The description has links to my written reference guide for this video. It also has a FAQ and corrections section. Feel free to drop a comment and I may well add it to that section. Thank you for watching and I will see you next time!

Be careful what you hear about the Bile Titans. Nobody knows if its intentional or not, but when a PS5 player is in the lobby, Bile Titans are SIGNIFICANTLY weaker.

Great video. Just a tip with the arc thrower. You can make it shoot twice as fast if you half charge your shots after the first firing. It still does the same amount of damage. Think of it like a minigun, where the first shot requires it being revved.

8:09 This is what I respect the most from Arrowhead, the fact that we can partially reload and finish the process whilst dodging enemies instead of going back to square one every time is truly wonderful.

Great vid. No time wasted, just pure information, extremely useful. On another note: after reading the video description, it blew my mind that some people think you have poor pronunciation. I think you have great speaking skills, you talk with personality, without it feeling obnoxious 'youtube' hype. I have not had a problem with a single word you have said

Genuinely helpful video with little to no wasted time. Thanks for re-confirming my obsession with spamming the EAT Launcher all over the map

there's an additional benefit to the expendable anti tank, as it is very easy to stick the call down to a chargers head and have it kill them as it lands, so on average I find I can kill three chargers per EAT which given its extremely short cooldown, is incredible

E-AT is my go-to for chargers, devastators, and bot drop ships. Charger and devastator both go down to a shot to the face. Drop ships go down with one hit to a thruster nacelle. It can also kill spore towers from across the map with one hit, but be sure to crouch/kneel to steady your shot over long range. For bile titans, my buddy and I came up with a decent one-two punch; he hits it with a spear to take off the top armor, and then I call in the orbital rail cannon to finish it. We both have fully upgraded hangars, and usually both bring 500KG Eagle bombs, giving us 4 500KGs before our eagles need to resupply. If you distract a bile titan, or hit it with EMS (which my other buddy likes to run), you can stop the titan long enough to one-shot it with a 500KG bomb, as a direct hit tends to kill it outright before even exploding. For bot Hulks and tanks, we usually call in the orbital rail cannon, and be done with them. However, the E-AT is also pretty good for taking out hulks if you get behind them and hit their vents, and I think the tank has a vent on the back, too, but my experience with these is limited, and usually the hulks draw so much fire by the time I get behind it, that I don't know if the E-AT is a 1-shot, or if it just took a lot of damage. The E-AT is my favorite, because it has a crazy-fast cool-down, and comes with 2 launchers - a great way to rattle off 3 rockets if you still have one from earlier, or better yet, arm your buddies who are focusing on eagles, orbitals, or sentries. I also run a backpack shield generator, great for blocking smaller bug hits when lining up a charger head shot, as taking a hit without the shield disrupts your aim. One final thing, you can lure a charger into your E-AT stratagem delivery location, and get a free kill as the pod slams through it, giving the E-AT the potential to kill 3 chargers every 70 seconds, or every 63 seconds if you have the 10% reduced heavy weapons stratagems cool-down ship upgrade. The E-AT, I'd say, is pretty well-balanced. The one-and-done is inconvenient, especially when on planets with stratagem-jamming ion storms, or near bot jammers. However, it's a proper anti-tank warhead, and as such, should be the best at defeating heavy armor, and being able to one-shot a charger is not OP at all, it's what you'd freaking expect to happen if you shot a AT rocket through the head of what's essentially a charging armored African bull elephant.

Invaluable information about the chargers with the flamethrower, thanks so much man. You deserve all the engagement

Good to see this testing. Lots of [eople were saying "Oh railgun is still just as good, you just gotta get good with unsafe mode" but to me it felt about half as effective as it used to be and your testing bore that out.

A few points that I'd like to add: - Spear can 1 shot headshot bile titans. In my experience, it's also pretty easy to do. You just need to have them facing you when you shoot them, and I recommend pointing the spear above the lock point so that it's more likely to hit the forehead. This tecnique also works with chargers, but you have to aim below the lock point to reduce the minimum distance at which you can get a headshot. - There is an armor level between medium and heavy probably called "light vehicle armor", according to the description of the guns that it applies to. For the moment, it seems to apply to the AMR, the Autocannon and probably the safe mode railgun (haven't tested that). Enemies that have this armor level are bot striders (you can't damage the cockpit from the front with the MG43, but can with these guns, for example), and Hulks (their face). This doesn't mean that these guns aren't useful againt bugs, since they deal full damage to medium armor parts like bile spewer heads or hive guard heads, giving you the ability to oneshot them. - this granularity of armor levels going from 1 to 10 doesn't seem to apply in practice. Enemies either have no armor, light armor, medium armor, light vehicle armor or heavy armor, so 5 levels total. Every weapon that gets white hit markers on certain enemy parts, does so in all the same spots. There is no practical difference in penetration between the MG-43, Slugger, Senator, AR-23P and Dominator. They will get red, white and bounce hitmarkers in all the same places. It's likely the the Slugger and Senator are just mislabeled Edit: I also just tested it, and you can get very consistent 3 shot kills on chargers with the Railgun if you hit them in the head with above 90% charge shots. You can tell it's above 90% when you can see the last longer horizontal black line.

Great video, no annoying intro, no bullshit, direct to the point and very high quality content.

Amazing video, thanks for all the hard work! *Cries in Laser Cannon*

Cant believe my favorite DRG tester is now my favorite HD2 tester! Keep up the great work!!

That flamethrower tip is really nice. Thanks. Love the high quality videos.

I've been 2-shotting Titans with EAT's ever since the game came out. Glad to see people are picking up on how useful it is.

The Helldiver Corps salutes you. Literally the entire Helldiver Corps. It's a mandate from Super Earth, we even got the ones in traction to manage it with a little elbow grease.

I remember watching your DRG videos and being in awe of how well tested and put together they are. Now watching you do the same thing for Helldivers is super helpful. Some of the highest quality content for each game. Keep it up!

A valuable extra note, with certain weapons, it's possible to significantly reduce the shots to kill by first blowing up the Bile Titan's bile sacks. This also significantly empowers certain strategems, with the orbital railcannon being a guaranteed kill if the sacks are gone, and making the 110mm Rocket Pods much more likely to oneshot as well. This makes having a primary that can destroy the sacks quickly very valuable. Side note, technically speaking I believe the new Plasma Punisher shotgun primary can kill a Charger through its armor with roughly a full mag to the head, so it should be able to eventually kill Titans too, not worth it but better than having no way at all to damage it when you respawn

this is, hands down, the best content creator of helldivers 2. My god, the data here is priceless!

I love that you don't stop at one test for something, even including the potential of random elements in testing.

Just found this on my feed. You may be the first HD2 youtuber I see which actually put in work in the video instead of just narrating reddit/discord comments Keep up the good work! ❤

Spear does 1 shot titans in the head, I’ve done this multiple times, but of course it’s very finicky to get working right.

I've felt something was off when watching this on mobile, and only then I've realised that this video fits the whole screen lol gj on gathering all that vital info

I very happy I found your channel. I wish you covered more of the games I play. Good stuff.

The quality of your videos is truly excellent. Thank you for doing all of this

I don't really have much to add, but good job on breaking down the ten levels of armour values! Commenting to give you some "engagement" because you deserve it

I appreciate the on screen pronunciation corrections. How the ancestors in your region came up with creating an accent where three and free sound the same is baffling. So props to you for adding the clarification 👍

Thank you for taking the time to produce this! I have nominated you for a Democracy Award for your brave knowledge collecting endeavours!

Great vid! Also amused that for once "clip" was the correct term in regards to a weapon's ammo but it was the only term not used. XD For the unfamiliar, the way the autocannon is reloaded are referred to as stripper clips, and are where the term clip comes from in the first place

Stumbled on your armor pen analysis video just yesterday, and got this today. Really great info here and I appreciate cutting right to the chase with everything. You're doing great work for democracy out there and have earned yourself a subscriber and definitely some shares.

When talking about the Autocannon reload, he calls them "Cartridges" and this is probably the first time I've ever had to say this, but It's Clips, not cartridges (or magazines). The rounds are 'clipped' together by a piece of metal that is ejected from the gun once the rounds are pushed into the magazine. You can see it fly up into the air. Pedantry aside, this is a really good video. Great job on the breakdowns!

The spear can one-shot the bile titan at a 50/50 rate if you shot it head-on, and 2-shot if you hit the same side (on the same spot). Amazing video, I loved your DRG tests and I am glad you picked up Helldivers 2!

You are appreciated 🚀

13:57 Spear actually one-shots bile titans if it hits in the head. Otherwise its usually a two shot kill from the front. If the damn weapon actually locked on correctly it could be a viable bile titan killer.

High quality video for certain, excellent job. I cannot recommend the EAT enough, you can basically throw them off cooldown and if you happen to be out at a time of need, away from any of your pods, or simply have none left, ideally your teammates packed a solution, or another stratagem you have can take care of things. If you think of it like "one charger every 30 seconds" the value becomes very clear - there are a lot of other options that don't come close to that. Plus it leaves a backpack slot free - ask a homeboy if you can have one of their backpacks if theyre bringing one, and you can save a slot. If not, you can use the shield, a supply pack, a drone, or even be the loader for a homie's support weapon.

Thanks for the info, will be sharing this video with my friends.

No Flamethrower test against the Bile Titan?

Your HD2 weapon/damage vids are amazing, for someone like me that plays only 2/3 times a week its been such good information to reduce my frustration.

I'd love to see a "semi-controlled" setting like these testing the autocannon damage to bile titans stripped side armor, maybe something that allows coordinated teams to more effectively use EAT's on BT's. For now though, this is plenty of useful information, reinforcing what already feels good to use, but with data to back it up. Thanks for all your hard work

chef's kiss quality - the data collection, analysis, visualization, general editing all outstanding!

The cartridges are what goes into the clips. The clips are then attached to the top of the autocannon. The cartridges are fed from the clip into the magazine and the clip flies out the top.

Commenting and liking solely for the fact that I had no idea you could easily blow tge charger leg armor off by shooting it in the back. Thank you for the rigorous testing!

The editing and work here is fantastic. Great video, very informative, and very engaging.

I do greatly appreciate the info, i myself am a fan of the railgun for the ease of use, but has to be used on unsafe mode to do anything, except against bile titans and tanks. And the orbital railcanon is a must have to deal with bile titans. :) The 500kg eagle bomb is also good but need more precision, altough you can get two in rapid succession if your eagle is fully upgraded. I must say though that they make anti armor support weapons very difficult, the expandable need to be called, then you wait for it to land, that is if there is no ion storm at the moment, plenty of things can go wrong in those few seconds. The recoiless uses your backpack and take ages to reload if you don't have a teammates doing it for you, and the spear is... like the recoiless but worse. Plain old stratagems are usually more reliable, except when the ion storm hits you.

The spear 1-shots the titan in the head, confirmed both by other people, as well as by personal experience.

With the autocannon, there's a visible ammo count in the internal magazine bulge. Once the brass rounds the halfway point, you have five left and can top up. I've found the magazine icon on the HUD a little deceiving sometimes, so this is a nice positive way to confirm. Unrelated to gameplay, whoever designed the autocannon absolutely excites the gun history nerd in me. Long recoil like the Oerlikon, Borchardt/Luger/Furrer toggle link action, top feed semicircular magazine that blends Krag-Jorgensen and Madsen, it's just *chef's kiss.* Someone watched a lot of Forgotten Weapons

Fantastic video, superb quality. You deserve to have a lot of subs and succeed in this.

4:16 Just to be that guy, this is one of the rare situations where "clip" is acceptable! Like a hair clip holds strands of hair, or a paper clip holds pieces of paper, in this context a clip is a strip of metal that holds several otherwise loose rounds together, without fully enclosing them. Once the rounds have been fed into the autocannon's internal magazine, the clip is then discarded.

Very helpful. Hope people watch these so we get more help out there with higher levels. Be cool to see stats on the bots next

I will never approach chargers the same way again! Although I haven't reached Bile Titan difficulties yet, this video has certainly prepared me for when the time comes.

Awesome video dude! really helpful, Recoiless rifles don't fire Missiles/rockets though, they fire Shells, theyre essentially cannons with no breach at the back, this is what removes the recoil.

Just FYI, what you load into the Autocannon is called a stripper clip or clip for short. It holds five rounds/cartridges per clip. It's used to reload the 10 round internal magazine. Nowadays we commonly use 10 round clips to reload 30 round mags.

Fun fact about the auto cannon, it can shoot insanely far with no detectable drop, and take down more than you expect at those ranges. You can one-shot rogue broadcast stations, and 2-shot spore spewers. You can also do massive damage to the stationary turrets the automatons have, as long as you can hit them in the back.

This is the most informative video I've found on chargers and how support weapons being work on them and I appreciate it.

Thank you for the research and compilation. Since I'm commenting anyway, here's two well meant nitpick for weapon terminology: - the autocannon is loaded by clips. Clips load magazines, magazines load chambers. - the recoilless rifle takes a shell, not a missile. The thing basically has a double charge, half propels the payload forward, half goes out the back to counteract the recoil. Anyway, nothing important, just commenting for the algo gods.

I always bring EAT-s on terminid runs With some practice you can kill 3 chargers with one stratagem use, as you can stick it to charger's face and it gets killed on landing. Most consistent way to make it stick and not bounce is to throw it at his sides. When it looks at you, you still can stick it - but make sure you aim it slightly above his head

I'm in love with the Expandable Launcher ever since I first got it at a low level. Can be used with any other support equipment. Extremely quick recall time. Can be called when needed then discarded. Kills a charger in 2 shots most of the time. Easy call allows to be used even during a swarm. If desperate, the drop pod itself is expandable enough to call it on Titan directly. Is also expendable enough to call directly on a hive enterence, if you run out of grenades. Can be used to snipe nests from a save distance, without triggering flying bugs. Can be called if you respawned far away from your main support weapon, allowing for some extra security. Every other AP weapon doesn't suit me, as they don't allow to be used with my machine gun.

I definitely do this sort of analysis as well small scale with my friends just to test fun stuff out and see what works. I'm glad you're taking the extra effort to record the data!

Thanks for your work. I've found great success in finishing off titans with busted sides with the Scorcher primary. Tend to get red hit markers if you him just above the front leg. Maybe this could be tested with more weapons. Lots of heavy hits that tend to strip this armor like Orbital railcannon, seems to leave them at 1-15% health which is not much at all if the side is open and you can damage it. Pubs tend to use two "heavy hits" to kill titans off and its usually a massive overkill. Even if side isnt busted, just shooting the belly off after like a 500kg could work.

excellent video! very informative, you have an insanley calming tone to your voice!

I love the clear methodology of this video, very well presented, very open discussion of testing. An amazing analysis!! Amazing work man!!!!

Dude! Your videos are top notch! I also noticed that you have amazing videos of BD3 and DRG two games that I own and I have played in the past. DRG is one of my top co-op games. Thanks for your contribution and it'd be amazing to cross paths on the battlefield with you (though, I suck)

THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING BRUHHHHHHHHHHH No time wasted, straight to the point, great presentation, great quality. I like howw you are totally different than other youtubers who just try to make the video longer by talking nonsense between the important stuff. And you don't speak like those youtubers who just pronounce the words too long just for me to speed up the video lmao. It's obvious you put a lot of effort on this video instead of just putting a random gameplay and doing a voiceover. KEEP UP THE CONTENT.

Hitting the armor at the right angle is really important. I’ve had an EAT rocket deflect from a charger by getting a glancing hit, and I’ve had rifle shots bounce on some of the weaker automatons too.

One note about the autocannon: if you shoot under the charger, you can cause it to trip and leave it prone for a second. Prone position seems like the same animation every time, so you can trip and and account for one of thr legs being in the same spot every time.

Eye opening just like the last one, thank you for everything you do and data you have collected. please stay in lab and sharing your finds we appreciate every you do bruh. Rockin Stone

The expendable quickly became a must-have every mission against the bugs. Even if I bring a different support weapon, I call down the expendable on cooldown all over the map or in areas we need to defend. Makes it very easy to quickly swap, blast a charger, then go back to whatever you were doing.

I feel like I'm watching a pre-helldive briefing on a destroyer. This is top tier stuff.

I didn't realize how big the gap was between the EAT / recoilless and the other support weapons. That's huge, they're basically a must-bring for bug missions.

Great video! looks like the expendable is the move. This is exactly what I was looking for! Love your accent too!

Almost never comment on YT videos but I wanted to express that I super appreciate and respect the huge amount of work that went into this. You got all three from me.

Thanks for putting in the time to do all this testing. It was a huge help

Also, really nice narration and the guide seems very profesional! U have a good voice and a talent for make these videos. Hope you get the amount of subs and like u deserve. Really good work dude 🤟

I'm using the spear quite a bit, from what I have seen so far: - if parts of the body that are inside the view window / white circle, are covered by terrain / smoke, the spear will have trouble locking on. - The spear will one shot a titan 85% of the time IF the titan is facing towards the user, basically headshots are a 1 shot - Same for chargers, though it is VERY hard to pull of due to their movement and not recomended. - You can hold the aim button while reloading to have a faster or even instant lock-on. - The spear is able to lock on to structures if it can see the entire structure. It can work on spore caster trees, but needs an elevated position above the spore carpet, same for Shrieker nests, and bot factories. Note: The autocannon turrets and rocket turret, seem to have higher armor pen than the mobile variants as the ACT can take down chargers and titans if they don't get destroyed before that. Tesla turrest don't seem to work on Titans. Some notes for the bots: - The spear does not oneshot Hulks when hitting the front - The spear will target the center of dropships, thus not oneshotting them - autocannons, EAT and recoilles can take down dropships if fired at the thrusters, thus killing the entire drop if done fast enough.

Excellent job! Recoilles seems like the best support weapon for armored enemies now. Each call-in being able to take out 3 titans or 6 chargers with good aim and also bot towers or tanks.

I was genuinely struggling against the chargers, i didnt know the grenade launchers explosion didnt damage thru the head. Def super helpful to know as a newer player

On the bile titan’s stomach area, it is important to mention that it is not the entire belly area that needs to be destroyed in order to prevent the ranged attack. It only needs to be the front segment of the belly. On another note, the spear can in fact one shot a bile titan to the head. I have no footage, but have seen a fresh bile titan die to a Spear shot angled directly to the head while very close and underneath it.

Bro, I dont play that game, watched clip to breakfest. But you got subscriber, like and new watcher. You put so much work, I am going watch rest of your videos. GJ m8!

This bloke is from the Ministry of Strategy and Technologies and deserves our respect.

By far the highest quality video of this kind. Thank you for your hard work!!

Seriously man thank you for actually answering these questions. I’ve seen a lot of people kind of meander around the topic. But I really think we need a test range in the game so people can actually figure out this stuff for themselves But until then democracy, thank you for your service

Regarding the Spear, something I've heard barely any creators mention is the lock-on mechanic is improved by pinging the enemy. It's in the trivia section of the weapon's wikia. I feel like I've noticed a substantial improvement since I started doing it.

Few notes, Arc Thrower can be fired faster by only charging halfway up after the first shot, as an arc enjoyer I can say fairly cenrtainly that the damage, range or bounces do not change when you do. The Spear can oneshot kill Biletitans if you score a headshot, I've done this multiple times aswell with my first one being my very first spear shot fired about 20 seconds after we started the match, it couldnt have taken any damage from other sources beforehand. Autocannon can bounce and recoil when fired on slanted surfaces, making it possible to shoot the tail of a charger by shooting the ground below it when it charges you. Expendable Anti-tank is techincally a single strategem call-in to kill 3 chargers since you can fairly consistently throw the ball to stick ontop of a charger, making the drop-pod kill it on landing, assuming you can score solid headshots with the 2 rockets. Coupled with the short cooldown its excellent for killing chargers.

Very helpful for new (or even experienced) players like me who want a more concrete understanding on the options we have against these enemies. And the video gets to the point quickly, presentation is clean without any padding. I'm sure I will refer back to these test videos time and again in the future.

For the Arc thrower against chargers, you can fairly consistently get head shots if you aim above the charger. Additionally, after the first shot you can fire again without fully charging, infact you have to barely charge it at all. With both of these you can VERY quickly take out a charger.

you just earned your self a subscriber! very informative and helpful videos

Dude, you are doing incredible work. The amount of time and effort you put into your videos is clear.. and you're actually helping the community understand damage profiles, etc. Thank you, sir!!

Really great vid man! Keep em coming, good work and thankyou 🙏 Had to have take you a while with this testing and editing. We all really apriciate 👌

my favorite way of dealing with bile titans is with the grenade launcher, once you destroy the titans belly and then call in a railcannon its a one shot, ive also noticed after destroying the belly that it will drop VERY quickly from almost any other weapon, like EAT, recoilless, arc thrower, or stratagems.

another great video. thank you! i use the arc thrower for everything and just the fact that it has no ammo requirement makes it my go to weapon. its great for multiple titans when theyre close together 😈

From my experience, EAT and RR can 1 shot chargers as long as you aim directly for the head. But there's a catch, you need to hit them directly in the center of the head, no on the side. It's really easy to do it when they are charging directly towards you.

The autocannon is one of my go-to weapons. It is great to deal with the tougher enemies your primaries have issues with and can even take out chargers, hulks, tanks and towers reliably. Hulks can even be taken out with 2 headshots if you land them and the giant turrets can be done with 3 shots in the back. It might need a specific angle of attack but in a team there is mostly another person with something else to deal with it. Also the orbital railcannon is always there for clutch situations or bile titans

Just proves my point that EAT is really one of the best stratagem in this game. Thanks for all the hard work.

I know these take an incredible amount of work, so thank you! Also, would love to see the automaton breakdown (weakpoints too!)

One tip is that the arc thrower always homes towards center mass of the target, so if the leg is in the direction to the center of the charger, then the arc will hit the legs.

Love it when players do this level of testing. Thank you!

2 things ive found to add to your info here. I receently played a game where i fired a single missile from the exo suit at the top part of a bile titan from the back just after it emerged from the ground, and it one shot it, surprisingly also visually exploding the whole back abdomen of it. suggesting that the armour on the top of the back section of the abdomen is weaker than the sides and front of the middle section. Secondly, to add to the spears ability to kill bile titans it will only take one well placed shot to the head to kill the bile titan, while other areas including the top and sides can take 2 to 3. I get reliable head shots on bile titans at roughly 30 to 50 meters away if its coming directly at me.

Really Enjoyable breakdown of how the game works and even though i knew most of it already just by playing your video is really well done and informative. Good Job! Nice Video!

Stats for the stat god and data for its data throne Bless you for researching and presenting all of this o7