How to do a Realistic SOLO Hell dive on Max Difficulty

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: orbital laser, 500 kg bomb, 225 breaker, anti-at rifle
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Shield Pack
3. 10:00 – 15:00: orbital laser
4. 15:00 – 20:00: anti-at rifle, Shield Pack

Notable quotes from "How to do a Realistic SOLO Hell dive on Max Difficulty"

• Is done essentially in my Methods at least of getting it just about done to start I use the 225 breaker as my primary weapon additionally I use the p19 Redeemer it just spews…

  about 225 breaker · at 0:23

• Can only be kind of mitigated so much yeah we do get four strategems on this planet which is really nice I'm going to be using the anti-at rifle The Shield Pack orbital laser…

  about orbital laser · at 1:40

• Then I always do the stamina ability separate to that so in terms of equipment I'm going to be using the Trailblazer Scout just cuz I'm solo if I wasn't I'd be using hero the…

  about Trailblazer Scout · at 3:00

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Products & tech

• orbital laser — Product · 3 mentions · first at 1:52
• 500 kg bomb — Product · 1 mention · first at 1:52
  Can only be kind of mitigated so much yeah we do get four strategems on this planet which is really nice I'm going to be using the anti-at rifle The Shield Pack orbital laser…
• anti-at rifle — Product · 2 mentions · first at 1:46
  Can only be kind of mitigated so much yeah we do get four strategems on this planet which is really nice I'm going to be using the anti-at rifle The Shield Pack orbital laser…
• 225 breaker — Product · 1 mention · first at 0:30
• Shield Pack — Product · 3 mentions · first at 1:52
  Can only be kind of mitigated so much yeah we do get four strategems on this planet which is really nice I'm going to be using the anti-at rifle The Shield Pack orbital laser…
• p19 Redeemer — Product · 1 mention · first at 0:37
  At least of getting it just about done to start I use the 225 breaker as my primary weapon additionally I use the p19 Redeemer it just spews out bullets very fast that's really…
• Trailblazer Scout — Product · 1 mention · first at 3:08

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 hello everyone today we are going to be doing a different video style completely So today we're going to be run running through a uh solo hell dive which is as far as I understand the hardest difficulty so I'm going to quickly go through my Loadout what we're going to do we're going to be playing against the terminats today so show you how that is uh is done essentially uh in my Methods at least of getting it just about done um to start I use the uh 225 breaker as my primary weapon additionally I use the uh p19 Redeemer it just spews out bullets very fast that's really the main reason for it um but yeah let's uh let's go ahead and pop in so demy continues got Prime I often think that uh with playing a lot of solo setups it's best to play on these types of planets where there's a lot of kind of Cloudy Haze to play at night time in general kind of tougher to see I find that the benefits of having them

1:09 not see you quite as well having it harder to see overall at least in my opinion generally seems to be better uh we're going to start I think with what I would consider the hardest of these three to do so far so purging hatcheries the great thing about this though is that when you're solo you can drop in on them immediately and utilize The Nest itself to actually take those out relatively quickly you almost assuredly will die once however but that can only be kind of mitigated so much yeah we do get four strategems on this planet which is really nice I'm going to be using the anti-at rifle The Shield Pack orbital laser and the 500 kg bomb so in the case where there is only three that you can use I will often immediately defer to getting rid of the 500 the reason being is while it's very nice and convenient to have often times the orbital laser is more convenient and utilizes a lot more different things

2:16 like it can be used for a lot of different things so even in like the automaton situation where you have to take out command Towers or you need to fight a bile Titan it will always get good damage on any enemy pretty much just because of the nature of the weapon coming from the sky additionally it also will immediately Target other enemies once it's killed one though it can take out termined bug holes with the right timing and placement it can take out pretty much any kind of enemy um even if it doesn't at the very least on big enemies like B Titans it will get good damage on it so it's just very very applicable even though it's technically not the most damaging of them all um and then I always do the uh stamina ability separate to that so in terms of equipment I'm going to be using the Trailblazer Scout just cuz I'm solo if I wasn't I'd be using hero the Federation because you know optimization

3:15 is temporary drip is forever so uh this this just looks way more fire um easily in my opinion uh but separate from that the Scout ability lets you ping stuff and every 2 seconds the radar will scan enemies in front of you which is very useful if you're trying to figure out which turns you need to make while you're moving across the map and then Additionally you get that 30% reduction in range which is very very nice because obviously the minute you get detected is the minute that it becomes 10 times harder so we're just going to go and ready up and uh and send it and we'll see how it goes I can't promise I can't promise anything but uh we'll we'll play the way that we're going to play the way I know how and uh and see

4:11 so so we're going to try and land on the walls here and I'm completely missed so we kind of just lost a life here that is unfortunate as always another downside of playing at night time is you can't see anything but we did get the bomb in the right spot and took out the nest immediately by getting it placed right in the middle the first thing is to immediately run now there is no reason to stay for any purpose

4:57 something deploy repl there we go all right we took out the b Titan is very very lovely me to the enemy we are we are down two lives however this is not unrecoverable oh my God I did not see that oh my gosh there's so many [ __ ] Chargers oh no so much for getting the shield all right losing these Lives real fast so we need to just [ __ ] so we're just going to go ahead and get our bomb ready um just get it set up to try and find our way into this Nest here let's see okay oh shoot oh shoot yeah try and get around these guys here and just Chuck it in as quickly as possible I don't really care so much about whether or not I die here I mostly just want to get in Chuck in that bomb immediately Sprint out if possible doesn't seem like a good entrance there hard to find a good angle here let's um keep going around a minute here we go let's check it in there yeah it's not too bad of a throw be good guys we just going to book it in

6:57 here and then uh try and clear out the rest of these eggs fast as we can thr a few grenades here go yep all right awesome good stuff destroyed stuff yeah in and out just immediately dip there's no reason to stay often better to play the wall nearby kite them around the wall as best you can utilize that benefit of stamina that you have by using the light armor of course with the right time 500 that can be very helpful but it's not always the most reliable if you can't get it in a good position to actually take out the hive so um regardless having the option is very nice we still have a three minute cool down on our rifles and Shield Pack sadly but just going to go ahead and continue regardless without it I will say one of the biggest things to deal with are these uh flying enemies here they are in my opinion one of the most annoying enemies to face that in the stalkers request approved deploying

8:30 reinforcements yeah so we can land on this Plateau here is very conveniently placed for us and go ahead and try and take out the streer nest let's check get a lot of our strategen very very good position here they want to Target that uh stalker there fortunately the laser is not targeting The Nest right now but just my out yeah there we go okay try and Chuck a few grenades here get a little bit extra damage on that and then we do have another 500 we are looking good we're go ahead and just play this rock best we can take out the Sher nest dealing with the streakers in my opinion is one of the hardest things having to handle the any kind of air enemies whilst you're trying to kind of height around all these enemies makes it very very difficult downside is I am running very very low on ammo so [ __ ] this

10:07 Loy now in different scenarios if you can avoid the shrier nness it's better to do so but sometimes like if they catch you and they're in range they're just going to keep pumping out shers so it's often times to just Sprint into the nest call in the hell bomb as fast as you can um in this case I died obviously so I tried landing on this little Plateau here so I could just call in my normal strategems and take it out but it's more optimal for you to call in the hell bomb if that's possible just because you get to save those strategy sooner and for later that's why now I have to wait additional time for mine to be called in again but it is not the end of the world at Le if I can help it I do want to try and get an angle and take out those um stalkers but see how that goes does seem that the B Titan killed himself with his own spit so that was very nice of him a lot a lot of these stalkers are

11:15 very uh very much something you should take priority over in taking out if you have the opportunity that in Hunters if they get too close but at least in this case just want to get rid of the stalker before I run out of ammo I am about

11:36 too we are out of ammo so I'm going to go ahead and drop down and go to this resupply checked all the way over here we should be good believe oh yeah making great time okay now we can head out um use a stem in a bit once I'm out of stamina

12:07 never I do at this point expect to die right now being at this Nest but that's it's fine my goal is to try and get as close as I hell bomb or not this hell bomb 500 here much just thing life is nice you've done your Dy you may extract With Honor yeah I mean it it kind of comes down to like what you think is more applicable for the different missions um I guess a lot of people would prefer to keep the 500 for this type of mission um in general I will still sacrifice it despite the fact that I'm able to take out Nest quickly with this but it really is kind of up to you in that case those are just arguably the best for doing any of these kinds of missions yeah so we're going to go ahead and uh just get in here the extraction call in our uh support Strat shield and our uh mat real quick supp I'm going immediately call in extraction my shield sniper HP something else I do like to do as well is immed immediately leave once

13:30 I call it in um generally you can't get too far but as long as you're semi close not immediately in the center it can help make sure that they don't all just swarm you inside and we'll try to go around to get to you just going to Chuck in that orbital laser cuz it will move on its own y Target the uh B Titan there going to sit and play this wall let him get about as close as what's reasonable before he starts attacking with

14:12 range shots off here so there is a hoorde here so I'm going to try and go back in and check a 500 real quick there on it way we're looking good so far sample like that the B Titans will just kill their own their own uh fellow friends

15:14 just going to keep training around this rock pretty much keep cting him we're doing great on time though just kind of circle around this uh brute here this charger just run right in here we go all good stuff so yeah like I it's it's nice to just kind of find a rock kite them around in a circle if they charge you like that that really is the best thing you can do is just play close to walls if you're lucky you can time the bile spit to kill their own their own teammates there but it's definitely doable I mean it's it's hard but it's doable you know we're even able to take out a shrier nest you know and that wasn't even part of the plan problem is though you don't really get many stars yeah that's true it's disappointing service but if you don't have any friends with you and you don't want to play with other people this is an option this is this is what you can do this is this is a thing it's hard and

16:27 it sucks and the reward isn't the greatest but I mean you're playing the hardest difficulty so who can blame you all right next one we're going to do is actually the termined control system this is one of the new ones that looks very cool in my opinion though arguably is one of the easiest ones to do if you're not careful and you get a ton of swarms called in on you and you're in a bad position it can end very poorly very quickly but overall so long as you're sticking with the uh running stamina ability and light armor you can kind of just outrun them and shoot that really is all you kind of have to do usually it's like take out uh 17 large eggs or uh oh sorry and also uh deactivating the termicide towers as well so you literally just hit e on them that's it okay we're just going to immediately call in our uh support strategist real quick get our mat and uh Shield going here all right this is what's also great for this

17:46 mission is the uh anti-at rifle just takes one shot one pop and you're done boom boom going to go back real quick solely just to take out the um mushrooms over here real quick shot at 500 oh and try and run through here real quick over to the tower activate it real

18:43 quick just h e and you're done it is literally that simple and if you're lucky you don't really call in all that much okay calling a Hunters is not a deal but we can still we can still do this we're already mostly done with the mission we are making fantastic time as long as you like like you don't even have to kill as many as I've killed so far like a lot of these guys you can just run around just keep targeting those eggs running from Tower to Tower actually going to go back this way just to call in the laser here

19:59 500 real quick go and a bomb let's run away keep looking for those uh EG way of life this type of mission way more important just get them off your tail doesn't really matter if you kill him it's also pretty similar to a lot of how these solo missions are played but the objective is your primary that's how you leave you have ignited thees of Li and of course super that's what they care about more better to take out the root anything extra let's go ahead up here we are good not problem yeah snipers really useful this kind of mission just takes one bullet and one pop and you're done

21:14 completey prevails yeah I mean additionally we also do get uh more stars for this Mission just because it's a lot simpler to do there aren't as many sub objectives that we have to go around and uh deal with so again one of the arguably easier ones to do doesn't take long either just got to run in a circle so this last mission here going to be Search and Destroy so there are a handful of armors light armors as well that you can use to get more grenades which is going to be the most useful thing for these types of missions it kind of still is up to you which armors that you kind of use but in general the main priori is that you're using a light armor when it comes to these missions and in my case I prefer to have that 30% reduction of detection over anything even if I do often get found orbit synchronized I'm going to go ahead and land over here by the

22:26 coast yeah we're going to stick with the same load out it's tried and true hope we don't land on any termined swarms immediately go now and should you fall remember this every day is a good day we are by a flying boy Nest which is kind of a problem but uh yeah assuming none of their uh none of them detect us I'm going to leave it I hear a bile Titan that I do make it very hard not to get close to this

23:22 thing not being detected as much this is the scenario I'm talking about because I don't want to be detected right now especially when I'm not even close to any of the objectives being done so I'm going to go ahead and pre-fire

23:53 Supply oh both a bomb and the laser here democracy fortunately I don't think it's going to do too much here because there's still a handful that are not in range of any of this stuff go ahead and drop down immediately straight up just immediately Target those bug holes on there's a lot spawn here

24:22 now so unfortunately we are already getting the uh flying [ __ ] in here I'm probably going to die but yeah reinfor have launched land focus on getting as many of the bug Nest holes as I can additionally trying to kite things around rocks I think there's one hole I missed yeah let's try and take out those flying guys always the biggest pain I'm going to drop in here and get another set of supplies can okay supplies there this one Mel up here all right cool the to get those holes and the whole Nest done yeah we're still going to just pretend the uh flying guys Nest doesn't exist right now a lot more damage than I thought it would instead of beining I'm going to go ahead and Lead these guys over to the Rocks here try and get a bunch of them stuck might give me a chance to take out this Nest I do kite enough of them into the walls here I think we're actually are good go ahead and Shu it real

26:19 fast get in there looks like only a few are getting through and then of course the flying guys we should be okay we actually be able to get this fast enough okay might be okay for chance for chance for chance all right let's let's leave there's no reason to be here destroy all right I just really hate these filthy termined scum uh mostly just the blind guys I'm in a very bad spot yeah not a lot I can do there have Lo that's a even worse spot ready to liate just going to immediately book it get out of here try and get to these rocks as fast as I can trap them okay okay okay we're good we're good God there's rocks here I can use very very convenient how about a nice C of should be able to book it now take out this uher here depending on what's in here I might be able to get my shield level back and my gun just having CED them around go ahead and try

28:31 all right cool not complain so we're and take out this last one here we should be all good to go yeah a lot of kiing a lot of just trying to like utilize the terrain a lot of the Rocks lack of visibility very much helps I couldn't say for sure if the AI technically sees you less in the dark at night on different planets but it definitely feels that way so might have set him off there CL I got to throw in two grenades that's it just got to get in and out here so go ahead check a bomb here now we'll do laser that cool down oh he blocked it he knew what he was doing there we go oh wait I thought I was done there it's not done there it's definitely not done do have a 500 still but go find another hole loation oh I did not

30:18 reload here we go uny yeah that should help youed EXT for Freedom all right uh let's get out of here let's let's leave and thankfully use a lot of this terrain a lot of the a lot of the darkness slip away like if I had normal armor they would have just detected me right there and called in reinforcements I just want to play around them try and get detected not not very quickly see if we can at least deter it for a little bit but um just go ahead and get in here was going to go back for the resupply check down but this stage I don't think it's worth

31:38 CH a 500 there they're starting to get low on ammo and we don't have any grenades left soe with a very uh low timer for losing all of our resupplies respawns so have to start being a bit more careful but

32:11 worms have to lock in here let me go ahead and drop down reload I'm out of sim so I do not expect to live much longer here a dam all land on this guy much as that didn't do all that much at all in true mainly want that Shield bubble just going to play a bit of distance here for the

33:21 timer yeah losing that reinforcement budget is kind of tough if we kite them around I think we actually might be okay I think we will be fine so long as we keep this bile not at our exraction points oh yeah grab that sample for no reason all right it's got launched out there by the charger Liberty has seen you through yeah that I I would call a level 9 solo run um yeah that's that'll do it there I will say that that when it comes to a lot of these solo hell Dives there are still a lot of variation in like what you can do what's more optimal for your gameplay style um especially in the case of if you're doing a solo hell dive I'm going to try to find an example here you're doing one and you have a um a mission that is just kill terminats this operation would Hing the enemy capabil must have glitched it out give this one as that yeah so kill termin to thin their numbers this is hands down like one of the hardest to do

35:03 solo there's a handful of ways that you can achieve this Mission um but on certain Maps there often aren't any rocks to play around there aren't any rocks or you know kind of obstructions to kind of like Get You Know large hordes off you especially when they're coming from every direction and a lot of times they can just be an open area which is really not to your advantage but my method method which has worked sometimes it's a 50/50 shot is if you're in the mission and you go to the outer edges and just abandon the mission when that countdown goes off the uh superar or whoever they'll send missiles down to kill you but they aren't always the most accurate so if you're wearing a shield bubble it can save you for a long enough time that if say there's like four bile Titans around or a ton of enemies around the Rockets will just take them all out and give you like a 20% 50% buff and you know how

36:01 many terminant you've actually killed and actually get you to that point where you can possibly extract now I haven't I don't remember if I've successfully done this it is very very very hard um but that is a method that I've done with teammates as as much as it sounds dumb because they can be also killed by it but it has been beneficial in certain cases but if you're doing a solo hell dive and you see one of these where you have to just kill swarms then their numbers in general I would just not do it I would stray away from it go to a different Mission um but yeah that's my method of doing it so I hope you guys have enjoyed I hope you found it a little bit helpful a little bit uh beneficial if you ever plan to try and do this on your own um that's just my way of doing it so I appreciate your time uh thanks for stopping by have a good one

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "How to do a Realistic SOLO Hell dive on Max Difficulty"?

In order: 0:00 orbital laser, 500 kg bomb, 225 breaker, anti-at rifle; 5:00 Shield Pack; 10:00 orbital laser; 15:00 anti-at rifle, Shield Pack.

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7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including orbital laser, 500 kg bomb, anti-at rifle, 225 breaker, Shield Pack, p19 Redeemer. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "How to do a Realistic SOLO Hell dive on Max Difficulty"?

The episode runs 37 min; the transcript is about 4,219 words in 32 timestamped sections.

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