Best weapons in Helldivers 2: Weapons tier list for latest patch

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Using one of the best Helldivers 2 weapons is a necessity in your quest to defend Super Earth, especially as you reach the highest Helldivers difficulty levels.

While Helldivers stratagems often get the most attention in loadout discussions, your primaries and secondaries are still essential for squashing bugs or destroying bots.

With the April patch bringing several balances to the weapons, here's our up-to-date Helldivers 2 weapons tier list, and picks for the best weapons to use against both Automatons and Terminids.

Read on to find out more.

Focusing only on the Primary and Secondary Weapons that form your loadout, here’s our Helldivers 2 tier list:

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Following the various buffs and nerfs that have taken place over the last month, these are some of the top weapons we’d recommend in Helldivers 2.

We’ve included the two Breaker weapons here, as while the Breaker Incendiary is our new favourite, it is only available via the Steeled Veterans Premium Warbond.

So, if you’re saving your Super Credits or don’t want to spend real money to unlock it, the normal Breaker will do just fine.

With strong damage at a fast fire rate and somewhat forgiving ranges for a shotgun, the Breaker is the most consistent weapon type in the game.

Its main downside comes from the ammo capacity, but as long as you aren’t being swarmed from all angles, you should be able to crowd control fairly easily before retreating and reloading. And that’s even after the patch.

The reason the Breaker Incendiary just edges it comes from the latest Helldivers 2 patch. With fire damage increased by 50 per cent in the update (alongside the Breaker Incendiary’s damage per bullet buff), the weapon is now much more effective, especially against bugs.

However, we have seen reports that the