@@muddingbadboys my two guys were shooting at them all and I was just diving back and forth to survive. Made it hard for them to track me 😂.. somehow we got a small window to call in extraction and made it out.
1) Turrets for the win. Bring the MG and Gatling to aid with mobs but most importantly shriekers. 2) Send 1 player to the LZ before you finish the last drill. That player will have time to call the bus before the shriekers swarm. 3) Use natural cover to block your rear and spray & pray. Our turrets placed at the LZ contour did really well. 4) You lose your pack when grabbing the dark matter, but you do gain a jetpack so... maybe don't bring a backpack at all and utilise what's offered. 5) You get disgraceful whether you extract or not. I think the mission is badly scripted that way. 6) They will likely patch the shrieker spam, and obviously fix point #5. 7) I don't see this mission possible with randoms but GL to all. Comms is vital in this case. Hardest mission we've seen yet imo. 8) I've just done EASY to learn the ins and outs, and the shrieker spam was as intense regardless. I can't begin to imagine higher difficulties.
based on helldive, turrets are bad except EMS mortar because they will just shred the drill in no time. I agree gatling and MG are probably very good against shriekers but youre basically wasting a slot until extract. yes you absolutely need to call extract instantly otherwise you will probably get rolled and lose. i think someone needs to rock an autocannon in case you get nursing/bile spewers. Its pretty much the only advanced weapon that deals with them insanely well. You can deal with them in other ways but man, in this mission i had killed close to 60 of them alone in 15 mins. the disgraceful bit is whats putting me off the mission. thats bs if its intentional. Just give people xp lol I comipleted 5 of these with randoms in like 10 attempts coz people leave after dying once. Its doable. Shrieker spam is fine once you know what you're dealing with. Quick extract and run around. Try find a wall to focus fire in one direction, or have your crew each target a crater they spawn out of and just kill them as they spawn. Easier said than done tho
It's actually not bugged, you need to extract with the dark matter packs to get the second half of the mission count as completed. But at no point do they tell you that, so yeah no wonder people are confused.
Nooo please don't patch the shrieker spam. I was running level 7's and I thought the current absurd amount is so much fun. Maybe change it for lower difficulties maybe but man they'll be missing out on the spectical, seeing the wasps come out after we throw stuff into their hives is such good story-telling. Wiggling and diving plus having a supply pack full of stims made extracting very doable. I extracted 5/5 times with L7 and failed once at L8 cause our captain was rushing it.
Damn, Kerrigan really pulled out the stops at the end there and flooded you with a Mutalisk swarm! Too bad she's never delt with the Helldivers before!
@@BalgaBear if you happen to be lucky enough to not have the ground bugs bearing down on you, lie prone and the shriekers will miss their swooping attacks. Of course, on this Meridian super-colony, that first part might not be possible.
@@BalgaBear hmm… okay, bear with me, cause I’m not on the game yet to try it myself: Could a turret or two help with air control? This mission looks 100% like you need a full team of 4, so maybe someone can pack a Gatling or machine gun turret to fire at the shriekers? Or… I suppose maybe the patriot exosuit? The rockets are awful to aim, but the Gatling has both the ammo and fire rate to make for decent air control.
@@GGBlaster Just did it easy on Diff 7 with each person taking smoke grenades, 2 stratagems of smoke, 2 bullet turrets and and an off person bringing explosives for the spore towers. Basically just kept hot boxing the extract point while prone and shooting anything we could manage to see.
If you're wondering the extraction looks the same on lvl 1 (trivial) difficulty. Hordes of Shriekers flying from the holes in the ground is a great reference to Pitch Black.
Brother I just started at level 5 tried this mission 5 times always did all the extractions but these shreakers man. They make it impossible to escape. Nearly smashed my computer
@DiorWizard I think devs want the players to die after the mission is done. So make it in game universe that this mission was literally a suicide mission. Even on lower difficulties there are a lot of spawns.
11:26 haha that bug has some pretty sick breakdancing skills. Anyway, good job! :) Edit: Oh and it seems that the mission type is now bugged and that other "main objective" is always left undone and getting disgraceful conduct. Which is why the Major Order is still sitting at 0%. I hope ArrowHead doesn't take forever to fix that one. :S
If I were a betting man, I’d say they started hunting down the bug 30 minutes after the major order. All we can do is hope that finding the bug is quick and easy. Btw I’m saying all this from a software developer perspective. I’ve had tiny issues (like a broken scrollbar) that after weeks of bug hunting I couldn’t solve.
Hey Takibo, just want to let you know I appreciate your attitude and energy to your video. Ever since the drama a while back, Helldivers 2 community has been overtaken by rampant hate and toxicity. I like how you can still express your frustration and problems with the game without having to resort to 10+ minutes long rant about how the game is bad and the devs need to be fired for making it bad. PS. Looking forward to a guide on how to the Dark Fluid mission cause man it is rough, especially with how the bugs spawn on top of the drill.
Definitely would make the mission incredibly difficult. Haven’t tried it yet, but I think I’m gonna go into this mission packing as much ems as I can reasonably carry.
@@maruko7167 Agreed, though I think I’d replace “hate” with “frustration.” Cause yeah, there are problems. Much as we wish it weren’t so, developers make mistakes. And yeah, it’s frustrating. But badmouthing the developers will do far more harm than good, if on the off chance it ever does anything remotely good.
@@maruko7167 the problem is not that difficult the problem is that is quite broken since stuff spawn directly underneat your drill and destroying it instantly You cannot fight back I had one point working correctly and it was pretty fun, but when for example a Bile spawns right under that and destroys it because contanct damage this stops feeling a challenge, you felt robbed of a deserved win Did 2 attempts on diff 9 one failed for that and one was succesful, but for the little i tried having to keep the drill smoked and under EMS is the only way
A good Strat is to Stunlock everything. EMS-Strike/Mortar, Stun Grenades on everyone. Often they spawn almost on top of the Drill, so you destroy it yourself when you shoot the Bugs.
Yoooo great timing. Cleared one of these earlier this morning but for some reason only got one star, seemed like I missed an objective of some type after doing the three drills, no idea what else the mission entails. Cheers all
same, the mission is so bugged, not just on enemies. It happened the same to me, we completed the mission and after extraction we got no stars and disgraceful conduct.
@@antxn for real. I know Pilestedt said something about making sure devs get a chance to actually play test things, but damn does it feel like they barely touched this at all 💀
This mission are either bugged or the dev are high on crack when they create it. The breaches appear right under the drill with them chargers or titans and instantly broke it, my squad of 4 with 4 EMS Mortar ,all run stun nades and it not even enough to stun all the bugs to buy time for the drill to do it jobs smh, Idk if AH even test this damn mission before release it out bruh.
Ok, thank god, I thought I was the only one. No exaggeration, the breaches happened right underneath the tower. It was so strange. Supply pack is a must imo.
Try machine gun/gatling Sentries, Supply Pack, 500kg and railcannon strikes for the BT's/Chargers. We ran through this multiple times earlier. Just had to find the strat that worked
did it first try in a duo with a random not knowning what stratagems to bring either or knowning anything about the objectives. i think once u find the strat u should be able to do it consistently with 4 man, don't think it's that unbalanced since it's supossed to be hard
Completed multiple ones, all of them were 'disgraceful conduct' even tho we made it, so XP was a$$ but received the medals properly. The mission has more problems than the XP reward, bugs spawned from below the drill more than once and they seem to ignore shields and smoke too. Sometimes it's luck if the game lets you win it or just ends up being a long sh1tshow without any completed objs, even if the team is good...at least on diff 9. I hope other players will get this major order done, I dont feel like playing more of these.
Same. Mission feels like shit which is the case with all "protect the objective" mission type. Bugs spawn like 6 meters away form the drill and run straight to it. You cant even use stratagems to handle this mess since they will destroy the thing. Stupid annoying and poorly thought bullcrap.
@@Steir12 We have succsessfully kept the bugs away from the drill using grenade launcher and/or punisher plasma. But I guess that stun is better for the drill if they get to close.
The Shield Emplacement only works against projectiles. Bugs have always been able to walk in and attack the generator. Best used for some tricky plays against BT's spit attack or as a distraction which doesn't work here cause they have a higher priority.
Watched some streams on twitch today, one guy tried to complete this mission like 7 times, or more and only once he did it. And that win was on the verge of defeat, the squad won only because of very good teamwork and two mechs. The set of circumstances goes crazy on this mission type: all good stuff was nerfed, and if it's not - it's somewhat broken, dwindling player base because of Sony, paper-like fragile drill with black liquid and ± three instant breaches in like 2-3 meters around drill INSTANTLY after setting drill operational I really want to believe that all that was not intentional, so they can delay lore side with a new fraction, but an unfortunate coincidence, that will be fixed asap
Shriekers are absolutely bonkers after the main objectives. Even on trivial, it's a struggle to extract. Edit: Actually, it looked almost exactly the same as your footage as it is in trivial at the very end. And everyone's result screen objectives and xp and stuff are bugged the same way too.
@@BalgaBear understandable. Ngl, I was kinda hoping that we’d see hive lords on this mission. But that would probably be a heavily scripted boss fight if I’m being realistic.
One icon looks like the fluid-backpack, the other icon is the drill, I think. The drill icon was also not highlighted after we finished our missions today. Seems to be a glitch... The amount of shriekers who appear just before extraction is crazy on Meridia. Even on one of the "easy" modes they'll swarm the extraction site like flies do on a carcass... And as if that's not enough, the other bugs are coming, too - of course. Another thing that might be notable and that has happened twice to me today is, that when Pelican-1 has landed, its tail is kind of "hanging down". So, one tends to get stuck while entering, leaving you like a sitting duck to the enemies (...and most likely getting you killed).
That Pelican bug happened to me about a week ago on a normal mission. It was the extract that's just a small rocky landing pad as since it only happened on that mission (and hasn't happened again) I thought that extract area was the reason. Had to crawl into the pelican to extract lol.
Yep. Maybe it happens on these kind of landing sites more often than on others. In the beginning, I occasionally got stuck while entering. This is more likely to happen when you try to enter more from the side than straight from behind. And going prone normally helps in that situation. Since I'm aware of that issue, I always try to enter the shuttle from behind as straight as possible. However, today on Meridia, I tried to enter straight and the shuttle's tail was tilted downwards, so I got stuck. Twice in consecutive missions! One time I had a really hard time getting unstuck again (going prone didn't work). The other time I was killed within seconds. That planet is a bitch 😁
Bile titan's spawning directly on the drill is the yankest shit I've ever seen. I get difficulty but that just seems broken. It's death animation spin can kill the thing. I'm boycotting this mission. Whoever designed it was smoked beyond belief.
+1 I have no idea what the fuck is Arrowhead doing recently. I has always been bad on their end with testing and making sure the stuff they release is actually functional in any way, but what has been going on for the past couple weeks is absolutely beyond me. It literally seems like the entire dev team is in crack, with the testers hooked up to machinery injecting morphine every couple seconds.
Solid guide. The deep holes is where all the birds come from at the end and we couldn't kill those holes either. The dark fluid jetpack gave great survivability. When doing it with randoms I'd encourage them to use it, they could see the drill sites. If one drill got killed because a site got hit hard by multiple breaches (the map one and the scripted one for the drill), just jet to another and set one up there. No breaches at that one. Stun grenades and or smoke made it easy. Could do with a turret build, too. Keep patrols off the mortars, the bugs from the drill breach went for the drill and 1 gatling 1 AC would mow them down before they got close. Lots of ways to do it.
A good strat for the incendiary breaker is not to fire it so much, but constantly target bugs and let the damage over time finish them off. It kills just as many, for 1/4 the ammo usage.
I fire it based on number of rounds for DoT to kill quickly, 1 shot for pouncers/scavengers, 2-3 shots for warriors, 4 for hunters, 5 for hive guards. Everything else I just shoot and run until it's done.
Not sure if it works but try smoke stratagems it may work the same as the terminide chemical towers mission where it prevent them from attacking the tower and force to find a way to the tower Might apply the same here
Remember that shriekers can't hit you (for the most part) when you're prone. That saved me when trying to extract the last few times, at least until a titan strutted up.
The map size could definitely be bigger to have that distance. If really like to see you do a team mission, preferably with people you might know or that know what they're doing. It's what really makes the game so much fun.
I believe that the jetpack vessel is a preview of whats to come. Maybe our arsenal are gonna be improved using this dark fluid against Illuminate when they arrive.
Went in with a friend completely blind on lower difficulty than usual. I genuinely thought we were not gonna make it, never before have i needed ammo so much and the bugs just kept comming. Then we died at extraction point completely hopeless with giant swarm of Shriekers above us. I loved every second of it. Supercolony is no joke
Guys....for the love of god...stop bringing mortars, explosives, aoe anything IF your going to be chucking it at obj. Have a chafe clearing guy using a stalwart to defend the obj up close, and keep bigger guys away. Sometimes the breach is right on it, and while that sucks, starting it up again isnt too hard, and they might spawn further I have found. The biggest enemy to its completion are people using plasma punishers etc right on the obj as chafe gets to it
Advice: When the Shriekers flood you at the end lay down. You will be attacked less and be able to spam kill them with the incendiary Shotgun. Through testing, they do not have enough damage against the new mech when trying to evacuate the mission but I have only done up to difficulty 7 so will do more testing on how to successfully get everyone out.
i’m also wondering what is that 2nd main objective. it disappears when the drill site locations automatically appears on the map. i guess it would only be available when the new update rolls in.
They're so thick at the end though that any shot fired is going to go off right in your own face, lol. Still, might take out quite a few shriekers at the same time though.
@@crackededge9351 hmm… I’ll definitely try that. Admittedly I haven’t used the arc thrower a lot lately because I’ve struggled to figure out aiming it, and I haven’t seen it arc for me the same way I’ve seen it arc for other players.
I didn't see you do it... but I'm assuming you figured it out. But the dark fluid can be used like a jump pack while you have it on your back. Wonder if Arrowhead would consider making the dark fluid backpack a new stratagem with a slightly longer cool down on jumps. Would be worth tbh
First time I tried, I failed because I didn’t know what to do, but afterwards I completed it 3-4 times in a row on 7+ difficulty. I think it’s a fun mission, especially because I like breaker incendiary and it truly shined during this mission.
I found it much easier when you start by destroying all bug holes. You have enough time. Then start the mission. The HMG Emplacement does really shine, when you call the drill, as well as Gatling sentry.
was fuckin around solo on medium difficulty and it felt standard for a short bit, until extraction became available, at which point around 400 shriekers spawned
I finally completed this. I had all 3 gun turrets and stalwart. clear as much of map then get to a drill sit. drop turrets at 3 points around the drill and get to cover picking anything off that gets too close to drill and let turrets do the work. Need team to cover off the bile titans
I keep hearing the secondary icon is a bug, and that we are not meant to complete this major order for lore purposes. Don’t know with any certainty. - way to go on the solo mission, very impressive.
Doing this solo is very difficult but fun for the drill bit, you just need a good strategy. I was playing with randoms who were higher level than me but they kept accidentally destroying the drill so that bit was honestly easier solo for me. The extraction is pure madness though i havent managed that bit solo yet because i cant activate the extraction withiut getting staggered off, not tried the sheild pack yet though. The extraction i have managed with a squad though but everyone thought we'd somehow failed though, im not sure if its bugged (no pun intended) on the final screen or if we're missing something but it has happened every time whether i was solo or not
This mission is such a mess that after a couple of runs I will not bother anymore. Bugs spawning inside the drill, arc tower murdering me even when staying prone close to it, hellpod steering not functioning or sometimes stuck veering to one direction, stratagems bouncing from bare ground, shriekers clipping through terrain to get me...
Eagle Smoke + smoke Grenade + Ems makes this mission easy. I dunno why everyone else cant understand the power of smoke. Smoke and EMS are the gods in this kind of missions. Just make sure you are outside the smoke so that bugs will target you instead. Deploy smoke before you deploy the drill. Also, If you and the drill are both in the smoke, then it will not work.
you forgot to mention that if you have a supply pack, opening a supply (from a resupply) gives you everything from a resupply AND puts a supply into your supply pack. (so it's essentially 4 stuns, not 2)
I need to correct you takibo. So the big holes with the fumes coming out of it that you said you couldn't 500kg nuke it. Those holes spew out shriekers in the end game when your holding extraction for pelican
I think this is cool personally, ik AH has a hate train (not for no reason mind you) but its still cool to be back on meridia months later, You can even find old battery silos around
We used the gatling sentry, the EMS and the auto cannon sentry. Placed in the correct positions with 4 ppl you can do this pretty easy. Extraction tho is a diff story. You gotta just pray for the best!
attempted to drop a gas strike on the drill twice, didnt know if it worked or not but couldnt see the gas cloud. was really hoping that would have worked
Protip for anyone: You don't always need to get quasar and 500kg. You have 40 minutes. First, clear ALL bug holes around map (the small ones). They are always Active and will always spawn hordes and hordes of enemesies. If you destroy them, game becomes 4 times easier. Next, get turrets and team. And if not team, only turrets. Quasar is not bad idea but tbh heavies ain't really problem most of times. Get your free EMS mortar, gatling gun and autocannon turrets. You can get quasar and for 4th strat whatever you think will be useful. If you don't have incendiary breaker (like me who always thought on bugs that's just boring) get flammenwafel and Panzerfaust (flamethrower and EAT-17) From what I observed dark fluid containers semi (?) regenerate? Anyways, you can get full team of those and use them as actually fun and useful jetpacks, so you don't really need backpackshields. Of course also stun grenades. For primary cause as I said I don't have incendiary breaker (tho at least 1 person should have to remove shriekers from existenxe at extraction) I use plasma weapons. That's all from me. I did it with 1 friend and 2 randoms on suicide (diff 7). The mission surely is too hard or bugged and people saying skill issue never played it. In this mission you don't show skill. Either you die trying as you don't abuse game mechanics or abuse game mechanics to their maximum (seriously, perma stun with turrets I recommend makes it a cake walk)
Btw you can use the dark fluid canisters as a super buffed jetpack with 5 sec cooldown and ability to kill everything around you on blastoff.
How?
@@MrJohannsonuse it like a jetpack
Yep, it's fun and helps you get away from bugs if you're getting swarmed. It does kill friendlies so becareful.
Oh that's awesome!
I hope you never get diarrhea. Ever.
If Malevelon Creek was space Vietnam, Meridia is space Iwo Jima
23:07 "WE ARE NOT STAYIN' ALIVE ON THIS ONE BOYS" 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
The extraction caught me off guard. 3 of us on the mission just about didn't make it. Holy fuck that was hell.
yeah we didn't make it. their was at least 65 sherikers flying around at once
@@muddingbadboys my two guys were shooting at them all and I was just diving back and forth to survive. Made it hard for them to track me 😂.. somehow we got a small window to call in extraction and made it out.
@@BlackWat3rGTRnice! it also doesn't help when 2 bug breaches happen right on the drill lol
There was thousands its was fucking nuts, I’ve never gotten so nervous in hell divers
@@thesinistermilk131 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1) Turrets for the win. Bring the MG and Gatling to aid with mobs but most importantly shriekers.
2) Send 1 player to the LZ before you finish the last drill. That player will have time to call the bus before the shriekers swarm.
3) Use natural cover to block your rear and spray & pray. Our turrets placed at the LZ contour did really well.
4) You lose your pack when grabbing the dark matter, but you do gain a jetpack so... maybe don't bring a backpack at all and utilise what's offered.
5) You get disgraceful whether you extract or not. I think the mission is badly scripted that way.
6) They will likely patch the shrieker spam, and obviously fix point #5.
7) I don't see this mission possible with randoms but GL to all. Comms is vital in this case. Hardest mission we've seen yet imo.
8) I've just done EASY to learn the ins and outs, and the shrieker spam was as intense regardless. I can't begin to imagine higher difficulties.
based on helldive, turrets are bad except EMS mortar because they will just shred the drill in no time. I agree gatling and MG are probably very good against shriekers but youre basically wasting a slot until extract.
yes you absolutely need to call extract instantly otherwise you will probably get rolled and lose.
i think someone needs to rock an autocannon in case you get nursing/bile spewers. Its pretty much the only advanced weapon that deals with them insanely well. You can deal with them in other ways but man, in this mission i had killed close to 60 of them alone in 15 mins.
the disgraceful bit is whats putting me off the mission. thats bs if its intentional. Just give people xp lol
I comipleted 5 of these with randoms in like 10 attempts coz people leave after dying once. Its doable.
Shrieker spam is fine once you know what you're dealing with. Quick extract and run around. Try find a wall to focus fire in one direction, or have your crew each target a crater they spawn out of and just kill them as they spawn. Easier said than done tho
It's actually not bugged, you need to extract with the dark matter packs to get the second half of the mission count as completed. But at no point do they tell you that, so yeah no wonder people are confused.
@@JACKplusBLANK You mean, you have to bring one Fluid canister up to get the full win?
@kevinfleischer2049 I haven't tried only one. When we did it, we all had canisters on our back, but I don't see why only one wouldn't count too.
Nooo please don't patch the shrieker spam. I was running level 7's and I thought the current absurd amount is so much fun.
Maybe change it for lower difficulties maybe but man they'll be missing out on the spectical, seeing the wasps come out after we throw stuff into their hives is such good story-telling. Wiggling and diving plus having a supply pack full of stims made extracting very doable.
I extracted 5/5 times with L7 and failed once at L8 cause our captain was rushing it.
Damn, Kerrigan really pulled out the stops at the end there and flooded you with a Mutalisk swarm! Too bad she's never delt with the Helldivers before!
The shriekers came out of the huge damn holes, good lord
Couldn't move 20 feet without getting hit 18 times
@@BalgaBear if you happen to be lucky enough to not have the ground bugs bearing down on you, lie prone and the shriekers will miss their swooping attacks.
Of course, on this Meridian super-colony, that first part might not be possible.
@GGBlaster Yeah I discovered that on my second mission, but near the extract terminal they shredded me again.
@@BalgaBear hmm… okay, bear with me, cause I’m not on the game yet to try it myself:
Could a turret or two help with air control? This mission looks 100% like you need a full team of 4, so maybe someone can pack a Gatling or machine gun turret to fire at the shriekers?
Or… I suppose maybe the patriot exosuit? The rockets are awful to aim, but the Gatling has both the ammo and fire rate to make for decent air control.
@@GGBlaster Just did it easy on Diff 7 with each person taking smoke grenades, 2 stratagems of smoke, 2 bullet turrets and and an off person bringing explosives for the spore towers.
Basically just kept hot boxing the extract point while prone and shooting anything we could manage to see.
11:24 breakdancing bug lmao
Lmao 😂
If you're wondering the extraction looks the same on lvl 1 (trivial) difficulty. Hordes of Shriekers flying from the holes in the ground is a great reference to Pitch Black.
Even on lvl 1? Thats insane ... I love it
Can confirm. I can barely survive.
Brother I just started at level 5 tried this mission 5 times always did all the extractions but these shreakers man. They make it impossible to escape. Nearly smashed my computer
The shriekers spawn out of the big holes after you complete the mission objective
Have you tried droping 500kg into hole?
@@hofi_dhe said in the video he tried it and it doesn’t work
Making sense as the whole hive panics as dark fluid effects the plannets crest and there hive. All bugs get out as an survival instinct.
@@anonymousinternational1516now THAT makes sense! I was wondering how to limit the amount that spawn but to no avail
@DiorWizard I think devs want the players to die after the mission is done. So make it in game universe that this mission was literally a suicide mission. Even on lower difficulties there are a lot of spawns.
11:26 haha that bug has some pretty sick breakdancing skills.
Anyway, good job! :)
Edit: Oh and it seems that the mission type is now bugged and that other "main objective" is always left undone and getting disgraceful conduct. Which is why the Major Order is still sitting at 0%. I hope ArrowHead doesn't take forever to fix that one. :S
If I were a betting man, I’d say they started hunting down the bug 30 minutes after the major order. All we can do is hope that finding the bug is quick and easy.
Btw I’m saying all this from a software developer perspective. I’ve had tiny issues (like a broken scrollbar) that after weeks of bug hunting I couldn’t solve.
Just played this on impossible, was genuinely impossible.
This is the first time I die on trivial, getting out is a nightmare
Bullshit mission
@@Jason-..- Agreed and its great. We are killing a supercolony after all
@@balgain8613 when they spawn 3 bile titans ON the drill you are supposed to protect and there is NOTHING you can do its not great.
Hey Takibo, just want to let you know I appreciate your attitude and energy to your video. Ever since the drama a while back, Helldivers 2 community has been overtaken by rampant hate and toxicity. I like how you can still express your frustration and problems with the game without having to resort to 10+ minutes long rant about how the game is bad and the devs need to be fired for making it bad.
PS. Looking forward to a guide on how to the Dark Fluid mission cause man it is rough, especially with how the bugs spawn on top of the drill.
Definitely would make the mission incredibly difficult. Haven’t tried it yet, but I think I’m gonna go into this mission packing as much ems as I can reasonably carry.
Most real comment every written. The hate is justified but at the same time the amount is completely unnecessary. Everyone just needs to chill out.
@@maruko7167 Agreed, though I think I’d replace “hate” with “frustration.” Cause yeah, there are problems. Much as we wish it weren’t so, developers make mistakes. And yeah, it’s frustrating.
But badmouthing the developers will do far more harm than good, if on the off chance it ever does anything remotely good.
Definitely is nice to hear a more positive approach
@@maruko7167 the problem is not that difficult the problem is that is quite broken since stuff spawn directly underneat your drill and destroying it instantly
You cannot fight back
I had one point working correctly and it was pretty fun, but when for example a Bile spawns right under that and destroys it because contanct damage this stops feeling a challenge, you felt robbed of a deserved win
Did 2 attempts on diff 9 one failed for that and one was succesful, but for the little i tried having to keep the drill smoked and under EMS is the only way
A good Strat is to Stunlock everything. EMS-Strike/Mortar, Stun Grenades on everyone. Often they spawn almost on top of the Drill, so you destroy it yourself when you shoot the Bugs.
using laser cannon and HMG turret has worked well for me
Yoooo great timing. Cleared one of these earlier this morning but for some reason only got one star, seemed like I missed an objective of some type after doing the three drills, no idea what else the mission entails. Cheers all
same, the mission is so bugged, not just on enemies. It happened the same to me, we completed the mission and after extraction we got no stars and disgraceful conduct.
i love it when developers dont test their new updates
I think it might be something related to the "deploy dark fluid" main objective messing with something.
@@antxn for real. I know Pilestedt said something about making sure devs get a chance to actually play test things, but damn does it feel like they barely touched this at all 💀
Did you extract with a canister of dark fluid? The extraction zone has a dark fluid icon objective on it before it changes to an Evac symbol.
This mission are either bugged or the dev are high on crack when they create it. The breaches appear right under the drill with them chargers or titans and instantly broke it, my squad of 4 with 4 EMS Mortar ,all run stun nades and it not even enough to stun all the bugs to buy time for the drill to do it jobs smh, Idk if AH even test this damn mission before release it out bruh.
Ok, thank god, I thought I was the only one. No exaggeration, the breaches happened right underneath the tower. It was so strange.
Supply pack is a must imo.
Try machine gun/gatling Sentries, Supply Pack, 500kg and railcannon strikes for the BT's/Chargers. We ran through this multiple times earlier. Just had to find the strat that worked
did it first try in a duo with a random not knowning what stratagems to bring either or knowning anything about the objectives. i think once u find the strat u should be able to do it consistently with 4 man, don't think it's that unbalanced since it's supossed to be hard
Exactly we had that as well. With mech suits, ems strike and ext. And it's so unfair. I agree
Git gud
Dark fluid works like a jetpack. This game is funny.
If you use it too many times though it explodes
@@KrimsonStorm Oh, this game is *funny.*
For real? Not for play play?
@@TheFreakdude42 I'm serious.
Dude youre friggin' amazing! I would love to play with you, learned so much
Completed multiple ones, all of them were 'disgraceful conduct' even tho we made it, so XP was a$$ but received the medals properly. The mission has more problems than the XP reward, bugs spawned from below the drill more than once and they seem to ignore shields and smoke too. Sometimes it's luck if the game lets you win it or just ends up being a long sh1tshow without any completed objs, even if the team is good...at least on diff 9. I hope other players will get this major order done, I dont feel like playing more of these.
Same. Mission feels like shit which is the case with all "protect the objective" mission type. Bugs spawn like 6 meters away form the drill and run straight to it. You cant even use stratagems to handle this mess since they will destroy the thing. Stupid annoying and poorly thought bullcrap.
@@Steir12 We have succsessfully kept the bugs away from the drill using grenade launcher and/or punisher plasma. But I guess that stun is better for the drill if they get to close.
The Shield Emplacement only works against projectiles. Bugs have always been able to walk in and attack the generator. Best used for some tricky plays against BT's spit attack or as a distraction which doesn't work here cause they have a higher priority.
Watched some streams on twitch today, one guy tried to complete this mission like 7 times, or more and only once he did it. And that win was on the verge of defeat, the squad won only because of very good teamwork and two mechs. The set of circumstances goes crazy on this mission type: all good stuff was nerfed, and if it's not - it's somewhat broken, dwindling player base because of Sony, paper-like fragile drill with black liquid and ± three instant breaches in like 2-3 meters around drill INSTANTLY after setting drill operational
I really want to believe that all that was not intentional, so they can delay lore side with a new fraction, but an unfortunate coincidence, that will be fixed asap
I wonder if mines would work...
@@hariman7727 saw them trying, it all ended with the mines causing more damage to drill, than to bugs
You are a beast! 😮 Nicely done! Wanna see another one with succesfull extraction. 👍
Great video. Love the positive helldiver attitude.
Shriekers are absolutely bonkers after the main objectives. Even on trivial, it's a struggle to extract.
Edit: Actually, it looked almost exactly the same as your footage as it is in trivial at the very end. And everyone's result screen objectives and xp and stuff are bugged the same way too.
Dang, they really took “super-colony” seriously
The amount of Shriekers is static, so this most definitely is forced 4 player mission.
Feeling real story more than game right now.
@@BalgaBear understandable. Ngl, I was kinda hoping that we’d see hive lords on this mission. But that would probably be a heavily scripted boss fight if I’m being realistic.
One icon looks like the fluid-backpack, the other icon is the drill, I think.
The drill icon was also not highlighted after we finished our missions today. Seems to be a glitch...
The amount of shriekers who appear just before extraction is crazy on Meridia. Even on one of the "easy" modes they'll swarm the extraction site like flies do on a carcass...
And as if that's not enough, the other bugs are coming, too - of course.
Another thing that might be notable and that has happened twice to me today is, that when Pelican-1 has landed, its tail is kind of "hanging down". So, one tends to get stuck while entering, leaving you like a sitting duck to the enemies (...and most likely getting you killed).
That Pelican bug happened to me about a week ago on a normal mission. It was the extract that's just a small rocky landing pad as since it only happened on that mission (and hasn't happened again) I thought that extract area was the reason. Had to crawl into the pelican to extract lol.
Yep. Maybe it happens on these kind of landing sites more often than on others.
In the beginning, I occasionally got stuck while entering. This is more likely to happen when you try to enter more from the side than straight from behind. And going prone normally helps in that situation.
Since I'm aware of that issue, I always try to enter the shuttle from behind as straight as possible.
However, today on Meridia, I tried to enter straight and the shuttle's tail was tilted downwards, so I got stuck.
Twice in consecutive missions!
One time I had a really hard time getting unstuck again (going prone didn't work).
The other time I was killed within seconds.
That planet is a bitch 😁
Great channel just discovered you 👍🏼
Bile titan's spawning directly on the drill is the yankest shit I've ever seen. I get difficulty but that just seems broken. It's death animation spin can kill the thing.
I'm boycotting this mission. Whoever designed it was smoked beyond belief.
+1
I have no idea what the fuck is Arrowhead doing recently. I has always been bad on their end with testing and making sure the stuff they release is actually functional in any way, but what has been going on for the past couple weeks is absolutely beyond me.
It literally seems like the entire dev team is in crack, with the testers hooked up to machinery injecting morphine every couple seconds.
@@Rumcajs981 i think they forgot a braket to calculate breach position LMAO
Solid guide. The deep holes is where all the birds come from at the end and we couldn't kill those holes either. The dark fluid jetpack gave great survivability. When doing it with randoms I'd encourage them to use it, they could see the drill sites. If one drill got killed because a site got hit hard by multiple breaches (the map one and the scripted one for the drill), just jet to another and set one up there. No breaches at that one. Stun grenades and or smoke made it easy. Could do with a turret build, too. Keep patrols off the mortars, the bugs from the drill breach went for the drill and 1 gatling 1 AC would mow them down before they got close. Lots of ways to do it.
A good strat for the incendiary breaker is not to fire it so much, but constantly target bugs and let the damage over time finish them off. It kills just as many, for 1/4 the ammo usage.
I fire it based on number of rounds for DoT to kill quickly, 1 shot for pouncers/scavengers, 2-3 shots for warriors, 4 for hunters, 5 for hive guards.
Everything else I just shoot and run until it's done.
you have to extract with the dark fluid to complete the other objective
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Yes, and I can't extract because I'm the basketball in a harlem globetrotters game.
Can’t believe you solo ed this. Amazing!
I loved the ending! Dive for freedom!
seeing you do this makes me feel like this is at the very least possible. I was having a horrible go of it yesterday
Not sure if it works but try smoke stratagems it may work the same as the terminide chemical towers mission where it prevent them from attacking the tower and force to find a way to the tower
Might apply the same here
I tried the orbital smoke. Since they spawn directly on the drill, it does not work sadly
That was a great tutorial - thank you
Infinite grenade glitch with stun nades is the best.
One guy spams stun nades on drill other 3 kill stuff. Easiest thing ever.
You can also land on the spore spewer when getting called back for reinforce and it will destroy it.
God Taki you never stop at being a God at this game.
Remember that shriekers can't hit you (for the most part) when you're prone. That saved me when trying to extract the last few times, at least until a titan strutted up.
Another tactic I tried (with at least some success...) is to go into a recess in one of the surrounding rock walls, with your back to the wall...
Idk of were supposed to extract because that many shreakers spawn on the trivial difficulty also
Same on suicidal.
you can use the backpack as a jetpack btw
Is that what the "discharge" is?
Well play !!
I be carrying with this loadout fr thanks for the video
I'm jealous of that aim with the grenade pistol.
The map size could definitely be bigger to have that distance. If really like to see you do a team mission, preferably with people you might know or that know what they're doing. It's what really makes the game so much fun.
I was actually laughing my aas off when i first encountered the wall of shriekers at the end.
I believe that the jetpack vessel is a preview of whats to come. Maybe our arsenal are gonna be improved using this dark fluid against Illuminate when they arrive.
What's up legend!
Went in with a friend completely blind on lower difficulty than usual. I genuinely thought we were not gonna make it, never before have i needed ammo so much and the bugs just kept comming.
Then we died at extraction point completely hopeless with giant swarm of Shriekers above us.
I loved every second of it. Supercolony is no joke
That bug on the right at 11:30 is having it's own party
collision is so frustrating in this game
To practice this I've been trying it on trivial and I'm pretty sure you get the same number of shreakers in either case. Holy crap.
Guys....for the love of god...stop bringing mortars, explosives, aoe anything IF your going to be chucking it at obj. Have a chafe clearing guy using a stalwart to defend the obj up close, and keep bigger guys away. Sometimes the breach is right on it, and while that sucks, starting it up again isnt too hard, and they might spawn further I have found. The biggest enemy to its completion are people using plasma punishers etc right on the obj as chafe gets to it
Advice: When the Shriekers flood you at the end lay down. You will be attacked less and be able to spam kill them with the incendiary Shotgun. Through testing, they do not have enough damage against the new mech when trying to evacuate the mission but I have only done up to difficulty 7 so will do more testing on how to successfully get everyone out.
STUN EVERYTHING
This guy here can complete this mission solo, there's no reason other players should complain about this mission
i’m also wondering what is that 2nd main objective. it disappears when the drill site locations automatically appears on the map.
i guess it would only be available when the new update rolls in.
The air burst might finally have a purpose with dealing with all those shriekers
They're so thick at the end though that any shot fired is going to go off right in your own face, lol. Still, might take out quite a few shriekers at the same time though.
@@greyborg3846 Are you saying that out of speculation, or experience? Asking honestly before I pack an airburst.
@@GGBlasterUse the arc thrower instead. With that many Shriekers, it will arc straight through them with every shot.
*Pulling up hoodie* if you had one shot....would you take it?
@@crackededge9351 hmm… I’ll definitely try that. Admittedly I haven’t used the arc thrower a lot lately because I’ve struggled to figure out aiming it, and I haven’t seen it arc for me the same way I’ve seen it arc for other players.
Lore accurate meridia. I have never raged harder in a helldivers match before, but i'm glad, its what its supposed to be
I didn't see you do it... but I'm assuming you figured it out. But the dark fluid can be used like a jump pack while you have it on your back. Wonder if Arrowhead would consider making the dark fluid backpack a new stratagem with a slightly longer cool down on jumps. Would be worth tbh
Is it possible to lure the chargers into those big ass holes in the ground? Even if it works would it kill them or would they just climb back out?
You crazy mother...lover did it alone! GG
god gamer
First time I tried, I failed because I didn’t know what to do, but afterwards I completed it 3-4 times in a row on 7+ difficulty. I think it’s a fun mission, especially because I like breaker incendiary and it truly shined during this mission.
I found it much easier when you start by destroying all bug holes. You have enough time. Then start the mission. The HMG Emplacement does really shine, when you call the drill, as well as Gatling sentry.
Glad it worked out for you, but it seems like if a BT spawns while you are stun grenading it'll go badly!
was fuckin around solo on medium difficulty and it felt standard for a short bit, until extraction became available, at which point around 400 shriekers spawned
I finally completed this. I had all 3 gun turrets and stalwart. clear as much of map then get to a drill sit. drop turrets at 3 points around the drill and get to cover picking anything off that gets too close to drill and let turrets do the work. Need team to cover off the bile titans
Imo the EATs would be the better choice over the quasar as you're defending a position and the map is pretty small
I keep hearing the secondary icon is a bug, and that we are not meant to complete this major order for lore purposes. Don’t know with any certainty. - way to go on the solo mission, very impressive.
Doing this solo is very difficult but fun for the drill bit, you just need a good strategy. I was playing with randoms who were higher level than me but they kept accidentally destroying the drill so that bit was honestly easier solo for me. The extraction is pure madness though i havent managed that bit solo yet because i cant activate the extraction withiut getting staggered off, not tried the sheild pack yet though. The extraction i have managed with a squad though but everyone thought we'd somehow failed though, im not sure if its bugged (no pun intended) on the final screen or if we're missing something but it has happened every time whether i was solo or not
This mission is such a mess that after a couple of runs I will not bother anymore. Bugs spawning inside the drill, arc tower murdering me even when staying prone close to it, hellpod steering not functioning or sometimes stuck veering to one direction, stratagems bouncing from bare ground, shriekers clipping through terrain to get me...
Eagle Smoke + smoke Grenade + Ems makes this mission easy. I dunno why everyone else cant understand the power of smoke. Smoke and EMS are the gods in this kind of missions. Just make sure you are outside the smoke so that bugs will target you instead. Deploy smoke before you deploy the drill. Also, If you and the drill are both in the smoke, then it will not work.
you forgot to mention that if you have a supply pack, opening a supply (from a resupply) gives you everything from a resupply AND puts a supply into your supply pack. (so it's essentially 4 stuns, not 2)
The Dark fluid vessel can be used as a Jump pack ;)
This deadass makes Malevelon Creek look tame(ish) the shriekers don't even decrease on TRIVIAL, so new players can just not extract ever basically
Ugh defense missions. Lemme guess it gets hit twice before the damn thing dies
Dark fluid +tap jump = fly
Its literally just a simpler geological survey but the bugs are allowed to spawn under it and everything damages it even spawning animations
I need to correct you takibo. So the big holes with the fumes coming out of it that you said you couldn't 500kg nuke it. Those holes spew out shriekers in the end game when your holding extraction for pelican
I think this is cool personally, ik AH has a hate train (not for no reason mind you) but its still cool to be back on meridia months later,
You can even find old battery silos around
What a beautiful ending
We used the gatling sentry, the EMS and the auto cannon sentry. Placed in the correct positions with 4 ppl you can do this pretty easy. Extraction tho is a diff story. You gotta just pray for the best!
i lost so many good soldiers, void lazarists squad, will always be remebered
Me and some fellas just be breezing through these while spamming stun nades with the infinite grenade bug, really fun ngl😂
I’d imagine that the EMS and orbital Gas combo would be a good match.
attempted to drop a gas strike on the drill twice, didnt know if it worked or not but couldnt see the gas cloud. was really hoping that would have worked
This one had me rethinking if I even knew how to play the game 🤣
remember, the dark matter backpack is an ultra jepack.
You do know the canister is a jump pack while also being the thing you need to load in the drills right?
That ending though 🤣🤣🤣
This is crazy trying to do this mission on solo
This mission is a lot of fun
Your character seems to run so much faster than mine, is there anything that I'm missing?
14:04 reminded me of “Flashbang through the door!!”
EMS Mortar is awesome for this. Just deploy it out of the way and keep mobs occupied.
Shield relay distracts bugs into attacking it too. Maybe that it will help with the mission
EMS mortar would good for this mission. Maybe try out smoke screening the drill.
Does orbital gas strike hurt the drill? Seems like a good way to clean things up that get stunned near the drill.
It does, used an airstrike by accident and the drill disappeared
Awesome game mode!!
Protip for anyone: You don't always need to get quasar and 500kg. You have 40 minutes. First, clear ALL bug holes around map (the small ones). They are always Active and will always spawn hordes and hordes of enemesies. If you destroy them, game becomes 4 times easier. Next, get turrets and team. And if not team, only turrets. Quasar is not bad idea but tbh heavies ain't really problem most of times. Get your free EMS mortar, gatling gun and autocannon turrets. You can get quasar and for 4th strat whatever you think will be useful. If you don't have incendiary breaker (like me who always thought on bugs that's just boring) get flammenwafel and Panzerfaust (flamethrower and EAT-17)
From what I observed dark fluid containers semi (?) regenerate? Anyways, you can get full team of those and use them as actually fun and useful jetpacks, so you don't really need backpackshields. Of course also stun grenades. For primary cause as I said I don't have incendiary breaker (tho at least 1 person should have to remove shriekers from existenxe at extraction) I use plasma weapons. That's all from me. I did it with 1 friend and 2 randoms on suicide (diff 7).
The mission surely is too hard or bugged and people saying skill issue never played it. In this mission you don't show skill. Either you die trying as you don't abuse game mechanics or abuse game mechanics to their maximum (seriously, perma stun with turrets I recommend makes it a cake walk)
So how do you get full stars? Everytime I've done this mission I only get 1.