Really? I was about to comment why I think the airstrike might be better, but I've never really used the strafing run all that much. Just the ability to one shot a bile titan personally puts the airstrike above the strafing run, but I also don't really run any anti-tank stratagems in my normal build so I kind of have to rely on teammates or a perfect airstrike placement/timing. I'd love to hear why you've swapped, cause if its better than I'm fully willing to adopt a new strategy.
@@TheWatchfuleye1 can one shot impalers once they have their weakpoint exposed when they deploy their tentacles. You have 5 strafing runs, although I only use 4 cuz you can reset and have a lower cooldown due to the ship upgrade. Can destroy bug holes and fabricators. Can destroy hulks if it hits their eye, although it’s 50/50 at times. I run mostly anti tank, recoilless, thermite grenade, so I don’t consider bile titans a problem. If I’m not running anti tank, I still use it 😂. Thermite grenade is just my go to against bile titans and hulks, going around cliffs and obstacles and have them chase me. The airstrike is still amazing, but sometimes enemies are a lot faster now and avoid the explosions, not to mention one of those bombs has to directly hit the titan or charger for it to consider a one hit kill. Strafing runs won’t kill them, but it’ll damage them significantly and you can have teammates finish them off or just a thermite.
damn, some people still being mad at other for preferring mission against certain faction my brother in super earth, we are fighting against multiple fronts. there is no right or wrong, just keep defending super earth freedom
@@qwertyq4073 i understand that. its their hard-earned money being used to buy the game. 40 usd is not some chump change for players who live in the country with weaker currency than usd
@@kentoscocos5238there’s been a ton of leaks in them and there are references in game to them like the meridian black hole. There are for sure coming.
Strafing Run is such an underappreciated strategem. It's easily my favourite now. They deal with basically everything on bugs except Chargers and Bile Titans, and even then you can still hurt them a little with them, on bots they can actually blow up dropships and help fairly well against factory striders, it can even take out the fabricators if you angle the shot right into their vents. It has a lightning fast call in time, it's basically a grenade with how quickly it comes in, it's perfect for chewing through choke points due to it's reliable fire pattern, you get five of them making it one of the most spammable eagles, hell strategems in the game and most importantly... It's nigh impossible to accidentally kill your teammates with it, you can throw it at your feet, take one step back and be completely safe, or throw it so that the run is within a handful of metres away from a teammate next to it and have them be basically safe, you have to pretty much go out of your way to try and kill someone with this thing, it's the perfect danger close strategem. It's not perfect, no strategem is I'd say, the only heavy enemy it does really well against are impalers and it sometimes can't cover a wide enough range for a massive horde of bugs or a spread out group of bots, but it's reliable enough to be a general use strategem that you don't need to feel bad about using at all times, unlike an orbital which will always have at least a minute's wait between shots or another, more conventionally powerful eagle that could potentially kill your friends.
You don't even need to line strafing run up with the fabricator vents. Any angle is ok as long as you line it up through the center, and both lines of explosions make contact.
Strafing run will 1 shot regular Chargers and can 2 Shot Bile titans if you hit the head. if its landed straight on to the face, you can also murder an impaler with 1 strafing run shot as well.
31:18 yeah thats why i always run the quasar personally... Idk it just doesn't feel right shooting a recoilless or EAT at a commander for me personally but it feels satisfying with the quasar coz infinite ammo and commander go BOOM
Pairing the strafing run and eagle cluster bomb together gives you great add clear with 10 uses all together so you can use your other 2 slots for heavy enemies and even have a primary thats better for single target damage like the tenderizer, plus with the strafing run being able to take out most side objectives like spore mushrooms and shrieker nests as well as being able to soften up heavy enemies it's only makes the pairing all the better
I think I've taken strafe on my last 50 dives now. It's the pattern that takes it to next level. When your team is maneuvering well and you get the bots in enfilade, you slap one of those bad boys at the end of their line and just mow everything down. So satisfying. Gas grenade is such a great pairing too, especially on choke points. S tier stratagem imo
The strafing run seems a lot better against bots. They move more slowly, travel in lines more, and the strafing run kills fabricators from any angle. I think there is some potential for taking down the Factory strider with a quasar shot to the eye and a strafing run, but it's hard to tell how many bullets will actually hit the eye from the strafing run.
One reason I run the Strafe is because I hate Shriekers. For what ever reason, air strikes and 500ks do nothing to shrieker nests. Gatling barrage and strafing run destroy them though. Hellbombs leave you too exposed and often I find I have to go back and place a second even if I get the first one off. Another great thing is on forest maps, the fricken God damn trees don't stop my strafing run from firing. (Looking angrily at the 500k that got stuck in the trees)
With the gatling barrage now being faster and the strafing run more effective, you can finally make the bots tste their own medicine and make them endure thousands of rounds of hot death.
strafing run was always good. picked up the game a month ago and ive been using it ever since i decimated a group of like 8 spewers at once with it. ive gotten 30+ kills with one strafing run before. i even use it for the bots. throw it in front of a group of devastators or striders and just sit back and watch the fireworks.
since railcannon strike didnt get cooldown reduction or buff, 500kg is 2x and aoe with lower cooldown and then precision strike is almost 3x less colldown time, have great aoe potential too and lastly there is 110mm rocket pods which have literally same ability with 3 strikes and lower cooldown. railcannon is worse 110 mm pods coz mostly you can kill charger and titan or 2-3 chargers.
My new load out is: jump pack, quasar cannon, orbital napalm and eagle cluster. I use the purifier, grenade pistol and thermite. It’s the most fun I’ve had in ages. I also completed my first 100% solo super helldive with this and set a new kill record in the same run of 703. Man do I love democracy.
Orbital gatling barrage is better because of the eagle’s rearm time and the orbital has a short cd with a long duration so it can wipe most of a breach by itself.
A loadout ive been loving is 500kg of course and arc thrower sheild gen pack and then the stock standard eagle for closing holes and a little support with impalers OR the tesla tower for chaff clear surprisingly sometimes you can throw it on a bug breach and it alone will get you 100 kills then thermite for chargers
Strafing run can one shot a Bile Titan if the initial bullet line comes in right on its head. Otherwise it just deals a decent chunk of damage to main health.
The strafing run is amazing once you get used to lining it up and where to actually throw it. But tbh I'd say it's much better on bot side. It can do massive damage to impalers and bile titans too. Its also really good at closing bug holes and destroying bot fabricators My best so far is 16 kills with a strafing run. But I think it was mostly luck 😂
I just think it needs a bit of a wider AoE, because it's so narrow it often misses some targets. Regardless, so useful on bot missions for taking out fabricators.
Something I feel like would help the Orbital Railcannon is if it was the only Orbital Stratagem that had multiple charges to use. Lore wise lol maybe the Railcannons on your Destroyer needs to be loaded 3 shots at a time or something like that. It would make it a much more consistent pick in loadouts I hope.
I always knew the strafing run was good but by now with it's buff I'd put it above the airstrike - slightly. 5 slightly worse stratagems over 3 slightly better ones any day of the week I'd say
Yeah I love the strafing run with guard dog, HMG and gattling sentry with padded heavy armor, you become a absolute unstoppable force, I'll literally get 700+ kills a game just me
Interesting. I tried to work out in my head what loadout to bring to be able to use strafing run as a longtime 500kg user.. .I think you've shown a way.
Really frustrating how you didn't make it out though...the whole time I was screaming at the screen "YOU'RE TOO FAR AWAY FROM EXTRACT WTF ARE YOU DOING???"
Medic armor and supply pack sure is a weird combo, you already have plenty of stims from your backpack so why not get something more tanky like fortified or democracy protects?
ive been using this thing since the update- and i gatta say- using the super hidden tech --- running and just throwing the thing backwards ive gotten multiple 40kills over and over again in each mission >:) its amazing side note- how is he able to keep running and call in stratagems? I saw when he picked up a rare sample that it said to press "E" so its not like hes using a controller- is this a mod? or has this been a thing for pc forever and i never knew 😭
at the start, they seen the stratagems and started walking that way THEN seen you lol LMAO did this the other day on a bot drop, didn't know we were between 3 POI, called in our supports and got lit up from all sides lmao
As people who use numbers and code everyday. It doesn't fill me with confidence that they always put "slightly buffed" instead of thr actual numbers. Most things need exact numbers. Imagine a heart surgeon saying "cut the one slightly to the left" and theres 3 parts that look the same. That'll be a slightly bad day for that person 😂😂
Do not use Precision Strike, it seems to be bugged. It doesn't kill chargers sometimes, it doesn't kill hulks, hell, more over than not it doesn't even kill commanders and it definitely does not kill Bile Titans.
i tried it on 10 bots, idk man i got WAY more power out of cluster, struggled to kill heavys but it did kill a turret tbf, but also cluster can kill devs but in a much wider aoe aswell as DECIMATING soldiers and jets
PLEASE FUCKING DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE COMPANION APP AND THE GOD DAMN GAMBIT SYSTEM! I wish I never knew it existed because seeing 400 people on the Gambit planet that can easily win the Major Order, and 20k people on the planet of the Major Order that is 80% behind the enemy and stands zero chance, is infuriating. Helldiver, I task you with spreading the word of democracy, and encouraging all of your video making companions to do the same.
This is incorrect. It is 100% worth taking everytime. Watch the video a youtuber named "Eravin" did on armor and health in Helldivers 2. Its more complicated and its stupid that they dont show numbers in-game for this stuff and give vague descriptions for some things. TLDR is that the booster is essentially damage reduction. It is ALWAYS worth taking as it makes you more survivable.
@@funkmeister2353 I’m gonna go watch his video. My impression at face value is that it just helps resist those limb injuries, which isn’t super useful because if I get to that point I’m usually stimming anyways. BUT thank you for sharing this.
One taps Implaers, 2 taps bile titans, One taps Chargers, can wipe up to 30 enemies if you aim it well (I fear Backround gaming ius not good at aiming it), FIVE uses, very easy to aim as it goes in a straight line and this is only on the bug side. Its amazing for bots too.
Ever since this patch came out, replaced my beloved airstrike with strafing run. Thought I’d never see the day.
Really? I was about to comment why I think the airstrike might be better, but I've never really used the strafing run all that much. Just the ability to one shot a bile titan personally puts the airstrike above the strafing run, but I also don't really run any anti-tank stratagems in my normal build so I kind of have to rely on teammates or a perfect airstrike placement/timing. I'd love to hear why you've swapped, cause if its better than I'm fully willing to adopt a new strategy.
@@TheWatchfuleye1 can one shot impalers once they have their weakpoint exposed when they deploy their tentacles. You have 5 strafing runs, although I only use 4 cuz you can reset and have a lower cooldown due to the ship upgrade. Can destroy bug holes and fabricators. Can destroy hulks if it hits their eye, although it’s 50/50 at times. I run mostly anti tank, recoilless, thermite grenade, so I don’t consider bile titans a problem. If I’m not running anti tank, I still use it 😂. Thermite grenade is just my go to against bile titans and hulks, going around cliffs and obstacles and have them chase me. The airstrike is still amazing, but sometimes enemies are a lot faster now and avoid the explosions, not to mention one of those bombs has to directly hit the titan or charger for it to consider a one hit kill. Strafing runs won’t kill them, but it’ll damage them significantly and you can have teammates finish them off or just a thermite.
You're like my duo, "lemme get these 4 objectives real quick" with 15 seconds left on the mission 😂
damn, some people still being mad at other for preferring mission against certain faction
my brother in super earth, we are fighting against multiple fronts. there is no right or wrong, just keep defending super earth freedom
Some people need to understand not all of us care about roleplay, and we just want to play a video game lol.
@@qwertyq4073 i understand that. its their hard-earned money being used to buy the game. 40 usd is not some chump change for players who live in the country with weaker currency than usd
Then open all fronts
@@rousrouslan4023 brother, those helldivers already fighting 2 fronts: automaton and terminids
illuminate is still not confirmed as far as i know
@@kentoscocos5238there’s been a ton of leaks in them and there are references in game to them like the meridian black hole. There are for sure coming.
Strafing Run is such an underappreciated strategem. It's easily my favourite now.
They deal with basically everything on bugs except Chargers and Bile Titans, and even then you can still hurt them a little with them, on bots they can actually blow up dropships and help fairly well against factory striders, it can even take out the fabricators if you angle the shot right into their vents. It has a lightning fast call in time, it's basically a grenade with how quickly it comes in, it's perfect for chewing through choke points due to it's reliable fire pattern, you get five of them making it one of the most spammable eagles, hell strategems in the game and most importantly...
It's nigh impossible to accidentally kill your teammates with it, you can throw it at your feet, take one step back and be completely safe, or throw it so that the run is within a handful of metres away from a teammate next to it and have them be basically safe, you have to pretty much go out of your way to try and kill someone with this thing, it's the perfect danger close strategem.
It's not perfect, no strategem is I'd say, the only heavy enemy it does really well against are impalers and it sometimes can't cover a wide enough range for a massive horde of bugs or a spread out group of bots, but it's reliable enough to be a general use strategem that you don't need to feel bad about using at all times, unlike an orbital which will always have at least a minute's wait between shots or another, more conventionally powerful eagle that could potentially kill your friends.
You don't even need to line strafing run up with the fabricator vents. Any angle is ok as long as you line it up through the center, and both lines of explosions make contact.
Strafing run will 1 shot regular Chargers and can 2 Shot Bile titans if you hit the head. if its landed straight on to the face, you can also murder an impaler with 1 strafing run shot as well.
don't even get me started with the A10 sound affects mod for it
Strafing run is also great for destroying bot fabricators. Can easily take 2 out in one run if you line it up right
His helmet finally matches his armor. I can now sleep at night.
31:18 yeah thats why i always run the quasar personally... Idk it just doesn't feel right shooting a recoilless or EAT at a commander for me personally but it feels satisfying with the quasar coz infinite ammo and commander go BOOM
Well my Wednesday diving group is going to get a healthy dose of "calling in an eagle" today lol
Pairing the strafing run and eagle cluster bomb together gives you great add clear with 10 uses all together so you can use your other 2 slots for heavy enemies and even have a primary thats better for single target damage like the tenderizer, plus with the strafing run being able to take out most side objectives like spore mushrooms and shrieker nests as well as being able to soften up heavy enemies it's only makes the pairing all the better
I think I've taken strafe on my last 50 dives now. It's the pattern that takes it to next level. When your team is maneuvering well and you get the bots in enfilade, you slap one of those bad boys at the end of their line and just mow everything down. So satisfying. Gas grenade is such a great pairing too, especially on choke points. S tier stratagem imo
Cheeky voice crack at 0:46 :D
Get the Warthog SFX mod for the Strafing Run, because just when you thought it couldn't get any better... but Eagle 1 go burrrrr!
Been a strafe enjoyer since launch and watching it get buffs has been amazing!
The strafing run seems a lot better against bots. They move more slowly, travel in lines more, and the strafing run kills fabricators from any angle. I think there is some potential for taking down the Factory strider with a quasar shot to the eye and a strafing run, but it's hard to tell how many bullets will actually hit the eye from the strafing run.
It usually takes 1 eat to the cannon, one to the eye, two strafing runs , 3 thermites, and then prayer to bring the striders down for me
One reason I run the Strafe is because I hate Shriekers.
For what ever reason, air strikes and 500ks do nothing to shrieker nests.
Gatling barrage and strafing run destroy them though. Hellbombs leave you too exposed and often I find I have to go back and place a second even if I get the first one off.
Another great thing is on forest maps, the fricken God damn trees don't stop my strafing run from firing. (Looking angrily at the 500k that got stuck in the trees)
With the gatling barrage now being faster and the strafing run more effective, you can finally make the bots tste their own medicine and make them endure thousands of rounds of hot death.
strafing run was always good. picked up the game a month ago and ive been using it ever since i decimated a group of like 8 spewers at once with it. ive gotten 30+ kills with one strafing run before. i even use it for the bots. throw it in front of a group of devastators or striders and just sit back and watch the fireworks.
the explosive ammo absorption glitch has happened to me before. the bug just seems to absorb the explosion, happens more often when using the crossbow
since railcannon strike didnt get cooldown reduction or buff, 500kg is 2x and aoe with lower cooldown and then precision strike is almost 3x less colldown time, have great aoe potential too and lastly there is 110mm rocket pods which have literally same ability with 3 strikes and lower cooldown. railcannon is worse 110 mm pods coz mostly you can kill charger and titan or 2-3 chargers.
This one was already crazy and a hidden gem but now its just insane
My new load out is: jump pack, quasar cannon, orbital napalm and eagle cluster. I use the purifier, grenade pistol and thermite. It’s the most fun I’ve had in ages. I also completed my first 100% solo super helldive with this and set a new kill record in the same run of 703. Man do I love democracy.
Orbital Airburst is the very best vs. bug breaches since being buffed.
Orbital gatling barrage is better because of the eagle’s rearm time and the orbital has a short cd with a long duration so it can wipe most of a breach by itself.
A loadout ive been loving is 500kg of course and arc thrower sheild gen pack and then the stock standard eagle for closing holes and a little support with impalers OR the tesla tower for chaff clear surprisingly sometimes you can throw it on a bug breach and it alone will get you 100 kills then thermite for chargers
They should add strafeing run that also fires rocket pods that would be sick
Strafing run can one shot a Bile Titan if the initial bullet line comes in right on its head. Otherwise it just deals a decent chunk of damage to main health.
I love when you play solo! I hope you do it more!
thank you for the content!
I usually bring stratagems to deal with hordes whilst my teammates like bringing the anti-tank. So I enjoy using the strafing run.
The strafing run is amazing once you get used to lining it up and where to actually throw it. But tbh I'd say it's much better on bot side. It can do massive damage to impalers and bile titans too. Its also really good at closing bug holes and destroying bot fabricators
My best so far is 16 kills with a strafing run. But I think it was mostly luck 😂
Strafing runs are fun, but unused alot of the time. They do work their magic in a pinch tho
Espically in narrow passage ways, easily rack up a lot of kills in the right scenario
I just think it needs a bit of a wider AoE, because it's so narrow it often misses some targets. Regardless, so useful on bot missions for taking out fabricators.
Something I feel like would help the Orbital Railcannon is if it was the only Orbital Stratagem that had multiple charges to use. Lore wise lol maybe the Railcannons on your Destroyer needs to be loaded 3 shots at a time or something like that. It would make it a much more consistent pick in loadouts I hope.
Well, that makes sense. Maybe something we could "request" within the new station...
even just giving it a second charge would make it so much better
19:11 if you had supply backpack and medic armor, use stim frequently even you just lose little health and when bug breach happen
Strafing run is a beast, it could destroy impalers when they put their tentacles down and it one shots shrieker nests. My go to stratagem for a while.
Compared to other Eagles its nothing but after buff its viable. Still i think the others outshine strafing run. 1400 kills is my PB.
They are great for when you get swarmed and have a “oh shit “ moment. You can throw it 2 ft from you and be ok.
I always knew the strafing run was good but by now with it's buff I'd put it above the airstrike - slightly. 5 slightly worse stratagems over 3 slightly better ones any day of the week I'd say
Yeah I love the strafing run with guard dog, HMG and gattling sentry with padded heavy armor, you become a absolute unstoppable force, I'll literally get 700+ kills a game just me
Interesting. I tried to work out in my head what loadout to bring to be able to use strafing run as a longtime 500kg user.. .I think you've shown a way.
Really frustrating how you didn't make it out though...the whole time I was screaming at the screen "YOU'RE TOO FAR AWAY FROM EXTRACT WTF ARE YOU DOING???"
Will one shot impalers IF you hit their face straight on, can kill chargers and titans in at least 2 runs.
Medic armor and supply pack sure is a weird combo, you already have plenty of stims from your backpack so why not get something more tanky like fortified or democracy protects?
It also one shots impalers regardless if their head is exposed
Bro they take down bot factories now. They are a must have on automaton mission
I killed titan with them, you have to call more than 1.
ive been using this thing since the update- and i gatta say- using the super hidden tech --- running and just throwing the thing backwards ive gotten multiple 40kills over and over again in each mission >:) its amazing
side note- how is he able to keep running and call in stratagems? I saw when he picked up a rare sample that it said to press "E" so its not like hes using a controller- is this a mod? or has this been a thing for pc forever and i never knew 😭
at the start, they seen the stratagems and started walking that way THEN seen you lol
LMAO did this the other day on a bot drop, didn't know we were between 3 POI, called in our supports and got lit up from all sides lmao
Have to try this build.
What specs do you use? Your vids have really gotten me pumped about helldivers 2 and want to make sure my PC can handle it at graphics this high
As people who use numbers and code everyday. It doesn't fill me with confidence that they always put "slightly buffed" instead of thr actual numbers.
Most things need exact numbers. Imagine a heart surgeon saying "cut the one slightly to the left" and theres 3 parts that look the same. That'll be a slightly bad day for that person 😂😂
Did my man for real dive and head shot a bile titan with an EAT?
9:10 starfing run only get 7-8 kills, the 20+ is from gas
But you can't deny that charger bullshit.
Railcannon needs a 2 minute cooldown tops
Do not use Precision Strike, it seems to be bugged. It doesn't kill chargers sometimes, it doesn't kill hulks, hell, more over than not it doesn't even kill commanders and it definitely does not kill Bile Titans.
I haven't used it in a while but if they haven't broken it in either of the 2 last patches - it definitely does kill all those, especially Titans
Me killing a Bile Titan with a single strafing run:
110 rocket pods are better than orbital rail cannon imo. Yeah ORC is stronger but its cool down is horrible.
Skipping the super samples at 3:02 hurts my soul 😭
don’t worry they’re the easiest samples to get
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in bot missions they are more useful as they can now destroy fabs
Preemptive stim
i tried it on 10 bots, idk man i got WAY more power out of cluster, struggled to kill heavys
but it did kill a turret tbf, but also cluster can kill devs but in a much wider aoe aswell as DECIMATING soldiers and jets
3:24 preemptive
PLEASE FUCKING DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE COMPANION APP AND THE GOD DAMN GAMBIT SYSTEM! I wish I never knew it existed because seeing 400 people on the Gambit planet that can easily win the Major Order, and 20k people on the planet of the Major Order that is 80% behind the enemy and stands zero chance, is infuriating.
Helldiver, I task you with spreading the word of democracy, and encouraging all of your video making companions to do the same.
Who else uses strafing run on impalers?
that guy that kept typing about playing bots was annoying
Bro the injury resist heart looking booster is completely useless stop using it
This is incorrect. It is 100% worth taking everytime. Watch the video a youtuber named "Eravin" did on armor and health in Helldivers 2. Its more complicated and its stupid that they dont show numbers in-game for this stuff and give vague descriptions for some things.
TLDR is that the booster is essentially damage reduction. It is ALWAYS worth taking as it makes you more survivable.
@@funkmeister2353 I’m gonna go watch his video. My impression at face value is that it just helps resist those limb injuries, which isn’t super useful because if I get to that point I’m usually stimming anyways. BUT thank you for sharing this.
Ehhh Na, pass on strafing.
Titan die to
just get thermites brother in christ. you trying to dodge chargers for 30mins i wanted to puke
It's still trash. Super great cool down but really garbage for destroying anything with the smallest of durability.
One taps Implaers, 2 taps bile titans, One taps Chargers, can wipe up to 30 enemies if you aim it well (I fear Backround gaming ius not good at aiming it), FIVE uses, very easy to aim as it goes in a straight line and this is only on the bug side. Its amazing for bots too.
Garbage on bots
Preemptive stim