Can't handle Stalkers. Tips?

[orz]

Basically that. I just can't deal with them. I'm constantly getting drilled by them and I'd like that to stop happening. nothing seems to be good at dealing with them specifically.

[Space Wolf Hudson]

The Punisher is a good weapon against them. Stuns them briefly when you hit them.

[MechaDraco]

Bullet hose the hell out of them, with literally any weapon. The secondary machine gun pistol is actually a great weapon for these guys. If you primary is slower or weaker against bigger enemies, whip that out and hose them down. Shotguns though are the best primary I find for them.

The biggest thing you're going to want to do, is the second you see one, go directly towards where they came from. Their spawn will be in that direction, and you will want to kill it quickly, or it's gonna get real crazy, real fast.

[Falkner]

2 taps from the autocannon solves all medium sized problems

[Eudicots]

Punisher or slugger can stun-lock them in place. They also deal enough damage to kill them with ease.

Always prioritize their nest. Once you find this enemy try to follow the pathway they took. This way you can stop them from spawning on the map permanently.

[Umaru]

Mech solves everything, just don't run into your own missile and blow up.

[Kackstift]

any not charger or bigger bugs can be staggered really easy. use explosive weapons or shotguns

[Gauss]

I just try and destroy the root cause: open map and (if possible) locate what direction stalker has come from in about 70m-100m away from you there should be unmarked dark spot that you can place your pin on and it will counts as discovering stalker nest that you can promptly destroy.

[John Digger]

4 breaker shoy to the head or cutting it's legs off alternately 2 sgot from either Auto-Cannon or Anti-material Rifle

[Shadow Wizard Fluffy Gang]

Originally posted by Eudicots:

Punisher or slugger can stun-lock them in place. They also deal enough damage to kill them with ease.

This is the way. Slugger is a Stalker destroyer if you hit them in the face, one taps them. Stagger to line up a shot, finish in the face.

[Sparky_]

Slugger, punisher and breaker can deal with them quickly, especially slygger and punisher with the added stun effect. If you're using something else as primary without stun or slower TTK, just unload, dive and unload secondary. If there's more than one stalker reload while moving and duck often while repeating the said process. This applies if they spot you before you spot them. Afterwards prioritize finding their lair. It's 2 holes at most.

[madshock]

most of the time 2 stalkers come together. the key is to kill at least one before they come into melee range. u can use the plasma gun to kill the first one with 4/6 shots of the magazine and then switch to the uzi and shoot the whole magazine into the second one when close distance.

on helldive mode one stalker nest always spawns 3 stalkers. thats a problem. i often use a stim right before they come close so when i manage to kill 2 of them and the third one attacks me the stim heals through and covering to get enough time to reload ur plasma.

[Kharn the Bloody]

As soon as you see one, break off whatever you doing and kill it. If it does it's hit and run thing, chase it and kill it. Then ignore everything else in match and find the nest. Nest is usually in the direction from where the Stalker first appeared, but not always. Look for a small red area on map. The nests wont always show up though on minimap you might have to hunt.

Breaker and Breaker Incendiary work well. Burst fire(2 round bursts) the breaker at longer ranges and use the crouched fire to further reduce recoil. Gear with 30% less recoil when crouched or prone further reduces recoil. Same with the Breaker Incendiary at longer ranges then blast full auto when they're really close. Swap to the full auto pistol instead of trying to reload when they're on top of you and your mag is empty on your primary. Of course if you manage to live and get a little breathing room once they're on top of you, reload your primary as soon as possible.

If you spot one at long range pop off with a few shots of the Railgun, Auto Cannon, Arc Thrower then swap to shotty when they get in close.

[Beltway]

The energy sheild completely blocks their attacks. I always carry one when I do bugs.

[orz]

I'm clearly worse at this than I thought. I've been using the slugger, and it does seem to be better than most things i've tried, but the head shots have been inconsistent for me. My tactic thus far has been bean them with the nade launcher til they get close and blast them with the slugger but maybe i'm too much of a potato to pull it off.
As for the nest, yeah that's generally what I do. Instant b-line, but given my inability to really deal with them it's difficult for me to get to the nest.

[Kharn the Bloody]

Originally posted by orz:

I'm clearly worse at this than I thought. I've been using the slugger, and it does seem to be better than most things i've tried, but the head shots have been inconsistent for me. My tactic thus far has been bean them with the nade launcher til they get close and blast them with the slugger but maybe i'm too much of a potato to pull it off.
As for the nest, yeah that's generally what I do. Instant b-line, but given my inability to really deal with them it's difficult for me to get to the nest.

Fire grenades also help. You just have to anticipate and spam a couple in the direction where they'll be. If you have the gear with 6 nades you can build a wall of fire they have to get through. Or you can hold a Frag or Incendiary Grenade a few seconds and cook it down so it explodes on impact, like the Impact Grenade.

FYI Incendiary Grenades also work to close the Bug holes as well as the vents of the Bot Factory/Fabricators.