These Helldivers 2 PC Controls Are Completely OP

Setting your controls up correctly on Helldivers 2 is more important than optimizing your loadout or any tips or tricks. Let's set your controls up to cook max difficulty Helldives like a pro.

[elitegamer]

2 things:

- Enable mouse smoothing made the game less jittery for me at 165hz
- Having dive and climb on the same key is a problem. Sometimes ledges are not climbable and you end up holding your dive key and not climbing, or tapping it and diving into said ledge. A better option would be to set sprint to tap shift, and climb to hold shift. This way, you can tap shift and sprint into a ledge, hold shift to climb and continue sprinting.

[BigIronEnjoyer]

Diablo 2 Sound Track over Helldivers 2 gameplay at the end there really hits.

[Jamesington]

I also recommend tap CTRL instead of hold for stratagems. Works better with tap to sprint.

[BeastOrGod]

If you put aim mode(first/third person changer) and melee on same button, you will change aim mode while aiming, but outside aiming, you will melee.

[found]

I'll throw out a pro-tip that applies to far more than Helldivers. Get away from WASD, go to ESDF. It centers your hand, making it easier to reach more keys. With WASD your full pinky reach falls off the keyboard, whereas ESDF allows you to now more easily reach keys like 5TG and 6YH. Yet TAB, CAPS, and SHIFT are still within easy reach. This coming from a guy with small hands. Frankly, WASD was obsolete before it even became standardized*. ESDF is literally the hand position keyboards are designed for.

*Yes, this comment dates me. I've been gaming since before the original DOOM, which used the arrow keys, CTRL, and ALT as its standard keybinds. Mouse? Is that that new-fangled thing?

[kalvingwaltney]

Another good option would just be to make dive double tap the space key, you can do it really quick and many other games use that for dodge or roll so lots of people are already familiar with it.

[Wipou]

Constantly getting stuck in first person is definitely a game changer. Ill stick with the toggle view key.

[Kriegerherz]

Thanks for the tips, putting off mouth smoothing weirdly also fixed some fps issues I´ve had.

[tribe]

TIP to cycle weapons using the mouse wheel. under key binding (combat). Change Equipment Short - Mouse wheel up will switch your primary and secondary weapons, while Change Equipment Long - Mouse wheel down switches you to your Support Weapon .

[WORLDINCONFLICTKING]

So I am curious why the jet pack doesn’t work with this new keybind

[BetoTheButcher]

The mention of Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament gets an instant like 👍🏽. That's peak nostalgia for me.

[benj]

The only issue I've had if with jump and dive sharing the same keybind, you're unable to use the jump-pack.

[NomadMan]

Love that you used Total Annihilation Soundtrack in the opening!

[Watch_Point]

Thank you for the video, super helpful! Great tip on having your mouse set up to quickly switch weapons

[FreeNomad]

My personal keybinds that are different (hopefully it makes sense for someone else):
Spacebar hold - Strats (I use it too often to not have somewhere easy to press)
Ctrl press - dive (couldn't stand using alt for that, you use it too often especially in higher levels plus ctrl is used as slide and crouch in a lot of games so it works reflexively)
Alt - climb (i don't climb often enough and shift run is auto climb, i use when needed and/or hold for jump packs)
Binds that need constant movement and direction like sprint, dive, and strat calling while running HAD to keep my WASD fingers free.

[Hemp]

you can't use the jump pack with this keybinding since it is linked to climbing and pressing space will cancel it out

[rmisery]

how are you meant to use the jetpack with space bar as dive?

[general_kannoli]

great video! quick and well explained ty for not wasting my time and making my gameplay better...u just earned a +1 sub

[Eidolon]

Yeah the change for tap and hold for stuff has been great. And I changed to the arrow keys for stratagems like you mentioned. The pros out weight the cons overall imo

[MrJohannson]

Note on V-sync: you should keep it on with a frame cap if you have a g-sync monitor for the maximum smoothness with no input lag penalty. The game is a hog for system resources and even on 7800x3d + RTX 4090 you will get FPS drops from time to time, so it's better to have variable refresh rate enabled (unless your monitor has a bad implementation of the tech, which is often the case with Samsung Odyssey monitors, you can check whether or not your model has problems on RTINGS).