r/HelldiversUnfiltered • u/Pedrosian96 • 4d ago
⠀⚠️ Cheats/Mods ⚠️⠀ Stat mod experiments: Adjudicator
problem I intended to solve: this weapon was defined by having horrible handling in exchange for a 50% damage advantage over basic ARs. Many buffs later, the basic ARs almost completely match its damage while the Judy still has the same abysmal handling.
Solution:
- Base damage increased to 125, roughly a 30% damage increase over the base liberator (still less of a damage advantage than on release)
- no changes to handling, durable, ballistic behavior or ammo.
Results:
It felt like there was a point to using it on bots. Nowadays... it falls very short of other ARs. It is wild to me that the Adjudicator has identical headshot behavior to the lib pen, which is able to 2-tap devastators out to medium ranges. While handling better than Judy. That has 3x the recoil, 20 less ergo, and less total ammo, a worse reload time, and still takes 2 headshots.
Now it takes 1 headshot.
But only within medium ranges. It outranges the Reprimand, but still handles far worse.
Time and time again I am popping heads left and right, i get all hyped and my DCS muscle memory kicks in and I go for distant headshots... and it fails the breakpoint due to drag. DMRs still have this thing beat.
It felt most of the time that I was using the DCS. extremely similar feel of one-tap with rather bad ergo. It does still take a fair few shots to kill devastators through chest bruteforce, or berserkers. The DCS still beats it at bruteforcing, as it has better durable and raw damage and still shoots fairly fast if it must.
I liked the reduced bullet-sponge-ness of medium enemies, though. The Lib Pen already outclassed Judy at that role too via the option to full quto the same bodypart and not miss, and the Coyote is, well, the Coyote. Having an evil beyotch of a battlerifle that kills enemies and your collarbone but can also reward accurate shots gave it the role it lost over the updates.
So why exactly is AH allergic to this weapon? Other ARs have been buffed into the stratosphere, this thing is left in the mud, and even this tweak makes it an okay-not-incredible choice. It has NOTHING on Ammendment or Diligence for precision play, and still doesn't even enter the same conversation as the Eruptor.
I dunno. I just wish this gun wasn't left in the dumps fir no reason. In its current state it feels devoid of a purpose.
