Shriekers have an infinitely faster spawn rate than your ammo

[CommanderCody]

With Shotguns those flying F**** don't stand a chance, however they spawn faster than I can dispense liberty. Which means lots of deaths and once they start attacking its like pearl harbor and you are the americans. Easy fat juicy target and now dead. Those kill the game for me on bugs. Bile Titans I can handle, shriekers are wildly out of control right now.

[[Asgard] Thor]

You could attack from a distance or rely on teammates while you get the hellbomb ready.

[Babyfaced Beauty]

Your choice to deal with the problems are as follows.

1. Get team mates who can kill/distract them, go in with a rover, and hell bomb.
- kind of fallen out of fashion.

2. 2x EAT kills 1 shrieker nest shroom, if you hate waiting for EAT cooldown, pick up recoiless, practically the same.

3. 10x autocannon shots kills 1 shreiker nest, but autocannon sucks unless you so happen to be doing the blitz search and destroy mission.

4. LAS-cannon at 200m, can kill a shrieker nest with 75% heat generated. Let it cooldown, kill the next one, and then the next one. Also useful for killing shreikers themselves, and everything else except bile titans and chargers. I rather get the EAT as I can't give up rover (recoiless needs backpack).

[Mosey]

If you build yourself to take out only big armored targets, it shouldn't be a huge surprise when a horde of small targets eat your face.

Try bringing something like a gatling turret, assuming you have any upgrades anyway.

[Hi, I'm Ari.]

Originally posted by BabyBeauty:

3. 10x autocannon shots kills 1 shreiker nest, but autocannon sucks unless you so happen to be doing the blitz search and destroy mission.

I used to think this, but you can kill Chargers very reliably with it. Just shoot their butts until they break and they'll bleed out, 4-6 shoot shots on a Charger is all it takes.

Not to mention they eviscerate Bile Spewers and armored medium bugs. Honestly a great compliment for the laser rifle.

[Ryzilynt]

Just take them out from distance with an AC , or laser , or EAT.

No fuss no muss. It may take a minute, but its worth it.

[DarkS3ct0r]

Shriekers aren't that hard if you keep moving,standing still to shoot them makes it easies for them to attack you.

[BBSon John]

Originally posted by BabyBeauty:

Your choice to deal with the problems are as follows.

1. Get team mates who can kill/distract them, go in with a rover, and hell bomb.
- kind of fallen out of fashion.

2. 2x EAT kills 1 shrieker nest shroom, if you hate waiting for EAT cooldown, pick up recoiless, practically the same.

3. 10x autocannon shots kills 1 shreiker nest, but autocannon sucks unless you so happen to be doing the blitz search and destroy mission.

4. LAS-cannon at 200m, can kill a shrieker nest with 75% heat generated. Let it cooldown, kill the next one, and then the next one. Also useful for killing shreikers themselves, and everything else except bile titans and chargers. I rather get the EAT as I can't give up rover (recoiless needs backpack).

3 is an insane take. AC is a single most overpower weapon in the game. Even more powerful than the pre-nerf railgun. Learn to use it.

[Nokturnal]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Just take them out from distance with an AC , or laser , or EAT.

No fuss no muss. It may take a minute, but its worth it.

Yea it's sad that the counter is to just kill their spawner from so far away that you don't have to fight them much at all, but that's the tactic the devs gave us. They spawn too fast and have instant-kill mechanics so best to just not deal with them by killing them from far as hell away.

[Bill Waggoner]

Originally posted by CommanderCody:

With Shotguns those flying F**** don't stand a chance, however they spawn faster than I can dispense liberty. Which means lots of deaths and once they start attacking its like pearl harbor and you are the americans. Easy fat juicy target and now dead. Those kill the game for me on bugs. Bile Titans I can handle, shriekers are wildly out of control right now.

The shriekers will start spawning at 127m. When you mark something, it tells you the distance. As long as you stay 130m away from them, you can use a multitude of weapons to destroy their spires without even seeing them.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Nokturnal:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Just take them out from distance with an AC , or laser , or EAT.

No fuss no muss. It may take a minute, but its worth it.

Yea it's sad that the counter is to just kill their spawner from so far away that you don't have to fight them much at all, but that's the tactic the devs gave us. They spawn too fast and have instant-kill mechanics so best to just not deal with them by killing them from far as hell away.

That's why I've been saying they shouldn't have so little health, letting players cheese them from across the map makes them far too easy. They should give them a nice armoured hive structure that you have to get in close and hellbomb to destroy.

[GARFIELF]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Just take them out from distance with an AC , or laser , or EAT.

No fuss no muss. It may take a minute, but its worth it.

This is how I do it, the AC has long enough range that you can just snipe their nests without them ever spawning. Only issue is it'll take a fair amount of ammo.

[GARFIELF]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Originally posted by Nokturnal:

Yea it's sad that the counter is to just kill their spawner from so far away that you don't have to fight them much at all, but that's the tactic the devs gave us. They spawn too fast and have instant-kill mechanics so best to just not deal with them by killing them from far as hell away.

That's why I've been saying they shouldn't have so little health, letting players cheese them from across the map makes them far too easy. They should give them a nice armoured hive structure that you have to get in close and hellbomb to destroy.

I'd be fine with being unable to snipe the nests if they made it so that their corpses don't one hit kill you, even if they're just lazily rolling down a hill.

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Originally posted by Nokturnal:

Yea it's sad that the counter is to just kill their spawner from so far away that you don't have to fight them much at all, but that's the tactic the devs gave us. They spawn too fast and have instant-kill mechanics so best to just not deal with them by killing them from far as hell away.

That's why I've been saying they shouldn't have so little health, letting players cheese them from across the map makes them far too easy. They should give them a nice armoured hive structure that you have to get in close and hellbomb to destroy.

They don't have "little health"

It takes a full magazine on the AC to take out one tower. There are 3.

Don't get it twisted.

[`digitaL.braVo]

Like many bug engagements you will not win the long game against them. You have to be fast and aggressive taking out the source. If you try to fight it out with the shriekers in the air you'll eventually be overwhelmed by them and small bugs.