Helldivers 2 - Testing the NEW Flamethrower, Is It Good Now？ (High Difficulty Tips)

Did the flamethrower just become the new

meta weapon replacing the railgun? After

the railgun's been repeatedly nerfed, it

seems like it's now viable to use the

other support weapons instead of just

running the railgun. We'll be finding out

how the new nerfs and updates and buffs in

the game has affected Helldivers 2. So as

you may know, in the new update patch for

Helldivers 2, the flamethrower is one of

the weapons that got majorly buffed, and

the fire damage it now does is actually

usable. So you see a lot more people using

the flamethrower now. It can actually kill

the chargers with without having too much

difficulty. I managed to kill myself— I

managed to kill some of the armored

chargers within 1 or 2 canisters of

reloads, and it's pretty effective. Its

armor basically becomes useless. The main

problem I experienced with the

flamethrower was it would set the enemies

on fire and then they'd keep rushing at me

because it didn't do enough damage to kill

them quickly enough, and then they catch

me on fire and I end up on fire as well,

damaging myself, just because the flames

still don't do enough damage. They do

enough damage to kill the smaller mobs,

and light armored enemies do go down

pretty quickly, but not fast enough. I

think really to make the flamethrower a

much more viable weapon is if it could

slow down enemies, because that would make

total sense. If someone's on fire,

they're not going to be sprinting at you

as quickly as they would usually be able

to. They'd be burning and melting, and

that should slow them down really. But

when going up against heavy armored

enemies such as the Bile Spewer, the

Armored Charger, I found that the

flamethrower has become a lot more

efficient at dispatching them. That. I set

this thing on fire, it lasts for a few

seconds burning, and yeah, the burn damage

does pretty much— well, it does really

good damage. You can set yourself on fire

and just watch how quickly your life

depletes away. So it's ticking away quite

a lot of hundreds of damage per second,

so that's pretty good. It's still kind of

useless against the Bile Titans, they will

just not go down even if you keep flaming

their bellies, but I found it quite useful

for just burning loads of little bugs and

critters They go down pretty easily, just

a few seconds. They can't survive very

long in the intense heat of the fire. So

will I be using the flamethrower a lot

more often now that the railgun is

basically useless against the armored

Chargers? And to some degree, the Bile

Titans as well are kind of useless to use

the railgun. I don't know. I think the

railgun has its uses still, but it's still

not as good as it used to be. And the

flamethrower has new uses. The

flamethrower is now really good at taking

on medium armored enemies, but for the

Bile Titans, you're going to need

something with a bit more punch. So I

don't think this could fully replace a

railgun because that was really great at

taking on basically anything, but it has

become a great support precision weapon to

help people if they're being harassed by

Chargers. So we do some flamethrower

gameplay, and I'll just show you what it's

like to use a flamethrower now after the

patch. Look at these guys, they just get

burnt to a crisp. When it's this kind of

situation where you've got a bunch of

little light guys, then it's pretty

satisfying because you can absolutely

roast them. And I'm playing with the heavy

armor because I'm just fed up getting

2-shot. But the stupid flappy earbuds,

these ones that just bounce and jump at

you, are so annoying. I also think it'd be

cool if they added a little effect where

if they've been burning for a while, I

think their bodies should go black and

charred like in GTA, because that'd be

really good little attention to detail.

Don't know why the fire doesn't burn them

to a crisp, it really should. But I like

how you can kind of spread the fire on the

ground and the ground catches on fire,

but you do seem to accidentally catch your

own people on fire if they're careless,

or if you're careless, you might

accidentally just flame everywhere where

the enemies are, and then the enemies are

on fire, and then they charge at your

allies and catch them on fire as well,

and it doesn't end up in a good situation.

So this is what I'm talking about. I don't

know how I set myself on fire, but I did.

You can fire these bug breachers and

just create like a scorching ground

effect. It's kind of like a trap. Oh,

that bile spew nearly got me. See, that's

why I really like the heavy armor.

Sometimes speed is good, but sometimes not

getting instantly one-shot is also great.

Take some of these supplies.

Reload is also pretty quick, just reload

that canister. And yeah,

it's a pretty good weapon. These are my

favorite enemies to go up against because

they die so quickly to fire.

I really wish there was like a backpack

with like a big canister of fuel. I don't

know why there isn't, because usually

flamethrowers you wear backpack for the

fuel. I don't know where the fuel is being

kept. It's in like that tiny canister.

That canister is so small for the size of

this For the amount of fire you're

shooting out, that canister is way too

small. You should have to carry like a

massive backpack canister, like, um,

like the Germans did during World War II,

and then they got shot in the back, and

then the person holding the flamethrower

would erupt in flames.

Yeah, I wouldn't really want to be the one

carrying the flamethrower in a war.

You've got a flammable backpack that could

just explode.

Look, these little bugs get incinerated.

Why is everyone leaving the mission?

So flame those guys, flame everything

including yourself. Haha.

It does set fire to everything really

easily. It is pretty fun actually.

Look at this, I just flame everything.

Make sure you bring a lot of stims. I

might want armor with the bonus stims

because I keep burning myself.

See, the problem is they jump at you when

they're on fire and you're backtracking,

backstepping, and And then you step back

into your own fire.

I wish you could set the buildings on fire

as well. Can you? I'm nearly dead.

What's gonna kill me? A little bug? A

little bug thing's gonna kill me?

Oh, I killed loads. Okay, so we got the

new Exterminate Terminids type of mission.

It's new because now you have to kill 500,

and there's some new maps and they're very

challenging. They've definitely made it

way harder, so you can't just spam

sentries and then go AFK like you used to

be able to. Look at this Charger guy, I

just melt him like butter. Oh, there's 2.

I'm not sure how flaming it takes to take

them down, maybe 2 canisters, but they're

still pretty tough.

It looks like they're starting to slow

They're not too hard to take out with the

flamethrower because they're not really

quick and they can be kited sometimes.

So I keep getting knocked into the outside

of the combat zone. Now I'm a traitor,

and then you get bombarded by your own

people if you get called a traitor. It's

kind of silly. Okay, let's see if I can

get some kills here. The defense missions

are so difficult now. You kill 500, and I

can't get my flamethrowers. It's at the

other end of the map, and I keep getting

killed by these things. Bile Titans,

don't step on me. Oh my god,

as soon as I land on the ground I get

airstrikes or I get stepped on.

See if I can land on one's back. I can't

move, I can't steer the stupid Hellpod.

The Hellpod thing needs to be fixed. What

was the point of making me upgrade my

Hellpod steering if I can't even move it.

Oh, what a stupid grenade. At least I took

them out with me.

See if I can steer it this— I still can't

steer it, but I can only move up and left

but not right and down. And where's my

flamethrower? I'm gonna get my

flamethrower back.

Here it is. Oh, I got it. See if

I flame this guy.

Ouch.

Just flame everything. I keep

getting knocked over.

Oh my god, it's not killing it. Maybe

it'll die. No, those stupid flames keep

going out too quickly. So how kind of

napalm is this? What kind of fuel just

extinguishes that quickly?

What a stupid flamethrower. They need to

work on the fuel they use. Because it's

just burning out. They should use

like sticky oil that doesn't burn out.