Helldivers 2 - The BEST Stratagems For Solo Players (High Difficulty Tips)

Well gawdamn i'm loving these.

Bile titans are easy with these!
Time to spread even more democracy

enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:57 First Stratagem
3:25 Second Stratagem
5:42 Other Stratagems

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[Holfus]

Played a lot solo early on and man, as soon they took away the "free" Railgun event the game got so much harder XD

[laranjo]

The Railgun is by far the best support weapon in the game. Some things to add:

Don't forget to set the railgun's mode to unsafe. It deals exponentially more damage by just charging it by a even half a second over the normal charge.

It takes only 2 overcharged shots to the mouth to drop a bile titan. Yeah, you can kill 10 bile titans without having to find more ammo.

Also, shooting chargers on the head is a waste of ammo and time. It's faster and more ammo efficient to shoot them twice in any leg and shoot it a bit with your primary. It takes like 5 Breaker shots to kill a charger with an exposed leg.

It also kills every single automaton enemy (besides the tank) with a single shot to the head. Some of them require overcharge, but all of them only require a single shot.

[BIONICTHUMB]

Honorable mentions should go to the supply pack and the grenade launcher for also being incredibly versatile. Supply pack allowing you to immediately give yourself more grenades, stims, or ammo with no risk makes dealing with groups or nests that are a little too big a simple task, and the grenade launcher makes crowd control trivial and nests/encampments fall with no commitment

[astusstrix]

Don't forget you can overcharge a shot with the rail gun by changing firing mode(holding reload button), it deals more damage per shot but takes longer (and if you hold too long it will explode and one shot yourself)
Another thing is if you shoot a charger's leg with rail gun, you can break the armor on the leg with only two shots(even without overcharge shot), you'll be able to finish it with 4 ~ 5 shotgun shells, or just let your teammates deal with it while you aim for other chargers.

[Rhythm.]

As someone who also loves playing solo on higher difficulties these are my main strategems I LOOOOVE using. Jump pack, Railgun (Or a grenade launcher if I'm doing the destroy eggs mission or the blitz mission), Orbital Laser, and Orbital Rail cannon. Pair that with the super fast armor you get on I think page 6 of the battlepass and you become a hyper mobile stealth build that can annihilate chargers, titans and hoardes pretty easily.

[reallymayn]

Great video. High praise, man. This will help plenty, especially with having a solid team supporting each other's flaws. Big help.

[TheTommyTrials]

This was amazingly helpful! Thank you! I’ve subbed because it was helpful, concise, and overall perfect!

[DerpyMcSquirtle]

awesome video, I’ll probably end up playing solo and probably won’t be pushing the higher difficulties when I get the game but will definitely keep these stratagems in mind for sure

[puppedeader]

Another tip for the railgun is to shoot charger legs, only takes two rounds to remove armor and you can finish it off with your primary

[michaelmorrigan]

One stratagem I started to hate is the 120mm orbital. This weekend I became convinced it was more effective for friendly fire than anything else, as it combined with a rando that always short throwed, single-handily took 12 of our 20 reinforcements. It was made even funnier when we got back to the ship and the lady said “all that friendly fire was completely avoidable” yes it was ma’am. Yes it was 😑

[LordMaidenless]

few tips for the railgun: -take off the safety so it takes less shots to kill -for chargers 2 shots into their front leg takes off the armour and you can take it out with any normal weapon shooting that leg instead of 4 shots to the head -use it in fps when taking off the safety to see when it hits near full charge because you can blow yourself up if you overcharge it for too long

[ShAdw]

This is exactly what I was looking for - thank you! 🙂

[CronDon]

Great video! I'm definitely grabbing those next time I'm on the game.

[isocryd]

Railgun with ammo pack is my go-to for group play. That way I can wander off and call more packs as I need them instead of needing supply drops while I clear out camps and secondary objectives.

[keldon_champion]

Rocking the supply pack with the rail is very nice too as you can now cart around a fuck ton of ammo

[lunarshadow]

I'm looking forward to seeing more strategems in the future.
Played the first one quite a lot and could easily see the mechs and vehicles making an appearance.
Maybe even more of the weapons that are yet to appear.

[Alvadar]

With the railgun, hold R to switch it off of safe mode so you can charge it more for a lot more damage. Just dont over charge it and it will blow up in your face. Also I noticed you were trying to headshot the chargers with it. The better, easier and faster option is to shoot its leg. Two shots from the rail gun to one of its legs and then a couple shots from the breaker shotgun and its dead super fast.

Also the orbital railcannon strike is super fast and can one shot bile titans.

[slaayerr]

Another nice mention is if you are working your way up and want to have a bit of tank/distraction earlier than the shield packs against the bots, you can actually equip the smg still while holding a riot shield. It obviously wont save ya from tockets but being able to push up and smg spray all the little guys early on is nice. It might actually be better off too whenever they actually fix armor value and heavy becomes playable again

[ptat_Child]

First time I found the railgun in the wild before unlocking it, I knew I had to get this gun asap. I was still pretty far from level 20 but I am closer now. That gun is a life saver.

[esmolol]

My setup for most casual solo running.
LMG, Ammo Backpack, Light Armor with at least 6 grenades loadout, Breaker shotgun, normal pistol, incendiary grenades.
Incendiary mines, and 500 kg Eagle bomb. As buff I would go either with better surveillance, or endurance.
LMG makes short work of any light to medium armormed targets. incendiary nades crrate a death zone while retreating or for advancing enemies, incendiary mines clear our trash that otherwise would like to flank me, while I pick a different combat direction.
Ammo is not a problem with the backpack.
A total of 14 grenades spread havoc again small units and help me clear out bug holes, if needed and well the 500 kg bomb says hello to the really big boys.
Anyway, concealment is the best method to survive and rule No. 1:
Never engage in a fight, if it is not mandatory for the mission.