Best ways to kill bile titans

[SexualChocolate]

Hey all, like the title says I would like to know your methods for killing bile titans. With the game spawning so many now it can get to a point where you have no EAT's or available orbitals to kill them all.

From what I see they have been stealth buffed so that an orbital rail cannon no longer one shots them which is garbage imo as that strat has such a long cooldown. They also seem to take at least 2 EATs to the head to kill.

I have seen people have great success with a well timed orbital precision strike but it's not consistent.

Anyway what are your tactics/what works best?

Discuss please.

[Van]

As lame as it sounds 4 months after pre-nerf Railgun, I still use the Railgun. In Safe Mode, Railgun will do damage to the head for roughly 3 shots. However, in Unsafe Mode, you can two-shot it guaranteed, similar to EAT.

[LeftIsBest-James]

Everything here is Titan relevant
- 110 rockets for slow titans.
- 500kg/Precision cos a chance to miss my target gives me a rush.
- RCannon for fast chargers but OP for titans.
- OLaser cos you're SOL and got nothing intelligent left.

- Quasar cos you're prepared.
- AC/GL "I'm helping by removing the bellysac"

Personally (blitzer - but stick close to iBreaker teammate(shriekr/stalkr), GPistol, iNade.):
- (for bug run'n'guns): Quasar/Rover/Airstrike/RCannon
- (for bug eradicates): AC/110/OLaser/(Airstrike/Gas)
- (for VIP EVac) something different
- (for scientist Evac) different again.

[darkblade]

Try to use 500kg

With the upgrade you get 2 bombs and the cooldown is lower then the railcannon, if you know how to use it you got a 90% chance for a kill, also quasar is not bad, shoot then run and then shoot again.

If you want to know how to use a 500 kg watch a guide on youtube ore somethning, itsnhard to explain here.

But i can try:
You need to throw the 500kg between you and the titan and force him to spew on you, so just stand still, then doge the spew and the titan should me on top of your 500kg marker, then its a kill, can someone explain this better?

[Forblaze]

Railcannon never one shot them unless it was lucky enough to land a headshot.

500kg is the best solution for them. Throw it at its feet, bait a stomp/spew attack, and run away. If it whiffs, try again.

Precision Orbital is the second best. If there's a mission modifier that reduces accuracy it's kind of a wash though.

EAT/Quasar/Recoilless (in order of goodness) kill in two headshots.

I bring all three of these to every bug mission, with the remaining stratagem slot for something anti-horde (usually Rover)

[LoboFH]

500kg is the most efficient one, two eagles in a short cooldown and around 2 minutes reload. Like with the precission strike you need to learn where to call it and bait the titan to stay put 5 seconds in an attack animation, it's risky but fun and your teammates will tell you are a chad.

...and sometimes the vermin will come alive out of the big boom, but you know this game, it's what it is. But it will be on shambles and you can kill it with almost everything, grenades, etc.

[junglecock]

110 rockpod, hope all 3 hit to break armor, then 2 impact nades to the open wound area.

Same can be done with quasar. 2 headshots or 1 shot to the side with 2 impact nades

[AngryChair]

Most of the time i wait until they puke at me to throw a 500kg a few meters in front of them, then they'll walk a bit forward and eat the whole explosion in their bellys. You get 2 of them with a 2 minute cd so i think it's the most efficient way. I also use orbital railcannon, then proceed to fire a quasar round on their mouths and that usually kills them too.

[Pride Lizard Pride Lizard]

I feel like I've said it a hundred times, but Orbital Railcannon has never been a 100% one shot, it one shots if you luck out with a headshot or if it was already hurt. Thatb eing said...

Orbital Railcanon is a precise, quick, finishing move or an opening attack. Recoilless, Quasar, EAT, to the face follow up usually result in a kill.

500 KG *can* kill a bile titan in one, but you have to be precise.

I don't know the exact hitbox, but two shots from any of the aforementioned anti armour will kill in 2 headshots if you hit *right.*

I don't know how it works, but Precision Strike *definitely* hits harder, but you'll have a harder time landing it on a bile titan.

(edit: silly me, i forgot autocannon sentries. If an autocannon sentry targets a bile titan it *can* put the work in.)

[Sleepy_Walker]

Explode the underbelly sack(s) and orbital railcannon or 110mm rockets. In generally the sacks are the key to weakening it enough to be quickly taken out by other weapons/stratagems.

If you do not want to take out the sacks then a railgun shot + quazar/eat/recoilless to the face will kill it. 500kg or Orbital Precision Strike are capable of killing a Titan in 1 hit.

[DeusEstMachina]

if someone already hit them with the orbital rail cannon, you can throw an impact grenade where the armor is broken on their back and it will kill them. an orbital airburst strike can also kill the titan if the armor is broken.

the autocannon sentry is great against them, and since the titan will get aggro'd by the sentry, it's gonna walk towards it, meaning the sentry will keep hitting it in the face. it usually takes 9 shots, but the AC setry fires in 3-round bursts.

I had a few games where everyone was carrying a quasar cannon, and we took out titans as soon as they showed up. it didn't even need any coordination. we just kept shooting them and they went down in a couple of hits.

also, I'm not a 100% on this, but they appear to be more vulnerable during the animation where they climb out of a bug breach. I managed to kill a couple of them simply by calling an eagle airstrike on them, but it's possibly because it was hit by two blasts at once.

I saw a lot of people have success using EATs and recoilless rifles, but I never had much luck with those, even after shooting them directly in the mouth. I usually just look if the titan has a wound on its back, shoot it there and it works.

[AssortedMistakes]

If it chases after you anyway, just wait till it starts spitting and give it whatever you carry right in the mouth. Since it stands still you can aim carefully.

If the things needs to die like.. RIGHT NOW for some reason: orbital railgun and hope someone else does the same or similar.

[Wutever]

500kg go boom.

[Firecam]

Throw your friends at it.

[DeusEstMachina]

Originally posted by Firecam:

Throw your friends at it.

this. shoot your teammate in the head, and call a reinforcement on the titan

[SexualChocolate]

Originally posted by LeftIsBest-James:

Everything here is Titan relevant
- 110 rockets for slow titans.
- 500kg/Precision cos a chance to miss my target gives me a rush.
- RCannon for fast chargers but OP for titans.
- OLaser cos you're SOL and got nothing intelligent left.

- Quasar cos you're prepared.
- AC/GL "I'm helping by removing the bellysac"

Personally (blitzer - but stick close to iBreaker teammate(shriekr/stalkr), GPistol, iNade.):
- (for bug run'n'guns): Quasar/Rover/Airstrike/RCannon
- (for bug eradicates): AC/110/OLaser/(Airstrike/Gas)
- (for VIP EVac) something different
- (for scientist Evac) different again.

Thing is an orbital rail no longer one shots them. Laser usually kills them but sometimes they survive that too.