THE NEW BEST SUPPORT WEAPON IN HELLDIVERS 2 ( HEAVY MACHINE GUN AND QUASAR CANNON BREAKDOWN)

[@jatwood9648]

Not the infinite EAT. The Quasar is the ALL YOU CAN EAT!

[@Adeon55]

Nice lol

[@Forgottenmyname]

Yea made me laugh

[@Jan-oe4cc]

But that's what infinite EAT would mean 😂

[@seengh]

The way I see it… QC hits like the EAT/Recoiless. - does not take a back pack like the Recoiless. - works fine on planets that have long stratagem cooldown multiplier (which makes EAT less effective) - on cold planets, it cools down faster, I think faster than Recoiless reload - you can move while it cools down huge advantage over Recoiless - you can switch to your primary and use it while it cools down. Another huge advantage over recoiless. - The one thing you can’t do are twitch shots. Like if a charger is chasing you and you run to an EAT, pick it up, do a 180 dive turn and head shot the charger… You won’t have that “adrenaline” play. It definitely requires better positioning.

[@JaximusDecimus1]

Did you really copy this comment from a post on reddit?

[@seengh]

@@JaximusDecimus1 it was my post. So yes, I repurposed it.

[@SeuchenPflug]

Reaper with the HMG :/ Reaper with the Quasar :) The facecam says it all

[@connorlindy8738]

They should add a backpack to the heavy mg that adds more rounds belted into it. Its great for long- mid range suppresion and taking out armored targets in prone, but that ammo capacity does it in. Plus it looks goofy with the big ballsack mag

[@tankofnova9022]

Ballsack mag 😂🤣 Was considering getting this if it could pen better than regular MG. Seems both are medium penatrators

[@IVANGUARDI]

Dude your content is fire. Thanks for all the tips.

[@joymuffins6745]

I love the heavy machinegun, and it does suffer a little, I'll admit. The recoil reduction armor is king when using it, and it is useful for the bots with the explosion resistance from certain pieces. I think people just don't quite understand it's purpose, which is not to mow down hordes of foes. Despite the recoil it has, it's better used as a long range precision or suppression for larger/armored foes, or close up against them, but it's recommended to be further away from the bots than closer. Not quite sure how to better explain it, though. Quasar is amazing, don't get me wrong, but the heavy is a diamond covered in dirt... It just needs the dirt swept off, I.e. a little bit of adjusting for ammo economy, ideally.

[@Legendary_Honey]

It's got far too many flaws to use over other options, but fun is always a valid reason.

[@sivel7493]

What I love about the HMG is that it's VERY viable at killing Chargers, with stun grenades at least. Spraying at their butt, after stunning them with stun grenades, at 1200RPM, it kills them in a little over 1sec, in 30 shots. That wasn't possible with the MG43, because even at 900RPM, it took 75-80 bullets to do so, and usually they'd be out of their stun state before that. But I do agree, it's hard justifying it when there are weapons that have....god damn infinite ammo...it does kill things a lot faster than the MG43, but it's also a lot more punishing if you miss.

[@Melchizidek777]

Hmmm thanks for posting this, I’ll give it another shot with the recoil reduction armor.

[@melchior7346]

I don’t t like that there isn’t a 3rd person reticle.

[@thoughtgaming492]

I can smell the incoming nerfs already. Hopefully they just increase the cooldown between shooting or something and leave the rest alone.

[@zero11010]

3:07 i feel like that could be the tag line for the whole game.

[@DaxRaider]

the HMG reload feels for me same as normal machine gun reload doesnt it ?

[@Get5ome]

I wanted HMG since i saw the first leak. Damn it was disappointment when they drop it this poor bastard to the game. As it wasn't enough they took away the only fun thing about this cursed weapon - 1200 rpm. Is this an out of season April's Fool joke?

[@JaximusDecimus1]

While I absolutely see the appeal of the Quasar, I do not enjoy using it at all. I'm glad to see one on my team, but I'll be sticking with autocannon/RR/EAT for the time being.

[@Nazwabezcyfer]

You didn't mention that it requires no backpack so that fact on top of the rest upsides renders this weapon pretty much op. It's better than railgun pre nerf imo. Infinite ammo, no backpack, damage comparable to EAT. Now I don't want them to nerf it, but rather buff recoiless and autocannon bc they require backpack

[@HamkkeTogether]

I think EAT are still better. 1min cd + friends can make use of them too. QC seems better against Automatons but against Terminids I'll keep taking EAT.

[@Broom1375yt]

Only thing about the hmg that pisses me off is I don’t have hitmarkers like the normal mg(I also never get the ricochet icon). the MG was always my go to weapon so I was hyped for this one.

[@MegaMjjordan]

New subscriber, was wondering if you could playlist your specific Loadout builds or labels for them please! Love the grenadier and dark side builds so far

[@nottodayzurg2671]

Where do you aim to one shot the dropships? I seems to have a hard time getting them to come down

[@ragingreaper1190]

Aim for one of the engines and it should drop it every time!

[@nottodayzurg2671]

@@ragingreaper1190 that did the trick, thank you for the advice!

[@AEspiral]

Quasar is finne, i still prefer my recoiless tho. But i support you all running it, so i can get all the ammo to myself.

[@chadn.1619]

If that machine gun had reconstruction it would be amazing.

[@xerlius]

If you put the heavy machine gun in the lowest rpm you cans use it as a sniper against the automatons.

[@AliHassan-gu7op]

I like quasar for bugs but still the Lazarus cannon for bots

[@TheCleon]

Am i the only one that noticed that the new MG has a different name in the game, Every promotionial thing bout it called it MG-101 but in the game its MG-206

[@notanonymous3976]

think someome got confused. the mg-101 is supposed to be the emplacement

[@alexandermich2871]

I love the quasar and lazer cannon c9mbo

[@thoughtgaming492]

Machine guns really need buffs. The stalwart is a good baseline, but the MG43 and MG101 just feel terrible in comparison. Not worth the benefits they give from the stalwart.

[@xerlius]

I love the regular machine gun! If you could reload it on the run like the stalwart I’d use it all the time.

[@thoughtgaming492]

@@xerlius I’d like to see optional ammo backpacks for the machine guns. Like if you don’t bring the backpack it works exactly as is, but if you do bring the backpack it auto feeds clips and has double the ammo. That would make the MG43 super fun to use and it wouldn’t cause any balance issues.

[@ZeHeavyArmor]

We gonna make those clankers hear the trees and fog of Troost speak democratic quasar! On another end I do like the heavy machine gun mainly for fun high caliber rambo gameplay shoving a heavily caliber weapon down throats. I knew im gonna have fun meme time going full 1200 rpm in charger butts or turning clankers to scrap with point blank HMG fire. Definitely gonna grab an ammo backpack to top off this heavy and occasionally help others.

[@sebastianphillips2772]

Ammo is huge in this game. To have a weapon with infinite ammo that can 1 shot most enemies, even on higher difficulties, is insane. Also, the ability to shut down fabricators and bug holes is certainly a plus. The quasar has effectively replaced the EAT in my loadout. Tried the MG, and i completely agree with how underwhelming it is in its current state.

[@617Beanz]

75 in the magazine and 2 clips, hopefully they give us a buff. I wanted 300 rounds in the HMG

[@Fricknut]

I like hitting the legs on the hulks with the Quasar. Easier target than the head, slows them down to a crawl, taking the other leg is a kill, can hit from the side profile.

[@cordels.1179]

An awesome thing about the quasar cannon is it doesn’t overheat, just needs the reload/cooldown. I thought for sure it would have the blow yourself up mechanic that the Rail cannon has so that’s a nice surprise

[@DaxRaider]

the HMG is better in 3rd person with a display dot. even in first person the display dot is perfect where the gun aims in the middle, i dont get why the dot that is shown is like a few mm above the target ... wtf xD but really if you have a display dot possibility use it, and this gun becomes 10 times more awesome and when you then use the less recoil armor it feels perfect

[@Multistan85]

The cannon is good and the infinite ammo is welcome, but the charge up is too long, which is bad if you want to kill things quickly which this game needs especially in higher difficulties.

[@krokenlochen]

Missed opportunity to call it the All You Can EAT or the BUFFET.

[@LucasDStarz]

can some1 confirm if it can actually 1 shot chargers bcs I tried it and couldnt get it. Did I just miss during my extremely limited testing?

[@JaximusDecimus1]

You have to aim a little higher than you'd think because the thing kind of wobbles around while it's charging, but it will one-shot them if you hit them in the crest of their head.

[@LucasDStarz]

@@JaximusDecimus1 thank you!

[@Bearjew2995]

I agree with you 💯. The MG is definitely tough to use. For bots I ran the Las sickle with the new Las-99 and it worked great. I never had to worry about ammo.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

"with a lot of skill, and a whole lot of luck, you can have a little bit of fun." god-damning with faint praise, lol

[@georgejohnston5279]

Making the Heavy MG have a backpack with a good amount of ammo would be game changing.

[@pimp_floyd5024]

Only used the heavy machine gun for one match, i thought the reticle was bugged but the fact it just doesn't have one is kinda sad.

[@pitufotube]

The heavy machine gun with ammo stratagem is really good .

[@sivel7493]

Frankly, I don't know what the hell they were thinking with the Quasar Cannon, with all their talk of balancing philosophies. Like, why did they basically release a simply BETTER Recoilless Rifle, what's the deal with that. It has no backpack, basically infinite ammo, and auto-reload/cooldown, you can run around for a bit and bam, fully loaded. Whereas the Recoiless you only get like 6 spare rockets, resupply them takes a lot, you have to do stationary reload everytime which lets you be really vulnerable and...need a backpack. And the 3s charge time is not even a big downside at all, compared to all the stuff that Recoilless has to deal with, team-reload isnt exactly a balancing factor, and frankly, if you need a teammate to be able to be SOMEWHAT close to be as effective as the Quasar...there's not much to say about that. And honestly, even if we were to...buff Recoilless Rifle to be on par, buff it in WHAT ASPECT? Increase the reload time? I wouldn't mind that but that'd make the whole team-reload thing completely redundant then. Give it more spare ammo? How? They would have to change the model of the backpack for that, and even so, Quasar has infinite ammo. It already kinda does the maximum amount of damage that it realistically can, Maybe it can take less shots to kill Bile Titan, but that'd make the Spear redundant...At this point, I wouldn't mind if they just remove stationary reload altogether... I honestly think it should have LONGER cooldown and charge time, for what the weapon is. If anything, I think the Quasar Cannon that I saw in some leaked footages that were put out a week or so ago (recent), were a lot more balanced, it could blow off Charger's leg armor but it couldn't 1-shot them in the head, I think that was pretty damn balanced...

[@mihalykerekgyarto917]

Its not that bad. Both the Eat and the RR can fire instantly, meaning it is much easier to aim. The EAT can act as a second support weapon, you can always rely on it and can even share it. The RR still has the team reload option which grants it insane DPS. Who knows maybe when boss mobs come the RR will be the meta since they can bring a lot more burst. 2 people both carrying the RR and reloading eachother can put out insane damage in a very short time and this may be needed with some of the leaked bosses. The charge up can also be an issue, especially during heavy fighting. If anything I think a good way to balance it, not that it is needed, would be to make the laser hit a really small area and the RR and EAT should have their AOE buffed.

[@sivel7493]

@@mihalykerekgyarto917 the 3s charge up is BARELY an issue, considering the fact the Recoilless needing to crouch down and reload for like...idk, 10seconds or something, plus push comes to shove, stun grenades exist. Again, I don't think the ability to fire instantly (in which the EATs kinda don't most of the times) and needing a teammate to do quick reload really helps its case that much...because you're kinda just either hindering yourself or your teammate, that is if anyone'd even consider taking on that task, at least randoms.

[@617Beanz]

Heavy machine gun is 🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️

[@fuzzydragon]

The heavy machine gun at first I hated it but if you put some time into it the thing is a monster, But definitely one you have to build around

[@notanonymous3976]

how do you use it?

[@notanonymous3976]

i really tried to like it, but i prefer the regular mg instead

[@MrPawsPause]

So what’s the point of the spear now lol

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

the Spear is now a special challenge mode for people who like losing

[@mersenniusprime]

The spear has, as far as I can tell, exactly one exceptional ability: you can lock onto bot fabricators and kill them in a single shot, from any angle, even with visibility modifiers. My group runs one on all bot eradication missions, and it always pays for itself. Drop into the middle of the map, buy the spear guy some time, and you'll be halfway through your fabricator quota in about a minute or two. While it still has lock-on issues with fabricators, like it does with everything else, it bypasses all of the stratagem modifiers that love to show up on bot missions. It's definitely come up clutch for us many times when we're down to just a few lives remaining, no or limited stratagems, little time on the clock, and a whole bunch of enemies between us and the fabricators we need to kill. The spear seems useless in every single other case, and I seriously doubt that this is their intended use for it, but I do wholeheartedly endorse its use in this one, tiny, extremely counter-intuitive case.

[@MrPawsPause]

@@mersenniusprimeInteresting. I’ll have to give that a go one round.

[@fancyfollower7177]

It’s gonna get nerfed

[@KhalilConsumido]

you just sent a good message to arrowhead to nerf this f

[@offmetastyle]

Discord is talking about how op It is, Discord is talking about how op quasar is, youtubers are. Devs have numbers they can pull up and see what weapons are being used most. This video isn't gona change anything lol. Good video regardless

[@RavagHer]

man im really tired of the devs releasing new strategems and weapons that are hot garbage from the get go. like did they put it in the game for babies to play on difficultly 1???? who on the dev team is using that heavy machine gun on difficultly 9??? its such a horrible weapon. long reload, shot clips, only 2 clips, no hip fire reticle, heavy recoil..... another crappy weapon for no one to touch. put it next to the jar 5

[@B-U-T-C-H-E-R]

The quasar cannon is excellent. Try equipping the armor that reduces recoil, and the supply pack with the heavy machine gun. I also put the rate of fire at 450, and I was having no issues with bots or bugs on lvl 7 and 8. I generally don't run 9 as a casual everyday thing. I personally think it should be harder, near impossible, and only meant to attempt with a coordinated team occasionally. To many people think you should be able to breeze through the hardest difficulty with randoms using whatever random equipment you want