Stop Wasting Ammo, Damage Explained In Helldivers 2
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Hit markers, armor penetration, weak points, and damage can be confusing in Helldivers 2. Let’s explain how it all works and how that will make you a better player.
Helldivers 2 is a fantastic game and while testing out the Polar Patriots Warbond I realized that I still didn’t fully understand how damage works in this game. Did you know that you can kill a Scout Strider from the front with any medium penetrating weapon? That led me down a rabbit hole reading articles from the Helldivers community.
This video explains how damage, penetration, weak points, and crit spots function in Helldivers 2. You’ll learn that the ricochet symbol means no damage, the white hit marker means half damage, and the red hit marker means full damage. This is calculated by comparing the penetrating stat of your weapon against the thickness of armor that enemies sport. For example, the Liberator Penetrator does medium damage and ricochets off a Scout Strider's top plate but goes through its pelvis at half damage. In this video, you’ll also learn what to do if you can’t penetrate an enemy's armor by going for weak points around their body. Those weak points greatly reduce your damage and you can even get around that by using explosive weapons like the Jar-Dominator.
Helldivers 2 is out now for PS5 and PC.
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Игры
When all else fails...flames prevail.
Let the power of lighting flow it bypasses everything
frill i been running the flamethrower as my support ever since they came out with the 25% module buff
Just got the 25% buff today, can’t wait to try it out. Just wish it affected grenades as well
Only on bugs though, flamethrower against bots is really bad
except against bots, when they're chipping you from half way across the map
Good to know.
I love the visual of the laser cannon, but i love the effectiveness of the anti-material rifle.
nothing can stop a 500kg eagle strike
*laughs in terrain*
Yeah except RNG just washing your 500 over the bile titan like a warm summer breeze.
Except the devs
I move slightly forward during the 10 minutes it takes the bomb to go off
Indeed
Quick correction: The Jar-5 dominator is an "explosive weapon" but does not do explosive damage and thus only does the regular 10% damage that most guns do to the squishy bits. Weapons that do explosive damage have the "explosive" attribute in their description, such as with the scorcher or eruptor.
So what does it actually do???
Wut?
@@QuayNemSorr stun locks devastators with its stagger and one shots small enemies. Recommended for automatons.
This is partially correct. The dominator does about 33% of its damage to durable parts where most weapons do 10% and most explosive weapons do 100%.
Dom is actually Medium Pen + Concussive
While you might not be doing any damage shooting at armor, you can still pull agro to help save your teammates and set them up for shots.
I can't see those. Especially when there's a lot of stuff going on. So I'll just keep wasting ammo.
The anti-material rifle has light-vehicle armor pen, which is why it can damage the hulk's visor, which has light vehicle armor. You can also do it with the autocannon and laser cannon.
Just list it as, light, medium and heavy.
The data from the game suggests that there are 2 stages to both light and medium armor. While heavy has up to 6 possible stages.
Quasar is an AT weapon like the recoiless and eat. it is not comparable to the anti material rifle.
@@QueueWithACapitalQ, no one is talking about the quasar here
@@QueueWithACapitalQThe laser cannon is the one that shoots a continuous beam
General Brasch would be impressed. May Liberty guide your step.
Sad thing is that railgun can go throw heavy armor as well If you charge it enough but the gun damage is very low.
Best way to save ammo is to use the laser cannon at all times.
“C’mon, that’s all you got?” Ahh Charger
I like wasting ammo. It goes with the vibes 😂
Another Great Overview 💯 Thanks 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
In another word. All stock weapons are mostly useless in direct assault situations and you'll be relaying on support weapons and stratagem most of the times.
In other words. Use the right tools for the right jobs and you will find nothing is useless
@@davidtrueblood1863 where was buddy wrong
I use the liberator against bots in helldive difficulty. Did you watch the video? There are crit multipliers. Devastators die to 3 shots to the head from the liberator. All you need is an armor that reduces recoil and the thing turns into an automaton killer
I disagree the stagger and damage from shotguns does well
Plas 1 and Plasma shotgun to wonders to automatons.
Looking forward for the upcoming balance update. Most primary shooters are like a water gun. Even the bugs sometimes take a full mag or two to take out.
I've destroyed a lot of butts in this game.
Very helpful.👍
Mind blown. I have been trying to figure out why I can two shot hulks with AMR, but other medium pen weapons do nothing to the head.
Hip joints on the automatons are uncovered for the most part, even if the target space is small. Sweep the leg, Divers!
There's no weapon that feels better against bugs than the breaker incendiary. Just an awesome weapon all around.
>shoots charger DIRECTLY IN ITS UNARMORED MOUTH
>ricochet, no damage
BRAVO
Usually...I dont have enough time even read markers... except nopen situation 😅😅
Thanks for telling me how to play 🎉
It bears remembering that distance does cause damage drop off. Most basic projectile weapons work best within 15m give or take 5m. Course that’s only what I’ve heard, I’m afraid I don’t any hard numbers to back those distances up.
You were misinformed
For most of the weapon, there's a damage drop off straight out of the barrel.
Damage in HD2 can be float but are always rounded down.
So, a 45/15 damage Liberator Penetrator becomes a 44/14 straight out of the canon.
Theoretically, you can bypass damage drop if you weapon is clipped inside the enemy hitbox but it's basically never the case.
There's also some weapon's without 0 damage drop off, like energy guns, or even Dominator.
Another interesting thing to know is that rounding thing is applied for EACH of a shotgun pellets.
So, a 11 pellets breaker looses 11 damage straight out of the barrel.
Then, damage drop off evolves depending of the target distance.
For most of the weapon, there's a damage drop off straight out of the barrel.
Damage in HD2 can be float but are always rounded down.
So, a 45/15 damage Liberator Penetrator becomes a 44/14 straight out of the canon.
Theoretically, you can bypass damage drop if your weapon is clipped inside the enemy hitbox but it's basically never the case.
There's also some weapon's with 0 damage drop off, like energy guns, electric ones or even the Dominator.
Another interesting thing to know is that rounding thing is applied for EACH of a shotgun pellets.
So, a 11 pellets breaker looses at least 11 damage straight out of the barrel.
Then, damage drop off evolves depending of weapon used and the target distance.
There's also a second rounding if AP = AV.
Plasma weapons, because i don't care about armor unless it's heavy. :D
dominator doesn't do full damage on squishy part. But it does more than most weapons
Scout striders are weakest at the hips and knees.
The legs (except the aforementioned joints) apopear to be much weaker at the hips.
I do love the silly tutorial they gave us for thematic reasons, but Arrowhead should invest on actually providing a REAL Training mode for Helldivers on the ship explaining these concepts if they want this game to succeed in the long run. Perhaps in the form of a simulator.
Nah they've gone old school... Figure it out yourself or search it online. That way you create traffic and hype for them and the game
@@ecb116 I don't want just a minority of players looking things up and being more skilled than others. This is a coop shooter. Your perspective comes from a classist culture, where we are all competing for information. Information should be disseminated and uniform. Like in the military, standardized, improved upon. I want us all to be strong, together. I want this game to be different from others. I want us to be united.
@@Vespyr_ We're not competing for information, it's all out there for anyone to see. Many people just think it's more fun to discover things on their own, rather than be handheld through a game.
Hm… interesting how this came out right after Eravin made a video on it.
The anti-material rifle is goated against bots.
I miss the Eruptor's shrapnel.
They have to reverse the nerf. We must do some sort of protest for them to fix it.
100 hours in the game, and i have never saw that symbol that says that i am not making damage D:
also, didn't notice about the white and red things D:
Take the Adjudicator on hard bot missions
Fire fire and more fire 🔥
How does he get the charger to stand still for the demo? Is this a hack of some sort? I'd love a target practice room or lobby to try this stuff out.
They get stuck on rocks sometimes. I've also had one stop when you stick a Resupply to it.
No wonder I stuck. I've been playing Helldivers 2 on a SteamDeck. Those indicators are tiny. In gonna need a real PC to solve this problem.
Or just learn enemy weaknesses
Should campaign for the ui to make the markers larger, or off as a setting
If you’re not expending massive amounts of ordinance, you’re playing Helldivers 2 wrong 💥 🚀
From “Full Metal Jacket”
Door Gunner:
Get some! Get some! [continues firing]
Get some! Get some! Yeah! Yeah! Get some! Get some! Come on! Come on!
[continues firing]
Get some!
[continues firing]
Ha-ha! Get some, baby! Get some! Get some! Get some! Get some! Get some! Come on! Get it! Come on! Get some! Get some! Yeah-yeah-yeah! I've got you, mother!
[stops firing]
Ha-ha!
[looks at Joker and Raftman]
Anyone who runs is a VC! Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined VC!
[laughs]
You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
This is why HELLDIVERS 2 is one of the best games of all time
what you got wrong was not using the word "penetrator" in the same sentence you said "crotch"
thee top armor of scout strdeers are still medium armor but a a higher level of it i bellive lvl 5 so the liberator pen with lvl 4 cant shoot it but the AMR or Laseer cannon with higher medium armor pen are able to do damage to it
gamespot is alive?>
Autocannon kills hulks with two headshots 👌
Charger butts!
Liberator Penetrator, yep
JAR-5 continues to be the best gun in the game
Agradecido.
Don't forget, we're always one update away from making all of this information completely useless.
Oh, and forget patch notes.
500 kg Eagle Strike🤕
Pulse scortcher can easily bypass up until heavy armor but than the splash damage will got them
we have enuf ammo.
I strongly (but respectfully) disagree. I’m always running out… the worst offender is the dmr. Why not 10 mags if it’s just a slow assault rifle with presumably the same caliber? :(
a hundred hours ago?
x
Dont worry devs will soon nerf it so we dont have any armor pen at all because we are not allowed to have fun.
should be a semicolon
No
Damage values are bugged by the way, thanks to all fanbois that still support this travesty of a game
Blah blah blah Auto Cannon go brrr.
I don't think the ricochet marker means NO damage! I've killed stuff with the ricochet mark showing
Ricochet does mean no damage. Bugs can bleed out after a hit from antitank weapons, doesn't mean your peashooter killed them.
@handlesarecringe957 nah I've killed stuff with only ricochet
@@xuncledaddy4377 No chance
@@ELeviathan33 yes chance
Gigity
I have Xbox 😔
But funny
I cant take advice from someone who plays under level 7 😂
A bit late to the show don't you think?
That 2 legged robot is straight out of star wars 🤦♂️
And?
You dont like AT-RTs
@@commandergeokam2868 i didnt say i didnt like them im just facepalming cause its like a exact copy and nothing original, all these games copying each other these days its dumb, no personal creative ideas, and the giant multiple legged creatures look like something out of gears of war also 🥱
@@ChadsYTLife_ do you honestly think the mouse house would have let it slide if they were legally similar enough? Disney is one of the most litigious companies on the planet, they didn't let a family have a spider-man themed gravestone for their young kid, if they let this go then clearly it's not similar enough to break copyright laws.
@@ChadsYTLife_ Cool story bro. 🤣
@@ChadsYTLife_ the devastators ,hulks and berserkers are out of WH40k and the suits looks like starship troopers and and and
Come on man the game is fun and the devs have their designs inspired by all time favourite sci fi movies i don't see the problem in that
they capping about the dominator dudes don't know squat
The damage output , probably the most inconsistent system I’ve ever seen in a game .
This game is so poorly explained. Its fun, but man the devs do an awful job of explaining how weapons and armor work.
GameSpot? More like LameSpot.
This is a terrible system that renders most of the weapons as junk for most players.
get good
L take
Stop wasting your studio resources on making pointless videos for a co-op game that no one even cares anymore.
Womp womp
Then why are you here?😂
@@arshadrahul1532 Why shouldn't I be here? I see my one of my favourite gaming channels trying to pointlessly milk views for a mediocre game, and you are saying I shouldn't criticize?
@@AeyGee Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it is mediocre. A lot of people seem to think that this is one of the best coop games of recent years.
Calling democracy officer. This man right here.