical / team play aspects of the game. Many are doing great weapon / strategem guides and necessary research of game mechanics, but this stuff is equally as important!
12:25 When you're out of Stims and could use a teammate to stim you, you can also spam the stim button. Your Helldiver will say "I need STIMS!!!" so hopefully your team will catch on.
my friend of mine gave me the nickname "Danger Close" because i'm always calling in eagles and orbital lasers close by. can't help that the bugs have a serious case of "invading your personal space."
You’ve became my favorite Helldivers 2 content creator. You shed light on good guns, you aren’t afraid to piss on meta shit. And I love the fact you play with randoms, in an uncoordinated and unique setting. Whereas most guys will play with their friends and expect everyone to be as skillful as them.
13:47 Extraction spawns: from what I know, you are correct. They come from nearest bug holes/fabricator first, if those are clear, edge of the map nearest extraction. HOWEVER, I do believe that, if you have a player within X meters of the edge of the map nearest extraction, they simply will NOT spawn. If you've ever had a REALLY quiet extraction and wondered why, it's probably because all the enemy spawn points were destroyed AND extraction was actually close enough to the edge of the map that being there cancelled the spawns.
As always, your demonstrations are a fine addition to our SEAF 72 hour training courses. I really appreciate how you break down your loadout and how you're using it to support fellow players. It's really refreshing to see, so please keep up the great work for Super Earth!
I was digging through my loadout document trying to find a way to dominate against the bots without using the AMR, AC, or Laser Cannon, and I landed on the recoilless for this one. It's an exceptional weapon against the bots, and in my opinion edges out the EAT and Quasar cannon for the best option against heavy armor. I wanted to run the plasma punisher with it again, but didn't want to double up on the same primary in two videos, but the scorcher did the job well. Hope y'all enjoy this showcase of the RR. Give it a shot and let me know how it felt! I hope that these videos can help y'all that have yet to break into the higher difficulties by showing you a solid loadout and demonstrating how to use it. Edit: I'll be getting a new mic soon, so hopefully that will make the videos sound a little better!
It is also my candidate build. I prefer plasma punisher which can take care of mass medium bot pretty well. My worry might be gunship, not sure will try it.
You can stop patrols from spawning entirely during extraction if you've killed all the fabs/nests. Have someone stand near the edge of the map where the patrols come in. As long as the team is within 75m of each other (it can be a straight line as long as another player is in the radius who has the next player in their radius, and so on). The game considers them considered all players as 1 unit for the purpose of spawning patrols. This means it will only spawn patrols from one place, but it cannot spawn patrols directly on top of a player. By being near the edge of the map it stops the game from spawning patrols entirely if you can get control of that space. Easier said than done on 9, but it's been a nice tool when maybe the team could use a breather at the end.
one thing that gets slept on quite a bit is the team reload that some weapons like the Recoiless have, with a team reload the Recoiless has by far the fastest fire rate of any anti-tank weapon
I'll try and get an example of this in a future video because it is absurdly powerful. It's a little difficult to do with randoms, but I think I have an idea of how to use pings to make it happen.
@@CommissarKaiI managed it with a random where we took out three Shrieker nests (two rockets each) and a bile titan in under a minute from over 100m away (had to resupply halfway through)
Always helps to give first. If you see someone else on your team that is currently using it, grab one yourself (or if they happen to toss their second set) and sidle alongside them when the range is target rich. Same goes for autocannon and Spear.
Long after you've memorized every enemy's attack patterns, formations, and base layouts, there's the endless game of "what is my teammate going to do next?" May the caring far exceed the kicking.
Thanks for the tip on the 2 stage reload animation. My tip for reloading the reco is wait for the red icon to turn white with the shell, then stand up. It shortens the reload animation by a bit
Appreciate it helldiver! I'm going out of town for the weekend, but next week I'll be working on getting a discord up and running. I'd love to play with y'all too!
Great video, and it touches on something me and my friends have talked about about in this game often. Players seem to not notice what their fellow Helldivers are doing, especially during combat. The number of times I’ve seen a cluster strike get dropped on a breach that’s already contained by a gas strike, for example, is too damn high 😅 A good diver should always be aware of what is already being handled, and where he can best focus his attention. Teammate pinned down by a tank? Lend some help! That charger just got its butt shot off by your ally? Let it bleed out, turn your rockets towards the bile titan bearing down on your other buddies who are running for the hills. Awareness extends beyond simply what is in your crosshairs, Helldivers.
Hi CommissarKai, would you like into making a video on game sense?.. when to fight, what targets to prioritise etc. Really enjoying your videos. Keep it up.
The recoilless is 100% my go-to support weapon. Super-reliable solution to all heavy armor needs that preserves stratagems for objectives, and a really flashy way to significantly reduce pressure from bot drops with some judicious marksmanship. And on bug planets, it's an "I win" button against Chargers as long as you can keep the chaff off of you long enough to toreador and reload.
i don't know if anyone has said it here yet but another ping tip i discovered a ps5 player using was they repeatedly pinged "follow me" when they found a bunker or 'friendship button' XD and being on voice chat myself i asked out loud if they were at a bunker and they pinged "affirmative" and basically from then on if i saw them ping follow me i knew to either ping "affirmative" or just tell them I'm on my way. To me the reason this works better than pinging location is that there isn't a bunker specific ping like it won't ping as a bunker and if you accidentally ping something in the bunker then it'll just pop up as that specific thing you ping. Hope this helps
Great, positive and instructive video, I love it! Here's my bit of advice for ya!: To interrupt your recoilless rifle's animation, I recommend quick tapping the stratagem call-in button. Its about half a second faster and less cumbersome than weapon switching, especially when you just want to fire back-to-back recoilless like around 15:40!
It may have been mentioned, but pressing crouch as soon as the Reciolless Shows refilled in the UI on the bottom left saves some time on the reload as well.
I may be late BUT the recoilless can also snipe command bunkers. With the right position and a little bit of luck you can take them out from across the map. I dealt with Three out of four without leaving my hill once
the 2 picks II take that are outside the norm is the orbital smoke strike and the eagle 110. the smoke let's you escape a bad situation way easier, gives your team cover in a firefight, and really helps in a hot extract. wish it was a bit more consistent with the coverage but I normally take it anyway cause no one else does and I am almost always using it whenever it's off cool-down. the Eagle 110 is not as flashy and not as consistent as the basic airstrike, it's aim is questionable sometimes, but when it hits it straight ends tanks, towers, and mobile factories if you hit em several times.
Great video. Running as a two man team, one is point man and one is support. Point decides the objective and draws aggro, support hangs back and takes out the aggro. One of you will always be in position to cover the other because you both won't get overwhelmed by the same wave of enemies. Gas or napalm strike are good for walling off enemies. And I usually take recoiless for heavies and gatling sentry for trash.
You might want to consider switching from the Senator to the new D. Eagle 14mm semiautomatic pistol from last month's Polar war bond. It deals slightly less damage per shot, but makes up for it with a better magazine size, better sights, and a faster reload.
The D. Eagle is also a great option. I usually prefer the senator, but its purely for the anesthetics and being able to do tricks with it. Functionally, the D. Eagle is probably the better choice!
Enjoyed the video, thanks for a breakdown on utilizing the RR! I enjoyed your break down while showing game play examples as well! Ready to see this new biome we got coming!
I run the same build, and a slight alternate, with the same strategy. You can sub the recoiless with the spear, and when I do that I like to run the grenade pistol in case I need to take out a factory jammer. Wide open tundra map I'll pack the spear for popping hulks and turrents from another zip code. More claustrophobic maps, like jungle or forrest and I'll run the recoilless. If I'm running the spear I might also sub the orbital railgun for the laser in case I have trouble locking or have multiple hulks to deal with at once.
I'll be using it after the patch on Tuesday! I actually already have a game recorded using it with this same loadout, but decided on this game since it was a deathless helldive. My hope is that Arrowhead gives the purifier the medium penetration it's supposed to have (not working currently) in this next patch. If they do, the purifier is going to JUMP to the top of my primaries against the bots. It's effective even now, but it's essentially the plasma punisher with a charge time, more ammo, and longer range.
Shit, this is actually really good, and idk why but I really wanna use it now Also I love these videos, but I hope I ain't ever get in one cause I tried to get back to bots and I was STRUGGLING man lmao
I really wish killing a dropship actually killed the bots in the dropship. It would make the RR actually viable, instead of fun, flashy, but unfortunately ineffective Also wtf is with RR not one-shotting tanks and towers when hit in the vents? The RR would feel far better to use if it actually killed them in one shot
You ended this video talking about how it was "a true team of helldivin' professionals." What are your thoughts on a video when the rest of the team isn't so much on the professional side?
Good question! This game was the exception rather than the rule. All of my other helldiver videos are either solo helldive runs or me guiding a team of cadets to the win. Check out my last bug video for a good example of less than stellar teammates.
I think you have you talk about how shooting the dropship down after it lets the bots out can STILL take them out. the entire ship comes crashing down on them, its basically a projectile ever have one come down on you?
True, but it doesn’t usually kill the bots it lands on very well. Or at least, devastators seem to survive around half the time, in my experience. It’s not useless, but if there’s gonna be more dropships coming (or there’s a tank or hulk or whatever already on the ground), it’s often better to ignore the empty dropship and focus on the next one or the tanks in play.
It’s cool to see a creator focusing on the tactical / team play aspects of the game. Many are doing great weapon / strategem guides and necessary research of game mechanics, but this stuff is equally as important!
12:25 When you're out of Stims and could use a teammate to stim you, you can also spam the stim button. Your Helldiver will say "I need STIMS!!!" so hopefully your team will catch on.
my friend of mine gave me the nickname "Danger Close" because i'm always calling in eagles and orbital lasers close by. can't help that the bugs have a serious case of "invading your personal space."
**in a gravelly voice** Danger is my middle name. Close is my second middle name.
😊😊😊
You’ve became my favorite Helldivers 2 content creator. You shed light on good guns, you aren’t afraid to piss on meta shit. And I love the fact you play with randoms, in an uncoordinated and unique setting. Whereas most guys will play with their friends and expect everyone to be as skillful as them.
13:47 Extraction spawns: from what I know, you are correct. They come from nearest bug holes/fabricator first, if those are clear, edge of the map nearest extraction. HOWEVER, I do believe that, if you have a player within X meters of the edge of the map nearest extraction, they simply will NOT spawn. If you've ever had a REALLY quiet extraction and wondered why, it's probably because all the enemy spawn points were destroyed AND extraction was actually close enough to the edge of the map that being there cancelled the spawns.
You carry the torch of JOLLY COOPERATION
As always, your demonstrations are a fine addition to our SEAF 72 hour training courses. I really appreciate how you break down your loadout and how you're using it to support fellow players. It's really refreshing to see, so please keep up the great work for Super Earth!
I was digging through my loadout document trying to find a way to dominate against the bots without using the AMR, AC, or Laser Cannon, and I landed on the recoilless for this one. It's an exceptional weapon against the bots, and in my opinion edges out the EAT and Quasar cannon for the best option against heavy armor. I wanted to run the plasma punisher with it again, but didn't want to double up on the same primary in two videos, but the scorcher did the job well. Hope y'all enjoy this showcase of the RR. Give it a shot and let me know how it felt! I hope that these videos can help y'all that have yet to break into the higher difficulties by showing you a solid loadout and demonstrating how to use it.
Edit: I'll be getting a new mic soon, so hopefully that will make the videos sound a little better!
To be honest I think the mic has its charm
It is also my candidate build. I prefer plasma punisher which can take care of mass medium bot pretty well.
My worry might be gunship, not sure will try it.
@@JingSkyJokergunships are no problem with the recoilless, unless you let them build up to 4+ at once
You can stop patrols from spawning entirely during extraction if you've killed all the fabs/nests. Have someone stand near the edge of the map where the patrols come in. As long as the team is within 75m of each other (it can be a straight line as long as another player is in the radius who has the next player in their radius, and so on). The game considers them considered all players as 1 unit for the purpose of spawning patrols. This means it will only spawn patrols from one place, but it cannot spawn patrols directly on top of a player. By being near the edge of the map it stops the game from spawning patrols entirely if you can get control of that space. Easier said than done on 9, but it's been a nice tool when maybe the team could use a breather at the end.
one thing that gets slept on quite a bit is the team reload that some weapons like the Recoiless have, with a team reload the Recoiless has by far the fastest fire rate of any anti-tank weapon
I'll try and get an example of this in a future video because it is absurdly powerful. It's a little difficult to do with randoms, but I think I have an idea of how to use pings to make it happen.
@@CommissarKaiI managed it with a random where we took out three Shrieker nests (two rockets each) and a bile titan in under a minute from over 100m away (had to resupply halfway through)
Way I communicate it is to drop the backpack, ping it, typing "assisted reload S3?" (For example) in chat
Always helps to give first. If you see someone else on your team that is currently using it, grab one yourself (or if they happen to toss their second set) and sidle alongside them when the range is target rich. Same goes for autocannon and Spear.
Long after you've memorized every enemy's attack patterns, formations, and base layouts, there's the endless game of "what is my teammate going to do next?" May the caring far exceed the kicking.
Thanks for the tip on the 2 stage reload animation. My tip for reloading the reco is wait for the red icon to turn white with the shell, then stand up. It shortens the reload animation by a bit
Great video man! Glad to hear someone talking about always being eager to learn, lots of people have to much of an ego nowadays.
It never made sense to me to have an ego in a co-op game. The only contest here is between Managed Democracy and Tyranny!
Commissar you are currently my favorite lvl9 runner just wholesome good gameplay the entire run id love to run some missions with you some time.
Appreciate it helldiver! I'm going out of town for the weekend, but next week I'll be working on getting a discord up and running. I'd love to play with y'all too!
Another banger. You and phacil are quickly becoming my favorite to watch. Thank you for creating and sharing with us
Fun fact: if you have no stims to heal yourself and press the button to use them again, your character will shout out "I need stims!"
Great video, and it touches on something me and my friends have talked about about in this game often. Players seem to not notice what their fellow Helldivers are doing, especially during combat. The number of times I’ve seen a cluster strike get dropped on a breach that’s already contained by a gas strike, for example, is too damn high 😅
A good diver should always be aware of what is already being handled, and where he can best focus his attention. Teammate pinned down by a tank? Lend some help! That charger just got its butt shot off by your ally? Let it bleed out, turn your rockets towards the bile titan bearing down on your other buddies who are running for the hills.
Awareness extends beyond simply what is in your crosshairs, Helldivers.
Hi CommissarKai, would you like into making a video on game sense?.. when to fight, what targets to prioritise etc.
Really enjoying your videos. Keep it up.
That is a darn good idea. I'll see what I can do!
Big ups to S4. A real bro
This is so fun to watch with you! Go team!
I'm pretty sure about 1/3 of the community doesn't even know there are bots in this game.
The recoilless is 100% my go-to support weapon. Super-reliable solution to all heavy armor needs that preserves stratagems for objectives, and a really flashy way to significantly reduce pressure from bot drops with some judicious marksmanship. And on bug planets, it's an "I win" button against Chargers as long as you can keep the chaff off of you long enough to toreador and reload.
i don't know if anyone has said it here yet but another ping tip i discovered a ps5 player using was they repeatedly pinged "follow me" when they found a bunker or 'friendship button' XD and being on voice chat myself i asked out loud if they were at a bunker and they pinged "affirmative" and basically from then on if i saw them ping follow me i knew to either ping "affirmative" or just tell them I'm on my way.
To me the reason this works better than pinging location is that there isn't a bunker specific ping like it won't ping as a bunker and if you accidentally ping something in the bunker then it'll just pop up as that specific thing you ping.
Hope this helps
Great, positive and instructive video, I love it!
Here's my bit of advice for ya!:
To interrupt your recoilless rifle's animation, I recommend quick tapping the stratagem call-in button. Its about half a second faster and less cumbersome than weapon switching, especially when you just want to fire back-to-back recoilless like around 15:40!
It may have been mentioned, but pressing crouch as soon as the Reciolless Shows refilled in the UI on the bottom left saves some time on the reload as well.
It was not mentioned. He was animation canceling it wrong.
@@adeadfishdiedDoes crouching animation cancel better than pulling out a primary? I'm still learning this weapon.
I may be late BUT the recoilless can also snipe command bunkers. With the right position and a little bit of luck you can take them out from across the map. I dealt with Three out of four without leaving my hill once
Yep love the recoiless for bots, many have loved my work with it against drop ships
the 2 picks II take that are outside the norm is the orbital smoke strike and the eagle 110.
the smoke let's you escape a bad situation way easier, gives your team cover in a firefight, and really helps in a hot extract. wish it was a bit more consistent with the coverage but I normally take it anyway cause no one else does and I am almost always using it whenever it's off cool-down.
the Eagle 110 is not as flashy and not as consistent as the basic airstrike, it's aim is questionable sometimes, but when it hits it straight ends tanks, towers, and mobile factories if you hit em several times.
You can also spam the quick stim button which will make your helldiver say he needs stims.
Another great suggestion! I'll give it a shot next time it comes up.
Great video. Running as a two man team, one is point man and one is support. Point decides the objective and draws aggro, support hangs back and takes out the aggro. One of you will always be in position to cover the other because you both won't get overwhelmed by the same wave of enemies. Gas or napalm strike are good for walling off enemies. And I usually take recoiless for heavies and gatling sentry for trash.
You might want to consider switching from the Senator to the new D. Eagle 14mm semiautomatic pistol from last month's Polar war bond. It deals slightly less damage per shot, but makes up for it with a better magazine size, better sights, and a faster reload.
The D. Eagle is also a great option. I usually prefer the senator, but its purely for the anesthetics and being able to do tricks with it. Functionally, the D. Eagle is probably the better choice!
Liking the different load outs. Subbed!
Enjoyed the video, thanks for a breakdown on utilizing the RR! I enjoyed your break down while showing game play examples as well! Ready to see this new biome we got coming!
Great teamwork, greater commentary
Instead of pinging for supplies, you can also stim while you're out of them in order to have your helldiver say it.
I run the same build, and a slight alternate, with the same strategy. You can sub the recoiless with the spear, and when I do that I like to run the grenade pistol in case I need to take out a factory jammer.
Wide open tundra map I'll pack the spear for popping hulks and turrents from another zip code. More claustrophobic maps, like jungle or forrest and I'll run the recoilless.
If I'm running the spear I might also sub the orbital railgun for the laser in case I have trouble locking or have multiple hulks to deal with at once.
I use the recoiless often. Great team work.
Top content as always. Second the commenter who said he wants to play with you. Discord will be dope!
Can you do a video utilizing the purifier?
I'll be using it after the patch on Tuesday! I actually already have a game recorded using it with this same loadout, but decided on this game since it was a deathless helldive. My hope is that Arrowhead gives the purifier the medium penetration it's supposed to have (not working currently) in this next patch. If they do, the purifier is going to JUMP to the top of my primaries against the bots. It's effective even now, but it's essentially the plasma punisher with a charge time, more ammo, and longer range.
Very insightful! 💪
When I see someone going recoiless I always offer to carry a second ammo backpack when they can call it in again, doubling their ammo capacity.
Recoilless is arguably better than the autocannon just due to straight damage. However reloading is a huge problem to compensate for that.
I run a similar load out, RR is so versatile.
Shit, this is actually really good, and idk why but I really wanna use it now
Also I love these videos, but I hope I ain't ever get in one cause I tried to get back to bots and I was STRUGGLING man lmao
Can i please play in your vids? I love doing unique builds, and teamwork is so awesome to see
You can disable auto climb now, just in case ya didn't know that.
If you call for a resupply that ping it so other people know! And pind the enemy's!
I'm still kicking myself for that one. Poor D2.
I really wish killing a dropship actually killed the bots in the dropship. It would make the RR actually viable, instead of fun, flashy, but unfortunately ineffective
Also wtf is with RR not one-shotting tanks and towers when hit in the vents? The RR would feel far better to use if it actually killed them in one shot
You ended this video talking about how it was "a true team of helldivin' professionals." What are your thoughts on a video when the rest of the team isn't so much on the professional side?
Good question! This game was the exception rather than the rule. All of my other helldiver videos are either solo helldive runs or me guiding a team of cadets to the win. Check out my last bug video for a good example of less than stellar teammates.
I think you have you talk about how shooting the dropship down after it lets the bots out can STILL take them out. the entire ship comes crashing down on them, its basically a projectile ever have one come down on you?
True, but it doesn’t usually kill the bots it lands on very well. Or at least, devastators seem to survive around half the time, in my experience.
It’s not useless, but if there’s gonna be more dropships coming (or there’s a tank or hulk or whatever already on the ground), it’s often better to ignore the empty dropship and focus on the next one or the tanks in play.