shriekers

[LarsWolfy]

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

[Vovashprot[БРОТ]]

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[Ntt]

dont agro from the distance run to nest pop orbital laser on it shoot rest of the birds
prio the nest over everything else

[terran976]

Originally posted by LarsTheWolf:

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

Havent faced them befor. Iam destroing their nests from 500 meters

[lilgirlcharlotte]

just have 2 players shooting the shriekers nest from far with autocannon or recoiless. they wont even come out the nest by the time its destroyed. if everyone is too stupid to bring one of those rush in with agroup and throw some 500kgs on it.

[Endless]

Originally posted by terran976:

Originally posted by LarsTheWolf:

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

Havent faced them befor. Iam destroing their nests from 500 meters

Pretty much this.

[Albino Noodle]

I dropped in at max agro range from their nest the first time I ran into them and then they agroed every bug on their way to me, it was horrific I didn't even get a chance to call in special weapons before being ripped apart repeatably by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or gang banged by chargers.

[Helios481]

there are many ways to deal with shriekers, if you know they are and option you can bring rockets and snipe the nest or bring Gatling turret to give you plenty of time to take care of it with hellbomb, all their attacks are in straight lines making them easy targets to machinegun and shotgun weapons, use your team or friends as bait and sneak in, stealth works fine against shriekers, took down a nest via Hellbomb the other day without a single shrieker targeting me. orbital barrages can take down the nest too (with a bit of luck)

if your unable to do any of these i wonder why you would be playing any higher in difficulty than normal. you dont realy need to use a meta loadout or anything, sure they help but for the most part you just need to adjust to the strength and weaknesses of your loadout

[capybaras are cool]

use your head instead of playing bug cod

[Lokynet]

Originally posted by terran976:

Originally posted by LarsTheWolf:

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

Havent faced them befor. Iam destroing their nests from 500 meters

Your luck will end one day when you are dropped right next to a nest.

It is so annoying and disrupting that the team needs to make it a full priority to destroy, run into it and place hellbomb or use the orbitals / eagle to take it out ASAP.

[Mr.Xtender]

These flying bugs are OP as fck, not only do they spawn like crazy, but they die super hard as well.
Kinda made me loose interest in the game, I keep on failing a mission each time I'm sent next to these nests, or just constantly run away...

[Clickshe]

Laser cannon and jump pack is also a good choice. A good way to tell the flying rats that they are not going to raise an alarm is have your team trigger the bug tunnel breach somewhere far away, and then, you run in with 500KG and laser cannon, take one or two done with the KG and finish off rest with the laser cannon.

[WSkD]

Originally posted by LarsTheWolf:

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

They are a rather great addition actually and do not make "everything impossible" - otherwise I could not finish my missions!
BUT, they are currently bugged, so that their dead bodies kill you just by touching them - which is a pain because they often drop right on you. Otherwise they are fine.
Adapt. Kill. Extract.

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by WSkD:

Originally posted by LarsTheWolf:

Why are there so many shriekers, it made everything so impossible.

They are a rather great addition actually and do not make "everything impossible" - otherwise I could not finish my missions!
BUT, they are currently bugged, so that their dead bodies kill you just by touching them - which is a pain because they often drop right on you. Otherwise they are fine.
Adapt. Kill. Extract.

Easily fixed by using the dodge mechanic in game, AKA diving.

[WSkD]

Originally posted by Anarchy:

Easily fixed by using the dodge mechanic in game, AKA diving.

No, if several fall down and/ or already lying on the ground this is not possible and still results in insta death (or at least a huge HP-drain).

Also, the ability to dive has nothing to do that they are killing by touch and are currently bugged - so thanks for pointing it out, but wasn't the topic.

[Wutever]

Any corpse that falls on you can kill you tbh. Shriekers just make this very obvious. It probably needs to be toned down a bit.

Only time I've had issues with them was when we dropped near a nest, but couldn't find it because it was behind a massive plateau that was blocking line of sight. Not sure what the spawn cap for them is, or if there even is one, but we had like 20 of the things on us. Very fun times.