Helldivers 2 - The Railgun Is Now Stronger Than EVER.. (Solo, Super Helldive Difficulty)

[@J0hnnyonthespot]

The Napalm barrage was so worth losing the last major order.

[@TheMongrelCat522]

Abso-fucking-lutely! It wasn’t even possible anyway

[@atlaslee8681]

I want it , but that major order was BS

[@flip_lady_t]

I love that barrage!!

[@Rashed1255]

There was no way we’d ever complete that order.

[@Fin_Gleam]

I just got 96 bug kills from a single barrage.

[@northernhand9781]

Basically EVERYTHING is viable now. Play styles and wild variety won’t be frowned upon and are now welcomed because everything will work.

[@lancefisher8358]

Yep, literally everyone

[@amon__7187]

Crazy how people were defending all those nerfs. Smh

[@nightfalls5462]

ok, i am convinced. HD2 has brought me back

[@SlimKognito11]

not everything but most of the gear for sure

[@richardcobbs8603]

news flash, it always did, cant wait for the update for my pistol to one shot everything, that way you cant complain anymore

[@xperience-evolution]

The Update is insane. If we get an update like that every month - just exiting chaotic fun stuff - would be awesome

[@unknowable_sir]

I'm hoping, now that they've sorted the numbers out and have most, if not all of the weapons in a decent usable state, they can focus on bringing more new stuff in for us to spread democracy with!!

[@Legendary_Honey]

They can finally focus on interesting ways to increase difficulty that don't involve nerfing the player. And there's more room to add new stuff. Super exciting.

[@enigma9273]

i remember when we got updates every month, you kids cried about it. Then we got less, you cried about it then. let them cook

[@unknowable_sir]

@@enigma9273 I shall always wait patiently for more stuff!

[@zopler5537]

⁠@@enigma9273 imagine being this pressed over a video game lmao.

[@Stuffpumper]

Breaker spray and pray is best shotgun now IMO. Melts hordes EASILY.

[@p1psychoticprankster]

Yo tell me about it! That horizontal spread does wonders at clearing groups

[@krio3060]

So happy that it finally got some love

[@Nizmosr20]

S&P is the gun now! used it this morning and was shocked how good it was

[@s2wuolf508]

@@p1psychoticpranksterlegit a good brainstormed change by the devs

[@Gundolf300]

Funny thing is that it was a pretty decent weapon even before. Did what was supposed to do. Need a wall of lead? Spray and spray.

[@Eon501]

They have fixed the flamethrowers, you can kill chargers, behemoths and impalers with it, plus now it can deal with hordes of bugs.

[@richardcobbs8603]

now you only need the flamethrower!/ im still going to boycot till every weapon can one shot and take care of any enemy in 2 seconds,

[@Oilupimtherein5]

​@@richardcobbs8603dude be quiet your only 3 comments are the same

[@ultimate9worrior663]

@@richardcobbs8603 ok

[@hotpenguin607]

I brought the flamethrower to bot helldive and cooked berserkers, devastators, and hulks to Death The range is short, so u need to use cover extensively to get in there But the fact it can work is just Hilarious

[@gerogero2011]

Even those primary flamethrower , is a beast too. I kill charger with those... Its not so bad...

[@kibbykibbykibby]

are we back helldiverbros?

[@delacroixii]

No

[@Staladus]

WE BACK

[@creeeamy7133]

We're so back

[@Sammenethil]

We're back!

[@Boomvoomboom]

@@delacroixii rage bait used to be better

[@markymark2791]

Glad the patch is good. I'm definitely looking forward to all the videos you're gonna be putting out using all these buffed weapons.

[@kyyojr272]

17:15 that pouncher jumped at the wrong time and blocked that 500kg XD

[@Soos_dude1]

Fresh patch video, what a W. Appreciate it Takibo ❤

[@patrickhuffman9632]

So good to be back! I really missed this level of fun. Can't wait to see you testing all this stuff out!

[@narutonaruto2341]

Stopped playing at end of June. Having a blast playing now. Between this game and Space Marine 2 I'm good to go.

[@theelmozusflame3015]

Ikr and sparking zero next month mmmhhh best year of gaming in years

[@pawelk411]

Finally someone who showcased the gun rather than just yapping. Thanks

[@fixedice]

The shield generator pack is bugged and immune to melee damage right now

[@pawelk411]

Ye, thats why he didnt lose

[@pawelk411]

Notice how he died almost instantly when the shield were destroyed by his own 500kg? Yep

[@sarcasm-83]

@@pawelk411 In case you're trying to say he's bad at the game or something, he's done this countless times. I also think Carson's point was to say your own character can't melee out of the shield either...?

[@pawelk411]

@@sarcasm-83 iv done it countless times, on automatons as well. Its not hard, but he does make some rookie mistakes.

[@pawelk411]

@@sarcasm-83 he is also using railgun wrong. 70% of the meter is in fact 30% charged shot. You are supposed to charge the railgun as close to the top as possible. Charging it to 3/4 is pretty much a safe mode shot and does barely any damage. Dont look at the meter, just count to 3 seconds A good way to demostrate that (although dont use that in normal play as its cheating) its so try to macro it with the charge times being 1 second(30% charge, 70% on meter), 2 seconds(half charge, 80% on meter) and 2.8 seconds (max charge, max charge)

[@Teneombre]

They increase the damage we take, that's why you were cut to piece like that at the end. The shield seems to be mandatory if you play light armor now

[@25xxfrostxx]

The shield backpack bug is going to get fixed VERY fast. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[@FazeParticles]

of course that's a god mode shield he has lol.

[@fankgaming7753]

take note this is only the first half of the 60 day plan. hopefully more good changes to come

[@dahveedb7550]

i’m scared man… they cooked with this but i’m scared they’re gonna bring more nerfs now that people really loved this… i just have a feeling. They get too comfortable.

[@taymanffb]

Just enjoy it, don't worry about that. See you on the battlefield. ​@@dahveedb7550

[@appleonshoe845]

@@dahveedb7550 you'd think they would have learned after all this time, but yeah I understand that concern

[@Haarglatzfall101]

​@@dahveedb7550 I just hope that they increase/add more enemies instead of nerfing our arsenal again

[@K_Balu]

@@Haarglatzfall101 That's pretty much why they buffed almost everything across the board, they bring most weapons to a similar level then adjust the difficulty according to the performance

[@broman191]

...and finally my AMR hits where I aim it, feels unreal after half year of quirky aiming.

[@Craftworld_patriot]

shield generator is definitely bugged, it barely takes any damage:)

[@leonardorossi998]

Seems like as of now it's immune to melee damage. Which yeah, I think is a bug.

[@donjarritos]

@@leonardorossi998 stomping from charges and titans still breaks it down, and acid basically wipes it clean. don’t think it’s a bug, probably part of the patch. makes the pack more of an investment for solo play now.

[@EthanBalkfield]

It's a bug. It was fixed.

[@thegalacticrepublic3929]

Helldivers 2 is so back. Got railed back to fun

[@delacroixii]

So back to watching streamers but not playing.

[@aen.1]

Got WHATTED back to fun?

[@sugondese411]

​@@aen.1 Railed

[@Minious1020]

Must've been a really good railing

[@enigma9273]

the Failgun. only scrubs take that even now

[@sarcasm-83]

17:18 ahaha, never seen that before. The lil bug was like "Nope" and goalied that stratagem beacon :D

[@seanrogers3389]

Imagine if they did this at the beginning. We could have avoided all this controversy lmao

[@Toxiconom]

torcher primary is a flamethrower now. Its crazy good

[@Haarglatzfall101]

Yeah was testing it with the railgun. This combo is crazy you can take care of everything it's so much fun

[@Boamere]

shield generator pack makes you completely invincible to melee attacks, it's bugged

[@TheNaturalTweak]

Shield backpack is currently bugged. The Terminids melee doesn't register as a hit when its on. Enjoy while it lasts!

[@swankysloth]

Just confirmed you can: 2-shot bile titans to the head with the railgun (fully charged), one-shot chargers to the head with thermites, & one-shot stalkers (non-headshot) with the eruptor, & the napalm barrage is S-tier. All this from my first 3 drops back in over a month, and with so many new builds to try I'm apprehensively excited for the way the game is going... WE BACK

[@BeardGrizzly]

We're all gonna be rusty for a while. Looking forward to the fun!

[@Legendary_Honey]

The alt tab is probably what caused the permanent run state issue. That happens to me in all sorts of games, and alt tab is always the culprit.

[@elained.8240]

The shield is bugged for melee damage. You should have lost your shield several times. But balance changes in general look amazing.

[@GulliverMurdaugh-cc5cd]

0:45 got too used to things being nerfed, huh?

[@brandonarmstrong2053]

“Overall I think the load out I have right now is not ideal” Proceeds to casually one man army level 10 difficulty

[@coreyvaughn-patterson2668]

It's cus he has the god shield on. He didn't take any melee damage lmao.

[@enrikouji87]

let's hope they really understood this time

[@valentine7455]

35:14 that was one of those thorn plants that explodes with shrapnel, the alpha warrior hit it instead of you when you passed it

[@Aerlioz]

So i was using a fresh called in walker and died along with it. Is this really the thorns?

[@pauleagleb9457]

OK I suppose imma reinstall Helldivers 2 again

[@mikewinterborn]

Yesterday was 3-4 charged headshots for a regular charger, woah!

[@cooperlittlehales6268]

The shield backpack is bugged rn and takes 0 damage from melee. You're basically unkillable on the bug front with it equipped.

[@Enonymous99]

Let’s all thank arrowhead for making HD2 bad so that we go and play SM2 and enjoy SM2 and then making HD2 good again so we can now play and enjoy both games!!!!

[@sebastiansuazo2734]

Sm2??

[@wah9312]

@@sebastiansuazo2734 Space Marines 2 lol, people are hyping up the game since it's "similar" to Helldivers. It really isn't and it's more like a Gears of War type game, but it's still really fun.

[@theelmozusflame3015]

Sm2 currently has worse connection issues for matchmaking but still fun to melee and run a smaller map or linear operations.

[@god_d_doflamingo8415]

Arrowhead said fuck it we NEED our 500k+ player base back 😂😂

[@krio3060]

Thermite feels great now. Took me 2 of them for a titan

[@blutadlerx]

I Still think the Grenade launcher / supply pack is underrated, it even got a buff also. More ammo and explosion radius. Absolute beast against everything exept bile titans

[@jclalzona]

now that bile titans have a separate health pool for the exposed belly, I think it's fair game for the grenade launcher?

[@blutadlerx]

@@jclalzona oh jeah right!!! I'll try it right now haha

[@xaviergovindan9966]

grenade launcher was objectively the best weapon in the game for killing titans last patch. This is what I'm talking about, the community doesn't know how to even play the fucking game and then they complain about how hard the game is.

[@blutadlerx]

@@xaviergovindan9966 how? Headshots?

[@unimportant719]

@@blutadlerx you couldn’t But was nice at taking down sacks so could combo with some stratagems

[@aurum0817]

thermite 1 shots chargers now even behemths

[@wah9312]

I think it can one shot bile titans too, I saw a clip of it earlier lol. I gotta test it myself later

[@chasfournier9963]

@@wah9312 3 thermites for a bike titan

[@JustMarr]

Apparently shield backpack is bugged and it only takes explosive damage. I'm in the middle of the video rn and i wonder if you will notice.

[@the_takibo]

No wonder it felt so weirdly easy at times lol

[@Cellyyyy]

Welcome back! Super excited to see you playing Helldivers again! ❤

[@pawelk411]

You have to charge the railgun to nearly full charge to 2 tap most enemies rather than 3 -5tap. Try to make it a fraction a second before exploding. Around 90% charge is perfect ( cause most of the meter is the safe charge part and the damage increases the most at last seconds) some of the shots you took that looked as if they were 70% on the meter, they in fact were more of 30% (count time, dont look at the charge meter ratio)

[@waldyscapellan699]

I just gonna pirate every game from Sony and getting Helldivers 2 from a friend then. Nice video by the way

[@TheCowboyMartyr]

Bro takibo! You can oneshot chargers and bile titans if you land the thermite on their head

[@anoldbeggar9742]

The shield bubble bp is bugged currently. Youre literally immortal against bugs, they cannot damage the bubble with melee

[@idkanymore6897]

you GOTTA run fire armor, torcher, crispr (or whatever sidearm) and thermites, its such a fun combo (and it slaps SO hard) support weapon ideally flamethrower but consider bringing stalwart/mg/hmg for shriekers and heavies

[@K_Balu]

*LET'S TURN UP THE HEAT*

[@MimdokaDM]

This video is basically takibo falling in love with HD2 over again

[@Seeeyog]

The content: Explosion, chaos, violence Me Feeling: Calm, Sleepy, Good. (In a good way, mostly due to the chill playstyle especially) Keep the cool vids coming man!

[@hermitmoth6118]

You can kill bile titans with 2 railgun shots over 95% charge to the head, and you can kill impalers with 2 thermites to the back leg. Have fun with this information, IO certainly have.

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

I love railgun or laser cannon, shield pack, 500 kg, napalm barrage and breaker spray ‘n’ pray or scorcher

[@honestly4842]

man its good to see Tak actually enjoy and not stress every second when playing

[@AnubisJehuty]

thank god! i love this weapon

[@TwinFlameGaming1]

Tried it this morning before I left to work and it all felt amazing. I got to try out several weapons just from picking them off my fallen comrades and they all felt so good to use. I run without support weapons or backpacks, so picking up other people's weapons when they fall and bringing it back to them feels amazing now because there is variety for me based on my teams load out and knowing I'll survive to bring it back to them makes them happy too.

[@bradychapman5645]

I get not running backpacks cause a lot of support weapons have mandatory backpacks. However. You don’t use support weapons? At all…? Man that’s at least 25%-33% of what you end up using to kill stuff with (assuming the base kit weapons and non-support stratagems take up a REALLY large portion of that). Also, I’m not really toxic, I’m a bit demanding on boosters, but I’ve only had to kick my team once in my entire helldiving career cause they were that bad, and I only have done what I’m about to say once. It was last Sunday believe it or not. But my team and I were handling a stratagem jammer, I die and my teammate gets it, he reinforces me… my amr is gone, the dude took it. I understand needing it in the heat of the moment when I was dead and your handling a stratagem jammer of all things, but he just kept on running and ignoring me when I was asking him for it with voice chat. So, I had to tk him because I would’ve been waiting over 7 MINUTES without a support weapon. All I’m saying is, eventually you’ll encounter people who get agitated due to the support weapon scavenging antics 😂. TLDR: I get not bringing backpacks, but at least take a support weapon, they’re an immeasurable help and they allow you to mow down enemies and you then select a primary to fill in the gaps and they are such a large aspect of the game that to not bring them yourself is likely handicapping your overall fun in the long run (Ik fun ain’t technically quantifiable or nothin, that’s just my take)

[@bradychapman5645]

I’m sorry, I scanned over you saying that you bring them back to your teammates, my fault. Though my story is a warning to not do that then I suppose 😂

[@TwinFlameGaming1]

@@bradychapman5645 no worries. 😂 I just like doing team play things and I usually try to cover my team mates back by keeping low cool down offensive stratagems because I like to run and gun a lot. I usually take the risk of finding a weapon or backpack that randomly spawn within the map and it has played very favorably. Just this morning I found an arc thrower and a supply backpack. So it made me feel extremely powerful because now we had more ammo from me and I still had all 4 slots dedicated to clearing heavies and chaff. I usually bring stuff like 500kg, Orbital Precision Strike, Orbital Airburst Strike and Gas. It usually helps a lot when we start to get overwhelmed and most of my stratagems have extremely short cool downs to make sure I'm ready to assist my team mates with the extra fire power.

[@JarisJ_]

Should still take one or two shots to the leg to take armor off now.

[@Procas96]

i haven't played in 2 months, but with all these good news i'm hearing i think its time dive back in 🚀

[@eredaane4656]

Eruptor railgun with revolver and cluster eagle is SOOOO AWESOME

[@bradychapman5645]

My advice, try the orbital airburst, its radius is a bit more concise and less spread out than the eagle cluster, however, it has higher armor pen (4 to be specific), completely ERADICATES bile spewers, which are like low armor value bullet sponges normally. Additionally, it can kill chargers now considering their armor values have been changed, and also, because three Airburst strikes come down in the same spot, each subsequent one being a couple seconds after the previous, the next wave of bugs walk straight into it when it rain downs the shrapnel. My final point, orbital ab shrapnel, besides all the other benefits I mentioned, it has a short cooldown, and it just does straight up more damage than the cluster, if you don’t believe me on how good its damage is, the og eruptor shrapnel that was used was orbital airburst shrapnel. TLDR: Consider running the orbital airburst for a variety of reasons over the eagle cluster (though I will say the cluster has the benefit of a wider radius and multiple uses prior to cooldown)

[@FrostyFrodo]

Can't wait to go back to using my old beloved build for bugs. Medical medium armor Blitzer, grenade pistol, fire grenade. Airstrike, napalm barrage (previously was Gatling barrage), flamethrower, rover guard dog. Super fun build it should be viable again!

[@henrycunh]

we're so fucking back

[@chazdean201]

Question, if you point out a grounded hellbom he says “danger” the second I heard that today my game crashed. Anyone else experienced that?

[@nova_e1121]

I am so happy to See that the railgun is back. I think of playing it again.

[@ORy652]

Napalm barrage is the best orbital against the bugs right now, and looks fantastic too :)

[@thedudeabides3138]

I’ve been away from this game for a bit. Logged in last night and just fell in love all over again. Is it my imagination or did it get a bit of a graphical polish? Everything just looked subtly improved, but my time away meant it could have just been wishful thinking. The napalm strike and thermite grenade are fantastic additions to the Divers arsenal. 2024 has been a truly phenomenal year for game releases, so selecting one to be GOTY is a serious ask…but I called it back in February that that this was (already) mine and it’s nice to see that pushing into October and some serious launches in the interim, this is still the case. It absolutely nails the sense that you’re ALWAYS having constant fun and that you’re creating skin-of-the-teeth moments dynamically and organically all the time until the very last moment of Pelican extraction. H2 is an absolute masterpiece.

[@PajuPapaju]

shield gen is bugged (you are immune to melee damage). Confirmed by devs (top priority to fix)

[@Shatsfired]

You can actually kill a Bile titan in two with the thermite if it is not spitting, since it gives the BT a damage reduction

[@Di_Gra]

I'm also was a little bit cofused after SM2 gameplay. Can't parry, etc. :D

[@nolimbsjohnny]

If you've seen Joozies you know you can actually parry bug melee attacks with well timed melees of your own

[@pooaddict9452]

when they lunge, melee, its never said its a parry but pretty much does the same thing, cancels out an attack and stuns them

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Whats up legend!!!

[@taymanffb]

So good to have you back on HD2 brother.

[@D9E2E1P2]

Been playing so much SM2. With no FOV slider in that game helldivers 2 feels like im zooming in light armor

[@63Limar]

29:17 warcraft 3 moment

[@c.ausmann2998]

Random question but... what cape is he using ?

[@Yargenshmoler]

I think the next buffs should be to the 380mm and 120mm barrages where they just fire triple the rounds at triple the fire rate to keep up with the napalm barrage

[@mcwolves71]

"I wouldn't use rail gun for solo Terminid play" As you casually solo the max difficulty with it after nor having played for 25 days 😂

[@bradychapman5645]

Shield Gen is bugged rn. It seems to be all but immune to melee damage

[@mcwolves71]

@bradychapman5645 Jesus that's so random, they didn't even change it

[@cacarossa5782]

Brooo i was waiting for this update the hole week, can't wait till i get home and test it by myself

[@battlefieldbob9074]

I'm convinced that fire and gas don't work properly for me. When I throw those on breaches, I get 10-15 kills instead of 40 regardless of what enemy types are coming through the breach. The gatling does 30-40 regularly under the same circumstances.

[@andreslfr]

Welcome back, legend.

[@ecksdee58]

The thermite grenade can very much 1 shot any heavy enemy, i tried it on every one of them, as long as you stick it to their heads it's a 1 shot kill. Insanely powerful

[@madscientistgamingcentral8689]

The orb napalm barage with the upgrades i have found has an average 50m minimum safe distance from beacon as for the 120 and 380 are average of 60 m. The napalm will be viable on bots due to its large DOT zone on negating a zone from chaff bots

[@DavideGamingAndOutdoors]

You can one shot chargers with the railgun if you shoot their abdomen

[@coomtheslayer]

Update removed so much of the frustration in the game. It does make it a little bit easier but the patrol system (may it burn in hell for eternity) still is going to swarm you infinitely it's just viable to actually fight them now

[@Ericbbbb]

Mega W

[@miirico5398]

Shield Generator seems to be bugged at the moment, enemy melee doesn't register as damage.

[@Legendary_Honey]

Lol, that's insane. The shield gets the funniest bugs.

[@davofwater1]

Love your HD2 videos!

[@blockhead4513]

That sprint thing is because you were climbing steep terrain in case you forgot. Unless you have muscle enhancement booster.

[@ThatGuySquippy]

The unsafe mode increases damage by 250% now. 150% was the previous damage increase.

[@pietermonnier]

Everything seems so much more fun now like it should be. I haven’t played in over a month because of how useless the weapons felt. And the new barrage is great, I mean an orbital barrage should be a big ass series of explosions controlling the enemy! That’s the point right?! Great video man, glad to see you playing again. Makes me wanna get back into the game. Cheers sir. 🍻

[@sweetautumnfox]

yeah, the buff definitely will not "make the game too easy" I can't wait to hop back in!

[@brokeblasian]

LMFAOOO that hunter blocked your shit 17:18

[@SMMmc76]

THIS MY HOUSE BITCH

[@c-valueenigma4977]

I remember 3 shots to the leg, swap to breaker half a mag +-1,2 shots dumped and done.

[@The_Pantologist57]

Alright fine, I will redownload the game one more time and we shall see if it will hold its place on my home screen permanently.

[@seanq5]

Bro didn't know he was invincible :')

[@dome7102]

We're so back

[@azrael6152]

They may have finanlly taken my grenade glitch. But they've given me so many new fun guns & grenade to use

[@gzilla14031]

Welcome back helldiver

[@bl0ccr4fter24]

Did you guys know if you shoot a brood commander’s head with a fully charged railgun shot they explode?

[@zakkonnik7507]

ngl the old railgun with 2 hits on chargers leg was a good thing

[@gaetandutoure5273]

lovely railgun, i used it even when nerfed against bots for its devs and hulks one shot

[@sephiroth8377]

I hope they increase heavy spawn or add more difficulties, I dont believe these ranks should be done solo but im a huge fan of HD1 due to being forced to use teamwork at higher ranks

[@Daethbane]

We're so back to the fun chaos!

[@pawelk411]

70% of the meter is in fact 30% charged shot. You are supposed to charge the railgun as close to the top as possible. Charging it to 3/4 is pretty much a safe mode shot and does barely any damage. Dont look at the meter, just count to 3 seconds