New Update Helldivers 2, Fire DoT Host, Eruptor Nerf, AMR Scope Fix, and More! Patch Notes

Here's me reading the patch notes today in Helldivers 2 and farming some easy youtube views. Thanks for listening to me talk. I tested out the Eruptor also and gave my thoughts on that. Be sure to like and subscribe #helldivers2

[@thiccfila]

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[@killaharliii4797]

I think they just took the lazy route, instead of just fixing shrapnel.

[@drunkencowboi7934]

Idk I don’t mind the sea shanty

[@videonmode8649]

The music was great, it's like a post war drunken revelry.

[@gVert404]

Eruptor was buffed not nerfed, it just isn’t working properly at the moment. Devs have confirmed they’re working on fixing it. Also the shrapnel was never the damage source killing enemies, also confirmed by the devs

[@hippoace]

Eruptor could also one shot spewers. Now it cant.

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

Increasing the detection range for Gunships is a really baffling move, because _no one_ was complaining about how easy Gunships were.

[@Damaged7]

7 Difficulty isn't that bad and thats really all you NEED to play on to unlock things. Anything higher then that is just making it harder on yourself.

[@LaMarcheFutilé101]

@@Damaged7 As far as I've seen, Gunship spawns aren't a function of difficulty and a rocket to the head will kill you equally dead on Easy and Helldive.

[@virgil7272]

Ah yes we repeat the railgun cycle with the Eruptor. Weapon is effective -> A Bug is found affecting the weapon's performance -> Omega nerf the weapon -> give it a token "buff" -> shocked Pikachu face that people are upset/ Arrowhead Apologists huffing copium saying it's temporary until a permanent fix is implemented

[@smoldoggy1005]

Now the poor railgun acts like it used to at launch but it’s completely superseded by the autocannon, quasar, and anything else that can take on super heavy enemies and gunships. Really missing how the game played at launch. I remember the high of my first operations and finally getting to level 20 and wrecking everything with the railgun shield combo

[@radfield6089]

Mech is still a useless pile of junk after they “fixed” it. They just can’t wait to kill their game. Took a break and haven’t bothered to reinstall because all the cool shit has been nerfed. I’m surprised the autocanon hasn’t been nerfed with it being the only good support…

[@clintmcbride7830]

It's still a perfectly good weapon against medium armored targets. Sorry it can't do everything anymore 😂

[@vcqrsfdwc1987]

ppl see this clintmcbride7803 guy? ecchirevenge-chan is coming back with his arrowhead simps!

[@ch4zff]

@@clintmcbride7830 Can't hear you from the Arrowhead balls in your throat.

[@motodrang4287]

Man, they won’t be happy until we’re just looking at the long list of weapons going “hmm, nope, nope, nope. Eh, I’m going to bed.”

[@diogorocha9837]

That is how I feel to play vs Bug. Only the Eruptor was good. Need to try this new change to see if it is not worse than before. Vs Bots, a lot of guns are good to use as primary.

[@TheHuffur]

@@diogorocha9837 I am still stuck with either Punisher/Slugger, feels like no other gun really compares to those. Eruptor was one I picked every now and then because it was rewarding to use, now its just a very slow RoF 'high' single target damage weapon like oh Idk, the Slugger but with a metric ton of drawbacks for no reason. The people responsible for the weapon balance dont really know what they are doing, compare the Sickle and Scythe with each other for example: Almost identical in intended use and function but Sickle has double the DPS AND can fire 1 second longer than the Scythe before overheating while the Scythe has no actual benefit... why?????????

[@diogorocha9837]

@@TheHuffur I tryed the slugger recently vs Bugs and it is bad IMO. After they nerfed it to Oblivion. The slugger 1.0 dealt much better vs Hive Guards and Brood Commanders. Scythe is a complete thrash weapon. Takes too long to kill everything. Sickle is excellent. If I don't adapt to this new nerf to the Eruptor, I will get back play with the Sickle. And literally ignore hive guard and green bile speakers running away.

[@eddiemitza2544]

@@diogorocha9837 Oh, it's worse. Believe me.

[@smoldoggy1005]

The only good weapon against the bugs is the blitzer. Soon they will nerf the quasar to fire one shot every 3 minutes while buffing bug spawns even more

[@KylewithaK]

We need the old Eruptor back, I loved using it. It feels useless now.

[@winnerboss331]

Got useless last patch, but they made it even worse this time

[@rickhunter6513]

@@winnerboss331it was still decent after the last nerf. This current update seems to have made it pretty much irrelevant

[@Unaliq]

Yeah, the shrapnel was the best part of killing off large groups of patrols and even killing Medium enemies. Now it's a shittier version of the Autocannon.

[@philliphart6327]

@@Unaliqyes way shitier

[@CeresOutpost]

Yeah, it's amazing that they managed to make it even worse on this new patch. I tried it this morning and couldn't believe how bad it was. It has been my main since it came out and the difference is night and day. Absolutely terrible weapon now.

[@Phier554]

Amoscope fixes and nerfed because now you won't be able to see the Target at a long distance due to the how horrible the jpeg is on the scope.

[@thiccfila]

lol tbf that jpeg was always there

[@denodagor]

True! god what I would do to have a simple thin black cross like those cheap scopes IRL.

[@diogorocha9837]

All the amazing work they have done with animations and details to the game to crap on the simple things like a damn scope. That sniper sight is too bright and with too much lines, thick lines.

[@amelvin32]

​@thiccfila What op is saying when you off aimed with the scope (Kentucky Windage), those obnoxious cross hairs wasn't blocking the target, helping you to line up shots better.

[@Phier554]

@@amelvin32 yea used voice to text. Came out poorly 🤣

[@felixh2786]

Just tried the Eruptor on trivial against bugs and it did not go well. Now the Grenade Pistol is literally the only thing from that Warbond that's not worthless. Still happy I can now run a flame build against bugs.

[@LaserTractor]

Wait for people who will tell you HOW GREAT Adjudicator is after "buff" (it's still trash)

[@DTraiN5795]

This is subjective to play style. I know me and plenty others who never liked the eruptor either especially against bugs. Disagree or make fun all you want but it’s true

[@wallao2231]

the removal of shrapnel did indeed make it worse, a lot worse, for clearing hordes, still good against medium armor though, which is what i primarily use eruptor for besides closing bug holes. idk about you but i 99% of the time don't use eruptor to clear hordes; i use either flamethrower or machinegun and other stratagems edit (i forgot to mention): I'm still able to 1-2 shot stalkers and destroy bile titan bellies with ease, which is awesome.

[@clintmcbride7830]

​@@wallao2231I started using the Eruptor against bugs. Eruptor, Stalwart, EAT. I also mainly use it against medium armor and it still sounds like it will be good against bugs. I never really replied on it for groups.

[@janfortuna3002]

this is like stealing with extra steps.... you get something premium and it is made worse or unusable...

[@theMoonWalker87]

I thought the whole playstyle of trying to explode the round in front or under an enemy so the shrapnel flew up was really fun! Sigh, back to the dominator/scorcher it is

[@andreynordron1302]

dont play it too much. You know how they treat things we really like

[@Neknesch]

My issue with the Eruptor is, that you can't kill striders from the front anymore

[@HawkingWalksForMidgets]

try the legs

[@diogorocha9837]

Aaah, F!!

[@thesovietduck2121]

​@@HawkingWalksForMidgets that's the problem it was just aim shoot forget before

[@GummyKermit]

​@@thesovietduck2121you could get rushed down by like 5 of them plus devastators

[@ladislavtrojan8765]

​@@GummyKermit Sadly tho, he killing striders and you say they could kill you even before... Weapon was almost S-tier, after Nerf it was solid A and now its B THX to closing bug holes... Kinda like railgun.

[@4000ThousandSmiley]

One thing to add is that the Punisher plasma can still damage/kill you with shield backpack if you are "turn shooting" basically if you shoot while your helldiver is facing the opposite direction of your camera it will hit the shield xD so the fix was just a band aid and still need players to be careful and must always face the same direction of your helldiver and camera just to be safe.

[@thiccfila]

thats funny, we are just mechs now

[@3G00dboys41]

The bullet richochet pisses me the fuck off. Completely ruined the Erupter. The gun was great before that b.s patch.

[@FirestormHF]

I think they sorely underestimated how much damage the shrapnel was doing. Definently needs more explosion damage to comp.

[@no4shroom675]

@@FirestormHF its like they have no clue what theyre doing or something lol

[@janfortuna3002]

@@no4shroom675 yeah... almost like they have no clue.... glad I uninstalled after 200 hours in. I was there when it was still great.

[@no4shroom675]

@@janfortuna3002 luckily their incompetence always leaves a couple usable weapons at a time.

[@janfortuna3002]

@@no4shroom675 they will nerf it, or double ooorr tripple nerf it as soon as they find out. Got tired if this.. oh well.

[@CeresOutpost]

I've got like 100 hours with the Eruptor. It's straight trash now. 3-4 shots to down a medium-sized terminid. 2 shots on smaller terminids sometimes. Doesn't seem to be able to disable Chargers anymore like I could before. What a waste. I worked my ass off to get to that gun.

[@stinkystink9830]

This is the kinda dude needs hit the most The guys who actually play the game

[@ragingreaper1190]

Erupter feels gutted without the shrapnel, Helldivers lend your prayers towards the now on life support Erupter lol

[@BobbyRock1996]

I feel like you misunderstood what they were talking about when they patched the shrapnel thing. They didn't say that it properly shoots back at the helldiver, just that when it does it will actually damage them. That's why that changed didn't feel good -- The weapon wasn't actually hurting you even if it did ricochet your way. Signed, a person who's been killed by my buddies erupt or a million times because the damage definitely was still working against other people

[@berserkerpride]

But he's right. Eruptor feels and looks anemic now. The correct change is a steep damage falloff on the shrapnel so it doesn't randomly kill you from 20-30 meters away.

[@ryanthebassplayer]

This is absolutely correct. The patch literally just fixed the behavior of shrapnel damage in regards to the helldiver who fired it. I think the community at large misunderstood the change and overreacted.

[@BobbyRock1996]

@@ryanthebassplayer it's like all games. I don't know why but it seems like modern gamers don't want any disadvantage at all.

[@CeresOutpost]

@@ryanthebassplayer They actually removed shrapnel completely and slightly increased the explosion from what I have read. At any rate, the effect in game is that the gun feels weak, can't even one-shot medium terminids anymore. I've got about 100 hours with this gun, it has been my main since it came out. After trying it this morning, I'm done with it and super bummed about it.

[@ryanthebassplayer]

@@CeresOutpost Right. The change you are referring to is what was made in response to the change I was talking about. We're agreeing here: 1. Erupter on release produced shrapnel that erroneously did NOT cause damage to the helldiver that fired the shot. 2. Arrowhead fixes the error. Shrapnel damages the shooter. 3. The community misunderstands the change. Many think the Erupter produces reflected shrapnel that is actively seeking the shooter. Complaints ensue. 5. Arrowhead reacts to these complaints and removes shrapnel from the Erupter round while adding explosive damage. Im guessing that the shrapnel that used to be produced accounted for a large part of the damage that the Erupter used to do, which is why it now feels weak.

[@Kopa_Malphas]

Eruptor still works in chaff clear for bugs, it does not run so well vs bots. It SAYS it's 450 damage, but with how it's performing vs Hive guards and Devastators, there isn't any way that is true. The explosive damage it received is not worth the tradeoff, and due to "THE BIG SUCC" Glitch, they had previously nerfed the blast radius. I think it might still be worth it if they increased the blast radius again, otherwise it needs another 40-50 explosive damage since they wont be going back to shrapnel.

[@PowerfulSkeleton]

I disagree, I've found the chaff clear is significantly worse. Packs of bugs that I could blast with the old Eruptor just don't die anymore, and the AoE is almost worthless. It 1-shots hunters, and that's about it. Can't headshot guards and commanders, often can't even headshot the chunky brown bugs. Gun's dead, sadly.

[@krevetka9744]

I'm playing in duo most of the time and I've only been killed three times by Eruptor's shrapnel even though it's my friend's main pick, so it was very rare. I'm confident it has nothing to do with recent ricochet change, because all three times happened way before that. How does it look: my pal shoots a bile spewer, it dies and I (standing ~15-20m away from it) instantly die with zero indication of what exactly happened. Obviously, the game says he killed me, but cause of death is buggy anyway, so we don't trust that. The only clear indication that shrapnel is responsible is that I die precisely as my friend takes his shot with nothing else going on around.

[@diogorocha9837]

I use the Eruptor a lot. Every match vs Bugs. Since I use the shield backpack, I don't die for the ricochets. And I can confirm that after that stupid ricochet chance, I frequently get hit by shrapnel ricochets from the gun. Even if I am far from the explosion. They should remove the buggy ricochet that they implemented, not mess yet more with the Eruptor.

[@melaniejason3912]

I dont understand why they make the riccochet so weird. Riccochet calculations are normally very easy: Incoming angle = outgoing angle + distance to travel which depends on the speed (original speed - speed lose from hitting an object). So basically: Riccocets should barely ever go back to yourself. Only a 0° shot should come back when the distance is matching too. Still can hit allies but can also hit other enemies.

[@whiteninja2006]

That has been cleared up multiple times before: Only riccochets that come back at you have been affected, not the general way how riccochets work. Before, any riccochet that came back at you didn't do any damage to you (if a riccochet hit a teammate, they would still take damage though). The wording in the patch notes isn't the best, granted, but they didn't change it to ALL riccochets coming back at you.

[@Shadow3397]

Which is strange to think of, because people *have* caused ricochet that hit their own head or nearly hit their own head when shooting at a target that should by all rights not be able to cause that kind of ricochet. Such as kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnKleHyArM56eMUsi=5DfKt_BgQXUGJXFG

[@Malficion]

From AH track record "Slightly" is a full 25%. THAT'S NOT SLIGHTLY AH!!! 😊 That's a 56.25% increase in Area coverage or 43.75% decrease in Area.

[@thegrowingdarkness1377]

And i was only just recently having fun with erup + arc thow combo. Was fun as hell.

[@tianxiu]

I see the trend of this game: If you find a weapon that you love or it is good. Use the shit out of it, for it may be the last month you can have fun with it. And the bullet ricochet thing is not only game-breaking but also lore-breaking. How does a bounce-off bullet find a way back to you in the name of science? How does this guided missile play any part in teaching players trigger discipline?

[@Metacritical_]

I have a feeling the next couple of days are gonna get pretty hot

[@daxwolf455]

The shrapnel friendly fire thing has always been a thing I got it day one on a teammate when he was 75 meters away from the enemies I had killed xd

[@mastermarranote]

I really liked the particle effect on the Eruptor's shrapnel.

[@Rockforce80]

Twinbeard on the discord noted they are aware of the eruptor not performing as it should in terms of ttk so hopefully it'll get back to where it needs to be at least in terms of killing power

[@Medi0cr3-]

I totally agree with you. I ran the eruptor since it came out. And can confirm, I've never killed myself no friendlies with shrapnel.

[@SoraTheKobold]

i just deleted my negative review and am redownloading, saw the patch today and saw a lot of my issues finally got fixed even if the Eruptor got butchered lol hopefully they keep the bug fixes coming also hiiii thicc hiiii :3:3:3:3

[@thiccfila]

੧(❛〜❛✿)੭ buff emoji today, hello sora

[@manray005]

According to a previous post, it didn't get nerfed. The just removed the shrapnel part of it to make it less deadly to us (helldivers) and increased its explosive damage to compensate for it.

[@3G00dboys41]

​@@manray005 If the gun is worse. That is a Nerf bud.

[@thiccfila]

well try it out in game before making your decision on how it feels, this is my thoughts after using it. but if you like it, then play with it.

[@hydro4348]

AMR scope and DCS scope are both still misaligned up and to the left in my limited testing. It does feel a bit better, but not perfectly centered.

[@videonmode8649]

5:18 Wasn't there a patch that made scout striders a bit more resilient against explosions? Also, before the patch I wouldn't always be able to one tap a hiveguard.

[@thiccfila]

I was mentioning after patch I am currently inconsistently 1 shotting them with it. There's some clips in the background, you shouldve been able to see a couple

[@billiondollardan]

I've had a bullet ricochet at me before. It went over my head thankfully, but man you've got to look out any time you shoot into something hard

[@PimpMasterT]

Some great fixes💪

[@yukioacumora4430]

Th ricochet change you mention was about shots that would hit you not dealing damage. It's weirdly worded but rimetchochets always had a chance to return to the sender, I experienced this first hand many times with thr autochannon, it's just that now it actually deals damage to you and teammates if it collides with you/them.

[@skylerdale5351]

what’s the practical difference between shrapnel and an explosion?

[@balltavorb]

The Eruptor change in the video reminds me of the Slugger. A shotgun with great range and a stopping power allowing it to stun anything smaller than a bile titan, and the only primary weapon (at the time) that could shoot down fences to assist with map traversal and open supply crates. Balanced by it's 1-shell-at-a-time reload animation and semi-automatic fire, which allowed you to stunlock major individual threats, but not an entire wave. But then they took away it's stopping power utility entirely. AND nerfed the damage. With no identity of its own, the Slugger now sits on a bench with a myriad of other useless primary weapons.

[@claudeb3673]

I am confused an lover of the eruptor... not having shrapnels will it decrease the AOE? Do he still have an AOE? ... i will test it myself soon but need your opinion

[@thiccfila]

my opinion is the second half of the video :)

[@claudeb3673]

@@thiccfila so nerf then...

[@user-em7tr7uq5n]

Hello comrades. No one else noticed that the steam update note says R-9 Eruptor when we only have R-36 Eruptor? But we have the CB-9 explosive crossbow, I’m wondering which weapon was actually updated? Or maybe I'm the only one who is stupid and doesn't understand something. ( sorry for bad english )

[@MadNitr0]

The eruptor nerf makes making warbonds less appealing... What would I but a warbond if that are going to nerf the best part of it?

[@clintmcbride7830]

The bullet rebound uses physics. If you shoot at an angle it continues at that angle. If you shoot straight on it bounces back. It could already damage teammates before hand, now they just made it to where your own bullets could also hit you. It hinestly makes perfect sense. The eruptor is still a perfectly viable weapon against medium armored targets, it just isnt a grouo clear weapon any more. Its now pretty much a Sniper that does explosive damaage to thebtarget hit.

[@monsoonthagoon]

Well first they nerfed my crossbow into oblivion, now they did the Erupter. I didn't use it all that much, it just wasn't for me. Both weapons were balanced, could've used some tweaks to make things more consistent, but I wouldn't use either now. Why are they stripping these identities away from these particular weapons? At this rate the grenade pistol is next.

[@ShanalFunLand]

Im pretty certain, what they meant by that "ricochet" update was bullets that YOU fire will hit you now. Cause prior to this change basically any projectile that you shot would only affect enemies and other players, but since they added that change your own projectile is able to collide with you now thats why everyone was complaining about the eruptor killing them saying it was a bug because beforehand the shrapnel had no affect on the player using the weapon

[@phyll0medusa]

Ok, I have only one question about the Eruptor. Does it consistently oneshots bile spewers and brood commanders? If yes, it's ok, if no, it's bad

[@thiccfila]

it does not

[@blakebrady9002]

One shots nursing spewers though

[@berserkerpride]

@@blakebrady9002 Bah, those are weak to any gun. This change just makes eruptor completely weak compared to plasma shotgun, dominator, scorcher.

[@phyll0medusa]

@@thiccfila "friendship with Eruptor ended. Now Blitzer is my best buddy"

[@HeroValios]

Note about the eruptor, I've been using it against bugs for the order this morning - it's not taking off charger leg armor anymore, let alone killing them. It basically can't be used against them any more.

[@evandbltime1374]

Was the erupter even meta before this patch? It was the ONLY primary i enjoyed using.....

[@TPKPatchy]

Gotta love that Sea Shanty!

[@kinai_4414]

I have yet to judge the Eruptor post patch, but I was 100% getting random teamkills with the eruptor prior to the ricochet patch. I actually had to turn on shadowplay just to show my friends that no, wasn't making shot at them, they were just randomly getting oneshot from eruptor explosions when they were absolutely outside of the expected aoe damage range. I don't know what would be the best way to fix it without removing it, but imho as it originaly was, it was too much of a random risk for teamkill, even if it was rare.

[@headboil]

Perfect background music for this tyoe of vid

[@IronHusky]

Sea shantay 2 made me happy

[@johnnyhitman8532]

I think it should be like a 1/100 chance that the projectile bounces back to you on weapons. And revert the shrapnel change

[@Damaged7]

Seems like a decent patch, we've got some fixes we've wanted for awhile. I"m happy.

[@mangasaint]

Stinger missile works now, only occasionally does it not lock instantly.

[@loganberkheimer1857]

So it's not fixed 😂

[@Prodigy70]

Looks like I need the 6 stims because thats about the only good thing against enemies at this point. Just run around doing tickle dmg to every enemy with the weapons and hope I complete the mission by ODing on stims.

[@IAmNumber4000]

So they added a change that causes ricochets to fly directly back at you (???), this caused the eruptor shrapnel to bug out, so they REMOVED the eruptor shrapnel?? I am quickly losing confidence in the people doing the balancing for this game

[@HenchmenNo616]

Wow, the [insert your new fav weapon here] is amazing! *the developer took that personally*

[@wolfsaints]

Yeah, the ricocheted thing was supposed to affect small arms and I’m guessing the game counted the shrapnel as small arms

[@MikeMik86]

I haven't played in a couple weeks, I like just jumping in with whatever setup I have as a casual player and having to constantly figure out which combos are solid every other patch cuts into my gaming time. I quit playing games like cod for similar reasons, except they take it another step further and you have to grind level meta weapons every month or so.

[@MikeMik86]

Let me add that cod is trash along with most others similar to it including Apex, this game is far better than those and if the devs pull their heads out this game will continue to be great

[@garyisfat]

i played for like an hour and a half and experienced a crash in every single mission ive played. right to desktop, no real indicator.

[@manubour]

note: eruptor currently isn't working as intended, twinbeard confirmed it ont the discord not that it excuses devs not testing their fix before releasing it

[@iliketurtles667]

I feel like they should buff fixed turrets when helldivers use them. They are so fun but do nothing. Thoughts?

[@StickyBuns1390]

4:48 I love the determination

[@brandontorres3815]

Does this mean the thermite grenade is good now? Specifically against chargers?

[@melaniewilson1742]

Possibly. I haven’t been playing long and am just starting to look at what my first warbond should be, and might be picking that one up because of the recent fire fix.

[@radleybuttons7830]

The Eruptor is just sad now. I used to be able to reliably 2-3 shot Chargers and now it seems I need a full clip.

[@Xaiken]

While I have yet to test the eruptor change myself I do agree it would be good if ricochet itself could only travel a max distance of 10-20m and dmg dealt was 50% with falloff. 180 full dmg ricochets are just unrealistic. This way devs can have their ricochet and players can have shrapnel.

[@LaserTractor]

Really 180° ricochet is stupid and only made to punish you for something.

[@TheMMObro]

Yeah, please bring back shrapnel, lol. I have to test more, but I'm not doing as much damage to chargers anymore. If you hit the right spot, you could hit the booty and back of the leg with shrapnel, and absolutely terrorize chargers.

[@quangtoki8377]

I did that yesterday with pre patch and i was surprised i killed it instantly

[@kylesimmons9457]

I was wondering why I'd sometimes fire the Eruptor and just die. Like the bullet exploded in the barrel. Very sad they nerfed it though.

[@boofini1830]

Easy eruptor fix would be to make the shrapnel damage fall off, or even just make the pieces disappear short after the explosion

[@RoflcopterPunch]

They fixed the scope. REJOICE!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@OP10thNakama]

Either shrapnel shouldn't get richoche or get reduced damage to the helldiver so it doesn't "feel" bad when using at close range.

[@ss_hat]

Sea Shanty hits different at 30yo

[@SeanFerrol]

Agreed with the disappointment with the eruptor; I don’t even mind if they revert the change and tank the shrapnel damage. I just like the unique gameplay it brings.

[@shinyrayquaza9]

Scout striders were two shot in the last patch too, its because they have explosive resistance now

[@thiccfila]

im talking about right now I did one shot a few of them, but it was inconsistent

[@Turnil321]

Just got the fire upgrade from my ship. It says all fire weapons get a dmg buff. Is this true?

[@thiccfila]

it lists the ones it affects, just fire stratagems

[@RaptorJesus.]

they've totally murdered eruptor, first it lost half of its ammo and took a damage nerf, and now a second even heavier damage nerf. it was fun while it lasted, i enjoyed playing an explosive jetpack sniper!

[@BryanDelMonte]

I used to carry the Eruptor with a shield to reduce chance of death at CQB. It was fine. Eruptor. Shield. Stalwart. 500. Orbital laser. Made me an all around badass shock trooper for levels 7-9. Played this morning… the Eruptor is now a limp dick weapon that is completely fucking worhthless. I guess now it’s Scortcher, Quasar, shield or GD, and thermite nades to be a shock trooper.

[@salvarious]

I just started playing the beginning of last week. I unlocked dominator & thinking of demolition warbond next for the pistol, what's the difference of Dominator & Eruptor, really? Dominator is the first real primary weapon that allows me to handle difficulty 7 mission. The lack of viable weapon picks is staggering, especially that most of them are behind soft pay walls. So far I got Scorcher, Dominator, & Eruptor. If you don't have one of these weapons, you can't kills enemies fast enough to compete on higher difficulty. The whole weapon catalog needs work. Why nerf the eruptor, when that spray & pray shotgun is just taking up space on the next page of my warbond? Do I have to pay SC on a premium warbond just to get access to a real weapon??

[@salvarious]

"So far I got Scorcher, Dominator, & Eruptor." *As in only viable weapons in the game, not talking about my collection or something.

[@elmerbona1012]

The defender smg is another really good pick for higher difficulty, try pairing it with rhe ballistic shield and laser cannon against bots. Smg and shield for small bots, berserkers and heavy devastators, laser cannon for everything else

[@Luukluukluuk12]

Homie, great and informative video but for the love of Super Earth: please tone the music down a little bit.

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

They need to reverse ALL primary weapon nerfs. Even pre nerf breaker was incredibly balanced and didn't cause problems. It was the other weapons that were super underpowered. And now they just keep buffing the enemy and turn OUR weapons into wet noodles. They try so fucking hard to kill their own game it's crazy

[@ikmalkamal5830]

Yep. Somehow, they don't really need Sony to kill their own game.

[@zacharymurphy2099]

I love the runescape background music

[@webkinskid]

the shrapnel was HUGE for its gameplay and it feels so basic now that it's gone

[@Breadandbananas]

4:47 Journalist Cuphead moment

[@MrEkzel]

Nice music.

[@poo55555]

I liked the Eruptor. It just needed the ammo reduced. I want it reverted and just lower the ammo count.

[@HurricaneSparky]

I guess if the Eruptor is dead it's back to the regular Breaker against bots. At least that thing can headshot Heavies close enough.

[@jackculver412]

eruptor is not nurfed guys but buffed idk why half of the people are saying its nurfed while the other half say buffed It got a damage INCREASE but a SLIGHTLY less explosive area, but it still is explosive and does all the things it used to do EXCEPT one shot yourself

[@kevvvbot]

Damnit they did it again. This is what I get for trying to put the AC down. Sigh, looks like it’s back to AC chad but now I can bring Breaker Incendiary for horde clear so I guess that’s something.

[@JasonWolfeYT]

Also, Ricochet's lose a massive amount of energy. They should 10% of their previous damage if you managed to hit the 90 degree impact angle that would actually bounce the shell directly back. A 5 degree impact might retain like 50% of the energy.

[@herosupport1606]

the HMG and AMR are still not aligned.

[@silverdude3864]

Yes but now artillery now doesn't work and extraction not happening.

[@Dominicmesh000316]

Just arrowhead doing arrowhead things. Difficulty via frustration. Rinse and repeat. Still out here killing the game by nerfing peoples dopamine hits

[@eddiemitza2544]

It's such a frustration weapon to use right now. It has always been the most difficult primary weapon to use, but it's effectiveness is just mediocre right now, to the point that it's not worth the hassle.

[@rox1180]

RuneScape music hell ya

[@jondel799]

Rip my favorite weapon, StalRuptor was easily my favorite loadout. Only good for bug holes now...

[@SimonJorn]

I appreciate your videos. I’m not sure you’ve used this type of background music in your videos before, but it annoyed the heck out of me in this video (maybe too loud?)

[@thiccfila]

Yeah it was lol my bad

[@auden_builds]

plasma punisher still hits backpack shields :/

[@Darkwater1886]

This sucks. I started to main the Eruptor after the newest warbond. The first nerf hurt but I stuck with my boy and saw his potential along with understanding his flaws. Now he's just a super slow autocannon and 1/3 of what he was at launch. RIP

[@exqueue3813]

Should a primary be comparable to a support weapon?

[@MrMundy-ov9vc]

Same here, basically played nothing else but eruptor, first patch was a pain but I kept using it and it still felt good, now it's just a shadow of it's former self

[@Darkwater1886]

@@exqueue3813 grenade pistol and grenade launcher use grenades. Did you use the Eruptor?

[@exqueue3813]

@@Darkwater1886 no one compare the grenade pistol to the launcher. It's not used as a repllacement for it?

[@Darkwater1886]

@@exqueue3813 ah I see the issue. I was only using the autocannon as the closest explosive comparisons. My bad for the misunderstanding. The Eruptor felt good at what it did. No other weapons had shrapnel. Now without it it's most comparable to the Auto. We all know what the Auto is good at. Now the Eruptor falls short of what it could do and it just sucks. It was a good option and now it's not do to nerfs.

[@sirdragon6860]

And an incredible increase in hard crashing, six out of seven missions today hard crashed me back to Desktop today

[@thiccfila]

unlucky

[@scehr]

I am *_praying_* that Arrowhead has net buffs prepared for the Polar Patriots patch, otherwise I'll be missing this month. Level 7 - 9 just isn't enjoyable for me.

[@blazeproxima5558]

Look at how the murdered my boy ;-;

[@crimesguy]

As long as they don't mess with the Blitzer I'm happy. So much fun to use on bugs now with grenade pistol, stun grenades, jump pack, and disposable rockets

[@DerLichert]

So its fun now, no we cant have that

[@crimesguy]

@@DerLichert actually I just tested it and it’s bad!! Really bad combo sorry guys brain fart

[@diogorocha9837]

@@crimesguy I don't like it either regarding performance, but it is actually very fun to use. The feeling of unlimited ammo and AoE. The sound and animation is cool. But... I personally don't like it to lvl 9 missions.

[@crimesguy]

@@diogorocha9837 I need to use the stun nades and reposition a lot with the jump pack to make it work. However, it’s really fun to repeatedly hit the bile spewers with the blitzed so they can’t spit at you and do sick diving shots that almost always hit. Once they fix it so bodies won’t block shots as bad, it’ll be even better.

[@diogorocha9837]

@@crimesguy It is a Hollywood stunts weapons hahaha About the lightnings hitting objects rather then enemies, when (or if) this problems is fixed, it will be a more reliable weapon. I found almost mandatory using the redeemer (or other bullet secondary) to use when blitzers shots stop hitting enemies.

[@25xxfrostxx]

Even as a person with a hole in my left knee from a ricochet fragment from an AK-47, it is definitely not realistic that they come back at the shooter regularly.

[@martinaasandersen3775]

Eruptor has almost been over-nerfed now. Some mobs feels you need to hit like 2-3x times more than before.

[@martinaasandersen3775]

Also the reason for the nerf is BS. I rarely kill myself or other and i have been using it since it came out. Sure sometimes if mobs came to close you had to gamble, to that was part of the push/pull of the weapon. I'd rather have slightly unsafe + strong than safe + weak. Like the airburst rocket it is not meant for close range. It was a bit too strong though, but they should have kept the shrapnel and just lowered the dmg a bit. Or put a toggle on it (to change ammo type to use shrapnel or not) . Going from OP to over-nerfed is so common in games.

[@Turnil321]

I will miss the tall rock.