The Anti-Material Rifle： Testing the only REAL SNIPER type weapon in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Today we're going to be talking about the

anti-material rifle in Helldivers 2. It's

basically the only legitimate sniper

rifle. There are a few scoped battle

rifles, but they don't really come close

to the firepower of the anti-material

rifle. So this is a great long-range,

high-damage rifle, a great alternative to

the railgun. Although it doesn't do as

much damage as the railgun, it can still

do pretty good damage and destroy

medium-armored enemies. It doesn't really

do any damage against heavy armored

enemies like the Armored Charger or the

Armored Bile Spewers or the Bile Titans

like the railgun can, but it can destroy

the light and medium armored enemies in

just 1 or 2 shots. You've got a magazine

which can hold 6 bullets, so you can fire

6 shots before reloading, unlike the

railgun where you've got to reload

basically every shot. It's great at taking

down things like the Bile Spewers, the

walkers, the armored walkers, the Brood

Commanders as well also get headshot in

basically 1 shot. And as you can see, you

can kind of mow down enemies in

third-person view. So there's 2 aiming

modes. There's third-person, kind of like

this, without a crosshair, which is kind

of a weird way to use a sniper rifle, but

it does kind of work in close combat

quarters. If you've got enemies right in

front of you, it's better to use this

third-person mode rather than the

aim-down-the-sights scoped mode. So you do

have the scoped mode as well for

longer-range targets, and that's great

that you have this versatility of either

scoped mode or third-person mode. The

scope is probably the best scope in the

game. The railgun scope is kind of

rubbish, and all the other scopes in the

game are not as good as the scope on the

anti-material rifle. It really is probably

the best scope as a scoped rifle. So if

you're looking to play as like a sniper

assist support role, I think this is a

great rifle, better than some of the other

rifles in the game. Also, it destroys

stalkers. Watch this. I think I killed

this thing in 4 shots. 4 shots, great,

goes down really easily with the

anti-material rifle. Okay, so to get this

gun, you have to go to the ship management

modules and go to Strastums, and it's

actually one of the very first weapons you

unlock after the machine gun. So you can

get this gun really early on in the game.

It's only got a 480-second cooldown,

3-second cooling time. I don't know why

they don't show the damage. The gun does,

because when you go to weapons in the

armory here,

you can see all the stats like damage,

capacity, recoil, but for the support

weapons, they don't show you the stats for

some reason. Okay, so I'll show you some

sniper gameplay with the anti-material

rifle. You can't really do anything with

the options you've got. Oh, you've got

different scope settings, but for some

reason I can't choose it. I right-click,

I scroll, press up and down. So there's

50, 100, and 200-meter scope adjustments,

but I don't know what the button is.

I'm holding R. Is it X or Z?

C, WASD, Tab,

T, Y, or maybe 1, 2, 3? No.

So I don't know how you can change the

scope settings, but you can if you can

figure out which button you press. I guess

I just won't use the scope. It's not a bad

weapon if you don't use the scope. See, I

just one-shot that armored guy. Sometimes

you do need the scope though, to aim for

the head or something.

Look at these guys. Shoot it up the bum.

Takes a few shots. I think it took 4

Why are they spewing stuff out of their

anus hole? What are they actually shooting

out, I wonder?

Okay, so no enemies, great.

I don't like the scope when you move it

around like this. It's kind of delayed.

Look, there's this delayed feeling of

aiming the gun, and then you move the

scope around and there's a bit of a delay.

I don't like that. I don't like it when in

this game a lot of the guns have this

weird sway or delay of the cursor catching

up to the crosshairs. Feels weird.

It feels like it's lagging and it's not

responsive. So you can

take this guy out.

See, 5 shots— no, 6 shots.

How'd he get up there? Look at that.

So against the— how's the Bile Titan get

up there? It'd be fun if it took fall

damage. Oh,

it's dead.

Has anyone noticed the death animation of

the Bile Titans really glitching out

recently? When it dies, its legs flail

everywhere. Oh, they're trying to get up

there. I thought my team member was up

there. Why are they trying to get up

So I think you can reduce the sway if you

go prone.

Uh, feels the same. Prone and standing

doesn't really feel like there's any

How does he shoot like that? He rests the

tripod on his nutsack.

So against the Bile Titan, you can't

really do anything. I don't know if you

can shoot it in its mouth. It just bounces

off his tongue or something. He's got

heavy armor, bulletproof tongue armor.

Oh, I just one-shot— no, I didn't. I think

I one-shot it in the head. Oops, what's

Oops, didn't see that.

Stupid Bile Tyson always catches me by

It's funny, the biggest and largest,

loudest enemy keeps ambushing me.

I want to get on top of this mountain,

maybe do some sniping. The great

thing about this is you can land on the

mountain and use your sniper, unlike—

okay, I'm wrong.

For some reason I thought my anti-material

rifle was in my primary slot, and then I

was like, Why am I holding the Incendiary

Breaker? What happened to my sniper? I was

gonna say the good thing about it is you

can use it when you spawn on top of a

mountain because you've always got it

equipped, but you don't because I forgot

that it's actually a support weapon. Now

I'm kind of screwed by standing up here.

Maybe I'll just go prone. 20 seconds

for the barrage. I think I just killed my

whole team. Did I kill

my whole team with the barrage?

Look at this gun. This gun sucks. Look,

it's like just shooting out a load of

fireworks. This has to be the worst gun

I've ever seen.