How to Use the PLAS-1 Scorcher in Helldivers 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- It is quite the grind to unlock the PLAS-1 Scorcher, but this gun is definitely worth it. Let's talk about this amazing primary weapon in Helldivers 2.
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To make this clear because I am getting lots of comments. The “griefer” killed my teammate, took his backpack and support weapon and was bragging about it while also saying nasty things on the mic. I know samples are shared
Additional Tip: The "Fortified" Armor Passive will allow you to barely survive the explosive damage
You can just kick and block him
I wasnt party leader but after this happened everyone left him to fail the mission@@Renesansakaalex
@@DrPooplove oh ok
In the video you said the gun wasn't very effective against chargers, but when I tried it I absolutely EVISCERATED their weak point on the rear?
@@PHATERTL yeah I have tested it out further and I agree it’s pretty good for that
PLAS-1 Scorcher experience:
Magazine is empty!
I need to reload!
Last reload!
Out of ammo!
True
Scorcher goes good with Arc Thrower
Hunters jump on you, you shoot them, die to splash damage.
@@magnusiocus2828Or you could melee them run, pull your pistol and fire behind you without aim button (lets you run and fire behind you)
The tiny amount of damage it puts out is laughable too.
This gun changed my life. I haven't gone back to the breaker at all since I unlocked the scorcher two weeks ago. Just wish it had a magazine capacity increase.
Thoughts on comboing it with a supply backpack?
@@BlackTempleGaurdian Goated! Use the grenade launcher, flamethrower, railgun AMR, or arc thrower with it along with a mech for easy mission completions
@@BlackTempleGaurdian how do u give yourself ammo on controller with it?
Down on the d-pad!
@@ClairvoyantLastrusIdk, mechas are a nieche, I for example can’t cope with their low health and can do more with a 500kg, an autocannon/gatling sentry an orbital laser, a recoilless/EAT or a supply backpack. I don’t want to invalidate your playstile at all, but taking the mech is less of general advice as "always place sentries on ridgelines/boulders to protect you and your team from friendly fire", "place sentries with a distance to enemies so they don’t have to readjust that much angle and are better protected against melee", "collect all samples always" or "always keep bugs at distance" are
AT-ST btw. AT-AT are the ginormous ones that get wrapped up on Hoth. ST's are the ones Chewie steals on Endor. For Biles if you get an orbital railcannon strike on it, shooting the stomachs with the scorcher will generally finish it off. Melee button against bugs is helpful, fortified armor (recoil reduction and explosive damage resist) is also handy.
I feel like the AT-RT is better to call them since they are open
@@BearlyBearrrI can certainly see that, squarish design calls to mind more st for me but I wouldn't call RT out like I did AT-AT 8P
@@kylelantan9220can you imagine a robot camel with canon turets just coming over from the horizion when your extracting
@@BearlyBearrr I just call them what they are, striders.
@@kylelantan9220 I definitely see the inspiration came from the AT-RT for sure.
My wife says it's this gun or her. She will be missed.
The best thing I've bought since my combat knife!
What if she was hot and had big tits
The item reviews 😂
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The Scorcher ist just the perfect weapons vs. Robots and not for Bugs Missions. Keep that in mind.
Depends on the bug mission. Sometimes you get swarmed by armoured spewers, and this thing destroys them.
This is just amazing on killing stalkers, took 3 stalkers out solo with one clip.
Usually when I use the scorcher, I will bring along a Stalwart lmg on my back. On high difficulties, while my scorcher deals with bigger bugs, I will use my lmg to deal with infinite amount of small bug hordes.
Need to rely on my friends to deal with chargers or titans though.
Do you wear a pack of some sort as well?
@Joe_Friday Sometimes a shield generator pack, sometimes resupply packs, sometimes ammo packs for team weapons.
Better to run gattling sentry instead of stalward and run railgun for big boys. Then again id swap out scorcher for breaker against bugs anyway
instead of stalwart, i'd rather pick the arc guns, good at killing small and medium, decent for chargers, only problem would be bile titan for which you can take 500kg or orbital rail, and you are basically a jack of all.
I highly recommend the Arc Thrower alongside the scorcher, though it will take a few missions to learn the gun
Used the Plas-1 in several bot missions today and I enjoyed it a great deal. My only complaint is that it needs a few more rounds per mag. Haven’t tried it on Termanids but on Bots it was very good. Good dmg, range, accuracy.
This is a great weapon against the Bots but for the bugs I use the sickle.
After weeks of grinding whenever I had the chance I have the plas-1 and the full hero of the federation armor and man do I look good spreading democracy
Do you like ot better than the Breaker? I don't have the Scorcher yet. I was thinking the Breaker for bugs and Scorcher for bots.
@@Joe_Friday yeah I prefer it for both because it has more range just be careful with bugs since if you get surrounded you need to pull out your secondary because otherwise you’ll kill yourself with the plas-1
@@Joe_FridayIt is a fantastic weapon if you know how to aim and shoot. No random spray and pray with this one.
What the hell is helldivers, i don't know how i keep being on the wrong side of these huge releases, baldurs gate went right over my head to almost universal acclaim, now helldivers is the big thing and i have no idea what it is. I'm just happy people found a game to spend time with that came without many issues apart from the servers
It’s a pve tactical third person shooter! It’s very fun and since we don’t get Factions 2 it is keeping me busy. I think it’s worth checking out!
Baldurs gate is the GOAT
2 funny things are taking over the galaxy so you’re here to defend super earth and spreading democracy to planets
Do yourself a favor and try it out.
Now that the servers are largely fixed. There has never been a better time to play, and the playerbase is larger than ever.
Dont worry baldurs gate 3 isnt that great. 2 is the best play 1 and 2. This game had a bit of.a shadow release not witjout some reveal awhile back. Its a soft early access game as well
I've only ever witnessed the Scorcher once in-game, and it was in the hands of some other high-level guy who was playing with us. I plucked it off his corpse at one point and boy was I shocked. It was the most powerful gun I'd ever used, easily beating my Breaker. He deus ex machina'd me and my other squadmates a few times with his gun's unique ability to gun down devastators.
Man... I've had this gun ready to unlock for a long time, I just thought it might suck like most of the other guns I've unlocked, so I never got it. Now I find out that most people consider it the best.
SCORCHER is my favorite for automatons it can take everything below Hulk,Tank,Tower. Recently im taking it to Bugs and its doing greate.
If you shoot a whole mag into the back of a tank/turret vent you’ll destroy it because it does explosive damage
@@michaelrosen4131same with hulks, but getting their backside is tricky.
Unspoken rules: 1 supply pack per person. Do not take other people's backpacks or support weapons unless they say you can.
I try and answer SOS beacons to help lower level players and they just seem to get so excited about seeing a new gun on the floor they'll often just grab it not knowing how the gun even works. I'll be more than happy to drop you an extra one when I'm off cool down, but automatically grabbing my stuff is very rude and annoying.
I use it with the supply backpack and a quasar. Pretty decent combo.
it kills me when people call it an AT AT, its like an AT ST!! lmao good video though, I cant wait to get this one. on page 5 right now, been focusing on the premium pages first
Im a fake star wars fan :(
@@DrPooplove likewise mate.
It's okay, I can never remember which is which either.@@DrPooplove
The bowel movement. 😏 nice
Any armor with 50% explosions resistance will let you survive a close range blast from your own scorcher.
Not even gonna lie im on the toilet watching this
The premium experience
Slugger is a beast to anything under a charger it will pen and kill in 3 shots to the face
only problem would be dealing with the ungodly numbers of chaff at higher difficulties, for which i bring an arc gun
Recently unlocked this, definitely going to try it against bots, I usually use the diligence or liberator for chaff clear, with the autocannon for.. well, literally every bot enemy really.
aim visual is so satisfying
Useful mainly against automatons, that too if your style is stealth and sniping.
Its surprisingly balanced while still being arguably the best primary in the game. Its a grind but that grind is worth it for this weapon.
scorcher does work on chargers, you aim for the front leglike you would with the flame thrower... it works pretty well
The Plas-1 Scorcher is a workhorse. It's by my side every day.
I so wish you could mount longer scopes on anything you want
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I use it to reset my personal shield when it’s low it’s just nice to have
Game came out of nowhere and became so popular.
the Gospel of Super Earth was first preached in *2015*
The PLAS slaps when paired with an Arc Thrower. You have to fill in your Heavy Armor gap with stratagems but it's a great support loadout that reliably handles anything below the Charger/Hulk level. Would I take it over Breaker/Autocannon or Breaker/Railgun if I were min/maxing? Probably not but I'm getting pretty bored with those builds and it's been fun having a backpack slot available to experiment with.
And yet I keep coming back to shotguns.
Reliably needing to one or two hit chaff that’s all up in my face is just too common a situation for me.
Didnt know about this bad boy, looking forward to it
I love this gun for bots. Prior to this I never used anything but the Punisher on bots. That gun is way under rated and highly effective. The Plas Scorcher comes with the downside of no close up shooting, but its more or less a Punisher with explosive rounds. All hail the "shotgun that works like a sniper rifle". I actually do use the sights on this gun for long shots and its quite effective at taking out bot sentries etc. When the bots get to close I have been fending them off with melee attacks and then making space. If anyone has pointers I am keen to hear them.
somehow this gun makes the game feel more calm, i dont know why
Basically a Star Wars Blaster.
i want a plasma weapon that isn't explosive but rather has burning damage, like the plasma weapons from Halo (lore accurate version not the game version), would be pretty cool, but it seems the 2 plasma weapons we have gotten are explosive.
“The scorcher sucks because I accidentally get killed by it all the time”
Massive skill issue
Who are you quoting?
You should try it against Chargers again. If you aim at the legs it will deal damage and even strip armour if you land the shots just right.
I will!
I tried it once when i first unlocked it ran out of ammo so i shelved it for a while until yesterday i tried it against the bots and now its my new favorite primary. It's really a precision rifle so with bugs i run laser pack and get distance from any swarm then pop shots at the big bugs
Hmm I think I'm good with Breaker + Auto/Sniper
Cool gun though.
Consider expl. crossbow too
Hi Dr. PoopLove. I was curious if you’re down to play helldivers with your subscribers? I’ve been a sub since you were making tips and tricks on tlou factions and would love to party up on this game if you’re down.
For sure! Add me up!
What’s your gamer tag?
@@gabrielsmith6249 DrPooplove
Punisher Plasma !!! beats this gun in my estimation. might have been nerfed but the splash damage is weak AF and the ammo is crazy limited on an actual bug rush. Punishers splash damage is crazy worth the small ammo in each clip
Pooplove said all of PlayStations Live Service games would fail. Now he's making Helldivers 2 content.
No I didn’t
@@DrPooplove Yes you did. You thought their Live Service strategy was a failure.
@@bigbox1431 First of all I made Helldivers content back in September and have been hype for this game for a while. Secondly I didn't say all would fail, I thought the strategy was bad which it was (see point 3). Thirdly, they cancelled 4 games that we know about and underestimated this one so it still wasn't great but of course it can be corrected. Fourth, fifth and sixth any cancellation of Factions 2 is a failure in my eyes.
@@DrPooplove If it was a bad strategy, why would Hiroki Titoki say "our mid to long term plans surrounding Live Service remain unchanged"?
Sounds like PlayStation and Arrowhead Studios still think it's a good strategy.
You should reassess your take here.
@@DrPooplove It's always interesting to see single player game cancellations and how people don't claim SP games is a failed strategy. We must see the hypocrisy.
AT-ST, not AT-AT.
Thank you for your service
Dang
Ha! Nerd!
scorchers is great for landmine clearing
This gun makes most clankers a joke if you can be efficient with your shots.
Question, does this same philosophy apply to the dominator? I haven't been able to find personal success with it, and was wondering what your thoughts were
Also the mentioning of being able to knock out heavy devastators and scout walkers made my room white, definitely going to try this gun out
Dominator ironic as it sound..it doesnt really count as explosive weapon compare to plas-1. it doesn't explode to create AOE. it in the explosive weaponry but doesnt deal explosive damage. treat Dominator like a heavy DMR (aka Bolter from 40k)
Give the Arc-Thrower a try. I slagged it off early on and didn't come back to it until I got bored with meta builds and it's actually a powerhouse at clearing trash while still being potent against medium threats. Scout Walkers usually go down in 1-2 hits while still arcing and killing nearby enemies.
Dominator not only staggers enemies, but it can also 1-tap cyborgs in head - if you factor that in, it now has fantastic ammo economy at cyborg missions (anything from regular goon to rocket devastator dies in 1 shot if you manage to hit head (explosive damage here gives you full damage to head instead of 10-20% Slugger does on headshot))
I would say that this is extremely high skill gun - you need to know it's sway while turning, how to aim with laser pointer, factor in bullet drop... and then you get a gun that let's you easily kill brood commanders, devastators and stalkers/hunters if you're brave enough.
dominator is like 40mm GL that it's bullet stuck is safe mode
The issue with the Dominator is that it is a really heavy weapon, turning and aiming is a chore, the projectile fall off is big and it doesn't do as much damage as it should, the Scorcher is better in all fronts.
Have you looked at the Guns from Classic 2D helldivers for reference? The only good op guns left are Trident and the Justice, and maybe Paragon
I haven't played enough of the original, but it may be worth digging into to see what might be coming
JAR-15 for bugs, PLAS-1 for bots
Breaker for Bugs, Liberator for bots. But overall the Railgun and Shield meta currently dominates everything.
but JAR can 1 tap devastators, how can you argue with that?
There is nothing to argue, it’s all down to personal preference. I have fun using PLAS-1 taking out tanks, JAR-15 taking out bugs and Spore Tower across map. People can use PLAS-1 dealing bugs fine, but we all have been there when a bug suddenly jump right on your face catching your PLAS-1 round. I don’t carry railgun and replace it orbital rail cannon or Airstrike, which is far more efficient. When you are in a dire situation really requiring railgun, there are going to be plenty lying around :p
apparently it’s all how you use the scorcher, I think maybe I’ve overlooked this.
I love this gun
I bring one into the mission with me, and since it's so hard to grind for, I'll let teammates kill me to duplicate the scorcher.
It's a great weapon overall but still unfortunately sits behind he Breaker in terms of utility and sheer dps. I still use it because of how tired I am of the breaker, but the Scorcher is far more situational. It really does need like 3-5 more shots per mag and less self-damage at point blank range.
Most of my deaths on bug missions aren't from bugs, but from a hunter jumping at me from off screen, right in front of my rifle, thus killing me instantly from the splash damage with virtually no time to react.
I recommend trying the slugger. it can one shot all dev bot types and honestly feels like a pump action dmr. plus being tube fed you never have to worry about wasting a mag.
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My designated Scout Strider remover.
I really hope it’ll be a auto so it’ll be like Vex Mythoclast. I have the gun but the semi gets me
Oh sure, lemme just climb into my medal cannon where I'll fly off to medal land where medals grow on medallies
didnt know you could take out shredder tanks with it
It´s a suppressed weapon so you can attack whit less risk of bugs / robots spot you.
Is it only me or this gun sounds really like what a Lasgun in 40k is
"This is my lasgun. There are many like it but this one is by far the worst..."
from what I know lasguns aren't explosive, they go right through.
I get what your saying but the DPS tests have been done it still lacks but still a good choice
You don't need dps against bots, you need a weapon that can score solid killing hits with a few shots because exposing yourself on bots is pretty much a death sentence, scorcher can take down annoying enemies like heavy devastators variants in one or two shot's easily.
i kept dying to exploding using this gun whenever bugs would melee me while i reloaded went back to the slugger
it's best vs the bots
@@DrPooplove i’ll keep that in mind although the bots terrify me 😂
@@Greenstrtjs87I still don't like bots because it is basically hide or die to rockets/heavy devastators but it is basically down to what is written on the tips, it is the 3 c's, cover courage and more cover against them.
2:50 WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
tbh im like 20 medals off and i just had to check to see if i wasted my time or not
Very useful!
Literally just unlocked this🤟
In my experience nothing beats this mother fucker it is so good gunships gone decorators (all variants) gone chargers gone screchers gone hulks gone (rarly) tanks gone literally everything except bike titans hulks and factory striders fucking die
My jaw was dropped throughout this video..
Honestly, no. It feels like a side grade to the explosive crossbow to me. Less ammo efficent, smaller splash, less damage, two handed instead of one so you can't use it while carrying objectives and the price of the crossbow is like 300 medals, compared to the staggering 1275 for the scorcher.
taking out the biletitan sack from over 500 meter en more this is a amazing weapon 😂
if you ban someone, is that using the poopchute?
this seems like its meant to run alongside flamethrower
I think the JAR Dominator is perhaps a better alternative vs the bugs
@@DrPooplove could be, it just seems like it fills the gaps left by a flamethrower main.
nice video! thanks
thank you!
ngl, the name Dr. Pooplove threw me off hard
I really love the Scorcher. I don't use it against the bugs, because if the reasons you mentioned. A shotgun is mandatory against the vermin.
I use it only against the Automatons and currently, I am the only one in our squad who has it. While the others are running shotguns and assault rifles, I have the Scorcher as a battle rifle to assist with medium-sized targets.
The only thing I dint lime about it (apart from the low ammo count) is the lack of a magnified optic. It would do soooo well with a scope.
2:53 Hey I SAW THAT!!!
Will you still die with the 50% less damage armor?
do you mean the 50% chance of not dying to fatal damage? Yes I am sure it works but only 50% of the time. If you mean the "Fortified" Armor Passive, yes you will barely survive if you have that on.
I yeah like we haven't been try to get it for ever
Is this gun good or did it get nerfed?
Still good, don't habe been nerf
0:20 wtf this gun can shoot tank turret to do damage? i know it's explosive damage but it have enough radius to affect weak point???
2:00 yea on bug side even though it's still good againt elite but there are so many small thing running around. and if sh// hit the fan you have a high chance to kill yourself.
3:20 but it still better than most primary gun. especially the point that it can explode bile titan sack.
if it don't have a sack it turn from S rank bug to B at most because it can't use bile attack if their sack explode. and their melee attack help us instead.
5:10 dev team should make hold V into using stim when full hp.
So the scorcher is for bots , and the jar dom is for bugs in fine ?
For me is the breaker incendiary, sickle and now i got some nice time with the Eruptor against bugs, the incendiary is nice because when a huge horde comes in your direction you can just spray and pray and delete the horde in front of you, the Eruptor splash damage can net me up to 40-50 kills when breaches are involved, you can easily kill yourself with it though so caution is advised.
@@Tamachii12 doesnt really help me here friend
Man i wish the gun was good
kills chargers alright if you are able to shoot them in the butt consistently
too ammo-costly in the best of cases
@@WeeWeeJumbo usually yes, but still comes in handy when everything is out/on cooldown. Being able to kill chargers and hulks in niche situations is quite useful. A small added bonus
I think a TLDR is shit against bugs since when they are too close on you, you pretty much screwed. But seems goated against bots I want to try it out
Is the plas 101 purifier better?
No. Purifier is pretty bad at the moment but it might get buffed this week
@@DrPooplove thanks appreciate you!
its worst gun for clearing swarm, but its the best for everything else.
ps, one weakness is that it can actually kill the user if you shot at an enemies that is right next to you...explosion damage
started playing 4 days ago and got it wasnt that bad
2:07 erm actually they are more similar to AT-ST's
2:52 how is this even a thing , samples etc are shared lol
read pinned comment
@@DrPooplove i was not talking about you , i mean the randoms that still dont know its shared by now
Magazine. God dammit magazine. A clip is entirely different and the only clip fed gun in the game (surprising there even is one) is the autocannon. Poopertrooper
Ig a lot of games get this wrong huh? “Clip size increase” < “EXTENDED magazine”?
@@aurumone_exe oh yah a lot of people get it wrong. Just shows a lack of education is all. I'm just out here spreading knowledge.
its not an AT AT !! its more closer to an AT RT from the ones that the clones use in the clone wars
650 more medals to go!
I love picking this up off teammates, 347 medals away from my own 😮
Haven’t unlocked the scorcher yet but I am a devout user of the arc thrower and feel that the scorcher’s downsides are fixed with the arc thrower.
Low ammo? Arc has infinite
Enemy to close? Pistol sure, but just full charge a arc and melee to kill the enemy (a tech I made)
Arc thrower cannot snipe something? Scorcher has it.
Need a way to pop bile bug bodies? Scorcher excels at it
Arc Thrower is a bit too low on the damage side, mostly due to how long it charges between shots. And its range is really lacking. It's like a shotgun that reloads after every shot, but why use it when you have Breaker and Slugger? In Helldivers 1 arc thrower only started to become a good weapon after you upgraded its charge time and range, and still lagged behind more traditional arms. In Helldivers 2 "just melee it while it's charging" doesn't work that well, especially when you are attacked by a hundred bugs or half a hundred bots (which is normal for tier 8+ difficulties). It could be ok for lower tiers, like 1-5, but over that you need something that packs a punch as your primary.
If you want unlimited ammo, just use Scythe. It's pretty good vs bots due to its pinpoint accuracy and no recoil, and if you don't shoot the whole clip, it just cools down. It's ok against bugs, but they are too mobile for accurate shooting, especially when you go solo, so Breaker is still king vs bugs.
I use the Arc Thrower like a Primary. Same as those who use the Stalwart or MG-43. Breaker is still king but it lacks range. And the Arc Thrower has it (plus chaining to enemies and allies alike)
I have a few videos of me performing the “full charge melee” tech that I mentioned in my own streams and videos if you are interested. Melee itself is joked but I have come to use it drastically on many bugs that get within the arc throwers minimum range as not just a small one health point bugs are an option, but the knockback, stun, and from what I theorize my meleeing increasing the distance from the muzzle of the arc thrower to said bug being melee’d, thus allowing you to still zap the bug in your minimum range. Might be a placebo effect but it works enough for me.
To address the low fire rate you can “half charge” the arc thrower to increase the fire rate nearly 100%. (First shot is a full charge up and the remaining shots are charged to 50% and then released early for the same effect…again…If you click on my profile you will find examples of this amazing fire rate boost) I use the ideal that the Arc Thrower is like the Flame thrower: where both weapons initially need to “warm up” before reaching its deadly potential.
Perfect for bots, not so much for bugs... my to go against bots with a stun grenade, you can down even hulks with 4-5 shots in the back.
2:50 democracy officer! this murdering traitor right here!
This gun is balls
riskrunner my beloved