Helldivers 2 - Slugger vs Breaker Direct Comparison (Helldiver Difficulty, Solo Tips)

as of lately I've been searching for a weapon to use over the breaker as the breaker is such an amazing weapon but it does get a bit old using the same weapon over and over again but I also wanted to use something that is also clearly powerful and after doing my research time and time again players will recommending the Slugger shotgun which is a very accurate shotgun that fires slug rounds that is capable of one hitting pretty much every single unit from small to mediumsized units as long as you precisely hit their weak spots so naturally that got my attention and I figured I'd try it out so in today's video I'll break down my findings and my thoughts on these two weapons in comparison and we'll find out whether the Slugger has what it takes to Dethrone the breaker shotgun do note that my experience comes from a solo hell diver player that plays on the higher difficulties so my experience is strictly bound to that grouped players or lower difficulty players may have a different experience than what I had anyways we'll be looking at these weapons from a statistical point of view as well as my own personal experience and thoughts for each one of these weapons as I stated earlier the sler shotgun packs a hell of a punch doing roughly about 280 damage per shot which is enough to take down all of the small to medium targets with just one clean precise shot the Slugger also has the capability of blowing up doors with one shot instead of having to waste a grenade and is very accurate at long ranges due to its slug shots and is capable of blowing up most enemies Limbs and weak spots with just one shot it makes for a very powerful Choice when going up against the tomaton as the Precision shots to enemies weak spots is far more important unlike the terminats generally weak spots on terminats are often times not as relevant for the smaller units but does it have enough power to outperform the breaker the answer is no sadly it doesn't matter of fact the Slugger has the third weakest damage per second statistic out of all weapons available in Hell divers 2 so far only slightly beating the Liberator explosive and the last five Scythe bath battery weapon to give you an idea of how large of a difference we're talking about here the Slugger has a DPS of 373 whereas the breaker can pull off 1,650 damage per second well over four times as much DPS now that's not to say that the breaker is four times better than the Slugger the DPS count on the weapon isn't what's going to make a weapon simply better than another there are a lot of different factors that go into a weapon that can make it better than others it's not just pure damage the problem is the Slugger loses in most aspects comparing with the breaker let's just quickly go over a few of them the Slugger fully supplied will bring you an ammo count of 56 shots whereas the breaker will carry 128 shot the Slugger has a Reload time of about 5.3 seconds to fully reload granted you can shoot while reloading but still the breaker will fully reload at 16 shots in only 2 seconds more than twice as fast the Slugger has a fire rate of 80 shots per minute the breaker can shoot 300 shots per minute more than three times as fast so generally statistically the breaker will outperform the Slugger in every sense of the word but there is one factor that doesn't play much into statistics the Slugger will do 280 damage per shot the breaker will do 330 but the thing is the Slugger shoots slugs meaning there is minimal spread so the entire 280 damage is more concentrated in one location whereas the breaker will have a pellet spread making the Slugger better at dealing with weak spots or in other words better at dealing with automatons from longer ranges and not just that but despite it not being listed the Slugger is actually a medium armor penetration weapon making it even better at dealing with automatons Statistics aside I took both weapons on several hell diver difficulty solo matches and tried them both out extensively for terminated factions there isn't much of a conversation here sadly for solo play the Slugger firing much slower reloading much slower and having less than half the ammo count the breaker has is simply too big of a burden to carry when you're having to deal with dozens of bugs constantly swarming you from every direction what is great about the Slugger for IDs though is that it will one shot a hunter whereas the breaker from the usual range will take two shots but that's about the only positive thing I found for the Slugger when dealing with the terminate the breaker against the terminates will win 10 times out of 10 there is no situation at which I would recommend the Slugger over the breaker for automatons though is where the question arises of whether the Slugger can compete I'm actively on the search for a better weapon to deal with automatons as I don't quite feel the breaker is going to be my best choice but sadly I don't think the Slugger is quite it it's amazing at hitting those weak spots I can't lie and I won't sit here and say the breaker is much better than the Slugger for automatons because it isn't I mean it is a little bit better due to its far increased ammo count but the Slugger shouldn't be slept on in automaton play at all the biggest issue about the Slugger is still the fact that it shoots so slow meaning you'll still get swarmed pretty easily and having to reload extremely slowly while being rocketed isn't particularly my idea of a fun time also hell divers 2 has an insane amount of flinch or aim punt whatever it is that you want to call it you know when you get shot and your aim goes right up into the sky yeah that even the weakest of hits mess up your aim badly make it extremely frustrating to deal with weak spots the more enemy there are as you're constantly flinching as you're constantly getting shot at whereas the breaker has more of that blindly spam your weapon and hope for the best factor that can save you quite often when dealing with smaller guys and Berserkers so all in all can the Slugger Dethrone the breaker for solo play not really which is a bit of a shame for automaton some players may want to opt in for accuracy and I could definitely find myself using the Slugger some games especially in group play as there won't be as much aim flinching but solo players will be quickly punished as soon as they're sworn by little guys that won't quite allow you to be very accurate now my own personal search continues for another weapon that can be greatly used in Solo play and I'll go ahead and make sure to let you guys know when that happens and until then go spread some democracy hell divers I'll catch you guys on the next one peace

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Length: 6min 23sec (383 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2024