Killing hulks

[rpayne88]

What's the best way to go about this as a single player? Flanking around the back to hit their weak spot is a no-go as you'll either be rag dolled with rockets or incinerated with a flame thrower. (And unlike tanks, they can turn way too fast.) Hitting them with my grenade launcher, which normally works on everything else, does exactly nothing. Hitting them in the face with both EATs from a drop still does not kill them. I'm still too low level for the rail cannon strike.

The only way I've been able to kill them is to call in two airstrikes, then a precision strike, then hit them with both EATs from a drop. And that leaves me with nothing else to use against swarms, or, alternatively, running around waiting for cooldowns so I can hit the hulk.

Seriously, I've gone from five lives to mission failure all because a single hulk showed up and started a death spiral.

[TWO]

Anti Material Rifle.

Works Every Time as Long as you got the Aim to hit the eye Twice.

[RunningBot]

Can kill a leg and its so slow you can ignore it. Or kill both legs and it will drop.

[Fauxsteel]

Originally posted by RunningBot:

Can kill a leg and its so slow you can ignore it. Or kill both legs and it will drop.

If I recall, autocannon does this well.

[Dormog]

Two hits from Quesar Cannon or a Laser Cannon directly aimed at their head tends to take them down easily. You can also stun them with a stun grenade to make it easier for you to hit the hulks without them launching rockets or shooting flames at you.

[Fox]

Single hut from eat/rr to the eye drops them. Stun grenade makes it easy. Don't play solo

[Solvem Probler]

Anti-Materiel to the face plate

[Kalas Hydra]

quasar oneshots if you hit the face , pair that with stun grenades for best results

[Driverben]

Originally posted by Fauxsteel:

Originally posted by RunningBot:

Can kill a leg and its so slow you can ignore it. Or kill both legs and it will drop.

If I recall, autocannon does this well.

Auto cannon is probably the easiest weapon for tearing off limbs on robots. Can also 2-3 shot Hulks if you manage to hit them in the back. 2 shots to the eye slot on the front. I love using the auto cannon against bots, it's very versatile and will stagger everything but a hulk and tank.

[TMAC Blade]

What I normally do is get the rail cannon stratagem and just one shot it. Alternatively you can have someone distract it and just run around and ass ram it with a breaker.

[Midas]

Railgun strat is the easiest and safest. Quasar, auto cannon and anti materiel rifle works too.

[StabbyU2]

a Recoiless to the eye is a 1 shot, you can also 1 shot a drop ship with an engine shot with it.

[Lesurous]

If you want to keep running the Grenade Launcher, you can kill them from the front but it requires you to have a higher angle on them. You shoot between their legs so that the explosion hits their back vent. You can do the same with impact grenades as well, it's not ammo efficient but beats dying. It's also perfectly fine if there is no angle on it's front or back to simply disable one of it's weapons, ideally their rocket pods/flamethrower.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by rpayne88:

Killing hulks
What's the best way to go about this as a single player?

Their face is a weak point. But you need either explosives or armor pen.

The anti-material rifle work. Expendable anti-tank works. Recoilless. Quasar. Heck, even the railgun on unsafe work if you hit the head.

[Befitzero]

I find going for the legs with a Q cannon is the best with Flame Hulks, not as good with the rocket wielding ones, for those its usually better to stun first and then take out the arms. Going for the face can be a pain as it running around so stunning it or gimping it will make it easier to take out.

[Darkhelios]

If the Hulk is alone and too close to you, you can also go towards it instead of running away. Pay attention to its close ranged attacks and get to its back. You can even dance with it, allowing your allies to target its weakspots while you're keeping it busy.

Do note however that you shouldn't do this if the Hulk isn't alone as the other enemy / enemies could become a big problem. Even the small ones could potentially hit you, making you stagger... It usually ends with you getting killed by the Hulk now that it has an opportunity to hit you.

Edit: Forgot to mention it but this work really nicely against Flamethrower Hulks. Just wait until it uses its flamethrower. As it won't use it again right away, you'll be able to get close to it. Don't run toward its second arm (close ranged attack = dangerous), instead run to towards flamethrower's direction as it'll be defenseless as long as the Hulk isn't ready to fire once again.