Helldivers 2 | Adjudicator Got More "DEADLY" Buffs!!! - Gameplay Hardest Difficulty

[@PatrickRatman]

"Spore towers are the most annoying thing in the game" *Bot stratagem jammer says hello*

[@j_mzyy]

jammers gotta be the most annoying side obj in the game for sure (atleast sometimes you get lucky with fab spawns on it though)

[@PatrickRatman]

@@j_mzyy its even better when you somehow drop between a stratagem jammer and a detector tower. constant waves of reinforcements with no way to deal with them.

[@blitzhunts]

Yep cant even get your support weapons or anything to take them out. ​@@PatrickRatman

[@Sure_Ruse_User]

@@PatrickRatman I raise you to 2 Jammers, 1 Detector Tower and 1 close-by Gunship Fabricator.

[@epsilon1372]

I like stratagem jammers. Sometimes you get unlucky with where they spawn, but they’re interesting imo

[@LethinGabbins]

8ve used the adjudicator since it came out. Its not a spray and pray gun like many wish it was, it's a weak point pulse weapon that needs proper trigger discipline. Loved the watch :) great run

[@thatzachguy76]

I loved the idea of this gun when it dropped but was sooooo disappointed when it released initially but now, god am I happy to see if being what I always wanted it to be.

[@kylekissack4633]

Dude the adjudicator has always had fucking 30 rounds I should know I've used it foreverrrrrr... It's always been 30 please I can't be the only one who realizes this

[@epsilon1372]

It’s not always been 30. It used to be less. But you are right in that it was 30 before

[@thePAULSTER1]

Yeah I could have sworn it was 30 before the update. Started at 25 on release though

[@thePAULSTER1]

I just looked at a review from 3 months ago and the capacity for the Adj. says 30 lol

[@thatguy5143]

@@kylekissack4633 exactly

[@ClumsyDrow]

I'm sorry you damn near still have to reload after killing every other mob. This does not have any kind of horde clear. Yes single Target is nice. But when you're getting swarmed by 25 hunters you're going to have a bad time with it

[@Vortex-jc7fw]

So this weapon is more of a bot front weapon then?

[@Feebledeeds]

I've enjoyed it more on the bot side, you may be on to something.

[@Evil_Dr.SlapNuts]

To be fair, you're gonna have a bad time getting swarmed by hunters regardless of what weapon is in your hands

[@Skiddls]

If only there was a secondary laser or smg that could handle hordes

[@epsilon1372]

It’s not really a weapon made for bugs imo

[@peridrawland5955]

I think another unsung advantage of the Adjudicator over the Lip. Penetrator is the scope, great distance and clarity.

[@krunkindian]

I have been using the slugger shotgun has med pen plus lots of knock back with bugs, run stalwart and now the new Jetpack! Great mobility and crowd control! Ppl it’s a great game let’s all chill and have fun!

[@Krystalmyth]

Assault Rifles being limited to 30-45 rounds just feels bad. It feels bad. Contemporary war sized magazines fighting an alien force just FEELS BAD. There is nothing satisfying about an AR-15 sized Magazine in Helldivers.

[@Barrett_Fodder]

The adjudicator has always been my go to primary. Even when it wasn't this strong it's accurate and in semi I can effectively waylay medium and light targets with ease. Now, even better!

[@deanrantz1112]

(Adj) The Damage buff was a welcome improvement I think it already had a 30 round Mag...But whatever......It basically is on par with the MMG. but less Ammo cap.

[@K_Balu]

It had 30 rounders already yeah, since the June update

[@deanrantz1112]

@@K_Balu a 3-round burst mode would be ideal

[@lebijr]

​@@deanrantz1112i think 2 round burst would be better, eventually even with a hire burst rate of fire

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

Crazy to see the evolution of the Adjudicator, went from doing little damage and kicking like drugged up bronco, to being super accurate and doing tons of damage.

[@blitzhunts]

I feel like the only thing adjudicator needs now is like + 10 more rounds in the magazine. It would make it a little easier to fight a handful of alpha commanders on lv7+

[@beautate3603]

It was already on of the best ARs in the game previously, so I welcome this buff with open arms.

[@brodiddy877]

You’re right, the adjudicator is awesomeness! I like the liberator pen. Cuz it’s low recoil. I fight on the bot front so having the ability to pop devastators in the head and still have ammo left over in the mag is nice. And not to mention blasting the rocket striders in the cod piece lol.

[@StaindHand]

8:14 probably all rocking the jump pack right now- I had the same experience where the whole team, save for myself, were running jump packs

[@ICDedPeplArisen]

I absolutely love the adjuticator now! I already loved the feel before but now it actually is good to use

[@jefferyroberts8252]

It’s so frustrating to watch you walk right over samples and not pick them up, I’m sure there are people in your team who need them

[@ironicliar2029]

I do feel the pain but it understandable once max out any desire for sample just die out.

[@MatiasD240]

Clearly the actions of a bug sympathizer.

[@qwertyq4073]

Why do people say this all the time on every video ever of someone with maxed samples as if randoms won't branch off just to go sample hunting?

[@jefferyroberts8252]

@@qwertyq4073 hmmmmmmm. why do people say this??? There are literally hundreds of times I’ve seen him in his videos where his teammates are nowhere near him and he walks right over five or six samples when clearly there is a level 30 on his team. Your reasoning is that the players that need them should run all the way back over to the other side of the map to get them instead of him playing like a team player?

[@matthewsteele99]

​@@qwertyq4073 because it's shit team play to not do it

[@xDripz_]

THIS GUN DOES EVERYTHING BRO LITERALLY

[@StaindHand]

12:00 used to firing guns irl, so the bounce of the scope tube doesn't phase me one bit

[@big_gucci_scorpio328]

When I use the adjudicator I mainly pair it with the HMG senator and the guard dog, all having medium armor pen and higher I can cycle through them and preserve their ammo for longer apart from the guard dog which does it's own thing while also further extending your ammo supply without the need for a supply pack

[@bl1ndrag3]

I was actually impressed by the changes to the Adjudicator. Now I just want them to fix the Lib Pen since it's my favorite.

[@GummyKermit]

Brother please load up the game

[@bl1ndrag3]

@@GummyKermit i did. The Lib Pen is still not where it should be. It feels better to use the Lib Concus. The rate of fire on the Pen is so high you burn through 45 rounds way to fast, and you don't do enough damage per shot to use semi-auto or burst fire to try to conserve ammo. It still needs some love.

[@vaskbarebuks9760]

I feel it’s really just a bot weapon. It’s not made for the bug front

[@blitzhunts]

It is if u know how to use it. Not a spray and pray gun

[@blitzhunts]

U can kill like 4 bile spewers with one mag but u can also pretty quickly kill a group of hunters pr warriors without reloading.

[@epsilon1372]

@@blitzhunts okay but spray and pray weapons are what are best on bugs usually. You don’t always have time to aim your shots. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad on bugs, but its strengths cater to bots a lot more than bugs

[@blitzhunts]

@epsilon1372 adjudicator is an in between. It's made for both bugs and bots.

[@blitzhunts]

@epsilon1372 i disagree because on lv10 it can't handle the dozens and dozens of devastators but yet does well against big hordes of bugs if you have trigger discipline

[@joshuasmyth3115]

People forget that the adjudicator is a Battle Rifle and not an Assault Rifle. Its a DMR/Assualt Rifle hybrid made for longer ranges

[@ClumsyDrow]

Give this thing 50 rounds 65 rounds it will be the meta almost

[@LordDarthHarry]

Give it 200 just make it a Machine gun while we're at it! /s

[@mitch4293]

Am I crazy or did it already have a 30 round mag before this update

[@karimmouselli4408]

I still think that the grande lunch is s tier and super slept on

[@andresvega6001]

yeah overall dps of breaker incendiary when spreading shots is still just way higher than any other primaries against bugs

[@Feebledeeds]

I think it's better than it's been however it's still WAY too hungry for my tastes. Puts in work but I'd rather use the concussive just for the control mechanic alone. Glad it has a place though 🙂

[@theoldspiceguy7977]

There's no one weapon for every situation gun in this game anyways. Personally I think the adjudicator is great as a semi auto battle rifle. My build when I use it is with a grenade launcher for horde clearing, taking out spewers and impalers, supply pack, EATs to call down when titans or charger variants appear. Plus a bushwhacker as my antistalker/give me personal space gun on the bug front. Orbital/eagle is player choice but i usually go for the eagle airstrike. Lastly thermites for charger variants and titans if EATs are on cooldown.

[@Multistan85]

Anything that works against single target enemies and require long range like this weapon and the purifier is great against the bots. Although these weapons are viable on the bug front, you’ll be overwhelmed and the purifiers explosion will smack you once enemies get too close. You really have to switch playstyles from gun and run to a support stay behind the line player.

[@anthonyju6392]

I tried both Lib Penetrator and Adjudicator for bots and definitely like Lib Penetrator more. Scope is good enough on it and the ammo on the Lib Penetrator just felt a lot better. Lib Penetrator against the bots is not an OMG primary but it works on everything you need it to work on which is basically devastators and scouts and berserkers. If your aim is good you're probably better off with the Jar-5 but if your aim is a little less than stellar the Lib Penetrator works just fine.

[@mathiasrryba]

counter sniper works great too, it's pretty easy to 1hko basically everything besides berserkers mid charge.

[@marcusjacoboancino8050]

I'll still pick the liberator pen over the adjudicator, the ammo count really does matter when doing bug missions. Been my go to primary (along with nade pistol, gas nades, supply pack, quasar, eagle strafing run and napalm barrage) when going the bug front, pair with engineering passive - shreds through hoardes easily.

[@kaidynj2535]

honestly i think the adjudicator feels a bit better against bots, and also engineering kit helps out a ton with it. this is thoroughly one of my favorite weapons

[@VeXu666]

I think when they adjusted the recoil of the guns down, they forgot to tune the scope recoil as well

[@davids2cents594]

ill try it at some point. i am loving the explosive rifle. can take out spiters in one hit close holes half way across the other side of the map. if aimed right take out a group of bugs in one shot. feels like a sniper rifle with explosive bullets my set up is the explosive rifle and the Stewart

[@franzoloranzo7302]

The problem with the aiming reticle moving around too much is that the reticle, unlike how it‘s done in almost all other shooters, is not an overlay on your screen but actually the weapon model, so to change how much the reticle moves would mean changing the entire firing animation, which would then probably look weird in 3rd person

[@allenwilhelm7799]

This looks awesome. What gpu do you use?

[@zara658]

The wandering of the Alpha Commanders is them going to find help, it is kinda bizarre to see but I have been told they are actually going to find help from patrols.

[@LordTouchMe-ow9fk]

From what I know they run a decent distance away and keep spawning some bugs from their call (the three red warriors that just blitz you)

[@epsilon1372]

That’s not how they work. What they do is run away and spawn their own special enemies to fight you

[@zara658]

@@epsilon1372 I’ve heard they go off to find help but I guess I’m wrong, it’s still janky to look at lol

[@thatguy5143]

didnt it already get the 30 ammo buff a while ago???

[@ClumsyDrow]

And one last thing if you have to run the supply backpack to make something viable it's not

[@BingusActual]

You really don’t have to if you use your strategems, grenades, and support weapons to good effect and use the adj to mop up any surviving bugs/bots.

[@TheMrrobustus]

I prefer this for the bots 100%. I still have some issues with TTK against bugs with it.

[@qwertyq4073]

Btw you can stick a Warrior with a thermite. Yours just didn't deploy spikes so it bounced off its face

[@kentoscocos5238]

man, i guess going to each side objective/main objective together is the way to go and i guess don't forget to bring anti-tank weapon as backup plan if your teammate dies 😂

[@BringYourPlatoon]

ALL AR's need bigger mags like the Liberator penetrator.

[@Erero]

At this point I just can't get myself to use anything other than crossbow and fire shotgun, everything else just doesn't make sense.

[@KubanaHAFANANA]

i dont know (subjective opinion) I tried it yesterday - it's still shit. Still takes too many bullets to kill bigger enemies compared to the mag size. Alpha Commander - whole mag. Good against hunters and shriekers tho

[@willeddy8775]

Alpha commander takes a whole mag???? Oh God wtf. I was gonna try this with stalwart cuz of the crappy crowd clear but jeeeeez

[@Sure_Ruse_User]

Haven't tried the Adjudicator yet, but try aiming for the legs of the bugs, if you shoot off two legs all of the low and medium bugs die outright or shortly after.

[@alanmeadows4056]

Not gunna lie, the sons of super earth showed up on this one.

[@gabrielgarcia5339]

I think that Adjudicator had 30 bullets per magazine before the Great buff,

[@gabrielgarcia5339]

And yes, the reloading issue also hapoens to me and I lose a whole magazine

[@lucphineokayimokenkali8439]

Make a video with the sickle please 🙏🏽

[@SuperVideoman2012]

I wish any of the ars were worth using. But their ammo eco is horrible. For clankers you need really good aim to the point where you should just run a marksman rifle to make the ammo eco work. And for bugs its just straight up non viable with its 0.5-1 mag per medium enemy. Not to mention not having proper knockback really hurts vs commanders. If they bumped the base liberator to around 60-75 rounds per mag it would still be subpar. They definetly dont need to do that whole adjusting the spare mags down thing theyre been doing. A weapon that basically not viable without a supply pack especially a primary is just a badly designed weapon.

[@nickgrundtisch6798]

if you are taking 15-30 rounds to kill every med enemy you are the problem not the gun. Saying ARs are not viable is just straight up bs, there are plenty of people that use them with no problems what so ever on lv 9-10 for months and months

[@SuperVideoman2012]

@@nickgrundtisch6798 let me be more specific then. ARs do nothing better than weapons in the same slot. They arent even the best generalists for both fronts. (Sickle is quite good and what the ars should be trying to measure up to) If you are taking your time to aim every single bullet then using ars is a waste because marksman rifles exist. If you need to clear chaff your ammo reserves arent good enough to do so reliably. Top that off with mediocre ttk and you got current ars. Every single weapon in this game can be used. I can run diff 10s with the airburst launcher. That does not mean its as good as every other option in that same slot. The concept cant be that hard to figure out.

[@nickgrundtisch6798]

@@SuperVideoman2012 this is now at least a valid statement and not one so hyperbolic to the point of falsehood. aiming your shots to be effective should take you no more time, in fact it should save you time, spending 4-5 extra rounds on a target that is already dead is more than the actual ttk. While you can make the argument that marksman rifle is easier and faster sending half the rounds per target, the actual ammo economy of AR will be better because use on the targets that the marksman overkills the AR can save the extra rounds to use on another one shot chaff. "Every single weapon in this game can be used..... That does not mean its as good as every other option in that same slot. The concept cant be that hard to figure out" You are right, some guns are better than others, but they are all useful , but ending with the implication that I'm stupid because i called out the original comment of AR's are completely unviable and take 15-30 shots to kill a single med enemy is where you lose again. You have made two different comments, one that can have merit in balance discussions but added an unnecessary insult and one that was purposefully and knowingly false.

[@krzakijegogoebie3599]

you need to try out new adjudicator. It is great for all rangies, after nerfing nurse-spwers'(big, green, fat, artylerii bugs) head armor it can shred them, just toggle to 850rpm and just aim for the head, same taktic work vs brood and alpha comander (I think. i play at 8lvl max, so they are quite rare for me.) I like to pair it with pocket shotgun for stalkers and fast reaction anti-hunter option. For granade i suggest something for closing bug-lochs like frags, or incendiary impact (termite will do if you have take the Granade Laun) Supply bag is always good idea, especially because extremely high rate of fire, and limited mag cap. The support weapon we need something with similar bad ammo economy, so granade launcher or flamethrower (i choose flame, but you probably now it allready) and finally armor light or medium with corresponding passive. (grdlaun - fortified, flamwerh - firefighter [he is now in super store so nice time for someone without it, because it looks gorgeous

[@krzakijegogoebie3599]

for startagems try out Railcannon vs heavies, maybe eagle for nests and panic buttons. of noone will have guard dog you can try it too instead of supply bag. If your team will have good communication, supply drops are more than enough. mg43 sentry is great to

[@SaffronTheBat]

am I crazy I could have sworn it had 30 ammo already

[@thatguy5143]

it did

[@supertrashdragon2857]

Fantastic weapon for bots as they really reward precision, bugs are too swarmy to let the gun feel truly good, having to run a supply pack expressly for the primary is pretty bad

[@Bringingmoneyback]

Wait, when did it get buffed this newest patch?

[@AnthonyKim-d8z]

Bro when there is a 500kg 20m from him: Nah, I'd win 35:42

[@PKDeviluke25]

Like All Assault Rifles and Sub Machine guns it is still garbage when compared to other weapons. They just need to do more damage against tougher enemies. The Scorcher with its current buff just out classes it in damage and horde clear.

[@d-jams]

I don't understand how I haven't noticed this but when you look at the map your sprinting are you sprinting before you look at the map? Because when I try to look at the map and then run it forces me out of the map.

[@RonnieHelldiver]

No primary beats the breaker Incendiary against bugs

[@nightlord2789]

the sickle does not shoot bullets it shoots energy bolts

[@GhostManPRO]

Go 10 seconds without glazing the adjudicator impossible challenge.

[@Shocktrue1]

This is a lot of singing of praises for the adjudicator, but honestly to me it looks like it still sucks just like all the assault rifles. You struggle to clear even a single patrol without going through 2-3 mags or more and at least 1 stim... and usually more than all of that. Without the supply pack, you'd be empty and begging for resupply every minute or so. It isn't the Worst weapon, but it's not remotely "good".

[@epsilon1372]

The adjudicatorr and libpen as well as a few other ARs are more bot weapons, especially the first two as they have medium AP

[@dw6nvf]

This gun is a weaker version of a machine gun. Just run that instead with a better primary

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

It's so upsetting watching you walk past dozens of samples while your team tries hard to collect them, they clearly need them so it would be nice of you to help with a few samples

[@patg500]

I hope its fun is not being reverted because its absurd to be a man child towards over powered guns just because its the right justice to make the game feel right with buffs

[@XxXxXGR3GXxXxX]

as a pleb without all the ship upgrades pls don't casually pass up rare samples

[@redbadger2255]

Not to be mean, but I hope I never matchmake with this guy. Comments on low samples, doesn't extract a single one. Does one objective, and then spends the rest of the mission killing bugs across the map to show his 500 kills in stats screen. I've seen other vids of his where he does absolutely nothing but kill bugs (the flak ammo demo for auto cannon).

[@thatguy5143]

he only does the samples bc ppl tell him abt it, and its almost like the video is about the weapons hes using and not doing the mission (even tho his teammates do it and they win anyways) if anything hes keeping the swarms lower

[@redbadger2255]

@@thatguy5143 I get that it's a gun demo, but that's just bad gaming etiquette. If you plan on doing nothing the whole game but clear bugs, then at least get a pre-stack of people who don't mind, or run it solo. He's basically getting carried on super helldive by randoms who might need help, whilst contributing almost nothing.

[@HACKER-ct6hd]

Pick up samples noob, disliked

[@adam_1082]

Stopped watching after you ignored the samples

[@beautate3603]

It was already on of the best ARs in the game previously, so I welcome this buff with open arms.