Stress Testing Helldivers 2's STRONGEST Shotgun

With the new update to Helldivers 2, the

Punisher shotgun is probably one of the

most powerful weapons in the game right

now. So if you go to shotguns and look at

the SG-8 Punisher, you can see it now does

405 damage per second, which is the

highest damage out of all of the shotguns.

It does more damage than any other

shotgun, does more damage than the rifles

and also the beam weapons. Even the Jar

Dominator does less damage than the

Punisher, and same for the Laz Scythe and

the Scorcher. So let's take Let's test out

this Punisher shotgun today now that it's

been buffed and compare it to its brother,

the Slugger. Okay, so I just landed on

this planet and we're going to test out

the Punisher shotgun after the buffs and

updates. And straight away I can notice

we've got way more ammunition than usual.

We've got 32 rounds out

of 60. I swear that used to say 16 out of

40, or was it like 24 out of 40? So we've

got more ammunition. What else is

different? This looks the same,

kind of fires the same, feels pretty

much the same. So let's see how much more

damage we do against some of the enemies

now. Okay, so I found some enemies.

The problem with this gun is compared to

the Slugger, it doesn't have medium armor

penetration, so it's not going to be able

to headshot the armored walkers. Watch.

See, it just bounces off. Deflects,

deflects, deflects. It's gonna deflect off

these as well. Look, it doesn't do any

damage against anything higher than light

armor, so that's not great. I've got 2

charges. I was hoping to test this out on

some light armored enemies, but we're kind

of in a pickle because I also don't have a

team for some reason. And has anyone else

got this weird bug where— oh, never mind,

someone just joined me. I was gonna say,

sometimes I get bugged and it

won't let new people join my team,

and then I have to close the game and then

reopen the game. How did I die when the

explosion's over there? I think they also

changed the AoE effect of the 500 kg bomb.

I got the Charger though in the side,

but not enough. Oh, it died. It bled out.

Haha. I just dropped the airstrike too

close to me. It's okay. So you can see I'm

just one-shotting these little guys with

the 400 damage. How many bile spewers do

you want to freaking throw at me? Ah crap.

So really the best thing to do with those

bile spewers is, because we don't have

armor-penetrating damage, we're gonna have

to grenade them. This has not been going

well. I'm trying to find light enemies to

test the gun out on to show you guys, but

all they're doing is— why am I not

respawning?

Someone joined the game, they've got to

land first. The game just wants to

throw loads of bile spewers and armored

chargers at me, which is not what I

wanted. Anyway, I was saying sometimes I

get bugged and no one joins my

team until I restart the entire game,

close the game and restart it. Which is

kind of annoying. Wish they'd fix that.

Anyway, back to testing the gun. We're

gonna do some stress testing. So we're

trying to avoid those armored guys because

our gun does nothing on it. Look, it just

bounces off its back. You can shoot it in

the belly, but it takes forever.

So this is the highest DPS per second gun

in the game for 400 DPS when it comes to

primary guns, so it's obviously gonna

one-shot the little guys. And against

these guys, you can't really do much

against it. He's like,

what are you doing to my bum? Just having

a poke, a pokey poke.

You can destroy his bum after quite a few

shots. But it takes forever.

If I don't have any airstrikes, I just run

away. I can't be bothered. But those guys

take a few shots. One shot, one shot, one

shot. Oh, how did it get up there? I

didn't know you could get up there. I

thought I was safe. So against these ones,

it usually takes a couple shots, or maybe

one shot if you get it in the face.

Oh my god, it's not good at swarms. If you

get swarmed like this, you're kind of

screwed. I didn't get the

airstrike off. Okay, launching back in.

I forgot— I mean, I did press resume

recording, but it didn't resume recording.

I just spent like a minute talking to

myself. Anyway, I had some stalkers as

well. I shot them in the face, only took 3

shots, didn't get it on video. Killing

these guys is really annoying when you

don't have armor penetration. All you can

do is throw a grenade,

but against the armored guys, it's not

great either. Your best bet is shooting it

in the gaps or on its tail to stagger it a

bit. Oh my god, where did they even come

from? Well, they just appear out of no

fucking where. Okay, launching back in

again. Why is it so hard just to— oh,

how many freaking enemies do you want to

give me?

Oh my god, I wasn't even anywhere near the

goddamn airstrike. This game is a freaking

joke now. What have they done to it?

They've broken this game even more. It's

even more stupid than it was before.

It's like the number of enemies that spawn

is have been tripled or something on

Helldive mode. You can't even get to your

objectives because you're constantly

swarmed by massive rampaging swarm of

stupid bugs. Goddamn stupid

I just want a couple enemies to shoot the

gun at so I can show you how good it is.

They keep giving me stupid charges and

stupid bile spills. Fucking hell.

Okay, there's some. So you can see the

damage is pretty good against

these guys. So that just one-shots them.

For fuck's sake. Oh my fucking god.

I swear to Jesus, I'm gonna delete this

game. I can't even do a stupid video where

I test a stupid gun.

Okay, so against these guys, you— it takes

out in one shot and one shot and one shot.

So you can really see the 400 damage,

405 damage per second in effect. I'm so

sick and tired of these stupid chargers.

Oh, Oh my, a Bile Titan?

Fuck off. Yeah, kill your own Stalker guy.

I don't give a damn.

So against the little guys, it's pretty

powerful, but the fire rate is just so

damn slow. You're not going to be able to

do much crowd control. You really want

something like a Spray and Pray or a

Breaker. I don't know why you take this

over the Spray and Pray because It does

really low fire rate against swarms. It

does high damage, so you can do good

damage against light enemies. But

basically every primary gun in this game

can one-shot light enemies. It's the

medium enemies like this that it's gonna

be useless against. And basically every

single primary weapon is used— I got stuck

on a bush. Can you believe I got stuck on

a freaking bush? How?

How in the hell does it even

happen? So every primary gun in the game

is basically useless against

armored enemies, so it doesn't really

matter.

What am I saying? I forgot what I'm

saying. I'm saying

every primary gun is good at killing the

light enemies, so I wouldn't take this one

just because it's got very low fire rate.

Yeah, it can kill Brood Commanders and

bigger things with light armor a bit

faster than something like a Breaker Spray

and Pray, but I don't know,

because the Breaker Spray and Pray or the

Breaker Shotgun, you fire more bullets

faster, but this one fires less bullets

slower but for more damage. So you kind

of— it's basically the same, isn't it?

It's like you fire 10 shots within 5

seconds to kill it, or you fire 5 shots

within 10 seconds to kill it. I'm done.

Screw this game.