Best way to deal with Bile Titan

[Razer]

I will be forward and say I'm not super good at the game. So just looking for pointers. I've seen vids of people targetting the head with the Quasar. In a hectic battle (especially on extraction) I find that Bile Titans take forever to take down, sometimes having three of them roaming around the rest of the pack. An orbital laser isn't even enough to kill one.

So I'm interested to see how others deal with these enemies and maybe find something I've overlooked. Especially now that the bots are regrouping.

[Queltis]

It will depend greatly on whether you're talking solo or in a group. If you're alone the general wisdom is "You don't", and avoid them. For situations where that isn't possible, you pop their bellies so you can kill everything around them without getting spat on.

With a group you have a lot of options. RR, EATs, rocket sentries, barrages, the 500kg bomb and so forth.

[Pandora's Actor]

Originally posted by Razer:

I will be forward and say I'm not super good at the game. So just looking for pointers. I've seen vids of people targetting the head with the Quasar. In a hectic battle (especially on extraction) I find that Bile Titans take forever to take down, sometimes having three of them roaming around the rest of the pack. An orbital laser isn't even enough to kill one.

So I'm interested to see how others deal with these enemies and maybe find something I've overlooked. Especially now that the bots are regrouping.

orbital railcannon is a waste of a spot. orbital laser will not kill it and mostly be wasted. either take the 500kg OR little known fact.. use the basic orbital precision strike. let it get hit by it and voila it either dies or is very weak and an eat to the face or quazar to the face will kill it. Thats my go to anyway.

Bug loadout:
orbital precision
orbital airburst
orbital gatling
quazar

light armor with extra armor buff
impact grenades
on not hot planets the las 16 sickle
on hot planets the dominator or basic punisher now that the slugger is nerfed.

[Styrian]

I feel that they stealthily increase the 500kg explosion radius, it seems easier to use against bile titans now. or maybe its the vertical explosion height to cover the bile titan's height?

[Razer]

Originally posted by Pandora's Actor:

Originally posted by Razer:

I will be forward and say I'm not super good at the game. So just looking for pointers. I've seen vids of people targetting the head with the Quasar. In a hectic battle (especially on extraction) I find that Bile Titans take forever to take down, sometimes having three of them roaming around the rest of the pack. An orbital laser isn't even enough to kill one.

So I'm interested to see how others deal with these enemies and maybe find something I've overlooked. Especially now that the bots are regrouping.

orbital railcannon is a waste of a spot. orbital laser will not kill it and mostly be wasted. either take the 500kg OR little known fact.. use the basic orbital precision strike. let it get hit by it and voila it either dies or is very weak and an eat to the face or quazar to the face will kill it. Thats my go to anyway.

Bug loadout:
orbital precision
orbital airburst
orbital gatling
quazar

light armor with extra armor buff
impact grenades
on not hot planets the las 16 sickle
on hot planets the dominator or basic punisher now that the slugger is nerfed.

Thanks for the tips.

I've been using the Breaker Incindiary. It was buffed a lot in the last patch. It actually is very good vs bugs right now. Even though it only has light armor pen, the DoT does significant damage. I don't have the Dominator yet, nor the Sickle.

[Deadoon]

500kg, well placed precision strike, and railcannon are pretty good strategems against the titan. For personal weaponry, EAT, quasar and recoilless are all fairly reliable, but skill based weapons. Spear is good against them and auto locks, but is less reliable due to it's automatic nature.

Clear the chaff, then focus the titan down. It's less dangerous than the hordes that surround it usually.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

500kg, well placed precision strike, and railcannon are pretty good strategems against the titan. For personal weaponry, EAT, quasar and recoilless are all fairly reliable, but skill based weapons. Spear is good against them and auto locks, but is less reliable due to it's automatic nature.

Clear the chaff, then focus the titan down. It's less dangerous than the hordes that surround it usually.

If it's only one then yea it's not that big of a deal. I was playing with a friend (just the two of us) and then we had to deal with 3 of them at the same time at extraction, while also facing hordes of other enemies. That was tough.

[Damien Scott]

The best way to deal with a Bile Titan is to kite it to an unexploded hellbomb on the map. After you get it there you shoot a single seed of democracy at the hellbomb, point blank range, and blow up both the Bile Titan and yourself.

[Pandora's Actor]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by Pandora's Actor:

orbital railcannon is a waste of a spot. orbital laser will not kill it and mostly be wasted. either take the 500kg OR little known fact.. use the basic orbital precision strike. let it get hit by it and voila it either dies or is very weak and an eat to the face or quazar to the face will kill it. Thats my go to anyway.

Bug loadout:
orbital precision
orbital airburst
orbital gatling
quazar

light armor with extra armor buff
impact grenades
on not hot planets the las 16 sickle
on hot planets the dominator or basic punisher now that the slugger is nerfed.

Thanks for the tips.

I've been using the Breaker Incindiary. It was buffed a lot in the last patch. It actually is very good vs bugs right now. Even though it only has light armor pen, the DoT does significant damage. I don't have the Dominator yet, nor the Sickle.

dont use the incidiary its ♥♥♥♥♥. the punisher is better

[buckadilla]

Originally posted by Damien Scott:

The best way to deal with a Bile Titan is to kite it to an unexploded hellbomb on the map. After you get it there you shoot a single seed of democracy at the hellbomb, point blank range, and blow up both the Bile Titan and yourself.

Spoken like a true Helldiver.

[Pineapplelord9k]

quasar canon shots to the face, 500kh bomb, 110kg rocket pods, laser, railstrike, eat's.

[Yandeloid]

EAT/RR/Quasar/Spear
Precision Strike is really good if you can use it but good luck with 50% extra call in time and 3 slots
500KG is similar to Precision Strike with what they do but has a larger area and can do it a second time before resupplying if you get your upgrades. Both of these can deal with side objective structures that aren't gunship factories
Orbital Railcannon is a good "I need this to die NOW" when armor is about to force your team off their position but it has a very long cooldown
Airstrike can finish them off and it's just all around good for everything, deals with hordes and armor and nest/fabricators

Railgun, Arc thrower, maybe flamethrower(?) can also help with finishing off a BT. If you've seen it take several anti tank shots and live, it could be a worth a gamble on saving your last stratagem for the next BT and fire it at the one about to die.

I don't use emplacements for them so can't really comment on mortar/rocket

[Voodoochile]

Originally posted by Styrian:

I feel that they stealthily increase the 500kg explosion radius, it seems easier to use against bile titans now. or maybe its the vertical explosion height to cover the bile titan's height?

Not sure how you get this feeling considering I plant the 500KG bombs in their back and they walk it off...I stopped picking the 500KG a long time ago and last night I wanted to test it out and this is my experience. It's a joke Stratagem.

[YMD]

Originally posted by Voodoochile:

Originally posted by Styrian:

I feel that they stealthily increase the 500kg explosion radius, it seems easier to use against bile titans now. or maybe its the vertical explosion height to cover the bile titan's height?

Not sure how you get this feeling considering I plant the 500KG bombs in their back and they walk it off...I stopped picking the 500KG a long time ago and last night I wanted to test it out and this is my experience. It's a joke Stratagem.

I have no idea how they titans shrug off a 500 kg nuke but i just saw it happen today.

[Snowman]

The worst part of bile titans is probably the lots of other bugs around it, focus those, and that mostly prevents the "reinforcement loop" which is how you get multiple titans. Focus those guys, then any number of explosives. Face hitbox ofc is best, but you can kill it with things like a mix of orbital railcannon (others say its no good, but i like it as it auto-targets, but also kills chargers in one) and then an EAT/RR/quaser or two to its body.

Other things like eagle airstrikes damage a titan, though the damage is small it can be useful to clear the chaff while poking at its health still.

Probably last tip is, if you have time, they're actually quite easy to lose if you run. They're faster than you in a straight line, but they don't take corners or rocks that might be in the way very well. Use terrain to your advantage, if there's any mountain areas, do a loop around it and then once out of its sight line, just leave, and 9/10 it won't find you again

[Razer]

Originally posted by Pandora's Actor:

Originally posted by Razer:

Thanks for the tips.

I've been using the Breaker Incindiary. It was buffed a lot in the last patch. It actually is very good vs bugs right now. Even though it only has light armor pen, the DoT does significant damage. I don't have the Dominator yet, nor the Sickle.

dont use the incidiary its ♥♥♥♥♥. the punisher is better

I disagree. After the buffs the Breaker Incindiary has higher DPS than the Breaker and the burn DoT is really effective vs bugs (not good vs automatons). It has a 25 round magazine so you're free to shoot at will, which is good vs bugs.

Also,I just started the game a week ago. I don't have the Punisher. However just going by specs the tiny magazine of 8 and the slow firing speed of 90 for the Punisher doesn't look very effective vs bugs.