Stress Testing Helldivers 2's STRONGEST Gun

The SG-8S Slugger is the most powerful weapon in Helldivers 2. Naturally you would assume that makes it the best gun in your primary slot. But is that actually the case? We thoroughly review it here to find out.

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[FartLordGaming]

While it wasn't mentioned in the video, the Slugger is, for whatever reason, the ONLY primary in the game that can open hidden shipping container cashes instead of using a grenade. I have absolutely no idea why it does this considering some support weapons can't even do that, but we ball for Super Earth.

[whozyourdaddy]

The cool thing about the slugger is the little switch that flips when you've fired half the weapon's capacity. It has two loading tubes and automatically switches to the right tube once the left one is empty. Cool little detail. Like a KSG.

[gabzsy]

The slugger is what the basic marksman rifles should have been. This weapon makes the Machine Gun and Stalwart secondaries actually viable where you focus especially on dealing with hordes of small and medium targets and let your teammates deal with the bigger stuff.

[metalhead]

Even if you CAN'T land that headshot on a Devastator, the slugs can continually stunlock them just by hitting them, which is useful if you need some breathing room, when several come trudging over a hill towards you

[marzialalfonzocanada]

the slugger is a godsent when it comes to the rocket infantry on the automatons...that stagger mechanic can literally save you from an insta kill

[MrBogThing]

fun fact the left tube of the Slugger lodes much quicker than the rhit so keeping it topped up is even more effective it first seems

[GetSomePants]

A couple of extra things to note about the slugger:

- the slugger can damage striders from the front when targeting their legs
- the slugger has heavy stagger capabilities, allowing you to stunlock stalkers, brood commanders, devestators etc. This makes it the best primary in the game for dealing with stalkers especially

[vekaras]

You need to add the fact that this gun Staggers anything it does damage to without killing. it's especially good against devastators to prevent them from shooting rockets, and against stalkers to prevent them from hitting you or retreating.

[dubbmoon]

PC divers be cautious with this tip, sorry ya have so many bugs.

Tip for you. If you collect the super samples or any samples, head straight to the extraction and hold down on the dpad then use the right stick to select samples and release the down button. You will drop the samples and you don't have to worry about dropping them in a bad spot.

Also please pick them up before you summon the extract just to be safe, not after I don't get why anyone would do that but don't please.I'm just trying to help you don't have to take my advice. Keep up the fight divers.

[scproinc]

The slugger can also open underground containers with one shot instead of wasting a grenade.

[lrdferret]

Great video. Most videos boil down to "DId U NO WEAKSPOT?" Actual testing like this is actually nice to see. I've been loving the slugger, even over 100 hours of playtime I learned a thing or two from this video. Good stuff, I hope you keep it up.

[TechnoLogicPC]

Hey cheers on having the best video quality/bitrate of literally anybody uploading this game. Breath of fresh air

[wafflehund]

I love that you use the Total Annihilation OST for your background music.
March Unto Death 🤌🤌

[ivanfranebijelic]

This is not stated in game but the Slugger actually has Medium armor penetration, not light. What this means is that just like the Liberator Penetrator and Dominator, it can kill a Scout Strider by shooting its hip joints and it can do damage to a Hulk's head. It also has a VERY SEVERE damage dropoff at longer ranges, if you're shooting at 70+ meters, you won't be able to oneshot the basic Automatons even with a headshot.

The Dominator is a very strong alternative that has a much faster fire rate, the same performance for each enemy type (except it can't stagger Devastators without a headshot), essentially zero damage dropoff at any feasible range at the cost of being more clunky to aim with, and it has more overall ammo in exchange for a smaller individual mag.

[UnchainedGaruda]

Been mainlining the slugger for awhile now, basically for all the reasons you mentioned. Great video!

[sonicx]

The slugger is my go to and that explains why i have more success at using turret strategems with my friends. Although no one notices me taking down the slightly armored enemies all that often.

[Hel-]

Thanks for the guide/review, excellent choice for the soundtrack...subscribed!

[saitamaonepunchman]

a little note about the slugger is that I've noticed the small stalker guys will very rarely not go down in one shot, it doesn't happen often but often enough for me to notice, sometimes I'll oneshot an actual stalker aswell even when other times I hit the head it doesn't get oneshot, what I love is because of the stagger it's very easy to keep a small/medium sized horde back if you're switching targets quickly, I actually find myself getting overrun and having to run back alot less with the slugger cause of it's near instant kills on anything it can pen (which is everything but chargers and bile titan armor in the case of the bugs)

[anderson]

Love the videos

And I've been playing with the slugger for the past several days and I really like it! I like how anything it can damage, it also will stop at its tracks. Tracks so if the stocker is chasing you even if you get a bad shot on it, you'll still stunlock it

[loafofmilk]

Since the update that nerfed the Railgun, both versions of the pump-action shotgun have been greatly improved. 50% more ammo, increased stagger, and the punisher has more pellets. These are now pretty much my go-to primaries.