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Helldivers 2: Essential Settings Guide from a 2,000 Hour Player ⚙️
This video covers how to optimize controller and mouse/keyboard settings in Helldivers 2. It provides various setting tips to enhance the gameplay experience, including turning off auto-climb, reducing camera shake, changing stratagem input methods, customizing the HUD, and adjusting graphics settings.
1. 🚧 Turn Off Auto-Climb: Prevent Unnecessary Climbing 🚫
- ✅ Auto-climb can cause unintended climbing actions, disrupting gameplay.
- ✅ It's best to turn it off, especially to avoid constantly mounting equipment when resupplying.
- ✅ Turn off auto-climb in the gameplay settings.
00:00 - 00:19
1. 🚧 Turn Off Auto-Climb: Prevent Unnecessary Climbing 🚫
- ✅ Auto-climb can cause unintended climbing actions, disrupting gameplay.
- ✅ It's best to turn it off, especially to avoid constantly mounting equipment when resupplying.
- ✅ Turn off auto-climb in the gameplay settings.
00:20 - 00:44
2. 💥 Turn Off Camera Shake Intensity: For Accurate Aiming 🎯
- ✅ Camera shake causes the aiming point to shake due to surrounding effects like explosions.
- ✅ It's best to turn off camera shake intensity for accurate shooting.
- ✅ You can leave it on for immersion, but it may reduce shooting accuracy.
00:45 - 01:18
3. 🎒 Backpack Use and Quick Throw Settings: Efficient Equipment Use 💣
- ✅ Backpack Use: Press the D-pad down on the controller, or the number 5 key on the mouse/keyboard.
- ✅ Quick Throw: Bind to R1 (controller) or a convenient button on the mouse to instantly throw grenades.
- ✅ To hold and aim grenades, bind Throwing Possible to R1 double tap.
- ⚠️ Binding Throwing Possible to a difficult-to-press key like F increases the chance of dying.
01:19 - 02:21
4. 🕹️ Change Stratagem Input Method: Controller and Mouse/Keyboard Optimization 🖱️
- ✅ Controller: Change Stratagem Activation to Hold, and bind the directional keys to the right controller buttons (PS5 standard: Up-Triangle, Down-X, Left-Square, Right-Circle).
- ✅ Mouse/Keyboard: Set Stratagem List Open to Press, and change the directional keys to arrow keys to input stratagems while moving.
- ✅ Terminal Interaction: The button selected in the stratagem menu also affects terminal interaction.
02:22 - 02:41
5. 🤸 Prone, Crouch, Dive Binding: Improve Survivability 🛡️
- ✅ It is recommended to bind Crouch, Prone, and Dive to L1 (controller).
- ✅ Set to Tap to Crouch, Hold to Prone, and Double Tap to Dive.
02:42 - 02:55
6. 🤝 Party Settings: Matchmaking Privacy Settings 🔒
- ✅ To prevent other players from randomly joining when playing with friends, set Matchmaking Privacy to Invite Only.
- ✅ You can also select the Friends Only option.
02:56 - 03:23
7. 👓 HUD Off Binding: Enhance Immersion 🎬
- ✅ Controller: Set Open Map to Middle Button Tap, and HUD Toggle to the same button Hold.
- ✅ Set Open Chat for communication to the same button Double Tap.
- ✅ Mouse/Keyboard: Bind HUD Toggle to 0.
03:24 - 04:00
8. ⚔️ Weapon Switch Mode and Aim Mode Settings: Adjust to Your Play Style 🎯
- ✅ Classic Weapon Switch Mode: Switch between primary and support weapons with a single button press, and hold to switch to secondary weapon.
- ✅ Default Setting: Switch between primary and secondary weapons, and hold for support weapon.
- ✅ Set Aim Mode Memory per weapon.
04:01 - 04:15
9. 🔫 Weapon Function and Dynamic Aim Mode Settings: Advanced User Settings ⚙️
- ✅ Set Weapon Function Memory to Yes to avoid resetting each time you change weapon modes.
- ✅ Dynamic Aim Mode (Mouse/Keyboard): Tapping the aim button switches to first-person view, while holding it switches to third-person view.
04:16 - 04:52
10. 🔄 Camera Side Switching and Aiming-Related Bug Fix 🐛
- ✅ Camera Side Switching: Double tap the left analog stick to switch the camera view to the left or right shoulder.
- ✅ Dynamic Aim Mode Bug: There is a bug where turning on Dynamic Aim Mode on the controller causes the aim to remain on even if you set Aim to Hold. In this case, turning off the setting will make it work normally.
04:53 - 05:16
11. 🎨 Crosshair Color and Outline Settings: Improve Visibility 👁️
- ✅ Crosshair Color: Changes from white to yellow, green, and red.
- ✅ Outline: Adds a dark background to the crosshair to increase visibility.
- ⚠️ This setting only applies to the center crosshair, not the actual aiming crosshair.
05:17 - 05:33
12. Weapon Switching on Pickup Setting: Quick Weapon Swap ⚡
- ✅ Turning on Weapon Switching on Pickup allows you to equip and fire a weapon as soon as you pick it up (except for weapons with a delay like E7).
- ✅ Turning this setting off takes longer because you have to pick up the weapon, switch to it, and then fire.
05:34 - 05:43
13. 🖱️ Mouse Smoothing and Acceleration Settings: Accurate Mouse Control 🎯
- ✅ Turn off mouse smoothing and set mouse acceleration to 0.
- ✅ Find a sensitivity that works for you.
05:44 - 06:11
14. ⚙️ Quick Weapon Function Switch Settings: Advanced Weapon Control 🛠️
- ✅ Find and bind Open Weapon Wheel in combat (e.g., Hold).
- ✅ Select the functions you want to quickly switch (Up-Scope, Down-Flash, Left-Firing Function, Right-RPM).
06:12 - 06:46
15. 🎤 Audio Settings: Voice Chat and Volume Control 🔊
- ✅ Choose from Open Mic, Push to Talk, Push to Mute, Mute, Disable, or Mic Toggle for Voice Chat Mode.
- ✅ Push to Talk is recommended for most people.
- ✅ Adjust the conversation volume to reduce certain sounds (e.g., motor deployment, the screech of the double-bladed sickle).
06:47 - 08:31
16. 🖥️ Display and Graphics Settings: Optimize Performance and Visual Quality 🖼️
- ✅ Turn off camera shake intensity.
- ✅ Set the field of view to the default value of 70.
- ✅ Set the rendering scale to default.
- ✅ Set the display mode to borderless window.
- ✅ Turn off motion blur, depth of field, and bloom.
- ✅ Setting Volume Fog Quality and Cloud Quality to High makes the game look better (if your PC or console can handle it).
08:32 - 11:58
17. ⚙️ HUD Settings: Customizable Interface 🎨
- ✅ Keep HUD Curvature at 0.
- ✅ Adjust the HUD Scale to change the size of elements.
- ✅ Adjust the HUD Background Opacity to increase visibility.
- ✅ Set the visibility of Main Objective, Secondary Objective, Mission Information, Stratagems, Health, Weapon Status, Hints, Tooltips, Stamina, Crosshair, Interaction, Nametags, Information, Sample Count, Player Markers, and Compass.
- ✅ Set the Stamina Width to Short.
- ✅ Turn off Compass Small Notches and Cardinal Directions.
- ✅ Set the Compass Angle Range to Wide.
- ✅ Set the Map Exploration Mode to Hybrid.
11:59 - 13:57
18. 🎯 Sensitivity Settings and Additional Tips: Personalized Experience 🎮
- ✅ Sensitivity settings depend on personal preference, so practice in the training ground to find the values that work for you.
- ✅ It is recommended to set the stratagem input method on the controller to the right controller buttons.
