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Shoot them dead.
Once upon a time you had to kill a Retiarius in order to detach its web. Now you just have to shoot it a bit. Keep up the fight, soldier.
Also, they used to be MUCH worse and literally grab you through walls and mountains. Right now, they still need a mostly clear opening to grab you (though once they grab you, then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clipping).
As a further heads up, buildings they have webs attached to can't be destroyed. They are also less prone to spam web attacks if you destroy their (really durable) webs
Those jerks are a big early game hurdle, to be fair.
They have a **** load of health compared to the majority of enemies you will see at that point of the game, as well as you likely still having just your starting tier weaponry on top. Even a quick dip into hard mode for a 600 damage rocket launcher, will take two-three direct hits to kill them with on Normal.
Fortunatly once you get close enough, they are big victims to hitstun on most difficulties. As long as you are shooting them in the face, they won't be doing much to you.
I won't make light of your frustration with these guys because we have all been there, and they really are one of the bigger early game meatwalls. But things will turn out okay.
Keep calm and pay attention to your radar as well as surroundings. Learn, adapt, if something doesn't work then try a new method/class. Tanks are a wonderful thing after all.
TLDR Be thankful they can't directly hit you with the tips of their webs through a house.
Progress slowly, stay at maximum range unless forced to do otherwise, and snipe them from afar. If you have stuff coming near you, you pull the assault rifle. Same if you are grabbed, as your assault rifle does a lot of DPS allowing you to hit a retiarius enough to make it let you go(They drop you once you do enough damage to them). The big danger is getting pulled in dangerous territory and chain grabbed.
Once you have cleared most of the things on your road. You move to the back between the house to take out the tunnel, which is the true objective. Once the tunnel is gone, it's just a matter of mopping up what remains. It's an annoying mission, to be sure.
Like it was mentioned, the way it works is as follow. The spider spit projectiles(the tip of the webs are the actual projectiles) toward your direction. The projectiles can't pass through walls. The problem is, those projectiles are affected by gravity and will fall down. From there, the web will remain between the tip and the spider itself. Those webs CAN pass through walls. Meaning if the spider shot the projectile over a building, and behind you, the web will extend through anything from the tip to the spider. If the web clips you, you are grabbed. The web guns for the air raiders work the same way.
It's semantics, really, but spiders can't shoot through walls, it's just the tether between point A and point B which pass through structures. For all intents and purposes, it's like they shoot through walls.
Oh yeah, a note on napalm. Don't attach it to the target, it won't do much damage that way. Attach it to a structure or piece of geometry so the flame will hit in the direction you want it to hit. So if you want to grill a retiarius, fire it on the ground under it, or on a building so the fire burn sideway toward it. Napalm is better suited to create walls of fire to prevent the ennemies from going through without dying, and particularly good in caves for that reason.
Mission 4 is easy. It's only 7 spiders, the terrain is to your advantage, and even if you are grabbed, you have very little chances of being chain grabbed. You also can free wing divers to help a bit, even if they don't do much honestly. And I was saying stringer and not stinger.
You can totally do it without getting hit at all.
Mission 5 is a bit more annoying. As you have ants thrown into the mix and it's more cramped. Still in solo ants should be dispatched with ease, and you can focus fire on the spiders with your assault rifle. I think at that point you may even be able to use the bound gun if you found was which is a decent assault rifle in the special section.
To make it interesting, I decided to go in as a Fencer with no mobilty gear. The gatlings are pretty powerful, I'd say 3-4 times as powerful as AF20, but they're also highly inaccurate and slow me down a lot, it was definitely an easier run with Ranger, but I had fun. The route shown in the video will work no matter which class you use. In short, just free the wing divers, don't advance faster than your men, move so you only have line of sight one one Retarius at a time (and, more importantly, only one Retarius has line of sight on you). Any attack at all will stunlock Retarius, so just keep the pressure on them, trusting your men to take care of the rabble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUHQdLNm75Q
An important thing to keep in mind is that AI only ever aggro towards whoever is closer, so as long as you keep one NPC between you and the Retarius, you're pretty much good.