@@Fireheart318 It's very aestheticly pleasing and helps people with dyslexia read things quite a bit easier by breaking up text blobs. Glad this helped you more than just in the game ❤️
That forehead weakspot for impalers is a life saver, I play a lot with randoms and they always ask me how I’m able to take them down so fast with a quasar cannon. I’m spreading the word as best as I can because golly are they annoying AF to deal with especially when dealing with a bunch of other shit going on(I like to play difficulty 9-10) Edit: One more thing about the red alpha warriors is that they stunlock you by attacking non-stop very quickly and paired with the mentioned speed and reach can easily melt you if you aren’t careful
The old weakspot use to be the connecting tentacles so returning players or new players that watch old videos are still shooting there. Some of the old text guide info from wiki/diversdex still shows the bumpy part as a weakpoint as well but that was changed a bit ago so hopefully this makes the rounds so people can learn the new spot.
Another great tip is they die to eagle strafing run everytime to the forehead. I have 5 strafing runs when reloaded and they come down so quick it's great
I needed this. Bugs are the only front I even sorta struggle with now. Diff 10 bots is fun but manageable and can be chaotic. Diff 10 squids are joke at the moment. This should help me make a few loadouts for bugs
It will be in the highlights video to but I couldn't make a bug guide without having it in there! I also almost put it in the BT section but the first version of this video was 43 minutes long so I remade it into this version.
@@Claysthetics I think it's great where it is. As funny as the clip is, it doesn't actually display any tactics on how to deal with a titan. Just what it looks like when you no longer fear them. Lawk een.
On Alpha Commanders, there is a bug (pun not intended) where they do their normal walk-and-slash behavior, but they do it at charging speed (including increased attack speed). When that glitch happens, they instantly become the most dangerous bug on the planet, as they'll two-tap you bedore you can start the dive or stim animation.
Love that even though i catch most of the streams i still learn some neet tech,(short for technology BTW (short for By The Way)) when you drop these videos. Love what you do Clay.
Fighting terminids on harder difficulty is like crowd surfing in London, you are tossed over a horde of enemies and stabbed thirty times before you hit the ground
Been bringing "Oops, all mines!" and a jeep for memes. Been wracking up kills, and hitting all points are so convienent. Driving circles around bugs, or pulling them into mine fields are hilarious
The airburst launcher has become my favorite Impaler killer. Shooting at the ground under them works fantastic. Probably only good for squads though. Solo the airburst doesn't do enough damage to bile titans to bring. But it's great if you have a squad that has other anti-tank stuff. Airburst is great for clearing the little guys, and taking out impalers
Randomly got this in my recommended, I am new to the game and I don’t have much of a understanding of the bug front yet , so this actually came at a perfect time for since I am focusing on the Major order. (Level 11 by the way)
Good luck mate. HD2 can be ridiculously good fun if you can gather a group of people who all share the same braincell. Advise you to proactively get teammates you've enjoyed playing with in your friends list and group up when you can. Having a full group of people who will actively watch each others back and keep every one fighting fit is great fun.
Tip for dodging Chargers: it's literally as simple as running towards it as it charges, not directly head-on but at a slight angle. You don't even need to sprint, and it places you directly behind them so no drifting will let them catch you, and you'll have a clear angle to shoot out their butt.
Bile spewers seem to switch into artillery mode when they plant their heads in the ground. I've seen them yeet acid globs at long range, which (while easily dodged) is pretty intense when there are many of them in range.
I have around 600 hours in the game now and the constellation thing is still confusing to me. I actually got the anomaly seed last night and this video helped me a little thank you
After last night's lvl 10 dive this is the video I needed to see. Suddenly impalers were eating RR shots and laughing about it. Now I know why. Big props for the education. Salute 👍🫡
One thing about the impaler, if you land a frag grenade under the impaler in its mouth area there's a 50/50 chance it just dies in one shot due to all the shrapnel Same thing applies for the nursing / bile spewer and all charger variants
11:46 why does the 500kg not make bugs explode with guts everywhere?? My guess is that it could cause lag? but if that can be worked around it might also help with getting rid of corpse collection a bit faster and would just be a fun visual/ death by armor fragmentation and still being to close.
Also at 15:00 minutes for stalker section it would be really cool if they used a “shedding technique” or something that explains how the stalkers appear translucent that could add a real scare factor to this enemy. Imagine a heavy unit or boss variant that has a lot more bulk but appear less and also have like a command function to summon a group of base stalkers to start hunting in its nest arena and you start shooting this variant and it calls in a group pounce and it runs off seemingly vanishing from sight so it can regenerate and as you chase it to deliver the final blow you notice it rounds the corner of a rock(Or building for city maps and as you round the corner it molts out and pounces you knocking you down leaving only the shell of it’s carapace in your place with you being pulled under the surface into the underground network they make for hit n run tactic.
Bugs are my favorite to fight in the game. I do runs with zero deaths on Super Helldive with this loadout: Primary: Adjudicator Secondary: Grenade Pistol or Verdict Incendiary Grenades Quasar 500KG Orbital Napalm Eagle Airstrike Then I use a light armor with extra grenades. I usually play with a team (but we split up) it’s still a great all around loadout that has gotten me through multiple missions with 0 deaths on max difficulty.
Top tip seems to be melee and stagger, also head shots work best on most bugs, I see the armour on the heads and assumed the bigger bugs always needed you to flank and shoot them in the rear.
23:47 Great, but what if you don't have the Warbond for the gas grenades? Same for the primary weapon. I think the ideal way to address this issue is to mention your overall top pick first, so the gas grenade and the crossbow, but also name at least 1 alternative from a different Warbond AND 1 free to play alternative on top of that.
@@ZeroMaddok it actually got nerfed a bit I think, before last patch I could just yeet it at an impaler from any angle and kill it instantly. Now I need to wait until it's face is open or make sure I hit the butt. But yeah it's a tremendous work horse.
Personally I am partial to the DP-40 with the 50% chance to not die when taking lethal damage. That has saved me so many times. Getting hit several times in a row by tanks and missiles but walking away.
I personally find Bile Titans way worse than Impalers, cause when a billion chaff are on me I can just kite away from the Impaler, but the bile titan can keep up so you get run down if you don't challenge it. I also discovered the exposed head weakpoint almost immediately on the impaler which probably helped.
Will you do this for bots and illuminate? Maybe wait on the illuminate till their reinforcements arrive, cause they’re really easy on super helldivers rn
Ok so Ik this is recent and ik I heard you correctly saying there’s only one invisible enemy, so wtf is shooting me with only a green dot visible?????!!???
14:30 stalkers are ridiculously weak to the blitzer. They are very heavily countered by it, to the point of easily taking out the nests solo with no fear of death
Vitality Enhancement is an enhancement I feel like people like a lot due to placebo effect more than anything else. All it does is make it so you're more resistnt to getting injurires, IE: The boxes at the bottom for crippled limbs or chest bleeding that you take a stim to fix. It doesn't actually give you more health but a lot of divers seem to think it does, and I don't know where that idea came from. It's not bad mind you, but I keep seeing divers making it their #2 priority pick over something like Experimental Infusion or Stamina.
orbital rail canon just deletes something big. I carry recoiless or autocannon plus auto canon sentry plus orbital rail canon and then some panic button stratagem like 500kg or orbital laser.
I’ve found on impalers if you catch them unawares or they’re focused elsewhere there is a gap on the side of their face “the he cheek” I call it. 10/10 kills it with any launcher
ur spin move 4 hunters is useless, if your patriotic enough to bring a constitution BAYNETS AT THE READY CHARGEEEE oh dear oh dear why is there a bile titian and 454574 charges RUNNNN
What?? The easiest way & less time consuming for bile titan is too just wait for them too spew their bile & as they are shoot a anti-tank their mouth & it will die in one hit if it doesn’t work the first time try again or you hit a the head box instead of the mouth box :)
If the animation is started as you break the sac it can still spew otherwise I'll need to ask you to provide a clip of a bile titan spewing while it has sacs broken please.
@@Claysthetics I've been playing since a month after release and breaking the sac has never stopped it from spewing, either this is a new thing or my copy of the game is possessed
dear Arrowhead, please never fix flying bile titans, thank you
I miss when they sent us flying
imagine they add one with wings.
@@FeatherMelody like that Muto from Godzilla? Would be insane
@@FeatherMelody hopefully with tiny bumblebee wings. Comically small for its body but still very much airborne.
One time my friend blew up a titan and it flew off screen then landed on me when I called in extraction. Never fix flying titans
Dont forget, when dropping in a hellpod to kill a BT, land on the butt - much more consistent kills
That's actually a pretty good tip, thank you! I'll probably add that to either a text guide or the next time I update this.
@@Moshiki makes sense, when you destroy their abdomen they die fast
Great tip thanks
2:25 Thanks for making every other line slightly darker, it makes it MUCH easier to read! I might steal that for my graphic design classes lol
@@Fireheart318 It's very aestheticly pleasing and helps people with dyslexia read things quite a bit easier by breaking up text blobs. Glad this helped you more than just in the game ❤️
@@ClaystheticsI don’t have dyslexia, but it definitely makes it easier to avoid accidentally reading the same line over again. Thanks for that!
That forehead weakspot for impalers is a life saver, I play a lot with randoms and they always ask me how I’m able to take them down so fast with a quasar cannon. I’m spreading the word as best as I can because golly are they annoying AF to deal with especially when dealing with a bunch of other shit going on(I like to play difficulty 9-10)
Edit: One more thing about the red alpha warriors is that they stunlock you by attacking non-stop very quickly and paired with the mentioned speed and reach can easily melt you if you aren’t careful
The old weakspot use to be the connecting tentacles so returning players or new players that watch old videos are still shooting there. Some of the old text guide info from wiki/diversdex still shows the bumpy part as a weakpoint as well but that was changed a bit ago so hopefully this makes the rounds so people can learn the new spot.
Hmm, 1 straffing run takes it out as well.... I feel like that stratagem is really being slept on.
Another great tip is they die to eagle strafing run everytime to the forehead. I have 5 strafing runs when reloaded and they come down so quick it's great
@@velarswood I usually take strafe on bots but I'll try it on bugs tonight
@nurgle333 it's handy. Saws impalers pops charger booties. I was using it on impossible but I find plenty of uses for kt lol
"If the bug you're shooting hasn't died, you haven't shot enough bullets." - Claysthetics, Stalwart enjoyer
I needed this. Bugs are the only front I even sorta struggle with now. Diff 10 bots is fun but manageable and can be chaotic. Diff 10 squids are joke at the moment. This should help me make a few loadouts for bugs
@@AnubisWasHere same
"We don't want to be taking back shots. We want to be handing them out" - Claysthetics 2025
This is the way.
The casualness you said “bugussy” with
disturbs me
OOOOOOO YEUHHH!
22:50 I kept hoping this clip would be in when you were talking Bile Titans. I love that clip, 100% Clay energy. The Titan fears the knoife!
It will be in the highlights video to but I couldn't make a bug guide without having it in there! I also almost put it in the BT section but the first version of this video was 43 minutes long so I remade it into this version.
@@Claysthetics I think it's great where it is. As funny as the clip is, it doesn't actually display any tactics on how to deal with a titan. Just what it looks like when you no longer fear them. Lawk een.
On Alpha Commanders, there is a bug (pun not intended) where they do their normal walk-and-slash behavior, but they do it at charging speed (including increased attack speed). When that glitch happens, they instantly become the most dangerous bug on the planet, as they'll two-tap you bedore you can start the dive or stim animation.
perfect timing for the terminid major order
True, I wanted to have it done on like january 3rd for the other one but it took ages to make lol
Love that even though i catch most of the streams i still learn some neet tech,(short for technology BTW (short for By The Way)) when you drop these videos. Love what you do Clay.
Btw stands for by the way is so getting used lol, always nice seeing you just make sure you get in some games!
Im so happy someone brought up how spawn seeds, and constellations work for eceryone else! Great work chief
Fighting terminids on harder difficulty is like crowd surfing in London, you are tossed over a horde of enemies and stabbed thirty times before you hit the ground
0:10. "Lady and gentlemen." LOL
Liked
"lady and gentlemen" 😂 too real
Some things never change
@@derekmccloud6333 should say gentlemen and those who play as a female. Lol.
@DominusNox106 how about "brawnys and leans"?
There's a woman amogus >_>
Been bringing "Oops, all mines!" and a jeep for memes. Been wracking up kills, and hitting all points are so convienent. Driving circles around bugs, or pulling them into mine fields are hilarious
The airburst launcher has become my favorite Impaler killer. Shooting at the ground under them works fantastic. Probably only good for squads though. Solo the airburst doesn't do enough damage to bile titans to bring. But it's great if you have a squad that has other anti-tank stuff. Airburst is great for clearing the little guys, and taking out impalers
Randomly got this in my recommended, I am new to the game and I don’t have much of a understanding of the bug front yet , so this actually came at a perfect time for since I am focusing on the Major order. (Level 11 by the way)
Good luck mate. HD2 can be ridiculously good fun if you can gather a group of people who all share the same braincell.
Advise you to proactively get teammates you've enjoyed playing with in your friends list and group up when you can. Having a full group of people who will actively watch each others back and keep every one fighting fit is great fun.
Tip for dodging Chargers: it's literally as simple as running towards it as it charges, not directly head-on but at a slight angle.
You don't even need to sprint, and it places you directly behind them so no drifting will let them catch you, and you'll have a clear angle to shoot out their butt.
Bile spewers seem to switch into artillery mode when they plant their heads in the ground. I've seen them yeet acid globs at long range, which (while easily dodged) is pretty intense when there are many of them in range.
holy crap this is quality content. Thank you! Subbed, happy to see this
I have around 600 hours in the game now and the constellation thing is still confusing to me. I actually got the anomaly seed last night and this video helped me a little thank you
After last night's lvl 10 dive this is the video I needed to see. Suddenly impalers were eating RR shots and laughing about it. Now I know why. Big props for the education. Salute 👍🫡
One thing about the impaler, if you land a frag grenade under the impaler in its mouth area there's a 50/50 chance it just dies in one shot due to all the shrapnel
Same thing applies for the nursing / bile spewer and all charger variants
One thermite to the Impaler’s face always does the trick.
flying titan goes weeee
If only we had flying ogryns in this game
That clip went hard
Reminds me of Majorkill
11:46 why does the 500kg not make bugs explode with guts everywhere?? My guess is that it could cause lag? but if that can be worked around it might also help with getting rid of corpse collection a bit faster and would just be a fun visual/ death by armor fragmentation and still being to close.
CPU/RAM related lag being apart of corpse collection*
Also at 15:00 minutes for stalker section it would be really cool if they used a “shedding technique” or something that explains how the stalkers appear translucent that could add a real scare factor to this enemy.
Imagine a heavy unit or boss variant that has a lot more bulk but appear less and also have like a command function to summon a group of base stalkers to start hunting in its nest arena and you start shooting this variant and it calls in a group pounce and it runs off seemingly vanishing from sight so it can regenerate and as you chase it to deliver the final blow you notice it rounds the corner of a rock(Or building for city maps and as you round the corner it molts out and pounces you knocking you down leaving only the shell of it’s carapace in your place with you being pulled under the surface into the underground network they make for hit n run tactic.
Bugs are my favorite to fight in the game. I do runs with zero deaths on Super Helldive with this loadout:
Primary: Adjudicator
Secondary: Grenade Pistol or Verdict
Incendiary Grenades
Quasar
500KG
Orbital Napalm
Eagle Airstrike
Then I use a light armor with extra grenades.
I usually play with a team (but we split up) it’s still a great all around loadout that has gotten me through multiple missions with 0 deaths on max difficulty.
Bro Clay you never cease to amaze you got that knowledge BIG thanks!!
Doing good work Clay.
Is very much appreciated.
Oh I love this presentation
The accumulation of the year all in one video
Taking notes on your video style, love it
Oh and subbed ❤
CLAYSTHETICS
"Don't worry, lady and gentlemen" sent me higher than those bile titans flipping out xD
Excellent video thank you!
damn this video slaps. I learned so many things and i'm level 115
Top tip seems to be melee and stagger, also head shots work best on most bugs, I see the armour on the heads and assumed the bigger bugs always needed you to flank and shoot them in the rear.
It's funny to see the bile artillery go into artillery mode and do nothing but I haven't seen them around for a while.
23:47 Great, but what if you don't have the Warbond for the gas grenades? Same for the primary weapon. I think the ideal way to address this issue is to mention your overall top pick first, so the gas grenade and the crossbow, but also name at least 1 alternative from a different Warbond AND 1 free to play alternative on top of that.
I said to go watch the in depth builds video for builds lol this isn't the video to cover that
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This is just impressive as hell
This guide is succulent. It is democracy manifest.
for Impalers I usually just throw a strafing run at them
@@ZeroMaddok it actually got nerfed a bit I think, before last patch I could just yeet it at an impaler from any angle and kill it instantly. Now I need to wait until it's face is open or make sure I hit the butt. But yeah it's a tremendous work horse.
Personally I am partial to the DP-40 with the 50% chance to not die when taking lethal damage. That has saved me so many times. Getting hit several times in a row by tanks and missiles but walking away.
if a bug splats in the wastes and no one is around does it make a sound?
I think we have to ask space marine 2 players to get the final answer on that one big boss
Casually dropping the phrase Bugussy in a data filled analysis of weak spots. Please continue.
Dominator, smg, gas grenades, recoil reduce explosive resist armor
BUT PEPPY TOLD ME TO SHOOT THE TENTACLES TO OPEN THE CORE!
I personally find Bile Titans way worse than Impalers, cause when a billion chaff are on me I can just kite away from the Impaler, but the bile titan can keep up so you get run down if you don't challenge it. I also discovered the exposed head weakpoint almost immediately on the impaler which probably helped.
every once in a blue moon either the quasar canon sends a charger or a bile titan flying and its great, needs to happen more often imo.
i just run thermite on bugs to 1 shot chargers
Will you do this for bots and illuminate? Maybe wait on the illuminate till their reinforcements arrive, cause they’re really easy on super helldivers rn
bots is already posted only barrager tank is out of date for turret rack
lady and gentlemen is a very funny intro
0:11 "Windmill's done, sir"
0:11 "10" "10" "10" - "Perfect score!"
Majestic. Fabulous. Perfection.
Was playing today and 5 stalkers appeared right in front of me and I was alone. I didn’t make it
Whenever there is alot of them the game is actually so hard lol
Ok so Ik this is recent and ik I heard you correctly saying there’s only one invisible enemy, so wtf is shooting me with only a green dot visible?????!!???
Waiting for you to full send the, "Jadies and Lettlemen."
WAIT. You can make the Bile Titan melt itself with it's barf?!
Who needs weak spots when you have the heavy machine gun and a supply pack?
Who needs ammo when oops all lasers
14:30 stalkers are ridiculously weak to the blitzer. They are very heavily countered by it, to the point of easily taking out the nests solo with no fear of death
The best way to fight stalkers is with the bayonet of your constitution rifle just like the super founders intended, now helldivers… CHAAAAARRRGGE
cant wait for Boss monsters, just want to shrek a hive lord
No AMR builds feels bad
don't forget the sticky thermite, it's the most OP thing in the game.
Vitality Enhancement is an enhancement I feel like people like a lot due to placebo effect more than anything else. All it does is make it so you're more resistnt to getting injurires, IE: The boxes at the bottom for crippled limbs or chest bleeding that you take a stim to fix. It doesn't actually give you more health but a lot of divers seem to think it does, and I don't know where that idea came from.
It's not bad mind you, but I keep seeing divers making it their #2 priority pick over something like Experimental Infusion or Stamina.
@@Furluge it decreases incoming damage by 20%, it does nothing against injuries besides the fact it lowers all incoming damage…..
You forgot the most superior strat for any game of Helldivers 2, becoming a Slugdiver™
Slugdiving™guide when? ;)
I have the evolved version of a slugdiver towards the end of the video. IT. IS. GETTING. STRONGER.
orbital rail canon just deletes something big. I carry recoiless or autocannon plus auto canon sentry plus orbital rail canon and then some panic button stratagem like 500kg or orbital laser.
me with my airburst: nuh uh
Best players: bring stun, stagger and distraction 💪
BeSt PlYerz: WhY sTuN EnEmiZ wHeN i cAn KiLL tHem 😵
Also Impaler 2nd weak point is it’s butt I used a flamethrower on one of my runs and it didn’t take long
Nvm you talked about it 😂
Ima skip spawn seeds. I want to keep it a mystery for myself
Hunters are the strongest bugs. I'd rather deal with a pack of bile titans than a pack of hunters.
Personally i use spear, railcannon and 500kg. That way i never have to worry about hitting a weakspot
That loadout needs a wasp as the 4th slot so that when the spear or wasp run out of ammo you can just keep autolawking een.
@Claysthetics that sounds like a fun idea ill try it out!
I think people who go into it thinking about spawn rates and seeds are over thinking things. I literally go into lvl 10 and just blast things......
You'd save a lot of text by just spelling out 'Jiggle Technology' (Technology is long for Tech)
BING BONG !!!!!!
good info thx o7
5:45 tech definitely stands for technique not technology.
Almost everything in this video is wrong, I am impressed.
Lol
Please provide vods for everything that is "wrong" including your advanced stats and testing for it all.
The final cope.
One last ride into more cope I hope your ready for this week
The Final Copedown
HES SLOWLY LISTING TO THE RIGHT
Great info! Medium Peen lol nice
Medium peen is the way
I’ve found on impalers if you catch them unawares or they’re focused elsewhere there is a gap on the side of their face “the he cheek” I call it. 10/10 kills it with any launcher
Lady and Gentlemen 🤣 You know your audience demographics.
Very interesting, but...⬆➡⬇⬇⬇
do not the tentacle
o7
7o7
cookout and thermite work great on Impaler tentacles…
I play on Super Helldive, this guide is so unnecessary 😂 unless you're going for a speed run or something
ur spin move 4 hunters is useless, if your patriotic enough to bring a constitution BAYNETS AT THE READY CHARGEEEE oh dear oh dear why is there a bile titian and 454574 charges RUNNNN
its not peen its pen
Wrong
What?? The easiest way & less time consuming for bile titan is too just wait for them too spew their bile & as they are shoot a anti-tank their mouth & it will die in one hit if it doesn’t work the first time try again or you hit a the head box instead of the mouth box :)
There is no mouth hitbox on bile titan
Destroying a bile titan's sac does not stop it from spewing, wtf
If the animation is started as you break the sac it can still spew otherwise I'll need to ask you to provide a clip of a bile titan spewing while it has sacs broken please.
@@Claysthetics I've been playing since a month after release and breaking the sac has never stopped it from spewing, either this is a new thing or my copy of the game is possessed
@flamingkittyumad Its worked like that since day one.
It literally does
Stop the trash padding and get to the point asap.
I see you have studied the ways of war, wise sage.