Helldivers 2 - This Loadout Is Dominating the Illuminates (Solo, Super Helldive Difficulty)

[@caccus2639]

guard dog is my favorite for backpack. Nuts how it can kill an overseer in a single burst.

[@MatthewHodges]

Its like playing with Boone as a companion in FONV, you hear a gunshot or two then nothing

[@Whoknows21356]

100%. The guard dog is so good now. Been using that for along time now

[@TwinFlameGaming1]

Glad to see I'm not alone with this one. Guard dog has been a great companion as back up against all small to medium enemies.

[@x32i77]

The laser guard dog or the machine gun ?

[@eirikjohnsbraten6370]

Agreed. It's so good on overseers it's borderline mandatory, yet none of the KZbinrs I follow use it. Just like the gas strike on voteless. One strike takes out an entire hoard, but it's like I'm the only one using it lol

[@shiinareii]

It's so interesting to see how different loadouts can be for different people! I usually like to play with a group of people, so I tend to run a little more supportive on my loadouts. Primary: LAS-16 Sickle - It can shred the Voteless / Watcher easily. At the same time, it can also destroy the warp ship shields with ease + you don't have to rely a lot on running out of ammo Secondary: PLAST-15 Loyalist - Useful against Overseer's especially with their shields and to finish them up if my Machine Gun runs out of ammo halfway. Throwable: G-16 Impact - Mainly to destroy warp ships after shredding their shield + useful for crowd control against voteless. Also useful against Tesla Towers when you do spot them. Stratagems: Machine Gun: Mainly against the Overseers and destroying the limbs of Harvesters quickly. Eagle 500kg Bomb: Mainly used it against objectives such as the Warp Ships and Cognitive Disruptors Anti-Tank Emplacement: Probably one of my most used stratagems, especially with the amount of defensive objectives. They're useful against the Warp Ship spawns - 2 to 3 shots usually does the job per ship and so far it lasts for the entire duration of an objective. Effective against Harvesters too especially when extracting. Gatling Sentry or Guard Dog: Used mainly to clear Voteless and Overseers especially while I am on the ATE. I tend to place the Gattling Sentry on lower ground while my ATE is on higher ground to prevent myself being collateral damage to the sentry 😂 Happy to hear what the rest of you guys run with!

[@nurapixel]

Out of topics but I didn't expect to see you here! I saw your art on Bluesky

[@102728]

I fully agree on the sickle, absolutely fantastic with the infinite ammo for how many bullets you need for voteless, plus the shield breaking is great too like you said. For secondary/grenade I go grenade pistol for the warp ships (and as a backup vs overseers) and either gas to hold a flank for a while or incendiary impact - though the flames alone are not always enough to kill voteless. MMG is nice in general, but like using the AMR here as well - depends on the rest of the team. Wanna try out the AC too and see how that does with the HE ammo it now also gets. Guard dog if I don't go MMG, otherwise that's a slot for anything else really. I like MG sentry most, flame sentry is too short range for my taste and I found that the hmg emplacement has issues getting flanked. In a good position it shreds though. I usually bring orbital gas strike too basically to double down on the gas grenade advantage, it's a surefire way to stop a charging horde of voteless in their tracks. Orbital gatling is a nice alternative too. Could also bring any of the barrages to clear out an objective area or if there's a reinforcement loop I get why takibo uses eagle strafing run here since he brings a primary for overseers, but with the sickle it's just not necessary

[@frostthegrey]

i would recommend the incendiary impact for extra CC usually i use purifier, grenade pistol, incendiary impact street scout stalwart, walking barrage, 380mm barrage, then jump pack or a sentry depending on how i'm feeling. jump pack for sneaky hit and run, sentry if i'm feeling incompetent and need extra help.

[@bitcoincryptoglitch4404]

The variety of builds in this game is crazy for each fraction

[@KoalaTContent]

MG43+supply pack is still GOATED. Melts hoards, overseers, and can drop a harvester with a few seconds of fire. Truly a weapon to surpass Metal Gear

[@manray005]

MG43 is peak. Favorite machine gun by far

[@tensa.02]

the problem is reloading

[@splidge_splodge]

watching you run straight past the super samples at 5:55 hurt

[@Leonard38838]

You will already be full on super samples late game so there's no point in getting them

[@kibouSRX]

Even better followup by stating a need for nades and running right past a nade box

[@splidge_splodge]

@@Leonard38838 still hurts

[@102728]

@@splidge_splodge if you're playing with randoms its common courtesy to pick em up, otherwise there's really no point past level 70-80 or so.

[@siteks536]

I've tried many build but the one that really works for me is the following : -primary : sickle Take down shield very fast, infinite ammo... -secondary : revolver (one shot the armor guys in the head) -grenade : impact (crowd control and destroy ship) Armor : electric resistance (at close range the tripod cant kill you at all...) Strata : -jetpack (insane mobility) -eagle strafe (crowd clear) -laser canon (the most important strata... Can kill in less than 3 sec a tripod... Just go under it and aim clean the leg... Or at distance, works too !. Can kill the armor guys under 2 sec in the head !!! And same with voteless, aim for the head in the crowd... In less than 5sec you have 10-15 kills) - last strata as you want... In general I take the 500kg for ship or crowd cleanning.

[@thegoldenpath326]

Preach my Mando brother, preach

[@veramilo2839]

Finally completed 3 impossible missions by myself and got to helldive with your build similar to this one. Was trying out different builds and this one made me make it. Thank you!

[@Antique-nova]

Nice. Here's what I've found doing stimless runs on super helldive and rewatching my own runs and doing all sorts of tests etc. Flame sentries - Overpowered. There are rarely enough voteless around to run out of ammo with. So it makes sense to bring the gatling sentry instead, because it can help out with killing overseers better and does more than well enough to kill around 20-30 voteless per drop. You'll rarely ever encounter a situation where a sentry will get more kills than this. Also, the issues with team killing is simply a lack of situational awareness and not placing it well in a way that makes it easier to not get killed by it. An easy fix. I also noticed that you were so close to being TK'd consistently by your own flame sentry. Lol. Scorcher - I hadn't really considered or tested it until I saw you fight with it against the overseers. It can kill overseers between 1-1.4s on average if they move slow enough. 3s on average if not. The purifier takes 3s on average, but can kill 7 overseers on average before reloading, the scorcher can only kill 2 before reloading, but considering how fast the scorcher kills flying overseers I don't think that'll be an issue. I was also able to kill multiple flying overseers under pressure without issue, but it's absolutely awful against shields and it drains your ammo insanely fast. Chances are you'll run through 4 clips if you try to engage in any medium level fight. It also takes way too long to kill the watchers with it compared to the sickle. But I'll do more testing to see how viable it is, but it definitely needs the primary ammo perk to make it work.

[@luciddre4m]

Stimless runs lol

[@Antique-nova]

@@luciddre4m Bruh, isn't that stimulating enough? :P My tests also concluded with me thinking the scorcher isn't worth it. It's like a better purifier. Good against overseers, shit against everything else. And I'm uploading a second illuminate stimless run now with 1027 kills.

[@Renegade-YT]

A trick on overseers is that if you stay in prone while their swinging after they already knocked you down, your chances of survival increases by 50%!

[@fulfillmenttheory]

The laser canon does pretty good on these. Gotta aim for their heads, takes out overseers in about 1 second of holding on their head. Plus headshots voteless nicely, plus takes down Harvesters pretty fast

[@thezblah]

Love the run. Some people already mentioned the guard dog ballistic as an alternate backpack but tbh the jetpack provides so much utility in the city maps. Also want to point out: the Overseers do NOT have the weird sacrificial plates on their head. The Senator is a one shot headshot. Also the voteless actually have pathetically tiny amounts of HP, but they enter a bleedout state when their hp is depleted. don't waste more bullets on them, a single senator shot or scorcher blast (or hell, even a single liberator shot in most cases) is enough for them to bleed out in a few seconds. To that end, I basically run the same loadout as you except I swap the scorcher for the tenderizer. It can just buzzsaw across a swarm of zombies at leg level, it can burst down the drones no problem and if the senator is dry it can even burst down an overseer in an emergency.

[@svn5510]

15:35 if you use sprint as your normal means to stand up then you won’t do so when your leg is broken. You have to push crouch to stand up if your leg is broken, or stim to repair your leg like you did.

[@BUCK-The-Asian-Moose]

Bro you always come in clutch and upload when I wanna eat Takibo ur the fcking best🔥🔥

[@DarkDragonLord]

what i learned strafing run sucks if you miss all the time. HMG or MG does what the cammando does but can be shot at everything.

[@gladteer873]

Didn't know you can one shot harvesters with MGs

[@Karv3r]

@@gladteer873 It takes like 3 seconds of accurate MG-43 fire to the shoulder to kill a Harvester, not that much longer than leading a Commando rocket. It's also better than the Scorcher at dealing with both Overseers and Voteless.

[@HoepRemains]

​@@Karv3r counter point: actually aim and dumbfire your commando shots to save 90% of the time committed while still one shot ting

[@jacobhertl1398]

I think the range of the commando allows you to kill the harvester at long ranges before it becomes a threat. The MGs are definitely more versatile though. I think I like them more for that reason but damage seems inconsistent. Sometimes you can kill a harvester with like 30 bullets other times it takes a whole mag. It's hard to test out where to shoot when it's trying to beam you.

[@grandvivant]

@@jacobhertl1398 Simply, Anti-Material Rifle. 1 tap overseer heads and jetpacks, 5-6 shots (one mag) to destroy a harvester or warp ship shield, 1 shot to permanently break shield relay on harvesters with 5 more shots left to shoot the leg (which can only take 4 shots so you have one you can miss in the mag), 1-2 shot a watcher based on hitting the center or the wings, all with a greater range and accuracy than any other support weapon, excluding maybe the spear. Laying down allows you to demolish harvester legs as the recoil becomes spammable.

[@lt.tactical7917]

crossbow works wonders to deal with crowds of voteless while 2shotting the overseers and watchers, takes a little skill to hit things at range but with practice its incredibly powerful, guard dog is also incredibly reliable here

[@nullbubble791]

Aslong as you aim for the torso, else it'll slip through or slide across the ground

[@daddykun7709]

Yh I use the AMR, cluster bomb, jet pack and gas/precision strike with it and it can shred anything and destroy the ships easy

[@Makkesfn2010]

such a good vidio keep the work up. you are helping all the time when new updates are launched

[@Makkesfn2010]

video*

[@MetalSolidCrisis]

If you an overseer is close to you, look for height to dive over his swing, it's saved me a couple times

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Man, I've been loving the supply backpack. Basically your same load but swap jump pack for supply. So. Many. Grenades.

[@kingginger3335]

Against the Illuminate, the Arc Thrower is not as good as the Arc-12 Blitzer. The Blitzer is insanely good against the Voteless

[@tylorperez995]

For Illuminates. My primary gun is the BLITZER, my secondary is the GRENADE PISTOL. Then I use IMPACT GRENADE. My strategems are 500KG BOMB to take out ships, ORBITAL GAS to also take out ships, GUARD DOG cause it has medium armor penetration, and TESLA TOWER. For armor I use the ARC DAMAGE REDUCTION.

[@Red_94016]

The stalwart rips shields really fast and deals with everything but harvesters. Also I prefer the Halt shotgun. It can stun everything but the harvesters. Stunning overseers and watchers before deleting them with a single shot from the big iron is incredibly satisfying

[@mrtoestie2707]

Commando imo fits the “spartan” build as it can be like a thingy of 4 javelins. Spear, ballistic shield, crossbow, throwing knives, commando, a mech, a 2 more strategem slots for whatever

[@pkassies]

You make it look easy. Well done!

[@smegmosisjones5645]

Here's my two loadouts that I go back and forth with: Loadout1 Primary: Blitzer Secondary: Senator Nade: gas or incendiary support weapon: AMR Armor: either the new armor that has 50% res, or 90% arc res Strategems: 500kg, gas orbital, either MG turret Usage: Blitzer is amazing for voteless horde clear, but falls short on overseers. This is fixed by the senator. Stun with blitzer, one shot with in the noggin with the senator or AMR. For parked ships, both the 500kg and orbital gas strike can take these out. Admittedly this build is not too great for the parked ships but I can usually get by since the cooldowns on the 500kg and gas orbital are pretty low. For anyone who doesnt know, a direct impact from a gas orbital can kill a parked ship. Gas/incen nades for horde clear. For harvesters, 4 AMR shots take down the shield and another 4 to the weakspot to bring it down. Not perfect but the advantage is being able to do it from range. Can also use the 500kg as an answer in a pinch. ____________________________________________________________________________ Loadout 2 (my preferred) Primary: Halt Secondary: can be anything honestly, but I like the grenade pistol for extra utility Nade: gas or impact incendiary Support Weapon: laser cannon Armor: either the new armor that has 50% res, or 90% arc res Strategems: laser orbital (or 380 barrage depending), MG turret, bullet dog Usage: Stun hordes using the stun function of the halt while the bullet dog and turret cleans up everything around you, switch to fletching as needed. Gas/incen nades are also great for horde clear if turret is on cooldown. Orbital laser is amazing for encampments. If you dont want to waste a laser on a single ship, the halt in fletching mode and the grenade pistol is the answer there. Laser cannon is absolutely goated and kills voteless and overseers very quickly and from range, especially when used with the bullet dog. For harvesters, either bring shields down with sustained laser cannon fire, or Halt in fletching mode. Once shields are down, sustained fire with the laser cannon on a weak spot for about 5 seconds will kill it. While you're doing that, ideally your bullet dog and turret will be watching your back from the voteless. Note: it is imperative that you have the change ammo type function mapped to a hotkey or macro, otherwise it can get very tedious. I consistently get 600+ kill games with these loadouts, and they're tons of fun and have an answer to basically every enemy and objective.

[@FortuneHunters]

I just wanna add that purifier is quite good vs. the scorcher. You can either charge up and do aoe clearing voteless with great ammo economy, or not charging up and use the high fire rate in a pinch. It also two charged shot the overseer. The only downside compare to the scorcher is the mag size.

[@rummers7881]

Personally I like walking barrage, laser, guard dog liberator and Quaser cannon. Walking barrage can take out any encampment or towers located on the map. Laser for getting out of trouble or taking out encampments and the guard dog for the zombies and overseers. Quaser for the harvesters

[@stevie2839]

My favorite loadout is big laser, eagle straffing run, laser gun, and the auto cannon sentry. And the sledge ready armor whith the purifier flame pistol and incendary impact. This is crazy good at killing everything.

[@Klayperson]

if you're playing on borderless window mode, your mouse can focus another screen if the game window is even 1 pixel too far over. I switched to fullscreen mode and have never had screen problems since

[@hydratm905]

Love your videos

[@kuzranada2909]

love the scorcher, also enjoy the plas-101 against em 2 charged and there done

[@PyROphantasie]

I think I remember you mentioning you use borderless windowed mode, have you tried using fullscreen mode to see if that fixes the mouse issue? That would be my guess if it's suddenly appearing in a second monitor.

[@blockedjuser1272]

23:28 This tile is the number one reason I don't bring support weapons against the Illuminates since it's so common.

[@zephyas1699]

can confirm this works perfectly fine in a group, this is almost exactly what i bring except i use the crossbow over the scorcher since I never got that far in the original warbond xD

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Whats up legend.

[@KuKoKaNuKo]

Is anyone else having issues when throwing grenades inside Warp ships that it just goes off and the ship's untouched? Usually have to run to the other side of the warp ship and use the other opening. Can be really annoying. (yes the shield is down when I throw the grenade)

[@BasicDasis]

gas grenades are great for horde clearing too

[@hermitmoth6118]

flame vs arc sentry, that is the real question; flame is better in theory, but the ai hyper-focuses on targets and doesn't spray areas like you'd want. Arc tower, while risky, doesn't lose efficiency due to poor target selection, and stuns overseers to boot.

[@sabreshan8284]

could you make a tips and tricks video on how to solo super helldive?

[@Guilded_Boy]

How does he run while administrating stratagems? Every time I do it it prevents me from moving

[@phantom1051]

4:10 how do you launch the shell?

[@HiTechHate]

pick up the shell, drop it while walking forward, keep walking slightly ahead of it, then pick it back up and instantly switch back to your primary or secondary

[@_wic_]

I honestly prefer crossbow, it mows down the hoards nicely. Machinegun guard dog takes care of what's in the air and around me. Then I have my 500kgs and a strata of choice, usually just orbital strike, since it takes down the outposts.

[@JAGTrust]

Can someone help me with something. Do I need to buy the paid bundles to get new weapons like the secondary he uses and melee weapons. I just bought the game recently and not sure how it works. Thank you

[@heav2001]

Nah you can get super credits from some loot caches in shipping containers, double switch doors and shiny beacons in points of interest around the map (they're question marks on your compass). You can buy the bundles if you want to speed up the process but you can unlock the warbonds for free eventually by playing the game.

[@svn5510]

You have two options. Buy super credits and get the war bonds or find super credits while you play and save up for your war bonds. Once you have a war bond purchased with super credits you will then use medals you find or earn to unlock the items in the war bond.

[@mabm4310]

look up easiest way to farm super credits and do that. works best with a full squad on trivial missions you can easy get over 1000 credits an hour and then get a warbond and play the game properly for a while. and rinse and repeat until you have all the warbonds.

[@Lotharemas]

Use a similar loadout but i use Purifier instead of Scorcher, Purifier when fully charged into a cluster of voteless just instant kills all of them, its great when a pack spawns in from a ship as well, that and Guard Dog have just easily kept everything in check for me on Illuminate front.

[@lifeslogical8895]

I swap the eagle for the medium machine gun and the jump pack for the supply pack.

[@Koffin_Krook]

You don't have to charge up shots on the purifier. It does way more damage if u do. It shoots as fast as u can. Much faster than scorcher. Has been like that for months now

[@TheNikosawa]

After watching you play so many games with the jumppack it still baffles me how few time you actually use it.

[@AFKlayy]

I know. Ballistic guard dog would get 10x more value than his Jetpack...

[@Arsonprobable]

How does the plasma shotgun fair against the hordes and overseers?

[@asdffdsa8885]

Not great, it needs at least 2 shots to kill voteless and like 4+ direct hits on an overseer

[@DP-fq7iy]

People forget the Purifier charge shots are AOE, and you don't have to charge it. The AOE is enough to wipe condensed voteless groups, and easily shreds overseers in 2 shots.

[@gladteer873]

The projectile is also large enough that you don't have to be accurate to hit

[@Hadfield15]

The Commando is great for the Harvesters

[@YellowDwarfDRG]

The tesla is just huge vs iluminates imo, best sentry over all. It takes out all the units but the harvesters

[@Jumpboy5100]

My new favorite termanid loadout is the light 50% all status resist armor. Then bring torcher, gernade pistol, and thermites. For strategems 500kg, orbital gas, dog breath, you can bring whatever heavy killing support you want. The gas and fire absolutely melts just about everything and you survive even if you get both on you for a bit.

[@TIMOSTERRORS]

I really like the dog breath too. Some games he’ll keep bugs off you the whole time

[@Nopenotyou]

I think this’d work fine for group play, I’d mebbe swap Senator for Grenade Pistol for killing the squid fabs though.

[@Bruno-sl3vu]

And a build for multiplayer ? Not arbalet in primary ? 4 commando shot to down harverster but there are many sometime.

[@the_takibo]

Itll work fine, just might wanna swap out the jump pack for a shield generator pack so youre not always ahead of the group

[@misuterinaso]

I think that autocannon is still king Turn it to flak then you don't even need to aim that accurately, the flying overseers take about 4 inaccurate shots, about 3 for watchers, flak is good against zombie hordes too

[@sweetbongwater]

So it's better to run MG rather than Gatling turret?

[@MisterZimbabwe]

Gatling turret wastes 10x the ammo trying to kill one voteless, while the MG will switch targets faster after expending less ammo thanks to the slower RoF on top of having a significantly lower cool down

[@atomicwarrior665]

The flamethrower is good against the voteless and observers

[@ItzSpritz]

Day 3 of asking for the guard dog lol. I really really think youre missing out Literally the ONLY thing you struggled with, the guard dog would’ve murdered. The flying overseer and the reinforcement things

[@mcwolves71]

Should bring grenade pistol so you dont waste incidiary on ships. 500kg is nice tho because you dont need to take down the shield

[@Khrenan]

Just ignoring the votless is such a different way of playing lol.

[@monarca_rdz4056]

should i get this game even tho none of my friends have it??

[@Shockz_BE]

Yes 100%

[@JDJReaver]

If you stop moving, the codes don't change as quickly, just fyi.

[@Red_94016]

I feel naked without my jump pack

[@treeman4472]

@takibo what fov do you use it looks clean

[@frostthegrey]

90

[@101deathcore]

scorcher is way too ammo hungry and 2 shots per zombie.... The illuminate maps make this less of a problem, but still. Also jetpack will never trump guard dog rover. Yes the laser version, you mostly want it to kill the hoard anyway, and while the regular guard dog will kill the armored guys way better, it runs out of ammo too often. I'm running impact incendiary too, too good against these guys. You are playing solo, which grants you the weird benefit of infinite grenades because you can call in whenever and use it all. which makes the scorcher ammo problem worse again. if the dagger worked better I'd keep that as a secondary. I'm very tempted to take the explosive pistol if I wasn't using the crossbow to shoot into the ships after shield to save my flame grenades. machine pistol is decent at kill a few zombies if they are on ur face.

[@101deathcore]

i take it back, the mobility of the jetpack is getting u places.

[@jalontf2]

No AT Emplacement = no deal

[@udeshbindsingh6069]

what happened to DSS?

[@proseven1]

Improvements beeing made , I guess the patch notes mentioned it.

[@add-iv]

27:10 you can see its at stage 5/5 while uploading so you can just leave

[@TheBanditoLad]

What helmet is that?

[@mileslyster2281]

You’ll get it for free when you log in

[@TheBanditoLad]

@ sadly didn’t appear for me, there must be a trigger?

[@epicawesomesauceguy]

I really feel like the senator is a super inefficient choice for the illuminate.

[@asdffdsa8885]

I'd say it's extremely efficient, mainly for killing watchers. It's fast and reliably kills them in 1-2 shots, and reloading it doesn't waste ammo, so it's easy to keep it loaded. Works great against overseers too. Your other weapons can take care of everything else, and having a reliable way to prevent reinforcements can be a lifesaver, so it's worth it just for that imo.

[@jda_612]

impressive

[@TheOnion12]

Nice video, but it needed more ad rolls.

[@thehashslaingingslasher]

Crossbow kills the medium dudes in 2 shots if they're direct. Pretty busted.

[@naorysm]

22:45 *stims for no reason*

[@YaBoiFetz]

Instead of the jump pack you should bring the machine gun sentry. It shreds through the voteless and the low cooldown is insane

[@CJM738]

bro is speed running

[@kebaberbest1234]

One word: arc

[@ShannonBradford]

This is an amazing build if you want to die quickly and often. Otherwise it is crap.

[@Alvadar65]

god that new helmet looks so dumb its like your head is a third taller than it should be but still the same width

[@TheCamaro5]

I do the guard dog instead of jump pack

[@Frank-fh2qn]

Wears jumpack to go fast, goes fast :surprised Pikachu face: People clearing missions deathless without stealth now, wow

[@ericnorthman8437]

At this point wee need another stragem slot or they need give us a free slot every major order at this point 4 isnt enough can we band together and make this happenb

[@dignelberrt]

your 10 is as calm as a 5 for me and my friends wtf

[@thealphash0oter106]

I think the purifier is a better choice especially against the squids. I think you forgot that the purifier now can shoot without being charged up. Overseers die by 2 charged shots and 4 to 5 uncharged shots with a much higher fire rate the scorcher has. The only downsight to the scorcher is it has 5 shots less in each mag but because of the explosion damage of charged up shots u save a lot against a horde of zombies. I think its by far the best weapon im the game against squids and clankers

[@KoalaTContent]

26:29

[@Bashaka104]

Zzz here we are metalizing the game You are killing the game

[@BOOMDIGGER]

The Scorcher does have little ammo if you spam shoot all of it into thin air... Try aiming

[@weirdguymustache]

Lost me the second you brought up useless stratagems like a jet pack and eagle strafing run. I mean do you even play the game? Both those stratagems are complete ass.