Stress Testing Helldivers 2's Most EXPLOSIVE Gun - INSANE DAMAGE!

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be looking at one of

the newer weapons in Helldivers 2, the

R-36 Eruptor. It's the only explosive

primary weapon that actually has bullets

that explode, kind of like a grenade.

It's pretty cool. It's kind of like a

bolter gun from the Warhammer 40K

universe, but it's single fire and it does

take a long time to reload, but the damage

on this thing is absolutely insane. So as

you can see from the weapon traits, we

have medium armor penetrating, so it's

going to be great against pretty much

almost all of the enemies in this game

apart from the ones with heavy armor. And

it's also explosive, it does 420 damage.

And yeah, you can see the other stats

here. So to get this gun, you need to get

onto the Democratic Detonation Warbond

page, and it's on the second page.

You can find it here, it doesn't take too

long to get. And today we have a look at

this gun and test it out against various

enemies. So first of all, one of the cool

things you can do with this gun is

actually shoot these mushroom objectives,

and it won't do anything. Okay. Oh,

that's because I had the, the wrong weapon

equipped. I've got the Breaker shotgun

equipped for some reason. Hold on. Okay,

so anyway, I actually have the gun

equipped this time. As you can see, this

gun, you move it around, there is quite a

lot of lag between the little circle

following the dot. So it is quite a slow

weapon. It's not a very responsive weapon

if you want something to be very quick and

nimble, like the SMG is very quick like

that. You move it around very quick and

responsive. The Eruptor is a much slower

weapon. You only get 4 rounds before you

have to reload it, but look at the damage.

Watch this. So it just blows

stuff up. Watch. It's basically like a

grenade launcher, but instead of shooting

like an arc, a volley, it shoots a

straight line of an explosive round like

that. So it basically just one-shots these

tiny guys. And it can do substantial

damage against armored enemies. So these

are the armored walkers, and it

will do AoE damage, explosive damage

towards them, because it's explosive.

So for example, against these guys, it

basically one or two shots them. That guy

just died in one shot after I blew his

head off, and obviously these guys, they

all get blown up. Like this. So I just

killed 5 all at once. So it is a pretty

good way of blowing stuff up against the

smaller critters. It can wipe them out,

but if they're on your backside, it's not

a very good crowd control weapon. You do

have to have some distance between you,

and because you can only shoot 4 bullets

at a time, it does mean you're gonna

reload it quite often, and it's kind of a

slow weapon, so you're not really gonna be

clearing out masses of enemies with it.

Really, it's best against medium armored

enemies and also objectives in the

distance. Like earlier I showed you that

big mushroom, I accidentally had the

shotgun equipped instead of this one,

otherwise I would have been able to blow

it up from distance. Against the Bile

Titan, unfortunately it doesn't really do

much because it's only medium armor

penetrating, but I think you can get its

weak spots like its bum. If you can get a

good shot on its bum when it lifts up its

tail, you might be

able to do some damage on the green bit,

but I keep missing, so whatever. And the

other thing you have to be careful of is

that— so you can accidentally blow

yourself up pretty easily if you're too

near to where the impact is and send

yourself flying. So it can be a dangerous

weapon if you've got enemies on your

backside. You can shoot the enemies and

the explosion will hit you too if you're

standing too close to where the explosion

happens. So it is kind of a dangerous

weapon in that sense. I don't know if you

can destroy the buildings with it. No,

you can't destroy buildings with it,

but you can blow a lot of stuff up, which

is pretty interesting. Well, what just

happened there? Watch this. Shoot its

green bottom. I missed it. So you

gotta be careful because it does take a

few seconds for the aiming thing to

actually catch up. Don't step on me.

It is a really slow— oh, I blew up its

bottom and its leg is stuck in the air.

So you can blow up its bottom. I don't

know if I can shoot it in the face and it

will do anything. It's just blowing myself

up. Can I shoot that bit? Oh, you can

shoot that middle bit, I didn't know that.

Interesting. And I'm going to step into a

minefield. Hmm,

but I don't really think there's much else

you can do with the Bile Titan apart from

those 2 green sacks.

There's loads of them. Maybe the 500 kg

bomb? Orbital laser,

and I've got EMS strike. I don't think

that's gonna be very useful.

Come on, when's he gonna kill it?

Oh my god, everything— and I'm stuck in

the corner. Against Chargers, you can

shoot it in the bum as well.

Oh, I killed all the Titans. Oh, look at

these guys. I don't know if this gun's

any— oh, it just blew itself up.

Oh, it's pretty good at one-shotting these

things too. Look at that, I just one-shot

them.

Oh my god, I just blew that thing up.

So yeah, it's a pretty powerful gun.

One-shot, single-fire, bolt-action.

But you do want to pair it with like a

submachine gun to give yourself some

clearing power if you do get swarmed.

It's not very useful to have this

single-shot bolt-action thing.

It is really slow to aim as well.

I blew its bum off again.

Whoa, move! Why isn't it moving? Come on!

And against the Automatons, it's pretty

good as well. Yes, like I was saying,

against the Automatons, obviously you

one-shot those guys. You can shoot that

guy and it would bounce off because he's a

big guy. But yeah, it's a

pretty good gun. Shoot like that.

If you shoot for the weak points, these

guys, pretty easy too.

Wait, I gotta reinforce my team. So

stupid,

I'm missing all these.

3, 2— I nearly got out of the combat zone.

I missed again.

So these guys are not so easy to kill.

I've shot this guy loads.

What? See, that's the annoying thing, the

enemy's right in your face, you keep

blowing yourself up. Whoa, what is that?

I've never seen that big thing. That must

be new. I'm a traitor now, am I?

That's a new thing. Factory Strider.

Interesting. I haven't played this game

in a while. So yeah, in general, it's a

pretty good gun. It destroys light armored

things in one hit, medium armored things

in a few hits. Heavy armored things,

well, you can't really kill those because

it's not powerful enough. But yeah, it's a

pretty good gun. I rate it 6.2 out of 10.

Thanks for watching,