Helldivers 2 - Is Heavy Armor Finally Insane? (Helldive Difficulty, Solo)

Putting the heavy armor to the test vs automatons

Since yesterday's update that increased the damage resistance from heavy armors its been fantastic agaisnt automatons

Enjoy!

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[jotairpontes]

The Scorcher is the last weapon on the free warbond. That's why a lot of ppl don't have it yet.

[torinsmith]

6:00 Not just "a little less", rockets now do 1/6th of the damage they used to. They used to deal full damage, multiplied by every limb in the AoE (including head+torso).

[Torskel]

Feels like the amount of enemies in your games are like none, then when i go into just a Diff 7 its just a swarm from every direction

[lonc_]

Was not expecting "cocaine white" lol 👻

I think I'm gonna stick to light armor, but I'm really glad to see heavy armor getting usefulness.

rip slugger 😢

[natesiress]

Honestly, I really like the new Dominator against bugs. The stagger is insane on it, and it eats Hive Guard and Brood Commanders. It's not very useful against swarms, but even fast threats like Stalkers can be kept at bay with the stagger on it. It's not something I'd go with for solo gameplay, but with a few decent teammates, it feels really good.

[itsnathanu]

Another tip against automatons, if you don’t have the scorcher and either don’t like or don’t have the slugger the sickle is also a very good option. Put the 50 or 100m sights on that thing and you’ll be able to hit damn near every weak spot with ease

[CrookedParadigm]

How are you not getting swarmed? When my friends and I play on 7 or 8, every flare calls in 2-3 drop ships full of hulks and tanks and there are massive patrols of 8-10 devastators everywhere. How is your map so empty?

[ylyxa]

The Ballistic shield is amazing now that they fixed it. It actually blocks stuff consistently now.

Here's a loadout for you to stress-test: Defender SMG, Senator, Stun/Frag grenades, Ballistic Shield, AMR, Rocket Pods, 500kg. Works really well for my solo helldive runs so far. The only real downside is you need frag grenades to be able to destroy fabricators en masse, but you'd have to give up stuns for it.

[jackdahliamusic]

For those gunships aim for one of the 4 engines, takes it out in 2 hits with the autocannon.

[ZanderTheUnthonkable]

Short Answer: No.
But it certainly doesn't feel useless anymore which is good, but they still need to fix headshots.

[chrisrawr]

The problem i have seen is armor class/rating does not seem to effect income headshot damage thus you get domed just as easy in heavy armor as light armor.
Fix headshot damage/armor rating, give heavy armor stagger resistance and maybe even a reduction to status effects like fire damage.

[thnkr-jlhw]

You are my favourite Helldivers Content Creator 😁 so quick with the videos as well

[OxnardMontalvoYT]

Definitely a serious consideration when you're throwing away stealth and not running shield pack. You end up not trading speed for health, but more speed for damage since you can use the Autocannon instead of AMR/Railgun.

[andersonpannett]

Hey Tak, just in case you're unaware, you can easily destroy the parked dropships with a few autocannon shots anywhere. It also works with the AMR (though requires more shots). Whatever armor the dropships have is magically reduced when they're parked at these objectives.

[SignorTromboncino]

I love how everyone is sleeping on the Punisher from the first page of the first Warbond, which is my favorite weapon on both factions since when they buffed it

[MarkFromTheYoutubeComments]

"The slugger took a bit of a nerf, this update." That's a really nice way of putting it. I was still willing to use it after the damage drop because of the medium armor breaking, but when it stopped breaking those cabinet door things, I was done. It made me sad. I loved that part.

[ericsfishingadventures]

I didn't think an automaton mission could be this calm but after hearing you talk about it and knowing you have a ton of experience in game it does seem to make more sense.

[jasonhenry]

Am I the only one who thinks the armor feels exactly the same and they didn’t actually change anything and are just trying to placebo the community?

[gordanorangutan]

It’s great to see you talking about the update with bots for testing I’ve seen sooo many YouTubers just spooking about the update but only trying the weapons on bugs

[watdeneuk]

Holy shit, you're putting in hours mate, nice to see your channel growing so much.