haha the clickbait claims on this vid are wild... i do think its underrated and thus i think its a hidden gem. And it is 100% pure cos its a purifier lol obv a joke. some knobs in this community really dont seem to be able to handle dissenting views. My opinion aint yours. Doesnt mean im dishonest. Just means im not you.
Look, the gun sucks for what it's supposed to be (or whatever its trying to be). The balance devs don't know how to properly balance the majority of the weapons, and at the moment we have flame weapons dominating right now when they were complete garbage in the beginning, while Assault rifles are fighting for scraps on getting used (aside from the Sickle) because their damage is so pitiful and lack any punch or usability aside from trash mob clears when you have Incinerator breaker for that. Just because you have a different opinion on the Purifier compared to the masses doesn't mean your opinion is right on this gun. There are guns (plas-punisher, scorcher) that fill the roles of what this gun is trying to be and in less hassle. Cheers, man.
dude you can like the gun, no one is stopping you from using it. if for some reason you want a punisher plasma without bullet drop then go nuts. but calling it a "hidden gem" and "underrated" is disingenuous at best and yea, clickbait at worst. its at best a niche pick if you want a aoe plasma gun that excels at range, does a bit of everything but is kinda mediocre at all of it too
Major cope, gun is just a worse plasma punisher and a worse scorcher. Same damage as plas punisher but charge up? Ill wait for the buff lol im sure it will earn its place eventually but for now just use it if you like it for some reason
I would agree if it had more damage per second or shot but it takes too long to kill so many different enemies but I will agree that it's being slept on for mid tier games
I want to love this gun… but it has nothing special that other weapons can’t do better and faster. I’ll use it more when they give it a proper identity.
@@mcwolves71No it's a worse plasma punisher cuz it has a slower fire rate, smaller blast radius. And in terms of range its basically the same if you know how to calculate distance. Also the punisher's blast radius increases with distance until it starts resembling a mortar sentry. Until it gets buffed it's just an inferior version of The punisher.
@@Tamachii12 welp thats what i used it for homie, as i showed in the vid. Yeh the blast radius could do with a slight buff i guess.. but yeh i found it fine for difficulty 7 & 8 missions.
It's a worse plasma punisher cuz it has a slower fire rate, smaller blast radius. And in terms of range its basically the same if you know how to calculate distance. Also the punisher's blast radius increases with distance until it starts resembling a mortar sentry. Until it gets buffed it's just an inferior version of The punisher.
Inferior version of the scorcher too.. jack of both the weapons trades master of none lol.. Needs a scope and bullet velocity and the regular uncharge shot added back and add the damage to the actual charge shot.. weapon mods and attachments are needed so much.. at least add more firing modes until optics and thermals come to the game
Because it is the plasma punisher in damage profile and numbers. It uses the same weapon and damage ids as the plasma punisher. Someone made an error when making this weapon.
Purifier has to be from a prior build before the punisher plasma was buffed, just like tenderizer and liberator. Once they balance these weapons based on the last balance patch they should be good
Diligence counter sniper is my new absolute favorite against bots. Absolute beast mode. Jar dominator and scorcher are still other great choices for bots
@@anpan6282scorcher is better for bots. purifier is better for bugs. not every weapon needs to be proficient on both warfronts. different wars, different tactics, different tools.
@@Jhunta I’m happy that it works for you. For bugs I value time to kill because things can easily spiral out of control so things need to be neutralized quickly (and move on to doing objectives).
@Jhunta it may be good for bugs on lvl 4 difficulty. You are getting destroyed on 7+. The Purifier was likely made as a counter-bot weapon. Of course, there are much better long range options for that.
It is underrated. If there was no punisher plasma, it would be my top pick against bots. Actually is my top pick right now since range and mag size gives it some uses over the pun plas; but I am a weird person. Stagger AoE is extremely nice. That said, the weapon is underpowered, and also misleading. It says medium armor pen, but it has the same armor pen as the plas punisher, projectile has pen 2 (light pen) 100 damage and the explosion has pen 3 (medium pen) 150 damage. At the very least, it should do 150 direct damage at pen 3, with the 150 pen 3 splash. This would allow it to one shot devastator heads and warrior heads. It reduce the shots to kill against most armored targets, and give it more damage against tank heat sinks.
Biggest thing this gun needs is damage and increased projectile speed. For a gun that charges up you’d expect it to atleast 1 shot most chaff and 2-3 shot medium enemies, but sometimes it can’t even reliably kill hunters and the small bots which sucks for such a slow firing weapon.
agreed. There's nothing fundamentally wrong about the purifier. It feels nice to shoot, reload isn't long, range is quite nice. It just doesn't hit hard enough. If it could one shot scout striders in their leg and just one shot hunters with the splash, I could see a good niche for it to fit in. Its certainly a lot simpler of a solution than whatever they they're gonna do to the tenderizer. I still don't know what that gun is supposed to do compared to every other AR which is saying something because they're all kinda bad.
The thing that turns me off the most about this weapon is that they outright sold it as a weapon that deals more damage the longer it's charged, but by all accounts I've seen, that's only barely true. I would have expected that marketing to translate to a weapon that can do acceptable damage at various levels of charge but taking the time to charge it all the way does massive damage - a risk vs reward calculation similar to the Railgun in unsafe mode. Instead it's like the Arc Thrower and Punisher Plasma had a baby. Which is also fine by me, but it's not what that language suggested.
Its like the Tenderizer, by itself is not a bad AR, a smooth handling version of the Liberator, but the description calling it a high caliber option is just totally off, and made it not live up to those expectations
Plasma Purifier is the reason that Plasma Punisher gets rediscovered as a hidden gem. Purifier is basically a combination of Punisher, Scorcher and Arc Thrower. With all of its downsides but excels in none.
For real honestly, this should just be an alternate firing mode for the scorcher, and this purifier should be a sniper instead. With a rework. The color of the charge up isn't even right.. it's supposed to be blue and they copy pasted the quasar cannon fx
Hidden gem?! Lol… excels in a few situations? What situations? It’s a Scorcher that has a charge up time. Plasma Punisher makes this thing look like a joke. It’s cool looking sure, but it’s definitely C / D tier right now.
@@Mogz-hd I know you don’t agree with me but tiers do work in hellsivers. Why? Because it helps give the gun a place. And the plas purifier really is not that good of a gun. It is a downgraded plas punisher. Like if a gun is garbage nobody will use it, therefore it is f tier.
@@PalmonSweat tiers can be a rough guide, but doesn't work very well cuz Helldivers2 is much more nuanced than what it seems at a 1st glance. Enemy types (faction differences) and loadout synergies matter quite a lot. A weapon might be 'f tier' against bots but be really 'a tier' against bugs, for a simple example. If complexity gets to a certain level just to accommodate the many possibilities, it defeats the purpose of ranking weapons in tiers for sake of simplicity.
My fear is that arrowhead balanced this weapon against this initial version of the punisher plasma, i.e. before the last big balance patch. The pre-balance punisher had a very short effective range and was almost impossible to aim at anything beyond that. The purifier might have been arrowheads answer to this shortcoming, at the expense of a long charge-up time. Now that the punisher plasma has been buffed by getting a bigger muzzle velocity, it is easy to use at low to medium range (and has thus become an extraordinarily great weapon against bots). The purifier was obsolete at the time it was released because it did not receive a similar buff. It is good to hear that it used to have a use-case. But frankly put: encounters against bugs are at
I personally found this weapon to be trash. What I'd hoped for was something akin to the Plasma rifle from Warhammer 40k. What we got was a marshmellow tosser. Considering the frantic rate of combat at the higher difficulties the slower rate of fire just doesn't work well. The damage on direct shots doesn't feel significant enough when engaging most medium enemy types.
The plasma shotgun's limitation for me is that it's really bad vs flying targets like gunship and shriekers. But then you have your support weapons for that like the laser, ac or amr vs bots, and your sidearm for bugs. For range, you can do skill shots with it - be the mortar. It's one of the few weapons that can do shots over cover. While maybe the Purifier is good in range, I find almost little to no need to shoot in farther ranges. This is why I have trouble fitting the Purifier in my builds as there are, in my opinion, better choices. Perhaps AH can come up with something better for it.
Not really being able to hit Shriekers definitely hurts the PPunisher in some situations, but I don't think there are any primary weapons that can take out Gunships? Other than that, though, I pretty much agree- I love plasma and explosive weapons, but the Purifier doesn't really feel like it measures up. It's not _unuseably_ bad like some people are claiming, but much like the Tenderizer it lacks any real role compared to other weapons.
Glad you found a weapon you enjoy. I personally think it doesn’t feel very good at all in terms of feel and with it’s fire rate. As well as with the bugs people are saying about it’s armor pen not working it probably does feel right at the moment anyway. With that in mind if it still doesn’t feel great a variable scope and a slight dmg buff would probably put it in line with some of the other decent weapons in my opinion.
@HHTwice lol, by your logic, John Wick could kill people with a pencil ✏️ but im sure he'dmuch prefer a better weapon, and why would you if given the choice & wide variety of weapons that vastly outperform the Purifier? There's no point in having a gun that's a worse version of a pre-existing gun man.
@@tobiasrex8052 serves a different function from the Scorcher and Plasma Punisher, not everything has to be good at everything, most people are bad at the game and don’t do any testing and immediately scream something sucks after hardly using it. It’s alright though it’s pretty clear the community itself will ruin the game so these conversations don’t even matter to begin with lol I mean FFS even the Railgun got buffed again recently to the point it’s performing consistently great and people still call it trash lol
@HHTwice yet I fail to see anyone here tell me what it's function is when we have the Plasma Punisher. Dors it close bug holes/fabricators? No? Stuns? Plasma Punisher does that.
@@tobiasrex8052 long/mid range consistent extremely high stagger and kills, it shreds through bots, can one shot striders when aiming properly and perma stuns devestators, can kill tanks and turrets since it can penetrate medium armor and does alright against bugs until you get swarmed, but the Scorcher/Plasma Punisher suffer from the same issues when you get swarmed by bugs. Why do you need another primary to close holes? Most support weapons and grenades can do that, you’re yet again falling to the mentality of “this one gun has to be a universal multi tool or else it sucks hurrrrr” mentality. Also the plasma punisher can’t close holes or anything like that either so idk why you’re using that as a point when it’s flat out wrong lol I haven’t seen anyone that criticizes the gun actually dismantle it in a logical and convincing way that doesn’t resort to “b-b-but this other gun has some of the same effects so it’s worthless” argument that holds no water
I like this weapon. The only sad point.. this is just a weaker scorcher. 3~4 shots for a walker, 4~5 shots for a devastator.. Scorcher needs like 1 more hit to kill, but there is not 1 seconde more between each shot
Finally, someone else that appreciates this gun lol I'll admit though, it does need a bit more "oomph" in the damage department. At least 300 damage in my opinion would be good to get it a more stable place in common Helldiver's loadouts.
Why would you use this weapon? It’s literally just the scorcher but worse. You have to charge it up and even then, a basic terminid unit takes two headshots to kill. Devastators tank 6 shots, which is just laughable. Sure, the scorcher does less damage, but it does everything the purifier does, except its faster. As the final weapon of a paid warbond, absolute garbage
you charging it up for +50 damage and a bigger radius. Im going to keep spaming that this should of been an ALt fire for the Scorcher. *Charging up shots* for stronger damage when its lock at a dmg rate shows this gun is fundamentally broken according to its own description
@@Mogz-hd It's not. The area of effect is too small to be of use, compared to other weapons. Also, you clearly don't know, but Scorcher is *already* and AoE weapon. Dude, learn the game, lol!
It is a punisher plasma with less drop but a fraction of the fire rate. There is no reason to use it. At range there are better options and close in the punisher would be a better option in every case. Even that weapon is poor over all.
These “high dmg” guns in the game really need a buff. They don’t do near enough dmg to justify their shortcomings. They should be able to kill devasators in 1-2 shots because that’s about how long it takes in seconds to kill them with the scorcher.
it doesnt have medium pen like advertised. problem is its explosive so its hard to see this easily. but even then, the gun needs a BIG damage buff. upwards of at least 350 if not more.
I believe the reason why everybody hates the Purifier is because there's better options for Primaries. People WOULD run the Purifier, but considering that there are better options available that outdo the purifier in numerous categories, nobody runs it for good reason. The Punisher-P has a higher fire-rate and splash radius, but has a drop-off and a slower projectile speed compared to the Purifier. This would be great but considering that a majority of the game revolves around retreating because you can easily get swarmed, you'll find yourself more into close encounters than trying to play sniper. Even if you attempt to play sniper, you'll eventually get that one Patrol who'll force you into a close encounter battle unless you go full metal gear solid, but at that point why even run the Purifier? If you plan to be far ranged, run the Diligence-CS. It has Medium AP, it can one shot devastators to the head and often one shot's troopers to the body. It doesn't have a stagger but you're not going to be up-close anyway, so why bother. Even then the Punisher-P's projectile isn't as slow as it was before, and once you get used to the arc it can become really good. The Scorcher is instant, It has roughly the same splash radius, has the same magazine & capacity count, 50 less damage, no stagger and lower AP. The Purifier should technically outclass this weapon but it doesn't. What makes the Scorcher good is that it practically ignores medium armor unless it's heavy. The explosion from the Scorcher allows you to do pretty much everything the Purifier does but faster. The Scorcher also allows room for error, so even if you don't directly shoot the head, the explosion damage would cover a little bit of that damage; you can mess up shots but won't be heavily punished for it since hitting the head and body have roughly the same TTK (Time To Kill). For the Purifier, you miss once? Got to charge that baby up to kill one devastator/hive guard 4 times. This can also go back to the Punisher-P. Unlike the Purifier, Both of these guns can keep up with the enemy spawn rates with their explosion radius alone and ability to quickly take out enemies as they come in. They can't stand alone in terms of actually holding a line, but it can clear a crowd significantly faster than the purifier. I heard you mentioned crowd control and dealing with lighter enemies, but there's a SIGNIFICANTLY better option in that category as well. The Breaker Incendiary has been a favorite because of it's crowd control ability. You can shoot 3 shells into a patrol and light them all on fire, dealing more damage than the Purifier with 3 shots and then some. The fire affect allows for constant damage to not only soften up enemies, but also kill them. Not only that, even if you miss all pellets, the enemies will most likely catch fire and will now do Damage Over Time since it's fixed. The biggest issue with the Purifier is the fact that not only does messing up your shots punish you heavily, but it just takes WAY too long to kill enemies with this thing even if you land your shots. I was kind of hoping for this gun to be similar to the Eruptor, in which the gun is really good against medium to heavy units, but sucks at clearing light enemies. I hope that's the direction it would head towards in the near future, it would make machine guns a viable tool to run. But in general, what makes the Purifier horrible is the time it takes to kill enemies. Sure it can clear crowds, but other guns do that faster with ease; Sure it can stagger, but other guns can do that too while not having a charge up; Sure it has Medium AP, but once again the Scorcher pretty much has Medium AP with it's explosions. I really hope they buff up the damage and turn it into another Eruptor (a long charge but powerful blast to hurt medium to heavy units). However as it is right now, it can't keep up with other guns. If you want to run the Purifier, the Scorcher with a 1 second trigger discipline is pretty much the same thing.
I feel like any of the jobs you listed for it I can do better and more efficiently with other options. Ex: tank and turret towers- grenade launcher takes out in 3ish shots without a charge up and still leaves me open for a better primary
Updated 2024/06/13: Now the explosion can deal damage to armor enemy making it less punishing. What’s even this gun? Long range - no 2-4x scope so good luck Explosive - small aoe control Charge - low damage for wasting my time I tried to be both railgun and plasma shotgun but not good as either
@@Mogz-hd thats because its explosive, the explosion goes through. just like the scorcher doesnt have medium armor pen but can also damage medium armored enemies.
Given that devs admitted they were behind and things were dropping on a schedule. I'm assuming the purifier was meant to be exactly like the scorcher in semi auto. Light penetrating 200 damage per single shot BUT you have the option to charge the weapon and have a 250 damage medium penetration shot. Not confirmed but I can imagine that's how this will get buffed in the future.
Most of that “stagger” at 0:54 is not stagger, it’s the bugs auto-dodge from being hit by an AoE weapon, it’s why it only happens once per 3-4 seconds despite the weapon hitting every 2-3 seconds. They do the same from almost every other AoE in the game, hunters do it for all weapons which is why so many people hate shooting at them. You can see it again at 3:04 with the prawn. Bugs side-hop when hit with certain attacks it’s also why they ragdoll oddly sometimes because the physics takes effect on the corpse which is “lighter” than the live unit.
"how exactly does It work: It doesn't Is It good? fuck no if so what's It good for? wasting Primary slot, anything It can do something else does It better, and It doesn't even work as a sum of it's parts. The only viable option to use this is to be carried by someone that's doing real damage and you stagger things for them, being a good npc, although by the time you try to stagger anything It will probably be dead by that other person's weapon
The main problems are miscommunication (we expected a Scorcher with Unsafe Mode, not this), Scope options (I mean it's supposed to be a Rifle) and, personally, I want a way to cancel a shot. When playing stealthily, there's not much worse than having to waste a shot into the environment and possibly alerting the enemy with it ... Do you know if there is an option to cancel a charged up shot I've missed? I've tried switching weapons and Strategems menu and that doesn't work...
I personally love this weapon, but most of what everyone says about it is true. Why use this when we have the Puni-Plasma, which essentially does a better job and no charge time? It says it's both explosive and "medium armor pen." but it certainly doesn't feel like it at all. Meanwhile, the Puni-plasma is simply explosive, but hits like a truck. The only true advantage the Purifier has is that it shoots completely straight, much like a sniper rifle. It's almost like The Purifier was made by someone who didn't know the Punisher Plasma already existed. Also, what's with all those energy bolts coming from the sky at 3:09 ?
"Also, what's with all those energy bolts coming from the sky at 3:09 ?" thats my teammate shooting with his scorcher yep purifier is better at range. Needs a scope with a bit of zoom tho imo.
the correct take, enjoy something for what it is, not pretending its something better. i love using LC, but its so bad, and it feels weaker since the last patch even tho its damage was supposed to be buffed so i don't get it. i don't tell people its amazing i say i like using it and think it sucks, same with prenerf crossbow.
whoa.. did you just say the laser cannon is bad????? its easily one of my favourite weapons. its basically a machine gun with infinite ammo but less/no stagger. Absolutely shreds medium armor
I love the Punisher Plasma, dont wait to shoot, also good at range, i aim above enemies and throw the plasm right inn the middle of a bunch of bots...almost every time a hit, reaches most time to the viewing range.... only issue 8 shots.I also like to hot over obsticles and kill those mech bastards without sight 😀 always fun to see the red crosshair after hitting a hidden enemy 😀
You know what would be a fun buff to the Purifier? Leveling damage and the ability to hold a charge. Let me explain. Imagine after the 1 second charge-up, the gun went through a couple of levels. Hold for 1 second = 250 damage Hold for 2 seconds = 500 damage Hold for 3 seconds = 750 damage (Each level also uses another round from the magazine, for balance) Sounds kinda pointless to begin with. But then you pair it with the ability to hold a charge. Charge up a shot out of combat, store it, then when you need it, initiate combat with a 750 damage explosion with no wind up. Think of it like Charge Shot from Samus. You have a charge ready to go, but you can still move freely. You could either have to hold the fire button (like Super Metroid) or have it store the shot with a blinking light (like Smash Bros) Nothing game breaking, but an extra level of fun. (Hint, hint, balancing team)
1:50 from the looks of it, it might be my new nain for atomatons. The Punisher Plasma was good as a grenade launcher with both aoe and staggering edfects, but ive always been somewhat of a support/sniper. I always take my time to aim shot dor most damage so the charge raight isnt a problem for me.
I must be bad at the game then since I'm struggling at killing things with this thing.... I choose to support team by killing things outright, than simply providing crowd control and doing little damage, because more bad guys will keep spawning / approach the fight, stopping the team from completing objectives. Weapons like the Purifier doesn't provide me that, more power to those with the skill that can make it work though.
@@Mogz-hd I was being sarcastic to get across a certain point, but let me be more clear. It's 100% alright for you to like this weapon. I'm glad you do, because at least someone is. But this weapon has no reason to ever be taken over any other weapon, as it combines the drawbacks of the plasma punisher and scorcher without the strengths either has. It being able to kill chargers in ten shots underneath them is a nominal feature; you would be wasting your time doing that, and the only reason to ever do so is if you literally had no other means of killing it. Being able to destroy spore spewers is a gimmick that you would put on the packaging of a worthless product to pad out feature lists, like an MP3 player advertising its pause button as a feature. If you were to ever want to take the purifier, just take the scorcher and enjoy having literally over 4x the fire rate for the same performance.
Honestly I found it terribly irritating when an ally has it. The push shove enemies so far and so suddenly I kept having to sharply adjust my aim whenever my Purifier ally tried to help.
Thanks for the analysis bruv Honestly, i want to like it, but I don't think the stagger nor the damage on this weapon are good enough for D7+. Its cool that it takes ~4 shots to kill medium armor, but its actual TTK is just way too slow due to the charge time. Also, something about this weapon just feels broken. The explosion vfx gets bigger the farther the away the projectile is (like the Plasma Pun), and it doesnt feel like the weapon has med pen at all. If you took the damage profile of the current Eruptor and gave it to this weapon, then we'd be cooking.
@@Mogz-hd I can respect one's personal opinion, after all, it's about tastes, but: "IT'S UNDERRATED", "100% PURE", "HIDDEN GEM", bro? Meanwhile, it's one of the most underperforming weapons in the entire game. And believe me, I REALY want to like this weapon, I've tried, but it literally feels like you're handicapping yourself using this.
@@eddiemitza2544 lol i do think its massively underrated.. thats my honest opinion. And that makes it a hidden gem by definition. and "100% pure" is a joke lol.. obviously... its called the purifier. Its pure. get it? :P at least I didnt write "S-Tier".. surely i get points for that and yeh i just disagree that its one of the most underperforming weapons.. i think it performs quite well for what it is - a long range aoe weapon (the only one in the game actually)
i think what people fail to realize is that the devs are probably actively balancing these guns with an enemy faction we haven’t seen yet (illuminate) which would explain why some of these guns just feel like straight ass when using against bots or bugs, their niches are incomplete until we can test them against the 3rd enemy faction and then we can truly come to a formal conclusion on balancing, until then, it’s all speculation.
@tobiasrex8052 have you played HD1? There are some weapons that are way better than others for certain factions. That said, you could be right...maybe I'm just optimistic
@MrDevilsTouch hey, hopefully they fix the gun so it's much more enjoyable to use since we have some people thinking it's in a perfect spot as it is despite how terrible it plays.
yeah think the reason why it was/is so hated is that it doesn't really work like it did in the trailer, but i love weapons that have a bit more of a learning curve
lol u mean the "it doesnt 1 shot striders" thing that everyone seems intent on repeating? i think ppl suddenly forgot that trailers are very often dramatizations of the product.. most/all movie/tvshow trailers are.. weapon trailers in hd2 are no different. Just cos the trailer showed a 2 second slowmo clip of a strider dying in 1 hit.. uh, it didnt show the lead up to that battle so you cannot infer ANYTHING from that clip.
haha mmhm.. and attacking people who dont like the same things you like, or like things you dont like, is among the most childish cringey behaviour i've ever witnessed. Absolutely shameful stuff.
@@Mogz-hd aren't u doing the same? Ik ur ego is hurt but u gotta admit this is bad, unlikely others wanting a raise u saying "oh this is ok" only drags everyone around u down smh
huh? everyone is entitled to their opinion about the gun. i have no issue there. what i take issue with is being attacked and, frankly, bullied, for my views on the gun. Is standing up to a bully the same as being a bully? nope!
Just started using the Purifier right after i unlocked it. It has been underwhelming in most aspects but some of its traits like the stagger have kept it a foot above the grave. From what ive experienced, the Purifier is a weapon that relies heavily on the support strategems you choose, due to its lack of ability to dish out damage values like the scorcher and sickle. Personally, i think that its a good thing that this weapin was released in an unintended state. Yes i still hate Alexus for advertising these weapons as S tier when theyre a C or B at best. But for those of us who have and are using the Purifier at its worst will get to know the weapon, and when the buff comes around, will be able to use it to ots maxiumum potential right out of the hellpod. If the buff comes around, and if it does indeed deliever the Purifier to its indended state, maybe we'll see the helldivers whove used this at its worst run around like they all have semi-automatic pocket railguns.
@@Mogz-hdIT should have 2 fire Options. Fast simple shots Like scorcher with less DMG. Charged shots with more DMG then the plas punisher. Made a Suggestion about IT over ON Reddit to get a better use Case and identity. Keep IT Up mogz ❤
I don't really like the charge up weapons in the game. I feel like a good alternative to this than charge up is if it acts like a single fire breach load energy weapon, where you change the plasma cartridge after each shot like the rail gun. Also this can kill a shredder tank shooting at the front plate armor of the turret, pretty surprised when I did it. This would've been a good weapon if the punisher plasma or the pummeler didn't exist. Both weapons can fire faster than the purifier and both weapons has the same if not superior stagger because they can fire faster and sustain that stagger and can keep enemies away longer. This would be used more if it can 1 shot medium enemies with direct hit and a stagger that last longer with how slow it fires.
This is the problem with the balence to IMO They're too lazy to give new weapons personality and they find it OP Let's take the PLAS-101 and Eruptor for this case The Eruptor wasn't a fan favorite just because it was good, it was because it was unique with its shrapnel and forced players to play TO the gun instead of the gun playing to THEM. Then the devs, instead of balancing out the shrapnel so it can't one-shot chargers, completely removed it. Ruining what it was. not only making it unnecessarily weaker but also removing its identity and just turning it into another gun with an “explosive” passive. The devs just outright fucking lied saying it was a good decision and saying these weapons shouldn't have so much collateral (despite the existence of the fucking Arc weapons) Now for the PLAS-101 Purifier, this is like the Deagle secondary that came in the same Warbond and tried to do everything, playing TO the player, yes it's okay at just about everything, but it excels at nothing. Nothing that's not already done with the other plasma weapons Slow and clunky crowd clearer? Nope, that's the Punisher Plasma. Quick and sharp response CQC? Nope, that's the PLAS-1 Scorcher Heavy and slow, elite unit destroyer/vehicle and building dismantled? Maybe, but the devs didn't want to go full-on. Scared it would make it OP, so they made it have an identity crisis.
There is no reason to choose this over the Scorcher. It is absolutely useless. Like 70% of the weapons in this game. They need to rework a lot of their weapons
Purifier is just a higher skill floor weapon that has great potential when you meet those requirements. Scorcher was/is similar in that respect. I actually love that they aren't brainless pewpew, and actually encourage the use of your secondary at times.
Only thing this weapon is good for is wasting hard earned medals. Stick with the scorcher or punisher plasma, they have better dps, aoe and general ease of use.
It's essentially that using it made me unable to use my primary weapon during a match. It was so bad at killing things that I had to pick up other hell-divers weapons to do anything. It is borderline worse than anything primary currently.
Huh, a positive video on this weapon. Honestly I think the main issues is the charge up time, which lets enemies get in close if you're not careful, and the lack of power compared to what was shown in the trailer. Granted, what was shown was it one shotting Scout Striders, which could easily have actually been two shots but cut to look like one, but before the War Bond came out they did buff the Strider's explosion resistance. It was in the big balance patch where the Liberator got buffed, which ended up making it as strong at the Tenderizer so when the Tenderizer came out it was "just a side grade."
haha i dont understand people watching trailers n thinking they represent the capability of the weapon in every clip. Trailers for movies are always a bunch of clips taken out of context for dramatic effect.. same goes for hd2 weapon trailers
@@Mogz-hd Yeah, same thing happened with the Thermite grenades. Was shown thrown at a Charger so people just assumed it would be good to use against them. Even after the DoT bug was fixed it ended up just okay. That said, it does raise the question of if the Striders used in the trailer had the explosion resistance buff from the patch or if they were weakened versions just for the trailer to make the weapon look better.
@@Moodyman90 mmm people are a little silly sometimes. Jumping to conclusions n then blaming others when they land face first in a puddle of "wrong" lol duno re: striders in trailer .. all i know is that i regularly two-shotted striders with the purifier. Its one of the best strider killers out there. Massive stagger. Only 2 shots. Sometimes 3. Ez mode.
Hands down one of my favorite weapon designs, unfortunately it doesn’t do as well as its predecessors at hardly anything. The niche it fills is too specific imho. I don’t think the charge up time was necessary either, and was just AH being concerned it would be broken if it had a high fire rate due to its AoE on top of medium armor pen. AH could fix it easy by giving it new firing modes. Standard charge up mode that provides large AoE and a regular old pew pew mode that drops the AoE (or reduces it) and/or does less damage in exchange for a higher fire rate. This would put the weapon in a nice versatility over power niche. You exchange the raw power of other weapons for the ability to be more versatile in combat, able to go from crowd clearing to single target dps when necessary, instead of having to rely on sidearms and startagem weapons to fill those roles.
It seems like this weapon just like the Tenderizer have been released in an early testing version and they will get buffed very soon. The devs even acknowledged that the Tenderizer's stats are not what they indented, in the patch notes known issues list. Since the community has managed to fill every social media of the game with a ton of negativity, I assume the devs will buff things to appease them and they will buff the Purifier even it they didn't official acknowledge that it is lacking as a weapon.
How? Why? How?! Why?!Crazy how people see things differently! My guy shot 6 enemies and had to shot 8 times for 4 kills🤣“ but the weapon is nice“ i can not believe you played any other weapons in this game thant this BS
i've used all weapons pretty extensively actually, since im a content creator. but yeh, amazing isnt it.. people have different opinions SHOCK BLOODY HORROR!
The thing how balance USUALLY work in games is a system of pros and cons when we compare two similar weapons Lets compare it with Scorcher. + Splash is wider. Scorcher's splash deals max damage of 100 in 1 meter radius and falls off until it only deals stagger without damage at radius of 2 meters. Purifier deals full explosive damage of 150 in 2 meter radius. Fall off is at 3 meters radius. + Explosive damage is 150. Scorcher only deals 100. And here we go - Charge up mechanic not only makes rate of fire SIGNIFICANTLY worse than Scorcher's but also makes you press and hold button every shot possibly annoying player and making him miss shots - Charge up strangely doesn't give you more damage or explosion radius. It's just a mandatory thing to make a shot - Medium penetration is only explosion's trait. Projectile still can only penetrate light armor Judging by that there are some solutions that can make Purifier good: 1) Charging increases damage/armor pen/splash radius but weapon can now be shot without charging (slightly slower than punisher plasma) 2) Charging is passive now. You shoot and weapon recharges by itself. Still needs increase in some of the stats 3) Make more charge levels that will consume more ammo and result in huge explosion area (something like what good old Eruptor could do on release, maybe even more powerful)
Don't you just love charge up primary weapons with relatively limited ammo that will kill you if you fire it in close range when you have 2 patrols of bugs that jump into melee range ? Most weapons are useless due to the moron responsible for balance, treating it as a PvP and using the infamous "spread sheet" balance method , this is just a tad worse than most
What if the purifier was incendiary like the scorcher was in helldivers 1, the burn DoT would make up for its low damage as any surviving chaff would just burn to death and the DoT would partially make up for the horrendous firerate versus larger enemies, plus it'd be great versus scout striders as the pilot eould burn to death from a single hit.
Purifyer breakpoints and punisher plasma are too similar in a sense, there's less reward in using purifier due to lack damage burst necessary to eliminate enemies quickly which the punisher plasma can dish out in a single mag in quick succession. The issue with the gun is the speed of killing elite enemies is way slower than what the punisher plasma can do... Though it has an advantage of having higher ammo per mag... the punisher can easily compensate with its quick paced shots and reload that doesn't gimp you into switching to a side arm to practically use it at close-mid range proximity. [While sure it can't murder flying gun ships, but let's be honest... if your gonna bring a CC weapon, you want a gun that can fire continuously and still capable of delaying big threats that is already locked on to you.] The purifier is most likely going get staggered or already too late to fire, with its aoe already in your face. The clunkiness alone made it less popular with very good reason. Little reward with each charged shot. It's not like Arc thrower that guarantee's a kill behind the enemy. Hell, I'd use the nerfed eruptor and that thing staggers the same way it can and the reload per shot is almost similar to it. [It can also destroy objectives to boot, who cares about ammo anymore.]
The Punisher Plasma is also a little Mortar. In large areas you can kill Enemys in far by shoot in the sky and selfadjust the angle. Its not even trigger the enemys most of the time. But ist not precise loike the Purifier on long range, and there has to be much more lead in because ofe the feet per second the plasmaball got. Punisher is higher in shots per second i think. Punisher is able to shoot behind mates without killing them, but the enemys behind the mates.
been rocking it for a while, and much like the puni-plasma I do enjoy playing w/... both bound to be less popular due to the steep learning curve and not so obvious use cases... still, from the get-go the purifier is kinda weak... it should 2-tap brood commanders and the crazy chain saw bots, needs a scope, and better full charge cue cuz is hard to tell when in 1st person (I know there's a sound cue, but occasionally is hard to hear it, specially during chaotic moments where you need the gun not to choke) this is another gun on my "I like even tho is not very good" list cheers homie... oh and where are my parody commercial style weapon vids? lol maybe we could use one for the airburst rocket!!! XD
This should have been a split fire weapon like the devils ruin in d2, click or rapid trigger pull to fire shots like the scorcher, or hold down to fire the charged up shot
Ppl complaining about this gun clearly aren’t using it correctly. This isn’t an in your face pew pew shoot and kill instantly gun you need distance and space awareness when using it. The gun is decent. Like mentioned in this video, paired with jet pack and get that elevation. I also use light armor and scout perk. It’s a sniper build weapon that’s more like a support weapon. I use it to support my homies when they going in.
It's just a scorcher with a CHARGE UP TIME. Removing the charge up time just makes it a scorcher. I say keep the chargeup but give it either unlimited ammo or more of a punch.
you can one tap any automaton with the purifier if you shoot them in the sphincter. A lot of people don’t know this because Automatons don’t visibly have an anus
haha the clickbait claims on this vid are wild... i do think its underrated and thus i think its a hidden gem. And it is 100% pure cos its a purifier lol obv a joke.
some knobs in this community really dont seem to be able to handle dissenting views. My opinion aint yours. Doesnt mean im dishonest. Just means im not you.
Look, the gun sucks for what it's supposed to be (or whatever its trying to be).
The balance devs don't know how to properly balance the majority of the weapons, and at the moment we have flame weapons dominating right now when they were complete garbage in the beginning, while Assault rifles are fighting for scraps on getting used (aside from the Sickle) because their damage is so pitiful and lack any punch or usability aside from trash mob clears when you have Incinerator breaker for that.
Just because you have a different opinion on the Purifier compared to the masses doesn't mean your opinion is right on this gun. There are guns (plas-punisher, scorcher) that fill the roles of what this gun is trying to be and in less hassle.
Cheers, man.
Damn you had the chance and now you are just getting downvoted. Hope the 10 min clickbait was worth it.
dude you can like the gun, no one is stopping you from using it. if for some reason you want a punisher plasma without bullet drop then go nuts. but calling it a "hidden gem" and "underrated" is disingenuous at best and yea, clickbait at worst. its at best a niche pick if you want a aoe plasma gun that excels at range, does a bit of everything but is kinda mediocre at all of it too
Major cope, gun is just a worse plasma punisher and a worse scorcher.
Same damage as plas punisher but charge up? Ill wait for the buff lol im sure it will earn its place eventually but for now just use it if you like it for some reason
I would agree if it had more damage per second or shot but it takes too long to kill so many different enemies but I will agree that it's being slept on for mid tier games
I want to love this gun… but it has nothing special that other weapons can’t do better and faster. I’ll use it more when they give it a proper identity.
It's a crowd control weapon to support your teammates
Similar to punisher plasma, but longer range
@@mcwolves71No it's a worse plasma punisher cuz it has a slower fire rate, smaller blast radius. And in terms of range its basically the same if you know how to calculate distance. Also the punisher's blast radius increases with distance until it starts resembling a mortar sentry. Until it gets buffed it's just an inferior version of The punisher.
@@thelonehunter6025 This.
@@thelonehunter6025 Wrong, it has more stager and greater range. It is not the same as the punisher plasma.
The range that the plas punisher can't hit with use of geometry is a range that's not a threat to the user.
"A hidden gem", said helldiver 30 seconds into killing a singular devastator
its an explosive aoe weapon dude.. meant for groups. if it had insane single target capability itd be OP af
@@Mogz-hd with how small is the aoe, you can hardly call that for groups though...
@@Tamachii12 welp thats what i used it for homie, as i showed in the vid. Yeh the blast radius could do with a slight buff i guess.. but yeh i found it fine for difficulty 7 & 8 missions.
I needs an AOE buff
@@Mogz-hdthe purifier is the worst weapon in the game. Just bring a punisher plasma
It's a worse plasma punisher cuz it has a slower fire rate, smaller blast radius. And in terms of range its basically the same if you know how to calculate distance. Also the punisher's blast radius increases with distance until it starts resembling a mortar sentry. Until it gets buffed it's just an inferior version of The punisher.
Yup. Tbh I feel like it would be viable if they just gave it more dmg. It simply doesn’t do enough considering you have to charge it
Inferior version of the scorcher too.. jack of both the weapons trades master of none lol..
Needs a scope and bullet velocity and the regular uncharge shot added back and add the damage to the actual charge shot.. weapon mods and attachments are needed so much.. at least add more firing modes until optics and thermals come to the game
Because it is the plasma punisher in damage profile and numbers. It uses the same weapon and damage ids as the plasma punisher. Someone made an error when making this weapon.
Purifier has to be from a prior build before the punisher plasma was buffed, just like tenderizer and liberator. Once they balance these weapons based on the last balance patch they should be good
"2 shots for warriors" was all i needed to hear. That is way to little damage for a charge up weapon
Diligence counter sniper is my new absolute favorite against bots. Absolute beast mode. Jar dominator and scorcher are still other great choices for bots
Correct - tell me why I would pick this over the Scorcher when I can take it down faster
@@anpan6282scorcher is better for bots. purifier is better for bugs.
not every weapon needs to be proficient on both warfronts.
different wars, different tactics, different tools.
@@Jhunta I’m happy that it works for you. For bugs I value time to kill because things can easily spiral out of control so things need to be neutralized quickly (and move on to doing objectives).
@Jhunta it may be good for bugs on lvl 4 difficulty. You are getting destroyed on 7+. The Purifier was likely made as a counter-bot weapon. Of course, there are much better long range options for that.
Finds a piece of corn in a turd 💩- underrated 😮
It is underrated. If there was no punisher plasma, it would be my top pick against bots. Actually is my top pick right now since range and mag size gives it some uses over the pun plas; but I am a weird person.
Stagger AoE is extremely nice. That said, the weapon is underpowered, and also misleading. It says medium armor pen, but it has the same armor pen as the plas punisher, projectile has pen 2 (light pen) 100 damage and the explosion has pen 3 (medium pen) 150 damage.
At the very least, it should do 150 direct damage at pen 3, with the 150 pen 3 splash. This would allow it to one shot devastator heads and warrior heads. It reduce the shots to kill against most armored targets, and give it more damage against tank heat sinks.
you can say its a pretty under rate turd
@@puffer_frog your sense of humour is sh!t
Bro is gobbling whole like some kind of gourmet.
OMG... lol
Biggest thing this gun needs is damage and increased projectile speed. For a gun that charges up you’d expect it to atleast 1 shot most chaff and 2-3 shot medium enemies, but sometimes it can’t even reliably kill hunters and the small bots which sucks for such a slow firing weapon.
agreed. There's nothing fundamentally wrong about the purifier. It feels nice to shoot, reload isn't long, range is quite nice. It just doesn't hit hard enough. If it could one shot scout striders in their leg and just one shot hunters with the splash, I could see a good niche for it to fit in. Its certainly a lot simpler of a solution than whatever they they're gonna do to the tenderizer. I still don't know what that gun is supposed to do compared to every other AR which is saying something because they're all kinda bad.
That and a better scope, I like it to take up a type of energy sniper role
@@kacheechang4667This weapon needs to be buffed to 2-shot Devastators, it’s blast damage radius and dps is atrocious in its current state.
@@giannicolamatteo8155 Wish every gun just had the Sickle scope 😔
It permanently stun locks the devastators, including shield and rocket variants, as long as you hit them.
Do you not like stun grenades either?
The thing that turns me off the most about this weapon is that they outright sold it as a weapon that deals more damage the longer it's charged, but by all accounts I've seen, that's only barely true. I would have expected that marketing to translate to a weapon that can do acceptable damage at various levels of charge but taking the time to charge it all the way does massive damage - a risk vs reward calculation similar to the Railgun in unsafe mode. Instead it's like the Arc Thrower and Punisher Plasma had a baby. Which is also fine by me, but it's not what that language suggested.
Nope.. only one firing mode and a crap scope
Its like the Tenderizer, by itself is not a bad AR, a smooth handling version of the Liberator, but the description calling it a high caliber option is just totally off, and made it not live up to those expectations
Plasma Purifier is the reason that Plasma Punisher gets rediscovered as a hidden gem.
Purifier is basically a combination of Punisher, Scorcher and Arc Thrower. With all of its downsides but excels in none.
Plasma Scorcher and Plasma Punisher are why this gun doesn't really have a niche.
For real honestly, this should just be an alternate firing mode for the scorcher, and this purifier should be a sniper instead. With a rework.
The color of the charge up isn't even right.. it's supposed to be blue and they copy pasted the quasar cannon fx
@@KalenTomlinsonarrowhead doesn't know how to make a game. They make fine explosion simulators, but a balanced game? They fail
@@Mandrewlochner just more proof that fun is more important than balancing when it comes to selling games.
@@Mandrewlochnerthis has got to be the dumbest take.
Makes Helldivers 2
Doesn't know how to make a game
Like bro where is even the bar? Space?
Thumbnail: "100% pure!"
Yea 100% pure garbage
100% purifying !
Hidden gem?! Lol… excels in a few situations? What situations? It’s a Scorcher that has a charge up time. Plasma Punisher makes this thing look like a joke. It’s cool looking sure, but it’s definitely C / D tier right now.
vid explains all.
@@Mogz-hdB tier at best. D tier on average.
@@dylanvelloca6698 the whole concept of "tier" doesnt work in hd imo so.. yeh i dont give tier ratings
@@Mogz-hd I know you don’t agree with me but tiers do work in hellsivers. Why? Because it helps give the gun a place. And the plas purifier really is not that good of a gun. It is a downgraded plas punisher. Like if a gun is garbage nobody will use it, therefore it is f tier.
@@PalmonSweat tiers can be a rough guide, but doesn't work very well cuz Helldivers2 is much more nuanced than what it seems at a 1st glance. Enemy types (faction differences) and loadout synergies matter quite a lot. A weapon might be 'f tier' against bots but be really 'a tier' against bugs, for a simple example. If complexity gets to a certain level just to accommodate the many possibilities, it defeats the purpose of ranking weapons in tiers for sake of simplicity.
Apparently the medium penetration on the Purifier is bugged and not applying properly which could play a part in its lower damage
I thought it was weird that I was one-shotting Brood commanders one mission, and then in the next, it takes an entire mag.. what a trash warbond lol
even if they fix the medium pen its still going to need a huge damage buff. at LEAST 100 more damage if not more.
@@TheCosmicAstro- this should of been an alt fire for the scorcher if anything
@@Csdabest89or possibly if it threw a burst of 3 shots for the cost of 1 ammo.
My fear is that arrowhead balanced this weapon against this initial version of the punisher plasma, i.e. before the last big balance patch. The pre-balance punisher had a very short effective range and was almost impossible to aim at anything beyond that. The purifier might have been arrowheads answer to this shortcoming, at the expense of a long charge-up time.
Now that the punisher plasma has been buffed by getting a bigger muzzle velocity, it is easy to use at low to medium range (and has thus become an extraordinarily great weapon against bots). The purifier was obsolete at the time it was released because it did not receive a similar buff.
It is good to hear that it used to have a use-case. But frankly put: encounters against bugs are at
I personally found this weapon to be trash. What I'd hoped for was something akin to the Plasma rifle from Warhammer 40k. What we got was a marshmellow tosser. Considering the frantic rate of combat at the higher difficulties the slower rate of fire just doesn't work well. The damage on direct shots doesn't feel significant enough when engaging most medium enemy types.
The plasma shotgun's limitation for me is that it's really bad vs flying targets like gunship and shriekers. But then you have your support weapons for that like the laser, ac or amr vs bots, and your sidearm for bugs. For range, you can do skill shots with it - be the mortar. It's one of the few weapons that can do shots over cover.
While maybe the Purifier is good in range, I find almost little to no need to shoot in farther ranges. This is why I have trouble fitting the Purifier in my builds as there are, in my opinion, better choices. Perhaps AH can come up with something better for it.
Not really being able to hit Shriekers definitely hurts the PPunisher in some situations, but I don't think there are any primary weapons that can take out Gunships? Other than that, though, I pretty much agree- I love plasma and explosive weapons, but the Purifier doesn't really feel like it measures up. It's not _unuseably_ bad like some people are claiming, but much like the Tenderizer it lacks any real role compared to other weapons.
Man, there's always a contrarian 🤣
Glad you found a weapon you enjoy. I personally think it doesn’t feel very good at all in terms of feel and with it’s fire rate. As well as with the bugs people are saying about it’s armor pen not working it probably does feel right at the moment anyway. With that in mind if it still doesn’t feel great a variable scope and a slight dmg buff would probably put it in line with some of the other decent weapons in my opinion.
You can't defend the doodoopoopoo which is the purifier.
Then how do you defend your lack of skill?
@HHTwice lol, by your logic, John Wick could kill people with a pencil ✏️ but im sure he'dmuch prefer a better weapon, and why would you if given the choice & wide variety of weapons that vastly outperform the Purifier? There's no point in having a gun that's a worse version of a pre-existing gun man.
@@tobiasrex8052 serves a different function from the Scorcher and Plasma Punisher, not everything has to be good at everything, most people are bad at the game and don’t do any testing and immediately scream something sucks after hardly using it. It’s alright though it’s pretty clear the community itself will ruin the game so these conversations don’t even matter to begin with lol I mean FFS even the Railgun got buffed again recently to the point it’s performing consistently great and people still call it trash lol
@HHTwice yet I fail to see anyone here tell me what it's function is when we have the Plasma Punisher. Dors it close bug holes/fabricators? No? Stuns? Plasma Punisher does that.
@@tobiasrex8052 long/mid range consistent extremely high stagger and kills, it shreds through bots, can one shot striders when aiming properly and perma stuns devestators, can kill tanks and turrets since it can penetrate medium armor and does alright against bugs until you get swarmed, but the Scorcher/Plasma Punisher suffer from the same issues when you get swarmed by bugs. Why do you need another primary to close holes? Most support weapons and grenades can do that, you’re yet again falling to the mentality of “this one gun has to be a universal multi tool or else it sucks hurrrrr” mentality. Also the plasma punisher can’t close holes or anything like that either so idk why you’re using that as a point when it’s flat out wrong lol I haven’t seen anyone that criticizes the gun actually dismantle it in a logical and convincing way that doesn’t resort to “b-b-but this other gun has some of the same effects so it’s worthless” argument that holds no water
purfier is hot garbaage
in my head i though 'hell no, this thing isnt underrated, its straight hot garbage' glad to see upon clicking that the comments share my thoughts lmao
Haha! Google wants to translate your comment. is that French?
This is the level of thinking that rivals the AH balance team's weapon balancing skill.
I like this weapon.
The only sad point.. this is just a weaker scorcher. 3~4 shots for a walker, 4~5 shots for a devastator..
Scorcher needs like 1 more hit to kill, but there is not 1 seconde more between each shot
Exactly.
100% agree just wish you mentioned more about its stagger cus it is SO good against devistators. Loving this weapon.
i talked about it much more in my other vid abt the purifier:
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Finally, someone else that appreciates this gun lol
I'll admit though, it does need a bit more "oomph" in the damage department. At least 300 damage in my opinion would be good to get it a more stable place in common Helldiver's loadouts.
Why would you use this weapon? It’s literally just the scorcher but worse. You have to charge it up and even then, a basic terminid unit takes two headshots to kill. Devastators tank 6 shots, which is just laughable. Sure, the scorcher does less damage, but it does everything the purifier does, except its faster. As the final weapon of a paid warbond, absolute garbage
its an AOE scorcher
Agreed... AOE is copium should just be a firing mode
you charging it up for +50 damage and a bigger radius. Im going to keep spaming that this should of been an ALt fire for the Scorcher. *Charging up shots* for stronger damage when its lock at a dmg rate shows this gun is fundamentally broken according to its own description
@@Mogz-hd It's not. The area of effect is too small to be of use, compared to other weapons.
Also, you clearly don't know, but Scorcher is *already* and AoE weapon. Dude, learn the game, lol!
@@SkywalkerWroc uh.. the smallest aoe effect in the known universe, sure.
It is a punisher plasma with less drop but a fraction of the fire rate. There is no reason to use it. At range there are better options and close in the punisher would be a better option in every case. Even that weapon is poor over all.
These “high dmg” guns in the game really need a buff. They don’t do near enough dmg to justify their shortcomings. They should be able to kill devasators in 1-2 shots because that’s about how long it takes in seconds to kill them with the scorcher.
I feel like this guns damage is bugged and thats why it sucks
it doesnt have medium pen like advertised.
problem is its explosive so its hard to see this easily.
but even then, the gun needs a BIG damage buff. upwards of at least 350 if not more.
I believe the reason why everybody hates the Purifier is because there's better options for Primaries. People WOULD run the Purifier, but considering that there are better options available that outdo the purifier in numerous categories, nobody runs it for good reason.
The Punisher-P has a higher fire-rate and splash radius, but has a drop-off and a slower projectile speed compared to the Purifier. This would be great but considering that a majority of the game revolves around retreating because you can easily get swarmed, you'll find yourself more into close encounters than trying to play sniper. Even if you attempt to play sniper, you'll eventually get that one Patrol who'll force you into a close encounter battle unless you go full metal gear solid, but at that point why even run the Purifier? If you plan to be far ranged, run the Diligence-CS. It has Medium AP, it can one shot devastators to the head and often one shot's troopers to the body. It doesn't have a stagger but you're not going to be up-close anyway, so why bother. Even then the Punisher-P's projectile isn't as slow as it was before, and once you get used to the arc it can become really good.
The Scorcher is instant, It has roughly the same splash radius, has the same magazine & capacity count, 50 less damage, no stagger and lower AP. The Purifier should technically outclass this weapon but it doesn't. What makes the Scorcher good is that it practically ignores medium armor unless it's heavy. The explosion from the Scorcher allows you to do pretty much everything the Purifier does but faster. The Scorcher also allows room for error, so even if you don't directly shoot the head, the explosion damage would cover a little bit of that damage; you can mess up shots but won't be heavily punished for it since hitting the head and body have roughly the same TTK (Time To Kill). For the Purifier, you miss once? Got to charge that baby up to kill one devastator/hive guard 4 times. This can also go back to the Punisher-P. Unlike the Purifier, Both of these guns can keep up with the enemy spawn rates with their explosion radius alone and ability to quickly take out enemies as they come in. They can't stand alone in terms of actually holding a line, but it can clear a crowd significantly faster than the purifier.
I heard you mentioned crowd control and dealing with lighter enemies, but there's a SIGNIFICANTLY better option in that category as well. The Breaker Incendiary has been a favorite because of it's crowd control ability. You can shoot 3 shells into a patrol and light them all on fire, dealing more damage than the Purifier with 3 shots and then some. The fire affect allows for constant damage to not only soften up enemies, but also kill them. Not only that, even if you miss all pellets, the enemies will most likely catch fire and will now do Damage Over Time since it's fixed.
The biggest issue with the Purifier is the fact that not only does messing up your shots punish you heavily, but it just takes WAY too long to kill enemies with this thing even if you land your shots. I was kind of hoping for this gun to be similar to the Eruptor, in which the gun is really good against medium to heavy units, but sucks at clearing light enemies. I hope that's the direction it would head towards in the near future, it would make machine guns a viable tool to run. But in general, what makes the Purifier horrible is the time it takes to kill enemies. Sure it can clear crowds, but other guns do that faster with ease; Sure it can stagger, but other guns can do that too while not having a charge up; Sure it has Medium AP, but once again the Scorcher pretty much has Medium AP with it's explosions. I really hope they buff up the damage and turn it into another Eruptor (a long charge but powerful blast to hurt medium to heavy units). However as it is right now, it can't keep up with other guns. If you want to run the Purifier, the Scorcher with a 1 second trigger discipline is pretty much the same thing.
Bro I hate the scope ! It needs some zoom desperately how do they expect you to use it at range ... Like hmmm let me give you a red dot
Unfortunately this a common issue in this game, many of the weapons just have the wrong sights for what is "supposed" to be used for...
I feel like any of the jobs you listed for it I can do better and more efficiently with other options. Ex: tank and turret towers- grenade launcher takes out in 3ish shots without a charge up and still leaves me open for a better primary
Updated 2024/06/13: Now the explosion can deal damage to armor enemy making it less punishing.
What’s even this gun?
Long range - no 2-4x scope so good luck
Explosive - small aoe control
Charge - low damage for wasting my time
I tried to be both railgun and plasma shotgun but not good as either
Damage needs to be 2x more to compensate for rate of fire. DPS is too low compared to its sibling the Scorcher.
would be massively op with 2x dmg.
mmayyybe +50 or so would help
Working medium pen would do a lot for that weapon @@Mogz-hd
its not working? i didnt have any issues with it damaging medium armoured units/bodyparts
@@Mogz-hd felt Like IT didnt Work. Need to Test more. Ty
@@Mogz-hd thats because its explosive, the explosion goes through.
just like the scorcher doesnt have medium armor pen but can also damage medium armored enemies.
Given that devs admitted they were behind and things were dropping on a schedule. I'm assuming the purifier was meant to be exactly like the scorcher in semi auto. Light penetrating 200 damage per single shot BUT you have the option to charge the weapon and have a 250 damage medium penetration shot. Not confirmed but I can imagine that's how this will get buffed in the future.
Most of that “stagger” at 0:54 is not stagger, it’s the bugs auto-dodge from being hit by an AoE weapon, it’s why it only happens once per 3-4 seconds despite the weapon hitting every 2-3 seconds. They do the same from almost every other AoE in the game, hunters do it for all weapons which is why so many people hate shooting at them.
You can see it again at 3:04 with the prawn. Bugs side-hop when hit with certain attacks it’s also why they ragdoll oddly sometimes because the physics takes effect on the corpse which is “lighter” than the live unit.
okay, i'll let u cook...
Edit: never let him cook again.
ima continue cooking :)
"how exactly does It work: It doesn't
Is It good? fuck no
if so what's It good for? wasting Primary slot, anything It can do something else does It better, and It doesn't even work as a sum of it's parts. The only viable option to use this is to be carried by someone that's doing real damage and you stagger things for them, being a good npc, although by the time you try to stagger anything It will probably be dead by that other person's weapon
Facts.
April first ? this soon again ???
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The main problems are miscommunication (we expected a Scorcher with Unsafe Mode, not this), Scope options (I mean it's supposed to be a Rifle) and, personally, I want a way to cancel a shot. When playing stealthily, there's not much worse than having to waste a shot into the environment and possibly alerting the enemy with it ...
Do you know if there is an option to cancel a charged up shot I've missed? I've tried switching weapons and Strategems menu and that doesn't work...
agree, it needs a way to cancel the shot.
I personally love this weapon, but most of what everyone says about it is true. Why use this when we have the Puni-Plasma, which essentially does a better job and no charge time? It says it's both explosive and "medium armor pen." but it certainly doesn't feel like it at all. Meanwhile, the Puni-plasma is simply explosive, but hits like a truck. The only true advantage the Purifier has is that it shoots completely straight, much like a sniper rifle. It's almost like The Purifier was made by someone who didn't know the Punisher Plasma already existed.
Also, what's with all those energy bolts coming from the sky at 3:09 ?
"Also, what's with all those energy bolts coming from the sky at 3:09 ?"
thats my teammate shooting with his scorcher
yep purifier is better at range. Needs a scope with a bit of zoom tho imo.
@@Mogz-hd I figured. With all this Illuminate talk going on you get a little paranoid every time you see space lasers that you can't explain lol
@@Mystyx-Sama lollll fr
the correct take, enjoy something for what it is, not pretending its something better. i love using LC, but its so bad, and it feels weaker since the last patch even tho its damage was supposed to be buffed so i don't get it. i don't tell people its amazing i say i like using it and think it sucks, same with prenerf crossbow.
whoa.. did you just say the laser cannon is bad????? its easily one of my favourite weapons.
its basically a machine gun with infinite ammo but less/no stagger. Absolutely shreds medium armor
I bet bro thinks the dagger is s tier 💀
good one bro!
I love the Punisher Plasma, dont wait to shoot, also good at range, i aim above enemies and throw the plasm right inn the middle of a bunch of bots...almost every time a hit, reaches most time to the viewing range.... only issue 8 shots.I also like to hot over obsticles and kill those mech bastards without sight 😀 always fun to see the red crosshair after hitting a hidden enemy 😀
You know what would be a fun buff to the Purifier? Leveling damage and the ability to hold a charge. Let me explain.
Imagine after the 1 second charge-up, the gun went through a couple of levels.
Hold for 1 second = 250 damage
Hold for 2 seconds = 500 damage
Hold for 3 seconds = 750 damage
(Each level also uses another round from the magazine, for balance)
Sounds kinda pointless to begin with. But then you pair it with the ability to hold a charge. Charge up a shot out of combat, store it, then when you need it, initiate combat with a 750 damage explosion with no wind up.
Think of it like Charge Shot from Samus. You have a charge ready to go, but you can still move freely. You could either have to hold the fire button (like Super Metroid) or have it store the shot with a blinking light (like Smash Bros)
Nothing game breaking, but an extra level of fun. (Hint, hint, balancing team)
I feel like the gun would be in a good place if it had better head shot damage and a variable scope, giving it an identity as the plasma sniper.
I think I'd still rather just use the Scorcher.
honestly tho
The Scorcher bests the Purifier in every single way.
next video: The Scorcher is OVERRATED … great idea
I see potential in it, i wanna love it but it needs some serious buffs first
yeh i think it could do with a slight damage buff. maybe 50 or so would be good. and a scope with some zoom.
1:50 from the looks of it, it might be my new nain for atomatons. The Punisher Plasma was good as a grenade launcher with both aoe and staggering edfects, but ive always been somewhat of a support/sniper. I always take my time to aim shot dor most damage so the charge raight isnt a problem for me.
I always play sniper if I can help it. I am currently trying to get this to give it a try.
For the charge time, it should do more damage.
Most things can work if you try hard enough, but is it worth it, though?
I must be bad at the game then since I'm struggling at killing things with this thing.... I choose to support team by killing things outright, than simply providing crowd control and doing little damage, because more bad guys will keep spawning / approach the fight, stopping the team from completing objectives. Weapons like the Purifier doesn't provide me that, more power to those with the skill that can make it work though.
Don't worry guys, it can destroy spore spewers in 2.5 magazines (not shrieker nests tho). Truly, a hidden gem.
Man this weapon is so disappointing...
haha yeh cos its an AOE weapon being used against something that takes 2 EAT rockets. ofc its gona take a tonne of shots
@@Mogz-hd I was being sarcastic to get across a certain point, but let me be more clear. It's 100% alright for you to like this weapon. I'm glad you do, because at least someone is. But this weapon has no reason to ever be taken over any other weapon, as it combines the drawbacks of the plasma punisher and scorcher without the strengths either has. It being able to kill chargers in ten shots underneath them is a nominal feature; you would be wasting your time doing that, and the only reason to ever do so is if you literally had no other means of killing it. Being able to destroy spore spewers is a gimmick that you would put on the packaging of a worthless product to pad out feature lists, like an MP3 player advertising its pause button as a feature.
If you were to ever want to take the purifier, just take the scorcher and enjoy having literally over 4x the fire rate for the same performance.
Honestly I found it terribly irritating when an ally has it. The push shove enemies so far and so suddenly I kept having to sharply adjust my aim whenever my Purifier ally tried to help.
I’m over here still rocking the standard issue Liberator. Keep up the great work Mogz!
Thanks for the analysis bruv
Honestly, i want to like it, but I don't think the stagger nor the damage on this weapon are good enough for D7+. Its cool that it takes ~4 shots to kill medium armor, but its actual TTK is just way too slow due to the charge time.
Also, something about this weapon just feels broken. The explosion vfx gets bigger the farther the away the projectile is (like the Plasma Pun), and it doesnt feel like the weapon has med pen at all. If you took the damage profile of the current Eruptor and gave it to this weapon, then we'd be cooking.
My god...stop overhyping these shit weapons, ffs.
lol most of the vid is just talkin abt the capability bro.. no hype at all. the rest is merely my opinion
@@Mogz-hd I can respect one's personal opinion, after all, it's about tastes, but: "IT'S UNDERRATED", "100% PURE", "HIDDEN GEM", bro? Meanwhile, it's one of the most underperforming weapons in the entire game. And believe me, I REALY want to like this weapon, I've tried, but it literally feels like you're handicapping yourself using this.
@@eddiemitza2544 lol i do think its massively underrated.. thats my honest opinion. And that makes it a hidden gem by definition.
and "100% pure" is a joke lol.. obviously... its called the purifier. Its pure. get it? :P
at least I didnt write "S-Tier".. surely i get points for that
and yeh i just disagree that its one of the most underperforming weapons.. i think it performs quite well for what it is - a long range aoe weapon (the only one in the game actually)
@@Mogz-hd Ah, yes, the "pure" joke was lost on me.
i think what people fail to realize is that the devs are probably actively balancing these guns with an enemy faction we haven’t seen yet (illuminate) which would explain why some of these guns just feel like straight ass when using against bots or bugs, their niches are incomplete until we can test them against the 3rd enemy faction and then we can truly come to a formal conclusion on balancing, until then, it’s all speculation.
You're giving the "balance team" waaaay too much credit on that one, helldiver.
Sounds more like Wishful thinking on your end.
@tobiasrex8052 have you played HD1? There are some weapons that are way better than others for certain factions. That said, you could be right...maybe I'm just optimistic
@MrDevilsTouch hey, hopefully they fix the gun so it's much more enjoyable to use since we have some people thinking it's in a perfect spot as it is despite how terrible it plays.
Uderrated hidden gem huh?
Yeah probably what the devs thought too.
Rated under other weapons and hidden in the polar patriots warbond...
yeah think the reason why it was/is so hated is that it doesn't really work like it did in the trailer, but i love weapons that have a bit more of a learning curve
lol u mean the "it doesnt 1 shot striders" thing that everyone seems intent on repeating?
i think ppl suddenly forgot that trailers are very often dramatizations of the product.. most/all movie/tvshow trailers are.. weapon trailers in hd2 are no different. Just cos the trailer showed a 2 second slowmo clip of a strider dying in 1 hit.. uh, it didnt show the lead up to that battle so you cannot infer ANYTHING from that clip.
@@Mogz-hd very true, i have not really used any charge up weapons, but looks like i might need to give it a try :)
@@Mogz-hdWhen that product costs real life money in a game I dont want a over the top dramatization though.
The bullet drop of this gun is terrible
So that quite limited its range.
I just started to appreciate this weapon, thanks for the tips and pointers you give for this gun.
Don’t waste 80 war bonds on this weapon. It’s time to kill is fucking atrocious.
Liking this gun is like saying u enjoy being paid minimum wage, good for u ig, but its not worth defending or telling others 💀
haha mmhm.. and attacking people who dont like the same things you like, or like things you dont like, is among the most childish cringey behaviour i've ever witnessed. Absolutely shameful stuff.
@@Mogz-hd aren't u doing the same? Ik ur ego is hurt but u gotta admit this is bad, unlikely others wanting a raise u saying "oh this is ok" only drags everyone around u down smh
huh? everyone is entitled to their opinion about the gun. i have no issue there.
what i take issue with is being attacked and, frankly, bullied, for my views on the gun. Is standing up to a bully the same as being a bully? nope!
it isnt underrated, its properly rated for how garbage it is.
Just started using the Purifier right after i unlocked it. It has been underwhelming in most aspects but some of its traits like the stagger have kept it a foot above the grave. From what ive experienced, the Purifier is a weapon that relies heavily on the support strategems you choose, due to its lack of ability to dish out damage values like the scorcher and sickle.
Personally, i think that its a good thing that this weapin was released in an unintended state. Yes i still hate Alexus for advertising these weapons as S tier when theyre a C or B at best. But for those of us who have and are using the Purifier at its worst will get to know the weapon, and when the buff comes around, will be able to use it to ots maxiumum potential right out of the hellpod.
If the buff comes around, and if it does indeed deliever the Purifier to its indended state, maybe we'll see the helldivers whove used this at its worst run around like they all have semi-automatic pocket railguns.
it needs prolly 50 more dmg to make it relevant at the limited fire rate it has.
yeh i think i could get on board with that.
@@Mogz-hdIT should have 2 fire Options.
Fast simple shots Like scorcher with less DMG.
Charged shots with more DMG then the plas punisher.
Made a Suggestion about IT over ON Reddit to get a better use Case and identity.
Keep IT Up mogz ❤
@@actosh7670 i could get on board with that too! great idea
I don't really like the charge up weapons in the game. I feel like a good alternative to this than charge up is if it acts like a single fire breach load energy weapon, where you change the plasma cartridge after each shot like the rail gun. Also this can kill a shredder tank shooting at the front plate armor of the turret, pretty surprised when I did it.
This would've been a good weapon if the punisher plasma or the pummeler didn't exist. Both weapons can fire faster than the purifier and both weapons has the same if not superior stagger because they can fire faster and sustain that stagger and can keep enemies away longer. This would be used more if it can 1 shot medium enemies with direct hit and a stagger that last longer with how slow it fires.
yeh honestly i think it doesnt even need the chargeup.. would have more relevance in our arsenal without the chargeup
This is the problem with the balence to IMO
They're too lazy to give new weapons personality and they find it OP
Let's take the PLAS-101 and Eruptor for this case
The Eruptor wasn't a fan favorite just because it was good, it was because it was unique with its shrapnel and forced players to play TO the gun instead of the gun playing to THEM.
Then the devs, instead of balancing out the shrapnel so it can't one-shot chargers, completely removed it. Ruining what it was. not only making it unnecessarily weaker but also removing its identity and just turning it into another gun with an “explosive” passive.
The devs just outright fucking lied saying it was a good decision and saying these weapons shouldn't have so much collateral (despite the existence of the fucking Arc weapons)
Now for the PLAS-101 Purifier, this is like the Deagle secondary that came in the same Warbond and tried to do everything, playing TO the player, yes it's okay at just about everything, but it excels at nothing. Nothing that's not already done with the other plasma weapons
Slow and clunky crowd clearer? Nope, that's the Punisher Plasma.
Quick and sharp response CQC? Nope, that's the PLAS-1 Scorcher
Heavy and slow, elite unit destroyer/vehicle and building dismantled? Maybe, but the devs didn't want to go full-on. Scared it would make it OP, so they made it have an identity crisis.
There is no reason to choose this over the Scorcher. It is absolutely useless. Like 70% of the weapons in this game. They need to rework a lot of their weapons
scorcher is single target
this is aoe
barely comparable
The only thing they can do to make this even remotely viable is to give it infinite ammo.
I'd like to see someone helldive with the purifier and HMG. Shit tier.
Purifier is just a higher skill floor weapon that has great potential when you meet those requirements. Scorcher was/is similar in that respect.
I actually love that they aren't brainless pewpew, and actually encourage the use of your secondary at times.
Only thing this weapon is good for is wasting hard earned medals. Stick with the scorcher or punisher plasma, they have better dps, aoe and general ease of use.
Baiting for comments, are we not? The gun needs work. No point in using it over a scorcher right now.
not at all homie. ty for accusation tho
Anything this gun do, the scorcher does it twice as good. So it will forever be under the shadow of the scorcher if not buffing.
It's essentially that using it made me unable to use my primary weapon during a match. It was so bad at killing things that I had to pick up other hell-divers weapons to do anything. It is borderline worse than anything primary currently.
This must be a troll video
Huh, a positive video on this weapon. Honestly I think the main issues is the charge up time, which lets enemies get in close if you're not careful, and the lack of power compared to what was shown in the trailer. Granted, what was shown was it one shotting Scout Striders, which could easily have actually been two shots but cut to look like one, but before the War Bond came out they did buff the Strider's explosion resistance. It was in the big balance patch where the Liberator got buffed, which ended up making it as strong at the Tenderizer so when the Tenderizer came out it was "just a side grade."
haha i dont understand people watching trailers n thinking they represent the capability of the weapon in every clip. Trailers for movies are always a bunch of clips taken out of context for dramatic effect.. same goes for hd2 weapon trailers
@@Mogz-hd Yeah, same thing happened with the Thermite grenades. Was shown thrown at a Charger so people just assumed it would be good to use against them. Even after the DoT bug was fixed it ended up just okay. That said, it does raise the question of if the Striders used in the trailer had the explosion resistance buff from the patch or if they were weakened versions just for the trailer to make the weapon look better.
@@Moodyman90 mmm people are a little silly sometimes. Jumping to conclusions n then blaming others when they land face first in a puddle of "wrong" lol
duno re: striders in trailer .. all i know is that i regularly two-shotted striders with the purifier. Its one of the best strider killers out there. Massive stagger. Only 2 shots. Sometimes 3. Ez mode.
Hands down one of my favorite weapon designs, unfortunately it doesn’t do as well as its predecessors at hardly anything. The niche it fills is too specific imho. I don’t think the charge up time was necessary either, and was just AH being concerned it would be broken if it had a high fire rate due to its AoE on top of medium armor pen. AH could fix it easy by giving it new firing modes. Standard charge up mode that provides large AoE and a regular old pew pew mode that drops the AoE (or reduces it) and/or does less damage in exchange for a higher fire rate. This would put the weapon in a nice versatility over power niche. You exchange the raw power of other weapons for the ability to be more versatile in combat, able to go from crowd clearing to single target dps when necessary, instead of having to rely on sidearms and startagem weapons to fill those roles.
It seems like this weapon just like the Tenderizer have been released in an early testing version and they will get buffed very soon. The devs even acknowledged that the Tenderizer's stats are not what they indented, in the patch notes known issues list.
Since the community has managed to fill every social media of the game with a ton of negativity, I assume the devs will buff things to appease them and they will buff the Purifier even it they didn't official acknowledge that it is lacking as a weapon.
How? Why? How?! Why?!Crazy how people see things differently!
My guy shot 6 enemies and had to shot 8 times for 4 kills🤣“ but the weapon is nice“ i can not believe you played any other weapons in this game thant this BS
i've used all weapons pretty extensively actually, since im a content creator.
but yeh, amazing isnt it.. people have different opinions
SHOCK BLOODY HORROR!
I wish this gun did something like getting a larger blast radius the longer you charge to make it more unique
The purifier has no hit markers so I can’t tell when I’m doing damage
The thing how balance USUALLY work in games is a system of pros and cons when we compare two similar weapons
Lets compare it with Scorcher.
+ Splash is wider. Scorcher's splash deals max damage of 100 in 1 meter radius and falls off until it only deals stagger without damage at radius of 2 meters. Purifier deals full explosive damage of 150 in 2 meter radius. Fall off is at 3 meters radius.
+ Explosive damage is 150. Scorcher only deals 100.
And here we go
- Charge up mechanic not only makes rate of fire SIGNIFICANTLY worse than Scorcher's but also makes you press and hold button every shot possibly annoying player and making him miss shots
- Charge up strangely doesn't give you more damage or explosion radius. It's just a mandatory thing to make a shot
- Medium penetration is only explosion's trait. Projectile still can only penetrate light armor
Judging by that there are some solutions that can make Purifier good:
1) Charging increases damage/armor pen/splash radius but weapon can now be shot without charging (slightly slower than punisher plasma)
2) Charging is passive now. You shoot and weapon recharges by itself. Still needs increase in some of the stats
3) Make more charge levels that will consume more ammo and result in huge explosion area (something like what good old Eruptor could do on release, maybe even more powerful)
It's really not a "hidden gem" if it can't kill shit, lmao
Don't you just love charge up primary weapons with relatively limited ammo that will kill you if you fire it in close range when you have 2 patrols of bugs that jump into melee range ?
Most weapons are useless due to the moron responsible for balance, treating it as a PvP and using the infamous "spread sheet" balance method , this is just a tad worse than most
What if the purifier was incendiary like the scorcher was in helldivers 1, the burn DoT would make up for its low damage as any surviving chaff would just burn to death and the DoT would partially make up for the horrendous firerate versus larger enemies, plus it'd be great versus scout striders as the pilot eould burn to death from a single hit.
Purifyer breakpoints and punisher plasma are too similar in a sense, there's less reward in using purifier due to lack damage burst necessary to eliminate enemies quickly which the punisher plasma can dish out in a single mag in quick succession.
The issue with the gun is the speed of killing elite enemies is way slower than what the punisher plasma can do...
Though it has an advantage of having higher ammo per mag... the punisher can easily compensate with its quick paced shots and reload that doesn't gimp you into switching to a side arm to practically use it at close-mid range proximity.
[While sure it can't murder flying gun ships, but let's be honest... if your gonna bring a CC weapon, you want a gun that can fire continuously and still capable of delaying big threats that is already locked on to you.]
The purifier is most likely going get staggered or already too late to fire, with its aoe already in your face.
The clunkiness alone made it less popular with very good reason.
Little reward with each charged shot.
It's not like Arc thrower that guarantee's a kill behind the enemy.
Hell, I'd use the nerfed eruptor and that thing staggers the same way it can and the reload per shot is almost similar to it. [It can also destroy objectives to boot, who cares about ammo anymore.]
The Punisher Plasma is also a little Mortar. In large areas you can kill Enemys in far by shoot in the sky and selfadjust the angle.
Its not even trigger the enemys most of the time. But ist not precise loike the Purifier on long range, and there has to be much more lead in because ofe the
feet per second the plasmaball got.
Punisher is higher in shots per second i think.
Punisher is able to shoot behind mates without killing them, but the enemys behind the mates.
yeh definitely all true
The thing that makes it stand out is that its probably rhe only primary than can effectively take out a gunship
Try the punisher plasma for a week. That thing shits all over this gun. Just learn to aim high and win.
been rocking it for a while, and much like the puni-plasma I do enjoy playing w/... both bound to be less popular due to the steep learning curve and not so obvious use cases...
still, from the get-go the purifier is kinda weak... it should 2-tap brood commanders and the crazy chain saw bots, needs a scope, and better full charge cue cuz is hard to tell when in 1st person (I know there's a sound cue, but occasionally is hard to hear it, specially during chaotic moments where you need the gun not to choke)
this is another gun on my "I like even tho is not very good" list
cheers homie... oh and where are my parody commercial style weapon vids? lol maybe we could use one for the airburst rocket!!! XD
This should have been a split fire weapon like the devils ruin in d2, click or rapid trigger pull to fire shots like the scorcher, or hold down to fire the charged up shot
Its a hidden gems, lets keep it hidden 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Ppl complaining about this gun clearly aren’t using it correctly. This isn’t an in your face pew pew shoot and kill instantly gun you need distance and space awareness when using it. The gun is decent. Like mentioned in this video, paired with jet pack and get that elevation. I also use light armor and scout perk. It’s a sniper build weapon that’s more like a support weapon. I use it to support my homies when they going in.
While u are doing some work with it... it is taking sooo long to taje out a very small amount of enemies...
It's just a scorcher with a CHARGE UP TIME. Removing the charge up time just makes it a scorcher. I say keep the chargeup but give it either unlimited ammo or more of a punch.
you can one tap any automaton with the purifier if you shoot them in the sphincter. A lot of people don’t know this because Automatons don’t visibly have an anus
Buyed the gun, shot the gun... took my punisher plasma again.
If they had it work like we thought it would (can shoot rapid fire, more you charge, more damage), this thing would be awesome.