HELLDIVERS 2 - TOP 5 BEST PRIMARY WEAPONS AGAINST ILLUMINATES | S-TIER PRIMARY WEAPONS

[@cd8086]

Honorable mentions: Dominator for stun locking and high DPS, Incendiary shotguns for DOT.

[@muhamadhafnimoktarlotfy5903]

It my go to weapon for bot and illuminate...

[@philipdrainville3592]

Inc shotty is S for hordes for sure but it comes short on the mediums

[@StephaneLevs]

dominator can also relatively easily deal with the harvester since you have med pen with good dmg on it.

[@ShawneeColorado]

Blitzer is goated against the squids. Great list, imo.

[@Crazymrpipz]

thanks!

[@blastdouble1979]

Agreed

[@VeXu666]

Ar dog, crossbow, laser pistol, laser cannon. You can take put shields with lasers, they never overheat if you switch them in between. And you save massive amounts of ammo for Crossbow for even tighter spots. Heavt Siege armor makes reloading times a breeze too. AR dog will take out a swarm of voteless in a blink of an eye. Add gas grenades and you can sweep and hold out on your own in any situation basically.

[@lordcola-3324]

One of the best primaries against the illuminate that flies below most peoples radar is the Knight SMG. It destroyes the shields faster than any other primary. It kills the Voteless fast and is decent against Watchers and Overseers.

[@Crazymrpipz]

I dunno, Idont think its any better than any of these weapons:) but tis fun though

[@lordcola-3324]

@@Crazymrpipz The thing with the illuminate is that you really don't have to kill any enemies in most missions. I regularly full clear CR10 illuminate mission with less than 20 kills. With the jump pack you can avoid almost all enemy encounters and get over the city walls anywhere. This way you can just quickly run from one objective to the next and easily clear an entire mission in less then 12 min. What you really need is the utility to destroy the spawner ships. No gun takes their shileds out faster than the knight and once they are down you pop a nade in. The only thing that kills the ships faster is the OPS and 500kg, but eventuelly they are on CD, so you have to rely on your remaining equipment. So it provides far more value than any other gun in the only area that is really releveant during current illuminate missions. And should you have to fight any enemies, like during evac or raising the flag, it is still a very capable gun.

[@zach942]

the knight imo is at its most viable for illuminate for sure

[@CambrienArcadia]

Knight GGGAAAAAAANNNNNGGG!

[@valentine7455]

Actually with the purifier I find directly hitting the shield is just as good, still two taps them

[@MrPieguyDaBoss]

If you use Blitzer you need to also have somthing like Senator for quick kills against Overseers, Lib Peen is also pretty good, I havnt used the Sickle thatll be tommorrows loadout Also your old outro was WAAAY better especially when you say "WE LITERALLY HAVE THE BEST COMMUNITY EVER!!!"

[@jalontf2]

Blitzer is actually really well paired with the WASP, and both Emplacements. WASP for mediums, Blitzer for chaff, Emplacements for heavies.

[@Pedro-rn6fx]

Breaker Spray and Pray, amazing against Iluminate specialy with the new armor passive

[@SpruceReduce8854]

Yeah the spread pattern is the same shape as a horde of voteless

[@mbk337]

@@Pedro-rn6fx I need to try this with the ammo armor... Just dumping ammo sounds like a great time

[@StephaneLevs]

Underrated weapon: SG-225 Breaker It can deal with the horde pretty easily but most importantly, it can SHRED a shield. Especially versus harvesters, even from relatively far, it destroy them since they are such big targets so you'll hit all of your pellet. You just need a weapon to deal with the heavier unit (so something like the laser cannon, amr, railgun and you are set.) Im sure it's probably the case of a lot of other shotguns too but the breaker feels extra nice for me.

[@miguelfigueroa5659]

I've had alot of fun with the adjudicator

[@TanjonaRafidison]

Came for adjudicators comment , something never mention is the long range capacity that none of these weapon offer blitzed and crossbow don’t work long range and the he flying overseer are a bit pain with crossbow

[@miguelfigueroa5659]

@TanjonaRafidison yup they move way too much, and the delay with the crossbow makes it harder to hit

[@mbk337]

Great list! I have also been using the Reprimand with some success as well, as it can punch the mediums pretty hard. And I agree that I really enjoy the squids the most now. I hope AH adding more units won't lose any of that luster.

[@bosco5996]

I can only speak to PC gameplay, but for me, the adjudicator on semi auto is fantastic. Semi auto allows you to conserve ammo and minimize recoil, and if you need full auto just spam click ur mouse

[@DrunkDjinn]

Energy shield and crossbow have become my go to automaton duo. Only time I ever die is to those big ass laser turrets.

[@Crazymrpipz]

its soo good :D

[@RonnieHelldiver]

Will the blitzer take the shields down on the idk what they're called the landed ships or teleporters? (I'm at work lol)

[@Qualiv4]

I'm loving the tenderizer, works great with the ability to modify the fire rate. The new armor also helps a lot with it

[@ProudDMims]

Great list. I would have included the Cookout. It is a monster against the horde. The fire damage just wipes them out and easily takes out Overseers to.

[@snap26neo]

so, i tried the plasma punisher and thats actually surprisingly good!

[@Disso666]

No Eruptor? The ricochet blasts through hordes. Using it with Predator armor so it's really snappy to handle and you can pretty much kill everything with it. Just pay attention you don't blast the enemies too close or have teamates at close proximity.

[@Crazymrpipz]

nope crossbow is just better in my opinion

[@mrdonkeyy1149]

Crossbow is better & the eruptor takes around 3-5 shots just to kill an overseer enemy not to mention the risk of team killing or self death

[@KerriganTyranid]

Halt is perfect vs Bugs and Squids. I don't understand why people don't use it or put on the lists. Of course it is necessary to put the weapon wheel in a fast key to switch ammo types, but this gun makes you unkillable against light and medium enemies. Those flying Squid Elites are a joke when you use Halt. Stun and kill with Senator or a MMG/HMG/etc. And it is absolutely fun to kill zombies with a shotgun! I tested a lot of guns to try to replace the Halt, but none of them were better for me. I know everybody has its preferences but it is undeniable that Halt is very effective and trivialize most enemies.

[@thesameHINOKAMI]

Wait until the sniper rifle comes from the 3rd Killzone super store. Also, we will.soon see ammo types and attachments. So excited! The second killzone weapon will be an SMG, then the pulse sniper. I am excited for the ammo types and attachments!

[@jackeltheripper5570]

I find that everyone on gods green earth keeps shooting these fellas in the most tankiest spots like their chest and head when literally their leg armor falls off almost instantly to deal full damage.

[@garbage-gamer2411]

I just started the video and this dude came out swinging 🤝

[@Crazymrpipz]

we swingin babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@Kimahri01]

Hi I have one question and 1 comments 1) sickle battery is reduced with the new armor? I’m not sure 2) adjudicator at crouch is a very good weapon, specially with any of the 3 LMG at lower RMP Excellent video

[@philipdrainville3592]

Been using the scorcher, not so great on shield but with new armor the extra mag is a god send and 6shot the mediums good reload long range. Usually pair it with guard dog mg sentry commando and fire grenade for hordes ez clear

[@bernardthe3rd211]

The pumiler is cracked

[@Baconman212]

Ironic the best weapons are the sci fi weapons

[@FRGTNDRKNSS]

Does crossbow take out shields??

[@brianschumacher5914]

I use the blitzed, a very wicked weapon, I average 400 to 800 kills per mission. I use the X prototype armor with the mg drone and 4 missile weapon

[@adwans1491]

Ive only used the flamethrower so i could use the heavy mashine gun xd But the charger scorcher is probably better

[@DirectorVoid]

I knew the las 16 sickle was a good weapon for them also i have seen some use the tenderizer against them and it seems to work well as well

[@zc4905]

Purifier, xbow, sickle, blitzer. Lib pen and Adjudicator are fine

[@dkkiller1]

Guard dog backpack can solo clear the map on its own. try it

[@thesameHINOKAMI]

No tenderizer?

[@blastdouble1979]

I recommend impact grenades for squids

[@omegacrash4933]

8 minutes in? I haven't been this early since I had the doing back in my head but I'm still not sure if you have not been. Ya know?

[@Crazymrpipz]

I dunno, Idont think its any better than any of these weapons:) but tis fun though

[@thedoubleuw239]

I don’t like crossbow, it’s literally too strong and it feels like easy mode.

[@heytherejarvis]

LOL

[@RayneN63722]

of course it's the crossbow... Bugs? crossbow. Bots? crossbow. squids?? CROSSBOW!!!! I'm so tired of the crossbow taking lead in just about everything. I mean for the longest time I've been using the crossbow but damn I just want to use the ARs and the JAR-Dominator but the crossbow outclasses them in every way.

[@KerriganTyranid]

Squids are the easier faction so far. You can literally use every primary gun and have a good time if you build your loadout decently to support the primary of choice deficiencies. I am not a fan of explosive guns vs hordes, not saying it is bad, I just don't like the play style. My favorite (AKA primary that is great and I have most fun with) is the Halt. But I liked using Reprimand, Lib Pen, DCS and Dominator too. Pairing this guns with a mobbing support weapon and the MG sentry is enough to play easily vs squids.

[@lastfreethinker6810]

I have the crossbow and I have chosen NOT to use it. Why? Because the others work great too. I love the counter sniper for bots, and tenderizer for bugs, but the counter also works well for bugs. You can CHOOSE what you bring and they do well they just have different pluses and minuses.

[@MichaelStark-j8e]

The new faction is just cheap as hell even with them weapons the jetpack dude are way to powerful were yes i can hit them with a grenade and the eyebots are just too many sometimes where im like what the hell i just killed 20 of you in like 2 minutes but keeps calling in more fighter even if you take there ship out 1 st 3 more will already land. They need to balance them out bad. It's mostly the jetpack dude where i hit them with 3 clips pinpoint accuracy and can kill me in 1 hit. The eye bots there shouldn't be 100 of them. In a small radius like that and i had teammates that get killed alot in the first few minutes even though thee higher lvl. But the new ones shouldn't be that powerful right off the bat like that and have the time i cant heal because oh they hit you and hit you and hit you like really

[@miick7]

Sickle is not that good:(