Medium pentapods...

[sweet lemonade]

200 electric engines away from launching a rocket off of Gleba and suddenly, my entire farming operation just got annihilated by 4 8000 HP medium stompers that one shots everything, me included. A single medium stomper smashed all (30!) of my gun turrets around the red fruit farm without even getting to 1/2 health.

What the hell am I supposed to do to counter this? Their resistances are insane and I don't have rocket turrets yet. I can't clear the nests either since they one shot tanks and cars too, and move faster than me, even with exoskeletons and a bioflux movement speed buff. I wanted to at least launch a rocket without any interplanetary help but it's looking like I might need to bring in materials... but what would even help at this point? Rockets? What kills these things?

[Los]

Tesla turrets!!

[sweet lemonade]

Originally posted by Los:

Tesla turrets!!

I forgot to mention Gleba is my first planet. Should I ditch my base and rush Teslas on Fulgora then?

[Los]

Tesla turrets melts most enemies in Gleba so not sure how else to handle them

[eX_ploit]

Remember that you are not tied to one specific farming spot. You can just farm a different spot until you can launch a rocket.

[Hurkyl]

When I had to kill one, I used my hand-held rocket launcher firing non-explosive rockets. I have enough exoskeletons to play cat and mouse, so I don't actually have to tank the damage while killing it.

When I had to kill three, I used a Tank. Cannon shells do massive damage, especially with damage upgrades. I use the Tank for a solo stomper now too, now that I have that production line set up.

Always baited and circled around the stompers to kill the nests first, though. Again, high mobility enables that.

[Reformatio]

Be ready for the planets.
If you are struggling with this do not go to Aquilo.
I know new content is exciting but at a certain point I had to go back and fix my planets.

[sweet lemonade]

Originally posted by Hurkyl:

When I had to kill one, I used my hand-held rocket launcher firing non-explosive rockets. I have enough exoskeletons to play cat and mouse, so I don't actually have to tank the damage while killing it.

When I had to kill three, I used a Tank. Cannon shells do massive damage, especially with damage upgrades. I use the Tank for a solo stomper now too, now that I have that production line set up.

Always baited and circled around the stompers to kill the nests first, though. Again, high mobility enables that.

Damn, thank you. I didn't expect tanks to work so well... shipped about 500 explosives from my autonomous Nauvis base and annihilated every nest several chunks away from my spore cloud. Killing those stompers in a couple shots was cathartic. I launched my Gleba rocket last night :)