They could make a ship module that scans the mission area and lets you know what the types of enemies youre going up against like pouncers/bile spewers. They had that as an upgrade on XCOM2

The game really needs to provide intel on the type of enemies. The difference in gameplay between a pouncer and a spitter world are massive

Tenderizer should just be called Tenderized. It needs to go back in the oven. Whoever designed it didn't look at it next to the base liberator. I bet that stalker left with him in the extraction ship and it's still hunting him.

ARs need more armor pen to be useful. Youre sacrificing dmg output for range but its not enough dmg output to handle really anything effectively. They need a rework. If a gun cant handle medium targets effectively, it needs knockback or crazy dmg output against light targets in order to handle bugs, Punisher, Incindieary breaker, and scorcher is about the only guns that are useful. New smg does stunlock targets but doesnt have any knockback and doesnt do enough dmg to be ammo efficient. Punisher hits harder, knocks back bugs, AND stun locks stalkers. new smg takes nearly a whole mag to kill a stalker.

Tips for bile spewer aligned planets: 1.Cry 2.Take a sip from your trusty cup of Liber-Tea (optional)

Arrowhead: Why aren’t players using the new weapons? Players: ALL THE WEAPONS ARE TRASH AND NOT WORTH USING OVER THE OLD GUNS. Arrowhead: The old guns must be too strong let’s do another wave of nerfs to balance this out 🤠

And they wanna know why everyone basically use the same weapons and get mad when they nerf the only good ones we use

Watching the stalker ragdoll him and then just dip is hilarious asf 🤣

Bro only needed to press a button for the SEAF but ran for his life empty handed 😂😂😂😂 great video!!

I'm pretty sure they forgot to update the Tenderizer's stats after they buffed the Liberator's damage, but even then, five damage per round at a sacrifice of fifteen rounds per magazine wouldn't have been worth it. Hell, even if it had 80 like the Adjudicator, I'm not sure there would be a reason to take it over the Liberator, because it's not as if that will consistently one-shot trash without hitting weak points.

SEAF Artillery with the buffed solo patrol spawns is so rough now.

Lessgoooooooooooo, stress testing out already!

I was so wound up by the end of your run! I thought for sure you’d get the SEAF artillery…I think you could have, but wouldn’t have made it out alive. Thanks for the review and fun time, as always!

They should delay any new warbonds. The game is still quiet unstable and full of bugs and glitches and they need to fix that first of all. I don't use the ARs at all because they seem rather weak and you have to reload every 5 seconds. Give me an AR with a 100 rounds drum magazin and an underslung gl and I might use it.

All the assault rifles need much larger magazines. Reloading after every handful of enemies killed is the issue. Sickle feels great because you can mag dump many enemies. Shotguns feel great because you can mag dump many enemies. It's not a complicated issue at all. Add 15 rounds to the assault rifles and maybe 10 to the adjudicator. Lib concussive and the tenderizer need further adjustments.

Takibo, as soon as you see a stalker, start strafing in order to dodge that tongue attack

A really underrated strategem is the hmg emplacement. It has medium (5) armour penetration and unrivaled damage. It has a short cool down so you just pop it down on every bug breach and it destroys trash and is the best option in the game to deal with spewers. Think of it like two full auto anti material rifles with 400 bullets. The ammo always last practically the whole bug breach so it really is super strong. Some tips if you are interested: Its armour penetration allows it to take out shrieker nests and spore spewers. It needs about 20 seconds for all three nests and it can be done from any range so it is the fastest and easiest method I can think of. Small bugs seem to struggle to target you while mounting the gun. They just stand around the gun looking at you. This means you are safe to target commanders and spewers first, and then mop up all the hunters surrounding you last. The hmg emplacement can not penetrate heavy armour (6), and gets one shot by chargers and bile titans. Running the qasar and maybe stuns allow you to quickly jump off, kill chargers and jump back on. The hmg emplacement can also destroy the green sacks on the BTs belly very fast. Finally, one must recognize that the player is what is valuable, and the weapon is just a tool. Sometimes the situation is to bad for you to get anything out of the stratagem, and then you must leave it behind even with full ammo. Hope that helps:)

This game really feels like if your primary doesn't have stagger you're SOL

18:40 that is so true about the shield generator pack. It sucks that after shooting and killing a brood commander you have to run diaggonally to the side of him to avoid being attacked. FYI headless brood commander is faster than your character for some reason

The new SMG works well against bile Spewers, it's my new favourite. Can't wait to see your video on it 😁

I am now at the point in my solo play journey where I can survive on helldiver but I don't get anything done hardly at all. I can keep my spacing good and I think I clear mobs at a pretty decent rate but they are always so overwhelming at any missions obj or POIs. Im trying to figure out the secret sauce here lol. I've made a ton of progress though, thanks to a lot of the tips and tricks from these videos.

It's so funny hearing you say bots are easier to get the infinite spawn loop. I have the total opposite experience, bugs get so out of hand sometimes for me lol.

Best AR is still the Stalwart. Yeah, I know it's a SAW, but pop the giggle switch up to 1150 RPM and have fun.

That first death stalker was just trying to save your life from the meteor falling on your head!

So what you're saying is they need to nerf the shield generator pack

I've been stress testing the new Pummeler against the terminids and it's been pretty great!

Bile Spewers are like banelings; when you grenade them. Sometimes they explode and kill others, but other times it just have sac intact.

hey! I love the sound of this gun too!! It's really unique.

The warbond is trash. You're basically getting a grenade and booster.

Had a Blitz mission yesterday with a friend on level 6.... all 3 side objectives were Stalker nests....

@Takibo been wondering this since I started watching you - how did you get the Quasar to have the green/red circle when you’re firing it? That’s not default right?

Most funniest shizzle ever with these Stalkers right there 🤣

The BR-14 Adjudicator kind of fills that high-damage, high-recoil spot you mentioned, and it's medium armor penetrating, if you wanted to try it out. Unfortunately, it has a smaller clip size and small number of clips, so it probably isn't particularly good against bugs.

Just buffing the dmg per bullet won't really change anything - ARs would still be borderline useless. The whole weapon class has nothing that makes it worth bringing over an Energy/Explosive/Shotgun weapon.

A weapon that reminds us how effective the 7.62mm can be, but with the future tag on it would be nice in the assault class.

I swear i've gotten so much better at the game just by watching you! I used to get dominated by chargers just like that stalker dominated you 😂 now I can solo like a boss and they're the cutest and easiest bugs for me now 🤣

Have you tried the punisher plasma? It's not the best gun but quite fun to use

The tenderizer is basically the liberator, but with 40 RPM and 10 rounds per mag traded for 5 less recoil. Its not useless vs bots cause its accurate and high damage, but it kinda needs a bit more damage to be worth it.

Are you still using the stamina booster ? I find localization disruption pretty good for solos aswell.

walked right by the super sample rock, and my boy was starving for them at the end 😕

The pummeler feels awesome It stun locks stalkers and chargers (with broken armor)

do you always play solo? do you have a video that you played with a team?

Trying to do a SEAF artillery after the main mission (when it's a massive pain in the arse at the best of times) was ambitious but amusing to watch

Bike spewer worlds are for the autocannon crowd. It pops heads or bile sacks very easily and is a quick relief. Can also kill chargers quickly with good aim

Impacts are definitely the best for spewers, but expensive and risk friendly fire. Senator can kill them in 5-6 hits to the face, while flinching and causing them to miss. This is easiest to slot into builds without much commitment, and a great utility vs hive guards & brood commanders anyway. HMG is actually great for them as well, a burst of I think just 3 bullets is enough on the face. Grenade launcher also 2 taps the sack. And of course, for a primary option, the dominator.

Love this map. gorgeous

The AR sounds good for me tbh! I dont use them for bugs but i really enjoy their use against automatons, when you get used to it it deals really easilly with light and devastator units

The punisher plasma works decent for bile spewers, each shot stuns them and it takes 3 hits to kill them.

I really like the feel of it, the zoom feels nice aswell. Maybe AR's need more damage or just having options of using different kinds of ammo to make them unique that way, cause atm there is not much use for them sadly.

Plasma Scorcher seems to take out bile spewers pretty easily if you hit their green bilesac area.

I am surprised you never noticed how many times the BTs spit at you and you didn't get slowed. This booster is insane. Gonna make matadoring infinitely easier.

The speed of this videoooo lets go

I like the scope shoots smoothly

I just used the booster, and it definitely feels like a counter to hunters, but it feels the same vs the BT acid spew

Those ragdoll physics at near 7:30 was crazy

@5:22 “Haven’t yet seen a Brood commander yet” My dude, you took out a mob of like 6 of them at the start with the tenderizer o_o. Haha that’s how hectic level 9 missions be though. I like the feel of the new weapons on the lower levels, they’re fun for taking down the small guys. For anything heavier than medium enemies though it feels like none of the new weapons do much. Yeah, you get stagger with the pummeler but it still doesn’t have the damage or armor pen for handling more than a single heavy at a time. Hoping for some new heavier weapons or maybe even stratagems soon.

6:57 I play on a older PC, and the meteor storms feel fine. I assume the lower graphics settings ar substantially easier because the lighting effects are not as demanding.

26:55 The mortar detonated your impact grenade. What a bad luck

Personally I wouldn't bring this against bugs but against automatons it isn't bad. Recoil is the best attribute it has over the liberator variants and I find its very easy to headshot devastators using the Tenderizer with only a negligible loss in rate of fire for dealing with light units.

The new armor has boot spikes. Wish its passive reduced the effects of difficult terrain.

Whaaats up legend.

Quasar cannon 1 shots bile spewers if you hit the sack or the head directly FYI if your looking for another counter, obviously with the time reset, you’d have to prioritize that last behind chargers and titans But still, that option is available

Regarding FPS, I wonder if the problem is your screen resolution? I have an old card (GeForce 980 Ti) at 1920x1280 and have no problem with screen stutter, lag, etc.

description says higher stopping power at the cost of recoil and fire rate. Has the same damage as liberator. Good job AH

I’m trying to understand their thought process of just adding a reskin of the first AR but with a smaller mag. Just….why!?

21:51 autocannon oneshot headshots them, and so does the eruptor (at least it did pre nerf, idr if they lowered its damage alongside the shrapnel removal and cutting its ammo in half) I remember plasma punisher performing well against them, but i also haven't used it in like a month

How do you make it happen to have such a nice Field of View?

8:25 the best moment, the way you wooowowowooed ahah

Does the booster actually work? I haven't noticed any difference I thought it's bugged

If you dive before the stalkers try to lick you they will miss. Can make them a lot easier to kill.

I feel like you run faster than i do Perhaps theres a setting or a something you use to boost your speed or seem to boost your speed I usually run light armor aswell

Gotta say, I played some, and it’s very MID. Wish it had a bigger mag in my opinion.

With the magazine of 35rounds, the Tenderizer could have done with higher base damage or the ability to penetrate medium armour. But I do like how it sounds

Honestly I've been using the liberator a bit recently and just by eye test, I think it kills faster than the tenderizer. Seems like you trade fire rate or damage for more mags, but I don't know the numbers so I could be completely wrong

Where Assault rifles in this game shine best is group play. The ability to help a distant ally with fire support is amazing, and 2 guns will always outdamage one gun. As long as that one gun isn't an Autocannon or Grenade Launcher.

Sorry to comment so much but how did you play snd entire game without anyone joining???

So far, between the SMG and the tenderizer for this warbond. I prefer the SMG more, concussion is pretty good for bugs. The tenderizer is just another liberator for me at least

Yes,on PlayStation, the frame drop during meteor storms. It’s actually to the point where I avoid planets that have the effect.

Every time Tokiba posts a gameplay, balance dev: looks like that needs a nerf.

I guess it was „designed“ before the Liberator Buff (⬆️60dmg) and was meant to be more powerful in comparison to the Liberator.

What loadout is behind your back pls ? and your armor pls

Contrary to what people have been saying, the tenderizer is on par with the liberator. The problem is the baseline (liberator) needs to be raised further.

Liberator Pen with 45 round mag would be a useable rifle, on par with a Breaker close quarters and better for medium armored bugs 50m +.

Everytime I see quasar, I think damn the autocannon should pen charger armor a bit atleast so you can shoot it in the face and its still doing dammage.

Pummeler is not too bad, been testing it with shield against bots and as far as I'm concerned its a direct upgrade since I tap fire smg most of the time anyway.

Stalkers bully me hard if I don’t take a shield. Sometimes two nests will be right by one another and 4 will come at a time.

If the tenderizer had medium armor pen it be better. Or maybe at some point we get incendiary round weapons or something fun like that in an AR.

I think you'll need to compare the new booster to the old muscle enhancement to really see what difference it makes, I'm not sure it does much better if at all.

its like they shadow buff the stalkers to be more tanky aside from adjust their camo. Its legit hard to kill them nowadays

You were slowed quite a few times by those little acid spitters, at least 1 hunter and bile warriors. This map had thankfully few hunters and honestly it was your skill that avoided most slowing attacks. I'm not sure if that booster is doing what it says it's supposed to do.

Does the supply pack automatrically refill your ammo/grenades when all is exhausted? If not, what button do you press on PS5 to refill?

The adjudicator feels really good for an AR I really like it against bots now

I was just thinking about how they're gonna be putting out a new bond every month and the games gonna have a life cycle of over 5 years id guess so thats a shit load of guns there gonna have to make, idk how their gonna do it without having a bunch of similar weapons. 🤷‍♂️

I just wish we could sort armour by the warbond it was released in or by armour passive

After new patch my frames started dropping HARD on 7 with not allowing infinite breach loops, before patch never felt frames dropping no matter what was happening on the screen even with infinite loops on 9. So far has been happening only on missions with bile spewers

Used the Tenderizer when the Warbond came out, gun sounds nice, looks like a Battle Rifle, but acts like an 25% easier to handle Liberator with less damage, ammo, and fire rate. I took a look at the ejected casings which looked like a slightly larger caliber than 5.56, like what the Liberator seems to use, and also no medium pen, rip. Overall, gun feels cool, but delivers kinda poorly. Pummeler is just a better Liberator Concussive, that's it. It has 3 stats better the Lib Concuss when comparing. Incen 'nades and Incen Impacts are pretty much for those who wanna deal and run, and those who don't feel like waiting on a grenade fuse. Personally? Impacts dope af. I ran out on medals before I could even touch page 3 after making this post, so don't expect me knowing what the Purifier, and the Sub-Deagle feels like. Hope weapon modulation comes out relatively soon, cause some of these weapons need either drum mags, or better ammo.

it would be cool if you could dual wield redeemers as a primary or any pistols

The stalkers are OP. Their cloaking needs to return to what it was before the buff.

So as per usual with the warbonds, Two of them are literally just meh (i have not tested the new PLAS weapon or sidearm, but im hoping it will be fun. also i really love the impact incendiary, i can throw hot flames everywhere.

There is a lack of medium penatration assault rifles, this could have been one of them. (Or have an insanely high fire rate like the knight SMG)