The Stalwart offers many of the advantages you may expect from a good video game assault rifle. It’s accurate, it is effective from various ranges, and it’s respectably powerful. What makes the Stalwart really special, though, is its optional high rate of fire modes. When cranked up to its max rate of fire setting, the Stalwart becomes a classic bullet hose that can mow down most bugs and even give bots something to think about.
3. SG-225 Breaker
Generally speaking, it’s hard to love Helldivers 2’s shotguns. They’re pretty slow, they don’t have the range you’re usually looking for, and they just lack a lot of flash in terms of specialty functionality. So what is the Breaker doing all the way up here near the top of the list?
Well, the Breaker is an exception ot a lot of rules. Not only does it boast a higher rate of fire than the other shotguns, but it packs a much tighter spread than most of the other shotguns in the game. That combination of improvements not only makes it easier to use the Breaker against waves of tightly packed enemies, but it makes the Breaker especially effective against enemies that are typically too close for comfort. When you reach the point of the game when even basic enemies start to boast absurdly high health pools, you may find that you simply need the Breaker to kill them with the amount of ammo typically available to you.
2. SMG-37 Defender
The SMG-37 Defender isn’t necessarily presented as a strict upgrade to the Liberator, but that’s essentially what it is. That also makes it the sometimes objectively better version of one of the best guns in the game.
Despite being classified as an SMG, the Defender boasts a respectable firing range to go along with its incredible range of fire and shocking per-bullet power. It’s one of the better hipfire weapons in the game, and it’s viable against all but the largest bugs and bots. Maybe there are more exciting or better specialty weapons in the game, but the SMG-37 Defender is almost always your best go-to option.
1. Railgun
If Helldivers 2 were a competitive multiplayer game, the Railgun would be a problem. It’s not just arguably overpowered, but it’s really one of the only guns in the game that properly fulfills an especially valuable purpose: killing the toughest foes in Helldivers 2 with relative safety and ease.
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