Can Arc Thrower Replace Railgun? Helldivers 2

In today's training we're going to be covering the arc thrower. This is one of the best guns in the game, and its totally underutilized. For mobbing, bossing, etc, all of the above it performs really well especially in the right hands. This gun would be rated high on my weapons tier list. #helldivers2

[thiccfila]

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[dharmeshmistry]

My first experience of this was aiming at a Charger and going: “I GOT IT!” As the lightning fuckin reflects off, misses 6 bugs, and disintegrates my teammates.

[JS-krfs]

You know what's going to happen, though: Someone picks up Arc Thrower to try it out, can't figure out why it won't kill because of the weird behavior and steep learning curve, kill five teammates in the process, and give it up forever for the next support weapon they can find.

[drummerguy]

I really like the arc thrower, but sometimes It's WILDLY inconsistent. Ill be aiming center mass on some enemies and itll just arc to a stone nearby. Other times I'll one shot several enemies. It's very strange. A fun weapon, and strong, but inconsistent. Might be my own mistakes though.

[keldon_champion]

My experience with it so far has been that it is a happy middle ground between grenade launcher and rail gun

[Ace-Intervention]

Tip for the Arc Thrower
You don’t need to fully charge it, only the first shot need to be fully charge

[DewbzThePanda]

my first time using arc thrower put me off it cuz i thought the range was near pointblank, but after seeing videos of people using it at its max range it redefined my thoughts on it and now that ive been using it properly it's one of my favorites. We need a firing range with an enemy spawner to allow us to test weapons and their strengths/weakness in a quick way so the sleeper weapons get a chance to shine. For example i recently found out the recoilless rifle can 1 shot bot drops in the engine off of pure chance

[jabloneynophony]

My biggest problem with the gun is that it makes me too aggro against bugs. I'm standing there, in a prolonged battle against horde after horde, killing everything like a boss. Only to find out my whole team is a half mile away.

[_grug__]

ive been using the arc thrower a lot, and sometimes for whatever reason its able to 1-2 tap bile titans. its always happened on missions with orbital fluctuations, but not every time. my guess is that the lightning chaining is also unintentionally effected by the orbital fluctuation modifier and is chaining between the different parts of the bile titan.

[acridyd]

This. More of this. I want to see more discussions on YouTube about Helldiver 2 equipment where a weapon or strategem isn't just thrown into an arbitrary tier list, but instead is an actual explanation of the best and worst use cases of whatever's being discussed. Case-in-point, I now want to try out the arc thrower with my friends since they almost always use the railgun.

[Bluexswag]

I started using jt recently and honestly one of my favorites. For bugs with the rover this thing is a monster. Great range, aoe, and like you said can kill the bigger enemies while dealing with the swarm around them. Yeah it takes a while with tanks/bile but that what the obitals and eagles are for. Handles everything else on the field. Definitely better in a team setting if you are trigger disciplined and dont zap your buddies. Also you can shoot it much faster after the first full charge. And dont forget you still have your main guns if the enemies get too close! Great vid. Sick of the attitude that you cant run anything but meta and be effective.

[Reziichu]

my friends n i ran 4 arc throwers, stood there in a line formation, like Ghostbusters, and took down 9 stacked Hulks in 3-4 round bursts from each of us. perfectly timed insync with each shot. it was glorious. after taking down the first one with ease, it's radius explosion helped take the others out while we kept zapping lol

[benedwards]

The team kill at the end was arc thrower canon

[frododaddins]

I'm so glad you made this video. I love this gun and I'm tired of people telling me it sucks when I have over 700 kills keeping swarms off my teammates while they do objective on difficulty 8. I bring it with me every time!

[eddyram]

I use it consistently, and the person who got me into it was a high lvl player who was destroying bugs with it😂 we were doing Helldive difficulty and he always brought it. His friend brought a Railgun. They told me to bring whatever I wanted to try out and just help with adds, so I got a lot of practice with the Arcthrower.

[dovakeen]

Biggest thing is infinite ammo. I enjoy arc thrower and lazer gun with watch dog which allows my allies all the ammo to themselves. Not the most powerful but ver efficient

[vskorp]

I bought the arc thrower at level 15 thinking I would use it until I unlocked the railgun. By the time I switched to the railgun I went back to the arc thrower after a couple missions. Nothing wrong with the railgun just the arc thrower is so much fun to use. While it’s slightly worse against armour it’s way better against everything else. Also after the first shot you only have to charge it like half way to fire giving it an insane fire rate.

[clarencezer]

I had my doubt about it but recently just started using Arc Thrower and god damn I am loving it. I am slowly preferring over the railgun since I've been using that to death. I love the Arc Thrower's ability to still be able to deal with chargers / bile titans + crowd control and it's ammo!

[red_kalebl.]

Arc thrower has been a recent gun I have been using, along with the tesla coil. Both are amazing (If a charger doesn't insta kill the coil), but make sure not to kill your teammates! Oh and for automation scouts, it appears if you shoot the base of their mech instead of the shield you can kill them in just two shots, not sure. Against robot armor as well, it leaves scorch holes which I think can be shot through, but the arc thrower ends up killing them first before you make a decent hole. Not entirely sure but its what I noticed.

[AintNobodysBusiness]

It can arc over obstacles but it'll always try to go for center mass. It will miss at times due to foliage or fencing. If you don't see an arc come out (only sparks), find a better sight line and go for a full-charge. Always aim slightly higher than bots for consistency. Friendly fire is a skill issue on your part. The arc is very consistent, not random. It just has a lot of rules. It can hit headshots for extra damage, but it won't target them.