How do I deal with spiders efficiently?

[Supernoxus]

I feel like I am fighting the spiders the wrong way. I tend to walk around with my headlight on and shining a light on them seems to aggro them. But being in the dark and too close aggros them too, so I am not sure what I am supposed to do in order to avoid them.
Once they are locked on to me, it takes me around half a mag of my AK to kill one of them, which is a lot of ammo. I eventually figured out that my shotgun kills them in one shot, but the shotgun is a late game item.
So how do I deal with them otherwise? Also what do I do when they are on my head? I can shoot them with my handgun, but shooting them with my AK just doesn't seem to work properly. I am also afraid of shooting myself in the head...

[GoGoNUKEM]

Turn them off, lol. The patch is out

[Supernoxus]

Originally posted by GoGoNUKEM:

Turn them off, lol. The patch is out

Fortunately I don't have arachnophobia, but thank you for the suggestion.

[wrongadress]

You can grab them and throw away, then shoot.

[[ScrN]PooSH]

I find Helsing very effective against spiders, as one shot kills them, even on Hardcore. You can pick up the fired bolt afterward (if you don't shoot spiders on the ceiling). It takes time for a spider to prepare for the attack - use it to aim better. Panic is your worst enemy, not spiders.

[Gunfreak]

Jupp, the small spiders you squish with your hand. The big ones you use the crossbow on.
I'm annoyed how many pistol rounds the spiders could take. I mean they are spiders.
One bullet and all the goo should just pour out.

[Supernoxus]

Thanks! I will try the Helsing next time then

[Rydrak]

The way I fought the spiders was by equipping the Hellsing, then charge up the flashlight to keep it as bright as possible while walking through the hallways, inch forward, look up and down with the flashlight for the big spiders, when you see one, nail it with the Hellsing ideally before you provoke it into moving. The idea being to ensure everything behind you is spider free so you only have to focus on looking for the spiders as you move forward. The Hellsing is perfect for making the first shot on big spiders so you arent wasting ammo, The little spiders typically didn't need to be dealt with because they either scattered after you killed the bigger spiders or you killed them by accident.

Honestly I turned on the Arachnophobia mode when I reached a point in the game where ghosts were preventing my flashlight from working ontop of being swarmed by the spiders and getting killed by shadow people in my retreat.

TLDR Flashlight+Hellsing, hunt the big spiders when you hear the spider music. Turn on the Arachnophobia mode when you're in a part where the flashlight doesn't work and deadly shadow people are wandering around. Ignore the little spiders, that problem will solve itself.

[notMatteo]

Hellsing is a Great option at first (as it's a one shot and the ammo can be retrieved) but when you get the Shambler Shotgun (AKA the Bug Deleter 5000) USE THAT... it makes everything easier...

Also obviously you want to use the Flashlight and keep it charged before heading into a Spider area... It burns them and stops them for a short time so you can line up a shot, but if you take too long they will Jump on your head and turn of your lamp as well as give you PTSD.

Hope that helps

[Supernoxus]

Originally posted by Rydrak:

The way I fought the spiders was by equipping the Hellsing, then charge up the flashlight to keep it as bright as possible while walking through the hallways, inch forward, look up and down with the flashlight for the big spiders, when you see one, nail it with the Hellsing ideally before you provoke it into moving. The idea being to ensure everything behind you is spider free so you only have to focus on looking for the spiders as you move forward. The Hellsing is perfect for making the first shot on big spiders so you arent wasting ammo, The little spiders typically didn't need to be dealt with because they either scattered after you killed the bigger spiders or you killed them by accident.

Honestly I turned on the Arachnophobia mode when I reached a point in the game where ghosts were preventing my flashlight from working ontop of being swarmed by the spiders and getting killed by shadow people in my retreat.

TLDR Flashlight+Hellsing, hunt the big spiders when you hear the spider music. Turn on the Arachnophobia mode when you're in a part where the flashlight doesn't work and deadly shadow people are wandering around. Ignore the little spiders, that problem will solve itself.

Originally posted by notMatteo:

Hellsing is a Great option at first (as it's a one shot and the ammo can be retrieved) but when you get the Shambler Shotgun (AKA the Bug Deleter 5000) USE THAT... it makes everything easier...

Also obviously you want to use the Flashlight and keep it charged before heading into a Spider area... It burns them and stops them for a short time so you can line up a shot, but if you take too long they will Jump on your head and turn of your lamp as well as give you PTSD.

Hope that helps

Thank you two! That was very helpful!

[piscalat]

just ignore them and sprint through them

[IanL]

Originally posted by piscalat:

just ignore them and sprint through them

Hard to do when the good doctor appears to have issues running for more than about 5 seconds before running out of breath.