Upvote if you made it to the end of the video and caught me messing up the end.

I wish the devs would put this on the main screen for new players to watch.

Extremely informational. Easy to lose sight of these tactics in the fog of war. A lot of players fall back into "battlefield conquest" mentality after a few deaths.. especially when frustrated and abandon tactics for revenge kills

Glad there are people who know the game and care enough to make videos to help other players. I'm sure this helps newer players understand the game and after playing for a while it all makes way more sense.

I bought it on PC yesterday. I'm a big team player. But the few hours I have played, the teams I have joined don't speak. I introduced myself, said I was new. I found friends communicate with eachother but ignore other people like me. So, I followed the team. Learnt what I can. Lay in a muddy ditch for 10 minutes, got blown up, got shot, seen about 3 enemies, fired about 5 shots, hit nobody, pinged a Tiger. I have had a miserable time, but love it! It is totally my type of game. I feel like I'm in an episode of Band of Brothers. I just wish a team I join would help me out.

I've been watching your videos a lot. I finally tried SL for the first time and it was awesome. Our squad did the things you suggested, backup garrys, build nodes, play defensively, flank. We didn't capture all points, but we did win. The enemy team was incredible at multi-pronged flanks. The tactics you explained were key for keeping our team from collapsing.

This is spot on. Spawn Control and positioning is the current core of Hell Let Loose. How many garrisons your team has, and where they are placed, will determine your team's success in most HLL matches. Nice work Mono

as always , a most informational video. When playing and a new player asks questions , I always refer them to 'Mono's KZfaq'

I’ve been playing HLL for only a week and I already have more knowledge of the game than most vets due to your channel!

I have to say, i was ready to quit this game before finding this channel! Thank you for the great content, explaining how the game works and how to win!

My favorite part about playing SL - when you’ve got your sights set on a location to place a garrison, your support is even with you and communicating, you let command know, you get to your move/garrison mark - and literally seconds before that some blueberry SL drops a horrible gari that gets locked out while you’re trying to figure out where the new one is that’s preventing you from dropping yours lol

Its all about the tactics! That's what seperate's HLL from most other games! Excellent tutorial/tactic tips vid. 👍

Very useful, thanks. Might be fun/beneficial/entertaining to see a Madden style pop-out narration of the play-by-play using the map alongside capped gameplay footage.

I've never thought about to think where they could push from. Nice video! I will check this out in the future. When I play as a commander I always try to basically encircle the strongpoint to prevent the enemies from pouring in from the sides so they will basically only have their strongpoint garrison which I will take out with my tanks. When the opposite team doesn't have any garrisons and nowhere to pour in the capture sector from then you've won. ENCIRCLEMENTS WORKS TOO. But now you may wonder: "What if my team don't listen to me?". A good commander can command a team no matter how stupid they are. But every strategy tip video you make still gives me more ideas and make me a little bit smarter in this game.

First time I'm early to a Mono video! I've been playing since last week (PS5) and found your content *far* more helpful than the Field Manual. I've watched probably 15 of your guides at this point, and I cannot thank you enough. Now I have to go be the change I want to see on the battlefield and step up to become a unit officer since I keep having games with a severe lack of spawns. Thanks again, Mono.

New players getting shot over and over and over? There's something I always try to keep in mind and it's not foolproof, smart players will catch you still but it helps a lot. Three S's. Speed, Sound and Silhouette. Movement draws the eye, so if you're sprinting through Hurtgen, you're going to get seen first. I slow to a jog once i'm in red zone or active combat areas and to ADS when I know i'm close to the enemy. Sound, footsteps are REALLY loud in this game, next time you're playing just stop and.. listen. You can tell a Garand from a Kar, a 42 from a 30cal, you can hear someone running passed the hedge next to you. Sillhouette, if you're on a flat field, and you stand at a fence line, and there's a guy at the other side looking along that fence and it goes "Fence post, fence post, fence po-.. Helmet?" I bet you he's not going to think "Huh, didn't know France had American shaped fence posts." Think about lines of sight, and what's behind you, instead of running across the open field, move across it's edge and put the hedge against your back, it makes you a lot harder to see. And on the point of lines of attack, sometimes you HAVE to be the guys that suck it up and die over and over to win a fight. There's two elements in the basic infantry assault, fixing and flanking. If you all go "This street is getting us killed!" and leave, the enemy no longer has to look down that street, so when you run up another one, they'll just swing their guns around and shoot you again. So if you see a couple squads making a shuffle for a new approach, and yours is the only one still in the death-street, just linger around it's edge, fire off some shots, throw some smokes, keep the enemy looking your way so they don't notice Hanz running up behind him to bean him with a shovel. :D Hope someone finds these helpful! Great video, Mono.

NGL, the Mass Effect Map Music made this video 10x more epic :) I really miss those games.

Really hoping this game gets the recognition it deserves!! When I’m in a full squad with mics, the gameplay is simply amazing.

Tictak best map reader

After playing a few hundred hours as a Commander in HLL: Always try to do the main attack from the side you defend. This way the attack is always supporting the defense. If not you will lose very fast most of the time... But put Airhead on side with no Enemy. This way you sqeeuze the defenders. So like in 4:14 you put airhead in F7 and put garry in D4/5

Jo whats up :) I (800 Hours Hll) often have the problem that I use an airhead to flank, for example, but then all attacking squads attack. Tip for everyone let a squad continue to attack frontally so that a two-front war can be established. This increases the pressure on the cap sector Good video keep it up Mono

Thank you! As a someone who just started playing recently, I find this to be extremely helpful.

Fantastic vid

This is the video I needed. I just started playing HLL and understanding the map and flow is pretty difficult. And while the community is fantastic you don't always get a lot of help from squads. Game can be brutal and frustrating at times but love the tactical nature of it!

My buddy and I played a very tactical game using these kinds of tactics and we took out three enemy garrisons are were able to surprise the enemy from the rear flank and kill quite a few. Patience is very key.

Grumpy old man Mono may be grumpy, but he's right! Great video. =D

Good stuff. I think an interesting topic to cover if you're trying to make something for new players, and one that is generally missed from your content I think, is really how to navigate that newbie, pubbie, "I kinda get the game but I'm not joining a clan yet and none of my friends play" experience. Like maybe do a video walkthrough or two assuming you have no friends playing the game, you don't have any preferred servers; just hopping into the game cold. Stuff like "how to find a good server, how to understand the numbers and queue system, server names, etc." And then when you're in a game those basic topics like "how to find the right squad to join. What if there are no free squads? Should I make a new squad even if I'm not very good at squad leader? Should I just join an Armor squad with no experience? Should I just join that lone sniper on a Recon Squad? Should I just leave? etc." Then once into a squad and maybe picked a class to try "is this squad talking or are they lames? When should I leave a dysfunctional squad? When should I stick around? Is there something I can be doing to help the team, even if no-one on the squad is doing well to help?" And then more advanced stuff like "Some blue SL asked me for supplies and my SL is AWOL in some bushes across the map with no OP, do I follow them to drop supplies?" Then there's the classic "the last match ended, we are in a new match, and now there's 30 people in the server. Do I stick around and help seed or jump ship?" Plus you could have entire videos talking about communication methods, how to name things, what people mean when they say OP vs Gerry vs whatever, proper ways to ping vs not to ping (like if SL is asking someone to ping that Tiger they're yelling about, don't at the same time start pinging some lone soldier running across a field 400m away.) There's so many of these little things that we kindof have to learn by doing, but still having videos about all these topics would be good reference points, and maybe some videos that take it back to that fresh boot perspective, that aren't about master level strategy but more 'how to work with the game UI and the player culture to feel like an expert in no-time" As for this video I like the concepts and the little app. It helps make a lot of ideas more concrete. A lot of it is intuitive if you think about it, but having someone point it out so you have something to fall back on in the middle of the game "oh yeah ENVELOP" is sure handy.

Right before watching your video I was playing Mass Effect 1 Remaster on my PS4, so I was freaking out why I was still hearing that music in the background 😄.

I think finding and using the high points (rooftop, hilltop, pipeline in Stalingrad) for observation is very useful

Read the manual a few times until it sinks in about the map and the squares of the map how they are defined and then watch this video a few times also as it will explain and be easier to understand the info that you have read in the manual about map layout. I'm new to this also and now makes more sense territory wise than previous. Thanks for the video explaining this .

Commenting solely to boost you in the algorithm this is very helpful content!

The more HLL content I watch makes me wanna leave work more and more everyday to go home and play. I could put 8 hours a day into this game for weeks on end and still not get sick of it.

have you ever played igo chess? japanese traditional chess. what you're explaining about "enveloping" the enemy, is pretty much the strategy of playing igo chess.

THAT’S THE MASS EFFECT SOUNDTRACK IN THE BACKGROUND!

Great vid and as others say, a cool head is needed to navigate the fog of war. I'm spending longer looking at the map and trying to remember the things Mono and others have said.

nice background music. im getting reaper flashbacks

if you are a squad leader: BUILD AN OUTPOST!! it is not limited to one. Please do.

Btw your team can be called a platoon since it's 50 soldiers divided into squads.

Suuup Monooooo!! We want more Quake 2 OST on your videos! Sonic Mayhem Rules making music almost as you do playing HLL!

Had this game 2 weeks now and loving it. I got a good piece of advise the other day….if your unsure of what to do play as medic. It’s straight forward…REVIVE EVERYONE let them do the work. Stick close to them and learn their tactics.

Best HLL video I’ve seen

Unless I’m missing something and the game already has it, I think the devs should add the ability to draw arrows for SL’s and Commanders that the infantry players can see on their map. I feel like more players would actually play tactically.

Always good content!

The mass effect background music is great ! 😊

Great instructions ! Also, the ME music is the cherry on top

I feel like playing with you would be fun as heck

This video alone is worth a sub (which is just what I’ve done)!

Garrisons and communication. Can't stress that enough

Professor Mono teaches again!

Love the mass effect background music!

Love your work as always mate, put into words things I do without thinking. Hopefully this will help me explain it to potato SLs

Haven’t been playing long, but already noticed the tendency for a majority of players to just lemming train into hot spots. I notice a big difference when there’s actually a commander and SLs who understand the concept of the flank lol

Be nice when console players start learning this 🤞 awesome video as always 👍

I think you missed a good opportunity when discussing the flow of the game, to emphasize that the cap circle is not really the primary objective, but more a consequence of accomplishing your primary objective, which is destroying enemy garrisons in the sector while establishing your own. As you have said before, if you don't destroy the enemy garrison, it doesn't matter how many you kill, as they will just keep coming and contesting your capping. The easiest way to cap is to destroy garrisons, and reinforce faster than they can. Its a numbers game.

Be Commander, get supply truck, build garrisons, win in 30 mins.

if the HLL maps could be purchased as printed posters, i would 100% nerd out and buy em all and hang up around my space.

14:45 The more people know this and build garrisons to do it, the less garrisons we all build

It's not like people don't understand that they should run towards the front through the deserted, safe areas of the map; They do. It's just that it takes so damn long to get there on foot, that people get impatient arching all the way around to approach the front from a covered position and instead just start running to the action in a straight line, across open fields. What HLL really needs is much more troop transport vehicles. An abundance of them. So walking from HQ to the front will no longer be necessary, ever. There should always be a troop transport truck at HQ. Always. And Jeeps. Add Jeeps (Less passenger capacity, but greater speed)

I took a break to play FC6...but I'm coming back to HLL...never played another game like this one...the strategy and teamwork needed to win puts it in a league of it's own...

Basic information that all player should know.

i started playing officer cause every time i loaded into a game i had the SORRIEST FUCKING LEADERS. I AM NOW THE LEADER.

This is amazing!! I love this game but have no idea what I'm doing! Thank you for this!!

Mass effect music kills me

great video, thank you!

Love the mass effect soundtrack.

Excellent video!

Great info! I just wished more people talked or at least the commander of the squads

Will you be posting your recent tournament match commentary videos on the channel Mono?, those are always fun to watch.

Great HLL Tutorial... as always. Devs should link them all so more people learn what to do

Great overview of how to advance and gain map control! I feel your frustration, but I think most players in pub matches just want to run and gun (Yet they also turn defeatist in chat and rage quit when the team is loosing ...) Could you say something about how to defend? especially in offensive mode; most players seem to think defending means sitting on point and waiting. But then as you point out the enemy is just going to envelope the point with OPs and Garrys, and then Arty and Bomb Run the point to clean you up. Also, I really wish SLs and Commander could draw on the map in-game the way you do in your videos, it is very helpful!

Thanks for the awesome video! What’s the song at the beginning of the video?

Love your HLL content man keep it up

I think it would be interesting if HLL allowed Squad Leaders to use markup pens to draw movement points and in general just sketch on the map that was only visible to squad members. This would allow individual members to real time check the current plan and would assist those with no coms.

The Mass Effect Music in the background tho lol

This was awesome man

Love the Mass Effect music. 👍

Very useful info. Thanks

Just the tip 4 fun Lmk if you see it. EDIT: Also i found today that sometimes as an SL the most important thing you can do is ensure a garrison remains secure. especially an attacking one. I made a key red zone garry earlier and had to fight for 5-10minutes to make sure we could get a couple of spawn waves on it. Once we did we overwhelmed the enemy almost instantly.

High angles of attack will usually lead to more left turning tendencies…

Nice Mass effect sound:)

loved this, thank you!

Hey monoe how are you? I bougt the game about a year ago and had the same as you. I just couldn't find players and certainly no players who communicate but i really want to learn this game you see. I'm from Belgium so my english isn't perfect i learned from tv haha. Anyway i saw a video where you explained how to find a communicating squads, but I can’t seem to find that video anymore. Could you please help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Grts&thx...

Can we give some love for the mass effect soundtrack in the background ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great content. The problem with the inflow of players on PS5 proper communications is too much is a big ask. It's a shame and that's why the game isn't clicking with me.

After watching this, I feel so stupid for how I’ve been playing so far. I only got the game a couple days ago, but still, seems so obvious when someone points it out

Thanks, I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to figure this out on my own. I'm kinda dumb, but I can at least now read a map. What's an "OP," and what is it used for?

New to the game with 15 hours play time. I finally for the first time last night finished a game with more kills than deaths, so the >mechanics< of game play are finally settling in for me. I've been playing FPS's since Wolfenstein 3D, the most recent and longest lasting obsession being Battlefield 4, so some noob observations from a long-time gamer for other HLL noobs: *Patience is key, there is no run 'n 'gun. Sometimes you will spend 5 minutes getting from Point A to Point B.🏃🏻‍♂ *There are no "tickets" to run out to determine the winner, so killing enemies in some meaningless portion of the map may not be helping at all. BUT, when you first start you may want to spend some time in those meaningless areas looking for noobs that are noobier than you just to get some target practice in 🤣🤣 *Teamwork wins this game. Your personal K/D may be satisfying (hopefully, eventually) but is useless if it's not helping the team to win. *HLL scoreboard is quite different from BF or COD. It reflects what you're doing to help the team win, rather than personal accomplishments, but there is a link at the bottom of the scoreboard that lets you see a scoreboard with your personal stats. I find this very useful as a noob to understand if I'm doing the basics correctly, i.e., am I actually shooting enemies? It's not always obvious. * And finally, to get out of a truck, you press the same key you pressed to get in - "F". Yes, I died in a truck when I didn't know how to get out.😜😭

Great explanation!

One problem is when the Commander or the Squad Leaders aren’t not doing their jobs, like communicating and setting up garrisons.

Whatever speed/pace you play COD and BF at.....take 90% off.

What would also help more players get more situational awareness and understand what is going on on the larger battlefield, the icons on the map could be bigger/clearer: The symbol for you on the map is tiny and doesn't contrast very strongly against the bright background. A black outline around it would help as well as a pulsating light emanating from it. Just an idea, there are probably various ways to do this, but they should make the You-symbol at least as clearly visible as the OP and Garrison Symbols on the map. I understand that HLL is supposed to be a pretty hardcore game with some more arcade-FPS elements in it. One extra arcade-FPS element that I wouldn't mind them adding to HLL would be a kill feed that shows you when you killed enemies and when you destroyed enemy vehicles. Maybe it could be optional, so it can be turned on and off. Some more unlockable weapons, weapon attatchments, uniforms & gadgets and a weapon customization menu (To chose between various weapon attatchments) wouldn't hurt HLL either.

I'd love to have a bit more basics. What is an "OP" and why do I need one. What does it do? Also garrisons. You spawn there. Ok. What else is it good for? Why do we need them?

Looking for new ideas for Xbox Series X HLL gameplay? Thanks MONO!! ✝️🇺🇸✝️

coop illustration and guide, which program did you use?

The devs should really add video links to stuff like this in the game.

Great video thanks

This is really great

i just found out how to steady aim, i swear it used to be shift instead of caps. would've been real helpful yesterday when i sat in a rooftop farming kills with a g43 probs could've gotten to the 25ks mark instead of just 23 :(

This is how I play. Didn't really have it in words. Wish more understood this rather than just having a constant meat grinder.

So good! Do one on defense too!