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headsup regarding that, the fire rate seems to also depend on what you are hitting. hitting a bile titan lets u fire way more rapidly (as u see by the lines starting closer to the dot) than when firing small bugs
Question about that, do those quicker half charged shots actually do less dmg or do they have the same damage as the first fully charged shot? I’ve seen people insinuate that doing that does less damage and to kill bigger targets you want to spam fully charged shots, but idk if that’s true.
@@agedgouda8809 i would say if you're killing heavy enemies try to do full charged. From my experience, it does a little more damage. You'll barely notice it in the middle of a chaotic battlefield.
@@agedgouda8809 fully charged shots have more armor shred. thats why the use them against them. either to blow out the side of a titan or to blow open a leg on a charger.
Arc thrower is S tier against bugs. Bots not so much but the ability take out tanks, mobs, middle tier enemies, shielded enemies with it on bug maps is insane. It truly allows you to solo content at high level with ease.
I think it do be far to call it S tier but it seems to do good against anything under charger and Bile titan. The thing for me is that I just run cluster bomb stratagem and anything weaker than those aforementioned bug types are dead anyways. Unchecked chargers and Bile Titans can truly mess up a game, and it might require you if you take the Arc rifle to take Railcannon and 500kg stratagem or rely on your teamates in a way to heavy lift those particular types of bugs. Friendly fire potential is definitely a disadvantage by forcing you to not shoot/killing potentially teamates or forcing you or them to reposition. Its definitely a trade of burst damage for more sustained/constant damage output. With my limited runs with it, it seems to be bad at dealing when a threat is on you at very close range. Which might get you killed for it in some situations. Those are my reasons why I don't think its S tier. Fair if you do, I might test it more because I heard some things left and right about it. If anything, I think it might even deserve a buff.
@@alexandreparent5754If you can catch the bile titan as it's spawning, the arc tends to oneshot it in the jaw. You can also get a lucky (but inconsistent) shot that one shots it while chasing you or a teammate. But if it's already spawned, the odds of a one shot drop drastically to the point of it being better to use an orbital, nuke, or teammate's anti-tank solution. It's pretty decent on the bots, actually. It's able to kill striders, devastators, and commissars/rank and file grunts very easily. Tanks and cannons, you just need to be close enough to get the arc to line up, then it's only a matter of time before it dies. Hulks... are better for your team to deal with, but in a pinch you can bring them down with the arc thrower. But given that the hulk is the ONLY target you struggle with on the bots.. that's pretty good odds when stratagems exist to obliterate said hulks.
Automatons is a whole different beast. Just got pinned down earlier today by 3 tanks and 2 towers. I was prone waiting for them to circle me and hopefully get better positioning. There is no way you can defend against armor with the arc gun or anything other than a railgun. Long story short, i got my ass handed to me. Litteral conga lines of robots chasing each one of us i kept getting getting blown up by tanks and hulks or getting dog piled by like 10 chainsaw robots.
Against automatons, hide behind cover, peek in and out just a little bit. The arc curves around the cover so as long as there are no enemies behind you, you'll melt them automatons. Not recommended against tanks but it can take out everything else, even the cannons and the mortars.
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@@cannibalraptor It's even good on robots. You can reliably engage anything short of a hulk. Yes, even tanks. Because if you get at an angle the tank can't hit, a handful of blasts will kill it. Same with the cannons and mortars. Hulks are the ONLY thing that take long enough for it to be better to have a stratagem or teammate involved. Devastators can be a bit troublesome, but if you avoid the missiles and can get away from the gatling lasers, they're easy enough to knock out. Even works on striders - two shots on average, though RNG can make it 3-4 if you're not lucky. Funny enough, this same logic applies to bile titans. If you get lucky and it arcs into the jaw (easier when it first spawns and is exiting the ground), it one shots them.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who has tried the arc thrower with the jump pack. Being able to charge it while you fly is great, then you can fire as soon as you land, once you’ve created enough distance
@@Mac-po1sr Honestly, my favorite combo is both. I use the arc thrower, and if I've got a railgun buddy we literally cover each other's weaknesses. (S)he has limited ammo, and needs to pick their shots. I have infinite ammo and can fight anything, but specialize in light and medium armor. I struggle with chargers, bile titans (unless lucky one shot hit while it's spawning), hulks, and potentially awkward angle'd missile devastators or machine gun devastators (more damage than i can reliably tank with the shield in the time it takes to kill). Their rail gun is literally designed for this purpose, able to one shot hulks, devastators, bile titans, two shot chargers.. (with secondary/primary fire, of course). You notice I left out tanks, cannons, and mortars. This is because if I get close enough, they are dead vehicles walking. But, if they are beyond my range of engagement, that is when the railgun comes into play. We share this burden.
Since the arc thrower can damage everything in the game and has infinite ammo, your main concern is managing the enemy so you don't get overwhelmed. EMS and EMS mortar can help a lot with maximizing the arc thrower's damage output. Bile titans generally shouldn't be engaged. There is probably a railgunner or someone with heavy stratagems in the team that needs help clearing smaller targets so they can kill that big guy. For chargers, I recommend only shooting it enough to break its armor, then switching to the scorcher or throwing an impact grenade at the damaged spot to kill as quickly as possible. Spending a lot of time on any one target reduces the effectiveness, so focus on weakening things to let your team members finish the job or use a different weapon for high dps when bypassing armor is no longer needed.
That's why it's always good to bring the jetpack to go with the arc thrower. When your position gets overrun fly to a rock. Or use the breaker. I rarely use shotguns because they're so ammo consuming but with the arc gun you only need it for close quarters. If you maintain mid range combat the arc can clear everything, eventually
Fun fact. If you can hit the bile titan while it's first spawning, or from above (i know good luck with that), the arc can hit it in the mouth. If this happens, it one shots the bile titan. I'd wager it's about a 75% chance when it's first spawned, and pure luck and chance once it's already chasing you. But it never hurts to fire a hail mary shot or two at one that's just spawning in the hopes that you get that sweet titan obliteration arc.
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I tend to bring the heavy hitters for stratagems since the arc thrower is so good for hordes. Beefy chargers, biles, hulks, tanks, etc get the orbital railgun, rocket pods, 500kg etc to kill or soften. Don’t really need a cluster bomb when your arc can do that in a couple shots and if they get close just pop them with a slugger/breaker.
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I need to thank you for showing me the power of the arc thrower, i've managed to get freaking 854 kills with the help of this delightfull machine of democracy delivery, looking foward to watch more content from you my man, for Super Earth!
I still have not tk'd once with it, if you know how to use it. it even arcs to the closest target which means aim at the farthest enemies from your team lol
I appreciate a fellow diver spreading the word around so we can get more Arc thrower's out and about. I've been vouching the thing a while - it's really good, you just need to learn the arcs.
Finally a video about the arc thrower with an actual compentent user, O7. Been telling people that they're sleeping on this weapon but they are brainwashed by all those videos saying to use the rail rifle only. I use it as my primary 90% of the time and basically nothing can touch me apart from other players' stratagems. It's an insane weapon that deserves more love.
there's a weird sweetspot on chargers and bile titans where if you're above them, you can shoot their upper back and explode their upper body armor in just a few shots. this leads to you killing a charger in under a dozen shots just with the arc thrower as it somehow hits their entire body and explodes both sides of their back, but bile titans will still take a long time. not sure how this works and it's extremely inconsistent, but you should notice armor breaking more often if you're above an enemy
Its just depends on the angle. If you hit them from the side, the sidearmor wil break. But the armor will eat up all dmg. For example. You need 8 hits on the head to kill ond on impossible. Even if you hit the Charger from the side several times before. You still need 8 shots to the head, to kill it.
You can also try to catch a bile while it's first spawning. If you do, there's a roughly 75% chance that you can take it out in 1-2 shots by getting a lucky mouth shot. If not.. stratagems or consult your local railgunner. Liberty rest your sorry soul.
In a world full of railgun this and breaker that im so glad people arw startujg to recognize the arc thrower, i started using this thing before i got the rail gun and been loving it and using it since. The armor ignore it has. The unlimited ammo, the ability ti kill 8 enemys in one shot. The rail gun is good but arc throwing is another level in my opinion
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Sick arc video, right now im reppin flamethrower on bugs and it can carry hard for a team. Flamers can kill everything charger and smaller though you would want to use strats to be efficient with chargers.
the arc thrower functions like a real firearm. if you treat it like a real firearm then you won't kill your teammates with it. always know what is beyond your target. in addition having done some testing it seems that the arc thrower will not arc at 90-degree angles. if your teammate is to the side of the bug you probably are safe to fire but in my experience it is best that you do not. I have also learned that the arc thrower does indeed deal more damage when fully charged however the damage is negligible if the enemy is up close. I would only really recommend fully charging the weapon at medium to long range engagements. there also seems to be a few bugs with the weapon when it will either not fire when firing at enemies on a slope or rarely if you are wearing a personal shield. although these bugs are inconsistent and depends on what range you are engaging the enemy
Note, if a small enemy is at your feet you will experience a great difficulty in hitting the enemy with the arc thrower. Furthermore if you aim at said enemy then the arc will travel into the ground and not hit other enemies. Therefore I recommend to only use it at long, medium and medium-close range.
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Something I noticed when i was using it and quickly incorporated into my gameplay. Aiming the Arc Thrower above the bile titan causes their back armour to crack earlier as the arcs hit that then it tears it apart quicker. Have had instances where i've saved teammate's lives who were running from titans by aiming above the titan in ADS, killing them in about a dozen shots maximum.
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I don't recommend just making cinematic gameplay, the information and claims in the video are what are driving the views. Find the hot topics to make videos about if you want repeats.
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If you didn't know, you can stand right under the Bile Titan and he won't be able to stomp on you. If you've blown up both his under sacs, he won't be able to spit. But I think for the demonstration you were avoiding that tactic to get basic shots off him.
I suspect that everyone knew about this, but still thanks for this wonderful advise. Yes i am aware of this blewing up it's sacks and he won't be able to spit.
Note Fellow Helldivers! If you have a scorcher Primary, impact grenades, autocannon or grenade launcher blow up the 2 green SACKs for bonus 50% damage to its total hp on a bile titan. Each SACK is 25% hp. The two green sacks under the armoured plating specifically the Thorax (chest) and the Abdomen (ass). If one of these green SACKs is destroyed it will no longer use its range attack and will try to melee you instead. Easiest way to dodge the melee attack is to approach it at a 45* degree angle with it facing you, to the right of the bile titan and sprint! It has 2 melee attacks, a fast homing impaling jab from its front right leg and a reckless short range fit with both front legs which more often than not helps you out more than it does the enemy! If you run to the left and bring yourself close to its right leg it will impale and 1 shot you. Run right when facing it and you should clear it everytime and stay alive. Good luck cadets! 👍
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your clip also a good tutorial for this gun. Might try this some time xD. Btw, I just saw you try to highlight friendly fire damage, if I understand correctly friendly fire damage from arc always 0. I even got killed by my friend using this and final report still show as 0 dmg. 😂😂😂
The dive button is probably the most broken. I have made it out of swarms like 25 deep just diving over and over while popping a stim. Just dont get hit by a heavy when diving because it tends to send you flying really far.
Had a 50 on my team last night who rocked this build. We was going zeus from up above with the pack and arc, only fried me once :D Love it! Good luck with the channel!
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By some pure luck, I have slay a titan with 3 to 4 shot of arc thrower. I used jetpack to jump on a high rock that around same hight as titan's face, so I start zapping direct land at its face, after zap it 3 or 4 shot I provoke the part destroy, at it head, thus killed its. I know it is me because other teammate were chasing by chargers so no time to railgun it. Arc thrower is such a funny weapon that even part destroy is semi-random too.
There have been more than a few times I've one to two shot Bile Titans as soon as they spawn in, usually when the arc hits them directly in the mouth or throat area. Other times it's like this, where they won't go down.
The sound, the range, and when it connects to other enemies... Everything is so satisfying... The only reason I don't use Arc Thrower is that I'm afraid of killing my fellow helldivers.
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Word of advice for video making, when the viewer's focus area is the center of the screen, putting important subtitles/commentary/notes on the side makes it incredibly hard to follow the video, especially with the subscribe popup. Don't be afraid to obscure the gameplay with text, it's the whole reason people are watching the video. Given it's a 3rd person game, the best place would be where subtitles usually are at the bottom center. You should also scale the font up to double the size, when it's centered it will also obey the rule of thirds and make it easier for viewers to keep track of everything happening on sceen. Hope it helps and thanks for sharing, didn't know about the rapid fire after full charge feature.
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Be wary of the terrain you're using this in. The arc thrower will hit and arc to trees and other anti democratic shrubbery, preventing hits on bugs or bots, so pick where you fight on forested planets. Also, corpses will give cover to bugs behind them, but you can aim your arc thrower above the corpse and often hit enemies behind it.
Nice guide, and situation awareness teammates. I love the arc thrower, it is a well mixed wit the plasma rifle, hopefully we get more weapon similar to arc thrower design. If my teammates are using weapons that are effective against heavy units, I often run with an arc thrower to preserve ammo.
This is my Playstyle soloing side objectives and i let my team do the main objectives. this is a very efficient way to complete all objectives in no time. This is great! Thank you for this Insightful comment! If you like the video please Subscribe and Stay tuned for more Videos
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I’ve had more fun with the arc thrower on high difficulty bug missions than anything else. dominator, arc thrower and guard dog is so far my fav setup. can eat hordes of bugs fully on my own, giving my teammates the space to lineup railgun shots or grab samples
Surprisingly, everything has its use. The “meta” is kinda a fallacy as the arc thrower and bypass almost every armor type and chain, the flamethrower is hilariously good at blocking bug breaches, I think the expendable rocket launchers are now considered more useful although idk what’s the general opinion.
The Arc Thrower is the Cousin of the FlameThrower. 6:01 When you are shooting your Thrower (Be it Flames or Voltage) and your teammates see it they know YOU are the frontline to get behind.
Idk if it’s a bug on PS5 but randomly almost every other shot or 3 shots the Arc Thrower will fire and just not go anywhere. You’ll see the “muzzle flash” for the lack of a better word and hear the firing sound effect but it won’t even fire anywhere. I don’t know if it’s a terrain issue or exclusive to PS5 but it makes it very inconsistent and annoying to use.
Someone commented here in the section that if anything that blocks your way like a decoration, grass, and corpse. Your arc will not fire even, if your reticle is at the enemy.
@@WayaliciousTV yeah I saw that but I’ve been on perfectly flat terrain with nothing between me and the targets from 20ft away and it would just not fire and hit several times back to back. It’s random
Good combo for it is Breacher Armor (six grenades come in handy), Jump Pack and Scorcher. For stratagems I prefer to bring 500kg for Titans and last stratagem is probably going to be EMS Strike fornmore control
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Fun fact. You missed one tech with the bile titan and arc thrower. If you are able to hit the jaw, it will one shot the bile titan. This is difficult to do from below, but if you target it from above (good luck), or when it first spawns and is leaving the ground, it happens very reliably. This means that if you see it spawning, you can take a chance shooting 2-3 shots and have what i'd wager is a.. 75% from experience? chance of it dying instantly. And if it doesn't, that's what your stratagems and teammates are for.
another bonus of the Arc , is atleast... in my games I've noticed that it has a low sound profile. So I get smaller amounts of bugs investigating when I fire it. Not sure if its just me though,
Great video. Excited to give this weapon another chance. I really like the subtitles style too, although some of the subtitles were too fast. I had to rewind and pause a few times. To catch the info. Slow 'em down a bit and you'll have nailed the subtitle presentation
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When you get used to the time it takes to charge and release, it becomes second nature. There's a sound cue you can listen for, and just .. again, when you use it enough you can 'feel' when it should be ready. Once in a while I'll misfire and waste a shot by not having it charged enough. But usually I can match the same pace in the video. As a fun fact, it's also good on bots if you have the shield generator. It makes light work for their grunt infantry, it one taps commissars even if they're flying at you in the air. It can kill striders in two shots from the front (sometimes 3-4 if you're unlucky, but they will go down). It can kill devastators in about 3 hits if the arc hits their eye, which can make short work of any missile devastator or gatling devastator that's focused on your team instead of you. It can kill tanks in a handful of shots which is easy to do if you have cover between it and you, or it's focused on someone else. It can also kill cannon turrets the same way, meaning if you're close enough they can be dispatched without any hassle as you're out of their range/firing arc. Same with automaton mortars. The only thing you 'can't' deal with is a hulk, as it will usually kill you long before that arc has done enough damage and/or because it's chasing a teammate, and firing at the hulk would zap your teammate. Thus, you need a teammate or a stratagem to bring those down. That's still a pretty good track record where only one enemy out of their entire arsenal poses any threat to you whatsoever.
Ah yes "basic" gaming instinct the thing that drives many people to eat as many rockets as I can fire at times but something for people to keep in mind. The ark can not go backwards from a target so your team should be safe so long as you are shooting at things past them. However remember how far to the sides the lightning travels since if the if enemy's are on the back half of the range any "friends" you have in between will be seen as a valid target first even if you are not aiming at them
I wouldnt mind using it but I just find it so annoying having to hold and release the mouse each time to fire, like a bow. Doing that a million times per mission is not ideal.. Would prefer if you just held down the button and it cycled automatically
7:04 you stopped using the arc to shoot the titan cuz the bodies were in the way, if you aim up the arc will connect to them at a slight downward angle, like you have a cone in front of you for it to connect, great video though I too am an arc main and this helped a lot, love the jetpack arc trooper look too ;)
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@@WayaliciousTV your vids convinced me to get it and I find myself enjoying the jet pack not as a jumping up or to something but jumping off cliffs and using its landing mechanism to take no fall damage, thanks I would've missed this if not for you
Always fully charge the attack against mid sized targets. It will behead them in one shot. 2 shots commanders to the head. But you dont need chargers to hit with fully charged attacks. Its 8 hits to the head regardless you charge it fully or not.
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I haven't been overly impressed with it. I did see it has an insanely long call in cd so i figured its good but seems thats cause the infinite ammo. Ill probably keep my flamer. Kills chargers pretty good as well as everything else.
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Taking out the two green sacks on the underside of the bile titan weakens it and makes it unable to vomit. Your shots didn't arc to destroy the sacks of the first Titan. I counted around 60 shots. They did arc to destroy the sacks on the second one. I counted around 30 shots. Interesting as I saw another player estimage that destroying the sacks reduces their health by approximately half. It would be interesting to know the minimum shots required to take one down when targetting the sacks first. Both sacks can be destroyed with a single impact grenade. Might make a valuable difference.
@@tylerchapman8856the point is to pair it with strategems that kill big targets or play with teammates who rock railgun, you focus mobs, they focus big targets, it's called strategy
@sillybugger3641 woòoowwwwww revolutionary strategy strategems for big enemies and a primary weapon for regular baddies... Noone has ever done that before... fucken clown lol
@@tylerchapman8856 Because it's a fast firing weapon with unlimited ammo and no overheat, and can damage multiple bile titans at once, meaning you could kill potentially 3 bile titans with a total of 56 shots.
its great when it works and doesn't decide "no I don't think I will" while you're trying to attack an enemy 5 meters in front of you with nothing in between you and it no walls no vegetation no nothing, the path is clean and the tesla cannon just...ain't firing
Arc Thrower is the secret OP weapon of HD2. Once you pick it up you'll stop rail gunning forever, and probably drop that wimpy shield pack too. To the Skys, Arc Divers!
The Anti Material Rifle is so good against automatons, I’d say it can compete with the railgun, or even wins because of the ammo capacity. Against bugs though, it can’t do anything against charger armour so the railgun wins there.
Yes, I am currently playing this with a macro that presses the left button for 800 milliseconds and releases it for 20. And continuously cycle as long as the button is pressed.
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I recommend bringing 110mm eagles to help with titans with this build rather than the 500kg
headsup regarding that, the fire rate seems to also depend on what you are hitting.
hitting a bile titan lets u fire way more rapidly (as u see by the lines starting closer to the dot) than when firing small bugs
Question about that, do those quicker half charged shots actually do less dmg or do they have the same damage as the first fully charged shot? I’ve seen people insinuate that doing that does less damage and to kill bigger targets you want to spam fully charged shots, but idk if that’s true.
@@agedgouda8809 i would say if you're killing heavy enemies try to do full charged.
From my experience, it does a little more damage. You'll barely notice it in the middle of a chaotic battlefield.
@@agedgouda8809 fully charged shots have more armor shred. thats why the use them against them.
either to blow out the side of a titan or to blow open a leg on a charger.
You mention the Bile Titan should die quicker on lower difficulties, but unless I'm mistaken enemy health doesn't change on lower difficulties.
True. Health is not an factor. Only enemy number, or especially numbers of harder enemies.
You are correct.
Devs confirmed that hp is the same only number of enemies increases.
but there are variants to the titan and charger with more armor
@@rexyoda Are you sure? Never seen a difference.
side note: you can blast open container doors with this weapon
Fr? Never knew that actually gonna have to try
@@Double0hTater slugger shotgun can do that too
Autocannon too - of course 😏
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The Laser Cannon can also do this.
Arc thrower is S tier against bugs. Bots not so much but the ability take out tanks, mobs, middle tier enemies, shielded enemies with it on bug maps is insane. It truly allows you to solo content at high level with ease.
I think it do be far to call it S tier but it seems to do good against anything under charger and Bile titan. The thing for me is that I just run cluster bomb stratagem and anything weaker than those aforementioned bug types are dead anyways. Unchecked chargers and Bile Titans can truly mess up a game, and it might require you if you take the Arc rifle to take Railcannon and 500kg stratagem or rely on your teamates in a way to heavy lift those particular types of bugs.
Friendly fire potential is definitely a disadvantage by forcing you to not shoot/killing potentially teamates or forcing you or them to reposition.
Its definitely a trade of burst damage for more sustained/constant damage output. With my limited runs with it, it seems to be bad at dealing when a threat is on you at very close range. Which might get you killed for it in some situations.
Those are my reasons why I don't think its S tier. Fair if you do, I might test it more because I heard some things left and right about it. If anything, I think it might even deserve a buff.
@@alexandreparent5754If you can catch the bile titan as it's spawning, the arc tends to oneshot it in the jaw. You can also get a lucky (but inconsistent) shot that one shots it while chasing you or a teammate.
But if it's already spawned, the odds of a one shot drop drastically to the point of it being better to use an orbital, nuke, or teammate's anti-tank solution.
It's pretty decent on the bots, actually. It's able to kill striders, devastators, and commissars/rank and file grunts very easily.
Tanks and cannons, you just need to be close enough to get the arc to line up, then it's only a matter of time before it dies.
Hulks... are better for your team to deal with, but in a pinch you can bring them down with the arc thrower. But given that the hulk is the ONLY target you struggle with on the bots.. that's pretty good odds when stratagems exist to obliterate said hulks.
Automatons is a whole different beast. Just got pinned down earlier today by 3 tanks and 2 towers. I was prone waiting for them to circle me and hopefully get better positioning. There is no way you can defend against armor with the arc gun or anything other than a railgun. Long story short, i got my ass handed to me. Litteral conga lines of robots chasing each one of us i kept getting getting blown up by tanks and hulks or getting dog piled by like 10 chainsaw robots.
Against automatons, hide behind cover, peek in and out just a little bit. The arc curves around the cover so as long as there are no enemies behind you, you'll melt them automatons. Not recommended against tanks but it can take out everything else, even the cannons and the mortars.
its great for both
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first thought as well
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Saw your earlier vid and tried it on difficulty 7 to practice. It's insane how you can point it at a bug breach and see the kilkstreak go 35+
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try it with ems orbital ontop of the bug breech, should be even better keeping them all in one spot
I tired it on difficulty 7 as well and it is extremely fun using it when a bug breach appears
@@cannibalraptor It's even good on robots. You can reliably engage anything short of a hulk. Yes, even tanks. Because if you get at an angle the tank can't hit, a handful of blasts will kill it. Same with the cannons and mortars. Hulks are the ONLY thing that take long enough for it to be better to have a stratagem or teammate involved.
Devastators can be a bit troublesome, but if you avoid the missiles and can get away from the gatling lasers, they're easy enough to knock out. Even works on striders - two shots on average, though RNG can make it 3-4 if you're not lucky. Funny enough, this same logic applies to bile titans. If you get lucky and it arcs into the jaw (easier when it first spawns and is exiting the ground), it one shots them.
I didn't realize it had that range. I've been using this all wrong. No wonder I've hated it.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who has tried the arc thrower with the jump pack. Being able to charge it while you fly is great, then you can fire as soon as you land, once you’ve created enough distance
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i love that thing bro i cant stop using it
Everyone talks about the rail gun but I'll take my trusty Arc thrower over that ammo hog any day.
@@Mac-po1sr Honestly, my favorite combo is both. I use the arc thrower, and if I've got a railgun buddy we literally cover each other's weaknesses. (S)he has limited ammo, and needs to pick their shots. I have infinite ammo and can fight anything, but specialize in light and medium armor.
I struggle with chargers, bile titans (unless lucky one shot hit while it's spawning), hulks, and potentially awkward angle'd missile devastators or machine gun devastators (more damage than i can reliably tank with the shield in the time it takes to kill).
Their rail gun is literally designed for this purpose, able to one shot hulks, devastators, bile titans, two shot chargers.. (with secondary/primary fire, of course).
You notice I left out tanks, cannons, and mortars. This is because if I get close enough, they are dead vehicles walking. But, if they are beyond my range of engagement, that is when the railgun comes into play. We share this burden.
I don't wanna stand near you bro... 😂
@@Kecapsoya You need not stand near us, merely with us. Preferably behind us. (lol)
@@krel7160 that make more sense
Since the arc thrower can damage everything in the game and has infinite ammo, your main concern is managing the enemy so you don't get overwhelmed. EMS and EMS mortar can help a lot with maximizing the arc thrower's damage output. Bile titans generally shouldn't be engaged. There is probably a railgunner or someone with heavy stratagems in the team that needs help clearing smaller targets so they can kill that big guy. For chargers, I recommend only shooting it enough to break its armor, then switching to the scorcher or throwing an impact grenade at the damaged spot to kill as quickly as possible. Spending a lot of time on any one target reduces the effectiveness, so focus on weakening things to let your team members finish the job or use a different weapon for high dps when bypassing armor is no longer needed.
That's why it's always good to bring the jetpack to go with the arc thrower. When your position gets overrun fly to a rock. Or use the breaker. I rarely use shotguns because they're so ammo consuming but with the arc gun you only need it for close quarters. If you maintain mid range combat the arc can clear everything, eventually
Fun fact. If you can hit the bile titan while it's first spawning, or from above (i know good luck with that), the arc can hit it in the mouth. If this happens, it one shots the bile titan. I'd wager it's about a 75% chance when it's first spawned, and pure luck and chance once it's already chasing you. But it never hurts to fire a hail mary shot or two at one that's just spawning in the hopes that you get that sweet titan obliteration arc.
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Scorcher was awful weapon against bugs, but then I decided to use it with Arc Thrower..
I tend to bring the heavy hitters for stratagems since the arc thrower is so good for hordes. Beefy chargers, biles, hulks, tanks, etc get the orbital railgun, rocket pods, 500kg etc to kill or soften. Don’t really need a cluster bomb when your arc can do that in a couple shots and if they get close just pop them with a slugger/breaker.
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I'm gaining a fondness for the ARC thrower... my team mates on the other hand are acquiring a fear.
Yeah ikr, but don't fear my friends we're the arc vets 😅
This video was so well prepared! Appreciate it man and keep it up
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I need to thank you for showing me the power of the arc thrower, i've managed to get freaking 854 kills with the help of this delightfull machine of democracy delivery, looking foward to watch more content from you my man, for Super Earth!
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Truly amazing how easy it is to kill your whole team with this. Gantzthedemon would be proud.
Its pretty easy not to wdym
I still have not tk'd once with it, if you know how to use it. it even arcs to the closest target which means aim at the farthest enemies from your team lol
pretty good weapon if u onow how to use it without killing ur teamates
Bro I heard he got doxxed and received death threats to him and his family. Don’t know if it’s true tho
@@XxRDZ15xX wouldn't be surprised
I appreciate a fellow diver spreading the word around so we can get more Arc thrower's out and about.
I've been vouching the thing a while - it's really good, you just need to learn the arcs.
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Your videos are absolute gold to learning this game. May the Terminids and Automatons know true pain!
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Finally a video about the arc thrower with an actual compentent user, O7. Been telling people that they're sleeping on this weapon but they are brainwashed by all those videos saying to use the rail rifle only. I use it as my primary 90% of the time and basically nothing can touch me apart from other players' stratagems. It's an insane weapon that deserves more love.
Awesome vid mate. Again showing the community that the railgun isn't everything
there's a weird sweetspot on chargers and bile titans where if you're above them, you can shoot their upper back and explode their upper body armor in just a few shots. this leads to you killing a charger in under a dozen shots just with the arc thrower as it somehow hits their entire body and explodes both sides of their back, but bile titans will still take a long time. not sure how this works and it's extremely inconsistent, but you should notice armor breaking more often if you're above an enemy
Its just depends on the angle. If you hit them from the side, the sidearmor wil break. But the armor will eat up all dmg. For example. You need 8 hits on the head to kill ond on impossible. Even if you hit the Charger from the side several times before. You still need 8 shots to the head, to kill it.
You can also try to catch a bile while it's first spawning. If you do, there's a roughly 75% chance that you can take it out in 1-2 shots by getting a lucky mouth shot. If not.. stratagems or consult your local railgunner. Liberty rest your sorry soul.
those armor breaks on the back causes bleeds, which helps the time to kill, but you could also outrun it and let the bleed do the slow, but sure, work
In a world full of railgun this and breaker that im so glad people arw startujg to recognize the arc thrower, i started using this thing before i got the rail gun and been loving it and using it since. The armor ignore it has. The unlimited ammo, the ability ti kill 8 enemys in one shot. The rail gun is good but arc throwing is another level in my opinion
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Really enjoy the video, be sure to remember to add an extra 10 15 seconds of something after the last part of the video we need to build a c. Because all the tiles that pop up on the screen block out the content. For instance in this video I can't read the majority of the numbers on the stat screen because the tiles showing other CZcams videos are covering it. If you had an extra 5 or 10 seconds of just an outro slide the tiles will then only cover that part.
Man thank you! This is very helpful tho! I'll do better outro next timee.
Love the text styles, hope to see more of your videos ❤
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I use to call it "the shaver" back when I had ps5 haptic feedback on, it sounded like a barber's electric shaver.
Thanks for the info :) btw i love the editing and the way you present your information is my favorite style. Keep at it
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The new ark users be blastin erryone , helldivers included
I feel like a short range ark "spray" would be cool as an alternate fire mode
Already confirmed as an upcoming weapon.
Sick arc video, right now im reppin flamethrower on bugs and it can carry hard for a team. Flamers can kill everything charger and smaller though you would want to use strats to be efficient with chargers.
the arc thrower functions like a real firearm. if you treat it like a real firearm then you won't kill your teammates with it. always know what is beyond your target. in addition having done some testing it seems that the arc thrower will not arc at 90-degree angles. if your teammate is to the side of the bug you probably are safe to fire but in my experience it is best that you do not. I have also learned that the arc thrower does indeed deal more damage when fully charged however the damage is negligible if the enemy is up close. I would only really recommend fully charging the weapon at medium to long range engagements.
there also seems to be a few bugs with the weapon when it will either not fire when firing at enemies on a slope or rarely if you are wearing a personal shield. although these bugs are inconsistent and depends on what range you are engaging the enemy
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as someone who hasnt gotten killed by one yet ill take your word for it
Most of the time
It definitely does 90 degree arcs.
@@NuclearBongFrom my experience it doesn’t. Shooting on single enemies with my teammates on the its sides, it didn’t bounce on them
Note, if a small enemy is at your feet you will experience a great difficulty in hitting the enemy with the arc thrower. Furthermore if you aim at said enemy then the arc will travel into the ground and not hit other enemies.
Therefore I recommend to only use it at long, medium and medium-close range.
This is a very well done tutorial, share so that all Helldivers may know of its glory.
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Yo man. Just found this channel. Thanks for showing me this cool weapon i didnt know it could be utilized like this. Cool videos. I like your channel im gonna sub im excited for more helldivers content
Something I noticed when i was using it and quickly incorporated into my gameplay. Aiming the Arc Thrower above the bile titan causes their back armour to crack earlier as the arcs hit that then it tears it apart quicker. Have had instances where i've saved teammate's lives who were running from titans by aiming above the titan in ADS, killing them in about a dozen shots maximum.
Underrated weapon, personally I love it
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I don't recommend just making cinematic gameplay, the information and claims in the video are what are driving the views. Find the hot topics to make videos about if you want repeats.
@@Wurps If it means more people use the Arc Thrower and a marginally notable less amount of accidental chain shocking then the information is keen.
@@Wurps of course if I'll be doing cinematic gameplay. That would be another topic and different than this one.
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I found this video to be informative and straightforward.
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If you didn't know, you can stand right under the Bile Titan and he won't be able to stomp on you. If you've blown up both his under sacs, he won't be able to spit.
But I think for the demonstration you were avoiding that tactic to get basic shots off him.
I suspect that everyone knew about this, but still thanks for this wonderful advise.
Yes i am aware of this blewing up it's sacks and he won't be able to spit.
I'm getting Jurassic Park on Sega Genesis vibes from this. If you know, you know.
Note Fellow Helldivers! If you have a scorcher Primary, impact grenades, autocannon or grenade launcher blow up the 2 green SACKs for bonus 50% damage to its total hp on a bile titan.
Each SACK is 25% hp.
The two green sacks under the armoured plating specifically the Thorax (chest) and the Abdomen (ass).
If one of these green SACKs is destroyed it will no longer use its range attack and will try to melee you instead. Easiest way to dodge the melee attack is to approach it at a 45* degree angle with it facing you, to the right of the bile titan and sprint!
It has 2 melee attacks, a fast homing impaling jab from its front right leg and a reckless short range fit with both front legs which more often than not helps you out more than it does the enemy!
If you run to the left and bring yourself close to its right leg it will impale and 1 shot you. Run right when facing it and you should clear it everytime and stay alive.
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your clip also a good tutorial for this gun. Might try this some time xD.
Btw, I just saw you try to highlight friendly fire damage, if I understand correctly friendly fire damage from arc always 0.
I even got killed by my friend using this and final report still show as 0 dmg. 😂😂😂
58-60 shots with the arc thrower, counted them but I am upping the number to 60 to make sure
The dive button is probably the most broken. I have made it out of swarms like 25 deep just diving over and over while popping a stim. Just dont get hit by a heavy when diving because it tends to send you flying really far.
Had a 50 on my team last night who rocked this build. We was going zeus from up above with the pack and arc, only fried me once :D
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By some pure luck, I have slay a titan with 3 to 4 shot of arc thrower. I used jetpack to jump on a high rock that around same hight as titan's face, so I start zapping direct land at its face, after zap it 3 or 4 shot I provoke the part destroy, at it head, thus killed its. I know it is me because other teammate were chasing by chargers so no time to railgun it. Arc thrower is such a funny weapon that even part destroy is semi-random too.
Do you think you could make a short vids ab your setting your game looks good and btw nice vids as always keep it up💪
There have been more than a few times I've one to two shot Bile Titans as soon as they spawn in, usually when the arc hits them directly in the mouth or throat area. Other times it's like this, where they won't go down.
along with the jumpack strategem, you can be a real Shock Trooper with that set up XD
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I love the arc thrower, lightning guns in any game are always awsome
The sound, the range, and when it connects to other enemies... Everything is so satisfying...
The only reason I don't use Arc Thrower is that I'm afraid of killing my fellow helldivers.
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thank you for teaching me that there are other weapons to use other then the railgun
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Don't be afraid to obscure the gameplay with text, it's the whole reason people are watching the video. Given it's a 3rd person game, the best place would be where subtitles usually are at the bottom center. You should also scale the font up to double the size, when it's centered it will also obey the rule of thirds and make it easier for viewers to keep track of everything happening on sceen.
Hope it helps and thanks for sharing, didn't know about the rapid fire after full charge feature.
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Generally try to keep anything you need people to read in the same spot as their eyes are going to be drawn there whenever something changes. So keeping the subscribe bar in the same spot definitely works, just so long as you leave enough time between readable text for people to shift focus form reading mode to watching gameplay (usually around 5 seconds of nothing), then use your subscribe popup, then at least another 5 seconds before readable text again.
Helps to just make the video easier to watch and keep a consistent pacing.
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Very good video, simple and to the point.
Looks fun!
Be wary of the terrain you're using this in. The arc thrower will hit and arc to trees and other anti democratic shrubbery, preventing hits on bugs or bots, so pick where you fight on forested planets. Also, corpses will give cover to bugs behind them, but you can aim your arc thrower above the corpse and often hit enemies behind it.
Nice guide, and situation awareness teammates. I love the arc thrower, it is a well mixed wit the plasma rifle, hopefully we get more weapon similar to arc thrower design. If my teammates are using weapons that are effective against heavy units, I often run with an arc thrower to preserve ammo.
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I was able to solo side objectives for my whole team while they did the main objectives. The Arc Thrower is great.
This is my Playstyle soloing side objectives and i let my team do the main objectives. this is a very efficient way to complete all objectives in no time.
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I just had a full coordinated arc and rover squad. It was beautiful.
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Use it hipfire for extra mobility and awareness as long as you got the hipfire reticle setting on.
I love the bug zapper, works well on bots too with a shield backpack
Arc is especially great when one or two guys have it in the team to deal with hordes of small mobs, while the railgun guys focus on the big bugs.
Well, I have to try this!
I’ve had more fun with the arc thrower on high difficulty bug missions than anything else. dominator, arc thrower and guard dog is so far my fav setup. can eat hordes of bugs fully on my own, giving my teammates the space to lineup railgun shots or grab samples
Surprisingly, everything has its use. The “meta” is kinda a fallacy as the arc thrower and bypass almost every armor type and chain, the flamethrower is hilariously good at blocking bug breaches, I think the expendable rocket launchers are now considered more useful although idk what’s the general opinion.
The Arc Thrower is the Cousin of the FlameThrower.
6:01
When you are shooting your Thrower (Be it Flames or Voltage) and your teammates see it they know YOU are the frontline to get behind.
Idk if it’s a bug on PS5 but randomly almost every other shot or 3 shots the Arc Thrower will fire and just not go anywhere.
You’ll see the “muzzle flash” for the lack of a better word and hear the firing sound effect but it won’t even fire anywhere.
I don’t know if it’s a terrain issue or exclusive to PS5 but it makes it very inconsistent and annoying to use.
Someone commented here in the section that if anything that blocks your way like a decoration, grass, and corpse.
Your arc will not fire even, if your reticle is at the enemy.
@@WayaliciousTV yeah I saw that but I’ve been on perfectly flat terrain with nothing between me and the targets from 20ft away and it would just not fire and hit several times back to back. It’s random
Good combo for it is Breacher Armor (six grenades come in handy), Jump Pack and Scorcher. For stratagems I prefer to bring 500kg for Titans and last stratagem is probably going to be EMS Strike fornmore control
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The HP of the monsters on lower difficulty does not effect.
Only the numbers of the enemies, numbers of objectives are affected.
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Fun fact. You missed one tech with the bile titan and arc thrower. If you are able to hit the jaw, it will one shot the bile titan. This is difficult to do from below, but if you target it from above (good luck), or when it first spawns and is leaving the ground, it happens very reliably. This means that if you see it spawning, you can take a chance shooting 2-3 shots and have what i'd wager is a.. 75% from experience? chance of it dying instantly. And if it doesn't, that's what your stratagems and teammates are for.
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Finally the arc thrower is getting the spotlight its low key overpowered
another bonus of the Arc , is atleast... in my games I've noticed that it has a low sound profile. So I get smaller amounts of bugs investigating when I fire it. Not sure if its just me though,
Great video. Excited to give this weapon another chance. I really like the subtitles style too, although some of the subtitles were too fast. I had to rewind and pause a few times. To catch the info. Slow 'em down a bit and you'll have nailed the subtitle presentation
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Arc Thrower is great against bugs. But I wonder how you manage to charge it so fast.
When you get used to the time it takes to charge and release, it becomes second nature. There's a sound cue you can listen for, and just .. again, when you use it enough you can 'feel' when it should be ready. Once in a while I'll misfire and waste a shot by not having it charged enough. But usually I can match the same pace in the video.
As a fun fact, it's also good on bots if you have the shield generator. It makes light work for their grunt infantry, it one taps commissars even if they're flying at you in the air. It can kill striders in two shots from the front (sometimes 3-4 if you're unlucky, but they will go down). It can kill devastators in about 3 hits if the arc hits their eye, which can make short work of any missile devastator or gatling devastator that's focused on your team instead of you. It can kill tanks in a handful of shots which is easy to do if you have cover between it and you, or it's focused on someone else. It can also kill cannon turrets the same way, meaning if you're close enough they can be dispatched without any hassle as you're out of their range/firing arc. Same with automaton mortars. The only thing you 'can't' deal with is a hulk, as it will usually kill you long before that arc has done enough damage and/or because it's chasing a teammate, and firing at the hulk would zap your teammate. Thus, you need a teammate or a stratagem to bring those down. That's still a pretty good track record where only one enemy out of their entire arsenal poses any threat to you whatsoever.
Ah yes "basic" gaming instinct the thing that drives many people to eat as many rockets as I can fire at times but something for people to keep in mind. The ark can not go backwards from a target so your team should be safe so long as you are shooting at things past them. However remember how far to the sides the lightning travels since if the if enemy's are on the back half of the range any "friends" you have in between will be seen as a valid target first even if you are not aiming at them
I wouldnt mind using it but I just find it so annoying having to hold and release the mouse each time to fire, like a bow. Doing that a million times per mission is not ideal.. Would prefer if you just held down the button and it cycled automatically
7:04 you stopped using the arc to shoot the titan cuz the bodies were in the way, if you aim up the arc will connect to them at a slight downward angle, like you have a cone in front of you for it to connect, great video though I too am an arc main and this helped a lot, love the jetpack arc trooper look too ;)
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Arc Thrower + Jetpack is insanely good to outmaneuver the enemies.
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@@WayaliciousTV your vids convinced me to get it and I find myself enjoying the jet pack not as a jumping up or to something but jumping off cliffs and using its landing mechanism to take no fall damage, thanks I would've missed this if not for you
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Always fully charge the attack against mid sized targets. It will behead them in one shot. 2 shots commanders to the head. But you dont need chargers to hit with fully charged attacks. Its 8 hits to the head regardless you charge it fully or not.
major tips
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idk if other helmets does it, but i love wearing that white helmet because i can turn into vader when it becomes dirty from alien blood and stuff 😂
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Flamethrower supremacy.
Just tried this and it doesn't tar certain parts like charger legs. It's just not good especially taking 20 minutes to take down 1 titan
Sometimes it doesn't hit targets when there is some rocks near the enemy
I haven't been overly impressed with it. I did see it has an insanely long call in cd so i figured its good but seems thats cause the infinite ammo. Ill probably keep my flamer. Kills chargers pretty good as well as everything else.
Any tips on the flame thrower, found one at a bunker once but didn’t do very well with it
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"thats a basic gaming instinct" lmao
One thing I noticed is the Titan takes more damage if you hit the head when it spews. Took around 6 hits to kill it.
apparantly bile titans have a incredibly weakspot on their head when they''re spitting.
Taking out the two green sacks on the underside of the bile titan weakens it and makes it unable to vomit. Your shots didn't arc to destroy the sacks of the first Titan. I counted around 60 shots. They did arc to destroy the sacks on the second one. I counted around 30 shots. Interesting as I saw another player estimage that destroying the sacks reduces their health by approximately half. It would be interesting to know the minimum shots required to take one down when targetting the sacks first. Both sacks can be destroyed with a single impact grenade. Might make a valuable difference.
I counted 56 shot to kill the bile titan on helldiver difficulty.
Lol right.. how is that good?
@@tylerchapman8856the point is to pair it with strategems that kill big targets or play with teammates who rock railgun, you focus mobs, they focus big targets, it's called strategy
@sillybugger3641 woòoowwwwww revolutionary strategy strategems for big enemies and a primary weapon for regular baddies... Noone has ever done that before... fucken clown lol
@@tylerchapman8856 Because it's a fast firing weapon with unlimited ammo and no overheat, and can damage multiple bile titans at once, meaning you could kill potentially 3 bile titans with a total of 56 shots.
@@thescruffinator8830 I'm not saying it's bad.. it's just like w.e in comparison. Me and my buddy can take out a bike titan in about 4 seconds
its great
when it works and doesn't decide "no I don't think I will" while you're trying to attack an enemy 5 meters in front of you with nothing in between you and it
no walls no vegetation no nothing, the path is clean and the tesla cannon just...ain't firing
my only complaint is that it should sound cooler. like a high pitch iron man repulsor charge up like sound and then a Force lightning sound.
Good man
Arc Thrower is the secret OP weapon of HD2. Once you pick it up you'll stop rail gunning forever, and probably drop that wimpy shield pack too.
To the Skys, Arc Divers!
I’ve been using the Anti Material Rifle against the Automatons just to be a bit different and it 2 shot a Hulk if you aim for the head
The Anti Material Rifle is so good against automatons, I’d say it can compete with the railgun, or even wins because of the ammo capacity. Against bugs though, it can’t do anything against charger armour so the railgun wins there.
57 arc shots, or 3 railgun shots. I'll stick with railgun for the bile titans.
Arc looks like a clean up gun for small guys
This didn’t age well lol.
@@applinarcus new rail still isn't 57 shots.
Real question i sthere anyway to autofire? so you hold it down and it just fires and fires?
I hold it down first, and after that you can now fire with half charge simultaneously
Yes, I am currently playing this with a macro that presses the left button for 800 milliseconds and releases it for 20. And continuously cycle as long as the button is pressed.
wait so you dont need to wait for it to fully charge?
Fire it once then you can quick cast