The JAR-5 Dominator： Testing the only EXPLOSIVE type weapon in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Today we're going to be talking about the

JAR-5 Dominator explosive shotgun,

probably one of the most powerful weapons

in the game. Very good shotgun, and this

is how you get it. You get it from the

Steeled Veterans premium war bond page,

and it's on the final page, page 3, and it

will take a couple hundred medals to get

it. You've got to go through page 1 and 2,

and you need 1,000 super credits to unlock

the Steeled Veterans. So you might have

been able to get enough credits just from

the normal War Bonds pages and collected

a few from in-game, but I had to

personally buy some super credits for £8,

which I think was an okay purchase because

then you get access to cool things like

Liberator Explosive, this Magnum

Penetrator— what is it— Senator Magnum

Pistol. You get this— what was the other

one? Oh yeah, the Breaker Incendiary

Shotgun. And then finally, probably the

best shotgun in my opinion, the JAR-5

Dominator. So if you go into the Armory

and have a look at its stats, it's

actually classed in the explosive area.

It's not actually in the shotgun area,

so technically it's not even a shotgun,

although most people seem to think it is a

shotgun because it kind of looks like a

shotgun, but it's not a shotgun. So it's

the only explosive weapon. You do have the

Liberator Explosive, and it's got the

explosive weapon trait, But it's still in

the assault rifle section. It's not in the

explosive weapon, so this doesn't have the

explosive trait. I don't know what that

means. Why is an explosive weapon not

having the explosive trait? Who knows?

But it's got medium armor penetrating,

which means it's going to penetrate things

like things with medium armor, but not the

armored chargers or the Bile Titans, or

you know the green belly things that spew

out liquid. You you're not really going to

have that. From my testing, I don't think

I've been able to penetrate the green

spewing. Vile things with the big fat

bellies. Maybe you can, I'll have to test

out later in the video. But this basically

gives you 200 damage, 15 capacity,

recoil 75, fire rate 250. And for the

damage, it's not a bad damage number stat

compared to the other shotguns, which do

about 360, 280, 330,

144, 180. So it's not, not as good as

the Punisher, Slugger, or Breaker, but

it's better than these 2. So the damage

is, it's okay, it's not amazing. But it's

not terrible. So let's go do a mission

quickly so I show you how great the gun

actually is. Might just drop down, do a

quick ICBM. Okay, so let me show you the

full power— I mean, the full firepower of

the JAR-5 Dominator. So we've got 2 modes,

we've got burst and semi. Burst does this

if you hold it down and do 3 shots.

Pretty good. But with semi,

you can spam out more shots faster like

this. It's not too rapid firing,

nowhere near as rapid as the Breaker

shotgun. And as you can see,

it only does one shot. You can see the

bullet hole, only does one shot. So it's

not a shotgun, it's more like a It's kind

of like a battle rifle with explosive

capabilities. Oh, why? That's so weird.

I swear I chose a Terminid planet and now

it's giving me Automatons. So these guys

are kind of armored. I'll show the medium

armor penetration with the weapon.

See, I'm actually— I think I was doing

damage. I'm gonna

get one-shot by these rockets though.

So it actually bounces off that Scout

Walker. I think I'm gonna have to run.

It's actually bouncing off that shield,

so it's not penetrating that guy's armor.

Yeah, it's definitely not penetrating

that, so I guess his shield is not medium

armor.

I can't even get a shot off here, and I'm

out of bullets already. Haha, well, that

went well. Yeah, this gun's so great,

guys. It was really worth spending £8 on

the super credits to get the premium war

bonds. Oh great, there's a tank.

Okay, let's quit this mission and go

against Terminids, because at least the

Terminids don't shoot you back. I hate

fighting the Automatons because they shoot

you back. I swear I pressed here and

I pressed Turing and

it said Terminids. I don't get it.

This game, it can't do anything right,

can it? Can't even put you into the right

mission. Okay, so we landed. Let me see

what kind of damage I can do against the

Terminids. Should be easier. Now they

don't have guns,

if I can find any. Oh, there's one. So it

destroys the little ones, and then look at

these armored ones. Yeah, it definitely

penetrates their armor, and it penetrates

the Brood Commander armor, but it won't

penetrate the Chargers. But because it's

explosive, what that means is it will do

more bonus damage on their bums. So

usually normal weapons do 10% bonus damage

against weak spots, fleshy areas, but the

explosive weapons— so I've heard— will do

100% bonus damage.

So that's good.

So this kind of damage you'll be expecting

from this weapon. The problem is you will

be reloading a lot because the

clip size is really small. Also, the

aiming is annoying. The aiming is not as

responsive as something like the Liberator

or the other shotguns. If you look at me

moving the mouse around, the little circle

is definitely laggy. It's like the, the

battle rifles, they're not very responsive

either. So you get Why did I put my hand

up? Oh, so I went in the long grass. So

the higher damage it does, although this

doesn't count for things like the Breaker

shotgun because that does loads of damage

and it's almost instant wherever you aim,

the circle is instantly there. But this

has like a 1-second delay when you move it

around like that, so it's kind of a slow,

slow weapon to move around and aim. I'm

stuck on this stupid pod. I just

one-shot that thing's head off.

I heard there's supposed to be like slight

pushback. The annoying thing is when you

get swarmed like this, it's really hard to

aim because your character keeps getting

knocked everywhere, and that knocks the

aiming thing. And you also run out of ammo

really quickly. I've used all my ammo

already.

Bit of an annoying weapon, to be honest.

Would I recommend you getting this weapon?

I don't know, I really don't think it's

worth it. The Breaker shotgun is just much

better in every way.

I always seem to get stepped on by these

things. It's like their legs are just

magnetically drawn to me.

No, I wouldn't really recommend it over

the Breaker shotgun. It's not great. Why

do all the guns in this game suck apart

from 2 guns? The Breaker shotgun and the

railgun. Look, this is just rubbish.

You can't do anything against swarms

because it's like one shot, no rapid fire.

It's absolutely useless against swarms.

I keep getting stuck on the stupid

terrain. Damn stupid game.

Every time that happens, you try and walk

backwards and you're stuck on like a

stupid rock or something, or a hellpod,

or some wreckage, or even the body of some

dead insect. Fucking stupid game,

isn't it?