Bro only has 130 subscribers but now that we discovered his channel I got the feeling that the helldivers community is going to do what it's best at. Gentlemen... ⬆➡⬇⬇⬇ that likebutton and share with your fellow helldivers! (Also as a fellow asthmatic with 1/3 of his lungs rotten and as a failed youtuber I see it as my holy duty to support you🥲)

FYI, the pummeler doesn't actually stagger like other stagger weapons- in fact, it stuns them. Kind of insane

"let me try the shield!" *Proceeds to receive 43 rockets to the face from nowhere*

Bro dropped the coldest freedom edit and didn’t even give us a blanket. 🥶🥶🥶

Shooting the sides of the mortar is new to me, thank you for this!

Thanks now I can't unhear the Minecraft skeleton noises everytime I see a automatron 😂

The cursing rant at the beginning caught me off guard. Take my like, sir. Lol

My recimendation is: play whatever fits your gameplay the best. We are not a regular infantry. We are the HELLDIVERS, so we can use whatever weapon we like the most. That's why we can choose weapons and stratagems before the mission start. Don't listen to the "meta coaches". Just do your part.

0:53 Therapist: and how does that make you feel?

i think the 50% chance to not die from lethal damage is way better. Because while the 50% explosive resistance is nice, it only works for explosions. while the lethal one works for every single damage type. Whether thats a bullet, a rocket or a melee. It can also work against flamethrower hulks, if you drop to 0 but the armor saves you, you get extinguished. saved me many times. idk if it has heavy armor though so that 5% resistance difference is the tradeoff.

"That poop stain that you blast with your piss" had me dying!!!! Subbed just because of that comment! Great video bud!!

I'd add the caveat that the factory strider's turret is the only dangerous weapon to *you*. For anyone without the ballistic shield, the factory strider's chin gatling guns are by far and away the biggest threat. And that's in isolation. If you are in a situation where other enemies have a reasonable chance of knocking you down, those chain guns also pose the bigger threat to you. Against bots specifically, I'd put the Eagle Airstrike above the 500kg. The Eagle Airstrike can one-shot everything the 500kg can. Tanks, hulks, turrets, they all die to the Eagle Airstrike. The Eagle Airstrike also has a greater impact area and more uses. The 500kg's superior damage is therefore wasted against every automaton except the factory strider, which can often be tackled by neutering and isolating it anyway rather than trying to blow through its hp all at once at the expense of not dealing with other enemies and putting all your stratagems on cooldown.

I would drop the 500kg in favor of an orbital or a turret, running more than one eagle leaves you open to awkard rearmings and the airstrike already one shoot everyrhing except for the strider, you get more uses and it covers a bigger area, agaisnt the automatons the airstrike is way better than the 500Kg Orbital precision is a good alternative since it fires a 380 Rocket and can one shot towers and it has a low cooldown, the 380 barrage is great for clearing heavy bases/mortars/anti air and covering the extract (trow it at around 70m away from you) , walking barrage is another great alternative since its easier to predict and has an insane reach, pair them with the salvo assisted perk. The auto cannon turret drops hulks in an instant

I think the stun grenade and the anti material rifle go together good

Eagle Airstrike > 500KG in bots.

It makes me so happy to see people use Ballistic Shield + Laser. I ran this before both of them got buffed, and it wasn't great but it was a ton of fun. Now with the buffs and the Pummeler, it is still every bit as fun, but also super good.

When he said,”Modified toaster lookin ass, pulls out a $&!?@, !?$@:$&!’. Pocket rocket $&?’power of the sun#%*€$&.” I really felt that

Can’t wait to try this build later today! Looks amazing!

4:13 dude I'm stealing that poopstain comparison joke. I really needed that laugh, thank you.

The stun grenade was a complete life changer for me. When there are only 3 stratagems with increased cooldown or when Im getting overrun with enemies and need to flee, during basic engagements on points of interest, simply everywhere the stun grenade is the item to have at hand. The options and openings it gives are priceless.

Subbed for this killer build, and fun build!

Need more of this content, funny and entertaining. Keep it up.

Another amazing and actual passionate player. Glad I found your channel definitely subbing ! Great video :,)

At the start he was so damn calm the just went happy Gilmore on the rocket launcher bots😂

Great tips and breakdown. Also, love the outro!

The rant in the beginning had me dying😂 instantly subbed

I've been running this exact build (except preferring precision strike for detectors instead of 500kg) for the past couple weeks and can confirm you're effective against anything automatons can throw at you. I jump between the laser cannon and the AMR though. The AMR gives me an edge at range while the shield + SMG is mostly useful for storming a base. And it's still effective at all the same targets. Very fun

You know whats better than using something that doesn’t need to be aimed? Knowing the throwing distance of stratagems. Its 45m without buffs and 60m with buffs. You can use the danger ping to measure distance which will make throwing stratagems and grenades easy.

Greatest dopamine rush in this game is having that kill counter turn red as you stack bodies.

NGL the Pummeler for me is the best weapon in the game right now against both. meat saw? 1 round stunned! Stalker on your ass? 1 round stunned! Devastator? 1 round stunned! Just stun them all, take a condor moment, aim at a weak point or just empty you mag in them. Against bots though, Pummeler and the Ballistic Shield is amazing!

love your video style, looking forward to more content in the future

This is very helpful and useful information :)

Honestly one of the best loadout videos. +1 sub :D

Helldiver of the SES Eye of the Regime with 185 hours of gameplay. Heavy armor with the Fortified passive is good, but an alternative against bots would be light armor with the Scout passive. This playstyle will be less focused on killing bots and more focused on doing the objectives without getting bogged down in prolonged engagements. It's a solid alternative for those who hate the slow movement speed of heavy armor. I myself run light armor with the Scout passive, the Jar-5 Dominator, the P-4 Senator, impact grenades, and the AC-8 Autocannon. My airstrikes are Eagle 500kg Bomb, Orbital Railcannon Strike, and Orbital Laser.

This loadout is actually fantastic. I ran it in 6-7 missions (suicide difficulty) today and I found it super useful in many situations.

I wouldn't have thought zelda works so well but it really does. Such classic melodies.

loved this vid. i will do this build next time i play

Nice round loadout. The only thing I dislike is the 500kg+airstrike combo. The shared cooldown always brings me into the uncomfortable situation of not having the right strategem ready.

I came for the info, I stayed for *minecraft skeleton sound*. +1 sub, top tier content.

Saw this and subbed, about to try this load out right now

A point worth mentioning in your videos is that a team loadout can be quite different from a solo loadout. The cult of “self” permeates our society but this is a game of teamwork, so we should talk more about being in synch with our team mates’ choices and habits. It’s an interesting topic.

This actually looks like a pretty fun loadout tbh, that and also this video made me realize I was using that laser weapon stratagem wrong, so thank you for this awesome video. Liked and Subbed.

That's a great loadout! I am a fan of heavy armor now ;)

scorcher (for one tapping smal targets and killing hulks and towers in one magazine when you are behind them) Anti-material rifle (autocanon for blitz) Grenade pistol (fabricators) Stun grenade (stun hulks and two tap them with AMR) Eagle strike for packs. 380mm for bases. laser for base and pack destruction. and b-24 enforcer armor. never had any problems.

Interesting loadout! I'm gonna try it.

How on super earth do you only have 1.2 k subscribers?? This channel needs to have at least 100k

I can see the reasons you do this load out but im sticking with my golden olden setup. Eagle Airstrike Orbital Laser Recoiless Rifle Autocannon Turret LAS Sickle Primary Grenade Pistol Secondary Contact Grenades Medium armor with explosive resistance and engineering kit ( 6 grenades ) Airstrike / Laser combo can destroy ANY bot base. RR can take down Airships, Dropships, Hulks, Tanks, Factory Striders ( if you know all their weakspots ) Sickle means INFINITE ammo, and has excellent range / accuracy. Pistol, like you said, to clear objectives that would otherwise require grenades. Contact grenades to blow up well, anything and everything that is not a weak ass basic automaton. And IF ( and that is a BIG if ) all this mayhem and madness is STILL not enough to keep enemy forces suppresed .... introducing, the AUTOCANNON turret. It lives for 1 purpose : Murdering bots. Excellent damage, crazy range, can take a punch. Its basically calling down your own back up. Relative short cooldown, and infinite uses. Its your metal brother from another mother. I have managed to clear Helldives with this, and dying zero times. Hell, sometimes i feel kinda dickish for putting out so much dmg and hurt on those poor automatons xD

thank you my friend, i had been usuing almost this exact same set up replace stun with impact incindy, and the airstrike with rail cannon, but i could not find a goos support weapon pair, until now👍

looks cool!!!!

yo this guys going big

The edit at the end is lowkey the best part of the video

Unless they nerfed it, use the air burst stratagem on defensive missions to lock down an avenue of approach with a ton of bots. I have used it to great effect. Also mix and match your gear to your team mates, if you have this set up make sure your team doesn’t also have this set up. Having complimentary load outs rather than identical ones always works out best. Lastly have fun with your picks, in the end it’s a game and we all play to have fun, for Democracy!

I've been running an almost identical but with the AMR instead of the laser cannon and the 380 barrage over the 500kg. I think Las/AMR are around equal with the Las being better against airships and the AMR being better against scout striders and devistators but I think it's mostly personal preference. I like the 380 because it doesn't stack eagle cool downs and it's nice for softening if not fully killing heavy bases even if you're on your own. Love the video!

Honestly I prefer the punisher as my primary due to the heavy pushback factor, devastators are a thing of the past if you have a full mag, as for crowd control you can one shot any raider from a pretty sweet range. As he mentioned in video running the grenade pistol as a secondary will get rid of striders as well. As for support weapons, no need! I run an all air strike / orbital stratagem loadout on top of this for maximum democracy. The only downside to the punisher is the crippling rounds reload time, you don’t need to reload often due to the mag size but you can only reload a few times with 60 shells. _THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUSLY LONG GOOBYE_

Bro i’m sharing your video on the discord. You really helped me i hope we win the war thanks to you

I'm a bit of a weirdo - I like best the Punisher shotty with the Senator pistol and AMR, plus jump-pack against bots. I love how much the punisher shoves them around with each shot, and smashes them up. Then I jump up and go sniping from on top of a rock, then flanking around. Pew pew. With a good team I play as the sniper watching everyone's backs. Then dive in when needed and smash the groups with primary/secondary. I run armour with the 6 nades always, constantly throwing impact grenades. I will try the stun grenades though. Lascannon is a great option though as well. Good video thumbs up.

Ok. Ok. I'm convinced enough to try it. A primary that's good at taking out devastators and effectively immune to heavy devastators is a really big boon.

Nice video Imma try this loaf out

That ending made me cackle, that was nice subbed

Can confirm this build is insane. I personally prefer the AMR to the Laser, but both are vialble. I also like taking 110 Rocket Pods over Airstrike for the extra precision when taking out turrets and tanks. Still...very strong build.

You roasting the worst autonomaton put a big smile on my face lol

this looks like such a fun loadout, im trying it

Sniper Rifle, Explosive Disrupter, pistol, Impact Grenades for two legged walkers, Orbital Railgun, 500 KG Eagle, Orbital Laser.

That is really helpful Thank you so much Btw with 4 500kg this loadout is crazy

OKAY, that SIDE TARGET for the maton artillery is clutch info

I ran a build like this for a bit but with the AMR, thanks for telling me about the laser

NOICE!!! Awesome video, thx for the info. Dude ive been loving stun grenades and grenade pistol combo for awhile but im definitely gonna do the shield combo with stun smg... gotta admit tho i REALLY dont wanna use the laser cannon... ill try it once cuz this video was hilarious and informative. Keep spreading Managed Democracy 😃

I see funny edit with minecraft sound effects I comment I subscribe Good job can't wait to see new video

I have been using this shield for a long time now and it has always been my go to support stratagem, smg's and the revolver are always reliable. I like mixing up the support weapons for they each give a different playstyle to help my teammates.

A lot of very good points, thank you for the vid. Myself, i think that, funnily, Gas Strike is the go-to stratagem against the automatons, as it just melts anythink smaller than a hulk, doesn't instakill an accidential ally, has large AOE and you basically don't have to aim it because of how long it stays. Also pairs really well with the Autocannon.

Had exactly same build.. great build!!

Excellent stuff, the cursing caught me way off guard. Any armour with knockback resistance would easily be one of the most wanted items for the community. The amount of times a rocket hit the ground or wall near me and sent me flying is insane. That, or they patch the physics up. Also I abhor the enemies clipping into walls and shooting you. i sometimes get high ground only to be shot from below through the floor.

Nah, I usually use the countersniper rifle for sniping their asses from billions gazillion kilometres with only one shots and the airburst rokect launcher for anihilating patrols, drops, and any other sort of bots' groups. Airstrike, 380, and autocannon sentry or orbital airburst strike to just blink out of existence everything on my way. And medical armour is, yes, one of the best choices in the game. In the previous patch with infinite patrols, I had an average kill count of 380-400 on bots.

stun grenade and grenade pistol is a legendary combo ngl. no secondary weapon even compares

Our build philosophies couldn't be so further apart its hilarious, try this out I'd love to get an opinion as its the ONLY way I fight bots (on non defense missions anyways) R-63 P-2 G-16 Light Armor, specifically Engineering Kit, gives you extra recoil control (this will be important) and 2 extra grenades Orbital Rail Cannon Eagle Air Strike Anti Material Rifle And An Auto Cannon with this loadout you stay mobile, not getting hit will always be better than tanking hits, only takes 1 lucky clanker to ruin your day the primary strategy you use with a loadout like this is never stop moving, take outposts your squad doesn't wanna to save time and practice with your guns, the r-63 can two tap most bots if you hit your shots, and the sniper can two tap a hulk in the face, no getting close, no problem, clankers do not like overwhelming fire superiority, use your auto cannon as if its just another dude you're calling in, if you're running to a base and theirs a big open field drop that sucker in a far left or right corner to avoid cross fire and it will drop tanks hulks squads of devastators all on its own, they average around 15-30 kills for me with non stop fire, the rail cannon is your "I have a headache" stratagem when you just don't want to deal with something and eagle air strike is just a solid option, traditional air strikes never get old and with short cool downs you can pound any base or bot hot drop the second it becomes an issue IN SUMMARY, BE QUICK, BE ACCURATE, BE DEADLY an added bonus to taking the anti mat over the auto cannon as well is if your team brings in ANY back pack item you can run it with them, there has been a few times I've been able to haul an extra auto cannon backpack for speed reloading or for passing off when our auto cannon runs dry on ammo lastly solid video, I've always enjoyed build guide videos, you've got a like and a sub from me

10/10 build. gave this a try yesterday all i lacked was the pistol, had a great time. never thought id ever use the shield let alone enjoy it 🙏🔥🔥

excellent video

Gamechanger, thank you!

This was hilarious!!!!

nice, you made the shield work. gonna try that. i usually just run Pummeler, Senator, any grenade EAT or Arc Thrower, Air Strike, Precision Strike and whatever i like (jumppack for example) and some light armor. then sneak into what i want to attack and unleash hell. several times i just snuck up to the stratagemblocker console (jumping halfway there) and deactivating that stuff, and then getting started on killing bots. i love this game, and the fact that there are so many ways to achieve stuff, other than to 'fall back to current meta'. everything can work, and that's awesome

the rant about the rocket soldier, had me rolling. So true.

2:44 made me spit my coffee everywhere

a flat picture indeed

gonna try this out today

Just for fun sharing my current build for fighting automatons (generally played on diff 7, I don't try 8 or 9 much): Fortified armour ofc (just like in video) Diligence CS as primary (Default weapon against all non-heavy enemies, 1 headshot will kill any of them, even if it can be difficult to land) Grenade pistol & impact grenades as secondary as grenades (I prefer the general utility of the grenade pistol as a way to try and supplement firepower against certain medium size enemies, which is the main weakness of the bulid, in general these would be fine to switch up) Stratagems are: Eagle airstrike (self-explanatory, could also be 500kg but I don't have expanded weapons bay) Spear (default response for hulks, tanks, striders where the primary isn't effective, also fun for taking out fabricators. generally, this handles heavy enemies while other weapons handle everything else) Mortar & autocannon sentries (great for throwing down whenever off cooldown in order to keep areas secure and provide support in fights)

After I tried the ballistic shield the first time after it was fixed some weeks back I haven't been able to use anything else against the bots, it just removes heavy devastators from being a threat, just straight from the top of the threat list to the bottom. I do wanna talk a bit about the support weapon, the laser cannon is great but both the AMR and the quasar are good alternatives, the AMR one-shots hulks in the eye and can otherwise kill everything the laser cannon can as they have the same armor pen, the quasar meanwhile can't take down several hulks in a row but can instead kill turrets and tanks from any direction (requiring more than one hit though), all of them can also deal with gunships well but at different paces and with different ammo requirements. The railgun should TECHNICALLY be on par with the others against gunships, but weirdly it feels horrible, it should take out a gunship with 4 overcharged shots to an engine same as the AMR, which sure takes longer on paper, but it ends up being like 12 shots to an engine.

As a veteran who was born and and raised in THE CREEK, this is a blessing🙏🏾

My stratagem combo mains are ems mortar and autocannon sentry, i place (either) one on left (or right) side (primarly ems mortar) and other on opposite side at a bit of a distance, most bots will rush the ems while the autocannon shoots and destroys them

Love the outro. Reminder of the Malevelon Creek time. Do you have a longer standalone version of it?

you are very entertaining. i was suprised at how many subscribers you had. i was expecting at least 100k. id bet you are gonna explode in subscribers soon

This is a solid build and works wonders. But since I think heavy armors are too slow, I`m using the B-24 Enforcer from the super store, a medium armor with 50% explosive resistance damage. Quasar and AMR also works pretty well with this build. Good job!

Tried this build with a quasar cannon at random at it was the most efficient game I had. Will get laser cannon now

The edit at the end got you my like 🫡

F34 exterminator armour in the store has fortified and is medium + recoil boost when crouching, my go to

Nasty build. This is how you play the game

YOOOOOO this is the exact same load out ive been running. Running vitality literally makes you a juggernaut its goated, i also recommend putting the smg on burst. Amazing vid🔥

I love the Counter Sniper against bots, paired with a Laser Cannon or Auto Cannon.

I'm actually having a blast playing with the Plasma Punisher Combined with stun grenades I very often end up with the most kills of the team without much effort

Laser Cannon low key been the best weapon against bots from jump

I run a sort of... base eradication loadout, its pretty fun too, and it hits the automatons right where it hurts. This is my loadout: throw range buffing armor (I prefer medium armor but heavy's cool too) punisher plasma spear railcannon strike 380mm orbital bombardment orbital laser stun grenades grenade pistol With the better throwing arm, you can throw stratagems directly into the middle of automaton bases undetected. Heavy automaton bases break easy if you combine the orbital laser and 380mm cannons, take out any fabricators left with spear or railcannon strike. Use the punisher plasma to mop up the remaining mess if you have to go in there anyway, use either grenade pistol or spear to take out stubborn fabricators.