Helldivers 2 - The Best Build For New Players | Weapons, Armor, Stratagems and Gameplay Tips

Dive into Helldivers 2 with confidence! Our expert guide breaks down the ultimate build for new players, equipping you with the knowledge you need to crush enemies and conquer missions effortlessly. Master the game with this winning new player loadout.

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0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Weapons
2:21 - Stratagems
6:48 - Samples & Ship Modules
7:58 - Armor
8:33 - Build Summary
9:21 - Gameplay Tips
10:30 - Join The Community...for Democracy!

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[LegacyGamingUS]

We have a bunch of build videos heading your way, but this should provide a solid starting point for all new players!

[iancharless]

Well actually you can't even progress the other levels and upgrades until you've spent enough medals in one to unlock the next. Usually there's only a couple small things like banners and helmets and maybe a cape that you don't get. So go ahead and unlock the guns. You have to if you want to progress to the next level up. So this whole speech about saving your medals is as the brits would say, BULUX. Just spend them because you have to anyway. I upgraded grenades when possible, guns and armor and the credits. The rest is choice is yours.

[Troy]

Stealth is a thing in this game. In a 2 man team I’ve completed level 7 difficulty using stealth and smoke is s tier in that case. Some stratagems and weapons are very situational and when used in the right situations can be extremely useful. There’s also armor that makes using stealth easier.

[yoyoyouka]

Grenade Launcher, Supply Pack, Eagle Airstrike, Gatling Sentry

You can clear nest/building with ease from afar, provides more ammo/stim/grenades, area control with gatling sentry

Very good until you unlock laser orbital, Auto cannon, Railgun etc

[RichSmithson]

For anyone in lower levels having problems with armoured enemies, I recommend using the Sniper Rifle. People are passing it over and not even trying it because it seems like the wrong kind of game to use a gun like that. But its incredibly powerful and rips through armour like butter. I use it alot on the Automatons when I see the big heavies coming towards me. 2-3 shots and they are down and you don't have to always go for the weak spots.

[HAL]

You basically have to spend medals. So unlocking all the weapons is good advice. Unless you think banners and dances are better investments, no judgment.

[lsthree]

The 1st shotgun is worth it b/c it reloads one bullet at a time instead of clips. Also one shot kill for small bugs. Great for close range, use machine gun for hordes., and op for supply pack.

[korkrest]

Will add a point to get scout/light armor. Running faster and faster stamina regen is the best damage mitigation vs bugs imho

[rafe_]

Can't wait to be able to put these tips to use. Hopefully one day I can get farther than the 'servers are full, trying again in 30 seconds'

[nosleep]

I recommend any armor that grants you the 2 additional grenades. The standard SG Breaker, the machine pistol and until you unlock the impact grenade, use the standard explosive variety. As for stratagems, I recommend getting the Gatling sentry asap. Eventually you’ll have all of these unlocked but as early as possible you want the Eagle Airstrike and the orbital laser. I also recommend the auto-cannon as an early armor tool but the shield pack and the railgun as more of a forever combo. All in all you just have to get comfortable with your kit and play style. At that point this game really shines.

[syco]

My first game was solo against “Terminators” and escorting folks. I got wrecked…. 10/10!!

[OllieDM]

One important thing, you can have someone else equip the ammo backpack on a support weapon and they can reload it for you way faster, and the gas is actually really good for fodder.

[twistedjoker]

The glitches and the server capacity when trying to log in is so frustrating. Because I enjoy the game. If they can patch the bad this game will be amazing. So many throw backs to 80s movies that I love.

[SanityPotion]

big disagree with the Eagle Cluster Bomb recommendation. The cluster bomb is effectively just a much worse Eagle Airstrike with a higher potential of TK due to how wide and long it is. Let’s not forget it can’t destroy structures which is a big part of why air strikes are so good in the first place. Being able to just deal with multiple nests or automaton printing facilities from range without needing to push into a hive nest cluster or automaton base saves both a lot of time and ammunition.

[Breakingfasst]

For Ship Modules, both Engineering Bay and the Robotics modules need super samples for tier 2, the other modules do not.

Sentries are more powerful than you think, and that shows with the upgrades. I suggest grinding for the 50% increased ammo, this is a godsend on your sentries to keep them shooting for far longer.

[strygian]

Hardest boss in the game: the login screen

[TheLuggi]

8:53 You don't "waste" your medals. You need to invest medals to unlock more pages no matter what. So invest everything until you get the breaker shotgun.

[Neyreyan]

Best gear played by chads on helldiver 9 Difficulty, not difficulty 3 like legacy gaming: Basic shotgun and then Breaker shotgun forever, Smg secondary, impact grenades, armor with +2 grenade perks(6 in total). Stratagems mostly depend on upgrades, sentries and eagle become a lot more usefull with T3 upgrades. Best stratagems: 500kg bomb, walking barrage orbital, orbital railcannon and/or a sentry, the minigun sentry is the best until you get sentry upgrades(50% ammo and others). Heavy guns: basic machiegun, autocannon and then Spear.

After upgrades the autocannon sentry becomes very good, rocket is also good now. Mortars are only good in defense missions.
Eagle stratagems get +1 uses so you can use the heavy ones more. NOTE: while some eagle stuff has 4 uses and 8 sec cooldown, after using all of it the eagle goes to rearm for 3 or 4 minutes. So using a 500 kg bomb will mean the eagle wont rearm and refresh the 500kg bomb until you use up or manually reload other eagle stuff. In essence only use 500kg bomb from eagle in the begining.

Heavy guns/support: there is a big disscusion here but the machinegun is great for dealing with anything except heavy armor, autocannons for fun and clearing a lot of enemies but doesnt penetrate heavy armor while the sentry autocannon does penetrate armor.
The spear is hard to use but it can 1 shot charger(still need to shot them) and 2 shot bile titan(if you hit the face).
Other usefull gear but situational: shield backpack is op, drone with laser, grenade launcher for clearing bug nests and eggs, sniper rifle against ranged enemies.
Important NOTE: against the automatons you will need to use mortars, shields, smoke and all of the other gear since they also have artilery. You cannot be agressive with the robots and you need a better team so grind all your favourite gear against the bugs and then challenge the chad vietnam ptsd horror(yes, they will shot you when you can't even see them)

Boosters: usually take the scanner one since no one takes it, there is a booster for more reinforcements at the end of the pleb battlepass, the extortion edition battle pass has one much earlier so use them if you are playing with lower level players. They are a team bonus so match them nicely.
Get the radar upgrade from the ship module, it really really helps with planning attacks where there is no interference.
Pro tip: always activate the radar dish secondary to sell all objectives on map and destroy the Stalker nest since they will bother you the entire game. in the artilery secondary, find mini-nukes, high-yield explosive and napalm rounds first because it fires them in the same order you put them

[stonaraptor]

Strategem system reminds me of a game back in the day called Mercenaries on PS2. You could call in airstrikes similar to this game, even call in vehicles via air drop. Imagine if we could get a tank drop in Helldivers.

[pFantam]

If you're more of a bug player, GET THE FLAMETHROWER. It has a big mag size, can kill just about anything except bile titans (has the fastest time to kill for chargers), has really good crowd control, and it is a lot harder to kill teammates than shown here as long as you point it away from teammates and towards hordes.