Bile Spewers: How Do You Kill Them With Light Weapons?

[TwoTonTuna]

Head and front legs need medium armor penetration, while the green sac is a bullet sponge unless you pack explosive armaments. Where do you aim with light weapons?

I read that light weapons can deal critical damage at the mouth, right when the spewer is about to spit at you. Is this true and a light weapon like the liberator kill a 'rearing' spewer in the mouth before it pukes me into a puddle of goop?

Update:
Discovered two ways for light weapons to kill green bile spewers.

One, target the spewer's lower jaw as it rears up to spit at you. Unreliable and dangerous for most weapons, as it is tough to kill it before it kills you with acid. The Punisher, however, is pretty decent at this because it will stagger the spewer before it can complete its vomit animation.

Two, target the two hind legs of the spewer--the big ones at the back. They take critical damage from light weapons, and breaking them both will kill the spewer. Less dangerous than aiming for the lower jaw, but hard to land shots due to the spewer constantly shifting its hind legs around.

Source for this: the AI of a bile spewer bugged out, and I was able to experiment with weak points while it was sitting still. Was able to blow out the bugged spewer's hind legs with a Punisher.

[Marchand]

Bad comp to not bring an autocannon, MG, or grenade launcher.

[Khloros]

You dont thats how.

[Gen Greavous]

for me i save mu impacts for the, still 1 shot on level 9 and can take out 3 packed together, wiki says shoot the big back legs or into the mouth with light weapons.

[LeftIsBest-James]

You can't kill it with light weapons.
explosive weapons or stratagem or slugger/dominator.

Quasars** have a long charge up time. (same strat as Bile Titans)

• Titans and Spewers are faster on the draw, they will wait for you to chargeup and then melt you.
  
• Charge up to bait them into "charging up".
  
• Dive/Dodge
  
• Charge up and kill them.
  
• Multiple spewers/escort is bad news - keep running.
  

[TwoTonTuna]

Originally posted by Marchand:

Bad comp to not bring an autocannon, MG, or grenade launcher.

I pub on quickplay, and I am experimenting with builds. If I can reliably kill bile spewers with light weapons, I can switch my primary to a light gun instead of explosive/medium-pen gun.

[Korrex]

Anything that has the "explosive" trait will work hitting the sacks, additionally you can bring the impact grenades (one hit kills) as well as the new nade pistol.

[Mathias Giovanni]

When someone dies you can drop on them. Might be able to throw supply crate and other call down on top of them as well. Orbital laser attacks and other call ins.

[Markus Reese]

Essentially summary of discussion is that to kill bile spitters with light weapons, you change to something with some armor pen. Meaning have a team mate dedicated to that role or ensure your secondary can fill the role.

Machine gun is an excellent one that I still use in bugs. But end of day, teamwork is always a viable if you are dedicating to something else. I cover the team for my play.

[GHDW]

Always the face.

[Vaati]

ineffectively is how, light pen (and the AR-P) dont have the damage output to deal with spewers the same way said weapons can deal with their intended targets. Would be like asking how to kill a bile titan with a jar, the weapon is simply not intended to.

[TwoTonTuna]

Bump: updated the original post to reflect the results of my testing with bile spewers

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