Twenty Top Tips To Help You Spread Democracy Effectively In Helldivers 2

Whether you’re being swarmed by flesh-rending bugs or knee-deep in murderous chrome within the hell that is Robot Vietnam, it’s certainly fair to say that Helldivers 2 can become overwhelming pretty quickly. Luckily for you, we’ve got no less than twenty stellar tips that will help to keep both you and your teammates alive as you bravely soar across the galaxy, spreading democracy to those who are starved of it the most.

Whether you’re being swarmed by flesh-rending bugs or knee-deep in murderous chrome within the hell that is Robot Vietnam, it’s certainly fair to say that Helldivers 2 can become overwhelming pretty quickly. Luckily for you, we’ve got no less than twenty stellar tips that will help to keep both you and your teammates alive as you bravely soar across the galaxy, spreading democracy to those who are starved of it the most.

1. Resources Are Shared – There’s No Need To Kill Your Teammates For Them

There’s no reason to kill your teammates for collecting samples, war bonds or any other resource. None at all. The reason for this is that every resource which is collected is pooled and then dispensed to every member of the team after the mission. So again, don’t kill your teammates just to get resources because, well, Helldivers 2 just doesn’t vibe that way and you shouldn’t either.

2. Share And Share Alike Your Stratagems 

Stratagems are for everybody. This means that if you happen to have a support weapon stratagem on cooldown that you don’t need and notice that one of your buddies is bereft of such an armament, feel free to call it down and make their day. Sharing is caring, after all.

3. Pinging Supplies And Enemies Helps Everyone

It’s always good to have more than one set of eyes in just about anything in life and that notion proves to be especially true in Helldivers 2. So if you happen to spot some supplies or a patrol of enemies that your mates may have missed, do them a solid and give those things a good pinging. Extra sight helps the fight. Or something.  

4. Communicate To Your Teammates Every Time You Deploy A Stratagem

When you’re casually about to drop an Orbital 380MM HE Barrage, you might want to inform your friends that exploding, hot death will be raining from the skies in the near term, lest you spend the next few minutes or so frantically fighting enemies as you scramble to bring your newly ruined comrades back from the dead. It’s just good manners.

5. Use Your Mission Time To Do As Much As Possible

Though you can pretty much make a beeline toward the main mission objective from the get-go, complete it and then leave whatever dustbowl you happen to be on, that would be a waste. This is because on just about every world there’s a veritable bounty of secondary objectives, resources to collect and additional missions to complete that can all help to bolster your loadout for future missions.

6. Always Bring A MG-43 Machine Gun (And Don’t Be Afraid To Refresh It)

Pretty much the first thing you should do after making landfall (other than checking your immediate vicinity for hostiles, of course) is to ensure that you’ve not only selected the MG-43 Machine Gun support stratagem but also that you summon it ASAP. Why? Well, because the MG-43 Machine Gun is an extremely powerful, high capacity, fully automatic chunk of sexy bang bang that tears apart Terminids and Automatons with equal ease.

7. Protect Your Teammates From Yourself

When you’re trying to fight off an invading horde of Terminids or Automations, the last thing you need is to be shot in the back by your ‘mates’. So, be the change you want to be in the world and make sure that you’re sparing a thought for your fellow Helldivers who might be criss-crossing in front of your line of fire.

8. If You’re Playing Solo Make Sure To Bring A Guard Dog

By the time you hit level 10 make sure that you’ve saved up enough credits to purchase the AX/LAS-5 “Guard Dog” Rover defence stratagem. This is because when twinned with either the Gatling or Machine Gun Sentry defensive stratagem, you end up with a solution that provides a solo player with sufficient support to not only take the fight to the much more numerous enemy forces but also provide something of a buffer to aid in escaping when things get too sticky.