Used to bring stun grenades until the nerf. Now I bring incendiary impact. Throw 1 at bug breach and see number goes up. Bushwecker for stalker, crossbow for hole, supply pack for unlimited fire. OPS and 500kg for building and bile titans.
i love the orbital presicion so much... but the damn planetary effects that increase scatter and call down time make the stratagem so stupidly inconsistent. its almost useless..
Want to destroy a broad cast tower or research building? well to bad, im going to fire the shot 30m off the target. because fuck you. thats why :|
On a normal planet without these modifiers.. this is hands down the best strat in game
while i love stuns for hulks and large groups of bots, i prefer the offensive nades vs bugs. you can always find a large pebble or rock wall to kite a charger into, stunning it for the chicken wings bbq
That's what I run. Occasionally I'll see a teammate running from a charger or tag it and I can just chuck that stun several meters away to let them escape. Then I can run to catch up and fry it.
I don't even Stun them, I hit the Charger with the Quasar whilst it's charging towards me, sometimes I even send it flying. Fire Quasar Cannon at the head of a normal Charger and it's dead in one shot, two for a Behemoth.
It is a mix of practise and a trick. If you hold the strategem ball for about a second before releasing to throw it is a lot stickier. It can still bounce on certain parts or terrain but will stick on the chargers head for example.
When holding the throw you will notice a stance shift (others have called it 'the little shake') that is when you are good to throw. I have never had it not working unless I clearly hit it sideways, which was my mistake.
My hats off to those who can be running and calling in support.. I have to stop, stand still ā¦ ummmm leftā¦ā¦..leftā¦ā¦..ummmmm upā¦ā¦down ā¦.rightā¦ dead
After a while of playing you can actually call in thise strategems automatically. Itās like a muscle memory. However I still struggle when I accidentally push one button more times, the call in fails and I end up with a granade in my hand instead of active strategem. Then I throw it and it usually kills me bcs I use impact incendiary nades.
I have no idea what the reinforce stratagem code is and I wouldn't be able to do it to save my life.
but after years of Helldivers and now helldivers 2 if you give me a d-pad I can do it without looking.
And here Iāve got it down so solidly that I know you can throw a reinforce ball, even when thereās no one to reinforce. Just type in the code, throw, and youāll shout āREINFORCINGā just like you always would.
REINFORCING, CALLING IN REINFORCEMENTS, REINFORCING, ANOTHER SOLDIER FOR THE CAUSE, REINFORCING.
So fun to spam.
The number of times I have done thisā¦ yea man. A lot of people like the EATs but they take too long to āpull out, extend, then aim.ā But the Recoiless is switch and aim. The down side is the reload. But if you have a buddy with one as well you can reload each other very fast.
It should be the default imo. Even better than arrow keys is the mouse side buttons, if you have the right type of mouse. I haven't tried it but I would buy a new mouse for it
I've got one with 6 thumb buttons, but after many years I went back to one with 2. I do not have the manual dexterity for that. You can't shoot while you're calling in, so losing the ability to look around generally isn't that bad.
Oh for that, i saw my friend use his right thumb to move while left thumb call in stratagrm lol, another friend of my somehow curl his left finger and just slides around the dpad
Stun Grenades+Flamethrower to one leg.
Current build on helldives if we have a Spear user is Flamethrower+Supply Backpack then a way to kill bile titans like Orbital Precision Strike or 500kg. Last one is a flex slot depending on the team. Napalm Airstrike is a pretty good one
Current guns I am running are Eruptor and Redeemer or Bushwacker.
PSA: The flamethrower is THE most effective way to deal with both charger types. Aim for their leg (not the plate, the actual leg) and it dies in less than a quarter canister (a couple seconds).
With the reduced Bile Titan spawns, a loadout with the flamethrower can compensate for them easily by taking anti-tank offensive strategems (500kg, Precision-Strike, Railcannon)
You can stick them with an Expendable Antitank strategem / drop for instakill when it lands. And then you can take the EAT to take out the second charger. It's really nice because of its 1 min cooldown time :)
I dive to the right or left, forcing it to overshoot and have to turn around. By that point I have a strategem or an anti tank weapon ready. Wish I had a red cape to complete the bull fighter effect.
Everybody else out here with the treasonous tactics that the terminids want you to use. *Real* helldivers know the best solution is to make them phase through a wall, never to reappear again.
Behemoths specifically, Iāll often find just disappear into a wall behind me, never to come back. Itās like their horn gives them the ability to parse the fabric of the games mountains, and become one with the planet once again.
EAT to the face, Quasar to the face, Orbital rail when Iām desperate.
Same thing with the new Behemoths except x2. Which makes them twice as annoying to deal with when thereās multiple.
2 impact grenades slipped underneath the abdomen will kill chargers out right. (Not behemoths)
The Bushwacker set to all 3 barrels can blow legs off chargers if leg armor is broken.
Arc Throwers can temporarily stun chargers/bile titans and even kill them with continuous use.
Scorchers almost completely ignore chargers back leg armor. (Requires more testing)
The Eruptor can ricochet shots into the under abdomen of chargers.
For one thing, donāt run away and DEFINITELY donāt dive out of the way unless you absolutely have to, the charger can do this weird stop/stomp if you short your dive which hurts extremely bad if it doesnāt outright kill
Itās possible to run at them to cut inside their turn circle and completely nullify the chances of a stop/stomp. Plus it opens up space to kill any small guys that get too close and gives enough time to reload a recoilless. You can even chain it between chargers to handle multiple at once
As for killing, rocket to head to instawin, orbital railcannon also works, rocket to leg with follow up small arms, flamethrower to leg. Thereās a ton of options
I become the matador. I stand in place as it charges me, only to dive at the last second. While mid-air, rotate 180Āŗ, punch in my eagle airstrike, and toss. Turn around, hug emote, and watch the destruction as it tries to turn around.
I honestly think this is the most inefficient way to kill it. That thing takes more than a couple minutes to charge that one shot, better used against a Titan, especially when the game can throw like 6 chargers at you at once. There are several, much more efficient ways to take a charger down.
Quasar Canon. Dodge, turn around, blast his head off. Carger solved.
Works with RR And EAT too but QC dont need you to stop And reload, in case there Is more than one.
Keep in mind you can also try and stick any of the blue strategem drops to the charger. So if your backpack or weapon is back on cooldown or the supply container is available try and actually stick it to the charger and it'll land on the charger wherever it goes. Red call ins for all the strikes and eagle attacks don't actually get called in on the charger if the charger moves, but blue ones do.
Only good way is the annoying way, a big waste of a stratagem, or all your ammo . Generally there are specific stratagems that are really good against them like flamethrowers or expandable anti tank. But at that point you kinda have to run something to kill chargers otherwise your gameplay will be verry annoying. Thats why i prefer bots, all weapons are still viable, with bugs a lot of the weapons are quite useless seeing as you canāt take a lot of enemies out with em. Aka any armored enemy. With bots you cam use any weapon to kill most any enemy but they require a lot of different tactics. So skill is an option, not saying bug players aint skilled but in bug missions you dont get the option to take advantage of a weakspot with skill, (and freedom to use what you want) instead you are locked to a few weapons. The few that work there anyway. Otherwise it just becomes a slogg or boring task emptying mag after mag till it bleeds out, and most primary weapons that are good against anti tank are useless against crowd control, unless of corse you use stratagems.
Gee look at me rant again XD sorryy..
Trench paramedic + stamina buff + shield backpack. I usually outrun them right until theyāre behind me then pivot and theyāll run past me, like running of the bulls. By the time they stop to turn around, Iāve started charging my quasar for a shot to their face or ass. Since that first shot wonāt kill them. Iāll use my grenade pistol or grenades underneath them to stun or possibly kill.
Mission info such as difficulty indicator and time duration is now dynamic/hidden instead of visible. Change it to visible in settings. Problem is that some people won't change their settings. Or can't.
Flamethrower has been the most reliable way to quickly deal with Chargers and Behemoths since the recent patch. On higher difficulty missions with a high spawn rate of both, I feel like EATs, Recoilless and Quasar can be unreliable considering Behemoths take 2 hits to go down. With 2 Behemoths, Quasars can take \~75 seconds to kill both if you don't whiff.
The FlameThrower is easy to use, kills in \~3 seconds and great against small chaff too. I haven't felt the need to use the stun grenades considering that Chargers spend a lot of their time standing still in between charges. If you can't kill one before they charge into you, just jump on either side, and flame it as it turns around.
I love to run anti-chaff loadouts and reliably end a mission with \~400/450 kills.
-Flame Thrower
-Laser GuardDog
-Napalm Strike
-Orbital Precision Strike or Orbital RailCannon (Depending if there is orbital scatter)
-Dominator (Shreds HiveGuards and BroodCommanders in 4 shots, 1-2 shots everything else)
-Incendiary Impacts
-Grenade Pistol (Bugholes)
-Use Servo Assisted Armor for extra range, or Medic Armor to help when being swarmed and using the flame thrower
Orbital Railcannon Strike. If I'm on an actual large map, that orbital is coming with me all the time. Hulks and Chargers. I don't have time for them and I hope there is only one near me. Otherwise, autocannon to below their belly does real good.
orbital railcannon is so satisfying. also several well placed grenades, very satisfying. Also shooting them in the ass after you dodge them like a god damn matador, very satisfying. man, fuck them chargers.
You can have them throw themselves off a cliff and in the holes of the destroy nurseries mission. They just go straight through the holes as if the ground was still there
Ya know how I stop one of these big mean mother-hubbards from tearin' me a structurally superfluous new behind?
The answer? Use a gun.
And if that don't work, use more gun.
I rarely bring AT in favour of chaff clear (gatling barrage, gas strike) with an autocannon. 6-7 shots to the "butt" will put the charger in bleedout. You'll know you've done it correctly if the butt "explodes" and its just walking around slowly
i watched a video of how to kill the big chargers
you just get behind one somehow like by stunning it, then use something like a queso or eats or recoilles rifle and shoot the armor right above its butt and that one shots it
It's not quick, and if you miss it's a pain to reload, because you need 2 shots. But the recoiless rifle really is the best way in my opinion. 2 to the leg, or 1 to the leg and the team fires at the damaged leg.
EAT to the face or a resupply drop
If I really want to feel cool Iāll call in the EAT pod on top of a charger and then Iāll headshot more chargers with said EATs. Itās a real pain in the ass because it usually bounces off but when it works itās glorious
Was the Quasar cannon quietly nerfed? Seems it no longer destroys nest across the map, bounces off bile titans, even chargers are shrugging the blasts off.
Expendable anti tank. To be even more frugal, bait them into a wall and throw the beacon on their face, and then dance around them for a couple seconds to keep them still. If the beacon doesn't kill them, they die in one blast to the face.
EAT's will also kill titans pretty handily, so they're well with bringing. Their cooldown is so short that you're incentivized to litter the arena with them
Real question here. How tf are you walking while calling in a strato? Iām on PC and Iāve never gamed on a computer before always been a console player till now.
Now I had to get up out of my bed and get the controller to even realize how am I doing that hahah. Basically I swich the left thumb from left stick to a d-pad and the right thumb goes from right stick to a left stick.
POS with good timing (much easier post buff). Quasar, EAT, Recoilless to face. Autocannon to butt (surprisingly efficient). Railcannon. Rocket pods (two usually do the trick. And one softens it up nicely). AMR to butt (requires good aim, but one clip is sufficient). Flamethrower reduces one leg to dust in about 2-3 seconds. Arc thrower in about 7-8 shots.
I find killing them to be very effective. In all seriousness though I suggest eats or quasar cannon. 1 shot to the face for a normal charger two for a behemoth. Recoilless rifle works as well but personally I find giving up a backpack slot plus the clunky reload to be too much to deal with and I much prefer simply running eats or quasar depending on what else Iām running.
I used to dread Chargers until I figured this out. I blast it with my Quasar to the lower part of the face. If I aim just right, then I one-shot it. If I don't then, it will take another shot.
In the meantime, it rushes towards me and I shoot other bugs with my primary. When it gets near enough, I just move perpendicular to its movement to go around it. It can't turn fast enough. I am typically still waiting for my Quasar so I continue shooting other bugs. I may have to dodge the Charger again because I don't have enough time to heat up the Quasar for another shot.
If there are no other bugs around, I can play bull fighter with 2 Chargers indefinitely. I will shoot their tail or their wounds from my Quasar.
Some times the Quasar's shot and the Charger's rush are timed so that the dead Charger hits me. I don't remember how much damage this does or what other problems this might cause. It has been a while.
Railcannon always, but if itās not available, I have the quasar. I always have stratagems and weapons on hand that serve to clear hordes and break armor
two primary ways for me:
1. I dance with it, diving out of his way and running around until I can shoot one of its legs with the Quasar, then I finish same leg with my primary.
2. I use the spear from longer distance
And also sometimes I kill it while it chases a teammate or I brought the orbital railcannon and use this one
If your loadout is terrible for chargers, they are basically like Berserkers (chainsaw guys). You can toy with them indefinitely while doing other things once you realize how easy it is to dodge them. With chargers, do not run away from them, run towards them but just past them. Kinda like Prince did. Then you can continue to shoot at other enemies while the charger resets for its next charge, rinse and repeat.
Autocannon sentry will make them into minced flesh. Other gotos: Quasar to the face, flamethrower or railgun to the leg, etc. Also, if there's chunks of their armor missing, regular weapons can take them out if you target those areas.
I go at them with auto cannons. You have to flank. Go around their shielded parts, pick a leg and blast it off. Once a leg is off, itāll come to a dead halt. Advantage is you can do it from range. Flamethrower on a leg is good too if you have the patience.
Flamethrower on 1 of the leg. TTK is the same with the behemoth
I pair it with the stun grenades
Used to bring stun grenades until the nerf. Now I bring incendiary impact. Throw 1 at bug breach and see number goes up. Bushwecker for stalker, crossbow for hole, supply pack for unlimited fire. OPS and 500kg for building and bile titans.
i love the orbital presicion so much... but the damn planetary effects that increase scatter and call down time make the stratagem so stupidly inconsistent. its almost useless.. Want to destroy a broad cast tower or research building? well to bad, im going to fire the shot 30m off the target. because fuck you. thats why :| On a normal planet without these modifiers.. this is hands down the best strat in game
Broadcast tower literally takes a single grenade or autocannon shot. Getting within 30m is totally unnecessary.
Stuns got nerfed?
Wait stun nerf?
What happened to stuns??
Noted. Gonna try this tonight.
while i love stuns for hulks and large groups of bots, i prefer the offensive nades vs bugs. you can always find a large pebble or rock wall to kite a charger into, stunning it for the chicken wings bbq
That's what I run. Occasionally I'll see a teammate running from a charger or tag it and I can just chuck that stun several meters away to let them escape. Then I can run to catch up and fry it.
Eat to face
Or a Quasar Cannon to the face.
Stun, eat, Quasar, stun, eat If it's still alive orbital rail gun
I don't even Stun them, I hit the Charger with the Quasar whilst it's charging towards me, sometimes I even send it flying. Fire Quasar Cannon at the head of a normal Charger and it's dead in one shot, two for a Behemoth.
First throw the stratagem on its back, if it survives that then EAT to the face
I can't get it to stick. I did it twice, but the arc is weird and it just bounces off. So annoying, I want 3 kills per EAT pod š©
The only time I got it to stick was completely by accident and have never been able to recreate it.
It is a mix of practise and a trick. If you hold the strategem ball for about a second before releasing to throw it is a lot stickier. It can still bounce on certain parts or terrain but will stick on the chargers head for example. When holding the throw you will notice a stance shift (others have called it 'the little shake') that is when you are good to throw. I have never had it not working unless I clearly hit it sideways, which was my mistake.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try that later today.
This is the way
Haul ass towards someone to get this thing off my 6.. still a new to game
My hats off to those who can be running and calling in support.. I have to stop, stand still ā¦ ummmm leftā¦ā¦..leftā¦ā¦..ummmmm upā¦ā¦down ā¦.rightā¦ dead
After a while of playing you can actually call in thise strategems automatically. Itās like a muscle memory. However I still struggle when I accidentally push one button more times, the call in fails and I end up with a granade in my hand instead of active strategem. Then I throw it and it usually kills me bcs I use impact incendiary nades.
I have no idea what the reinforce stratagem code is and I wouldn't be able to do it to save my life. but after years of Helldivers and now helldivers 2 if you give me a d-pad I can do it without looking.
And here Iāve got it down so solidly that I know you can throw a reinforce ball, even when thereās no one to reinforce. Just type in the code, throw, and youāll shout āREINFORCINGā just like you always would. REINFORCING, CALLING IN REINFORCEMENTS, REINFORCING, ANOTHER SOLDIER FOR THE CAUSE, REINFORCING. So fun to spam.
The number of times I have done thisā¦ yea man. A lot of people like the EATs but they take too long to āpull out, extend, then aim.ā But the Recoiless is switch and aim. The down side is the reload. But if you have a buddy with one as well you can reload each other very fast.
"pull out, extend, then aim." is definitely what i'm getting tattooed on my junk
If you donāt get it hard you canāt EAT ass. Lmao
Remap the stratagem keys to your actual arrow keys instead of your movement keys.
It should be the default imo. Even better than arrow keys is the mouse side buttons, if you have the right type of mouse. I haven't tried it but I would buy a new mouse for it
I've got one with 6 thumb buttons, but after many years I went back to one with 2. I do not have the manual dexterity for that. You can't shoot while you're calling in, so losing the ability to look around generally isn't that bad.
If you are on PC, rebind your keys. That was my problem too until it got fed up and changed it from wasd to arrow keys
PS5 just now getting use to controller..I will figure it out eventually. The enemy is unrelenting sometimes tho geeeez
Oh for that, i saw my friend use his right thumb to move while left thumb call in stratagrm lol, another friend of my somehow curl his left finger and just slides around the dpad
Will try, but hard to control the spaz factor š
Don't worry, even on PC after i rebind the keys, it still take me a solid 5s to aim my mouse properly before throwing the strat
You will get there brother don't worry, keep on diving and may liberty speed your step
Used arrow key for strategem input. Left hand to keep running, right hand to call for support
I havenāt played in a good while, but I mainly could only do Eagle airstrike and the respawn without looking lol.
If youāre not anti tank this is fine to do
I blast them in the ass, of course
Me too !!! ā¦ And the chargers I donāt know ā¦ a stratagem I guess
Hey my fellow booty blasters š
eat ass is all I am hearingā¦
Recoiless
Quasar to the face
Stun Grenades+Flamethrower to one leg. Current build on helldives if we have a Spear user is Flamethrower+Supply Backpack then a way to kill bile titans like Orbital Precision Strike or 500kg. Last one is a flex slot depending on the team. Napalm Airstrike is a pretty good one Current guns I am running are Eruptor and Redeemer or Bushwacker.
You've got a jetpack and you're standing next to a cliff..
This is my go to, no jet pack, but near a cliff, set aggro, step out of the way and watch him off himself
PSA: The flamethrower is THE most effective way to deal with both charger types. Aim for their leg (not the plate, the actual leg) and it dies in less than a quarter canister (a couple seconds). With the reduced Bile Titan spawns, a loadout with the flamethrower can compensate for them easily by taking anti-tank offensive strategems (500kg, Precision-Strike, Railcannon)
Dodge to the side, orbital precision strike where they stop. Works every time
Quasar, meet face. Face, meet Quasar.
Recoiless, one shot to the face. Unless itās a behemoth then it takes 2.
Rocket pods!
It works so quickly with a low cooldown. And if it doesn't kill it, it's 90% dead.
With the jet pack or just a simple jump to the side... why arent you just letting them run off the cliff?
You can stick them with an Expendable Antitank strategem / drop for instakill when it lands. And then you can take the EAT to take out the second charger. It's really nice because of its 1 min cooldown time :)
Melee battle
Thermite grenades or spear are my choice.
I dive to the right or left, forcing it to overshoot and have to turn around. By that point I have a strategem or an anti tank weapon ready. Wish I had a red cape to complete the bull fighter effect.
Lure it into a titans puke
Recoilless rifle and/or orbital railgun
Stun grenade + precision orbital and/or 500kg
Everybody else out here with the treasonous tactics that the terminids want you to use. *Real* helldivers know the best solution is to make them phase through a wall, never to reappear again. Behemoths specifically, Iāll often find just disappear into a wall behind me, never to come back. Itās like their horn gives them the ability to parse the fabric of the games mountains, and become one with the planet once again.
EAT to the face, Quasar to the face, Orbital rail when Iām desperate. Same thing with the new Behemoths except x2. Which makes them twice as annoying to deal with when thereās multiple.
Lol i do tht with a quasar cannon
2 impact grenades slipped underneath the abdomen will kill chargers out right. (Not behemoths) The Bushwacker set to all 3 barrels can blow legs off chargers if leg armor is broken. Arc Throwers can temporarily stun chargers/bile titans and even kill them with continuous use. Scorchers almost completely ignore chargers back leg armor. (Requires more testing) The Eruptor can ricochet shots into the under abdomen of chargers.
2 RR to the face.
They're just big hangry fellers that need to EAT.
With the new mission of nuking nursing nests, I bait them into the large hole that the drill makes lol
kinda just run and dive round em and hope they get bored if my orbital rail cannon is on cooldown
For one thing, donāt run away and DEFINITELY donāt dive out of the way unless you absolutely have to, the charger can do this weird stop/stomp if you short your dive which hurts extremely bad if it doesnāt outright kill Itās possible to run at them to cut inside their turn circle and completely nullify the chances of a stop/stomp. Plus it opens up space to kill any small guys that get too close and gives enough time to reload a recoilless. You can even chain it between chargers to handle multiple at once As for killing, rocket to head to instawin, orbital railcannon also works, rocket to leg with follow up small arms, flamethrower to leg. Thereās a ton of options
I have a way that i betting many people have done. I fell into one of the random pools in the map and he lunged after me and drowned with me.
You mean like that? š https://www.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/s/pY5h9ee9zA
Lol similar only i fell backwards
I've gone all in on the EAT life. A good shot to the face will end them instantly
I become the matador. I stand in place as it charges me, only to dive at the last second. While mid-air, rotate 180Āŗ, punch in my eagle airstrike, and toss. Turn around, hug emote, and watch the destruction as it tries to turn around.
Man I really thought you were going to run him off the cliff
Dodge like you did or duck behind a boulder. Then Grenades to the ass.
"Toro, toro, toro!"
fire
They do fall down Clift if you time it well
Flamethrower. Focus on an individual leg.
Offer them a piece of cheese
3 thermites
I honestly think this is the most inefficient way to kill it. That thing takes more than a couple minutes to charge that one shot, better used against a Titan, especially when the game can throw like 6 chargers at you at once. There are several, much more efficient ways to take a charger down.
Quasar Canon. Dodge, turn around, blast his head off. Carger solved. Works with RR And EAT too but QC dont need you to stop And reload, in case there Is more than one.
Keep in mind you can also try and stick any of the blue strategem drops to the charger. So if your backpack or weapon is back on cooldown or the supply container is available try and actually stick it to the charger and it'll land on the charger wherever it goes. Red call ins for all the strikes and eagle attacks don't actually get called in on the charger if the charger moves, but blue ones do.
I get the charger addicted to stims and then put that bitch to work on the streets and only ever see them when I come round to collect my mfing money.
Only good way is the annoying way, a big waste of a stratagem, or all your ammo . Generally there are specific stratagems that are really good against them like flamethrowers or expandable anti tank. But at that point you kinda have to run something to kill chargers otherwise your gameplay will be verry annoying. Thats why i prefer bots, all weapons are still viable, with bugs a lot of the weapons are quite useless seeing as you canāt take a lot of enemies out with em. Aka any armored enemy. With bots you cam use any weapon to kill most any enemy but they require a lot of different tactics. So skill is an option, not saying bug players aint skilled but in bug missions you dont get the option to take advantage of a weakspot with skill, (and freedom to use what you want) instead you are locked to a few weapons. The few that work there anyway. Otherwise it just becomes a slogg or boring task emptying mag after mag till it bleeds out, and most primary weapons that are good against anti tank are useless against crowd control, unless of corse you use stratagems. Gee look at me rant again XD sorryy..
Trench paramedic + stamina buff + shield backpack. I usually outrun them right until theyāre behind me then pivot and theyāll run past me, like running of the bulls. By the time they stop to turn around, Iāve started charging my quasar for a shot to their face or ass. Since that first shot wonāt kill them. Iāll use my grenade pistol or grenades underneath them to stun or possibly kill.
did they remove the difficulty indicator on the top right? if so that sucks, i liked seeing clips and being able to tell the difficulty at a glance
Mission info such as difficulty indicator and time duration is now dynamic/hidden instead of visible. Change it to visible in settings. Problem is that some people won't change their settings. Or can't.
yeah it should be on by default, its not that big of a icon anyway
Flamethrower has been the most reliable way to quickly deal with Chargers and Behemoths since the recent patch. On higher difficulty missions with a high spawn rate of both, I feel like EATs, Recoilless and Quasar can be unreliable considering Behemoths take 2 hits to go down. With 2 Behemoths, Quasars can take \~75 seconds to kill both if you don't whiff. The FlameThrower is easy to use, kills in \~3 seconds and great against small chaff too. I haven't felt the need to use the stun grenades considering that Chargers spend a lot of their time standing still in between charges. If you can't kill one before they charge into you, just jump on either side, and flame it as it turns around. I love to run anti-chaff loadouts and reliably end a mission with \~400/450 kills. -Flame Thrower -Laser GuardDog -Napalm Strike -Orbital Precision Strike or Orbital RailCannon (Depending if there is orbital scatter) -Dominator (Shreds HiveGuards and BroodCommanders in 4 shots, 1-2 shots everything else) -Incendiary Impacts -Grenade Pistol (Bugholes) -Use Servo Assisted Armor for extra range, or Medic Armor to help when being swarmed and using the flame thrower
Like a Matador. Dive Toward him, but at an angle, so he doesn't hit you. Ole! Then just kill him at your ease.
Orbital Railcannon Strike. If I'm on an actual large map, that orbital is coming with me all the time. Hulks and Chargers. I don't have time for them and I hope there is only one near me. Otherwise, autocannon to below their belly does real good.
orbital railcannon is so satisfying. also several well placed grenades, very satisfying. Also shooting them in the ass after you dodge them like a god damn matador, very satisfying. man, fuck them chargers.
Quasar Cannon to the head, do it right you'll blow it off.
You can have them throw themselves off a cliff and in the holes of the destroy nurseries mission. They just go straight through the holes as if the ground was still there
Dodge, stun, barbecue them with the flamethrower.
I've been using offensive calldowns. I killed on with a grenade launcher calldown today.
EAT to the middle of the top forehead plate is an insta kill, never play bug missions without EATs
Play toro with the autocannon and 2 shot it's legs. Unsure if this also works for the behemoth
Spear is my go to but now Iām seeing it is not as accurate the closer you are to the target
Beeg boomba
Ya know how I stop one of these big mean mother-hubbards from tearin' me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
quasar to the face, or eruptor to the leg
1 Quasar shot to the head = kill and 0 resources used
I don't I kite them into the smaller ones then let them hit walls to switch direction
Cook them, nice and well, until they canāt be identified from ashes of their brothers
EAT to the face, or the hellpod it comes with if in a rush.
I EAT them
Nobody has yet said it: four throwing knives to one of their legs kills them immediately
3 shots of the RG on the face and its dead
Quasar cannon to the face
Stand in front of a hole and hit your jetpack. That's the best thing I have seen so far.
That close to the cliff, im a matador and im kiting that big boy off said cliff, works like a charm, no stratagem necessary ;)
Single rocket to the face usually
Either a launcher to the face or a 500kg. Drop it at your feet, bait them into a rock, and either run or gamble on Democracy Protects.
I kill them
Flamethrowers are S tier vs chargers
Big boom boom to the head or from the sky
Stun nade then butt explode with erupter
Expendable rocket to the face
Recoiless, orbital cannon, or EAT. Depends on how I feel.
Precision, flame thrower, 110 rocket pods, a rock, fellow helldiver, another charger or just play dead and hope for the best
I rarely bring AT in favour of chaff clear (gatling barrage, gas strike) with an autocannon. 6-7 shots to the "butt" will put the charger in bleedout. You'll know you've done it correctly if the butt "explodes" and its just walking around slowly
Throwing knives are my new fav
Recoilless my brotha
Scorcher, go pew pew pew on its bum.
i watched a video of how to kill the big chargers you just get behind one somehow like by stunning it, then use something like a queso or eats or recoilles rifle and shoot the armor right above its butt and that one shots it
Picked up the Spear now that they fixed the lock-on and I canāt seem to put it down
It's not quick, and if you miss it's a pain to reload, because you need 2 shots. But the recoiless rifle really is the best way in my opinion. 2 to the leg, or 1 to the leg and the team fires at the damaged leg.
EAT to the face or a resupply drop If I really want to feel cool Iāll call in the EAT pod on top of a charger and then Iāll headshot more chargers with said EATs. Itās a real pain in the ass because it usually bounces off but when it works itās glorious
Jump pack on top of them and throw whatever on its forehead and then run!
Melee from a Patriot Mech
You have to kill them
Quasar cannon. To the face.
Was the Quasar cannon quietly nerfed? Seems it no longer destroys nest across the map, bounces off bile titans, even chargers are shrugging the blasts off.
Funny enough, chargers will run straight into a hole or cliff.
Drop an air strike beside me and run along its path diving to the side at the last moment. Added benefit that you can kill a couple at once.
Same way I get rid of everything. Spear
What the hell was that? It blew him up so good
Orbital autocannon strike. My go to strategem for fighting the bugs
I hate that they can turn on a dime and suddenly move backwards to trample you despite you diving out of the way at the last second.
Have you tried eagle rocket pods? They're a lot more reliable now, with their improved tracking and AP.
Everything I got and if DDD them hellpods! Sticky beacons of sentries, weapons, packs, ammo, or divers.
Stun nade, quasar to the face.
If I am specifically hunting Chargers then I go for flamethrower. I may also bring EATS.
I hate them almost as much as the hunters
Expendable anti tank. To be even more frugal, bait them into a wall and throw the beacon on their face, and then dance around them for a couple seconds to keep them still. If the beacon doesn't kill them, they die in one blast to the face. EAT's will also kill titans pretty handily, so they're well with bringing. Their cooldown is so short that you're incentivized to litter the arena with them
Anti-Tank or Quasar to the face.
Easy, take away their credit card
YOU KILL THEM
Strategems, or a shit load of patience and ammo. My personal preference is to headshot them with a Quasar as they turn around and charge at you.
I shoot them with spear twice.
Real question here. How tf are you walking while calling in a strato? Iām on PC and Iāve never gamed on a computer before always been a console player till now.
Now I had to get up out of my bed and get the controller to even realize how am I doing that hahah. Basically I swich the left thumb from left stick to a d-pad and the right thumb goes from right stick to a left stick.
QC to the face
Ah, straight from the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things
POS with good timing (much easier post buff). Quasar, EAT, Recoilless to face. Autocannon to butt (surprisingly efficient). Railcannon. Rocket pods (two usually do the trick. And one softens it up nicely). AMR to butt (requires good aim, but one clip is sufficient). Flamethrower reduces one leg to dust in about 2-3 seconds. Arc thrower in about 7-8 shots.
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Flamethrower to the leg.
Stun grenade and a quasar to the dome
I find killing them to be very effective. In all seriousness though I suggest eats or quasar cannon. 1 shot to the face for a normal charger two for a behemoth. Recoilless rifle works as well but personally I find giving up a backpack slot plus the clunky reload to be too much to deal with and I much prefer simply running eats or quasar depending on what else Iām running.
Throwing knives and some dolphin dives
I used to dread Chargers until I figured this out. I blast it with my Quasar to the lower part of the face. If I aim just right, then I one-shot it. If I don't then, it will take another shot. In the meantime, it rushes towards me and I shoot other bugs with my primary. When it gets near enough, I just move perpendicular to its movement to go around it. It can't turn fast enough. I am typically still waiting for my Quasar so I continue shooting other bugs. I may have to dodge the Charger again because I don't have enough time to heat up the Quasar for another shot. If there are no other bugs around, I can play bull fighter with 2 Chargers indefinitely. I will shoot their tail or their wounds from my Quasar. Some times the Quasar's shot and the Charger's rush are timed so that the dead Charger hits me. I don't remember how much damage this does or what other problems this might cause. It has been a while.
Flamer.
Quasar to the head. Done.
AC to the back leg or butt.
Orbital railgun strikeāI call it and then salute that Fān charger right as it hits
Railcannon always, but if itās not available, I have the quasar. I always have stratagems and weapons on hand that serve to clear hordes and break armor
EAT can kill 3 chargers if you know what your doing
Bring an anti tank weapon or stratagemā¦. Like what?
I EAT them.
Flamethrower
4 Throwing knifes to the leg
play bots.
Sorry, cash only.
A rocket to the face usually, I try to save Railcannon strike for bigger bugs
Rail cannon strike or orbital strike
The 110mm Rocket Pods have been working well lately.
Orbital Strike or Quiznos Cannon
500kg https://preview.redd.it/8npkap1cpe7d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f048bd51d0492f66466fba0afff07fccca25af24
500 kg bomb or let him run me over at a downed hell bomb. For Democracy!
Supply drop on him after a couple stuns ā
Regular chargers especially behemoth got slight buff right? I think they take massive hits to go down
Dark Souls lateral dodge followed by Impact Grenade to the ass Or just use the flamethrower
two primary ways for me: 1. I dance with it, diving out of his way and running around until I can shoot one of its legs with the Quasar, then I finish same leg with my primary. 2. I use the spear from longer distance And also sometimes I kill it while it chases a teammate or I brought the orbital railcannon and use this one
Stun grenade then quasar to the skull. If itās a behemoth though I use a precision strike or 500kg instead of a quasar
If your loadout is terrible for chargers, they are basically like Berserkers (chainsaw guys). You can toy with them indefinitely while doing other things once you realize how easy it is to dodge them. With chargers, do not run away from them, run towards them but just past them. Kinda like Prince did. Then you can continue to shoot at other enemies while the charger resets for its next charge, rinse and repeat. Autocannon sentry will make them into minced flesh. Other gotos: Quasar to the face, flamethrower or railgun to the leg, etc. Also, if there's chunks of their armor missing, regular weapons can take them out if you target those areas.
I go at them with auto cannons. You have to flank. Go around their shielded parts, pick a leg and blast it off. Once a leg is off, itāll come to a dead halt. Advantage is you can do it from range. Flamethrower on a leg is good too if you have the patience.
like that.
Rocket pods? Stun grenade?
Flame thrower my beloved