The Railgun Got Nerfed Hard in Helldivers 2

The Railgun took the biggest hits in this patch as the weapon has been significantly changed in favour of a higher skill ceiling.

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[SixSicks]

I've just been using unsafe mode the whole time. My apologies to anyone who picked it up off my corpse and accidently deleted themselves without checking first.

[gamesandmoreAA]

I have always been using unsafe mode, I thought that's how the railgun was supposed to dish out damage.

[SPTTR]

Autocannon shouldn't bounce off their armor in my opinion. With as big of a round as it fires, and with it being explosive, it should be able to strip their armor similar to the Railgun. Would make it way more fun and useful to use.

[MrNotSpecified]

Looks like we run flamethrowers now, boys.

[incendium]

Friendship ended with railgun, Flamethrower is now my best friend

[ohlawd]

Honestly, im fine with the Railgun nerf if it's meant to 4 shot a Charger in the head in unsafe mode. What im NOT fine with is that we also didnt get buffs to other anti armor like the Recoilless and the Spear.

Someone PLEASE save my boy Recoilless Rifle 😢

[LittleGalaxyBoy]

The Arc Thrower is more fun though so I've been using that alot. Flamethrower is unbelievable now so it's between these two for me.

[vinsonli]

This feels like im watching a zullie the witch video

[DogInATaco]

Railgun going from one of the best big bug smashers to barely being able to kill 3 or 4 chargers before running out of ammo is an insanely big letdown.
I loved popping Titan heads in a single well placed shot. Now it can take 8-12 shots to kill a single titan?
What a travesty.

[generalseal]

So now it’s meant to be used like a 40k plasma gun

[patrickpuente]

Safemode works best with automatons, not sure now but before patch, even the hulk died of one safe shot to the red light on its face. Which also helps to give you time to aim correctly.

[irontaoist]

lmao, there was an option aside from 'unsafe' mode to actually do your job with the railgun? News to me, I've been threading the needle between life and death since I picked it up.

[ahmarcamacho]

Tbh just nerf the chargers, the game won't be easier we have to deal with 5 of them, 3 bile titans, annoy as fuck hunters stun locking us, spewers raining down anti stamina Armageddon and Stalkers fuckking up pur shit when we least expect it. All at the same time.

Make it so the chargers legs can be exposed with extra damage and not penetration would be much better. And the current armored charger can be a variant of a new default charger eith tanky, but softer legs.

[cykablyat]

the nerfs would be fine, if the fucking game if chargers and bile titans were rare, But THEY SPAWN LITERALLY EVERYWRRE EVERY MINUTE

[Tokeshiro]

im not against nerfs cus power creep is a thing but i feel other weapons should be buff to make viable 1st b4 nerfing stuff. example only 4 weapons were truly viable and 2 semi viable in the primary slot so instead of nerfing the breaker you buff other options to be actually usable and after that weapons that are still dominant you nerf.

[Jasey]

Been running Flamethrower.
Still running Flamethrower, only faster...

[Limitbreak]

Wow my stupidty actually saves me. I always thought safe mode has siginifcant lower damage so i always have it in unsafe mode.

[Emilgod]

weird they decided the 1 gun that should go right through anythnig, get deflected off some baby armor :/

[InkedCat]

Coughs in anti-material rifle:
- 2 shots hulks (eye)
- 1 shots automatons with heads if you shoot head
- 1 shots heavy bugs to head or mouth if armored (or 2 shots to head)
- can crouch spam kill chargers in a pinch (curve around and shoot back, think 1 mag is enough if you land all of them)
- can destroy tanks/towers but it is a little tedious still (have to clear enemies around them)
- crazy DPS if you can control its recoil + crouch (accurate without 1st person in close proximity)

The only thing I haven't tested it enough on is Bile Titans but you can try unloading into their underside while crouching. I haven't tried shooting their face/eyes with it.

[Stenchovies]

They'll probably revert those changes some day, for now they want the community to shift towards other weapons to get more data on those for the ultimate balance patch