What's the difference between ASSAULT RIFLES in Helldivers 2?

what is each assault rifle actually for the standard Liberator so the standard Liberator is just a really good allrounder and is the best damage dealer of the three assault rifles in the category it's got decent damage a nice capacity on its mag full auto so you could just keep the DPS up as much as possible it's mostly going to be for mowing down the smaller lighter stuff like Hunters scavengers and warriors whether that's up close or far away cuz this weapon can do both really well one of the more overlooked advantages to the assault rifles I think is the fact that you have this long range scope allowing you to take things out from a safe distance perhaps from some nice High Ground so a versatile damage dealer overall what about its downsides well it's only got light armor penetration so it's going to struggle with certain targets and kind of limits how many enemies it can really effectively take on another downside you could make at the time of making this video is that the defender submachine gun simply outclasses this weapon it does more damage per shot it's got less recoil it does have a bit of a slower fire rate but generally you might want to bring that over this and I certainly think there's a case to be made there it's good to be able to shoot behind you although you don't have the long range scope on the defender so if you do want a bit more longrange capability I think this is the choice personally I only really use this for bugs as it's good for taking out lots of targets quickly and the Bots don't really have lots of targets and if they do they're very often medium armor so you need something different something better for that job enter the penetrator so a lot of people seem to think that this weapon sucks because they compare the stats to the standard Liberator and they see that it does less damage per shot it has a smaller capacity mag and it can't go full auto and when you look at them like that yep it is weaker than the standard Liberator at doing the job that the standard Liberator does that is taking down lots of light stuff quickly this isn't really meant to do that what the penetrator offers you is medium armor penetration which allows you to take down some of the more well armor tricky to deal with enemies much easier for example like the hive guard if you want to deal with this with the standard Liberator you have to try and shoot it in the feet or get around the back it's all a bit fiddly right to take out that t Target where with the Liberator you can just straight up blast it in the face or legs to take it out all the BIOS spewers they've got medium armor on the head you can just go straight through that and take them out in a few seconds all the light armor penetration weapons can't do that the same with Bots you can take down the chickens AKA Striders by shooting the lower half of them it's medium armor take them down that way all the Devastators they're made of a lot of medium armor you can gun them down quite quickly too for that reason I probably prefer this as a bot weapon although it can be good against bugs but with bugs you might want to bring something to help you out with the High numbers of little enemies that you can of course still deal with but just not as effectively as with the normal Liberator so if you do use it against bugs teaming it up with something like a r drone support pack can really help out with dealing with those little enemies and again you've got a nice scope great for sniping down all the different Bots overall I think it is a decent weapon you're just trading in some damage output to be able to deal with more different kinds of targets more effectively and to the last weapon in this category the concussive Liberator so this is another one that people think sucks and well I kind of have have to agree in this case it is a bit of a weird one it does the same damage as the standard Liberator but has half the fire rate so doesn't pump out the damage anywhere near as quickly and as such kind of sucks at dealing with a lot of smaller enemies so what is this thing actually designed for well it has explosive damage which means it can do full damage to bug squishy Parts namely charger butts spew butts and Titan balls the underside of a Titan anyway all normal weapons like the previous two weapons will only do 10% of their damage to these parts but explosive weap like the concussive Liberator will do their full damage so that's one advantage the second Advantage is that they can push things back they have the ability to stagger enemies interrupt them that's pretty useful that could stop Commander charges it could push back Berserkers it could interrupt rocket Devastators from firing it can stop breaching calls and perhaps best of all you can keep stalkers away from you just pushing them back constantly while still damaging them so both of those traits are very useful to have in a weapon but they are kind of Niche uses as such I think the trick to this weapon is that it's not supposed to really be a primary weapon you shouldn't run around with it in your hands at all times keep it on your back and pull it out when you need it for one of those Niche uses which means that you can use a support weapon as your primary weapon like a stalwart can be a fun choice just run around with that mowing down all the little bugs and Bots and then when the situation arises for you to make use of that push back or explosive damage just whip out your concussive boy and go to town at least that's how it appears to me you can make this weapon a little more viable because being able to stagger stuff and doing explosive damage is useful but do you need that all the time not really sometimes you just need pure damage output and the concussive Liberator does not really offer that and there's probably better combinations of weapons and stuff to use if you really do want knock back an explosive damage or you know just bring an auto Cannon cuz it does both but at the time of making this video I do think the concussive Liberator is a little underwhelming and could use a bit of a buff if anything changes in the future I'll drop it in a pinned comment but there we go that's the three weapons in the assault rifle category currently if you this helpful please consider liking the video it does really help a small Channel out and yes so we'll do this for the rest of the weapon categories so feel free to subscribe for that if you wish all right get back to fighting for Freedom will you stay liberated my friends

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Published: Sat Mar 23 2024