Helldivers 2 - I Unlocked and Tested EVERY New Weapon in the Democratic Detonation Warbond

hello everyone my name is swanie and thanks for stopping by and checking out my channel now hell divers 2 just released the Democratic detonation war bond and with it came a bunch of brand new goodies we got some outfits we got some victory poses and of course we got a bunch of brand new weapons and for today's video I'm going to give a small little breakdown and give you my thoughts and opinions and first impressions of each of these weapons this includes the b14 adjudicator the r36 Eruptor the g31 grenade pistol pistol the cb9 exploding crossbow and the g123 thermite grenade so without further Ado let's jump right into it so first up I want to talk about the b14 adjudicator now this is the first new weapon that you'll be able to unlock in the latest war bond and I'm not going to sugarcoat it this was my least favorite out of all of the new weapons but before I get into why this is my least favorite let's go over the weapon stats so first up this is listed as a marksman rifle which I immediately found to be a bit confusing cuzz the damage output is a measley 80 which is a lot lower when compared to the other two marsan rifles it has a ammo capacity of 25 rounds per magazine and it has a total of six magazines it has a recoil of 50 and a fire rate of 550 and then for the weapon traits it claims that it has medium armor penetrating now getting into the weapons breakdown for attachments it has no flashlight which always kind of sucks to see I always like when there's a flashlight option especially for the those dark maps for Zoom levels it has three different Zoom levels at 25 M 50 m and 100 m which I found to be very odd considering this is a marksman rifle the scope I am not a fan of the scope of this weapon especially at the 100 m it feels like with this being a marksman rifle you should be able to shoot a lot further than 100 m but then for the fire rate it has two options which are semi-auto and full auto now I got to say something immediately fell off when I was using this weapon when I was using it it felt a lot like an assault rifle instead of a marksan rifle except it isn't as good as the other assault rifles and when compared directly to the other marksman rifles it doesn't feel nearly as good as them either which puts this weapon in a weird spot you can immediately notice just how little damage the adjudicator does when compared to the diligence and the diligence counter sniper with those weapons you can one shot kill most of the smaller enemy types and you can knock back some of those enemies with some stagger but with the adjudicator it was taking at least two to sometimes three shots to kill some of the smaller bugs and robots and I was noticing that the Stagger was pretty much non-existent when I was shooting the medium tier enemy types like The Brood commanders or the bile spewers or the rocket Devastators I wasn't able to stagger them at all and while I'm using the adjudicator if there's a rocket Devastator and he's bracing himself to launch his rockets at me and I can't stagger him to knock him out of his animation that's a pretty big downside when compared to some of the other weapons that have Med medium armor penetration now it can one shot kill some of these smaller tier robots if you get a head shot but I found that that's kind of hard to do when I was testing out this weapon I found that a lot of my shots felt very inaccurate especially at the mid to long range so I went and tested out the recoil and I found that the recoil is all over the place it's a little bit more manageable when you're in first person but in third person this weapon just sprays everywhere and I was noticing that a lot of my shots weren't lining up with the scope sometimes so I don't know if there's just a glitch going on where the weapons just aren't lining up accurately with the scope but I was missing a lot of my shots and at first I just thought it was because I was using my controller so then I switched over to keyboard and mouse and I was still missing a lot of my shots so something is definitely up with the scope of this weapon and it doesn't feel very accurate so to summarize my first impressions of this weapon it just doesn't feel like it has a place it doesn't feel as good as the assault rifles and it doesn't feel as good as the marksman rifles I felt like the devs didn't really know where to put this weapon when they were designing it and maybe I'm missing something but loading it up and playing with this weapon for a couple of different hours I wasn't immediately Blown Away by it especially compared to some of the other weapons that came out in this war bond some of the other ones which I'm about to get into you just point shoot Boom the enemies die immediately and it's great and this weapon just feels very underpowered I would honestly probably pair it with some sort of strategy that does explosive damage like a rocket launcher a grenade launcher cuz you're definitely going to need it when it comes to taking on some of those bigger enemy types so overall with the b14 adjudicator I'm personally a little bit disappointed with this weapon and I can already predict it now that I feel like a lot of the community is probably going to be complaining about this weapon too okay so moving on let's talk about the r36 Eruptor now this weapon is Miles better than the previous one now it's listed in the explosive category and this is probably the closest that you're going to get to a primary sniper rifle this gun is so good that I'm honestly surprised that it's a primary weapon and it's not some support strategy that you have to call in it feels very comparable to the antimaterial rifle but with more explosions I was honestly kind of Blown Away with just how good this weapon is so let's go over the weapon stats for weapon damage it has an insane 380 but then to compensate for the crazy damage they only give you five rounds before you have to reload but fortunately you can carry up to 12 magazines when you're using this weapon which gives you a total of 60 powerful shots before you have to go looking for ammo it has a recoil of 75 which is pretty manageable and then it has a very slow fire rate of 25 now because of this slow fire rate you're going to have a 2cond delay between each of your shots because it's a bolt action rifle this is not a weapon that you want to have up close and personal to enemies due to that slow firing rate and because of the crazy explosion damage if you're not careful the explosion damage from this weapon can kill you so if an enemy gets right up in your face face and you try to panic fire you are going to end up accidentally killing yourself with that explosive damage now unfortunately yet again this weapon has no flashlight but that's kind of understandable giving what type of weapon this is it has three Zoom levels at 50 M 100 m and 200 M and from my testing I've noticed that this weapon has very little bullet drop off like this thing can go pretty far I was able to hit enemies at a distance of over 200 M pretty accurately with very little bullet drop off but do keep in mind when you're trying to hit enemies at a distance the bullet travel time is a bit slower because these are big powerful Explosive Rounds they are going to take a little bit longer to get to the Target so if you're trying to hit a Target on the move at a distance keep that bullet travel time in mind another plus side to this weapon is that it can blow up things in the environment like fences and the cargo containers so if you stumble across one of these loot containers and you want to save yourself a grenade you can just use this primary weapon to easily blow up the containers and a lot of Primary Weapons don't have this ability so that's definitely a huge plus and it has medium armor penetrating and very good stagger so if you're going up against those medium tier enemy types like The Brood commanders or the rocket Berserkers or anything that you need to stagger to buy yourself a couple seconds of time this weapon is a great choice and honestly this is probably going to be my go-to weapon for both the automatons and the terid the explosion damage on this weapon is absolutely nuts when I was going up against the termin heads and there was just huge clusters of the smaller enemies one shot from this gun will easily kill like five plus smaller bugs in one shot same goes for the robots I was playing an eradicate mission where a lot of the Bots were grouping up together and just one shot was taking them all out with ease and this weapon can also one shot kill any of the BIOS spewers that shoot puke at you I can't emphasize enough just how great this weapon is against the bugs it is so good I wasn't having too much success with the biot Titans or the Chargers or the hulks but honestly that's what the strateg Gs are for anyway those are meant for those bigger enemy types you're not supposed to use your primary weapon to take them out and I recommend bringing a support strategy like the stall wart to help deal with those Close Encounters because like I said earlier if you get rushed you are going to end up blowing yourself up so it's probably a good idea to have your secondary weapon as something with a high rate of fire like the machine gun pistol or what I like to personally do is call in the star wart machine gun and use that as my primary weapon for up close and personal stuff and then I switch back to the r36 Eruptor for anything that's mid to far range and honestly I don't really have any complaints the only nitpick I could maybe have is that it only has five shots but the damage output is so powerful that I can excuse the five shots I honestly think this is an S tier weapon I'm in love with this with my first impressions I was blown away by it like I said I think this should be a support weapon that you call in with a strategy I think it's that good I give this weapon like a 10 out of 10 I I absolutely love this weapon and it's honestly probably one of my new favorite weapons in all of Hell divers 2 so next up I want to go over the gp31 grenade pistol and I don't think I'm going to have any controversial take with this weapon cuz I mean it's exactly what it sounds like it's just a grenade pistol you get one shot with it although currently it's glitched where sometimes you spawn in and you'll have two shots loaded in it and it comes with eight shots in total before you have to go looking for more ammo now this is basically just a miniature version of the support grenade launcher that you can call in as a strategy except you only get one shot at a time and you can't rapid fire it now this is a great utility weapon this isn't the weapon that you switch to to just Panic fire and blow everything up that's not going to work especially if an enemy gets super close up into your face the grenades are just going to bounce right off of their armor and it's not going to do anything and if you find yourself in that sweet spot the explosion damage can hurt you and kill you so you definitely don't want to pull this out and panic fire grenades anyway cuz you know obviously you're going to kill yourself so you're going to want to bring the gp31 grenade pistol with you if you want some additional help clearing out some of the objectives so for example the grenade pistol is great at blowing up those shipping containers so you can get that sweet loot it's great at blowing up fences if you need to destroy a fence for whatever reason and then obviously it's great at doing explosive damage so if you see a small group of enemies clustered up together you can kill them all at once and then this weapon really shines when it comes to blowing up bug holes or robot factories maybe you're out of grenades and you have no other option to blow up these robot factories that's a problem I personally always run run into I seem to never have grenades on my person so having the gp31 grenade pistol on you you can just swap to your secondary shoot a quick grenade down the hole and congratulations you just blew yourself up a robot Factory and it's also really good when it comes to blowing up the termined spores and the termined eggs and I honestly don't have too many complaints with the grenade pistol it's a great secondary option for utility based missions I would pair this with some sort of machine gun though like the star wart or the heavy machine gun and then have your primary be either a sh shot gun or an assault rifle you definitely don't want to make the same mistake I did where I paired the secondary with a primary explosive weapon something like the Eruptor or the Dominator because if enemies get straight up in your face and you have a primary and a secondary weapon that does explosive damage you're either going to get sworn by the enemy or you're going to accidentally blow yourself up in the process but like I said this is a great utility weapon I don't really have any complaints it does what it's designed to do and it does a pretty good job of it and the gp31 grenade pistol has my seal of approval and next up let's talk about the g123 thermite grenade now I had high hopes for this grenade and maybe that's why I'm disappointed with it but I'm disappointed with this it's it's not that good especially when you compare it to the other grenades like the impact grenade or just the default grenade it does so little damage and based off of like watching the trailer and the description of it it says it's a thermite grenade designed to adhere to surfaces before burning at 2 1,000° C capable of burning through some armor and it says it does 100 damage it has seven penetration a radius of two in a fuse time of basically 3 seconds and based off of the trailer gaml it looked like this was just going to be a sticky grenade that you you know stick it to the weak spots and then it burns through the armor well it just doesn't really work that good I tried a number of different scenarios I tried sticking it to hulks I tried sticking it to Chargers I tried sticking it to tanks and the Damage numbers is just so low it basically takes every grenade you have and then some to kill one enemy I just don't see the appeal of this grenade I figured maybe throwing it into large groups would do some damage and get me a lot of kills but basically everything I tried I was disappointed with now you can still use these grenades to blow up the factories or the bug holes and you can use them to blow up termined eggs but honestly in comparison to the other grenades this grenade sucks in all those categories as well because it's a sticky grenade it makes it really hard to get the grenade to fall directly into the factory holes same kind of goes for the bug Nest you kind of have to get really close to the bug nest and throw the grenade directly into the hole otherwise if the grenade sticks to the surface of the hole it's not going to blow it up and yeah I just wasn't that impressed with this grenade I guess I was expecting this to just absolutely shred through weak spots on enemies I was expecting to like hit a charger in the face and it would just burn through his face and kill it same goes for the robots I figured if I'd hit a robot in the weak spot it would you know do damage over time and just burn through its armor but even if the grenade does kill your target it's going to do it very slowly and over time so the enemies are still going to be chasing you they're still going to be shooting at you while it's burning them so it has a very slow kill time it's not good at taking out crowds it's not good at taking out objectives it's not good at damaging weak spots I don't really know what this grenade is good at and I had this grenade equipped all day with every load out when I was testing every single weapon this is the only grenade that I used cuz I really wanted to test it out in every scenario to see if maybe I was missing something but after playing with it all day my first impression is that this grenade sucks and I would rather use pretty much any other grenade when it comes to any scenario um So based off my first impressions I do not recommend the G23 thermite grenade and hopefully we see it get some kind of buff in the future which now brings me to the final weapon on this list which is the final weapon that you can unlock in the war bond and it's the cb9 exploding crossbow and this weapon has some pretty stiff competition considering it's also in the explosive category same as the Eruptor so this thing had to be pretty good for it to impress me and honestly at first I wasn't impressed I just got done using the Eruptor and anything outside of the Eruptor just felt weak in comparison so when I was using this crossbow I was like dang this thing kind of sucks you can't use it to blow up fences you can't use it to blow up containers so it has very little environment impact but to break down this weapon it has no additional attachments it has no flashlight it has no different Zoom variations of the scope all you get is a Red Dot scope which I do enjoy I I do really enjoy the scope on this weapon it has only one firing mode and it can fire five shots before it has to be reloaded and it can be reloaded a total of 12 times which gives you 60 total shots and then for the stats it does a crazy 420 damage which is technically more than the Eruptor even though it doesn't feel that way it has a capacity of five like I previously said it has a recoil of 35 and a fire rate of 50 and for its weapon trait it does explosive damage and when it came to the range test I wanted to see how far you could shoot this before it dropped off and it has a pretty crazy drop off to it at about 30 m anything past 30 m you basically have to just aim up in the sky and Arch your shots because the drop off is just crazy you're going to see the most use out of this weapon in the 20 to 30 m range so like I said I wasn't a big fan of this weapon at first especially after using the Eruptor but after using it for a couple hours it really started to grow on me and honestly I really really enjoy this crossbow this is meant to be for crowd control think of the spray and prey shotgun how it's designed to take out the smaller enemy types that's kind of what this crossbow is designed to do you just shoot it into crowds of enemies try to aim at their feet and it will do a bunch of explosive damage and it can very easily and quickly take out a large group of enemies another thing I really like about this crossbow is that it can one shot kill the robot Scouts the little mini atrts it can just one shot kill those so that's great and in all my testing this is by far the number one weapon when it comes to blowing up the bug eggs if you have a bug egg Mission forget the shotguns this is the go-to weapon it will just melt through the bug eggs and like two shots so it's s TI when it comes to blowing up bug eggs and in case you're wondering it can't blow up the bug holes or the robot factories because you know that would be too good to be true and would be a little overpowered and if you're going to be using the crossbow I recommend the same thing that I did with the Eruptor and it's to either bring a secondary with a high rate of fire or some sort of support strategy like the heavy machine gun or the star warts just something to give you a high rate of fire because if enemies get up in your face and you try to shoot them up close you are going to blow yourself up the explosive damage is insane with this thing and it can very easily kill you and your teammates if you're not careful so I recommend if you use the crossbow use it for anything that's you know about 30 m and then if anything gets up close to you switch to something with a high rate of fire I also found that the crossbow is really good at taking out drop ship enemies instead of shooting the entire ship down with a rocket launcher or a quazar cannon or whatever just shoot the underneath part with the crossbow and you can very easily Wipe Out the entire group of enemies in just one to two shots and then when it comes to both factions I found that the crossbow is honestly pretty good against both the terminats and the automatons you know obviously some weapons perform better against certain factions and I found that the crossbow works good against both factions now I won't claim that the crossbow is like god tier but I do feel that it's an allaround really good weapon if I had to put it in like a tier list just First Impressions I'd probably put it at like a tier I don't really have too many complaints with it and honestly I don't really want it to be buffed cuz I feel like it would be too overpowered at that point honestly I just feel like it's in a good spot but that does it for all of my first impressions of all the brand new weapons that were recently added in the latest war bond let me know what you guys think down in the comment section down below let me know what your favorite new weapon is and if you guys have any tips and tricks for the new weapons or if I just completely Overlook something then let me know down in the comments and I'll be sure to give it a heart so everyone else can see it now that is going to do it for me guys if you're new here please hit the Subscribe button and hit the bell for notifications it's greatly appreciated consider giving this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and that's going to do it for me guys and I will talk to you all in the next video [Music] go

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Length: 19min 19sec (1159 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2024