Stress Testing Helldivers 2's HORRIBLE New update...

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

as you may know, Helldivers 2 has had a

massive new update buffing some weapons

and absolutely nerfing other weapons. And

here is a list of some of the buffs and

nerfs. So here is a quick list on some of

the changes in the game. Most noticeably,

the railgun has been nerfed. Safe mode for

the railgun makes it so it can't really

penetrate armor. You need to put it into

unsafe mode, and even then it'll take more

shots than it used to take. The breaker

shotgun has a reduced magazine capacity

now. The Spray and Pray does more damage

now and also has more pellets per shot.

The flamethrower has also had an increase

of damage by 50% damage per second. So as

you can see, I'm using the railgun now,

and usually what I used to do was aim for

the legs to crack its armor, or sometimes

the head to get a headshot after shooting

at its head for a few shots. But now you

can see every single bullet is just

ricocheting off the Armored Charger's

armor, and I'm not doing any damage at

all. The safe mode on the railgun is

basically Completely useless now, and it

used to be the meta gun, the gun that

everyone took to defeat Chargers, and now

it's like a toy. It's like a BB gun

bouncing pellets off his back, so it's not

very usable anymore. So the Shield

Generator Backpack and the Railgun used to

be the meta loadout for Helldivers 2, but

now you barely see anyone using it. Look

at this on this Charger. The bullets just

bounce right off. It's completely useless

against the Chargers. As you can see, you

have to put it into unsafe mode, and then

once in unsafe mode, you can do this.

See, and then it does damage. But you run

risk if you hold it down too long

charging, you might blow yourself up. So

you gotta be really careful, and you need

to use aim down the sights because then

you can actually see the charging thing

charge up. But it's kind of difficult

tricking— aiming like that if you're used

to aiming like this. So you have to kind

of get used to that. Otherwise you can't

really see— well, you can kind of see it

on the side of the rifle, but it's a bit

small and not super noticeable. So really,

the railgun, if you really want to use the

railgun like before, you're going to have

to now use it on unsafe mode like that.

But again, you've got to be really careful

because you can accidentally

blow yourself up pretty easily. So we got

another charger here. Yeah, you can still

do it. It's just a lot trickier now that

you can't rely on safe mode. The other

annoying thing is because on safe mode it

never blows up, you can just hold the

charge forever basically. So if you want

to wait a little bit to get a better shot,

you could do that. But with unsafe mode,

if you keep holding the charge, you're

just gonna self-destruct yourself. So I'll

blow myself up to show you what it looks

like. Basically like that. You can kind of

take some enemies out with you using the

explosion, but it's not recommended.

Also, you may have noticed the kill bugs

is now 500 bugs instead of 185. So people

farming the Eradicate or Exterminate

missions to get easy XP will now have to

defeat 500 enemies instead of 185 enemies.

So before, people were farming these

missions and finishing them in 2 minutes.

They'll just spam a load of sentries,

kind of go AFK, and And the sentries would

just flatten everything easily. You can't

really do that anymore. You kind of

actually have to play the mission now,

and it doesn't take 2 minutes. Usually it

takes like 5 or 6 minutes now, and it's a

lot more challenging. The Automaton

mission, same thing, 500 Automatons now

instead of 185, and it's way more

challenging. You can't just sit at the top

of the base. So they've definitely nerfed

the ability to farm these missions like

before, and I think it's a good thing. I

think there's a lot less people trying to

farm these missions now. And actually

playing the other missions and trying to

actually play the game properly instead of

just sentry spamming and AFKing.

When it comes to the shotguns, we have

some major changes. So the Punisher now

does 405 damage instead of 360 damage like

it did before, so does a lot more damage.

It's also got bigger capacity and carries

more rounds. And the Slugger is basically

the same from what I see. The Breaker

Spray and Pray has been buffed quite a

lot. It now actually penetrates armor and

it does much more damage. It used to say

140 damage, now it says 192, which is

great. The Breaker shotgun has been nerfed

a tiny bit, does same damage, but it now

has less capacity from 16 to 13. So it's

only a tiny bit, and also the recoil has

been buffed, so it now is less of a stable

gun. And the Breaker Incendiary, I think

that's pretty much the same. Next up,

next up we have the laser cannon, and this

has been dramatically buffed. And we'll

just find out how buffed it has been if I

can get back to the center of the map

before being bombarded as a traitor. So

let's have a look at the laser cannon. So

it's supposedly supposed to do better

armor penetration and supposed to be doing

more damage. So it takes down the light

enemies pretty quickly. Some people saying

that this is going to be the new meta gun

to replace the railgun, but I don't really

see it. I mean, with the light enemies,

it does short work of them.

Joe Thomas Fan, you are gonna get kicked

if you do that again. Stupid teammates

killing me. So you can see people now

using other weapons, not the railgun.

This guy's got a spear, that guy's got the

laser cannon as well. No one's reinforcing

me. Okay, get my laser cannon back.

Where is it? Did someone steal it? I think

someone stole my laser cannon. Oh my god,

where's my flamethrower? Oh, it didn't

drop down. That's weird. I called it

twice. Oh well, here's the Breaker spray

and pray. You can see it's much better

now. Look, it actually does what it's

supposed to do, spray and pray, and takes

down loads of enemies. It takes down light

armored enemies pretty easily. Look at

that, just a few shots.

And I think this guy stole my— no, he's

got the spear. Someone stole my laser

cannon. So it's pretty good at taking out

swarms. Let's check out the flamethrower.

It's supposed to be doing 50% more DPS,

but There's a big Charger guy coming.

It's actually supposed to be quite good at

taking down the Chargers now, and your

teammates. So how long does it take to

kill one of these Chargers now? Oh, it

took a whole canister! That's not bad. So

you can kill one Charger using one entire

round of the flamethrower. So the

railgun seems like it can be replaced with

either— well, the laser cannon is really

rubbish against the Chargers because The

laser just bounces off its armor, so the

flamethrower might be the new meta gun to

be using against the Chargers.

Interesting. Aha, I found

my laser cannon, but then I just got bile

spewed. I'll try and finish the video up

with some testing of the laser cannon so

we can see if it's actually good, which

it's not. Where is it? Land on

a Bile Titan. These defense missions have

gotten so difficult. Oh my god,

I nearly got stepped on again. Oh my god,

he just shredded that Charger's armor with

his vomit. I can't even get to the

freaking laser cannon.

Everyone's getting melted. Also, the

Hellpod thing takes a couple shots now to

kill the Bile Titans instead of just one.

Oh, that's the spear. Oh, look at all the

bullets just bouncing off. I just get bile

spewed from every direction now.

So hard to take them out. Where's my laser

cannon? Oh, it's behind me. Oh my god,

the hell is going on?

They've nerfed the game so much now. I

mean, they've made the game so much more

difficult, but they've also nerfed all the

weapons, so it has just become

nightmarishly Annoying.

I'm gonna get stepped on again, aren't I?

Maybe it's good if you like a challenge,

but this is too much of a challenge.

I was thinking Helldiver difficulty is

kind of easy. There's my laser cannon. So

I got a laser cannon. Watch this,

it just bounces off heavy armor.

Oh my god, I can't fucking do anything.