A tutorial on the Lasers | Helldivers 2

Are the laser guns good? Yes and no.
Are the laser guns fun? Very.
Lasermaxxing is when you use all the laser pointers so that you never have to stop shooting.

This video details five laser weapons in Helldivers 2. I've done my best to compress all this information but that didn't make this video short so I strongly advise you leverage the timestamps to find the information that is most relevant to you. This guide is as comprehensive as I could make it.

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00:00 Fun bit
00:38 Intro
01:15 Timestamps exist
01:25 Collabs
02:12 Weaponry
02:45 Performance Summary (3 guns)
04:53 Shriekers
05:22 Weapon Roles: Dagger
06:25 Weapon Roles: Scythe
07:25 Weapon Roles: Laser Cannon
08:38 Recess
08:49 Heat mechanics
09:22 Weather effects
10:36 Dagger heat stats
11:53 Scythe heat stats
12:58 Laser Cannon heat stats
13:30 Strange behavior (part 1)
14:53 Strange behavior (part 2)
16:04 Day/Night/Planet heat stats
16:30 Weapon Roles: las Rover
17:00 Weapon Roles: Orbital Laser
17:27 TTK Data
18:10 Dagger TTK data
19:53 Raider data
20:53 Brood Commander data
21:46 Warrior data
22:04 Shrieker data
23:20 Big laser data
24:17 Special charger tips
26:10 Tips
28:13 LASERMAXXING
28:39 Tactics
30:09 Idiosyncrasies
32:09 Suggestions
33:12 Outro
34:11 Tip 12 of 11

[Reginald-sctk]

UPDATES:
1. Max laser range may be 200M (i had the wrong number written down).
2. Thanks to some commenters I have tested the Reload-hold UI vs the left-bottom UI heat menus and there IS a discrepancy. The dagger can have 8-10% heat while the UI says empty. This does not necessarily explain everything but it explains some of it.

[rvyvyhn]

From experience, never try to climb a hill while your scythe guard dog is firing, extremely likely to give unwanted neck-up haircuts 💀

[DDSTI]

the length of the video wasn't a problem, I'd rather see a very complete detailed video like this than an short video.

[itsthelepto]

>Flashbang
>2 second lazer into Hulk face
>Move on to next target

[WeightedFedora]

If you put magnified sights on a laser cannon you are gonna fry your retina.

[dev]

unflashy editing, consistent cadence, great enunciation, i don't even need to pay attention to pay attention. i have adhd and you're great man. subbed

[jrockoclock]

The dagger is weird in that it doesn't follow the design logic of the other sidearms which actually have higher damage output or at least damage per shot of their primary 'parallels.' Senator revolver does more damage than the DMRs per shot with more AP. Default pistol does more damage than the liberator series per shot. MP does more damage with higher fire rate than the liberator and more dps than the defender smg. So it's strange to me that the dagger as compared to the scythe does less damage, has worse heat cap, has fewer magazines, and is seemingly less accurate. I expect a tradeoff for the potential infinite ammo but it strikes me as weird that it's the only sidearm that is worse in every aspect than its most closely related primary.

[StellariumSound]

Finally, a HD2 guide channel I'm not embarrassed to watch.

[ReachGod]

Why don't we have a laser sentry turret? I understand not having a laser eagle, they're supposed to be a fast (usually explosive) hit. But the sentry is the only 'weapon' that's lacking a laser option. Obviously the walker is new, but an eventual laser walker would be cool. Would also solve the problem of the walker being useless once it's out of ammo.

[UnkieNic]

Diving to the club, calling in resupplies of lean. This is what we're fighting for.

[spookiboys]

that intro is so funny

and something that's annoying with balancing around "infinite ammo" is that the arc thrower also does that AND pierces armor AND can deal with swarms without any sort of battery or heat or anything

[Vedrlaufnir]

I just want to say that the reason they made the Sickle that way is because we used to abuse it on OG helldivers, since it was a pew pew laser instead of a constant beam, we used to handle it as a semi instead of an auto, which ironically made it so it NEVER overheated and still did amazing damage.

[Akabane]

4:53 - surprise, surprise -- how the turn tables. Love to see the laser weapons having such a strong purpose as an anti-air tool. I'm in love with these things. So fun.

[Phos]

Regarding the discrepancy in fireing times, I have a suspicion that the very bottom of the heat gauge isn’t displayed

[deadheaddave]

Don’t think I didn’t notice that mechanicus reference at 2:45
Praise be the omnisiah

[blak]

Honestly I'm still kind of surprised that lasers perform so poorly against armor. It would be interesting if the laser cannon at least was specialized not as an armor piercing tool, but an armor stripping tool (does very little damage to the enemy underneath the armor, but sustained fire can *remove* the armor)

[Sexploitsful]

Teach me your secrets, O Regi of the Nald.

[TheWtcher]

This is literally the best video about helldivers on the entire YT platform. Good montage, proper data and tests, just the most reliable source of data about weapons I was using, answering all the questions

[pretentiousdude]

Gonna have to agree on the Sickle sights. They're just so good. I wish more guns had that sight.

[nomadicwolf]

You did great w/ this video format:

- solid data / testing (for a 2 man team pioneering this research, what more could you ask?)
- great footage
- excellent tactics / suggestions
- practical loadouts based on experience
- highlighting all key details & use cases for anyone who wants to implement the lasers themselves

I'd given up on lasers completely (except Sickle), so you've definitely opened my eyes to more possibilities, especially for the laser canon.