What's with all the Adjudicators?

[Quadsword]

Played a few bot missions and saw multiple people running the Adjudicator, and they actually did fairly well with it. I thought it was considered one of the worst assault rifles in the game.

[St0rmFury]

This is why it's better to test the guns yourself. The stats you see are not everything, there are many hidden stats like ergonomics, recoil, I think even falloff damage.

[UndeadWarden]

honestly it not THAT bad, i cant speak for bot side but i using it on bugs while also running low recoil armor so recoil is managable.

[Resyled]

it has lower recoil now, its still just okay

the real busted gun right now is the Counter Sniper, at least vs. bots

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

Played a few bot missions and saw multiple people running the Adjudicator, and they actually did fairly well with it. I thought it was considered one of the worst assault rifles in the game.

It was a not great marksman rifle (in my opinion). It's a decent assault rifle, with a really short TTK for most enemies. It has some drawbacks, but it's a solid pick if you like it and it suits you/

[Pinkeh]

Your light penetration weapons is fine against bugs, but not bots. Adjudicator has medium penetration for bots as a backup weapon to the AMR. Alternatively there is the counter sniper or the eruptor.

[Silverlight]

I've been running it exclusively since it came out. I only play Helldive

Replaced the scorcher / slugger .
It's like the sickle, but instead of firing nerf pellets, it puts down every bug in the game besides chargers (from the front) and titans.

On single fire it one shots most of the tiny guys. Paired with a secondary like arc or flamethrower, adjudicator is a no brainer with its range and dmg

[Portico]

You'll find out that most people whining about balance are actually just people who are terrible at the game.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

Played a few bot missions and saw multiple people running the Adjudicator, and they actually did fairly well with it.

It's a solid option with medium armor penetration, which is good for Bots.

Originally posted by Quadsword:

I thought it was considered one of the worst assault rifles in the game.

Considered to be the worst by who? Some Youtube content mill? Or some Forum drama queen?

Might i suggest testing weapons yourself and judging their viability for your own personal use, public opinions be damned?

Originally posted by Portico:

You'll find out that most people whining about balance are actually just people who are terrible at the game.

Also this. Each time someone posts about how some nerf ruined their fun, what they real mean to say is that they nerf'd their crutch and nobody has told them yet what the new crutch is supposed to be.

It's why people complained about the Railgun nerf, when at the same time the Dev buffed the Recoilless to be able to one shot a Charger via Headshot.

Even the Slugger Nerf basically just shifted the Slugger's role onto the Jar Dominator.

[Le Hatch]

Because you will come quickly to realise that most of the complaints people have about weapons are not founded in reality and are just them wanting to whine to get the devs to buff them to cover their own inadequacy.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

Played a few bot missions and saw multiple people running the Adjudicator, and they actually did fairly well with it. I thought it was considered one of the worst assault rifles in the game.

Most people just look at graphs and call something the meta. Then they enjoy discussing "balance issues" just looking at their information and not really trying anything. I have no respect for couch potatoes thinking they own the truth that way.

The actual truth of the matter is that no weapon is absolutely critical to have or play. It is way more important for you to find the one weapon or maybe a select few you really like using and as long as you enjoy your experience you're going to master it and make it look good anyways after playing 200 hours with it.

[Graf Erik]

Some people just like to complain.

I've been using the Adj against bots since it became available. I like it. Migt not be The Best(tm) but fairly good.
Good range, quite precise, high rate of fire, high damage, good penetration. Pretty versatile. Good at longer range, but can also mow at close range.
It suffered from a lack of ammo, but that that was improved a week ago (or was it two?).

[Sin]

Originally posted by Resyled:

it has lower recoil now, its still just okay

the real busted gun right now is the Counter Sniper, at least vs. bots

might be a skill issue but I feel like the counter sniper brings more value to bot missions than the auto cannon .. you still have to hit the eyes and the auto cannon just sucks for precision aiming.

[Midas]

I still think it's garbage, but if you practice with it enough, it's probably alright.

[chri]

It is a solid gun since they reduced the recoil and added +2 mags to the reserve, performs well as long you aren't expecting Dominator/Scorcher levels of damage.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Helldivers™ 2:

Its funny how allof you here say the adj is good and people are whiners and then you use bot missions as a benchmark which we all know are completely irrelevant to everyone.

And you just proved the point. Bot missions are disliked because they are more challenging... the majority in this thread just been like "yeah, don't listen to the people whining, they suck at the game" and your come back is "don't measure the performance against the more difficult faction, nobody likes that faction".

Yeah.. nobody of the whiners like the bots, because the bots are harder. We are very aware of this.

And here is another shocking revelation: Most of us use different loadouts based on which factions we fight.... shocking... i know.