Stress Testing The New META Weapons In Helldivers 2 (Tier List)

welcome back everyone to a brand new Howers 2 video with the introduction of the brand new premium war bond we've had a plethora of weapons as well as some utilities grenades and so on introduced into the game so I decided to go ahead and stress test some of the new meta weapons and kind of give my overview on them so without any further Ado let's get straight into the video like I said with the introduction of this new war Bon we've had new armor and weapons introduced such as the Las s16 CLE the ark 12 Blitzer and the sgap plasma Punisher now some of these weapons are actually really good and I think you're going to slot into the new meta and some of them are absolutely abysmal in my opinion and are not worth using now we've had some new armor introduced but the armor that was introduced is not really that insane it just gives you a 95% resistance to Arc damage and they all do the exact same thing so they are good and you can do some interesting things with the Tesla Tower but beyond that that's pretty much all you can do with them but they do look cool so I guess they have that going for them so it's going to the main P of the video and actually start testing kind of doing an overview of each of these weapons and kind of telling you guys what I think are the new meta weapons weet weapons that you should actually be using your medals for so the first weapon we're going to get into is the L 16 CLE which like I said earlier is an energy based rifle it has pretty good damage um and a really good fire rate and it also has light armor penetrating but it does overheat so you have to keep that in mind now this thing like I said is an absolute Powerhouse it kind of reminds me of like a little minigun it fires really fast and really consistently it has a pretty decent mag size as well or whatever you want to call it it actually does really well clearing out large packs of enemies and it does pretty good on the AOE as well now this performs really well in the bugs is allowing you to take out some of the weaker enemies really quickly and even some of the kind of tank your enemies just like the Warriors the you know little mini Chargers um it does pretty well against them and you can actually sit there and keep consistent fire on them which will result in consistent damage now once you're going against the Chargers obviously this does not have really any medium penetration so you're not going to crack legs and armor off like you would with like the rail gun and so on but it will do really good damage if if you can actually crack them open and expose that weak point on that enemy now I would advise using something like the rail gun to go ahead and charge and like I said crack the actual armor off and then you can go ahead and pull out the CLE and really destroy them within a few seconds or you can do something like the impacts as well and kill them really quickly it really depends on what you're trying to do but I would advise bringing something that you can crack armor off pretty easily with is because this weapon cannot achieve that but like I said it actually does really good against the little bugs the Chargers it does decent against if you can get that weak point up but even at the backs side where you can destroy the abdominal section and make him bleed out you can destroy it pretty quickly with the sickle so overall it's actually pretty good and I think it's going to be one of the new metal weapons for the bugs now moving on to the bot side the SLE actually does pretty well as well being able to destroy enemies pretty quickly and even once you're going against stuff like the hulks and the you know the ones with the flamethrowers and stuff on them it actually does pretty well as well now if you combine this with the new grenade which is the stun grenade it actually is able to stun a lot of enemies if not every enemy in the game um I've been able to stun like Chargers bile Titans um what do you call it the hulks and so on the only thing I have not tested it on is the tanks like I said it's actually able to stun them and you can kind of go in and rate behind to that weak point and finish them off really quickly with the sickle um so it is a really good weapon and even against like I said the little enemies this thing's actually able to shred them you're able to keep that constant fire since it has such a large you know like magazine size and you're able to put that constant damage out and really destroy a lot of enemies before you actually need to reload or Retreat to your squad or whatever you want to call it now this does not have like no alternate firing modes no charge modes no nothing the only thing you can do with it is change the actual scope zoom level but I think that this weapon is a really good fit and I think this easily fits into like the S tier and the new metal weapons I think you can easily be rocking this and I actually have been using it a lot recently and I've been in love with it um since it has came out so I am one of the advocates for this weapon to be in the meta tier but um if you guys have a difference of opinion or your testing has resulted in different results please let me know in the comment section below now speaking of that grenade the G23 stun like I said is actually really really useful now the only issue with using this is that you can obviously destroy like uh what you call Nest spawns you can't destroy the spawners of the bot side just because it is a stun Nate not an explosive so if you're going to run that you're going to have to run something that can destroy the actual Nest so do keep that in mind but like I said it's able to stun pretty much every enemy um Chargers is able to stun even bile Titans is able to stun for like 3 to 4 seconds um you're able to stun hulks most of the bot enemies I only thing I haven't tested on is tanks um but I would assume you're able to stun them as well if you're able to stun B Titans like I said it's actually a really good grenade and I think this easily is up there um in like you know the a tier and possibly even in the S tier the only reason I wouldn't say the only like bad thing about the Nate is like I said is you can't destroy the nest and the bot spawners but beyond that it is a really good grenade allowing you to reposition on enemies to that weak point as well as like battle TI and stuff like that um you know your chargers you can throw it down and really get in their face to do the damage if you're running you know like an arc thrower or something that has a projectile base that you need to get all those pellets to hit absolutely amazing allows you to reposition or if you have a B on you can throw it behind you and run away it is really versatile and useful against both the Bots and the bugs now moving on to the next weapon that I've tested is the SG uh Punisher plasma shotgun now this one is pretty good um I wouldn't say it is like a new metal weapon and the only reason I say that is because if on the bug side this is a AOE explosion so you can easily kill yourself and if you're going to get hit by like a stalker or if you're trying to run away you know or you have an enemy that's rushing you um and gets in your face you can easily kill yourself with and like a good general rule of thumb is you pretty much don't want to take any you know like AOE explosive weapons into the Bots just because like I said you not to the Bots but to the bug just because they can get in your face and if they do that you can easily kill yourself or you can kill your teammates um and it's such there's you know such like big pack of bugs when you're going against it especially on the New Missions it is actually insane having 10 you know plus bile Titans and five 10 Chargers running after you like you're going to need a weapon that is able to put out a lot of damage quickly um and just the Punisher is just not able to really do that uh so that's why I said that like it is not in the meta but you know it still is able to kill uh the Chargers on average if you don't crack any of the armor off and you're just using this to try to hit that weak point side or the abdominal side of like Chargers usually about six to eight shots will actually kill a charger and with a bile Titan I haven't really fully fully tested but I have heard from some people you can kill a bot Titan if you actually are able to get under its underbelly and shoot it but obviously doing that in the higher tiers is pretty much not going to be possible cuz you're going to have so much other stuff going on so you're pretty much not going to be able to baltin with this the little guys um I forget the names of them but like the little mini Chargers um they're not fully like armored but they still have some type of armor they're able to be killed in around four to five shots so like I said it's not able to really kill them quickly but it's still able to kill them um you know in a decent amount of time but comparing that to like the sickle it just is not able to kill it uh kill the enemies as quickly on the bug side now to the bot side it is still able to do good damage and still able to kill the enemies quickly but it's not going to be comparable to the sickle um it is still a good weapon and I think I would throw it an a tier but I don't think it is going to be a new metal weapon um just because the CLE just does everything this does better but there's still you know it's still early to really really really say for sure that this is its final spot so I'm going to be testing more and um if you guys enjoy this type of video definitely let me know by hitting that like And subscribe button and I will do a follow up on it to where we can really go ahead and I fully test this and stress test and see all the mechanics and see you know exactly what this is able to do now those are the weapons I think are really notable and that are you know like really uh good to use um obviously the sickles and like I think a new metal weapon that everybody should be using and The Punisher I think is a good fun weapon that's an a tier but I don't think it's an insane weapon that's going to be a new meta um I do think the stung grenade is 100% um going to be a metag grenade to use but now the last uh two weapons I haven't really tested fully and my footage before got corrupted and I wanted to get this video out to you guys but is the ark2 Blitzer shotgun which is like the arc thrower shotgun it's not really that good and I heard from other people that it just has way too slow of a fire rate it basically you the fire rate is comparable to fully charging an ark thrower and it's just not going to do you know the the it's not it doesn't have a charge time so you're not going to be able to half charge it like you are with the ark thrower and really get it out there um so it's not really comparable to the arc thrower it's still better now I did hear that it does more damage Point Blank but that issue is you got to be really you know point blank with enemies whereas the ark thrower does its damage pretty much from any range and I do think the ark Blitzer does have a range fallof so in my opinion it is not that good um especially the hype around it I thought it was going to be a lot better especially you know being a Arc thrower shotgun variant I was like okay this should be doing more damage up close you know um maybe having a little bit less damage or something better fire rate I don't know do more damage point blank or something or something you know that is going to have the edge over the arc thrower but sadly it just seems like the arc thrower is better than the ar2 Blitzer shotgun now the next thing that I was going to go with is the la7 dagger now this is the only weapon I haven't really tested so I can't give my full thoughts on it but if you guys know um you know if it's good or not the pros and cons please let us in the community know down in the comment section below and like I said last thing is just the armor all have the same type of passive which is the electrical conduit which provides 95% resistance to Arc damage but you can actually use this and use like the arc Tower to throw down which you can basically sit in it because you're only going to take about 5% damage from it um so that is a nice thing you can use a nice Synergy there but besides that it pretty much covers up the whole thing um I haven't tested like I said the booster as well where it increases the time between enemy encounters I don't know exactly the you know full duration that it increases how many seconds it gives you whatever the case but um that is pretty much it it covers up the whole premium war bonds like I said if you guys are enjoying this video please hit that like And subscribe button and I will put out a fully fully in-depth uh mechanics you know overview of each an individual weapon and really dive in to see how good or bad they are I hope you guys enjoyed the video and found something new that you may not have known and I hope the info was relevant and useful to you guys hope you guys have a great rest of your day or night depending when you're watching this video and I'll see you guys in the next one peace

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Length: 10min 55sec (655 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 14 2024