What’s the most effective gun in Helldivers 2? Excellent news, you may cease desperately testing each hand-cannon the sport has to supply, as a result of Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has revealed that all your efforts are literally fairly pointless.
Yep, regardless of how eager you’re to maximise your firepower the following time you soar right into a battle as harmful as these fought over Malevelon Creek and Mort earlier this week, don’t begin evaluating numbers together with your mates. I repeat, DO NOT slam open an incredible massive spreadsheet and begin inputting issues like harm values in a way your maths trainer may be pleased with, soldier!
Responding to a bunch of gamers throughout each Helldivers 2’s Reddit and Discord hives, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has taken to Twitter to disclose that the most effective gun to make use of within the recreation is definitely simply “the one you want probably the most”.
Why? Nicely, principally it’s as a result of there are extra components at play when it comes to what really makes a weapon in Helldivers 2 good than the three or 4 stats that’re really displayed in-game. Sure, a online game won’t be telling you the entire fact and sneakily hiding issues from you, the participant. You need to undoubtedly write to your native politician about this.
“With reference to [Helldivers 2’s] weapon stats,” Pilestedt defined, “So a lot of you employ the 4 stats we present as comparability, whereas every gun has possibly 50 stats in whole. The numbers are a tenet however [do] not paint a whole image.” That’s proper, just like the tenets of the code within the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, they’re simply pointers!
So, no extra delving into the official Discord to faucet a dev or group supervisor on the shoulder and cheekily ask what the meta is, or what the following balancing patch will do to your favorite rifle. No extra Reddit threads the place you argue that the shotgun you presently occur to have outfitted is definitely secretly the most effective one for powerful missions, you swear, actually, cease underestimating it of us, you’re lacking out.
Simply use the boomy stick that you just assume’s cool. Play based mostly purely on vibes and common pictures of democracy roleplay injected straight into your frontal lobe.
Abandon stats, embrace enjoyable.
Additionally, in case you’re factor about shopping for Helldivers 2 for the primary time right this moment through Steam, be sure to verify that the sport you are shopping for is definitely, you realize, Helldivers 2.
