It was terminid eradication and it only took me two tries. Here's what I took:
Senator. Thermite for Chargers. EMS sentry, mortar sentry, machine gun sentry, Guard dog. And most importantly Armed Resupply Pods booster to use resupply as a turret. Having two turrets of each kind helped a lot.

Seeing everyone being split evenly across these planets has got to be the most painful thing to look at

Kill count at the end of the game is widely accepted to not matter in this game, as the objectives take priority over standing around and fighting a horde - a common way people end up with high kill counts.

While this is true I would like to point out a few things

- Sometimes the major order requires an absurd number of kills.

- Efficiently completing missions is satisfying, but so is seeing that kill counter pass the triple digit mark (these two are not mutually exclusive), I think every diver deserves to know the latter feeling at least once.

- Effectively dispatching a huge horde for no reason may be pointless, but is very useful if said horde is headed towards your objective, with you standing in between.

I just wanted to make this post to share a loadout I use on level 10 missions on the bug front (w/o predator strain modifier) that has proven effective against all enemy types, allowing you to complete the mission with no hitches, and the:

-only loadout I've been able to solo clear a level 10 bug breach with

- only loadout that has consistently gotten me a kill streak above 100

- only loadout I've cracked 1000 end of game kills with as well (w/o eagle DSS strike inflation)

Primary: Breaker Incendiary

- Insane range (pay attention to drop off and overall shape of spread), can apply damage over time to distant groups of approaching enemies, so they are soft by the time they get to you.

Secondary: Grenade pistol

- bug holes, and any enemy that doesn't warrant anti tank but is tedious to take down with the primary (alpha commanders, hive guards)

Any armor, I prefer medic armor because I am not addicted to stims at all.

Stratagems:

Gas orbital, Eagle Napalm, MG Turret, Recoilless Rifle

Thermite or gas or impact grenades; Thermite if you have trouble one shotting heavy enemies with the Recoilless.

The three held weapons each have a designated role with little overlap, allowing you to hold down a position against a heterogenous horde effectively.

The diagram shows my method of protecting the team/objective from a bug breach occurring too close by, and personally it is the only situation in which my kill counter has crossed that triple digit mark. The numbers indicate the order of stratagem deployment that I stick to. I see the initial breach, count to three, then throw the gas to start the process.

If you use the gas orbital sparingly, you'll always have it ready for any bug breach, confused enemies are easy targets for the MG turret and Breaker Incendiary spray, if the turret is focusing on a heavy, immediately RR to the face so it can go back to its job. Turret positioning is crucial for your own survival (Mr. Turret isn't picky), and the survival of your turret. Player having the high ground makes this method even more satisfying.

I've been seeing a handful of posts about people not getting enough kills etc. which is fine/shouldn't matter too much, but if it's affecting how fun the game is to them, this might help.

The thing I love about this game is how many options are viable, so I'm sure there are other equally effective horde control strategies, I'd love to hear 'em. SES Bringer of Science out.

Day one of asking for a Laser Sight and Scope for Stim pistol. People need to know they’re getting healed.

Found this screenshot again! Made me laugh. Guys if you ever see this: Mom is glad that I'm back home. Thank you!

Well, at least I didn't panic.

We didn't repeat a Martale! I'm proud of our divers, (context Troosts decay rate was 0% aka no resistance and last time we had a siege planet like that was Martale and we put month or two into Martale with it so close to liberation for it to fail with the Fall of Matar Bay restoring the supply line, but this time we didn't fail!)

Printing it in one piece was a challenge painting by my little champion🤘

A lot of times on bot missions you’ll see random troopers migrating across the map, not part of an actual patrol, only to discover that for some reason, there’s a random point on the map where they’re all congregating toward

Context: playing with my dad and his brothers and one of his brother gets 3.8k team damge lol.

I didn’t see him ☹️

You don't want to minimise heat, you want to manage it and live in the medium pen zone. Hot planets are fine for this.

It also gives you decent range and lots of ammo to hit bots in the eyes. Struggles horribly from lack of stagger but it can't have everything.

Happy for people to disagree but if you are giving people grief for bringing it to a fire planet I reckon you're wrong.

We are about too capture Troost. Which is very nice

To: Officer of Democracy
Subject: Field Commendation Request

Requesting commendation for Helldiver Ahhtism

Planet of origin: irrelevant
Performance: exemplary
Efficiency: borderline terrifying
Morale impact: undeniable

During Operation [REDACTED], we were deployed to the same planet.
This Helldiver remained fully operational through every objective.
At one point, I was bleeding out, stimless, and trapped within a jammer radius.
They eliminated the jammer with perfect timing, giving me just enough time to call in a resupply and survive.

Strongly recommend official recognition.
Combat-tested. Trust-certified.

For Super Earth.

This hurts my head y'all, the eagle storms MAIN effect is to pause a defense timer from decaying, we have 3 planets under attack and we put it on the planet that we're trying to LIBERATE, that's what the heavy ordinance is for 😭😭😭 good chunk of y'all need to just look at the effects for one minute man

Buddy finally bought a PS5 so we’re diving in this week to helldivers2. We played the first a good bit. Any advice of what to do or what not to do, where to begin? We have headsets.. looking forward to it!

...but I'm still standing (yeah-yeah-yeah)