The LAS-5 SCYTHE： Testing the only ENERGY BEAM type weapon in Helldivers 2 (INSANE DAMAGE)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be looking at one of

the most overlooked and underrated weapons

in Helldivers 2, but it's actually one of

the most powerful weapons in Helldivers 2

if you learn how to use the weapon

properly. I don't see many people using

this out in the field. Usually most people

using the Breaker shotgun because it's

just so overpowered, but the Scythe is

actually also a pretty good weapon. I'm

going to show you the best way to use it

today. Um, so just in case you're

wondering how you get this gun, you have

to go into the War Bonds page, and it's on

page, page 5, the Laz-5

Scythe. And it does 300 damage per second,

it's got a fire limit of 8, 008 recoil of

001, which is basically no recoil, and a

stun time of 0.0 seconds. I don't even

know why, why they put stun time there if

it's 0. So the traits are light, armor

penetrating, beam, and heat. This does do

heat damage and beam damage. Okay, so I'll

show you some quick gameplay using the

Scythe. There's no options for it, you've

just got flashlight, but there's nothing

else you can do with it apart from just

shoot it at enemies. And it does start to

heat up if you just keep shooting it in a

beam like this. You'll see a little red

thing next to the 6x6, that's the heat of

the charge. And if you let it keep going

until it maxes out red, you will have to

reload it. But if you stop shooting, let

it cool down, then you won't have to

reload it. So if you just let it overheat

all the time, you're going to be running

out of cartridges or whatever it's called

quickly. So what you want to do is not

just— it's not just hold it down all the

time. Yeah, these things, I don't know how

they get up here. I thought I was safe.

So the best way to tackle enemies with the

scythe is probably to aim at their legs

and cut their legs off, and that will stop

them from moving basically. It's kind of

like that game Dead Space where you've got

those cutting tools and the best way to

kill the enemies was by shooting their

legs out. And it's kind of like that on

this game as well. So you can shoot, for

example, this guy's legs. To be honest,

you can't really do much against the

armored Charger because it's not armor

penetrating. And it cuts those little guys

and the bigger guys, the walkers, down to

size pretty quickly. But against the

armored things like that thing there It's

not really gonna do much. I don't know how

that vomit got me because I'm nowhere near

it, but it managed to slow me down. So

look, you can cut these guys down, you can

cut their legs off pretty easily. The

problem is the armored enemies, but with

most armored enemies, your primary

weapon's not really gonna do much. And

I've got 2 Bile Titans on my back, and the

scythe, as great as I think it is,

literally does nothing to the Bile Titans

because it just bounces off their armor.

So this is an absolutely useless weapon

when it comes to armored enemies because

it just bounces off like most of the other

primary weapons do. I think I'm gonna have

to kick these guys because they, they just

don't rez me. I'm waiting here for like a

minute and they're not rezzing me, so

goodbye Chinese person. Why don't

they rez me? It's not like they can't rez

me, they're just running around in

circles. Anyway, so back to my guide on

the scythe. So for these guys, you shoot

the legs, the legs come off, the head

comes off pretty easy. Look at that, they

go down so quickly. And against these

little bugs— oh, they're already dead.

Everything is kind of dead.

And then for these guys with the armor,

they seem to be glitched because they're

not moving. Why are they just standing

there? So the scythe

can destroy them pretty easily, and then

you gotta reload. If you let it overheat

like that, you will end up wasting your

magazines. So everything just— you

can just surgically remove their legs,

which is pretty funny. Now he's humping

the rock. What is he doing? Look, what's

He's just humping that rock for some

reason. I'm gonna cut their legs off then

if they're not gonna attack me.

Don't cut the Brood Commander's leg off.

Are they scared of me or something?

I don't get it. What is going on with the

AI? The game is super

bugged again.

Can you just cut all their legs off? This

kind of reminds me when I was a kid and I

used a magnifying glass to burn ants.

I'm getting weird déjà vu.

Anyone else used to do that? And then for

these little bugs, you can just zap them

pretty easily. Whoops, I jumped in the

wrong direction. So these little guys,

the great thing about the scythe is it's

actually pretty good at mopping up the

small enemies like

this. You can do some pretty good mop-up,

mop-up work, but against armored enemies,

you're kind of screwed.

This time I'll spawn on top of this

mountain, and then we can see how good the

DPS is without getting swarmed. Watch

this. Look, they can't do

anything. Zap them all.

This gun feels pathetically weak sometimes

though. Oh my god,

what a stupid idiot. Tickle farts, you can

get kicked. Why do idiots

keep joining my team? Okay, so what

you want to do is aim for the legs like

that. Cut leg off, cut his leg

off, cut that leg off. Once you've cut

more than 2 legs off, the Brood Commanders

basically just give up and die.

You can shoot them in the head.

He just spawned a bunch of baby things.

Watch how easily it kills these ones.

See, the armored guys, you gotta aim at a

little crack under their armor, which is

kind of difficult.

If you can aim at his elbow— I've

overheated everything now. We'll just do

this, it's a lot easier.

So again, just aim at its legs and they

come off. Now for crowd control— why does

every time I try and say that, stupid

Charger just appears out of nowhere?

Oh my god, I'm trying

to give a demonstration of how it's good

for destroying these tiny ones, and then

this freaking Charger comes out of

nowhere. And now this glass of water is

getting in the way of my stupid mouse.

Land up. I can't move my Hellpod. What is

with this stupid game? I got the upgrade

in my ship so I could get improved

steering for my Hellpod. Sometimes

randomly you can't even steer your

Hellpod. The direction keys don't do

Someone said something about the wind

blowing stops you from steering the

Hellpod as well. I literally couldn't move

it in any direction. Oh my

god,

look, look at this. I can barely steer it.

I can steer it right, but but not left and

down. Is it another bug?

Oh my god, they keep coming up behind me.

I can't believe this.

I think I failed the mission. This game

honestly is so stupid. Sometimes you get

like a massive swarm of enemies, and as

soon as you spawn, they're right up your

backside. And you can barely do

anything. Oh, I hate this game sometimes.

So sick and tired of playing this stupid

fucking hell though.