Helldivers 2 - The Old Meta Is Back?! (Helldiver Difficulty, Solo)

as some of you may remember right before the rail gun Nerf we had a pretty set and established solo player meta that revolved around using the rail gun with the shield generator pack but since its Nerf players have found themselves shifting away from the rail gun as its armor penetration became much more of a problem and required not only to constantly use it on unsafe mode but also to charge its shots to nearly 90 plus% charge however one of you guys in the comment section below recommended this load out to try to Revive Our old trusty Loadout so today we have an objective of trying to bring our Old Reliable meta back to life so let's go ahead and start here we're going to be dropping in uh I'm going to be dropping in near the side objective uh usually side objectives are close to each other so odds are there will be more side objectives down here so what we'll bringing in here is the cluster bomb The Shield generator pack the rail gun and the Expendable anti-tank not the laser cannon I selected the wrong one there as well as the stamina enhancement for the rest of the loadout I am bringing in the trusty breaker with a redeemer the Scout armor set as well as the impact grenade so just like our old meta the only thing that has shifted around is no longer a 500 kilo bomb and instead we're using the Expendable anti-tank to deal with those biot Titans and some of the Chargers so let's see how this is going to play out start here as always with the shield generator pack and rail gun look here for the side objectives um so we got the radar station there you can kind of tell by the look of it on the mini map you get used to what they look like on the mini map with time as well as the uh Rogue station there but let's deal with this radar station first is going to be quite convenient going to be getting our expens anti-tank here to deal with the Charger and we're going to be having to do a lot of uh juggling here kind of hope for the best see if that's going to work out or not Max we got a pouncer world which means going to be getting a lot of little Bugsy cluster bomb is going to come in clutch on this one bug breach is fairly small though seems like no other chargers I was kind of hoping there would be so I could use this other Expendable anti-tank mag empty get get some out of ammo so essentially for those who do not know what the rail gun Nerf is is now the gun is pretty much useless in safe mode it's not good pretty much only works in unsafe mode um back in the day there was no reason to use unsafe mode even though a lot of people will defend unsafe mode from uh before this patch but really guys there was no reason to use unsafe mode safe mode just shot dramatically faster and did nearly as much damage as unsafe mode did say hello to the you could shoot like like almost twice is Fast by just not charging up your shots so heavily nowadays we do have to charge our shots or else that we will have little to no armor penetration so we got a Spore spewer here let me try to snipe that out while we're waiting for the raadar station to kind of load oh I have it on safe mode here got to swap to unsafe and we're good the one thing I kind of recommend getting used with a rail gun is the sound effects of it I may struggle to do that in this game since I'm talking as I'm shooting but um there's like this very distinct uh staticky kind of sound effect once it does kind of reach that 90% Mark so if you try the rail gun make sure you try to get use to try to pay attention to that little static sound and you won't have to shoot it every time time in first person even though it is going to be a lot uh a lot safer to use it in first person so you don't end up uh exploding yourself updated and there we go that's already two side objectives one spor pure and the radar station now we got a rogue station and two shrier nests left over for side objectives I'm going to be dropping in here a cluster bomb on these little guys we're going to be playing pretty aggressive here by by the way we're not just going to be freedom forever just going to be sneaking around and completing objectives we will as we usually do play very aggressive and take a lot of risks un necessary risks surely but a lot of risk that uh so that we can get in as many engagements as possible so we can properly test this load out we'll also of course be doing all main objectives all side objectives and be attempting to extract as well so it's going to be a full complete to run as it usually is be calling in here the spend an iank exactly for that suspected they were about to call a bug breach so I want to get ready here going to be dropping in AC closer bomb right where they're spawning get rid of this little guy just kind of chilling there don't want him to show up late to the party and hit me with a nice charge have a casaste of democracy delivering payload I'm trying to deal with large groups like this guys try to get rid of the bug breaches fast like if you if you actually attempt to play aggressive like this what I recommend is try to get rid of the groups fast if you take too long your bug breach cool down will uh refresh and they'll just call another bug breach and then call another bug breach and then another one and it's just going to keep getting worse up until a point where they pretty much call infinite bug breaches and you can never get rid of the group so if you you want to play aggressive you have to focus on clearing out the entire group as fast as possible to prevent a uh reinforcement Loop throwing grenade this is another Patrol here so that's not looking too good see if I can push here a little bit more aggressively to kind of yeah you see we got another Patrol group here take too long here to deal with them they will call for another reinforcement oh all right don't know what happened there using here cluster bomb try to weaken down their forces a little bit this is what I love about the Expendable anti-tank right the cool Down's already back it's what like 70 seconds and I actually found out before this game before I recorded this I thought I had the ship module to uh refresh these cooldowns on the Expendable anti-tanks faster but I actually don't have here I thought I had already purchased it but turns out I didn't quite have it oh okay that's my mistake my mistake I thought the closup bomb landed a bit farther there did we get rid of the entire group what democracy has okay well that charger got pretty lucky there not for long though buddy I'm out bam so I found this one bug this one glitch with like Expendable anti-tanks that I cannot seem to replicate but sometimes when I'm adsing and I pick up the Expendable anti-tank there won't be like a delay to be able to shoot your Expendable anti-tanks you can just like shoot it instantly after picking it up but I haven't been able to replicate it consistently you guys know what I'm talking about oh the eggs are right here I'm going to be trying to do it but I think like when you're adsing destroyed with uh with a weapon and you loot the Expendable anti-tanks sometimes it immediately there's like no animation it's immediately equipped and you can shoot it instantly going to try to replicate it in this game to show you guys what I'm talking about the rail gun is not only good against Hive guards it's also really good against these brute commanders as well cuz it's just one shot to their head and it's they're gone the usually their heads are pretty tough but the rail gun ra gun does melt their face off have a taste of democracy try to get The High Ground here so I can get a better angle on them oh oh no we got a group of uh okay we're going to have to gain some distance here or else we are dead meat that's the thing about hunters they force you to retreat I feel like as annoying as Hunters are Hunters are like an amazing addition to determined faction cuz the hunters themselves force you to do things that pretty much none of the other bugs kind of do like which actually forces you to retreat and and oh most of the other bugs I'm talking about the small bugs I guess the small and medium bugs you can just kind of stand your ground and just like shoot them down but the hunters actually kind of surround you and force you to approach it a little bit differently I think it's pretty cool I hate and I love Hunters I think they're a fantastic addition that charger seems to have gotten stuck there I'm not going to waste too much more time here I'm going to try to juggle these oh come on going try to juggle these towards the side objective here in case a uh hell bomb hell bomb in case a uh charger appears doesn't seem like be making his way here though going I drop that there pick up my rail gun oh that's quite easy help bomb armed clear the area all right let's get the hell out of Dodge I'm not going to be juggling that cuz I'm just going to be going really far away now all right that's uh three side objectives done one main objective Ive it's time to go handle the shrier nest so I'll admit I have not tried the rail gun against the shrier nest I'm really really curious how many oh is that what I think it is oh yeah baby I love these hell bombs come here I'm just going to kill you guys for the [ __ ] of it a charger no big deal I love these hell bombs so much reload try to take out these two Chargers w damn oh this little cockroach is still alive okay all right I wonder how many shots it's going to take to get rid of a shrier nest but it should be a very viable choice to do this with the rail gun right let's see oh crap that's one shot get rid of the group oh crap all right I got to get rid of this bug breach fast hopefully they're not going to be calling for a bile Titan or anything like that oh crap going to be using the space here behind me to just Retreat and kill Retreat and kill and I think that's pretty much all of them oh that's good that was an easy wave I was a bit scared of it being like bile Titans and chargers and [ __ ] but okay all right two shots three listen the regular Spore spewer is five shot or at least it used to be we're already up to five here okay these are definitely tougher what are we at seven I think eight n God damn okay these things are like as tough as like a b Titan space 10 they up wow wait did they even go down what's that at 12 shots oh there we go 13 shots to take it down wow that's rough I mean realistically it's still going to be worth doing if you want to play safe because it's just going to be first of all it's going to take even though 13 shots is a lot it's going to take way longer to just make your way all the way there clear all the enemies and the shriekers call in a hell bomb to then take it out you know this is still going to be way f faster and if I actually go and run into both the shrier nests in this map uh I may not be able to finish the mission on time cuz that will take quite a bit these streer nests are much tougher to take out then stalker's Nest since I don't have e air strike I actually only have cluster bombs then yeah this might be actually the fastest way to do this I am forgetting though I could just be calling a uh anti or an Expendable anti-tank and be getting rid of these much faster that's my bad all right so it's 13 shots to get rid of these what about you buddy oh let me get that that's our first bio Titan right I think it's the first one I'm out oh clean shot right to the chin God damn okay that's nice what if I do one Expendable anti-tank shot on the nest and then hit it with a rail gun how many shots is that going to take I Know It Takes Two Expendable anti-tanks I'm out okay that's one now how many is rail gun shots is there left to go one okay sorry for this guys if I had an elag air strike I'd run in there but the hell bomb would even though this taking a little bit the hell bomb would take a little bit while longer structure destroy all right so we got a group of hunters here they'll be calling for reinforcements I'm sure it's been long enough say hello to democracy yeah that one was trying to call I think there we go find out where they're going to spawn to drop a cluster bomb actually those rocks might block the cluster bomb so that might have not been very good one yeah that's Nine Kills still pretty good for Prosperity so overall so far I'm feeling like the The Arc thrower still got the um the new rail gun beat um it's a much more well-rounded weapon um the disadvantage about it though is it can't get rid of biot Titans but I guess you could argue that the rail gun I mean the rail gun can but if I'm bringing Expendable anti-tanks to deal with bot Titans I could probably just do the same for the arc throwers right all right so for this Sher Nest I'm not going to be taking too long to get rid of it guys I'm just going to shoot it with the anti-tanks okay that's good solid and that will get rid of one and then I'm just going to get out of here and then when I have another Expendable anti-tank I'll deal with another mushroom one at a time yeah I think the rail gun kind of fell behind here uh behind the ark thrower I think it kind of fell behind the charger as or not the charger the flamethrower as well cuz I think the flamethrower performs a bit better than the rail gun at dealing with chargers and that's pretty much what you bring the rail gun for right it's the armored guys it's a bolt action armor penetration weapon its job is literally to get rid of armored guys and if it doesn't do that effectively and there is no reason to use it it's really good against Hive guards though I can't deny I have a feeling it might still be pretty good at dealing with automatons if there's any of you guys out there in the comment section that actually still use the rail gun what do you use it for do you use it for bugs do you use it for automatons or have you just put aside the rail gun ever since it's nerfed last reload all right we're going to be coming in here the second Egg Nest uh I believe we haven't seen a reinforcement in long enough so they're probably going to be calling in for reinforcement here right there okay oh missed that nade back here resupplies right here now we got to handle this group fast as we can we can get into the Egg Nest and finish off this objective administering freed say hello to democracy that's pretty hefty that's nice that's a big bug breach you will never destroy the situations like this where the ark thrower would just absolutely demolish right oh [ __ ] we got more we got a little Patrol behind us here how' you like to taste freed oh crap I thought it was my primary ma empty oh we got got a biot Titan all right that's nice I was actually looking forward to it I actually want to fight biot Titans cuz I want to put this to put this to the test come here buddy don't I'm not that way Come Oh that rioch [ __ ] off his leg a he's going the other way I don't want to waste too much time waiting for him or else the as soon as I get in the egg nest they're just going to call for another bug breach come on buddy over here yeah you right there I wonder how many shots it's going to take to its face for the Expendable anti-tank to One Hit It crap I'm out oh did I just get my answer is it only two rail gun shots to the face and one Expendable anti-tank wow if so that that is amazing okay well that's pretty good sometimes this in this game I don't know exactly how it works though but sometimes in this game I've noticed there are like Critical Hits where some shots just do way more damage than they regularly do I don't know if you guys have noticed that I think it's like when they're not aware of you and you kind of shoot them when they're not aware of you still it kind of does like double damage or something like that just a theory though not not confirmed that's just something I've kind of noticed I don't know if there's been someone talking about this someone who has brought this up yet but I've definitely kind of noticed [Music] that hey let me get rid of these eggs before they call for reinforcement here they should be calling for it any second now nice okay that's two objectives two objectives we're only missing one main objective as well as the one shrier Nest which only has two mushrooms left where is the resupply where did I call it oh it's over here okay looking pretty good looking like a very easy run so far uh towards the um the last objective I'm going to be getting quite aggressive and actually fighting everything inight to kind of really put this to the test so we'll see how that uh how that's going to work out guys over here I'm over here let me try uh oh no never mind I was going to try just rail gunning this uh charger but they got back up rather not all right I got to deal with this little group here or else I'm in trouble always prioritize Hunters guys always always always you will never destroy our way will pick your [ __ ] in if you leave them alive I don't want to use that Expendable anti-tank on this charger since he's already stuck anyways slow to democracy I guess if it kind of goes through the uh as you saw there it went through the hunter I'm out and when it came to hit the uh the charger suddenly didn't have enough armor penetration so I'm thinking if you shoot through an enemy the the weapon loses armor penetration as I'm guessing it kind of loses velocity like that's pretty cool that that is interesting to see that hell diver has that mechanic in it like it goes through one enemy then it slows down the bullet enough to not penetrate the enemy behind it that's pretty cool that's the first time I seen that I did not know that was a thing so we got one mushroom left right on the Sher nest look at this group so they call for a reinforcement while I'm leaving get some get some he Expendable anti-tanks already back I love this thing Expendable anti-tank was like my trusty weapon to deal with chargers and batt Titans and such at the lower like difficulties when I was like low level I think everybody comes across a phase where they use the Expendable anti-tank and it's just quite reliable quite reliable stru destroyed all right that's all side objectives now we got the last main objective and after the main objective we will be fully extracting or attempting to do so and I will take on uh a bunch of fights to kind of put this load out to the test I feel like we haven't gotten that many tough groups to face with yet we gotten a few swarms a few bug breaches but nothing too crazy no strong mixture of like Chargers and bile Titans and [ __ ] democra on it way that's a pretty bad cluster bomb there could have thrown that on the uh the orange smoke which by the way definitely something to pay attention to when you call for an eagle air strike on a bug breach throw it right on top of the orange smoke and you will rack up a lot of kills got just one charger oh I have no Expendable anti-tank that's right get get some so I might have to rail gun this guy I believe it's three shots right if you fully charge it let's see two I think that wasn't fully charged four four three or four shots it's still pretty decent it is slower I think I could have put in six Arc thrower shots faster than I could have done those four shots but um The Arc thrower doesn't stagger so I guess there is that I think it's really going to come down oh that little bug flew bro you seen that [ __ ] it just fell from the sky that's crazy where the hell did I go all right I took three shot oh I missed that that was on his neck and that was a solid hit okay so it's not two rail gun shots and one EXP spendable antitank it's a little bit more see we're up to three shots four okay that's still pretty good though about like two to four full charge shots and one Expendable anti-tank to the face pretty solid all right we got 12 minutes left let's go onto these eggs got almost pretty much everything done think we've kind [Music] of done this pretty easily so far I'm actually kind of hoping to get overwhelmed you know like have a bunch of bugs all over me to kind of put this load out to the test let's complete this primary objective first and secure our win before we get a bit crazy one shot two okay those were both solid both full charge let's try to do one more I think it's three right yeah okay it is three if you actually charge it properly mag's empty throwing grenades had a lot of hunters man how' you like the taste of not looking too good it's kind of crazy how much more dangerous a hunter is than any other bug oh I'm dead what that weapon dude my shotgun took so long to reload reest at least that felt like it took really long get rid of this charger all right pretty solid got rid of the bug Bridge took a little bit but we should be able to to get in we should have a little bit of time before they call in for another reinforcement let's see if I can juggle these oh crap by the way to do this I'm just spamming e nothing no secret I'm going to leave it there it's pretty much at the entrance in case things get [Applause] ugly get rid of this so they don't come up behind me snatch this objective going to do a CL bomb here to speed up things a little bit nice okay seven seven eggs left that's it nice okay VI all let's pick a fight actually the fight is already coming to me it seems like I might go into the nest that's right behind me if I can't find a good strong fight oh oh no no no no last reload resupply is back right when my ammo finished these Hunters are giving me trouble oh there comes a bug breach let me get this ammo come on come on come on oh [ __ ] oh no oh no no oh that's not good a [ __ ] damn it dude I threw it right where they oh god okay now we got a Botti all right I guess we got the fight we were asking for Let's uh put this to the test let's see how it goes clost a bomb right in the middle of the group for Prosperity 28 kills okay call back for my stuff here I'll pick up the samples afterwards oh crap am I going to be able to oh that's not reachable let me try to get that Expendable anti-tank and use it again against the biot Titan one solid shot okay a bomb to thin out the forces a little bit proed not a good cluster bomb at all didn't get anybody we got a full stack of hunters here ohow the hunter is not dying pretty low on ammo we got no resupply say hello to democracy waiting for that bot Titan to get a bit closer it seem to get stuck there I'm actually going to try to use here the biot Titan's acid spew to get rid of any nearby threat I think he sped on the charger there oh oh we got we're in a bug breach Loop see in a real situ yeah and there's another Patrol in front of me the real situation you want to get the hell out of here if I die if I lose my reinforcements I will get out of here but until then kill as many [ __ ] bugs as we can this is the extraction Zone I don't want to be here we got Expendable anti-tank back problem is these Hunters are not letting me breathe Taste of freed oh holy you walk right past him get that acid spew got rid of a couple of them God these Hunters don't don't stop oh that's not good we don't have a syringe I can't stem ah I ran out of stems all right goty to get back in there if I lose this life boom I lose this life then we get the hell out of Dodge oh that's not good all right now in a real situation let me show you what you want to do right just get the [ __ ] out of here realistically this is what you want to do right which is pretty easy if you have the Scout armor I should be able to just outrun them here let me just get my stuff back I oh pretty much accidentally baiten baited them down south which meant my samples here are free loot just going to snag them back up fuel free supplies as well we're good we just get out of Dodge now look what's going to happen happen right if you put enough distance this will also work if you're playing in a group you put enough distance between you and all of those enemies all of those bug breaches they will despawn um I'm not exactly sure if this is intended or not but they will despawn as you can see here 200 oh they're still there but they will disappear very soon the further distance I put between me and them we'll check back on them in a second here let me just oh we got another bug reach all right more fighting I'll take it so I got stuck in an infinite bug breach Loop there because I was taking to long to get rid of the groups and their cool down kept refreshing right their reinforcements cool down until it got to a point where I was so many enemies that I couldn't get rid of them anymore rein that was scary that was real scary let's get out of here all right let me put some distance here have another Expendable anti-tank down there for this charger and we got another Patrol group coming freom forever come here buddy oh [ __ ] I missed it dude every time they they kind of charge me down like that it's like my hand gets like shaky and miss my shot [ __ ] is scary dude all right he's going to get stuck on this rock for sure ma empty damn we got another group here not looking too good how about a [Music] liberty last reload oh he was trying to call for reinforcements there so I'm kind of glad I was able to stop him oh that bounced off of it oh get resupplied come on come on yeah [ __ ] got another group incoming there I just want to grab the loot here and I think I'm going to get out of Dodge oh I click to throw a grenade cuz that's thought there was going to be a container door there Bluster bomb just to snag a couple of kills why not for Prosperity okay after this bug breach it's definitely time for me to put some distance between me and them it's not going to be worth it right we do have a biot Titan I'm kind of considering trying to take that a big boy oning down support weapon two solid Expendable anti-tanks to its face should do the job come here buddy shoot shoot shoot shoot okay shoot shoot shoot no come on oh oh my God how am I alive oh give [ __ ] you will never destroy our way of life we got 20 seconds left I shouldn't be playing this dangerous anymore let me go ahead and fall back and we're going to make this extraction pretty easy on ourselves so what we're going to do as you guys may already know if you watch my other videos what we'll do is we'll put some distance between me and the extraction Zone here put quite a bit of distance not exactly sure how far away you have to be from it but essentially at this point in the game what the game is going to do to me is it's going to send patrols towards me rather than send patrols towards the extraction Zone but we're going to be chilling here eventually there are going to be patrols that are going to come right towards us as we can see here there are no enemies in the extraction Zone anymore and here comes the first group see if that grenade kind of buys us some time nope they're right onto me let's get the hell out of Dodge we might have been yeah I don't think we we were seen there somehow and that's it pretty much for successfully extracting at this point you don't really have to worry the game's going to be tossing some uh controls towards us but we should be should be pretty solid here pretty good to go so yeah this this load out I don't think it's uh entirely back I don't think it's as powerful as some of the other choices in the game I do think the flamethrower and the Ark thrower still has a r be um whoever recommended this load out uh thank you for recommending it I do think it's a pretty solid load out altogether especially if you're playing in a group player you can kind of fit that role of like getting rid of like the big armored guys but for a solo player it's not uh it's not going to be an ideal choice I still prefer something more well-rounded that can handle both swarms pretty effectively as well as the armored units I think the rail guns definitely fallen behind stand in the getting rid of armored units Department grab here a couple more samples just realized we didn't go for many samples at all did we and there we go that's all main objectives all side objectives fully extracting vict was never let's just find out how many kills we got here let me know what you guys think about the rail gun these days man I I honestly have not really used the rail gun much since the Nerf I've maybe used it two three times I do think it was a very strong Nerf and I do think it was put underneath the other choices that are currently better than this by the way still somewhat solid we just leveled up there nice we're about to hit Level 50 almost there boys all right so thank you guys very much for watching I'll be catching you guys on the next one I appreciate you being here let's find out how many kills we got here I think it was about 700 600 that takes a long time 805 kills that's pretty good that's a lot more than I thought so yeah thank you guys for watching I'll be catching you guys on the next one peace

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Length: 45min 11sec (2711 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2024