Helldivers 2 - The Crossbow Juggernaut Build Is a BEAST.. (Solo, Super Helldive Difficulty)

[@eirikjohnsbraten6370]

Quick tip from someone who have been using sentries for a long time. Don't put your sentry down at your location. All the enemies are firing in that direction already, and both you and the sentry will be under heavy fire. Place it farther away and to the side. This way it will be able to flank the enemy attacking you, or, if the enemies go for the sentries, it will create a distraction so that you can flank the enemy or escape. Think of it like a team mate, and find out where you wish you had that team mate right now to help you out. Also, it also helps a little to plan ahead ;)

[@jolewisskates4173]

Yeah it's honestly the best when you do it properly, and it's so OP because they can't shoot both at the same time. The distance for turrets is super long and should be leveraged.

[@IliumGaming]

enfilading fire stays winning

[@Dragkna7-yg4fh]

Underrated comment. You and your team also get shot less by your own turret.

[@AlaiasAlias]

Also put sentry behind small rocks or tips of hills, give it some cover

[@emissarygw2264]

Disagree with behind rocks - on top of rocks is best, near-miss rockets don't explode behind and splash it, and it's shooting down so if it misses it hits the ground and still splashes the enemy

[@stanbauer3549]

A tip for ballistic shield : when you are running away from enemies who are firing from behind always select a support weapon so your shield is on your back and has a bigger chance of absorbing incoming damage.

[@foosington]

just went to the comment section to say this, as i use this same build as well

[@krevetka9744]

@@foosington Descended to say this as well lol. And if support weapon isn't available - we emote.

[@moisescisneros4871]

the last video he posted a while ago, when he had this build. he was doing it. i remember. i was telling my screen to switch lmao

[@anubis1800]

This actually works?

[@stanbauer3549]

@@anubis1800 it does

[@jamesdayton5712]

Bro refused to use quazar on hulks. He would say I have nothing for this hulk when he had a quazar on his back

[@melissaleigh8019]

28:42

[@SMMmc76]

New armour passive idea: Immovable, dramatically decreases your chances of being thrown by impacts and explosions

[@fulfillmenttheory]

Cool concept

[@stephenking3472]

Problem with that is it takes one of the highest problems with the game and locks it behind limiting your playstyle, the devs even acknowledged it as a feeling of helplessness

[@SecurityEscort]

Since I returned to Helldivers, I didn't use anything else but the Ballistic Shield, the crossbow, the Senator, the stun grenade and the Heavy Machine Gun. Additionally, I bring the Commando to take down Gunships and Turrets, and only use the 500kg. But getting ragdolled all the times from stray rockets really streched my patience at some point. ^^ Still, giving the HMG heavy armor pen makes it reallly fun to use it, since I can stun entire groups and then just mow them down with continuous gunfire.

[@ElectricJoeski]

Love the ballistic shield loadouts even if they could use a little buff. If you only want to run one sentry on bots, swap to rocket sentry for the extra range. If you don't want to take a sentry and keep the loadout the same - try strafing run. Can take out fabs and some heavies with its recent buffs. Helps with managing the swarms of patrols if you can manage the eagle re-arm. Personally, I like to run this type of loadout with Eagle Strafing run and walking barrage. Walking barrage can take care of detector towers + take out the remaining enemies and fabs. That said, it can very occasionally whiff the tower if you throw it at a weird angle but that's pretty rare once you get a hang of it.

[@jmcclain33]

I’ve had a lot of success with the rocket sentry. Also the 120 has been really goated for me recently. If you can drop it right on the bot drop it will take out some of the ships as they come in. If you also drop your rocket sentry, you’ll have loads of cover. I’ve been running eagle air strike, 120 barrage, quasar and rocket sentry.

[@samurich0]

what's the rest of your kit, if you don't mind me asking?

[@jmcclain33]

@ crossbow or purifier, senator or grenade pistol (with purifier), thermite and quasar or recoiless.

[@toeberto2215]

@Takibo always being a legend 👍 Thank you for your consistent and great content since the start of HD2! My favorite HD2 content creator 👌

[@Dragkna7-yg4fh]

I run a similar loadout that I think is more aggressive, more survivable and gets ragdolled less: Same armor (Heavy w exp res), but with the energy shield; it provides more cover more often, doesn't get destroyed and can be used with 2 handed weapons. Plasma Punisher as a primary because you can keep a couple groups of enemies in a stun locked state while making better use of cover with the lobbed shots, and take out the small pesky enemies much faster. Secondary has to be the Senator, being able to 2 tap the rocket striders (stagger them first with primary if there's a group), a clip for a gunship engine, and headshot everything else makes it too valuable to give up. Support is the EATs instead of the quasar, I find you have plenty of them and actually get more shots off than the quasar simply because all to often it's too dangerous to wait for quasar charge up. EATs is more aggressive and safer. Same grenade (thermite) for gaps in EATs. I find that the regular eagle airstrike is still better than nuke, unless you're on a bunker mission, though in that case just bring the orbital laser instead of the autocannon turret and keep running. Autocannon is great for aggressive solo, lots of dps, saves ammo and distracts enemies.

[@redtiger8275]

I think the orbital laser would have been good here, being able to throw it into a heavy outpost and let it do it's thing always helps me when I am short on time

[@rainwave6209]

hey taki, i havent played HD2 in about 6 months due to the questionable direction the game was going in when i stopped (around the time the TCS was the main objective), but now coming back to it, it seems that they've largely fixed many of the issues that were causing the game to suffer. when i played it before, your channel was my main source of information about the new warbonds, the balance changes, etc. that arrowhead were doing, and now i don't know where to start with trying to catch up on how everything works. your channel has once again proven a very helpful resource for me, thanks for sticking around and covering the game for as long as you have. :) P.S., do you think a "welcome back" video covering some of the changes made in the last few months would be worth the effort to make? I'm not sure how many people are coming back like me, so I'm not sure how many views it would get, but i'd sure as hell watch it 😭thanks for being the goat ❤

[@anubis1800]

Same. I just found your channel though. You're awesome for sticking around! Thx.

[@Ben-M112]

My current favorite loadout: Officer build, Light armor(the one in truth enforcers) The heavy smg, the senator sidearm, Strategems: EAT Personal shield Walking barrage Cluster eagle Works great for bots

[@MangoMirage]

ik you have a bubble but light armor makes me feel naked lol

[@echo5827]

Haven't seen someone bring walking barrage in years

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

@@echo5827prob cause it feels kinda like a more unpredictable version of the 380

[@jacobfoxfires964]

Pretty similar to my build. But I love the feeling of making up my own roles and playing the game differently. With this making me want to be the tank. And basically block everything in front of me as the teammates flank the bots. What differs tho is before the new plasma pistol, I mostly used the verdict to handle the chaff. The explosive crossbow being amazing before the 60 day plan. But now much better. The new thermites help a lot. I would use the commando actually cause of the quick fire and having more damage then the 2 EATs, however you can keep it all on your back. And also double sentries. Autocannon and rocket are busted with how they can basically deal with every kind of enemy. And alternating between them helps a lot.

[@emissarygw2264]

IMO what's missing is damage output. Use the sentry more (off cd) and bring another one even. If anything I'd drop the shield, though that's sad bc it's probably kind of the whole point. But a stratagem that doesn't bring dps is hard to get away with at lv10 spawn rates. PS I haven't tried the plasma pistol, but I like verdict for chaff due to its large clip.

[@AutistiCat2406]

Working towards getting verdict right now, really in dire need of such a reliable pistol like that

[@63Limar]

Dagger pistol is also pretty good, especially on frost planets

[@generaloverlord2988]

Yep i dont Use any shield, i regularly use guard dog, laser Canon and rocket sentry

[@Yogowafel]

"But a stratagem that doesn't bring dps is hard to get away with at lv10 spawn rates" meanwhile me rocking jump pack like all the time for quick repositioning and providing extra dps from normally not achievable angles

[@emissarygw2264]

@Yogowafel I do enjoy jump pack, but find it more useful for "hit the objectives and keep moving" gameplay rather than "kill everything then finish the objective" like juggernaut seems more aimed toward

[@BloodyVagabond]

Shielded crossbow gang❤️

[@Annokh]

Seeing the first time you died reminded me of this issue I have rather consistently: at some point your character stops using shield with your one-handed guns and only switching weapons (potentially to a two-handed one, then back) fixes it for me.

[@cooper1507]

His ability to spot hellbombs in just a second is wild.

[@mpredator1]

Two things to change, change to rocket sentry, its by far the best rn, also , why dont you use the quasar for big mobs and tanks? Many times u were saying u got nothin to deal with em, while holdin a big ass quasar in the back lmao. Otherwise entertaining as usual, keep up the good work

[@sophieirisviel4100]

i wonder what you'd think of using this loadout with the new energy shield, would make a secondary like the senator or verdict slightly more usable, since you;d have the option of using the first person view. additonally, the new siege ready armour? more crossbow and faster crossbow reload would be great

[@johnski4709]

The new Siege Ready Roadlock Armor works well with this. I didn't notice much damage difference.

[@ItzSpritz]

Hope you’re doing well Takibo. Appreciate the upload

[@IAIWE]

When you didn't pick up the rare samples in front of you at 4:53 and I went full "the triangle goes in the triangle hole... the tr- the traiang- no.. no not square hole..!" 😫

[@hamothemagnif8529]

I thought the addition of the crossbow was stupid at first. I’m now running it for both factions and i love it. (I’d rather it be some sort of rifle using magnetic propulsion for silence but whatever).

[@ПавелЕрофеев-д2р]

As a person who use shield qiet often, i can recomend swap quasar for comando launcher, with a good aim u can smash up to 4 hulks in a row, its more reliable against tanks, and its also very good versus gunships

[@blutadlerx]

This was basically my loadout for quite a while, only with eagle Airstrike and Rocket sentry. Medium Medic armor feels way better. You got the cover with the shield, and after the rockets nerf the survivability is very high. Faster and more Stims

[@evictor99]

Rocket sentry can roast the drop ships now, but you have to be out of the back last area.

[@c-valueenigma4977]

With the shield the senator is much better while still having enough to kill gunships and also emergency hulk buster. if you down a drop ship before it decouples the enemies they all die. if you down it right after decoupling it will crash below the enemies that are still in air dropping down. that bugs the enemies to be stuck in one place slightly above ground. It's a short window.

[@imcarolean]

Can we get some airburst gameplay? It's not terrible anymore 👀

[@mfrost96]

Been runing this build for a while using the comado insted and the little laser pistol. I carry the tream each time and the only stratagm i bring that kills things is the mg turret. The ability to hold thew line while your team runs away is a great asset

[@SagePent395]

My favorite build, sometimes I add HMGE with shield Gen Relay for that adestiny Titan feeling with the old bubble shield.

[@lupodellasteppa8479]

literally my first ever build, I thought of it without anyone and I thought I was original, now I see I'm not

[@kmins71015]

Nah no need to be that way, there's not much build ideas when you optimize as much as possible. Not that many combinations too.

[@Annokh]

​@@kmins71015 And I mean... There aren't many options for shield users anyway. And especially when there's a primary for them so much better and more versatile than anything else it's not even funny.

[@robwright8949]

2 questions: Why don't you use the quasar on the hulks? Why don't you shoot the bot ships?

[@HolyCarp0]

i use the strafing run, 380 barrage, ballistic shield and railgun, i have no problem with everything except for tanks. Also id recommend the verdict for the secondary because of high dps on med armor pen

[@yubbo3]

I don't understand how the rocket sentey has more range, it has much slower projectiles that are more likely to miss compared to the autocannon sentry

[@KorbanDallas1914]

B-27 fortified commando/arc thrower/thermites or gas nades/ xbow / big iron and 3 stratagems as u like. Been loving this juggernaut build and with stims in use u will be charging foes. Beware of cannon shots wich will still os sadly. The team has a lot more freedom to operate while i pull agro.

[@KzWazoo]

the plasma pistol is INSANE!

[@IshmaelDoe]

I think it may be a good idea if you use senator as side arm (up close/ rocket strider) since you already have a crossbow and use gas grenade (which work very well with primary/secondary that has aoe property), you already have qc so the thermite I feel is a bit overlapping with it.

[@ahmaddxa3063]

where is PEACE bro 44:20

[@NoamD]

love seeing you with thicc! did it gave you some new ideaes for loadouts?

[@Kittonwy]

Legends!

[@loganrogers9157]

My current go-to for automatons is my "N***a with a rocket launcher build" Focusing on the airburst rocket launcher which got buffs in its bomblets and now doesn't proxy detonate on corpses, it will decimate patrols of heavy devastators, rocket striders and rocket bois. Rocket sentry to aid in killing heavies Orbital Precision Strike for quick work of detector towers Either keep going with the Eagle rocket pod or just the airstrike for fabricators Primary is whatever you want for cleaning up stragglers, I chose the dominator (cause extra rocket-y) Senator for gunship engines and rocket striders Free space for the armor, I chose a peak physique set for use with the dominator (and definitely not for those sexy bicepts) Free space for the grenade, I went with thermites to help with hulks and to use as time delay fuses for hellbombs its an extremely fun loadout, it really feels like youre just being a menace to the enemy and watching their bodies ragdoll hundreds of feet into the air after your airburst hits feels like sweet sweet revenge :D

[@LukeMason]

I feel like you're just better off with the personal shield backpack. That way you get moments of invincibility where you can get your shots off, instead of constantly being vulnerable to ragdolling from rockets.

[@azakatura]

Remember- extraction is always optional.

[@starmiz1740]

As much as I want to do a "tank" loadout like that vs bots all the ragdolling makes it look extremely frustrating to play. I think I will just stick to light armor.

[@scottwilliamson8736]

Smashed it lad 👌 sup legends

[@Gwellir]

I usually do not even go to the extraction if I cannot complete it before the destroyer leaves Nothing to really do there, you can just pull the patrols away and arrive at the last second (Kinda opposes the idea of having a loadout to be able to have more fights, though) PS I also think the ballistic shield is too fragile and unreliable, with it always breaking down from explosives and sometimes simply staying on your back, sure it can protect you from factory doge's miniguns or heavies, but still

[@dj-troost528]

why don't you use the quasar to take down the bot ships? i saw quite alot of times where it would have saved you so much trouble

[@Ashen-coin]

IMPORTANT! - how do I fix/sync the initial drop pod sequence ? Because after the cutscene I’m already landed instead of the controlled fall. Help please

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Whats up legend!

[@sjirko]

Do you have mods or something? Your game functions way differently

[@ItzSpritz]

I would’ve brought the laser cannon with it being a snow planet.

[@NoamD]

the shield could really use a buff like 90 seconds cooldown

[@bunhole]

those samples can be donated!

[@kingcobra9159]

Runner build is honestly the most broken build for bots rn IMO. Jump pack + quasar and then whatever fits the mission objective Had 0 deaths on multiple occasions because I can always get away with things

[@maxpower8549]

What is the advantage of the ballistic shield to the energy shield?

[@henryjiang9990]

why quasar cannon instead of gernade launcher?

[@SheikahDiver]

I’d take the AMR over the QC. I think that’s what it’s missing!

[@J0hnnyonthespot]

swap out the muscle enhancement booster for vitality for a tankier build.

[@jordanmurehizon3747]

I really like the mg43 but i don't know what else id use to take out bots on high difficulty can you try it even if it might be a challenge

[@Kittonwy]

I love this game

[@Kittonwy]

Tons of kills

[@Not_Harvard]

Change 500 to orbital gas. Trust

[@FaithfulFrets]

ragdoll makes playing bots really un fun

[@ThePartisan13]

Don't get ragdolled then

[@smokeyvoid7181]

nice 😎

[@y-sin3111]

Ballistic shield did absolutely nothing for you the entire mission. And you could have done with eagle air strikes or rocket sentry instead.

[@franklinclinton3211]

why does this guy never shoot down the bot drops?

[@Macncheekshd2]

As soon as i saw the shadow i was scared for you 😂🤣 34:35

[@ThaBornIdentity]

higher bot difficulties I unironically use this build as well. crossbow wrecks bots and the blast resist heavy armor is so goated at living through BS. that with the shield is sooooo good. I like where your heads at!

[@CJM738]

Let's see a mortar run. Don't think I have seen you use them much

[@norekun1850]

Where's my peace?

[@DarkerThanBlack88]

Pulled it off without dying Died 3 times 😆 Edit: goes on to die 2 more times before extraction

[@07วศินขวัญมงคล]

3ปีพี่โหลดเสร็จ555

[@kk-oh3nr]

why not just use the shield pack?

[@declicitous1763]

shield pack gets shredded very quickly under continuous fire, ballistic shield is like a wall in front of your face that lasta forever against bullets

[@CodyisKing]

very gai. crossbows are lame, any even more lame in future warfare. fire the devs

[@Thisishowwedoit-z5n]

You NEED to try gas with the explosive crossbow. It one shots everything in the gas expect for hulks!