Helldivers 2 Testing the New Airburst Rocket Launcher 

Bingo. It's not AA either. I see idiots saying it's for flying stuff

@@DontThinkso-kb9tc Well it is, that's also an effective use for it. the cluster bombs have a short fuse and detonate midair so it is effectively an AA weapon if you want it to be.

@@DontThinkso-kb9tc air burst rounds is a type of anti air rounds used in real life they just made it into a rocket and it has a censor so once the rocket get close it doesn’t hit the target on impact it lets off all its bumbs a little distance away so yes it’s is anti air I just think the bot drops have less week spots unlike the gun ship wear you can shoot it’s sides in drop it. And rocks and trees can set of the censor that’s why you see it exploding close to him when he shoots it keep your distance and aim up with it

​@@DontThinkso-kb9tc why wouldn't it work for antiair considering one of airburst munition's primary uses is damaging aircraft?

@@DontThinkso-kb9tc i mean... the weapon specifically doing air aoe oneshotting all the flying non transport ships (also clusters of shrikers) isn't an anti air weapon?

Said in one breath

*evil laugh *

sounds oddly treasonous of you

helldivers are expendable, as long as the mission is done liberty is all that matters.

Its just a Strat version of the clusterbomb, which is still one of the best strats in the game. Effective at ending life whose ever it is

It has a proximity fuse. It will explode when anything is near, be it an enemy, a rock, a bush or a flying bug. That's why it's recommended to shoot it into the air or from a higher vantage point, so that it can fly unobstructed towards the target.

Or a helldiver, stick, rock, bug, fog, etc

I also don't think and airburst should be pointed directly at ground targets lol

@@mattpatterson4627Fog is fin to shoot in it's to small to register but the rest could be a problem

It's in the name "AIR-BURST"!!!!!

Yeah this thing is trash

No lol, its quite good. People are just trying to use this like a normal anti tank weapon lol

@@Staladus except it isn't good. I just used it for crowds of small enemies and it barely is able to kill them. It's not worth taking up a backpack slot for a weapon that can't take out armored enemies or small enemies

@@BoglinZilla idk how youre using it, but I can take out entire patrols with it

@@Staladus You can't though. And the only bots it can one shot are the small ones. It can't one shot a bezerker or anything larger

Sty is not smart.

Exactly this

then why did they make it available only on a bot planet lol

@@LordDragox412 no fr and then calling the weapon trash against units its not ment for

He’s not using it right that’s why he thinks it bad

When you play with it, it will explode in your face like 33% of the time, I don't get it. Shooting it in the air doesn't fool proof it it exploded on me shooting it above enemies so idk

the best part is when people are using the AIRburst rocket launcher for ground troops and then is calling it trash :/

@@jhonatanmendez9835airburst just means the rocket explodes before impact, sending a “burst” of shrapnel through the “air”. Has nothing to do with whether a target is airborne/grounded

​@@jhonatanmendez9835airbursts are for ground targets you dolt

@@Eternal_Tinsel no, but if you aim an AIRBURST in FRONT of you instead of in front and ABOVE the target, you have used it incorrectly. it's not an actual rocket launcher. The use is in the name.

are they out on bug planets rn?

@@pole8740 Not yet, gotta liberate ponta first, untill then its free to use for everyone on ponta.

If you fire it in the air, it doesn’t explode. If you fire it at the ground, it explodes in your face. Definitely not choosing that planet.

Ah Yes, the long cooldown support weapon that ideal for one type of enemy in the game at the moment. And that one type of enemy may not even spawn in missions, if they spwan u done right they'll stop spawning make sense.

@@dr.wigglerthey can also be used for swarms not just flying enemies

more precision.... or less?

You would think it was good against medium armor, but you are wrong. It does dick all against devastators.

Airburst does not imply anti-air. If anything, it would imply air-to-ground bombs detonated just short of the surface to maximise the destructive force by pushing the pressure of the explosion to the ground.

@@whiteninja2006a man of culture I see; you know your ordnance my friend. 🙃

@@whiteninja2006 Looking at it more, I assume it's intended to be like the XM25 where you fire it over cover to blow up enemies that you couldn't reach normally.

Nah. That wont happen. The community is doing exactly what Helldivers do: Low IQ wave tactics against an objective. We are getting the launcher, yet another support weapon with a backpack, to compete with the 300 other support weapons. I'd rather keep the Autocannon or the Recoiless. They both are far more versatile than this thing.

I’ve always wanted something for just eliminating an entire patrol from across the map, it’s fun to use and it’s effective at clearing all the small bots that would call a bot-drop, and I imagine it’ll be great against bugs

I’d vote 25m. But yeah, it should arm after it’s left the launcher rather than immediately upon firing. Makes it extremely situational and volatile.

people just hate Mekent, at least I do, we have had enough fire tornadoes on Hellmire...

​@@isabell9081Yeah half the reason I dont push for mines is I'm tired of Menkent and fire tornados

Given the options, mines were the sillier choice

literally noone uses mines. i feel like they need to rebalance them, you should be able to call them in way more often they take 3 minutes to get back up while instead you could just bring airburst orbital which has a 2 minute cooldown or just a turret which is 3 minutes but also lasts way longer and can potentially kill more enemies than mines. vehicle mines would only really be useful if called down on a choke point or as anti-hulk/charger/bile titan, tanks dont really move too much so its situational at best, plus they dont even effect one of the vehicles they have added recently (gunships). much better to get an actual weapon that is great aoe instead of using something a orbital/recoilless/autocannon could deal with easily. try using airburst rockets with team reload, they can clear out entire waves of enemies meant for 4 players.

dont be afraid to say what you mean for helldivers 2 if you love this game

after watching this video I have a feeling people really misunderstand what each weapon is supposed to do. like, this thing is NOT an anti armour weapon this rocket basically shoots 6 frags granades in one missile. that's it. it blows a wide range. It seems to have medium pen. but it is meant to be used more like a mortal or actual air burst (hence the name) Shoot at the hulk, 5 meters away and being surprised that you blow youself up and not the heavy armour is a failure on the user, not the weapon

Depends on your play style I suppose. This is simply another tool in our arsenal that helps to deal with certain threats. This thing will be AMAZING on any mission with Shriekers or Gun Ships, but if the game throws a bunch of heavies at you, it's gonna suffer.

Try firing it into the air. You’ll have a much better time (especially against bug breaches)

Its definitely bugged, it explodes in your face for no reason when aiming

People be sleeping on the airburst orbital

People sleep on anything that they haven't tried or tried only once (and sucked at using it) without actually learning how and when to use it.

I aimed it straight up and it exploded immediately.

Sadly, "common sense" isn't common at all these days.

It triggers on foliage a rock surface... its just way too situational to make any meaning impact on the battle field this is yet another hot garbage support weapon that's been added to the list

@@HeresGrey It's a solution to a problem we don't have yet - swarms of squishy airborne targets (like Shriekers and whatever Illuminate will have this time around). It's not great right now, but it sure will have it's use in the future.

@@HeresGrey Many weapons were too situational, until they added more and more enemy types. Either way, this is the use case of the weapon. It is what it is. It's another option we have and we already have aoe ground strategems and we already have plenty of anti-tank options. This one is exclusively for air. It might not be the best now, but in the future it may be. We are getting more and more options, every weapon that is created isn't going to be for every situation. There is going to be those that have their uses against one situation or type of enemy. If you wanted aoe ground, we have eagle-1, if you wanted anti-tank we have rockets and quaser and orbitals. This one is for air bursts, as in the name. Not every weapon needs to be for every situation. Some weapons can be situational. There's literally nothing wrong with that.

Have you tried it against an air enemy though? We don't know how it does against Shriekers but against Gunships it does nothing and dropships it rarely kills the crew (even the Eruptor does a better job at both)

Also it has a proximity fuse, which means it doesn't explode "randomly" but when it's in proximity to *anything,* be it an enemy, the ground, a rock or a bush.

Not going to make a difference if it explodes in your face anyway.

People are not calling it trash because they fire it close and die. People calling it trash because it's useless garbage.

I tried doing that, but more than once, for some reason, either it blew up in my hand, or very close, killing most of the squad. May there was a tiny little brach or something in the way, causing it to blow up.

@@christophvogel1080 it's possible the proxy fuse is a little too sensitive? But they'll get it all sorted out.

People don't understand real life weapons all too well. So I get it. We do have real life airburst weapons.

I blew myself up

Understandably so, this isn't how it worked in the leaked footage

It's not working on aerial targets.

@@hyperx72 That's not what Airburst means.

Yup, my most effective use so far has been huge groups of the small fast bots. Got 26 in one shot at one point. Should be great against bug swarms, if you are far away. Very bad if even 1 but gets close though...

I can feel the weakness radiating from the post.

As opposed to the rocket that’s just like the cluster bomb, the strat most notorious for team killing….

@@ninjaninja1720 call it weakness. I call it ´knowing your limits´

@@lrdeldric thats true. My main point was meant to poke at the idea that I (and many divers i feel) don´t like fire tornados

Anti tank mines are less likely to TK then normal, as they take a lot of pressure to set off. Light enemies as well as helldivers will not be heavy enough

I guess you missed the part at 8:30 when he tried shooting a gunship and still exploded in his face. Tell me what your excuse for that is?

got a genuine chuckle out of reading your message struggling to wrap your head around the concept of a weapon that isn't working as intended. your seeing him fire it multiple times and sometimes it would blow up right away and other times it would go farther meaning the detonation was not consistent rather than user error. the developers themselves said its not working as intended and they messed up with patches by giving us the wrong version. literally one of the first things the RU-vidr said in his commentary. garbage and bugs like this is why my friends dont play this game anymore.

@@Dabtekku He fired the rocket in close proximity of a tree there funny stuff

I mean true, but like 95% of a match wont have air units since they only spawn at specialized poi's. Meaning its useless the rest of the time if you don't use it on ground troops. Waste of a stratagem slot imo.

@@pleebean789 Well yes, it is a waste of a strategem slot if you're gonna use a screwdriver to try to hammer a nail. It is a tool for a certain purpose, and that is to obliterate swarms of Shriekers or other unarmored, preferably airborne targets. That's it. If you want to deal with armored ground targets, pick AT mines. That's the democratic choice we were given, and the people have spoken they wanted a tool that has no purpose for now. But once we get screws, you'll wish you had a screwdriver with you.

@@LordDragox412 Honestly why bring a screwdriver when you can bring a swiss army knife in the form of auto cannon. It just doesnt have a place in this game atm.

@@LordDragox412 Oh also people chose airburst because of the leaks showing it to be way more powerful then it is. Myself and im sure many others are disappointed by its current strength.

​@@LordDragox412 this is not a democratic choice when one of the two choice can be a access earlier. And more, doesn Shriekers post that big of a threat for anyone that NEED a trageted tool for? I don't think so.

Every sucker crying "omg only good for 1 enemyyy!" should read your comment. also good for softening up big bug hordes

arming distance sure, trigger release hard no lol thats gonna get a lot more self kills than utility lol

@vincentdeluca4485 it doesnt have to be a trigger release. Just a button to trigger the detonation is fine

@@vincentdeluca4485 Not if you combine them. Put the arming delay just outside of danger close.

It uses a proximity fuse at the moment, so if you aim above a patrol, it will do what you describe by itself (though probably a bit earlier than you would want). It also triggers when close to players and I think hellpods though, which is why it makes everyone team kill. I have managed to wipe full patrols though and even got 26 kills on one shot when there were a ton of light enemies in one area

It killed me when I was 50 meter away form impact. It is support strategem that uses my backpack slot which can be used within 50 meters of any teammate. It is ineffective against armor. It doesnt kill berserker or devestator reliably. In general it seam just less effective than the cluster bomb airstrike. In conclusion: It is useless trash.

​@@deafwatch7334its not for those enemies its for light armor, say it with me LIGHT. ARMOR. the small bots, big groups of them

It's not an anti tank weapon.

@@ninjaninja1720 i gave an upside to the wep. I know dude. But in this state it sis just bad if you have seen the vid.

​@@TacoEricits not bad, its just situational, using it poorly _will_ fuck you up and unfortunately everyone is shit at seeing that

It should get "dixed" later, technically its a prototype, even in saying this though im playing devils advocate, i love this weapon though

I was wrong and stupid. These blow up in proximity to yourself as soon as they are fired lol

This specifically would be a great pick for ANY Bug mission

@@vincentdeluca4485 there's much better options that wouldn't be such a threat to yourself and your team. You could use this against a distant patrol that you could've just avoided, but in an engagement with them heading straight for you? It will blow up in your face.

Exactly this

we haven't yet unlocked this weapon, it's just available for testing on choohe. We can also test the mines on the other planet.

Thats what "Airburst" means, it detonates in the Air when it gets close to something

From what I've gathered, it uses a proximity fuse. If it detects an enemy nearby, it explodes. This is also true for other helldivers though, so if you have an ally a foot in front of you, even if they are nowhere near your line of fire, since they are in that radius, it blows up the instant it leave the barrel. I believe hellpods also set it off the same way. That said, I've had some scenarios where there was nothing in front of me and I still sploded, but it's been happening a lot less taking those things into account.

Arrowhead suuure doesn't hire bots to advocate in comments😂

Same, this thing is so good at taking out fodder, and eruptor/DCS for heavier targets

As you can judge by comments, not many fans here

@@LaserTractor that is to be expected by most gamers nowadays, people think just "1+1 = 2 approach mentality" rather than analyze the uniqueness and utility of each weapon. I already found its sweet spot on how, where and when to use it on its first mission using it, just need a little more time and practice

@@stoywarshockofficial9984 jeez Ok, tell us, the unenlightened What is that spot?

@@LaserTractor nothing really special, im just using it like how I use Eagle Cluster Bomb or Orbital Airburst would 😁 edit: this weapon has an upcoming patch so use it as it is until then

@@stoywarshockofficial9984 not that much use for support weapon that takes backpack slot Eh Sad

I've noticed it doesn't work great when fired at the dropships, but when fired at the freshly dropped bots, it does a lot better damage

Not trash, just takes some thinking to use

I'm scared what would happen when I try the airburst on bugs. When I get swarmed, this thing will just detonate right on top of me. When I'm not swarmed, I don't think I need to use it. It will only be useful if you have lots of bugs lined up far away from everyone. I will at least try it against bugs nonetheless when I can.

Is it available on bug missions? Only seen it on bots kinda poor choice.

It’s only available on 1 bot planet why are so many people saying to bring it to bugs lol

​@KillFrenzy96 you can put distance between you and the bugs and train them to form a mob following you the way you could in cod zombies... run, put distance, then aim and shoot the air burst rocket

Because the only air enemies are quite resistant to it, also air burst is not anti air, i can suffice as anti air but is not spesifically for that purpose Works perfectly for groups, thats its job, mob clearing, anti air will work incredibly against shriekers but no point against gunships

While there are some minor spelling mistakes this is exactly what I have tried to tell people