How to kill factory striders?

[BCPowerhouse]

I threw 2 500kg bombs and an orbital laser right on top of one, but it still didn't die. Lost the mission and the strider still looked fine. The most damage I did was to take out the top turret with a quasar cannon. I couldn't find any weak spot, so how are you supposed to kill them?

[theseeman]

Usually a rail strike, a 110mm rocket strike, then the orbital laser but if they all fail to hit a weak spot it will need more.
If you die try to land on top of it. if you don't hit a heat sink on your drop but do get on its back just avoid the traversing turret and let the bots kill the strider for you. They will at least weaken it while you ride it.

[Lovecraft]

Originally posted by Korrex:

It has two main weak spots:
1) The head of it has a front eye and visor (for lack of a better word), hit it with any med-penetrating weapon and you'll put a hurtin on it.

2) the Factory itself underneath it is a serious weakspot. You can rush it with an autocannon and nuke it, or with two shots from any of the AT weapons, or with sustained laser cannon fire...the list goes on. Dangerous to get in there and you'll probably need to kill the forward guns first, but very doable.

It also has weak spots on each side between the leg joints - panels you can shoot off and expose vulnerable circuitry.

[Korrex]

Originally posted by Lovecraft:

Originally posted by Korrex:

It has two main weak spots:
1) The head of it has a front eye and visor (for lack of a better word), hit it with any med-penetrating weapon and you'll put a hurtin on it.

2) the Factory itself underneath it is a serious weakspot. You can rush it with an autocannon and nuke it, or with two shots from any of the AT weapons, or with sustained laser cannon fire...the list goes on. Dangerous to get in there and you'll probably need to kill the forward guns first, but very doable.

It also has weak spots on each side between the leg joints - panels you can shoot off and expose vulnerable circuitry.

True, the difference though is that (with the legs and head) you have to break the armor then deal damage on top of that. With the ones I listed, if you break them then the whole things dies instantly.

[TheSharpFixer]

Laser cannon (not Quazar, thats more powerful but slower) or Auto cannon can take advantage of weakpoints such as the visor spot on the head, the neck openings, the leg joint openings, and I think the butt vents? I know anti tank is great for taking out the top cannon and can open up the side armor for damage from medium armor pen primary weapons.

Oh and the 2 miniguns up front are able to be destroyed with anything with medium armor pen or higher.

[Millatron]

Ask them to create a PSN account in order to log in.

[Gundug]

I've destroyed them with the Eagle Air Strike (the one that drops a series of bombs in a row) and the cheapo Orbital Precision Strike tossed right up on its back before as well. It sounds like you landed your hits directly onto it, so it's weird that it didn't go down. I'm not surprised the Orbital Laser didn't do much. That thing takes ages just killing chargers.

I personally find the Orbital Laser good for remotely destroying hard to get at bot facilities with only some small enemies for it to sweep over, but kind of crap if there's anything heavy it needs to lock on to for much of its run time, and I dislike how it can rapidly change direction and run over teammates unexpectedly as it seeks different targets if someone drops one too close when being swarmed.