Best endgame weapon to mass-exterminate biters?

[Squirting Elephant]

Flamer is too risky (may burn down entire forests) and I tried the combat shotgun with damage upgrade #5 and speed upgrades and piercing ammo but it's still not enough.
Lots of lairs have tons of large worms and lots of biters around it.

So okay fusion reactor + shields + some batteries but + what weapon? I'm making a railroad but for every 2 yards I have to creep laser turrets but it takes forever and ever... And combat drones are too weak I suppose.

[Lady Naween]

Nukes :)

[Squirting Elephant]

But nukes are way to expensive to use them for clearing such EXTREMELY large areas. They also kill too many trees which I want to reduce polution.

Tanks are completely garbage (shields > tank). It feels like there is nothing to really take care of biters endgame besides nukes/flamers. But both have such downsides... Is there no better option?

[Lady Naween]

SMG with uranium ammo does a good job. And cheap as chips too. Honestly I dont think nukes are all that expensive. i spam em like candy. But i guess it depends on how large your base is :)

[Radioactive Panda]

Mod to remove them for ups

[MisterSpock]

Robots and SMG (you can reasearch infinite damage)
And maybe flametrower if you researched enough damage

[Nathan the Dwarven Shark]

Robot army mod?

[Stryke(r)]

what about turret creep? - (and i mean like ammo turrets with very high research - cause of stacking)

[Squirting Elephant]

Turret creep is way too slow to clear large areas and long distances for trains. Also you have to constantly clear up the old turret-creep and build temporary power lines all the time. It works yes but not viable to cause a mass extinction.

Mmm uranium MG is indeed extremely cheap and you can upgrade it infinitely.
Also I read that the tank MG was upgraded as well by 100% more damage and also you can fire personal lasers from inside it while using repair bots on it.
So maybe tank MG + uranium. And nukes for large open areas without any trees.

[MisterSpock]

I think trees have an finite amount of pollution they can absorb.

[Killcreek2]

Orbital Ion Cannons [but turn off the "can start fires" option], & SMG with DU ammo for mop-up.
If vanilla: try nukes or the tank [if you can drive it well], or a large pack of destroyer bots [100+].

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Squirting Elephant:

... And combat drones are too weak I suppose.

Oh, no! The destroyers are awesome! They are insanely expensive though. Now that nukes are in the game, I don't even build destroyers anymore.

You can have 134 destroyers follow you. When I used them, I would carry 1000 or more (5000 individual drones) destroyer capsules with me and could clear for an hour straight before I needed to resupply.

[KatherineOfSky]

I would second Linda's suggestion of Atomic Bombs! ... however, if you don't have the means to produce them, use Power Armor Mk 2, 1 exo, 2 reactors, 2 batteries, 1-2 shields, and the rest personal lasers. Make sure you upgrade laser damage with the labs.

[Lingluo]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Originally posted by Squirting Elephant:

... And combat drones are too weak I suppose.

Oh, no! The destroyers are awesome! They are insanely expensive though. Now that nukes are in the game, I don't even build destroyers anymore.

You can have 134 destroyers follow you. When I used them, I would carry 1000 or more (5000 individual drones) destroyer capsules with me and could clear for an hour straight before I needed to resupply.

They are really extremely weak for their price.More expensive than nukes,kills enemies slower,and require a lot of tech upgrades.Without white bottles,you can only have up to 50 following you.

[MisterSpock]

Originally posted by wyp020610:

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Oh, no! The destroyers are awesome! They are insanely expensive though. Now that nukes are in the game, I don't even build destroyers anymore.

You can have 134 destroyers follow you. When I used them, I would carry 1000 or more (5000 individual drones) destroyer capsules with me and could clear for an hour straight before I needed to resupply.

They are really extremely weak for their price.More expensive than nukes,kills enemies slower,and require a lot of tech upgrades.Without white bottles,you can only have up to 50 following you.

They kill in no time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZCpThz7syM

[Squirting Elephant]

This is why I do not like flamers:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1136781058

I found a decent solution however. Shield spam + 3 exo skeletons + upgraded combat shotgun. Facetank alien lairs and when shield get's really low, just run for 5 seconds and go in again.

But I will try uranium rounds and nukes later. So far at least I cleared some space for the new main bus:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1136783646