@@danielezero Probably a few others too, but yep, I'd say *that* incident was a major contributor to the lessening of HD2's chances of getting nominated
Just a reminder that goty is usually for the most iconic or innovative game of the year that broadly appeals to everyone. HD2 is a great game and by all means it should be qualified but there's a reason they won best multiplayer instead. Not really gonna beat a chill game like Astrobot that lets players of all ages have a fun time while also cashing in on Sony's connections to have iconic characters for a lot of fandoms to enjoy (thus making it more iconic and also reviving a lot of interest in dead IPs). Balatro has innovative mechanics and creative designs on its side. I'd say it stomps the rest though, Wukong included.
(Super) fun fact about the harvester: don’t aim for the eye (with any of the mg variants), but aim for the leg connections to the body. They go down fast if you aim there. BONUS: if you shoot the things under and above the eye, it can’t regen its shields! Use this knowledge for better tactics against the squid harvesters!
@@CelestineGupI heard about it recently. Apparently, the Illuminate used to be a peaceful, highly-advanced species. However, Super Earth waged war on the Illuminate upon discovering some sort of technology that, according to Super Earth, was powerful enough to destroy planets (or something along those lines). Therefore, Super Earth fought against the Illuminate up until their “defeat” in the First Galactic War, only for them to return one-hundred years later to fight the Helldivers in the Second Galactic War.
I think there's 3 reasons why i loved the Omens Of Tyranny update. 1: It translates the Illuminates very well from the first game; In HD1, the Illuminates were the weakest faction in terms of raw stats (bugs beat them in raw health + armor, cyborgs beat them with the sheer amount of dakka they wield). In fact, they're the only faction where anti-tank weapons are explicitly never needed. However they also had the greatest amounts of gimmicks. Energy shields block overkill damage, so horde clearing weapons need 2 shots, and high damage slow fire rate weapons are discouraged. Conversely, high fire rate weapons are encouraged to quickly shred through shields, and the lack of armor means even low damage weapons will still kill the Illuminate quickly. Mind control exists, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as the Obleisks were. Being able to restrict your movement while allowing other Illuminate units free movement was an INSANELY powerful utility unit the Illuminate had. I wonder how/if they can work that into a 3d environment. Moving into Helldivers II, yeup. You're encouraged to use high fire rate lower damage weapons vs high damage slow fire rate weapons, and you still do not need to actually bring anti-tank level weapons. The Voteless are too numerous, so unless you're using a grenade launcher or flamethrower, you'll want to pick up a machinegun or incindeary shotgun to quickly kill them. Overseer armor unlike Automaton Armor is ABLATIVE, not absorptive. You could deal 99^99 damage to an overseer's armor, and it'd only break it off, not kill the overseer. And it's divided into sections. Legs, arms and chest each have their own individual armor pieces. The only exception is the head armor. Destroying it instantly kills an Overseer. Harvesters don't need anti-tank level weapons. Targeting their joints will quickly down them. They all encourage fast firing weapons. Just like in HD1. 2: The music. The Terminid's theme is like starship troopers. The Automaton's theme is like a parody of/inspired by stereotypical Russian war music. The illuminates however? their theme is all about inspiring terror. And when you encounter a Harvester, it blares an alarm like sound as despair fills the air. This is the theme of a race that was the victim of genocide and wants revenge. Words alone can't do justice for how amazing the Illuminate theme is. 3 The potential for future content. The Illuminate have only 5 (6 if you include warp ships) units. They could bring back the obelisk, hunters, illusionists and council members, while adding entirely new things. It has me excited for the future of Helldivers II.
@RocketWeaponsGuy mind control is overblown and overhyped. Once your muscle memory develops from constant mind control it becomes easy and fluid to swap between regular and inverted controls. The real danger is obelisk walls .
We just joined button where. I got a Super PS5 for Super Christmas and got helldivers. I've seen hell as a cadet (lvl 100 friend took me to lvl 10 difficulty mission)
@CelestineGup one thing replacing your own flesh with pesky and undemocratic metal, which is treason BUT REPLACING LIMBS LOST IN RIGHTEOUS FIGHT FOR SUPER EARTH IS COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE AND APPROVED BY MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
7:03 I love the fact that the Illuminate wiped ever facet of Super Earth recognition these citizens once had but made sure they're still Forklift Certified even as grunt fodder units
I got the game in the ongoing winter sales im only 10 hours in i can tell you this is one of the best of the best games i have ever played , its the perfect game for me to have a break from work and stress , the community is nice , i met nice people had funny moments intense moments just finished an illuminate mission where it was only me and a fellow cadet level 5 vs the world the ships kept coming we kept getting caught by the drones and the squids too many deaths but at the end ... WE DID IT WE WERE CELEBRATING LIKE TRUE SOLDIERS IN VOICE CHAT I LOVE THIS GAME
Let me tell you all a story. I had gotten in a different shower in my home because my usual showering spot broke and was under repair. Usually I can hear videos from within my bathroom, and I watched the game awards for Silksong (yes I know, clown makeup activated) and decided to watch it. About a month or so ago I decided that I would hang my cape up, and be only re deployed when the times were dire, and just as I finished showering, the helldivers 2 bit came up. To say I was over the moon would be an understatement. I never finished drying up and getting clothes faster than that day, for the darkest hour for super earth was approaching. I re deployed and managed to record first contact within the hour of the illuminate returning, so far my favorite core memory of any game I’ve ever played so far. Thank you Helldivers 2 for making such a unforgettable experience
I feel a small sense of honor that I continued playing the game for the past year despite controversy and all, and now I’m showing new players, and returning playing the ropes with the new content added since then.
@@kel_ski I will say there has been alot of complaining before omens of tyranny dropped because after the DSS there wasn’t really any content, and players were kinda frustrated with AH for lack of content. I figured they would be working on an update through all the complaining players but never thought it be this big. AH are amazing devs through all their flaws.
By the way, the voteless have unique death animations when you headshoot them (it’s a one hit kill for most weapons). Sometimes they super earth salute before they bleed to death.
should've mentioned the new booster in the new warbond too; it's honestly my favourite little toy. it adds a mounted liberator with drum mag to every resupply, which means they now double as mini-turrets too! honestly, quite good especially against the voteless horde whenever you need some extra firepower. I have already developed a strategy in defense missions where we stack these resupply turrets in the back (they never despawn until their ammo is depleted), so they act as backup defense.
I can safely say this became my favorite game now. The amount of cinematic fun this game brings is amazing, the teamwork, the last stands, the weapons, stratagems and now vehicles, the potential this game has is incredible.
New hobby has been dropping into low levels and callin them in extra jump packs. They get hooked. They hit level 8 and graduate to getting their own jump pack and fly off into the fray. I’m now responsible for Atleast 4 Jet Troopers, and I tried to teach them to share blue strats, so hopefully they’re out there now making more Jump boyz as we speak
@@kel_ski yeah pretty much everybody else did on that night because almost everybody was there. And I think a lot of people left the game awards just because of it. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I had to run home. 😅
Same here, funnily enough I had just finished showering, and when the helldivers 2 announcement shadow dropped, I had never gotten ready for bed and gotten on my pc faster than that moment. Truly a you had to be there to feel it moment
2 of my friends were very into Helldivers 2 before it came out and they were so enthusiastic about it that I bought the game so I could play it with them. From day one I told them that what I wanted most from future updates were urban environments and vehicles and now that they are here I am loving them and I can't wait until they add tanks.
@@kel_ski yep it has actual driving mechanics, where you have to shift gears, be mindfull of the terrain and such. The amount of little details in this game is insane.
for future reference; the quick emote (tap) will always be your last used emote in the level or the top-right emote in your wheel, so if you want to use the kick as a melee on the regular just put it on there or kick once from the wheel as you come into the mission
The fun thing is that by comparing with the other two factions, the Harvester is basically the Illuminate equivalent of a Hulk, or Charger. We still haven't seen what they have instead of tanks, bile titans, or factory striders. It's gonna either be bigger, more powerful, or both.
17:43. You can shift gears to gear 1 and 2 with the shift key and you can downshift with ctrl Gear 1 is for off road driving and control while gear 2 is for speeding away from the enemy or running them down like the undemocratic demons they are
I like that only the watcher calls in back up, no headless brood commander calling in some warriors that call in reinforcements while coming out of the floor
I started the game after your first video and have really been enjoying my time with it. I find it funny that one of the most brutal, hostile and deadly games has one of the most wholesome, funny and welcoming communities. I had Just unlocked medium difficulty, so I was still pretty new to the Game, when a guy named Zeke joined my game and started carrying me through the harder missions, explaining wich weapons to use against wich enemys, amd so on. And now we play like every other day. Helldivers 2 is definitely one of the most fun games I've played in a long time, so things would recommendation.
I think the bots are still my favorite faction to fight overall, but just when I was thinking "yeah the balance is in a good place but the game desperately needs content" the devs just took a massive screaming dump of content, and released it in the coolest way possible I just can't wait to fight the bots in urban warfare, that's gonna be fun
All we need now is a theater mode, Halo style color selector, weapon customization, Stalwart as a primary, Helldiver 1 weapons and visor customization. Also maybe close quarter Darktide style maps.
hey Kelski, if a player enters and then exits a hellpod, the kick emote actually can kick them around the destroyer. Try it out. You can kick them into the hellpod and they fall out of the ship!
Dont forget the Floating Egg that throws up a freaking wall to block you from running away or the invisible, teleporting, hyper speed, duel wielding sword overseers.
The illuminate make me actually change my armour for the first time since playing and not for aesthetics for the for first time lol Arc resistant armour is insane vs the illuminate!
@Aizen_Sosuke999 Oh ? Damn didn’t know about that. Officer always talk about fighting for our freedom against those squids, so that why i misunderstood the assignement. Please don’t take my sweet liberty for that error. I will fulfill my role as a Helldiver and never say this sentence like this again. Long live Super Earth.
Two side objectives i hope they add for the illuminate is 1) a stratagem "blocker" that randomizes what stratagems you get every 2 seconds. A bit slower than the scrambler, but it gives a completely random one you own for all 4 slots (resets after leaving a giant area or is destroyed) 2, another "blocker" where you cant see any inputs at all. All strategems you brought ate disabled, except for respawns, but you get access to all strategems, assuming you remember the code.
You might've noticed that the FRV is rear-wheel drive which explains why the steering is so wobbly at times. It's what also allows it to drift like hell and look badass while doing it, so I think arrowhead made the right decision there
Glad to see you're back in the Galactic War, Big Kel, enjoying the new things this update brought I see. And honestly, it was fantastic, if the Illuminates Scouts were this fun to fight against, I wonder if when the full factions come out, Arrowhead will manage to surpass this Omen of Tyranny update, and hopefully, adding similar units like in HD1 that can capture the feeling of the previous game (blocking paths, swarming you with shielded units and of course the damn mind controlling feature, among others) Merry Christmas and happy New Year too, I reckon, for this 2025, the channel will grow quite a lot, if not reaching 1M subs and finally Kel Country opening it's doors, then at least close to it, easily over 500k.
The fact that we also got all that new Killzone armor and weapon was nust yhe cherry on top. The last week or two has been a VERY good time for us Helldivers.
Hey! Just wanted to say your original HD2 video was one of the things that made me buy Helldivers when things were not great (August, right after Escalation of Freedom), and then I got swept up in the 60-Day Patch and been addicted since. Really great seeing you enjoying HD2 again!
3:13 Kindly stop drinking the kool-aid, very few weapons have ever been nerfed in a remotely significant way over the course of the game's life. Everything else saw pretty much nothing but buffs.
And every time there was an arguably major nerf, it was accompanied by nearly twice as many buffs for the less-used weapons. The eruptor just kept doing more and more damage every time a weapon got nerfed.
@@ninjawiz7932 The Eruptor is a bad example imo, since it was still rather mediocre after its buffs. But other weapons like the Diligence CS, HMG, Laser Cannon, Punisher Plasma, Dominator, Grenade Launcher and more went from being underwhelming at best to becoming staples of my loadout over the course of the "nerf patches". And that's not even getting into stratagems like the Orbital Gatling, Eagle Strafing Run, 120mm Barrage, Eagle Rocket Pods, Rocket Sentry, Machine Gun Sentry and others that got rescued from the garbage bin.
Not sure if you’re gonna keep playing for a bit longer but can 100% recommend the arc thrower for all things squid smashing, it stuns quite literally everything on the roster right now including Harvesters. That and nothing is more satisfying then zapping away whole hordes with a few shots from an arc thrower
Oh man when the full force of the Illuminates show up it's going to get so crazy. The HD1 units were tough. Getting your controls reversed as a result of a jedi mind trick and accidentally shooting your follow divers was so funny. Also they had ones that would generate a wall so it would block you in but the jump pack was so important in those moments. They were the most fun to fight against back in the first game too.
been playing so much more Helldivers after this update, and I might stick around more cause these updates go crazy! also vid was really good, gonna stick around for more!
Friendly reminder. The harvester is a small expeditionary version, compared to the charger commonly, the squids have a much larger, more powerful version, they will imply during the actual invasion....
And to think that during the final days of this vid's editing, Super Earth signed a business contract with Stahl Arms for more weapons. AKA: We got a Killzone Crossover (albeit the 1st half was a expensive one that's worth just under two warbonds at the super store before the backlash caused Arrowhead to give the 2nd half of the crossover to everyone for free).
Fun fact: You can use "this is democracy!" to kick helldivers off the ship when they go in and out of diving pods. Just make sure they are standing on or infront of the diving pods if you want them to just fall off into space.
Pro tip: (inspired by 17:31) you can use shift and ctrl to change the FRV's gear to 1st and 2nd gear which makes driving the thing SIGNIFICANTLY easier
Unleash the Beast in Summer 2025. Wishlist Dying Light: The Beast Now using wehy.pe/y/8/Kelski #ad
You reenlisted? That implies you resigned. Treason!
no
Also I like the new glitches, they’re cool.
ngl you should play dying light its actually a good game and has online multiplayer to play singleplayer with your homies
This unexpected video drop is better than the L unexpected game t.b.a. in TGA
As an Xbox owner, HD2 feels like watching your friends play outside on the swing set while you’re on timeout
Same🙃
That one squidward meme
Buy a PC. Specifically a PC, not a PlayStation. Don’t give Sony your money.
It more feels like its you're brothers turn to play.
We had HALO, they have HELLDIVERS.
@@sunbreakerqueenofbronze621 Provided they have the money for one. PCs are damn expensive
God this game deserved atleast a nomination for goty, the 1st game of 2024 which was such a fresh breath of air. Atleast this video does it right
Wassup takt 👑 yeah bro, wild it didn’t even get nominated. Mega robbed
they probably lost the nomination because of THAT incident. The big one.
@@danielezero Probably a few others too, but yep, I'd say *that* incident was a major contributor to the lessening of HD2's chances of getting nominated
@@danielezerowhat incident??
Just a reminder that goty is usually for the most iconic or innovative game of the year that broadly appeals to everyone.
HD2 is a great game and by all means it should be qualified but there's a reason they won best multiplayer instead.
Not really gonna beat a chill game like Astrobot that lets players of all ages have a fun time while also cashing in on Sony's connections to have iconic characters for a lot of fandoms to enjoy (thus making it more iconic and also reviving a lot of interest in dead IPs). Balatro has innovative mechanics and creative designs on its side. I'd say it stomps the rest though, Wukong included.
Kel, you can actually ragdoll your teammates on the destroyer with the kick if you have them enter and exit a hellpod. have fun with this information
That’s so evil, thank you for this gift of knowledge
They turn into floor sliding worms after the kick too
@@kel_skiif you're near the hellpods and kick them, you knock them out of the ship. It's great.
A note, it only works after they enter and exit a hellpod
@@artvandalleigh7894 We can send some brave Helldivers into the Meridian wormhole to see where it leads
Welcome back diver, good to have you.
Yooo good to see you here man. Love the cool detail vids. Glad to be back on the frontlines 🫡
Super snow ball
its the dying light guy.
(Super) fun fact about the harvester: don’t aim for the eye (with any of the mg variants), but aim for the leg connections to the body. They go down fast if you aim there. BONUS: if you shoot the things under and above the eye, it can’t regen its shields! Use this knowledge for better tactics against the squid harvesters!
The eye is hard to hit :(
Bonus fun fact! Touching the obelisk gives you a boost in speed and damage resistance! Try it!
Wait that feels like a lie, but I’m gonna do it… for Democracy!
Clarification: blowing up the harverter's top "horn" will disable shield regen, the bottom horn will stop it from using its close range tesla attack
@TS-qt5qx and @lilneoman1: That's good lookin' out, Helldivers.
Fun Fact: The Harvesters (The Tripods) are the Illuminate's Chargers, meaning there's something bigger.
“Super earth are bad guys” mfs watch as their families gets mind controlled and becomes unrecognizable by the illuminate
Really makes you wonder why the illuminate hate super earth in the first place
@@CelestineGup might be bc we shat on them the first game
@@CelestineGup Nope. Questioning official Super Earth narratives is unDemocratic.
@@CelestineGupI heard about it recently. Apparently, the Illuminate used to be a peaceful, highly-advanced species. However, Super Earth waged war on the Illuminate upon discovering some sort of technology that, according to Super Earth, was powerful enough to destroy planets (or something along those lines). Therefore, Super Earth fought against the Illuminate up until their “defeat” in the First Galactic War, only for them to return one-hundred years later to fight the Helldivers in the Second Galactic War.
@@CelestineGup not like we attacked them unexpectedly and almost made them extinct after they wanted to be peaceful.
I think there's 3 reasons why i loved the Omens Of Tyranny update.
1: It translates the Illuminates very well from the first game; In HD1, the Illuminates were the weakest faction in terms of raw stats (bugs beat them in raw health + armor, cyborgs beat them with the sheer amount of dakka they wield). In fact, they're the only faction where anti-tank weapons are explicitly never needed. However they also had the greatest amounts of gimmicks. Energy shields block overkill damage, so horde clearing weapons need 2 shots, and high damage slow fire rate weapons are discouraged. Conversely, high fire rate weapons are encouraged to quickly shred through shields, and the lack of armor means even low damage weapons will still kill the Illuminate quickly. Mind control exists, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as the Obleisks were. Being able to restrict your movement while allowing other Illuminate units free movement was an INSANELY powerful utility unit the Illuminate had. I wonder how/if they can work that into a 3d environment. Moving into Helldivers II, yeup. You're encouraged to use high fire rate lower damage weapons vs high damage slow fire rate weapons, and you still do not need to actually bring anti-tank level weapons. The Voteless are too numerous, so unless you're using a grenade launcher or flamethrower, you'll want to pick up a machinegun or incindeary shotgun to quickly kill them. Overseer armor unlike Automaton Armor is ABLATIVE, not absorptive. You could deal 99^99 damage to an overseer's armor, and it'd only break it off, not kill the overseer. And it's divided into sections. Legs, arms and chest each have their own individual armor pieces. The only exception is the head armor. Destroying it instantly kills an Overseer. Harvesters don't need anti-tank level weapons. Targeting their joints will quickly down them. They all encourage fast firing weapons. Just like in HD1.
2: The music. The Terminid's theme is like starship troopers. The Automaton's theme is like a parody of/inspired by stereotypical Russian war music. The illuminates however? their theme is all about inspiring terror. And when you encounter a Harvester, it blares an alarm like sound as despair fills the air. This is the theme of a race that was the victim of genocide and wants revenge. Words alone can't do justice for how amazing the Illuminate theme is.
3 The potential for future content. The Illuminate have only 5 (6 if you include warp ships) units. They could bring back the obelisk, hunters, illusionists and council members, while adding entirely new things. It has me excited for the future of Helldivers II.
Perfect. Can't wait to get mind controlled!
@RocketWeaponsGuy mind control is overblown and overhyped. Once your muscle memory develops from constant mind control it becomes easy and fluid to swap between regular and inverted controls. The real danger is obelisk walls .
@@democracydemocracy8026 Yeah but that's the actual danger, not the flashy thing.
The violin parts of the illuminate theme remind me of exploring a unknown planet
That’s a whole lotta words… too bad I ain’t reading’ em
20:00 That's the blizzard modifier making you walk slower. It's not a bug.
Ahh gotcha, it was my first time seeing something like that. Been away from the frontlines for a while 💀
@@kel_ski bro knows his jokes
True but the animation Is the same for High snow
@@digge2210 Its the hard wind, hence the animation
We never left button.
Thanks for holding down the frontline 🫡🫡
Holy shit ive followed yall for a while and didnt know you played helldivers!
We just joined button where. I got a Super PS5 for Super Christmas and got helldivers. I've seen hell as a cadet (lvl 100 friend took me to lvl 10 difficulty mission)
@NightmareKing_Grimm the only true way to understand helldivers is to experience the highest difficulty at least once
I'm on my way to super Earth
0:39 cant believe kelski outed himself as a cyborg traitor smh
I’m just undercover I promise 😔
@CelestineGup one thing replacing your own flesh with pesky and undemocratic metal, which is treason
BUT REPLACING LIMBS LOST IN RIGHTEOUS FIGHT FOR SUPER EARTH IS COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE AND APPROVED BY MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
Steeled veterans warbond
@@kel_skithat is what they all say now get into the “freedom room”
They're Super Earth issued Cybernetics.
1:16 "Tactical asset nearby," said mission control. And what a tactical asset it was.
Bedtime officially postponed
Real
@@hirosekoichi466 this one for the late night crackheads
@@kel_ski🫡 addict reporting for duty sir
Agreed
7:03 I love the fact that the Illuminate wiped ever facet of Super Earth recognition these citizens once had but made sure they're still Forklift Certified even as grunt fodder units
7:03 it looks like it has a bit of a reaction to the forklift so he is forklift certified
I got the game in the ongoing winter sales im only 10 hours in i can tell you this is one of the best of the best games i have ever played , its the perfect game for me to have a break from work and stress , the community is nice , i met nice people had funny moments intense moments
just finished an illuminate mission where it was only me and a fellow cadet level 5 vs the world the ships kept coming we kept getting caught by the drones and the squids too many deaths but at the end ... WE DID IT WE WERE CELEBRATING LIKE TRUE SOLDIERS IN VOICE CHAT I LOVE THIS GAME
That's helldivers for you✌️
Yes! Welcome!
Amen brother
All the games I jump in, no one talks
@@dmo848 they don't even need to. I just had the perfect squad experience in a difficulty 7 bot operation and nobody spoke a word.
We are so back 😭😭😭
@ElderGooby AND MORE FREE THAN EVER
LIBERATION
Let me tell you all a story.
I had gotten in a different shower in my home because my usual showering spot broke and was under repair. Usually I can hear videos from within my bathroom, and I watched the game awards for Silksong (yes I know, clown makeup activated) and decided to watch it. About a month or so ago I decided that I would hang my cape up, and be only re deployed when the times were dire, and just as I finished showering, the helldivers 2 bit came up. To say I was over the moon would be an understatement. I never finished drying up and getting clothes faster than that day, for the darkest hour for super earth was approaching. I re deployed and managed to record first contact within the hour of the illuminate returning, so far my favorite core memory of any game I’ve ever played so far. Thank you Helldivers 2 for making such a unforgettable experience
I feel a small sense of honor that I continued playing the game for the past year despite controversy and all, and now I’m showing new players, and returning playing the ropes with the new content added since then.
Yeah bro I haven’t even touched ANY of the ‘new’ bug and bot content yet. So much to play
My only complaint is that things are still a bit grindy and repetitive. I need so many super credits to unlock warbonds…
@@GusOmega that makes them more worth it
@@kel_ski I will say there has been alot of complaining before omens of tyranny dropped because after the DSS there wasn’t really any content, and players were kinda frustrated with AH for lack of content.
I figured they would be working on an update through all the complaining players but never thought it be this big. AH are amazing devs through all their flaws.
By the way, the voteless have unique death animations when you headshoot them (it’s a one hit kill for most weapons). Sometimes they super earth salute before they bleed to death.
I taught my 67 year old Dad how to play tonight, hes so in!
Gonna be a while before he gets faster with strategem inputs 😅
Type shit
Glad to have another Helldiver on duty 🫡 I’m sure pops will do well
This is awesome! No worries I’m still not the fastest 😃 as long as he’s serving democracy and having fun that’s all that matters 💪😃
never too old to fight for managed democracy 🫡🫡
7:02 their brain still react to the sight of forklift.
As always fantastic video, you beautiful bastard. 🗿
THANK YOU MR. WHEELER 👑
should've mentioned the new booster in the new warbond too; it's honestly my favourite little toy.
it adds a mounted liberator with drum mag to every resupply, which means they now double as mini-turrets too! honestly, quite good especially against the voteless horde whenever you need some extra firepower.
I have already developed a strategy in defense missions where we stack these resupply turrets in the back (they never despawn until their ammo is depleted), so they act as backup defense.
@@sylflareon8356 shoot I forgot to mention this one but yeah that one is super fun!
not really worth it though, better booster options available
yooo new kelski drop for charismas!
@hamilyman HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🎄🎁 hope you liked the gift
I can safely say this became my favorite game now. The amount of cinematic fun this game brings is amazing, the teamwork, the last stands, the weapons, stratagems and now vehicles, the potential this game has is incredible.
New hobby has been dropping into low levels and callin them in extra jump packs. They get hooked. They hit level 8 and graduate to getting their own jump pack and fly off into the fray. I’m now responsible for Atleast 4 Jet Troopers, and I tried to teach them to share blue strats, so hopefully they’re out there now making more Jump boyz as we speak
4:50 "We're helping you sir, remain calm!" Absolutely lost it 😂
You weren’t kidding when said you’d do a video after seeing the trailer during the Game Awards. Welcome back, Helldivers!
The moment I saw the illuminate, I knew this was gonna be a 10/10 super banger. Had to lock in 🫡
@@kel_ski yeah pretty much everybody else did on that night because almost everybody was there. And I think a lot of people left the game awards just because of it. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I had to run home. 😅
Dude I love the SFM animation combined with your own art style, it's such an unique style, keep the work up, and happy holidays mate. ❤️
Thank you so much 😁 it was so fun to make. Felt like a Gumball episode with the mix of 2D and 3D lmao
I was watching your game awards stream when this dropped and holy hell I jumped out of bed so fast it reminded me that I have an iron deficiency
And when you finally came to, you played Helldivers.
Same here, funnily enough I had just finished showering, and when the helldivers 2 announcement shadow dropped, I had never gotten ready for bed and gotten on my pc faster than that moment. Truly a you had to be there to feel it moment
2 of my friends were very into Helldivers 2 before it came out and they were so enthusiastic about it that I bought the game so I could play it with them. From day one I told them that what I wanted most from future updates were urban environments and vehicles and now that they are here I am loving them and I can't wait until they add tanks.
Tanks are going to go SO hard. God I love this game. Hope you doin good Hoovy!
@@kel_ski heck yeah Hail Super Earth✊
@@kel_skiTanks are honestly my favorite military vehicle so I really look forward to it.
I've never felt more like an Uber cruising down the streets of Detroit until this update
Humanity in Helldivers 2 is literally space Orks xd
The FRV doesn't actually steer that poorly if you switch to first or second gear manually by pressing shift
YOU CAN WHAT
@@kel_skiYeah bro! unlike other games, this vehicle has gears haha
@@kel_ski yep it has actual driving mechanics, where you have to shift gears, be mindfull of the terrain and such. The amount of little details in this game is insane.
You can also swap seats with C and honk with F.
it feels like the tires have no traction, its so weird
for future reference; the quick emote (tap) will always be your last used emote in the level or the top-right emote in your wheel, so if you want to use the kick as a melee on the regular just put it on there or kick once from the wheel as you come into the mission
0:37 SWEET LIBERTY
that intro supercut is best way to encapsulate what helldivers really is.
22:30 Look at that patriotic pup! No signs of treason to be found anywhere!
He is the pinnacle of liberty!
Yo I know this man the titanfall youtuber
11:50 "Killed by Melioda's anti-age cream" is so real
12:50 funny thing, you can carry stuff like black boxes while in one of the FRV’s passenger seats.
You can even drive with it by getting in the front passenger's side and hitting C to change seats.
if you didnt notice it, the Voteless apparently recognize forklifts and i think goldfish
NEW KELSKI VID, WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY!!! 🦍
"can they add a laser machete?"
The stun baton: are you ignoring me?
animated kelski in a wheelchair was NOT on my bingo card this year 😭 (he posted again we re so backkkk keltown 🔥🔥🔥🔥)
WE MIXING 2D AND 3D WITH THIS ONE 🗣️
Been diving with my friends recently... I can't share how much we're having. New stratagems, new weapons, new enemies... So great.
There's also a new rare stun baton available in the Acquistion Store!
07:43 is an Ace Ventura reference, where he gets spears in his legs and screams at them repeatedly.
The fun thing is that by comparing with the other two factions, the Harvester is basically the Illuminate equivalent of a Hulk, or Charger. We still haven't seen what they have instead of tanks, bile titans, or factory striders. It's gonna either be bigger, more powerful, or both.
The illuminate add the hoard mentality of the bugs and the lasers of the bots. Beautiful
17:43. You can shift gears to gear 1 and 2 with the shift key and you can downshift with ctrl
Gear 1 is for off road driving and control while gear 2 is for speeding away from the enemy or running them down like the undemocratic demons they are
4:25 why is this so well made?
I need this saved to videos asap😭😭
This got me cracked up
I like that only the watcher calls in back up, no headless brood commander calling in some warriors that call in reinforcements while coming out of the floor
Hell yeah brother! I've been waiting so long for a sequel to the video that brought me to your channel lol
Just got done rewatching your original HD2 video the other day perfect timing for this.
Loved this video!
Thank you for watching it :^) put tons of work into this one haha
I started the game after your first video and have really been enjoying my time with it.
I find it funny that one of the most brutal, hostile and deadly games has one of the most wholesome, funny and welcoming communities.
I had Just unlocked medium difficulty, so I was still pretty new to the Game, when a guy named Zeke joined my game and started carrying me through the harder missions, explaining wich weapons to use against wich enemys, amd so on.
And now we play like every other day.
Helldivers 2 is definitely one of the most fun games I've played in a long time, so things would recommendation.
I think the bots are still my favorite faction to fight overall, but just when I was thinking "yeah the balance is in a good place but the game desperately needs content" the devs just took a massive screaming dump of content, and released it in the coolest way possible
I just can't wait to fight the bots in urban warfare, that's gonna be fun
I think using the riot shield to fight bots is my favourite thing ever.
maybe if every explosion didnt ragdoll me it'd be more fun
@@hengry0 skill issue
No, it was unpatriotic for HD2 to nerf and split the community in the first place. You are a Patriot. You are NOT a sheep.
All we need now is a theater mode, Halo style color selector, weapon customization, Stalwart as a primary, Helldiver 1 weapons and visor customization. Also maybe close quarter Darktide style maps.
Stalwart primary 🙏
I hope they add like boarding missions
I like having the Stalwart as a Stratagem. It really makes you think about your loadout differently.
and xbox crossplay for double the democracy
I'd love more vehicle options. Like a tank and a gunship
Like the scorpion and hornet from halo
hey Kelski, if a player enters and then exits a hellpod, the kick emote actually can kick them around the destroyer. Try it out. You can kick them into the hellpod and they fall out of the ship!
The puma vehicle gameplay looks like the halo 3 warthog missions
Dont forget the Floating Egg that throws up a freaking wall to block you from running away or the invisible, teleporting, hyper speed, duel wielding sword overseers.
Bro Drops Absolute Cinema intro everytime
Helldrivers 2 a story about the GREATEST come back in modern gaming history!
The illuminate make me actually change my armour for the first time since playing and not for aesthetics for the for first time lol
Arc resistant armour is insane vs the illuminate!
4:03 : *OUR Freedom
Sounds pretty commie
@FudgeenotFudgy What is the meaning of commie ?
are you a commie by any chance
That sounds like Socialistic/Communism, That's not very Democratic of you. I'm going to talk to your Democracy officer for Reevaluation.
@Aizen_Sosuke999 Oh ? Damn didn’t know about that. Officer always talk about fighting for our freedom against those squids, so that why i misunderstood the assignement.
Please don’t take my sweet liberty for that error. I will fulfill my role as a Helldiver and never say this sentence like this again.
Long live Super Earth.
Two side objectives i hope they add for the illuminate is
1) a stratagem "blocker" that randomizes what stratagems you get every 2 seconds. A bit slower than the scrambler, but it gives a completely random one you own for all 4 slots (resets after leaving a giant area or is destroyed)
2, another "blocker" where you cant see any inputs at all. All strategems you brought ate disabled, except for respawns, but you get access to all strategems, assuming you remember the code.
6:30 my mans does not know what a grenade launcher is 💀
You might've noticed that the FRV is rear-wheel drive which explains why the steering is so wobbly at times. It's what also allows it to drift like hell and look badass while doing it, so I think arrowhead made the right decision there
makes no sense for a rover like that to be only rwd and not awd, the tires have no grip its like theyve never driven an atv before
Yes! Welcome back
Great video! Only thing that was missing was a Half Life 2 “pick up that can” reference with the new baton.
20:36 Yeah, you're getting touched tonight
Glad to see you're back in the Galactic War, Big Kel, enjoying the new things this update brought I see.
And honestly, it was fantastic, if the Illuminates Scouts were this fun to fight against, I wonder if when the full factions come out, Arrowhead will manage to surpass this Omen of Tyranny update, and hopefully, adding similar units like in HD1 that can capture the feeling of the previous game (blocking paths, swarming you with shielded units and of course the damn mind controlling feature, among others)
Merry Christmas and happy New Year too, I reckon, for this 2025, the channel will grow quite a lot, if not reaching 1M subs and finally Kel Country opening it's doors, then at least close to it, easily over 500k.
i love super keltown
Super Keltown rules all
The fact that we also got all that new Killzone armor and weapon was nust yhe cherry on top. The last week or two has been a VERY good time for us Helldivers.
13:53 Massive?...
Say that again…
Yep
Checks out
The illuminate were my favorite faction to fight against in the original Helldivers. Followed by bugs and bots
I like cheeseburgers
Yay🫠
Hey! Just wanted to say your original HD2 video was one of the things that made me buy Helldivers when things were not great (August, right after Escalation of Freedom), and then I got swept up in the 60-Day Patch and been addicted since.
Really great seeing you enjoying HD2 again!
3:13 Kindly stop drinking the kool-aid, very few weapons have ever been nerfed in a remotely significant way over the course of the game's life. Everything else saw pretty much nothing but buffs.
And every time there was an arguably major nerf, it was accompanied by nearly twice as many buffs for the less-used weapons.
The eruptor just kept doing more and more damage every time a weapon got nerfed.
@@ninjawiz7932 The Eruptor is a bad example imo, since it was still rather mediocre after its buffs.
But other weapons like the Diligence CS, HMG, Laser Cannon, Punisher Plasma, Dominator, Grenade Launcher and more went from being underwhelming at best to becoming staples of my loadout over the course of the "nerf patches".
And that's not even getting into stratagems like the Orbital Gatling, Eagle Strafing Run, 120mm Barrage, Eagle Rocket Pods, Rocket Sentry, Machine Gun Sentry and others that got rescued from the garbage bin.
Not sure if you’re gonna keep playing for a bit longer but can 100% recommend the arc thrower for all things squid smashing, it stuns quite literally everything on the roster right now including Harvesters. That and nothing is more satisfying then zapping away whole hordes with a few shots from an arc thrower
Oh man when the full force of the Illuminates show up it's going to get so crazy. The HD1 units were tough. Getting your controls reversed as a result of a jedi mind trick and accidentally shooting your follow divers was so funny. Also they had ones that would generate a wall so it would block you in but the jump pack was so important in those moments. They were the most fun to fight against back in the first game too.
SES Herald of Starlight reporting in; Glad to have you back Helldiver.
tip for driving the frv: use 2 on the gears for smooth terrain and 1 for steep or rough terrain
Happy Christmas dude, amd welcome back on the frontlines!
been playing so much more Helldivers after this update, and I might stick around more cause these updates go crazy! also vid was really good, gonna stick around for more!
Friendly reminder. The harvester is a small expeditionary version, compared to the charger commonly, the squids have a much larger, more powerful version, they will imply during the actual invasion....
Merry Christmas Kelski!
4:24 that aki meme was insane😭😭
Great to see you back in it
And great to see more peak! Was hoping to see you do a vid on the update and super happy to see you doing it
the ace venture "MY LEG" animation xD
7:44 the rag doll engine in this game is top notch
And to think that during the final days of this vid's editing, Super Earth signed a business contract with Stahl Arms for more weapons. AKA: We got a Killzone Crossover (albeit the 1st half was a expensive one that's worth just under two warbonds at the super store before the backlash caused Arrowhead to give the 2nd half of the crossover to everyone for free).
Fun fact: You can use "this is democracy!" to kick helldivers off the ship when they go in and out of diving pods. Just make sure they are standing on or infront of the diving pods if you want them to just fall off into space.
i was WAITING, WAITING FOR YOU TO RE-ENLIST, welcome back helldiver kelski, we're gonna need ya.
@7:46 is an Ace Ventura reference/easter egg that someone at Arrowhead must’ve thought would be funny to add 😂
4:30 the aki chainsaw man clip goes hard 😂😂❤❤
Pro tip: (inspired by 17:31) you can use shift and ctrl to change the FRV's gear to 1st and 2nd gear which makes driving the thing SIGNIFICANTLY easier
18:37
STRIDERRR!!!!
*last legs plays*