Helldivers 2 - The NEW Tesla Tower Is VERY Powerful.. (Solo, Super Helldive Difficulty)

[@MrFunzerker]

Press 5 to bring up or stow guard dog

[@samuelcolby7786]

Or down on D pad

[@Rubenkg10]

same as the supply pack in case you've changed it

[@NicholasLeicht]

@@samuelcolby7786thank you!

[@purgelevy4099]

Hows the lumbago

[@contentconsumer3743]

Not the hero I needed or deserved, but a hero none the less.

[@garycrvg1]

hey Takibo! with the number 5 you can call the guard dog back haha Edit: 15:50 now you don't have increased patrols when you finish the main obj, only when getting closer to extraction, this mechanic now let you explore the map for secondary objectives and sample farming, so basically you're not punished for completing the mission fast anymore

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Orbital gas is perfect with tesla tower. Doesn't destroy the tower and can stop chargers from blasting right through.

[@illeatmyhat]

I've had a very good experience setting up an EMS sentry before dropping a Tesla tower in the center of a heavy nest I feel like orbital gas lacks the staying power needed to circle the entire thing

[@QuadraticBajeena]

@@illeatmyhatWouldn’t ems stop them from approaching the tower? And having to avoid the tower while closing theholes sounds terrible lol

[@boum5054]

@@QuadraticBajeena I've been putting a tesla in the middle for a while now and with the grande pistol / explosive crossbow you dont really step in it, once the nest is done you destroy it and collect samples

[@theguyyouwatchfornoreason]

@@boum5054 my dumbass takes it personal when someone breaks my tesla

[@theguyyouwatchfornoreason]

another good combo is the tesla tower and the halt shotgun, just stun anything that could break it

[@ItzSpritz]

4:23 “not overpowered” lmao Takibo tryna make sure the devs don’t nerf the orbital napalm

[@imusik_7731]

Nah he just makes sure people aint crying again in the comment section

[@j_mzyy]

shhh

[@Lucifer-fj7mg]

😂

[@alliedanchor8864]

It's really not that OP. It's great at clearing fodder and medium enemies while not being strong enough to reliably take out heavies.

[@Tristan-mc4wm]

@@alliedanchor8864 still op tho

[@evictor99]

Tesla tower is the number 1 team kill strategem.

[@Shway_Maximus]

More so than ONB lol

[@Porker_Hamfries]

Giggles in mortar sentry

[@dannycastro4017]

Giggle in eagle cluster strike

[@cheznugget]

I main airburst rocket laucher an would have to disagree

[@illeatmyhat]

orbital napalm and mortars on defense

[@Arleer158]

By the way, you can use strategem landings to close bug holes, like the resupply, SOS beacon, guard dog, etc. Anything that drops a pod, the pod can close the bug hole with a pretty decent radius.

[@dennisdavis6943]

12:50 i think your guard dog took the hit from that stalker. It still has plenty of ammo but it returned to your back, then it was sparking while on your back.

[@levonflodqvist]

Tesla tower before patch was already a go to for me but after patch... Oh boy

[@doglog5748]

What are they keys for placement and best times to deploy it?

[@hadson2460]

@@doglog5748 Predict where enemies will be coming from. Chockepoints are best. Don't throw when out of threat, but throw when doing camps or when a wave comes in !

[@levonflodqvist]

@@doglog5748 *clearing throat* all things you need to know when using tesla tower: -most importantly (but you can probably already guess this) it's useless against bots since if you haven't noticed yet, they kinda have guns which can kinda snipe it before it does anything -bring. Stuns. Chargers and tesla towers go together like a wrecking ball and an ant, spoiler: the charger is the wrecking ball -backing up the last point its good to have a viable insta-kill type anti tank support weapon for said charger e.g. rr, eat etc. -when to throw it: Ideally at bug breaches and right after a bug breach since the time between bug breaches is longer than the cool down for the tower -now for where: I find you wanna try and aim it to either the left or right hand side of the bug breach because this allows it to do it's zappy thingy, is at a position where it (hopefully) won't team kill AND can even distract some enemies away from you and your squad to take they heat off of battle -The very short cool down is quite forgiving I find -also if you play with a group of friends it's good to inform them of your tesla tower shenanigans cos it certainly isn't perfect especially when it comes to keeping the whole squad in tacked -I understand in the heat of battle it's near impossible to keep by all of these things and I doubt I've ever done a mission where i did everything perfectly but I hope this helps overall

[@DEMONITION1723]

​@@doglog5748 it's very easy in defence missions. All emplacements struggle in other types.

[@Hemoptysisplus3]

Turrets produce their own threat including the tower. Place them at 20m from breaches, bottom of the entry to the bigger nests to make for easy clearing. Defensive like assets 2 people with towers opposing sides. Team just has to focus on heavies only. Towers handle the rest. Also players can overlap towers with 20seconds(ish) of 2 if original isn’t destroyed

[@94mikless]

If your teammate doesn't destroy it after 3 seconds with a 500kg 😂

[@heymelon]

Wohoo fun and powerful toys! What a time to take a break from nerf marines 2

[@Marauder698]

big nerfs there too!?

[@heymelon]

@@Marauder698 Today yeah

[@RiceCubeTech]

@@heymelonlmaoo imagine helldivers being the savior game from space marine when 2 months ago that was the other way around

[@alik250]

Press "backpack function" assigned button to stow guard dog, same as giving yourself ammo with the ammo pack Also, end-of-mission patrols were changed too. They only ramp up near extract instead of everywhere (I don't like this change much)

[@VixenTheProtogen]

Having the stratagem open as mouse5 and a double bind to walk forward with that AND w is genius, ty for the idea (even tho u didnt mention it)

[@thonking7193]

im pretty sure at 12:50 the reason the stalker didnt hit you is because it hit the drone instead (notice how it landed on your back and started sparking for a few seconds)

[@nathantagg2691]

99% of senator users throw a thermite right before finally killing the bile titan

[@Sotanaht01]

I think the Macine Gun Sentry does pretty much everything you'd want the Tesla to do. The tesla CAN last longer/kill more in theory, but that's not going to happen all that often. Meanwhile the MG is perfectly capable of killing a large number of bugs during it's lifetime and much much less dangerous to yourself and teammates. They definitely aren't the same and there are some highlights to either, I just think the MG is going to fit most of the same roles safer and more reliably.

[@LordTouchMe-ow9fk]

Can definitely agree and with the shorter cooldown is I find more reliable even if just for a distraction (also forgot to mention you can get 2 up majority of the time if they arnt shooting much)

[@Sotanaht01]

@@LordTouchMe-ow9fk You can technically get 2 Teslas up too, the duration is 30 seconds longer than the cooldown before cooldown reduction. Almost never happens in practice. Either they get destroyed, run out of ammo, or you move on to a new area. Sitting around in one place for more than 1 minute while a sentry ISN'T shooting anything rarely makes sense.

[@LordTouchMe-ow9fk]

@@Sotanaht01 I only place them on objs and sometimes there's no patrols or it's all clear and it has spare ammo so I place another

[@LordTouchMe-ow9fk]

Deals with patrols if I'm still doing the longer objs/not tanks but that's why I drop eats as well pretty much anywhere on the obj site

[@LordTouchMe-ow9fk]

@@Sotanaht01 trust me I already know I've used it but Tesla is nice until it cuts you off from going in a direction and you need to shoot it

[@aziouss2863]

An AT loadout or one with the arc to kill/stun chargers light complement the tesla tower really well!

[@GehrmansWheelchair]

Bro today I started rocking the Purifier, Grenade Pistol, and Gas Grenades with a Guard Dog and Quasar cannon for strats. I have been having such a good time. The new Guard dog does such a good job of keeping bugs at distance so you can use the purifier charged shot. Being able to put it away when you’re on an objective with your squad keeps it from killing them as well. This is the most fun I’ve had in a long time on this game, it just feels so well rounded. I don’t play solo but I imagine it would be perfect for something like that, because it honestly excels when I go off on my own. You could also swap your GP for a senator and bring impacts for bug holes

[@cocaineinmyvein]

Purifier to me just kinda feels like a bad crossbow for bugs. Really sad they didn't make it close bug holes with a charged shot.

[@trunglerfevr]

It's really good on defense missions. Place it just in front of bug holes and watch the kill counter go up.

[@scorpionevo880]

my favorite use of the revolver isn't to kill or solo heavy enemies, but rather to shred heavy armor off titans or chargers then use something else against the fleshy bits

[@ichewcrayons]

Breaker incendiary needs more mags cuz 4 is just CRAZY

[@dennisdavis6943]

Nah, you need better trigger discipline. Stop mag dumping and let the fire DOT do its thing.

[@jackbernard484]

@@dennisdavis6943 Still needs more than 4 like other breakers why should it have less?

[@lukemartineau490]

So, the short of why you didn't have bugs swarming you at extraction is because you're too close to the edge of the map for patrols to spawn. Patrols spawn from bases or from the edge of the map, but not if you're within a certain distance of the base or edge. Additionally, it treats the map edge as one entity, basically its own base. So, if you destroy all bases on the map and if extraction's near the edge, you'll get zero patrols headed your way during extraction

[@benjamindorothy5667]

@Takibo, Spiked just did a full squad coop with tesla towers and arc throwers and it was pretty effective. They just became an ever-advancing line of unstoppable lightning.

[@SmoothNSIdeways]

bring arc thrower and just lock the chargers in place while tesla ruins them or thermites/ stuns with grenade armour

[@wood8595]

I was thinking place it in the center of an at mine field, but I haven't been able to test it

[@SmoothNSIdeways]

@@wood8595 great idea i shall try it today

[@ougioshino6940]

I took it for a few missions expecting it would perma stun chargers but they just keep destroying it. If you play coop is also not great for bug breaches since your team is going to throw 500kg or orbitals destroying the tower since it doesn't have a ton of range so you have to put it fairly close. I will stick with the orbital gatling for bug breaches. The tower could be good for defence missions

[@MxSteelscale]

The tesla tower is meant for stealth missions, as ut takes the highest priority in heavy aggro, drawing away the aggro of bile titans and chargers off of you, so you have a better chance at relocating alive

[@carlosmdc9069]

To recall it is the same button that you refill from the supply pack. Default key on keyboars is "5".

[@joecanada777]

It doesn't kill a charger but notice they can't ignore it.... and therefore putting their exposed bits toward you every time.

[@squirreljester2]

I started using the TT before the buffs came down, and I really liked it. Now it's just ridiculous. Before I could just toss it down at one door and it would almost cover the door by itself in a defense rocket mission.

[@PIGEON5265]

Tesla tower would be Amazing with the arc thrower. The tesla can kill any chaffs, arc thrower for defending tesla& stunning chargers. What a buff! 😀

[@patrickhuffman9632]

What's up legend.

[@omni_0101]

The biggest problem I have with the Tesla tower is my teammates don't respect it. So, not that I throw it in shitty places that gets them killed, But I'll pop it, it will do a fantastic job of sanitizing a hole or nest and then peeps just drop a stratagem on it anyway.

[@DrMadEvilBad]

If you aren't bringing a support weapon its a good idea to check out places of interest, there are often support weapons there

[@Angutut]

actually they changed it so patrols only ramp up when yore close to extraction, so you can get samples etc. after the main objectives

[@BiteAdust4857]

Imagine there's mod that add "Unit lost" voice line everytime Tesla got a kill.

[@IAmNumber4000]

The breaker incendiary is still just as viable with the (IMO) strongest bugs loadout: HMG + Supply pack + breaker incendiary

[@bluelotus2947]

Nothing better than see my teammates running pass my tesla tower nothing but satisfaction 🙂‍↕️

[@La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo-Cipher]

Backpack buttons are the number 5 same as if you want to give your self ammo from the supply backpack

[@kdawg2468]

Tesla tower plus anti-tank mines would be goated

[@ellierivers8053]

Im kinda curious, how does your game look so smooth? Mine runs fine but doesn't look as smooth as yours.

[@kami3989]

Press 5 to use your backpack slot, same as resupply pack

[@MrGamegeorge]

The default button for backpack function is 5. I have changed mine to be on the extra mouse buttons.

[@computair6920]

I think you can only have one Tesla deployed at any given time. Each time i called a second turret while the first one retracted back into the pod as if it was out of ammo

[@floorpizza8074]

Brother, your time spent on other concerns is beginning to border on Heresy. Do not force me to inform the Chaplain of your alternative pursuits; you have but one pledge to fulfill. Seriously though, man.... Really looking forward to some more SM2 content, especially now that the new patch has dropped. Oh, and thanks a lot.. thanks to your recent videos, I just dropped the coin on buying HD2. When you get a chance, my wife would like some of your time to "chat."

[@awhisperofroses]

Dropping strats, like the tower and resupplies on the edge of the hole will close it without having to drop it inside.

[@kingginger3335]

The tower is powerful. Just make sure you place it in the open so you dont accidentally get too close. You'll get zapped instantly

[@nuttherbutter4075]

The new guard dog is soo good. I pretty much always kit with it now

[@tomduke1297]

oh yeah, totally read that tesla buff and thought i had to test it, only to completely forget about it... come on brain!

[@jakesidwell99]

It’s whatever key your ‘use backpack function’ is bound to!

[@donaldduck-u5p]

have you done gameplay with the new scorcher or purifier yet?

[@LHT-Casual]

He used the purifier, but only in rapid fire mode, not charging up shots

[@ErickTakada]

Same button used to resupply from supply pack (it triggers the backpack function)

[@schattenschuetze2867]

If you are still wondering, its 5. Unfortunately this doesnt tell the Guard Dog to "Reload".

[@aheh605]

15:46 didn’t they change the spawning mechanic? P sure they announced it in the video that spawn don’t increase like that after mission complete, but extraction the spawns increase

[@wickermind6668]

Tesla towers are powerful until one single charger waddles over to it and 1-taps it with a slap. Arc Throwers are amazing when paired with the tower cuz you can stop chargers from destroying it without accidentally blowing it up like with a recoilless or 500kg.

[@giocannipicchi5655]

Yo, i was wandering if you erver used again the cookout punisher. I saw that you didn't like it, but i realy think that it is now one of the best weapon against bugs.

[@polaris5135]

Surround tesla tower with AT mines? Seems like a good strat bc the AT mines dont trigger on small enemies anymore

[@royalmaskie4014]

I think the tesla targets mines

[@daniellazard1144]

I tried that. Mines can will easier blow up telsa. I think the tesla may arc to mines

[@DjKripasta]

what specs are you using to get this framerate? im on rx 7900 gre 16gb & ryzen 5 7600 6 core with 32gb ram and without any tweaks on ultra settings getting ~80-120fps with noticeable changes; after turning on the amd fluid motion frames im getting stable 80fps that just feels weird. any ideas how to improve performance? maybe turn some things down a bit?

[@jamesroberts5450]

SENATOR ON SMALL THE ARMOR BUGGS HELLO!?!?!?

[@swagiafghani4581]

What is the new tryhard loadout? Have not played since march

[@ZeeDahktah]

Breaker incendiary should get at least a mag or two back.

[@nerochromatic]

Remember folks: Go *prone* next to the tesla tower instead of just blowing it up when it kills you 😊

[@Shepjusterd20]

Love how these helldivers 2 KZbinrs breeze through a solo Super Helldive while I get Piper Perri’d by a gang of hunters

[@Shatsfired]

I wish the Tesla tower didn’t blow up AT mines, otherwise it would have such a good combo

[@nicholasryan5906]

My absolute favorite thing to do in this game is steal the egg/head

[@janbruns1671]

Tesla tower and gas grenades are REALLY busted.

[@blockedjuser1272]

12:31 Free gun? NOpe!

[@974cerebrate]

I mean it's pwoerful until a charger spawns

[@dripfoe_3307]

Arc thrower

[@974cerebrate]

@@dripfoe_3307 Yeah no thank you I'll use stun grenade or a recoilless. Too much electricity is bad for your health and I woud rather have a bit more diversity !

[@FPSJapan]

How can you hit stratagem commands so fast?

[@nguyenvinh9461]

Could you please try out the shield generator against the bots?

[@NoamD]

so what is the best loadout for bugs? i get it's with crossbow, senator, thermite, 500k and napalm barrage

[@Thereisnogreatersword]

I got a 150 on a bug breach with literally just throwing this and a gas grenade

[@eq2lornick]

Tesla Tower and Gas Grenade do seem like a match made in heaven. Or maybe hell depending on your perspective.

[@doglog5748]

Tesla tower, gas grenade, and AT mines. An impenetrable line of defense covering every enemy type and any weakness in the strategem.

[@charleshixon3558]

Want to know the real kill combo? Tesla tower and gas.

[@pivKom-1]

you call it back with the 5 key of the keyboard

[@DarkDragonLord]

Ill use stun nades or gas nades on the tower and it will eat chargers as well.

[@danieljackson561]

I cant stand the incendiary breaker. For me its just ok. I rather use a handfull of other weapons off the top of my head.

[@swag_sauce1]

Alt F4 to bring up guard dog

[@hyperduplafly2941]

27:10 pretty sure you could just drop the 500

[@XLParadise]

It’s the back pack function button

[@101deathcore]

Every time I use the tesla tower my allies spam stratagems on em. tesla tower is hard countered by impailers bile titans and chargers... making it useless lol. it has potential. Could be good, but on higher dif its too situational. AC turret is better. lol forced stand up ruins shock resistance suit against tower. guard dog has far less team damage

[@justanotheropossumchannel]

As it should be

[@hadson2460]

Tesla tower + Arc gun + Laser drone, just prone below the tower and shoot your arc thrower to enemies and incoming chargers. Last stratagem to your liking. Quite efficient ! Otherwise tesla + anti-tank mines, quite a good job too

[@scherzyuboi422]

7:26 what is that in the sky?

[@woolwizard2469]

takibo complaining about seeing 5 impalers in 20 minutes of gameplay on difficulty 10. Meanwhile i get 15 heavies from a single bugbreach on 10. Sometimes the lvl 10 gameplay here feels like lvl 8, the maps are so random most of the time. But that makes it fun as well because you never know how much enemies will be at extraction. 0? 15? 500?

[@tyrellweed6097]

Should've been using hellpods to close holes since ur so limited. I throw my tesla at holes all the time. U should be using gas with tesla as well. Put gas between tesla and bug breechs, and the only thing to take it out will be Titans. I've used tesla since launch.

[@Marauder698]

damn

[@112faceless]

forever

[@Mr.Kaplen]

5 or down on the d-pad

[@keqi1147]

Why dont he pick up those samples? Is he really that rich??

[@RiceCubeTech]

They really need to make arc resistance 100 percent. The tower will get you killed by not necessarily even shocking you but either by staggering you and you dying to something else, or if you’re laying down, it won’t kill something before it steps on you. I tried running 4 buffed ones with my team and we all ran arc resist and arc throwers for fun. All unanimously decided the other emplacements are better or it’s just better to throw one orbital napalm and be done with the breach 😂

[@wyattscott5892]

Day 20 Ik I dont have a robot to do this for me. Let’s spread some democracy Takibo

[@ineednewvegas2267]

dude a teammate landed a tesla on a bile titan and was roaming killing us lol ( i missed my first recoiless shot)

[@doglog5748]

Part of why we all love Helldivers so much!

[@brendanbuss1190]

Solo dives have got to be the most boring thing to watch

[@srsouka]

Souka

[@maiy8786]

Kinda sad that the issue with chargers and bile titans surviving direct impact 500kgs is still a thing.

[@twapaixaoo5861]

Oooooh

[@Mark_Oskar]

I can tell that you never play with supplies backpack.

[@Nizmosr20]

elon musk buffed this Tesla tower

[@sasdasu00dfsdfardo]

lol they really decided to make the game easier instead of finding a way top keep low skill players on easier diffs I remember some times 3 bt spawming at the same time on diff 9 and now they made so 1 one spawn and you can kill it with a pistol... pathetic

[@S4ge_1400]

You know what you can do? Get a job. I think employment will benefit you

[@kaznika6584]

It's not an e-sport.

[@Pardo_Giftshop]

wat ur yapping about..the game still hard as always ,but certainly now it is not so frustrating to deal with some enemys

[@JFK47x]

​@@Pardo_GiftshopExcept it isn't hard anymore, the highest difficulties now are just a joke and the challenge is completely gone.

[@JFK47x]

​@@kaznika6584The highest difficulties should still be challenging? AH might want to just rename difficulty 10 to trivial AFK

[@twapaixaoo5861]

1🎉

[@srals01bdo6]

and i play like in 6 pixel..

[@LarsLegion]

Not looking into loadouts, not even looking into binds... Put a bit more effort into this, it's getting a little dry, and tedious seeing you stumble over yourself.