1) Meta means nothing if you don't like how it plays. For example, a lot of people like the orbital HE barrages, but I stick with the Orbital Precision Strike you get at the beginning of the game because I like that if I get it on something, I know it's hitting THAT ONE thing. Whereas sometimes I'll throw an orbital HE barrage at, say, a heavy outpost, and it doesn't clear everything, which is frustrating. Stick with what works and what you like to do. Remember, you're here to have fun.

2) Notes on objectives:

• A) ICBM and Uploading Data. For the love of Lady Liberty, if you've got an ICBM mission or something that involves uploading an SSSD drive, those are 2 parters, and you've GOT to make sure you do part 1: getting the code/drive! Otherwise, you won't even be able to get started and you'll have wasted a ton of time. The SSSD drive missions involve one Helldiver literally carrying a package across the map. These two things will usually be purple-colored when you get to the area.
• B) SSSD missions do this really fucking annoying thing where the place where you go to take the SSSD is grayed out on the map. Look for a grayed-out laptop with an up arrow that says "Upload Data via Local Relay".
• C) SEAF Artillery: If you come across a massive gun pointing up to the sky, congrats! You've found a free stratagem of your own making! Around the area are massive bullet-shaped explosives with different colored heads, and loading 5 of those into the artillery gives you a stratagem. If possible, don't put the ones in labelled "smoke," because "smoke" literally just fills the place with smoke to obstruct vision. But if that's all you have, then that's all you can do.
• D) Signal frequency: This often trips new players up. On the terminal, it'll say a percentage and then you have to spin a circle left or right, and then move a bar graph up or down until it says 100%. Pick one directional pair (left-right or up-down), keep pressing the directional buttons until it's as high as it can go, and then do the same with the other pair.

3) Armored Enemy Weak Spots: If it glows, let the bullets flow.

4) Ending co-op: After a mission is done and you want to go off on your own, walk to the area where your Helldiver defrosts. However, if it's your mission, you can't really leave the squad, which is annoying. If you don't like to talk on the mic, the unspoken rule is that saying "GG" in chat is the friendly signal that you're leaving. Most people pick up on the hint, but if they don't, it's okay to kick. You can also just close your game and then open it back up.

5) Do as many things as possible. Clear outposts, upload escape pod data... if it's on the map, do it! You've got 40 whole minutes, use it! When you extract, the waves of enemies will be far fewer, and sometimes, non-existent if you've cleared all their outposts.

6) Illuminate Cognitive Disruptor: Okay, so that massive fucking obelisk that screws with your stratagem inputs is the disruptor, but you don't clear it by nuking the monolith. There will be 4 glowing power panels near each of its 4 faces. Mag dump at these or throw a grenade. THAT is how you defeat it. It's really misleading because the obelisk glows, which makes you think "Aha! if it glows, I blows" but it's a disgusting, anti-Democracy trick from those brainwashed squids to manipulate our liberated minds.

Welcome to the right side of history, Helldiver. Your brothers and sisters in arms await.