Tips & Tricks for Deploy Dark Fluid in Helldivers 2 (Meridia = Spaghetti Now)

"This mission currently has a critical bug..." Eravin, I hate to break it to you, but... This mission has a LOT of bugs.

1:32 "Eagle Smoke Strike" Shows 500KG Well the blast will certainly make alot of smoke 😂

I wish we had better explanations of how to do missions. Yesterday I played with a random and he started throwing the dark fluid into those giant holes in the middle. I mean, the point was to get them to the core, so, I see his logic.

The ghost divers, after dominating on the Bot front, are finally showing the Terminids what they're good at. Blowing up planets before anyone even knows they're there.

you can smoke strike the extraction to have the shriekers lose their targeting there, thus making it easier to call in extraction whenever

I absolutely love this mission except for the Breaches under the drill. Once that's fixed it's gonna be even more fun.

I realized in my second attempt this mission was actually easy. What makes it hard are randoms. I beg people to not bring explosives, but they keep throwing everything at the miner and destroying it for the bugs.

Everyone keeps forgetting about the bug holes around the map. Take some time to seal these off before heading to main Objective to cull the massive amounts if enemies.

I'd note that isn't the only hideyhole available to hide from shriekers, anywhere where you can get a roof over your helldiver works too. I believe

from what ive heard and seen the bile titans tend to aggro onto players instead of the drill more often than not even without smoke, so im not really sure if its necessary to bring any, though i have not done any significant testing for it. I also think the railcannon strike is good here, its normally just mostly worse than the precision strike but being able to use it indiscriminately very close to the drill is quite nice.

I like to see the Eagle Smoke Strike carving out a niche here.

My group found it helped to clear the nearby bugholes before deploying the drill, and then tesla towering WELL AWAY from the drill to cover a couple of the approaches.

I always get zero stars after extract and it shows a second objective as not completed

instructions unclear, i brought the blitzer, air burst launcher, tesla sentry, anti personnel mine and incendiary mines

Thanks to 3 random traitors I actually finished a dark fluid mission on helldive solo... it was kinda awesome and I felt like a true hero of Democracy tbh 😂😂 but I also didn't manage to extract... so it is what it is lol Thankfully they moved the bug spawns away from the drill. Which helped A LOT

Teammates: Air burst launcher go boom on drill. Laser on drill go brrr on drill.

you absolutely need 1 person with an incendiary breaker to control the shriekers at extract. just have them on cleanup crew during the mission

The drill stratagem can pass through the walls of large rocks, and call in the drill to land on top of a large rock. Then using the jet pack function of the dark fluid back pack, you can fly up and place the dark fluid before dropping back to the ground to defend. This keeps most enemies away from the drill and also gives the helldivers space to use splash damage at ground level without damaging the drill atop the large rock. I’m really surprised nobody else seems to be talking about this strategy.

Dominator, Grenade Pistol, stun grenades, and light engineering armor. Orbital Smoke, Eagle Smoke, Guard Dog Rover, and Quasar Cannon. Then encourage teammates to bring stuff that isn't stupid. Use all 4 uses of your smoke strategems throughout the drill timer (before, and at 20% intervals). Throw stun grenades at bug breaches and long lines of bugs. Stand near the drill and murder any bugs wandering through the smoke. Pull out the Quasar and shoot at heavies as they show up. Wait for cool downs before starting each drill. Same for extraction. Smoke has never been more useful. If you get a spawn on the drill, sucks. Kill the bugs and wait for cooldowns before restarting the drill process.

Standing next to a giant hole near the extract will let you easily kill shriekers as they spawn every 2 or 3 seconds from that hole. If each player takes a hole that's a ton of dead shriekers not flying around. Have a couple MG or Gatling sentries for clean up away from the holes on top of the extract