Helldivers 2 - I Unlocked and Tested EVERY New Weapon in the Cutting Edge Warbond

hello everyone my name is swanie and for

today's video I'm going to be going over

all of the new weapons in the brand new

Cutting Edge war bond that just released

for hell divers 2 now I've unlocked and

tested every new weapon that just

released in today's new war bond and I'm

going to go over each of the new weapons

in detail give you a bit of a mini

summary and go over my first impressions

of each weapon this includes the las6

sickle the G23 stun grenade the SG 8p

Punisher plasma shock gun the las7

dagger pistol and The RK 12 Blitzer

shotgun now at any point if you guys

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that said let's go ahead and get right

into it now the first weapon I want to

talk about is the first one that you can

unlock and it's the las6 sickle energy

based weapon so first things first this

weapon has no alternative firing modes

it has one firing mode which is just

full auto it has no flashlight which

kind of sucks for those nighttime Maps

but it does come with three different

Zoom modes so for the weapon stats it

says that it has light armor penetrating

and it has heat it says it does 55

damage it has a fire limit of nine it

has a recoil of two because it shoots

lasers and it has a fire rate of 750 now

after playing a handful of matches with

this weapon I have to say that this is

honestly probably my new favorite weapon

in all of Hell divers 2 before today I

was going with the sg8 Punisher shotgun

I really love how they buffed it in the

latest balancing update and I thought

that the sg8 Punisher was just really

powerful but now with the release of the

las16 sickle I just absolutely love this

weapon it does pretty great damage which

means it has a pretty fast time to kill

and since it's an energy weapon and it

has heat if you pay attention to your

ammo meter you can essentially have

unlimited ammo as long as you don't

overheat the weapon but if you do

overheat the weapon you can reload it a

total of six times which kind of segus

me into the only negative that I have

with the weapon and it's that this

weapon overheats pretty quickly that's

literally the only downside and they did

that for balancing purposes honestly if

this weapon could fire any longer

without overheating it would probably be

borderline overpowered so that's kind of

how they balanced it you know it

overheats pretty quickly but as long as

you pay attention you can essentially

have unlimited ammo now this weapon is

super accurate because it shoots lasers

so it's pretty good at Mid to long range

and I got to mention that this weapon

just sounds and looks really cool I mean

you're shooting just straight up laser

beams especially at the nighttime Maps

when you're facing the robots and

there's tons of red lasers coming at you

and you're returning fire with the

yellow lasers and it's just so cinematic

and it looks super cool it makes me feel

like I'm in Star Wars or something and

this weapon does have a slight charge up

time so like if enemies are straight up

in your face you do have to hold in the

trigger for about 1 second before it

starts to fire so do keep in mind that

if enemies are getting straight up in

your face this isn't really the best

weapon to deal with that kind of

situation I'd say this weapon is

designed for more like medium range but

like I said this is one of my favorite

weapons in all of Hell divers 2 now I

really really enjoy it and I think you

guys are going to as well so up next is

the SG Punisher plasma shotgun now I'm

going to be honest I thought that this

weapon was pretty underwhelming now I

played a number of different matches

with this and I just wasn't very

impressed now I'm sure someone out there

in the community is going to make a

video saying that this is like the best

weapon in the game and maybe I'm just

using it wrong but first impressions

just picking it up and using it I wasn't

really having much success with it

compared to the las16 sickle I mean I

was getting kills left and right with

that thing but with this gun I was

struggling a bit so first up this weapon

has no flashlight it has no attachments

it has no scopes and it has no way to

change your fire rate then looking at

the stats it says it has a damage of 100

a capacity of eight recoil of 110 and a

fire rate of 80 and for the weapon

traits it says that it has explosive

damage now right away I'm going to tell

you that the capacity of eight shots

before you have to reload is really

holding this weapon back because if

enemies get close to you and they're

rushing you and you're kind of panic

firing you're going to run out of ammo

constantly it just always feels like

you're reloading this weapon so it's a

plasma launching shotgun it's got to be

good at something right I mean it looks

really powerful based off the Traer it

looked like it was doing a ton of damage

and honestly I found that this works

best when you're trying to shoot at like

a small group of enemies maybe there's a

bunch of robots that just got dropped

off at a drop ship and they're all

clustered up or there's a bunch of bugs

that just came out of a hole in the

ground and they're all clustered

together you're going to get the most

out of this weapon when you're shooting

those large group of enemies cuz it does

Splash damage and it has a bit of an AOE

effect and it's going to hit multiple

enemies at the same time so it really

exceeds in that regard but when it comes

to individual enemies this weapon really

struggles because you only get eight

shots and this weapon is very inaccurate

I recommend that you don't aim directly

at enemies try to shoot the ground in

front of them cuz you want to take

advantage of that Splash damage if you

try to hit an enemy rushing at you

directly I noticed that a lot of my

shots were just straight up clipping

through the enemies they would just

phase right through so when you use this

you're definitely going to want to aim

at the feet which kind of brings up

another big downside with this weapon

and is that it's super easy to kill

yourself if you're getting sworn Med and

you're kind of in a panic and you just

shoot the ground you are going to do a

ton of Splash damage and it's very easy

to kill yourself like as you can see

here I had a personal shield and I was

at full health and just one shot at the

ground was enough to just instakill me

and with it being this easy to kill

yourself it's also extremely easy to

kill your teammates so you're going to

want to watch out for that so overall

honestly this weapon kind of felt

gimmicky like it's fun to just kind of

lob plasma grenades at stuff and it's

fun to take out groups of enemies but

when compared to the previous weapon I

just wasn't enjoying it as much and I

think for this weapon to really shine

it's going to have to have some sort of

ammo capacity buff because you're

definitely going to find yourself

burning through those eight shots pretty

quickly so next up let's talk about the

las7 dagger pistol now the las7 dagger

pistol is the First Energy based

secondary weapon that's come to Hell

divers 2 and honestly I thought this was

a pretty good secondary weapon when we

look at the stats it says it has 150

damage per second it has a fire Lim of

five it has a recoil of one because

shoots laser beams so there basically is

no recoil it has light armor penetrating

it can be used with one hand it shoots a

beam and it has heat so that means that

this secondary weapon can also

potentially have unlimited ammo as long

as you're paying attention and I got to

say from the couple matches that I

played just using this thing like I

played an entire match literally only

using this pistol and it was doing

pretty good it has surprisingly long

range because you know you're just

shooting a laser beam so you can

accurately hit targets at medium range

and farther and since it's one-handed

you can shoot this thing while you're on

the run so if you're being chased by

enemies you can just look behind you and

shoot while you're trying to escape and

the only downside that I really have

with this weapon is that it doesn't do

that much damage I found that this

pistol would come close to overheating

after pretty much every single kill I

think that's kind of how they balanced

it since it has long range and it can

potentially have unlimited ammo the

trade-off is that it just doesn't do

that much Dam damage but overall I think

it's a pretty solid secondary I don't

have too many complaints with it I think

out of all four of the options that we

have in the game right now this is the

one that I'm probably going to be

sticking with so the las7 dagger pistol

definitely has my seal of approval so up

next I want to talk about the G23 stun

grenade now this stun grenade definitely

caught me off guard before it came out

today I was thinking what's the point of

a stun grenade we have impact grenades

we have just regular grenades like why

would I ever want to use a stun grenade

and boy was I wrong because this stun

grenade is great it's honestly probably

one of my favorite grenades in the game

now and I was having a blast with this

grenade because it does such a great job

at stun locking enemies let's say a drop

ship lands or a bug hole appears and

you're getting swarmed you can just

throw a stun grenade it will stun all of

the enemies in the area and that will

give you either a couple of seconds to

escape or to mow them all down and one

thing that I really love about this stun

grenade is that it can actually hold the

bile tight and the Chargers in place I

was able to kill a number of different

bile Titans this way simply just throw

one of these stun grenades at its face

and it will stun lock the biot Titans

for like 3 to 5 Seconds which is the

perfect amount of time to get off a

strategy to finish off the bot Titan I

also found that the stun grenade works

really well with teammates there was a

couple of different times where I

stunned a bile Titan and then pinged it

and then called in a reinforcement and

they were able to land directly onto the

biot Titan because it was stunned and

wasn't able to move so that was

definitely pretty cool another thing

that I really love about the stung

grenade is that it can stop Chargers mid

charge now it glitches out the animation

and the charger basically just going to

be running in place but it will stop

them completely in their tracks there

was a couple times where I just threw a

stung grenade at a charger ran behind it

and was able to unload in its weak spot

the only thing I found that the stun

grenade doesn't really work too well on

is the automaton tanks there was a

couple different times where I threw

every single grenade I had had a tank

and it just did absolutely nothing to it

but the stun grenades worked on pretty

much everything else so the stun grenade

definitely has my seal of approval if

there's large groups of enemies it will

completely stop them all on their tracks

I found a really good combo to do is to

just throw a grenade and stun lock a big

group of enemies and then call in one of

those quick air strikes that can be done

in like two to 3 seconds the stun lock

air strike combo is really really

powerful so just in the couple matches

that I played using the stun grenades it

saved my life a number of different

times and honestly I really really enjoy

it the only thing I don't like about the

stun grenade is that when you have it

equipped you're kind of sacrificing the

ability to blow up like bug holes or

factories or anything like that so if

you're doing any of those types of

missions I recommend not bringing the

stun grenade and then the final weapon

on our list is the ark 12 Blitzer

shotgun and my first impressions of this

weapon are pretty mixed so for starters

there's no attachments at all there's no

flashlight there's no different fire

modes there's no zooms so that kind of

sucks for the weapon stats there's no

special traits at all and then for the

damage it does a beefy 250 it has a

capacity of unlimited which is pretty

great it has a recoil of 60 and a fire

rate of 30 so it definitely has a pretty

slow fire rate but that brings me to the

first thing that I really enjoy about

the weapon and it's the fact that it has

unlimited ammo having unlimited ammo is

a pretty big deal in this game like I'm

always constantly running out of ammo

and I'm looking for ammo on the ground

or I'm trying to call in resupply

packages you don't have to worry about

that with the ark2 Blitzer you can shoot

as much as you want and you just never

run out it just always recharges and you

know that part of the weapon is really

great you can shoot as much as you want

you don't have to worry about reloading

you don't have to worry about Ammo

management none of that stuff so that is

a huge Plus for this weapon and the

second thing I really enjoy about this

weapon is that this weapon is great I

mean great at taking out small groups of

bugs any enemy type other than a charger

or a biot Titan will get absolutely

wrecked by this weapon I was having so

much fun facing the terid with this

thing it is an easy 10 out of 10 when it

comes to fighting the terminats it is

awesome I was taking on entire swarms of

the bugs just by myself I went like an

entire match without even dying because

of just how good this weapon was

performing it was awesome so when it

comes to killing the small bugs it is

great now the downside is that when it

comes to the bigger enemy types like the

Chargers or the biot Titans it really

really struggles I tried so hard just to

kill one charger with this weapon and I

couldn't do it I kept throwing stung

grenades to hold the charger in place

and then I'd run behind it and try to

shoot it in the weak spot and it just

was not doing enough damage I wasn't

able to kill a single charger using this

weapon same thing goes for the biot

Titans I unloaded into the bile Titans

and I wasn't able to do hardly anything

I couldn't tell if I was doing any

damage at all to the biot Titans to be

honest uh so it just definitely

struggles when it comes to the bigger

enemy types and then another thing that

I didn't enjoy about this weapon is that

it struggles against the automatons you

would think that a shotgun that shoots

lightning would do really well against

robots but surprisingly it struggles a

lot of the robots like the Devastators

the ones that have the Rockets or the

shields it was doing like no damage at

all to those guys same with the big Hulk

robots or the tanks I was doing like

nothing to those the only robots I was

able to kill consistently with this

weapon were the smaller ones like the

ones with the sword arms or the basic

ones that have like a rocket launcher

the smaller weaker tier robots I was

able to kill those but anything outside

of that this weapon just really

struggled with those and I think the

reason that this weapon struggles so

much is because you can't really aim at

weak spots when you fire this weapon the

lightning bolts just kind of go out and

do their own thing like if you try to

get a head shot for example it's pretty

much impossible because the lightning

bolts will just go wherever they want in

any direction and because of that it's

good at damaging multiple enemies at the

same time if they're in a group but it's

definitely going to struggle if you're

trying to hit a specific body part on an

enemy so overall with the ark 12 Blitzer

I was kind of mixed it's both

simultaneously one of the best weapons

in the game and one of the worst weapons

in the game it's it's really weird now

there may be more to this weapon that I

just haven't figured out yet like maybe

it's good in combination with some of

the strategems or something but based

off of First Impressions just picking up

this weapon and using using it for a

couple different matches I honestly

wasn't very impressed against the

automatons but when it comes to the

terid this is definitely going to be one

of my go-to weapons so those are my

first impressions for each of the brand

new weapons that we just got for hell

divers 2 let me know what you guys think

of the weapons down in the comment

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