Armor Penetration Analysis on TERMINIDS! ｜ Helldivers 2 Weapons Guide

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be talking about

armor penetration and analyzing different

types of armor using different types of

weapons. So to start off with, we're going

to be using the AR-23 Liberator as a

baseline. This does light armor

penetrating, and then we'll be using the

Liberator Penetrator to show you the

difference between light armor penetration

and medium armor penetration. Okay, so

before we start, there's a few symbols you

need to understand in Helldivers 2. So

when you shoot an enemy, you'll get either

a red cross hair, a white crosshair, or a

deflection symbol. So when it's a red one,

it means we're doing full damage, they've

got no armor, or our gun is just so

powerful it's completely ignoring their

armor. If it does a little white crosshair

when you hit them, it means that it's

doing damage through their armor, but it's

doing less damage because it's got armor

on and your weapon is penetrating their

armor. And then when it does a deflect

symbol, means you're doing no damage

because your bullet just bounced off. So

we've got some armored walkers up ahead,

and we've got the Liberator, which only

does light armor penetration. So if we

shoot the armored walker in the head,

we'll do no damage. You see,

it's just bouncing off like that.

Let's see, it's bouncing off. The white

hits are because we're hitting it in the

body. And now his friends are coming for

us. So look at this Brood Commander. When

we shoot in the head, it should do white

damage. Yeah, it does white damage.

That's because the Brood Commander has

light armor and on its head. And our gun,

the Liberator, does light armor

penetration, which means we are

penetrating its light armor but doing

reduced damage. Now look at this Nursing

Spewer. It also does white damage on its

head because its head is protected with

light armor, but its backside is not

protected by anything. That means it does

red damage, which means we're doing full

damage against it, and it doesn't have any

armor, so its legs Again, white damage.

So its legs and its head are protected

with light armor. So the Stalker just

killed us, which is no good. So anyway,

like I was saying, the Nursing Spear

shoots in the head, it'll do white damage.

That means we're penetrating its light

armor. Do white damage on its legs, also

penetrating its leg armor. And on its

backside, we should do red

damage. Yeah, so it's got no armor on its

sides. And then against an armored

Charger, we don't do any damage because

look at that, it's got heavy armor. That

means our light armor penetrating

Liberator is going to do nothing against

these guys. We're doing red damage because

they've got no armor. Red damage, he's got

no armor. So these little guys, they don't

have any armor, will do full red damage.

Although they've bugged out and stopped

moving, which is great. So for the

purposes of the demonstration, they can

stop shooting at us and killing us. Oh

crap, oh, his friends are coming. So

against the Stalkers, we do mostly red

damage. That means it's got no armor. And

actually, it died. Wow, from the

Liberator. That's pretty easy to kill it.

Let me kill these guys so I can survive.

Okay, next we're going to test out the

Liberator Penetrator. Now this is

different to the Liberator because it has

medium armor penetration. So let's give

this a go and I'll show you the difference

between this and that. Okay, so as you can

see, we have the Liberator Penetrator. We

have burst and semi-shot, so we're just

going to use burst shot, I guess, or maybe

semi-shot is fine. And I'll show you the

difference between this and the other gun.

So these have no armor, we do full red

damage, one-shot kill them easy.

Now because this does less damage than the

Liberator, you're not going to do more

damage just because it's medium armor

penetrating. If it didn't have any armor

in the first place, then it doesn't matter

how much armor penetration you have. If

the baseline DPS is lower than the

previous weapon, then it's going to do

less damage regardless of your armor

penetrating abilities.

Okay, so here we have an armored— I mean,

a non-armored walker. He's got no armor,

so it'll do red damage. Red damage on

that, red damage on that. See, it does red

damage. It's doing full damage because

he's got no armor. If he had armor, it

would be white damage with reduced damage,

but I think none of these have armor. Oh,

there's a walker, armored walker. You see,

look at that. I do white damage on its

head, but I do red damage on its body.

Now, if you remember the earlier clip with

the penetrator, I was doing no damage on

its head because its head was medium armor

protected. You can tell it's medium armor

protected because my light armor

penetrating gun did no damage and

deflected. Whereas my medium penetrating

Liberator Penetrator does white damage on

its medium armored head, so it obviously

has medium armor. If it had heavy armor,

the medium armor penetrating Liberator

Penetrator would also do no damage against

it because we don't have heavy armor

penetrating on this weapon. So if I could

find another one, it would be great.

Okay, so we've got another armored walker

guy, and yeah, you can see we're doing

white damage. White damage on its head.

I'm pretty sure you can see that.

So we do red damage— wait, no, white

damage on its legs. I actually don't see

any of— what? I think I'm bugged because

the white and the red crosshair is not

showing up. It looks like it's— oh,

it is showing up, just my flashlight is so

bright. I don't know how to turn the

flashlight off. So if we compare it to the

Redeemer, see, this is just bouncing off.

Look at all the bullets deflecting because

the Redeemer only has light penetration.

Okay, so the Punisher has light

penetration. As you see, it does white

damage on the Nursing Spewer's light

armored head and on its back, white

damage. So there's white damage, red

damage on the belly, which is unprotected.

And here we have a Brood Commander. It's

got light armor on its head. Because we

have light armor penetration, it's doing

white damage, which is reduced damage

because it's penetrating armor. And then

against little bugs, we got red damage

because they've got no armor. So we got

one-shot kills on these, red damage, red

damage on— I think that's a walker— and

white damage on this lightly armored

Spewer. So I want to find an armored

walker with an armored head so I can show

you that these bullets won't penetrate it.

What is that over there? Brood Commander.

It does red damage. I don't know which

part I'm hitting because I'm so far away.

They were doing white and red damage,

pretty white damage on its head and then

red on its legs.

Okay, so here we have an armored walker,

and I'll show you the damage. So it does

no damage on its head because it's got

medium armor, and our Punisher is only

light armor penetrating. See,

it'll do no damage. But if we aim at its

body, it will do white damage. So we're

doing some kind of light armor penetration

here. And then red damage must be on his

elbows or something. But yeah, on its head

it'll just deflect. Look at that, even

when it's dead, the armor still actually

works. So we're doing no damage, it's

deflecting. Now I'm going to show you,

when you use a Slugger, it's not going to

deflect even though it says light armor

penetrating. I think the game's bugged.

Okay, so we've got the Slugger and I'll

show you the Brood Commander. See, we did

red damage on his head. Look at that. Oh,

look at that. I just 2-shot his head off.

I did red damage on his head even though—

look at this armored guy. I did red damage

on his body, white damage on his head.

Look at that. Oh my god.

So I think the game's bugged because it

says light armor penetrating, but it's

obviously penetrating medium armor and

it's just destroying light armor. It's

absolutely shredding light armor. They

need to fix that quickly because this gun

says light armor penetrating, like the

Punisher, but it obviously does red damage

on the Brood Commander's head because the

Brood Commander has light armor on its

head. So medium penetration would just

ignore it completely. And then the armored

walkers have a medium armor, so we're

only doing white damage on its head

because we're doing reduced damage. Now if

we had a heavy armor-penetrating weapon,

it would do red damage on its medium

armor. It would just ignore it completely.

That's how the armor-penetrating system

works in this game. So I'm gonna find more

armored enemies instead of these stupid

little guys. There should be some armored

enemies showing up soon.

Okay, look over there. Armored Walker.

And it's dead already. But what we can do

is we can go over to its body and test out

its armor like before. So remember before,

the Punisher shotgun was just bouncing off

its head? This time it's actually going

straight through its head. So definitely

this has medium armor penetration. They

need to fix the description of the weapon,

I think. So that— yeah, that's basically

how armor penetration works. If you've got

light armor penetration, you'll do white

damage on light armor, it will bounce off

medium armor. If you've got medium armor

penetration, you'll do white damage on

medium armor, it'll bounce off heavy

armor, and it'll do red damage on light

armor. So against the Brood Commander,

for example, who has light armored head

You'll do red damage on its head if you

use a medium armor-penetrating weapon.

It's pretty straightforward.