Ranking EVERY Primary Weapon After Patch Helldivers 2 VIPER COMMANDOS Update

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

the recently released Viper Commandos War

Bonds has come out now and there's been

some new weapons in the game added, and

we're going to test out those new weapons

in addition to all of the other primary

weapons and rank them accordingly.

Okay, so starting off we have the

Liberator Carbine. It is an alteration of

the original Liberator, but this time it

has a faster fire rate, 920 versus 640,

with a higher recoil at 26 versus 15.

Damage output is the same. We're going to

test out first. Okay, so looking at this

new weapon, the Liberator Carbine looks

like that. It's got a few options. You've

got auto, semi, and burst. We're gonna

stick with auto, fire off some shots.

Yeah, you fire it in bursts and the recoil

is not too bad, but if you go fully

automatic, gets a bit wild. So yeah,

it's pretty good at taking out lightly

armored enemies. I'll give this a 6.2 out

of 10. I still wouldn't choose this over

something more powerful like the Scorcher

or the Blitzer or the Plasma— Plasma

Punisher's better, I think. It's not a bad

weapon, I guess, if you want kind of like

a rapid-fire carbine SMG kind of weapon,

but I don't think I'd choose it over my

existing favorite primary weapons.

Wait, am I out of ammo already? I feel

like I only shot a few bursts and it's

already out of ammo. Look, it's completely

out. Okay, so we're gonna stick with the

assault rifles first. Next we'll try out

the Liberator Concussive. It has light

armor penetrating and it does concussive

stun rounds. Okay, so this weapon looks

like that. It's got a nice little aimer.

It shoots much slower than the Assault

Liberator Carbine,

but the whole point of this weapon is it

staggers the enemies backwards a little

bit, like,

like that. Staggers them.

I give this a 5.2 out of 10. It's okay, I

guess.

Next up we have the Liberator Penetrator.

This is medium armor penetrating. It does

less damage than the other Liberators,

but it has medium armor penetrating, 640

fire rate. The Adjudicator also has medium

armor penetrating, does nearly double the

damage, but it is much slower firing

weapon. And this one does the highest

damage at 95, but it has light armor

penetrating. So we go with the Penetrator

first. Okay, so this gun looks like this.

Got a big aiming sight and shoots like

this. It's pretty good. So the good thing

about this is it has medium armor

penetrating, which means you can do red

damage on Brood Commanders, whereas

usually you just do white because they

have medium armor. So yeah, it takes these

out pretty easily. Didn't even have to

fire many shots. So yeah, give it a 7 out

of 10. Next, try out the Tenderizer. So

the Tenderizer is the highest damaging

assault rifle with 95 damage. It's pretty

good, so it doesn't take too many shots to

kill things. Only light armor penetrating

though, so should be able to

one-shot these. Yeah, you can one-shot

little bugs, couple shots for those. I

actually quite like this gun because of

the damage output. Give it 8.2 out of 10.

Okay, let's move on to the marksman

rifles. Only got 2: Diligence and the

Diligence Counter Sniper with medium armor

penetrating. This gun's pretty good

because of the Okay, so this is

a long-range marksman rifle, single shot,

high damage output, and medium armor

penetration. So you can do this— one shot,

one shot.

Anything else?

One shot. Everything just dies in like one

shot. It's a pretty good gun.

I give it 8.2 out of 10. And then

next we have the regular Diligence. The

only difference is there's light armor

penetration versus medium, does less

damage as well. It's just worse in every

way compared to the Counter Sniper, so not

really much point testing out. And then

we've got 2 submachine guns, Defender and

Pummeler. The Defender basically staggers

the enemies and it does slightly less

damage. We'll try out the Defender first.

Okay, so we have the SMG Defender. This is

a one-handed primary, so you could combine

it with the Ballistic Shield. It's pretty

rapid firing. I actually like this more

than the Liberator Carbine. It basically

does the same thing as the Liberator

Carbine, but it seems slightly better.

It's pretty good. And the Pummeler is

basically the same, but it staggers the

enemies as well for slightly lower damage.

Okay, moving on to the shotguns. We've got

the Punisher, Slugger, Breaker, Breaker

Spray and Pray, Breaker Incendiary. So

you've got basically 2 types of shotguns.

You've got the Punisher variant which are

like pump-action reloads, cartridge by

cartridge. And then you've got the Breaker

variants, which are clip magazine loaded.

Let's test out the Punisher. It's got 405

damage, which is the highest damage of all

the shotguns. Okay, so this does, yeah,

pretty good damage. Give it a 6 out of 10.

So the Slugger is basically the same as

the Punisher, but it has medium armor

penetration and does roughly half the

damage. Don't need to really test it out.

The Breaker used to be one of the best

guns in the game. They've nerfed it into

oblivion, so we'll test that out. So I

landed here and there's absolutely nothing

to shoot at, so I guess I'll just shoot at

the ground. Yeah, it's pretty rapid fire,

big spray, pretty good. I used to use this

all the time before they added some of the

better weapons. Give it 8.2 out of 10. So

the Breaker Spray and Pray is basically

the same as the Breaker, but it shoots

faster for less damage. And the Breaker

Incendiary is basically the same, but it

shoots fire damage for slightly lower

damage than the Breaker's Prey and Prey.

So I don't really need to test those out

because it's basically the same weapon.

So these weapons are more interesting: the

Exploding Crossbow, Dominator, and the

Eruptor. Try the crossbow first.

Okay, so the Exploding Crossbow, as the

name suggests, is a crossbow that explodes

like that. It's not very good, to be

honest. The explosion damage is not great,

and you can only shoot one shot before

having to reload it. Test it out on some

bugs over here. It's good for taking out

those groups because it does just one-shot

them, but against big enemies like that,

it's not that great because it takes quite

a few bolts and you've got to keep

reloading it. See, I've shot this thing

twice now, 3 times,

it's still alive. Next we have the

Dominator. Medium armor penetration,

explosive jet-propelled rounds. Sounds

good. Okay, the Jar Dominator,

one of the most powerful weapons in the

game. Some people say it's like the Space

Marines' bolt gunner— bolt gun thing.

Yeah, it's pretty powerful.

It's got medium armor penetration as well,

so it does damage against nearly all the

enemies apart from the ones with heavy

armor. Give it 7 out

of 2. Okay, next we have the Eruptor,

which is 570 damage, medium armor

penetrating, and explosive. So it's like

double the damage of the Dominator. Okay,

the Eruptor, one of the highest damage

output guns in the game, looks like this.

Oh my god, look at this, watch.

Oh my God,

I missed it. Single shot bolt-action,

2 shots on the Brood Commander, 3 shots

take it down. So it must have 1,500

health, and then you gotta reload it

again. It's pretty powerful, but

definitely not rapid-fire, very slow.

See if it one-shots this. Oh, it did!

It's pretty cool, I like it.

Okay, now let's have the energy-based

weapons. We got the Punisher Plasma,

Blitzer, Scythe, Sickle, Purifier, and the

Scorcher. Let's go for the Scorcher first,

I like this gun. Okay, testing out the

Scorcher. The Scorcher was actually The

final weapon on the very first Warbond

page. The first time I spent £5 to unlock

in-game credits so I can unlock a stupid

weapon. But it's a pretty good weapon.

Every Automaton mission I either take the

Scorcher or the Plasma Punisher,

just because it does like AoE damage and

it can one-shot most of the small guys.

Definitely not that one though. Look, one

shot, one shot. It's also really rapid

firing, so See, it's not like the

explosive rifles.

Oh wow, I can one-shot melee things too

with this new armor. Yeah, so I give the

Scorcher 9.2 out of 10. Next we have the

Purifier. Now this gun kind of sucks. It

kind of charges up an energy blast and

then you release it like a grenade

launcher. Okay, so this weapon's really

weird. I don't even know why it exists.

So you do this. You hold it down until it

clicks and then you release it and it

shoots out this energy bolt.

Not really like a grenade launcher, I

guess. So let's test it out on these

things.

What just exploded?

It's kind of rubbish. It's a bit like the

railgun but doesn't do any damage.

Same mechanics as the railgun. I give this

2.2 out of 10. Okay, next we have the

Scythe. Okay, testing out the Scythe.

It is an energy kind of assault rifle.

Oh no, it's not. It's like an energy beam

weapon. The other one's like an assault

rifle. So it shoots a beam, concentrated

energy damage. If there are any enemies I

could test it out on, would be nice.

Nothing. Oh, there's one.

It's pretty rubbish though. It takes ages

to kill anything. It overheats really

Look, it's only good for taking out small

things, but useless for anything else.

Okay, let's have the Sickle. Now this is

the one that's kind of like an

energy-based assault rifle.

Okay, testing out the— what is it? The

Sickle.

It's just like a machine gun that shoots

out yellow bullets. What's the point of

it? It's rubbish.

6 out of 10. Oh, I nearly forgot to test

out my favorite weapon, the Blitzer. Now

this is really cool. It's got infinite

ammo. One shot, one charge. Does like an

electric burst, short range. So it shoots

out this electric arc in front of you,

very short range. It's supposed to be like

a shotgun that shoots out electricity.

It is pretty good. It one-shots a lot of

things, and it staggers them backwards.

And it chains, so if they're standing next

to each other, it chain hits them all like

that. It's really cool, I like it.

Crap. I give the Blitzer a 10 out of 10.

And then finally, the Punisher Plasma. It

is like a grenade launcher, shoots out

plasma balls. Okay, so the final weapon in

our testing— took freaking ages

to make this, all the stupid loading

screens. Okay, so it basically just does

this, shoots an arc of energy, AoE.

No enemies nearby to test it on. Oh,

there's one. It's pretty good against

automatons, doesn't seem that

good against bugs. Oh, it's out of ammo

Yeah, it's pretty rubbish, to be honest.