How do you kill Bile Titans with weapons?

[Malidictus]

Disclaimer: This thread is from February. A lot has changed since then. Bile Titan spawn numbers were reduced, anti-tank rockets were buffed and we've gotten additional anti-tank options. Please be advise when responding.



Bile Titans have become something of a showstopper for me. It's not that they're impossible to kill, but it takes forever and eats through my resources. It genuinely feels like I'm doing it wrong (like I was with Chargers before learning their mechanics). I tried looking for answers online, but I found only superficial non-answers, instead. "Use a Railcannon Strike". "Use a 500KG bomb." "Use the Orbital Laser." That's not fighting Bile Titans - it's avoiding doing so.



Which brings me to the title question: How should I be killing Bile Titans using the weapons I brought with me?

I've tried the Spear. People insisted that it can one-shot Bile Titans, and it absolutely can... once in a blue moon. Most of the time it takes 2 shots, quite often it takes 3, out of my total of 4. So while the Spear is viable, it's in the same realm as the Railcannon Strike - good to take out individual Titans, but not when 4 of them spawn from the same Bug Hole.

I've tried using EAT-17s and the Recoilless Rifle, but those don't seem to be effective. It takes a tremendous amount of rockets to take the thing down. People have insisted that I can one-shot a Bile Titan with the Recoilless Rifle, but I've yet to see either evidence of this claim or any instructions on how to do it. Would be nice if I could, though.

Similarly, people have insisted that I can kill a Bile Titan in two shots with the Railgun in Unsafe Mode, but I've definitely not been able to accomplish that. In fact, I'm not entirely sure what Unsafe Mode even does, as it doesn't seem to do appreciably more damage. I may be using it wrong, though.



And then there's the other issue: What are the Bile Titan's weak points?

I've tried applying the same logic as with Chargers to the Bile Titan - shoot the legs. Unfortunately, Terminid design is incredibly inconsistent so that doesn't seem to work. I've tried shooting it in the head, but that doesn't seem to do appreciably more damage than shooting it in the back. Some people have suggested shooting it in the mouth as it's spitting, but I've never been able to pull that off and I'm not even convinced it's a thing.

The one weak point (well, technically two identical weak points) that I've been able to find is the green glowing sacks. That's normally not a weak point as on the Bile Spitters, but it seems to work on the Titan. Blowing the sack on the thorax prevents the Titan from Spitting, blowing the one on the butt doesn't seem to do anything. On a few occasions, I've been able to completely destroy his butt, which does cause him to die, but most of the time that doesn't seem to work.

I thought maybe I was supposed the strop the Bile Titan's armour and shoot him with small arms like on the Charger, but that also doesn't seem to work. Even with the armour stripped, his exposed guts still bounce Light Armour weapons.



In short: What am I doing wrong? What should I be doing instead?

[DespotAspid]

Rail. Unsafe mode. 3-5 shots in head.

[Raziel]

I had a match where I would consistently insta kill them with one railgun shot to the head, but every match afterwards I'm unable to reproduce it. Instead if takes over 10 shots to the head for it to die lol.. I honestly would love to know as well

[Zeddy]

Call in EAT, shoot it in the mouth when it opens the mouth. Might need two EATs, so it's handy they come in 2-packs.

I've also had luck blowing off its back armour with 110mm rocket pods and then shooting exposed flesh, but if you're bringing an Eagle for Bile Titan it might as well be 500kg.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by DespotAspid:

Rail. Unsafe mode. 3-5 shots in head.

So charge the Railgun to just before it overheats and fire? I've tried doing that, but it still takes like a dozen shots. Is there any specific place on the head I should be aiming at?

Originally posted by Zeddy:

Call in EAT, shoot it in the mouth when it opens the mouth. Might need two EATs, so it's handy they come in 2-packs.[/b]

Are you sure about that? I've tried and never gotten it to work. Is there a specific place I need to shoot it, or just the mouth? Is my aim maybe just bad?

Originally posted by Zeddy:

I've also had luck blowing off its back armour with 110mm rocket pods and then shooting exposed flesh, but if you're bringing an Eagle for Bile Titan it might as well be 500kg.

Are you sure? I've tried shooting exposed flesh and it just doesn't seem to do anything more than shooting the armour. Well, with anti-tank weapons, anyway. With small arms, the exposed flesh still counts as "armoured" so they can't hurt it regardless.

[TemplarGFX]

sacrifice yourself to the bugs and then get your mate to throw the beacon just infront of wherever the titan is walking. aim your drop pod at the titan. boom, no more titan ;)

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by TemplarGFX:

sacrifice yourself to the bugs and then get your mate to throw the beacon just infront of wherever the titan is walking. aim your drop pod at the titan. boom, no more titan ;)

I meant to talk about that, but decided to cut it for length. I used to be able to do that. As of late, it hasn't worked. I aim my pod, drop straight through the Titan's Thorax and it just keeps on walking. I think it's doing damage, but it feels like they got a health boost of some kind. Drop pods don't seem enough to kill those from full health any more.

[GONDAL]

All the airstrikes!!!!

[Midnight]

Well, unless you have a way to quickly kill the titan the first thing you should do is break the green sac on its belly. This means it cannot spit and it will be MUCH easier to kite around.

You can do this with 2-3 impact nades (or regular cooked nades) depending on how well you hit it. You can also do this with a regular weapon, though it takes about a full mag from a Breaker at pretty close range. Low DPS weapons will struggle here. Or you can blow it up with rockets, AC, explosives in general.

If its side carapace armor is broken (by a rail cannon or spear hit for example) you can onetap it by a direct impact nade hit in that open spot. Or once again regular weapons but the window to hit here is so small when it's walking around that it's not very practical.

Titan absolutely can be killed by two rockets directly to the face from recoiless or EAT. But I'm not entirely sure if it needs to be damaged first. I never managed to test this against an entirely undamaged titan.

500kg is good but you need to aim well. Eagle rocket pods can open up the carapace for a follow up like I mentioned above.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Midnight:

Well, unless you have a way to quickly kill the titan the first thing you should do is break the green sac on its belly. This means it cannot spit and it will be MUCH easier to kite around.

People have mentioned shooting the Bile Titan in its open mouth while spitting. Wouldn't breaking its gut remove that weak point permanently? Genuine question, as it's something I've discussed with friends.

Originally posted by Midnight:

You can do this with 2-3 impact nades (or regular cooked nades) depending on how well you hit it. You can also do this with a regular weapon, though it takes about a full mag from a Breaker at pretty close range. Low DPS weapons will struggle here. Or you can blow it up with rockets, AC, explosives in general.

Hold on - small arms can hurt the bile sacks on the Titan's underside? Are you sure about that? I've always gotten the "armour deflection" indicator when shooting it there, and it didn't seem to take damage. If that's the case, then I may have been doing this whole thing wrong. Or do small arms stop being effective once the sack is actually blown off?

[BananaBadman]

Railgun needs to be charged until it's in that last bar right before exploding.

For multiple bile titans, you're better off just kiting them and having them kill chargers/eachother with their spit. If you're able to get the titan to move next to a tall rock formation, you can sometimes get it to suicide by having it spit into the rocks. The spit can bounce back and kill.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

but not when 4 of them spawn from the same Bug Hole.

If you're playing on a difficulty where this is possible, the solution is the railgun. The EAT is only feasible if the bile titan is the "kill this boss monster" objective on a yellow difficulty.

Its weak point is its face and shooting it there will interrupt its poison spray.

You need stratagems for dealing with them in bulk. The 500KG bomb can be hard to aim but has the most throughput.

[Sotanaht]

Either strategems, or I just spam my Arc in its general direction. I've never actually counted, but I'd guess around 20-30 shots will kill. Not like I have to worry about ammo.

[Zeddy]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Are you sure? I've tried shooting exposed flesh and it just doesn't seem to do anything more than shooting the armour. Well, with anti-tank weapons, anyway. With small arms, the exposed flesh still counts as "armoured" so they can't hurt it regardless.

I'm sure about the EAT thing (can also use recoiless, the important thing is wait for him to spew on you and hit first, hit hard), the exposed flesh thing honestly less so 'cause a lot was going on.

Tbh I just eagle 500kg him now.

Originally posted by Malidictus:

People have mentioned shooting the Bile Titan in its open mouth while spitting. Wouldn't breaking its gut remove that weak point permanently? Genuine question, as it's something I've discussed with friends.

Yes. It'll no longer open the mouth once the sac is broken, but the sac will be broken so it'll be a non-threat.

[Midnight]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by Midnight:

Well, unless you have a way to quickly kill the titan the first thing you should do is break the green sac on its belly. This means it cannot spit and it will be MUCH easier to kite around.

People have mentioned shooting the Bile Titan in its open mouth while spitting. Wouldn't breaking its gut remove that weak point permanently? Genuine question, as it's something I've discussed with friends.

Originally posted by Midnight:

You can do this with 2-3 impact nades (or regular cooked nades) depending on how well you hit it. You can also do this with a regular weapon, though it takes about a full mag from a Breaker at pretty close range. Low DPS weapons will struggle here. Or you can blow it up with rockets, AC, explosives in general.

Hold on - small arms can hurt the bile sacks on the Titan's underside? Are you sure about that? I've always gotten the "armour deflection" indicator when shooting it there, and it didn't seem to take damage. If that's the case, then I may have been doing this whole thing wrong. Or do small arms stop being effective once the sack is actually blown off?

The two-shot railgun thing is entirely inconsistent and I've seen legit videos of people doing that withouth the titan spitting. Some claim to be able to do this consistently and if so good for them.

But if I see my teammates running around being chased by spitting titans I assume they don't have such a tools/capabilities and it's time to break the sack weakpoint or not. Also if there's multiple titans chasing you then it can be too dangerous to even attemp anything until the spit is disabled. Depends on your kiting abilities and whether you have the shield.

And yes the underside sack can absolutely be damaged by primary weapons. Well, I tried Breaker and Defender anything else has so little DPS that I might as well not bother. Slugger or Dominator might work. I prefer to use impact nades anyway, it's a last resort thing. Just keep in mind the the armor extends a bit over the green area on the side. So you need to either be below the titan or shoot under that line. After it's broken though you can no longer damage it there. But you can still blow it up with nades, but that is a lot of accurate nades you'd need.

Using a breaker I sprint to the side of the titan as it begins to spit (to the side, if you try to run under it it will probably kill you). Then I unload a mag on the belly. About one seems to do the trick but again in a team setting it's hard to tell whether the thing is already damaged or not.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Its weak point is its face and shooting it there will interrupt its poison spray.

Can we confirm if the open mouth while spraying is a separate weak point, or will "just the face" do fine? I know that weak points in this game can be INCREDIBLY tiny, so maybe it's just the thing's actual head is very small?

Originally posted by Midnight:

Using a breaker I sprint to the side of the titan as it begins to spit (to the side, if you try to run under it it will probably kill you). Then I unload a mag on the belly. About one seems to do the trick but again in a team setting it's hard to tell whether the thing is already damaged or not.

Do you know if that's a good way of actually killing the Bile Titan like it is on a Charger, or is it just a means of blowing their sacks? I mostly ask because it feels like mag-dumping the Railgun into its head feels like the wrong way to go about it.