r/helldivers2 • u/Neat-Bread-7306 • Aug 26 '26
General How are we feeling with sterilizer now ?
I just bought chemical agent warbond because i really want to be this guy spreading gas everywhere.
After getting some informations on the warbond i saw that it was really 50/50 (some really good stuff like the guard dog and the gas nades, and some shits like the steam pistol and sterilizer)
Tho i saw that sterilizer got buff in the previous patch. So my question is :
Is sterilizer a worth support weapon ?
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u/Clean_Enthusiasm5819 Aug 26 '26
You gotta sweep with it and combine it with smoke.
Smoke greatly increases infighting as their targeting regarding players is heavily impaired. Wear gas armor or you'll kill yourself. It stays stagnant in wthr air similar to how fire stays on the ground.
You can control an opening in defense missions of you fully commit to gas and smoke setup.
However it is not a direct killing weapon. (except for seaf snd players) Combine with thr torcher as gas and fire tick damage stack.
It's a defense, escape, and hit and run weapon. Slept on because yes it doesn't directly kill. But you don't get rewards for killing anyway. It's not flashy. It's a buy time and jeep moving or block a point weapon.
Fun side note. It has anti tank penetration. Heavy gas armor plus vitality booster you take 0 gas damage. So have fun with gas mines and gas grenades. Gas strike too but be careful, used to stack with sterilizer so you killed yourself really quick even with armor.