Helldivers 2 - Illuminate Tips and Tricks Every Helldiver Should Know!

Here's some important tips and tricks that every Helldiver needs to know when fighting the Illuminate in Helldivers 2!

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0:00 Intro
0:43 Enemy Types
3:22 Illuminate Ships
4:11 Cognitive Disruptors
4:53 Conduit Armor Is Great
5:48 New Vehicle Tips
6:27 Melee Is Buffed
7:10 Arc Thrower is Great
7:48 Outro

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══════════ Official Game Summary ═════════
Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is the sequel to 2015's Helldivers, which was a top-down shooter. It released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on 8 February 2024.

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[SwanyPlaysGames]

Slight correction: I forgot to include that the melee based overseer CAN shoot you with a ranged attack. They just seem to prefer melee.

[michellegessner]

The fact that the tripod ones are babies, and that this is only the vanguard of the illuminate is terrifying.

[duanewong]

I love how within 12 hours, everyone are coming together to share information, intelligence and experience with each other, it's like literally the entire Helldivers Corp mobilizing and pooling resources and intelligence to face the new threat.

[DracoCordraconis]

4:23 - The towers not only change the directions of your strategems, they completely change the strategem code. They could be shorter, or longer, and you actually have to put the code shown in to activate the strategem (the changes will pause once you start to activate one). So... you're now playing Strategem Hero WHILE fighting.

[luciddrem]

The name Voteless makes me laugh every time

[monk]

The fact that my helldiver yells "SQUIDS" when reinforcments arrive is hella funny

[dakotahernandez]

You can permanently disable tripod sheilds by destroying the protruding chin and horn on the face next to the eyeball

[cryoanubis]

I think one of my favorite things about this update is the city maps
it's such a nice change of pace from all the open maps we have been playing on

[ashtondavis]

Note that the standard melee based overseers do have a ranged option that they can shoot out of the tops of their hammer/staff/club/thingy

[dolan_plz]

It's so atmospheric to play against the Illuminates. The score, eerie sound effects, screams, visual effects, their lights look so spooky.. all great. 😃

[Orca]

The watcher? Oh that’s what they’re actually called? Me and my pals were just calling them “the snitch”

[DinoCopRulezTheWORLD]

One more tip for you. New Emote THIS IS FREEDOM! is doing dmg. So you can Sparta kick everything.

[markluna]

For the cognitive disruptors, you don't actually have to memorize the correct input for the stratagem. What happens is the input will change every few seconds. You have to put in the current input displayed to call your strat in. Sometimes the disruptor actually helps like making a 380 barrage a 3 button input, other times it makes your smaller inputs like the 500kg into a lengthy input.

[horrorfan]

A quick note for the Overseers and Elevated Overseers
They are technically Light armor units that have a layer of medium armor that can be shot off.
While medium penetration weapons will work best continual fire with a light pen weapon will eventually strip their armor.

Bonus note for the Harvesters
You can see little antennae extending above and below their large blue eye. These project their shields. Destroying these antennae will prevent Harvesters from reactivating their shields.

[edwingarcia]

I love how the ACTUAL game is all about learning your enemy and then we have a REAL LIFE community who help each other with knowledge of the game as well! This is why this game is so amazing...keeps us interactive with one another...also...
If y'all speak to ship master khatib she talks to you about the illuminates from a parents point of view and then you talk to the service technician on the right..next to Khatib..shell tell you a story of the illuminates from her as a kid perspective...that small detail is just soo amazing.😢 It's so poetic..I'ma shed a tear and go fight for democracy now 💪

[Wooreal]

And this isn’t even the start we still have the ghouls and the council members that can mess up your stratagems

[wolfe]

Running under a harvester to fire a recoilless rocket right into its underside was the first time I 1 shotted em.

It was bad ass imo.

[cody]

Honestly as a wannabe self-sufficient helldiver. Commando rockets, strafe railstrike and 500. Primary is the blitzer cause it kills EVERYTHING that doesnt have a shield, and with the new armor man. It fires faster, and now with a melee weapon for true sneak kills. The game is perfect and the illuminate are perfect. 10/10 arrowhead needs to get praised for their hard efforts with this community being so hard on them. They killed it with this update

[Urrelles]

Sickle is ultimate shield killer and voteless killer. Arc Blitz and Thrower are overall best weap. Any high rate of fire weapon deals with shields best.

[neverblockhit]

Tip: orbital precision strikes and lasers can take out the warp ships instantly without having to take down their shields 👍