The PUNISHER PLASMA： Testing the only EXPLOSIVE Shotgun in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be testing out one of

the new weapons in Helldivers 2, the SGAP

Punisher Plasma, a brand new explosive

type shotgun that has plasma bullets,

which is kind of an interesting type of

shotgun to be using in Helldivers 2. And

as for the stats, we have 100 damage, 8

capacity, 110 recoil, and 80 fire rate.

So the damage is kind of pathetic compared

to the other shotguns. Most of these

shotguns do around 200 to 300. Even the

Punisher does about 400, and the Breaker

Incendiary and Pray and Spray do about

190. But the Punisher Plasma only does

100. That's kind of low. So I don't really

have high expectations for this gun going

into this video, but we're gonna test out

to see what its capabilities are like.

Okay, so we just landed and have a look at

the gun. It looks like, like that through

the scopes. Looks pretty cool. And we've

got no options when holding down R, so no

fire options. And when you shoot off a

bullet, it shoots off like a blue pulse

that arcs downwards, kind of like a

grenade launcher. It doesn't shoot off in

a straight line, it kind of goes down, so

you've got to aim slightly above what you

want to hit, otherwise it's just going to

hit the ground. So you've got only a few

shots before you've got to reload. You get

about 1, 2, 3,

4, 5, 6, 7,

8. You only get 8 shots, and you get a

maximum of, I think, about 3 or 4

times you can reload to full. So shoot the

gun a few times to some of these tiny

bugs. You also got to be careful because

it does do AoE damage as it's an explosive

weapon. So if you shoot the ground, you

will actually kill yourself. I wasn't,

wasn't actually expecting it to kill

myself. I thought it'd just do a bit of

damage, but it does do quite a lot of

damage, enough to actually destroy your

entire body. So you definitely don't want

to be shooting this at enemies that are in

close range, and also don't want to be

shooting this at enemies near your team

members. So you gotta be careful with this

gun. It is kind of like a pulse grenade

launcher. So as for the armor-piercing of

this against armored Crushers, it does

nothing. Well, that one just came out of

nowhere. So it's got basically no

heavy armor penetration. Look, it's just

deflecting off every shot. And these guys

have got light armor, I think. Oh, I

nearly killed myself. You've really got to

be careful with this gun. It is a very

dangerous weapon and not an easy weapon to

use. So this guy, Brood Commander— it also

knocks them back, as you can see. It

staggers them. So it's got a bit of

stunning ability there. It's not that

powerful. What's that Brood Commander

doing flying all over the place? It does

take quite a few shots, as you can see.

You're not going to be one-shot

headshotting things with this thing, but

it's pretty effective against light and

medium armor. So there's some medium

armor, uh, shoot for his head.

There's one over there.

Yeah, that's just deflecting. See the

deflecting symbol? But I think the AoE

splash damage is still doing damage to it.

You can also, if enemies are coming too

near you, you can shoot slightly behind

them like that, and AoE damage will still

damage them. So you don't want to shoot

them right in the face because that'll

just damage you as well. You want to shoot

maybe behind them or under them, to the

side of them. The thing really

runs out of ammo quick. It's kind of

annoying. You only get 8 shots. I don't

know what happened to the ragdoll in this

game, but things are just bouncing all

over the place. It's really weird. What?

I haven't played this game in a few weeks

and I updated it and now everything's kind

of glitchy. So you see,

if things are right in front of you The

weapon really sucks because you're just

gonna blow yourself up.

Honestly, I don't think I would say this

is my first choice if I was gonna pick a

shotgun. I don't even know why it's called

a shotgun. I mean, a shotgun is supposed

to spray out bullets and do insane damage

up close. This just kills— blows yourself

up when you're fighting something up close

because the splash damage is pretty

lethal. So I don't know why you would pick

this shotgun over the other shotguns. It

doesn't really behave like a shotgun, it

behaves more like a grenade launcher,

but less powerful than the grenade

launcher, obviously. So it's kind of a

weird weapon. The new weapons in the new

Warbond pack are like all energy-based.

Maybe it's good at taking out these eggs.

Yeah, it's pretty good at taking out the

eggs because of the AoE damage. You can

see it's just doing splash damage.

2-shot that thing.

I guess it's an interesting weapon.

For clearing out light armored enemies.

I still prefer the Breaker shotgun. I

don't understand why they keep making new

guns that all kind of suck.

Watch this. Maybe it's good for taking out

the bug holes. Can it take out the bug

holes? See if it

takes out the bug hole. No,

I don't know if it did take out the bug

hole and I lagged or something, or did

someone else take out the bug hole? I have

Don't know what this thing's doing.

It runs out of ammo so quickly.

It's not bad at taking out those medium

armored things because the splash damage

is so good. Yeah, it's not a bad weapon,

I guess. It's okay, I give it like a 6.2