Helldivers 2： Flamethrower vs Chargers (new update tactics)

Today we'll be talking about the updated

and buffed flamethrower. Is it any good

for taking down the armored chargers? Now

that the railgun has been nerfed into

oblivion, we're gonna have a look at the

flamethrower with its 50% increased damage

per second and see if it's any good. So

from my extensive testing, I've realized

that yes, you can easily take down the

chargers with prolonged flaming, but you

have to use over 75% of your canister.

Sometimes it takes nearly an entire

canister if you missed a few bursts, but

if you just do prolonged sustained fire on

the Charger, it does go down after using

about 75% of your gas tank. So it is a

pretty effective way of taking down the

Chargers. The problem is, to maintain

sustained fire damage, you need to be

standing there flaming the enemy, and this

reduces your movement speed down to

basically backstepping and If you've got

enemies surrounding you, they're going to

be taking hits at you whilst you're trying

to flame the Charger, and you're gonna get

swamped. But as you can see from this

footage, I do manage to take down Chargers

pretty easily as long as I'm not being

surrounded. Your movement speed does get

severely hamstrung if you've got a bunch

of enemies whacking you, 'cause you can't

really move very fast whilst holding down

the fire button for the flamethrower. So

you see this Charger here got stuck on

some rocks, and I'm just flaming him in

the face. It takes quite a while, and I'm

pretty sure I used about 50 to 70% of the

canister and he's still alive. And then I

ended up getting surrounded by a bunch of

little guys. The problem with flaming the

little guys is that they'll start nipping

at your feet whilst on fire, and that will

catch you on fire as well. So it's not

really advisable to start flaming enemies

if they're right in front of you, unless

you've got a bit of distance between you

and them. You're gonna start catching on

fire yourself. So the flamethrower is

powerful, but it's also kind of dangerous

and risky to use in certain situations.

Okay, so we've got a defense mission,

kill 500 bugs. I'm going to use the

flamethrower as my main weapon and see if

it's any good for doing Helldive

difficulty in general, not just against

Chargers, but also— well, the main reason

I took it is to fight Chargers, not Bile

Titans, because it doesn't really do

anything. And, um, Yeah, I gotta be

careful not to set my own people on fire.

The great thing is when you can funnel the

enemies through a very narrow passageway

like this and then just flame them,

because it does quite a lot of good

damage. I don't know if the fire damage

stacks. That'd be pretty cool if you could

stack the damage. I gotta run away here.

I'm gonna get— I'm stuck on a lamppost.

I'm gonna flame these guys quick before I

get bile spewed. I also recommend taking

the medic armor. Because you will be using

a lot of stims.

You will also keep flaming your allies.

This is really tense.

Okay, now I've got some distance, I can

start flaming. The Bile Titan really

doesn't like me. Brood Commanders,

they go down— oh my god, look at that! I

don't have headshots. And aiming for weak

points matter with the flamethrower, but

it seems like aiming for the head blows

the head off faster.

So I don't know if that's gonna die from

flame damage. Yeah, it does. So that's

pretty cool. So I think there's the damage

from the fire, and then there's the

additional damage from the DoT damage over

time flame effect, which is what I'd

expect from a flame type

type weapon. Don't want to go into the

airstrike.

So that died midair whilst on fire.

A Brood Commander— I headshot the Brood

Commander with it. I'm not really finding

any charges though,

and I'm out of the area. So we got a

Charger over there with another guy's

flamethrower. Oh, where'd he go? Went

straight over the edge. And flame this guy

down. Oh, we got 2 flamers, nice.

Oh, we got the Charger and my ally as

well. I don't know if you flame the—

what's it called— Bile Titan. Oh, you can,

you can burst the green fluid sack with

it. Oh, 3 Bile Titans. Where's my nuke?

My— I only got napalm.

Dive! Don't die! Oh, I nearly died. Stim,

stim! Oh, that little claw thing got me.

I nearly stimmed, like 1 second away from

stimming. Watch this, I'm gonna land. I

was gonna land on his back, but I spawned

too far away. Where's my flame— my

flamethrower? Where's my flamethrower? I

think it was down here.

Just banana slip, tripped over.

Okay, got my flamer. It's out of ammo.

Great. Watch me nuke— I mean,

incinerate these little bugs.

Oh my god. Oh, there's a Charger. Is it

Oh, oh, right in the face.

Oh no, my whole team's dead.

Did I get the charger? Oh, I got the

chargers too with the burn damage after I

died. That's what you get.

I wish they had fire effects, like burning

effects. Burst Strike,

pick up my flamer and run.

Oh, I didn't run fast enough.

Oh, we did it! I killed 19. 23 kill

combo. Where's my

flamer? Oh,

there's an airstrike.

Oh my God. Okay, we got a Charger

right in front of me, got full canister.

Let's see how long it takes to— oh, we got

2 flamers. Wow, that thing should

go down straight away really. It's still

alive? Ah, there it goes.

2 flamers against 1 Charger. Oh, you don't

stand a chance, and neither do I. Oh,

look at this, there's so many enemies and

the Charger is just standing there. Oh,

what was that? Oh my god, if I can get my

flamer and sneak up behind them— watch

this, watch. Oh, the Charger's

dead. I'll shoot these then.

I think I'm accidentally flaming the

people we're supposed to be saving and

myself. I couldn't even heal fast enough.

The fire did so much damage. And here we

have a flamer and the charger just

standing there. Watch this, watch, watch,

watch. Come on, 50%.

When you get to about 60-70% of the

canister used, the charger usually dies.

It's still alive. I think I missed some of

it then. I think the closer you are to it,

the more damage you do to it. So it seems

like it will take at least a whole

canister, sometimes just 70% of

the canister. But yeah,

it's pretty good at taking down the

charges, as long as you're not being

pestered like this.

Oh my god, reload the fl— oh my god, they

always appear right behind you.

Call napalm. I'm gonna die,

I could die. Oh, I nearly got kicked by

the bile thing. Oh my god,

the napalm fire seems kind of rubbish,

doesn't it? Did it even do much?

I want to land on the Bile Titan. Oh,

watch, watch, watch! Oh, I nearly got it,

nearly got it. Where's my flame at?

Oh my God. Oh, how did it get me?

Hate those stupid legs.

See if I can land on it this time. Yes, I

got it! Didn't die though. Or can I blow

this up? Oh, he got me again!

I can't even see where the legs are coming

from. How come his legs doesn't blow up

the explosive barrel?

I've died so many times. Good thing I'm

the team leader, otherwise they would have

kicked me by now. We'll just get a new

flamer. Put it there.

I can call in the reinforcement thing so

quick. It's up, down, right, left,

up, isn't it? I forgot. I have it

imprinted in my mind. Come on,

any chargers?

Why is it always hard— why is it always so

hard to find chargers to kill?

Those flappy-eared jumpers they do so much

freaking damage.

One hit and it takes like 70% of your life

if you're not wearing heavy armor.

This evacuation mission's such a pain in

the backside.

I don't think we're gonna complete it. 5

minutes left. Oh, look at all the enemies

over there. What are they doing? I'm gonna

spam some grenades at them.

Oh, there's a Charger, but he's

surrounded. Can I press this? Uh-oh.

I'm gonna flame all these guys here.

Where's that Charger? I can see it at the

back. I got the

last Charger for the video. Where'd he go?

It's over there.

I don't think this is actually burning it

though. Oh, he got me in the back! 2.

What if the charges charge into each

other? What happens?

Land on my— oh, I landed on my own guy!

I landed

on my own team member. I wasn't trying to

do that. I didn't even move the helipod.

Okay, let me get this charger.

Burn everything. Burn all the evacuates—

evacuation— evacuating people. I can't

even speak English anymore. The evacuates.

Stupid thing licking me with its tongue.

Fuck off. There's so many

chargers.

Come on. Yes, get stuck there. Can I shoot

through the rock? I think it's bouncing

off the rock, but it is on fire. Look at

it. Look, look, look. Oh,

it's got friends. I got a 500 kg friend

too. Oh, oh, I dropped it.

Oh, 500 kg friend coming in. Ah,

I want to see it.

Did I kill anything?