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Loved this little detail in ghost of yotei ❤️

Yesterday I had made a post about Bug-Front secondaries and asked people for their opinions on a few that I didn't quite enjoy. Some of the responses I got were pretty insightful and I have spent more time with some of the weapons to better understand when—or if—I would find them useful. That's all well and good, but then I noticed a pretty funny trend.

Despite me ranking it really low, not one person tried to correct me on how to use the Verdict.

This struck me as odd, and so I gave it the good ol' 3 front run-around for a bit to try and see if maybe some people missed some stuff, and here were my findings.

Terminids: The Verdict may just be without a doubt, the worst bug-front secondary in the entire game. I do not say that hyperbolically. For a gun that sells itself as the Medium-Pen high-damage pistol, you would probably be impressed to hear that it has ZERO unique breakpoints against some of the most common enemies when compared to the Peacemaker. Hunters still take 1 headshot or 2 bodyshots, and Warriors still take 2 headshots.

Just about the only unique 'niche' this weapon has is taking out an Alpha Commander in 4 shots to the head, but I'd consider this a pretty big stretch when just about any other conventional secondary can do similar work. Hell, even the Bushwhacker can one-shot an Alpha Commander by comparison.

Honestly if I'm missing something about the weapon please let me know, but as far as bugs are concerned, this thing feels like a complete waste.

Automatons: This was surprising, but I did actually manage to carve a niche out for this weapon on the Automatons just about instantly, using the simple fact that it shares the same one-shot potential as every Marksman Rifle in the game, provided you're within ~15-20 meters of an Automaton. That means:

Devastator? 1-shot in the head. Berserker? Same dealio. Smaller Bots? Instant-kill on center-mass. For a weapon that has 10 shots per magazine, being able to break 10 kills quickly gives it one specific use case over the Talon (the other headshot-machine in the secondary slot), since you can kill 10 enemies hypothetically with 1 magazine. As a matter of fact it actually overpenetrates small bots, so getting 2 kills with 1 shot isn't just possibly, it's oddly frequent on higher difficulties.

Illuminate: This one's a stretch, but the Verdict has one use here: 2-shotting Overseers to the head. The reason I don't think this is as good here is simply that—like with the Automatons—the Talon exists. You're not often going to be rushed down by more than one or two Overseers at a time either, so the heat-buildup on the Talon is pretty much a non-issue. Still, the Verdict's serviceable here. It's just a shame nobody plays the Illuminate.

MASSIVE TL;DR: Please correct me if you feel I'm wrong but the Bots seems to be the only place that it even remotely makes sense to equip this weapon.

I’m obsessed

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I bought this game on my ps5 way back when it released. I had my fun and all for about 10hrs and then never picked it up again. I decided to replay it but on my Z1 Extreme and it’s been a blast. Super fun, kind of rough restart but makes it a lot more rewarding having to start fresh, plays great and has so much more content then before. If you’re contemplating about buying it in October 2026, get it on sale for 25% off and play it. You’ll have a blast🤩

Godspeed this weekend, Helldivers—our failure may have cost Maelstrom early investors deluxe features; I carved our flag in wood and planted it beside a buried Crusher so history knows we did not all consent.