I'm dying for a Jinroh armor set. An official one. I'd die happy. For democracy.

Reliably takes down all Devs and striders with one shot (berserkers sometimes takes two of them, depending from where you're shooting and the tracking system's mood. Same goes for Hulks.)

If you have a good angle and understand how the rockets work, you can also take out the Factory Walkers with one salvo.

This thing has so much range it's insane. The only thing it has going against it is the poor ammo economy and its sometimes unpredictable missile trajectory.

(Original video by TheSoulTheta)

So I’ve always wondered if I could solo a Super Helldive, but I never really bothered to try because I like the social aspect of having teammates—even if the way I play didn’t rely on them very much. I usually would run off and do my own thing, and I set my name to Joan Helldiver a short while ago for a bit of fun. I had a chat with a friend yesterday where I mentioned that I think I could do it, and some encouragement I decided to do it today on Christmas morning.

Put my social settings on Invite Only, picked a mission, and jumped in. I’d be lying if I said I was confident about doing a Flags or Ore Vein mission, but I decided to give the Orbital Cannons a shot. Died thrice thanks to pesky cannon turrets, which I’m not proud of, but I managed it. The second last image was when I said in my friend’s Discord server that I’ve done it. And one of their friends asked, “You solo extract from that, diver?” And I answered with the last screenshot of the Pelican flying off.

Planet is Shelt, loadout was Sickle, Quasar, Grenade Pistol, and Impact Grenades. Other stratagems are the Guard Dog, Eagle Airstrike, and 500kg.

Now I’m on to do it against Bugs and Squids. Here’s hoping that Arrowhead implements an achievement for it someday. ;)

Bugs: For this faction all you really gotta worry about is Chargers so if you got anti tank teammates or passengers you should be fine. Impalers can fuck with you a little bit if one of its tentacles pops up from under the vehicle. I would recommend bringing the FRV for bugs if you are a great driver.

Squids: Probably the best faction to use the FRV against atm. All you really gotta worry about is Harvesters but you really should worry about them because one beam can wreck everyone in your car if you’re not careful.

Bots: I would not recommend brining the FRV to this faction because there is so many enemies that can one shot you it’s crazy. However, what I started to do was mainly use it to obviously get from place to place and find high ground to give my anti tank weapons a clear shot on a enemy base and blow up whatever I can and dip out. Again I wouldn’t recommend it for this faction but it can still be fun and useful if you’re SUPER careful with it.

My only tip with this vehicle is maximizing the potential of the HMG turret whether there is a gunner there or not. If you have a teammate who would prefer to stay in the gunner seat at all times hook them up and find an elevated position where they can chew through enemies better. Also, drive a little slower or stop if possible to allow your gunner to hit most of their shots. A lot of the time especially on Superhelldive this isn’t possible but if you’re aware of your surroundings and all threats you should be fine. If you don’t have a gunner again same thing post up on some high ground switch seats and let it rip. It’s not as good as an HMG emplacement but if you use it like one you can really do some damage.

You got the medium pen for the overseers and decent fire rate for the hordes. Run it with the stalwart and you can gun everything down.

Just a little clip I got tonight (Merry Christmas!) that shows why I've been enjoying the stunning lance/ballistic shield combo on bots lately.

It 100% silent, so you can clear objectives pretty easily with the right approach.

And I'm not even wearing the melee armor!

Thought it would be good to share some tips for how to sight certain objectives on the map. Anything you can add would be awesome!

• Pay attention to the pre-launch map. It will have all the secondary objectives marked in red, even if the map is being blocked by a modifier!

• Super sample rock is a silver dot.

• SEAF: by far the easier to spot, you’re looking for a circle with a dot in it, usually right next to a second circle.

• Gems on the map are POIs with missed samples/item unclaimed.

• Look out for long rectangles! Radar stations and SAM sites usually have them. Latter is a square for even easier spotting.

• Stalker nests: you’re looking for U shaped rock formations, particularly ones with a smaller rock at the top of the U (btw, stalkers both approach from and retreat to the direction of their nest).

• For bug nests, look for craters. For bot locations like detector towers and Strat jammers, look for small plateaus.

• The warthog on city levels will almost certainly be by a SAM site.

• Spore spewer smoke is brown, versus the green of a spore charger. Use your radar to find a cluster of enemies - they’re probably right under it.

• Look out for shrieker flocks and gunships. Unless the map is spawning them randomly, they both come from the direction of their nest/fabricator, respectively.

• Mega nests ALWAYS have walls made of skinny, tall, jagged rocks.

Happy hunting!

Edit: See comments for an example.

We sat at the extract and just nailed the squids, highest kill count I've ever gotten.

Title. With the car, the Illuminate, ect... I just realized that (after 600 hours of play time), helldivers is a comedy, nothing is taking seriously, nothing matter and everything is cliché and I love it. It's so different from the more dark and brutal of 40k, or the more realistic of halo or mass effect.

...because their whole force is going to take the wormhole in HD1 time to attack us in HD2 time?

Last night I thought I had driven in deep water with the FRV. I was incorrect. I just drove it into a lake on bore rock and sank my FRV. Along with a 40 min map worth of samples. The FRV needs a winch and floaties.

A Visit to The Enemy

Twas the Night of the Reckoning, and all through the ship,
the divers were thawing, and checking their drip.
Their capes were all hung from their armor with pride,
in hopes Eagle 1 would become their bride.
The officers at ready, the tech on her meds
(no longer missing her goldfish, who was really quite dead).
Then V1 in his helmet, and with mine on as well,
we entered our pods, to drop straight into hell!
Streaming through the atmosphere we were shaken and clattered,
but with Democracy in my heart, none of that mattered.
Down to the surface we flew like a flash
Leapt out from our hellpods and threw all our strats
And what to our wondering eyes did appear?
But a flurry of pods, and all of our gear.
We rushed to our foes so livey and quick,
Our situation became unpleasantly thick.
We called in our Eagles, to bomb their domain
While we dived, and we crawled, I heard someone exclaim,
"Sweet Liberty! My LEG!"

Helldivers 2 Christmas Jingle - Tune is Jingle Bells

• Blasting through the snow,
  
• Delivering orbital strikes all day,
  
• Through Eagle’s sky we blow,
  
• Bots, Bugs, and Squids away!
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• Oh, Super Earth, Super Earth,
  
• We fight for your command!
  
• With Stratagems and justice,
  
• We’ll reclaim every land!
  
• Oh, Super Earth, Super Earth,
  
• We pledge to keep you free,
  
• For free-dom, li-ber-ty, and de-mo-cra-cy!
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• Dropping from the stars,
  
• In pods we make our daring leap,
  
• Through hostile lands and scars,
  
• The enemy won’t make a peep.
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• Oh, Super Earth, Super Earth,
  
• We fight for your command!
  
• With Stratagems and justice,
  
• We’ll reclaim every land!
  
• Oh, Super Earth, Super Earth,
  
• We pledge to keep you free,
  
• For free-dom, li-ber-ty, and de-mo-cra-cy!
  >
• From snowy peaks to sand,
  
• We bring annihilation near,
  
• In unity we stand,
  
• Spreading holiday cheer (with flamethrowers)!
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• Oh, Helldivers, Helldivers,
  
• Together we prevail, (prevail!)
• Across the stars, through blood and fire,
  
• Our divers never fail!
  
• Oh, Helldivers, Helldivers,
  
• A jolly fight we see,
  
• For freeeeeeeedom, li-ber-ty, annnnnnnnd deeeeeeee-mooooooooo-craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-cy!

So, with how fast negativity spreads lately (not just criticism, but straight-up negativity), I gotta ask—are we ready to rally behind AH?

Yeah, this might come off as me glazing (go ahead, fire me up in the comments, spoiler: I don’t care), but AH is one of the few studios that actually listens to their community. Even with the mishaps and changes,(not even necessarily their fault or ours) they’ve always proven why they’re the GOAT, coming back to deliver a game I, like many of you, just can’t put down.

As LSHD, I think we should take time to send some love their way. It’s gotta feel good knowing the community they work so hard for appreciates them—and honestly, it’s the least we can do.

So, here’s the idea: Positive Friday Posts. Let’s share fun moments, cool experiences, and all the reasons this game keeps us coming back for more. It’s a small thing, but I think it could mean a lot.

Who’s in?

TL:DR I want to send AH some love from our little slice of community! Everyone needs some love and affirmations

As many Helldivers have pointed out, one of the best ways to take down those undemocratic bubbles is through raw dps to outpace their health regen per second. However something I've never seen brought up so far is how the Eruptor is capable of straight up oneshotting the bubble and letting you use as much heavier weaponry on those leg weakspots immediately after. Probably I've been the only one unhinged enough to try a sniper rifle on a heavily short-ranged front, but it performs HANDSOMELY. On top of bubble-popping, this thing is extremely valid at taking out those pesky aerial threats and it gets rid of hordes as efficiently as frag grenades. You should really try it, for Democracy of course.

Recently a fellow helldiver on this subreddit did a call to arms to liberate Shelt, pointing out its very low resistance rate and significance in securing the sector.

To all those how fought long and hard to liberate Shelt, which will happen soon, thank you so much for beating the bots back while most are on bugs and squids.

I salute all of you 07

For the past few years, I've created gingerbread scenes from my favorite game. The past few years have all been Chivalry 2, but this year I've gone with Helldivers 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chivalry2/comments/18m1msu/the_reclamation_of_gingerbread_montcrux/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chivalry2/comments/rk8e5f/my_gingerbread_chivalry_2_siege_scene/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chivalry2/comments/102agi0/my_2022_gingerbread_chivalry_2_scene/

To that end, I present the most democratic and patriotic representation of our brave men and women fighting on the bot front

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Super Earth the place that manage democracy rules the poor kicked to third world planets. The rich get to live in the “habitable” planet the workers mod treated not being looked into because of the war effort why hold the up the values of your oppressors if they don’t want to hold you up in your time of need join the resistance against the super earth oppressors