Whats the most efficient way to deal with Heavy Devastators?

[Ragosta tin Dei]

I keep aiming at the head but they dont die. I end up either getting headshot or just dying to attrition fire.

[Twi§t€dSOlÐIer]

https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Devastator

[Dirge]

I just shoot their weapon arm off, personally.

[Sevrojin]

Plazma weapons

[Zsrai]

Shoot them in the face. Scopes and optics are off center, so you're probably hitting them in the chest instead.

Or yeah, just blow their arms off.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Ragosta tin Dei:

Whats the most efficient way to deal with Heavy Devastators?

If you have a high stagger weapon like the Dominator you can shoot the chest/face plate to try hit the face. Anything else should shoot the Backpack or the gun arm.

Same way Rocket Devastators. Face Plate if you have medium penetration with good stagger, anyone else focus on the Micky Mouse Rocket ears and one of the Legs.

[Cadwell]

I personally toss Explosive Grenades at them or use the Autocannon on them, which staggers them leaving them open for a new shot, or use the Anti-Material Sniper rifle.

[The One True Git]

I just scream and continually call in explosives and shoot until it stops moving.

[ACEsino]

aim for the robussy

[Majorita]

Depends on your gun but honestly if you have trouble with Devastators just pick up the JAR-5 and just blast em anywhere, they'll go down. Scorcher is great too I bet you don't have that. I would focus the Helldivers Mobilize tree in order to get the Scorcher in fact, it's that good against bot AND it beats AT-STs.

If you don't even have the JAR-5, maybe try headshots with the Diligence? If you don't have the Diligence or don't like it, maybe try the Breaker? Or the Sickle? The Sickle is kinda hard to control accurately when firing but it'll do some damage and it's easy to get.

If you want support weapon recommends I would say the Anti-Materiel Rifle if you really want to just kill Devastators, but keep in mind the first-person sights have been broken since release and you have to aim slightly sort of off to the left of the centre square, and diagonally up-left if zeroed to 100m like most people use it on.

The Autocannon is good too, but it also has bugged first-person sights. It also eats a backpack slot but it's at least effective.

Railgun maybe? I haven't used it hardly at all, but I'm sure it's OK even in safe mode, against Devastators.

Those are my recommendations.

[Twi§t€dSOlÐIer]

so many rip comments lol

[Siodog]

You aim at the head with what? A shotgun would never kill them no matter what only stagger, just the normal pistol two headshots is enough

[Kirb]

Turn them into scrap, which can then be recycled into more freedom bullets for Super Earth.

[Zyhgar The Phoenix]

If you aim for the legs/lower torso you can kill them fast probably not as fast as headshots but more effective in a pinch.

Railgun can instantly kill them even on safe while aimming for lower torso.

Jar-5 can 2-3 shot devs via hitting lower torso/leg actuators.

Scorcher takes around 4? Shots in legs/lower torso

Sickle takes around a full burst to kill via legs/torso though it feels more consistent.

Impacts can instantly kill them if you hit their above head area or legs.

[YMD]

The circular reticle on your screen is actually where your bullets will land, so the crosshair isn't always matching this.

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

railgun 90%+ headshot 1-tap

circle around them, have someone shoot their back-weakspot with a whatever. no armorpen required.

500kg bomb.
laser when in a pinch.

get them stuck somewhere. take out their arms. run away for achievement.

impact nade (front) is extremly tricky to high. seems like a waste of resources to me. no idea if a bad hit does anything to it´s HP.