The LAS-16 SICKLE： Testing the only LASER Type rifle in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

we're going to be looking at one of the

brand new energy-based weapons in

Helldivers 2, the LAS-16 Sickle.

Not to be confused with the LAS-5 Scythe,

it is similar-based energy-based weapon,

but it's very different. So this is a

laser rifle firing in short bursts, does

not need reloading, but if overheats, a

new heatsink must be fitted. Just like the

Scythe, it doesn't need to be reloaded

unless you keep using it too much to the

point where it overheats, and then you

must reload it. So this does, uh, 55

damage, it's got a 009 fire limit, it's

got a 002 recoil and a fire rate of 750,

and it's got light armor penetrating and

heat weapon traits. So we're going to test

out this weapon today and see if it's any

good and worth getting. So if you want to

know how to get these weapons, you'll

press R, go down to the new Cutting Edge

premium war bonds, cost 1,000 of the super

credits unlock, and you get the Sickle and

the Blitzer and the Punisher Plasma.

So the Sickle is the first one we're going

to test out today. Okay, so as you can

see, the scope on this is pretty decent.

You've also got different distances

options for the scope: 25, 50, and 100

meters. And when you fire this weapon,

uh, you shoot Rapid fire— oh,

rapid fire energy beams. Hold on,

let me just get rid of these.

So it's kind of like a machine gun, like

an assault rifle, but it shoots lasers.

It even sounds like an assault rifle. To

be honest, it doesn't really make the kind

of sound I was expecting it to make. The

sound is very weird, kind of like a

machine gun. I thought these were supposed

to be laser bolts.

So it does light armor penetration, no

medium armor penetration. So these little

guys will go down with just a couple

shots, and it's pretty rapid firing. And

because you don't have to reload it unless

you overheat, you can get quite a lot of

shots off. So I have overheated, and it

shoots these yellow little bolts. It's

pretty good actually for crowd control.

Look at this, you can just mow things

down. Without too much problem. And as

long as you don't overheat it, you

shouldn't really have to reload it. So it

takes a few seconds for it to cool down.

Yeah, it takes these guys out pretty well.

It seems like it would be a pretty good

weapon for crowd control. I don't know if

it'd be good at taking out heavier

enemies. It's pretty good at destroying

these tiny ones, and even the bile spewers

go down fairly quickly with it.

So you can see when you're shooting with

it, it is basically an energy-based

assault rifle, not too different to the

Liberator. I don't know why you would take

this over the Liberator though.

I'm gonna get destroyed by all these now.

I don't know why I don't have a team

coming in to join me. It's like the

matchmaking thing is glitched. Oh, I got

someone joining me now.

Finally. My main complaints with this

weapon would be the sound. I don't like

the sound. Why does it just sound like a

machine gun?

And it, it does actually overheat pretty

quickly if you just go full burst mode.

Goddamn it, stupid combat zone. I can't

even back out whilst being swarmed.

So you can mow these guys down.

Fucking hell, they really need to change

it so you don't get one-shot by these

stupid— and then the steering on the hell

pods sucks. You can barely steer it.

I can only steer it in one direction. I

was trying to aim for the top of that

cliff, it just wouldn't let me aim towards

it. Like there was some kind of resistance

against the direction I was trying to move

it into. So I don't see the point of this

gun, this gun sucks. I mean, it's

basically the same as the Liberator, but

it shoots yellow bolts instead of just

bullets. Like, what is, what is the point

of making these new weapons when they

don't do anything differently to the old

weapons? Oh my fucking stupid fucking

game. Look, now I can move the Hellpod.

And sometimes it lets you move the Hellpod

and then sometimes it doesn't. I don't get

So look at this. Yeah, I don't know why

they bother making this gun. It's

literally the same as the Penetrator,

does roughly the same damage, 55.

It's pretty crap at taking out anything

that has any kind of armor.

I just feel like they're making all these

different weapons. Okay, yeah, they got

lots of weapons, but half of them just—

they don't really do anything differently

to the other weapons. This gun feels so

pointless. All these stupid fat spewers

down there. I just killed

like 20.

Yeah, this gun sucks. I would not waste

super credits trying to get the new weapon

war bonds. I tried the Punisher plasma and

it sucks as well. You just keep blowing

yourself up with it because it's like a

grenade launcher, but when you're getting

swarmed— but even the Redeemer Uzi gun is

better than that. Laser gun or whatever

it's called. There's so many of them, I

can't get rid of them all.

They should not be able to jump up there.

I'm so high up, how do they jump up there?

This game has just gone so dumb and

ridiculous. Mission failed.

Okay, as if I care.

I'll give this gun one last chance to see

if it can redeem itself.

Look at this thing, it just shoots yellow

bullets. I mean, it's nice you don't have

to reload it if you're careful with the

overheating.

No, it's just bouncing off the medium

armor. Look at it just bounce off like

his little laser pen not doing anything.

This gun sucks. Look at it, everything's

just bouncing off.

Can it even kill a stalker? Eh, kind of,

kind of not.

It's still not dead. Oh my god, I couldn't

even kill it.

Damn, this gun sucks.

Why would you take this over a shotgun?

I'm out of bullets. This Redeemer pistol

is so much better. A sidearm should never

be better than the primary weapon. I don't

think the Helldivers 2 developers

understand how to balance weapons. They

just seem clueless when it comes to

creating— they can create cool-looking

weapons, but they just don't know how to

balance them at all. They make one gun,

the Breaker shotgun, that's incredibly

powerful compared to everything else, And

all the other guns just suck.

Like, what are they doing?

This game used to be good, now it's just

kind of trash. This gun's out of ammo

as well already. I fired it for like 30

seconds. What even is the point