Heavy Devastator, best strats?

[[Luna Wolf] Garviel Loken]

Headshot is the obvious one, is there any other glaring weaknesses to be exploited??

[22nd Shock Division]

Shoot their weapon off and they become quite (h)armless, though it's faster to kill them via headshots.

[SKAPP]

Devastators are broken

[Mini]

I like to impact nade the shield devastators to rip off their shield arm (sometimes it kills them outright too). The rocket devastators die pretty quick to the Anti Material Rifle and the standard Machine Gun, but I find the best weapon for them is the Plas-1 Scorcher if you can afford it. For the non specialized devastators I would just shoot the left arm off since it's their only weapon.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

their backpack takes a lot of damage, if you get a clean angle on it shoot that; it'll go down quick.

[papey]

i tried stagger weapons on them to intrerrupt the rocket attack and start that short cooldown they have on it but they'll just keep trying until they get the full salvo off anyway.. kind of weird, just go for the rocket pods lmao

laser cannon is really nice on bots right now actually, does great weakspot damage

edit: my bad omg heavy devastator not rocket. go for the arm if you have big firepower that you can afford to use on them or go for the head otherwise. they have a backpack to aim at but it takes a while to get them that way

[Malidictus]

Shooting their arm is an option, but it seems to be pretty tough and kind of hard to hit. I've had good experience shooting their giant Space Marine backpacks. They stick over their heads and can be hit from the front.

[XanAstra]

I save my impact grenades for them. Works like a charm.

[MisinformedOwl]

Railgun to the legs. The railgun is still meta against bots becasue bots have actual armor and not the bollocks armor the bugs have.

[Kara Vaki]

I've been having major issues with those Shield Devastators as of late, mainly cause they seem to be broken, how? Simple, their laser gatling can point through their damn SHIELD AND TORSO and still shoot, one would THINK they would need to face you directly to shoot you otherwise they will bonk their gun against the shield and have a blindspot cause the shield is in the way of their FACE but NOPE, they defy the laws of physics and simply CHEAT their way to victory against us helldivers as if they have phase technology or something!

[Bear your Bears]

I just abuse the punisher shotgun. Use cover and terrain while taking out support bots, then focus on heavy bots using stagger stun. Strats and grenades/impacts for 3+ groups.

Anti Material is also GREAT for them, but takes up a slot I'd rather use on boom for tanks, hulks, etc. MG is also good if you can land your shots, a buddy uses it to way better effect than I thought would be possible. Again though, that's a boom slot. I don't use railgun personally but I do agree with other post it would do well. But, ah, boom slot.

I'd recommend working on target priority. Bots get way easier once you get that down.

Also of note, heavy bots usually don't chase hard. If you can run from them using cover, then you can often lose them and not even have to worry about killing them.

[asura]

Originally posted by Bear your Bears:

I just abuse the punisher shotgun. Use cover and terrain while taking out support bots, then focus on heavy bots using stagger stun. Strats and grenades/impacts for 3+ groups.

This. First shot stagger, second shot head.

[Kurteous]

Grenade Launchers are your best friends against Devastators, especially when you land them nearby or directly. The splash damage will take care of them quickly enough.

[Ducklord]

AM Rifle or the power of the autocannon, I love them to kill these big guys

But the shotguns like the punisher or my beloved SG-8S Slugger
This beauty can stop them and blast their heads if you shot well

The first machine gun can do the work too, love it to dispatch everything in front of me
The R-63 Diligence is also a good counter, two shots needed and can blast easly the rocket devastator from a long distance

I also prefer to have sometime the minigun sentry and the autocanon sentry
When things get intense, I throw one on the far left of the fight, the other on the right and now the bots get attack from some goods angles by some good firepower, giving you time to look and take your target priority on the bigs ones

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by I.M.P. Ancient Telemenus:

Headshot is the obvious one, is there any other glaring weaknesses to be exploited??

they legs , for shield one they backpack

[SexualChocolate]

I find that just keeping your cool and carefully targeting their head or any other non shielded area with aimed scorcher shots does the trick. I usually run EAT's against bots too so often I'll just one shot the shield devastators and call down more.