Helldivers 2 - What is the BEST weapon？ Breaker VS Scorcher !

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

there's basically 2 weapons in this game,

not including the railgun because

technically that's not a weapon, it's a

support stratagem. There's 2 weapons in

the game that people are saying are the

best 2 guns in the game: the Breaker

shotgun and the Scorcher— Plaz-1 Scorcher

and the Breaker shotgun. So we're going to

test those 2 weapons out today, see which

one is actually better. So first of all,

look at the stats. So we've got the +1

Scorcher, damage 100, it has a capacity of

15, a recoil of 20, fire rate of 250, and

its traits are light armor penetrating and

it's explosive. And the Breaker shotgun

has over triple the damage— wow, 330

damage, 16 capacity compared to 15,

30 recoil, so more recoil than the +1,

and faster fire rate of 300 versus 250,

and it's also got light armor penetrating.

So first of all, we'll try out the +1.

Scorcher, as that's like the endgame

weapon, the last weapon on the final page

of the War Bonds. We're just gonna hop

into a quick game, doesn't really matter

which one, just we need some targets to

shoot at and try and figure out once and

for all which is actually the superior

weapon. Okay, so as you can see, we've got

the Plasma Scorcher. It's a pretty

cool-looking gun in first-person mode,

and it's got It's got no modes of fire,

just one, which is single fire. You hold

it down, it just shoots one. There's no

rapid fire unless you spam the mouse

button, and then it's that fast. So yeah,

let's see how much damage it can do.

First of all, I can't find any

enemies. I want some— oh, there's one.

Wait, oh my god, I've lost the weapon.

Where's it gone? I can't select it.

I'm pressing primary weapon and it's not

showing up. It just disappeared.

Okay, so I'm going to try and just

respawn. So I don't know why my main

weapon has just vanished. Hopefully I got

my gun back. Yeah, I got it back. That's

such a weird bug. I just jumped off a rock

and it vanished. So shoot these guys.

Oh, it took a few shots. I think they

already took damage, that's why.

So it does quite a lot of damage, does

like 100— was it 150? I forgot. No,

it's 100, wasn't it? So shoot one of these

softer targets. 1, 2,

3. It took 3 shots to kill that, took 1

shot to kill that. What about these

jumping ones? 1, 2— 2 shots.

Took 2 shots to kill that guy.

Now apparently it has explosive splashback

damage, but I don't really notice it. It

apparently knocks them a little bit so

they stagger. I can't find

anyone else to shoot at. It's crazy,

isn't it? When you want enemies, there are

none. When you don't want them, they just

appear out of nowhere. So I

got a bug outpost. See if I headshot the

green guy. It says

the bullets are deflecting, so it

doesn't have medium armor piercing like

some of the weapons do. So if you're going

up against anything armored, you're kind

of screwed with this gun.

See, it's just deflecting. It's not doing

any damage unless I hit it in the bum.

Pretty rubbish, isn't it? I don't see

the point of this weapon, to be honest.

The fire rate is rubbish, the damage is

rubbish. There's no armor penetrating.

It kills things in a couple shots, but

only if they don't have armor. But if they

have armor, you're kind of screwed.

So I do a few more tests. Kills those guys

pretty quickly.

Problem is

it runs out of ammo so quickly.

Against these guys, it's pretty good. I

don't notice anything explosive about it

Oh, those are the armored things. I'm

gonna test it out here. Well, I wanted to,

but I died. Yeah, I don't think this gun

is very good. I think it's slightly better

than the JAR-5 Dominator. Look, you can't

even do headshots with it,

so you're kind of screwed in certain

situations. I'm not doing anything.

Rubbish gun. Let's go try out the Breaker.

Okay, the Breaker. I think everyone has

this same experience where they get new

guns, they get excited about it, they try

it out for a bit, and then they just go

back to the Breaker because it's so much

better. It is kind of weird they'd make

one gun so good and make all the other

guns kind of suck. It's almost like they

didn't even test their own game. They just

chucked in a load of weapons, didn't even

test them out before launching the game.

Why would you not do extensive testing of

all the weapons to see which one's the

best and then maybe nerf it a bit

or maybe buff all the other weapons? Land

right on a mushroom. I love it when you

just land on the mushroom. So look at

this. Oh my god, that's so much better.

Oh my god, this gun

is just so much better than everything

else.

The reason why it's so good is because—

watch— number one, the aiming.

It's got instant aiming. Look at that,

you just move it, it aims instantly.

Compared to other guns like the battle

rifles, the JAR-5 Dominator, it's got such

a lag. You move it and the circle thing

takes like a second to catch up to the

reticle. But this one is almost instant.

The response time with aiming with this

gun is amazing. You've got a few modes,

you've got auto and semi, but you really

want it on auto. Let me just get rid of

So I want to test it out, not constantly

die. Oh, why do I have a Smoke Strike?

I've got Precision Strike.

So this gun, look how quickly it fires.

It's basically like an assault rifle, but

it's a shotgun.

It can't really do anything against

armored Chargers or the Bile Titan,

unfortunately, unless you shoot it up the

bum. I've never killed one doing that

because it just takes ages,

but I think you can shred its backside.

Also, another thing to do is stand on an

edge and they charge off the edge, and

sometimes they take fall damage.

I'm gonna get— oh, did it die?

I don't even know how it died. I think it

did bleed damage. So yeah, you can

actually use the Breaker Shotgun to kill

the Charger.

So I would say hands down the Breaker

Shotgun definitely way better than the

Plasma Scorcher. Maybe against Automatons

the Scorcher is a bit better because it

seems to have bonus damage against

electrical things because it's like

energy-based, but I haven't really noticed

it. Look,

it just shreds swarms as well. So if

you're up against swarms, you shred them

because it's so rapid-firing and it

basically one-shots the little guys.

Even the Redeemer pistol is better than

the +1 Scorcher. Look at this thing, just

shreds things.