Gunner bugs are silly

[Bad Brad]

I understand the need for a bug that can shoot, but these things are just ridiculous. They can kill a soldier before he even knows what hit him, and in many cases there is not even a possibility of survival. Worst of all is the fact that they are immersion breaking due to just how plain silly they are.

[Richard Simmons]

agree

[Shiverblade]

Yea, they need a rework.

[Hides in Bushes]

theyre flat out broken. Theres no challenge in an enemy who who can instagib laser you from across the map. the projectile is practically hit scan so even from max distance youre not going to be able to run from cover to cover to get away let alone fight other bugs while doing it.

[Disorder Minimi]

+

[Recidivous]

It can sometimes glitch and hit you through solid objects.

[[TEST] FrankManic]

Not relevant to the game, but in the Starship Troopers novel the warrior bugs hand powerful beam weapons and looked just like the workers. The bugs would send huge waves of workers with squads of warriors hiding inside them. The workers were harmless, but they gave the warriors a lot of cover from which to snipe at the cap troopers. The Arachnids beam guns were a serious threat even to the cap troopers in their powered armor.

[Ricky Bobby]

Got no issue with any other enemy but those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are broken as hell. They need a slower rate of fire and not be 100% pin point accurate with their shots.

[Silver]

Originally posted by TEST FrankManic:

Not relevant to the game, but in the Starship Troopers novel the warrior bugs hand powerful beam weapons and looked just like the workers. The bugs would send huge waves of workers with squads of warriors hiding inside them. The workers were harmless, but they gave the warriors a lot of cover from which to snipe at the cap troopers. The Arachnids beam guns were a serious threat even to the cap troopers in their powered armor.

It has less to do with bugs that can shoot ♥♥♥♥ and more to do with the overall rate at which they shoot ♥♥♥♥. There are tons of bugs that are pretty deadly, one being the Scorpion bug. At least its known that running from its beam is nearly impossible. But running from these (Spitters?) Gunner bugs when there is more than 1 gunning you down or being shot out of the sky for not knowing whats on the other side of the building/wall. Crazy.

[Irier]

They aren't that bad, I've put 20+ hours on very hard, they are a tunnel vision check. If you watch the spawn you can see them come up giving you time to kill them safely, if your standing in the open you will die so always have a place where you can crouch or move to one side into cover.

If those things aren't possible pick a better location or move with a team and have one person dedicated to just hunting them.

Most bases spawn close enough to the middle tower that a support(running up the corpese on one of the corners) or jetpack guy can just sit in the middle and snipe. If they are lucky their secondary is rockets. If you have one or two people in the middle they can clear the gunners, grenadiers, and tigers in that order pretty quickly before they make it to base.

[GadenKerensky]

Still not as bad as the Blaster Bugs from 2005

[Ironside]

They are machine gun snipers with near one shot one kill...

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Yeah, shooting bugs does not fit. Maybe they need to shoot a Web like material from their mouth. That would seem to fit better.

[DredSilent]

Skill issue.

[AutumnRain]

GIT GUD

[Auftragsmoerder]

Originally posted by Bad Brad:

I understand the need for a bug that can shoot, but these things are just ridiculous. They can kill a soldier before he even knows what hit him, and in many cases there is not even a possibility of survival.

This is why they make the game feel good. Also there are revives, don't go on solo missions and look out for possible covers/places to jump down at all times