Can You Beat Helldivers 2 Without Shooting?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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It is a known phenomenon that Helldivers become infinitely more invincible when the reinforcement budget runs out, I am suggesting a Brasch Tactics segment on this tidbit
The Helldiver had never learned Brasch Tactics but in exactly 3 minutes and 2 seconds before extraction and after losing the last of the reinforce budget. Elton John's "I'm still standing" starts to be heard through the last Helldivers mic. In these last 3 minutes and 2 seconds. The Helldiver had become nigh invincible in pursuit of Democracy.
@SirBinding your comment made me think of this
An honor and a pleasure to serve alongside you brother o7
What does o7 mean?
@@JOCAeNUNOit's a salute
fancy seeing you here o.O
You seemed like an incredible (-ly funny) liability. XD
you were the worst helldiver i have ever seen
Still absolutely bamboozled as to why Cdawgg sounds like that
Cant believe i had to play with cdawg fml.
But it was a blast doing this challenge with you!
At 24:55 what sent you flying was that your guard dog hit a patch of those giant smoke mushrooms, if you step on them, they just spew a bit of spores hiding you from view, if you, or anything else for that matter, shoot them, they basically become superpowered bumper cars that will send anything near them flying, it's powerful enough that if you get sent into a nearby wall the impact can outright kill you with heavy armor. Luckily for you, your little trip was mostly plainless in comparison.
diving at the same time as they explode amplifies the pushing force but reduces the damage received, making those lil things very useful for emergency hasty map traversal (or just funny ragdoll flight on command)
You can also use the stim healing to land and have full health
"I love democracy" - Chancellor Palpatine
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"it's treason then" chancellor palpatine
You should do a sort of inverse on this challenge next, do a no orbital run. Helldivers only have access to primaries, secondaries, grenades and armor. It would be a great way to highlight the less used guns in the game, show their strengths, and give a guide on how to blow up bases the old fashioned way. Also the lack of resupply would make for a interesting, if brutal, survival aspect where you constantly have to scrounge for ammo, grenades and stims.
Edit: minor spelling issues I unfortunately only noticed after Kknowley noticed my post
You sir, are a genius
Eh, I just got this idea from my experience with the game. I used to run the stalwart religiously cuz its just my way of play, but its only so useful (especially when it comes to the bots). But then a friend suggested running the liberator primary instead for a lil more armor punch. Turns out it was a really good go, both in giving me room to bring more firepower strategems and got me to use something other than a breaker or slugger.
And not to mention theres probably a bunch of other good options I havent tried yet that a challenge like this could bring to light.
AAAAND this is a challenge that will satisfy the semantics police, all sorts of random things upped the shot counter in this run but its much harder to accidentally throw an orbital.
@@connorscott311you should definitely be switching your loadout depending on if you’re fighting bugs or bots.
I’m not one to believe in a “meta” but I certainly have my preferred bug loadout and bot loadout.
And obviously new updates are constantly changing those loadouts.
@@dirtyhank5330 Thats part of why I said was, this was earlier on in my playtime
the laser assault rifle and pistol would trivialise this, so would need to be banned
"From the sounds of things a no shooting run actually sounds easy." 7 minutes later "Oh... half the stratagems are gone, yeah that's much harder."
Loved the video! absolutely going to watch more HD2 runs in the future!
Speaking of run ideas, here's one:
"Can you beat Helldivers 2 as an Engineer?"
Requirements are simple
> Only defensive stratagems (anything with a green icon counts)
> No primary weapon (grenades/secondary is fair game, though you get extra style points for using the revolver)
> Everybody must wear an armor set with the "engineering kit" armor passive (doesn't matter if it's light/medium/heavy)
> And just to keep it spicy, *IF* you find the break action shotgun during your mission, you *are* allowed to use it.
If it weren't for the shotguns still being among the best-in-slot for primaries, I'd say to allow them as well, but then it wouldn't be that much of a challenge, would it?
Can you finish a full campaign (on the Automaton front) as Demoman?
- Only explosive strategems and resupplies
- All explosive weapons and grenades
- Mechs are allowed but you're only able to use the rockets
- Every death you have to take a shot of scrumpy (rum, whiskey, beer, whatever alcohol you have in stock)
This is basically a challenge to simulate a normal match of MvM in HDII
we're gonna have explosion theme premium warbond coming up soon as well
I've been watching your PD2 challenge runs for, its been years now, even as I've stopped playing PD2 and I cannot believe how hyped I am that you're doing the same insanely... err... crazy challenges in HD2! Gonna be playing HD2 for a looong time and watching your challenges is gonna be a good time indeed.
Hey Kknowley, sorry if this is slightly irrelevant, but would you be willing to spread awareness to Accursed Farm's (guy behind Freeman's mind) campaign to stop online games from being rendered unpayable after the servers hit the bricks. Given your heavy use of the offline mode in Payday 2, I reckoned this might be a campaign you could be invested in. It's the largest ever campaign ever run against always-online games as a service, and could be everyone's best shot at a better future for the industry. Just a community post or any other type of quick mention of the website "stop killing games" would help severely!
Thank you, and congratulations on venturing out into other exciting games!
It's a good cause, but I doubt it will accomplish much. Game companies don't care about preservation and likely never will.
personally for this game I hope they give out the tools to run your own server with your own GM to run the overall campaign. (though probably with far higher liberation speed due to the lower count of players, sort of like the other helldivers game)
Well now you know what's next : No stratagem run. You can only use primary, secondary and grenades, and only tertiary that are already on the map, and rearm also only with boxes on the ground
31:10 "YOU CANT HAVE COMISAR!!!"
hope you do more of these i'd love to see what hell you can put yourself in this game :3
Tip for the pump mazes: do them backwards
Really putting that Payday partnership to the test
Oh I didn’t see you did a Helldivers video before so this surprised me a bit.
Love to see the gameplay
Very interesting finding out what is considered shooting by the game
24:44
yeah no, those little pods you walked past explode when shot and will send Helldivers flying
In future runs, if the lamp glare is an issue, you can totally shoot them to turn them off.
Banger video - loving seeing how the challenge run format works out in other games in your great video style.
also I'm sorry you had to go hrough that
I wasn't expecting Helldivers 2 challenges but I'm here for them! Thanks all, you're doing managed democracy's work!
For a while a mate and myself have been really diving deep into exactly what goes on especially with the bots, and not only is it possible to do it without shooting, you can easily do it completely pacifist, solo, deathless, not just without shooting but no stratagems at all (excluding mission specific ones obviously). No kills at all, basically a run trying to get as few numbers on the scoreboard.
The main short explanation of the trick is that there is a limit to enemies, and you can aggro enemies, move away from objectives, and come back when tons of other enemies have spawned to effectively prevent the game from spawning enemies on the objective. Once you have that you can just do it completely stealth. Almost every extract has a hidey hole where you can sit and just wait for extract before jumping in. Id wager that once you figure out how to manipulate enemy spawns, doing a helldive solo deathless run without killing a single enemy is actually easier than doing a normal difficulty 4 mission...
I can imagine that if you have more people, the possibilities with manipulating enemy spawns skyrockets and you could probably get some insane no kills, no deaths speedruns.
There are some oddities to stealth however. Some bots that spawn on the objective do not move, and will hold aggro indefinitely till despawned. even shooting at you across the map even if you broke line of sight, this is often why you see robots taking insanely long range shots if you retreat. This is why sometimes it feels impossible to bait a robot by sight, or throwing a stratagem instantly breaks stealth, because they just don't work like you'd expect. Once you understand these 'objective' enemies and spawn manipulation, helldive becomes a joke for the bots.
Ah, a fellow Ombudsman of Family Values. GG sir 😂
at 19:20 the knockback was from the stalkers tongue attack, the grenade was far enough away and the angle it was thrown at would have launched you in a different direction entirely
Using the traitor barrage tactically to accomplish the mission is some kind of paradox and I don't like it. Great vid!
That "inexplicable rocket boost" is what happens when you shoot or otherwise attack the bulbous, cloud-emitting plants. On bot planets, they'll shoot them to ragdoll you and make you an easier target.
all i can say when accidentally teamkilling my friends is "sorry" right before they die lmao, not gonna be fast enough to tell them to run anyways
You're insane! But when the Illuminate arrive, you gotta do them next!
You still need to finish your script on the video from a month ago. Super excited! I want to forget payday 3 ever happened
with the shuttle duplicating on that last mission is interesting, on my very first helldive mission that i did with 2 friends i shot an illegal broadcast tower and it counted one of the 2 sub-objectives that you need to call for the shuttle, wasnt complaining tho because im pretty sure we would have lost that if we had to run across the map for that
i have only started the video so this may already be mentioned, but there’s an achievement for completing a mention without firing your primary or secondary so it’s theoretically possible
SES Guardian of Honor reporting in. I approve these challenges, as even if it makes things harder on yourself, it does bolster the war effort.
(And is fairly entertaining.)
Having 1 or 2 people running supply packs would probably help too with this challenge. Essentially if you run out of stims then you have four more stacks of them witht the press of a button along with grenades.
Remember, the automotons are using aimbots which is inherently undemocratic!
Smoke actually can make their aim gone down a lot also suppressed shot reduced their accuracy as well
Every single one is an aimbot. That's how a robot works!
KKnowley's about to become a Helldivers channel
With impact granades its pretty hard to hit the vent of a fabricator, BUT you can just throw nade in open doors (usually they glow if they're open, but as anything in this game, sometimes it bugs), so please do this and don't waste valuable nades on trying to hit a small vent.
Leaving this coment because I've noticed that you wasted nade trying to hit vent when door on fabricator was open
Any hint what the next hd2 video will be about? im very excited about the future of your vids
2:14 best stratagems in the game:
Spear, Railgun, Stalwart, Machine Gun 🗿
Okay, tbh, stalwart has it's use, when your primary isnt actually a primary, but more of a support weapon for heavy dudes, like dominator so stalwart is great for crowds. Machine Gun is worse because of stationary reload and can't really provide something in exchange.
But Spear and Rail Gun really is a joke.
No offence to author or any masochist that is using Spear (I also do sometimes), but that was really silly.
I got my helldive and hold my primary in one dive. It is very doable to play without using guns against automatons. You just need to play extremely stealthy and patient.
24:51
the thing that sent you flying was those little puffy mushroom things usaly give off a smoke like effect but your guardog shot them while aiming at bugs causing it to explode in a very powerful launch
theyre fun to shoot cause it just yeets you
the reason why Pelican didn't took off because it took too much damage and for some reason it bugged out and you can't enter it normally what supposed to happen is that it will take off as soon as a Helldiver enter it
24:44 I’m pretty sure what sent you flying was N1KO’s drone hit the explosive onion things that were underneath you
This smells of treason
There called the Peace Battalion
You can use chargers and cannon turrets to destroy almost everything. But it’s really hard since you preoccupied to survive
We all know why you actually picked the medic gear
No wonder my accuracy rating at the end of missions dropped dramatically after I stopped using primarily turrets in every mission, most of the eagles count as me aiming.
Welp, is as Super Earth commands, I guess
I feel like this could be more easily accomplished with stealth armor and jumpacks. You can just abuse the despawn mechanic by outrunning with jetpacks and splitting up so if you die the enemies auto despawn
When u said skull captain I died a lil bit inside
you probably could've just used laser weapons to prevent trajeties like accendtally shooting in the menu because the dagger, scythe, and laser cannon do not count as "shots fired"
EMS mortar/mortar combo goes dumby.
24:52 that’s mushroom spores
PAYDAY UA-camrs be like:
Please do a Flamethrower only run, I LOVE that thing! Besides, fire is pretty....
I love this guy man
Stealth: Am I a joke to you?
Which game was live service again? Payday 3 or this masterpiece
Not using the Orbitals that count as shots fired is pretty dumb, the team should have some variety available
Why not bind Left Click to a different key? Whenever Ratoo gave me a challenge in Cult of the Lamb that didn't let me roll or use curses I would unbind the relevant key (Or you could bind it to a key you never use)
Yessss shed the dead skin! Evolve! Yes!
if you don't rock and stone you aren't coming home
(if you like helldivers and payday 2 you may like deep rock galactic)
DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!!!!
Please do an only fire based weapons for this game like the napalm strike and the flamethrower
Please more Helldivers 2 content
stratedum only would be fun too
The reason you got launched is because a laser guard dog hit the weird spores
“A guide on how to blow up bases the old fashioned way.”
Do you need a guide on “throw grenade in hole”? Like, that’s part of the tutorial?
Cdawg throwing lol
You should do the polar opposite, absolutely no stratagems
You should try full steath
Cant you rebind primary fire keybind? Would avoid the misfires
I will not tolerate precision strike slander. tho complex plotting does make it impossible, it's normally pretty good
hear me out a melee weapon for those who don't like shooting or want a true knight build (shield weapon heavy armor)
Never Forget the Creek!
Is it possible to drop the gun? Might have helped.
34:40
PAYDAY REFERENCE?!!?!?!?
NEW UPLOAD GANG
I got this game recently and it is P E A K
about 14.25 mins in you can see just how brutal those lights are in some areas, if they are round any area i need good visual clarity, i take them out, but obviously, this is a no shooting run, so you are kinda stuck with that lol
Beat helldivers as the pyro
now do it on Diff 10 solo and wearing light armour 😆
Man I miss the bots
Helldivers 2 without shooting? Doesn't sound very democratic to me.
ARE YOU SUGGESTING THE HEROIC ARMS OF THE HELLDIVERS COULD NOT LIBERATE PLANETS ON THEIR OWN? YOUR DEMOCRACY OFFICER WILL HAVE A WORD WITH YOUR FAMILY
Now do a full 'pacifist' run where you cant kill with any strategems (maybe with some small exceptions) :) (genuinely not sure thats even possible, but im sure someone will manage it eventually)
Helldivers 2 Sociopath gameplay
who let cdawg cook
Same ship name!!
No offensive orbital challenge
But how tho
great news! The video shows how!
But can you beat it without killing anything?
Hello there
its impossible the game crashes right as you extract..... every damn time
this video seem to made before the recent patch especially how they have access some planet that currently being liberated atm
Challenge: LEGLESS
No standing or crouching.
You dive from the hellpod and remain on your belly for the rest of the mission.
One full campaign on any planet.
Okay, seriously, you're insane, Im done with UA-cam
payday 3 is so dry that the payday youtuber had to switch game... man
:O
yo can you stop posting about your pcs that's highway robbery icl i love your vids and all but that's crazy i went on you're website and i looked at the specs and thought it was crazy youmay have to rethink the sponsorship and their pcs they are basically scamming people
Can you beat Helldivers 2 stealth only?
Bought to call this man out for as a sympathizer until he mentioned the strategic power of humiliation. 🫡🫡🫡mans doing gods work.