Is the Breaker Bad Now? New Patch Notes Tierlist + Buff/Nerf Thoughts Helldivers 2

Here are all my thoughts on the buffs and nerfs to different meta weapons including the breaker, shield regenerator pack, and the railgun. As well as buffs to weapons like the flamethrower, laser canon, and spray and pray.

Timestamps
00:00 Thoughts on nerfs in patch 1
4:50 Breaker, Railgun
5:38 Shield Generator Backpack
6:15 Flamethrower
7:41 Breaker Spray and Pray
8:38 Punisher and Slugger
9:30 Laser Cannon
11:37 120 and 380 Barrages
12:32 Need More Work
13:01 Heave vs Light Armor
14:20 Spear

[thiccfila]

Come follow my twitch and join the discord for when we do viewer games :D

[agedgouda]

The idea to allow other people to use a reload backpack while its on YOUR back is genius. That would be so so nice.

[JohnDoe_]

Really ? The railgun got nerfed "a little" So you went from 2 uncharged shots to take off a chargers leg armour to 3 90% + charged shots so realistically 4 shots. That's a 100% increase in TTK which is a problem if there are 3+ chargers and a Bile titan running around. It's not really the nerf that's troublesome its the fact that there is no viable alternative yet. Spear ... doesn't lock on. Recoilless, too slow. Autocannon, bounces a lot.

[roar]

how exactly is saying you want to preserve the identity and power fantasy of weapons then gutting the penetration of the railgun justified? It's inexcusable. Taking more shots to break armor is whatever. Having it bounce on heavy armor isn't. Actual incomprehensibly stupid change to the gun

[neogenesis]

Shield doubles the time to reactivate, 3 Shots less and no Mag to the Breaker is significant and that the Railgun must be charged to do damage against a Charger will cost a lot of deaths to the Helldivers.

[pitbullsensei]

"It only takes one more shot".well, it only takes one more charger...

[badprofessional]

im glad for the slugger buff, the stagger on automaton medium units is unreal, completely stops an entire berserker horde in its tracks

[ross]

Does it feel like this patch increased the bug density for anyone else? How about their aggressiveness? Weapon adjustments aside, something feels off with this patch.

[trainmany]

For the shield, I think they should have let you start the cooldown with 5 like you can with Eagles. It could have been nerfed further to make up for that, but in general it leaves room for friendlyfire cheese where there didnt need to be any wonkiness.

Favorite buff to laser cannon is just simply how snappy they made it. The coounterpart is machinegun and it leapfrogged it.

Armor is still a little iffy for me in part because i didnt realize until i tested, bugs have backstab crits. I am excited to try the ballistic sheild with heavy armo, though, as I am hoping the combined half-measured vs rocketbarrages mostly neutralizes them.

[jotairpontes]

Spear is bae. They just need to fix the janky lock system; and, as we all agree, they need to buff the reload backpack, letting anyone assist your reload if you have the backpack for it, not making anyone waste their backpack slots.

[Uggaphat]

The railgun/shield was the only way I could deal with armor swarms and survive in 7+. Other weapons need buffs, not nerfing what works at this point.

[dochubbard]

The biggest issue I had with the nerfing of the rail gun is how much time you had to play the game to unlock it. In other words it was presented as if rewarding you with a weapon for your time. Your using a stratagems slot to use this weapon. And stratagems are suppose to standout. "In my option".

[Zenovii-senpai]

Punisher and Slugger are new favorites now that they stunlock Stalkers.

[edgarcastellanos]

You can’t destroy the cannon turrets with the railgun anymore 😭

[lolersauresrex]

Add free fire to the Spear at the cost of arming time, hold fire for 2-3s before it goes where you point it

[roar]

also found out the other day the shield backpack takes *an entire minute* to start regenning if it isn't broke completely. 11 seconds or thereabouts if it does break. It's also affected by the 100% longer call in time and takes 2 minutes to recharge if damaged but not broken then. Inexcusably long

[torgmeister]

heavy armor doesn't help at all against headshots, so that makes it feel super inconsistent/random/useless.

[TheDarkZoren]

Just wanted to clear up a misconception: Hot and Cold planets do not effect how fast the laser guns overheats it effects how the speed at which it cools down.

[connertomaterhater]

The railgun is now just a dangerous anti material rifle.

[tHAWK]

I’ve noticed that the breaker nerf doesn’t seem to have affect the ads recoil