Thoughts on lowering Impaler HP

[Madjar]

personally think he has too much HP
Running through the chaos that is level 10, I've hit him square in the exposed weakspot with a recoiless shot, and a mag of dominator, only for the Impaler to shrug it off, forcing me to waste an OS I was saving for a charger/titan

[❌ Peath]

Just bring Precision Strike and drop it on Impaler whenever you see one.
It's low CD and precise hit when it uses it's tentacles makes it obselote.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Madjar:

Thoughts on lowering Impaler HP
personally think he has too much HP
Running through the chaos that is level 10, I've hit him square in the exposed weakspot with a recoiless shot, and a mag of dominator, only for the Impaler to shrug it off, forcing me to waste an OS I was saving for a charger/titan

Your party got up to four orbital strikes. They are not a target you need to tackle solo.

[ItzPress]

The Impaler itself seems fine to deal with up close. I do think there could be maybe more to-main-body damage if you shoot the tendrils or can even fully shoot them off with enough damage. Going to main body to attack it should still be preferred.

[Sleepy_Walker]

Give it some time before floating the idea of reducing its, admittedly, impressive HP.

I personally found out that Impaler's are quite weak to thermite, which appears to ACTUALLY WORK as intended. Sorry, I got a bit excited for a moment.

I found this weakness and I am sure it has others. I would not be surprised if concentrated Flam-40 to the squishy face would do it. I also think a recoilless level rocket to the leg, stripping armor, and then killing that leg charger style, works.

[Aethrys]

Mag dumping adjudicator into it seems to work pretty reliably for me

[Potato Launcher]

A short concentrated stream of the support flamethrower does the job well enough

[Lathe]

People here saying it like Impaler's always alone, close to you, not protected by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bugs and more. I've just had 2 or 3 missions in a row with 5 impalers spawning, protected by multiple bile titans while we had a bug breech with dozens or even hundreds of little bugs(and heck ton of Alpha Commanders) spawning. How did we win it? We didn't. We died around 6 times, wasting all our stratagems and still having to run for good while as they sent us flying to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sky, ragdolling my poor teammates into certain death.

[darkblade]

Originally posted by Madjar:

personally think he has too much HP
Running through the chaos that is level 10, I've hit him square in the exposed weakspot with a recoiless shot, and a mag of dominator, only for the Impaler to shrug it off, forcing me to waste an OS I was saving for a charger/titan

Drop a 500kg on it or any other thing like the 500kg

Or shoot the armor off the back legs with 2 rockets and finish it of with your normal weapon
4 thermite nades kill him if you throw it to the face

[Singularity's Marauder]

cant kill it with Scythe, clearly overpowered

[Madjar]

Originally posted by Lathe:

People here saying it like Impaler's always alone, close to you, not protected by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bugs and more. I've just had 2 or 3 missions in a row with 5 impalers spawning, protected by multiple bile titans while we had a bug breech with dozens or even hundreds of little bugs(and heck ton of Alpha Commanders) spawning. How did we win it? We didn't. We died around 6 times, wasting all our stratagems and still having to run for good while as they sent us flying to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sky, ragdolling my poor teammates into certain death.

probably difficulty 5 players who think you can get off 3 reloads for your RR in a breach because they don't know about the spawns with multiple titans, chargers, and several dozen bugs lmao
People are ignoring the point that I have hit impalers with an AT rocket in the unarmoured face after he deploys his tentacles, and mag dumped him in the short amount of time I can clear for myself.

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Madjar:

Thoughts on lowering Impaler HP
personally think he has too much HP
Running through the chaos that is level 10, I've hit him square in the exposed weakspot with a recoiless shot, and a mag of dominator, only for the Impaler to shrug it off, forcing me to waste an OS I was saving for a charger/titan

Your party got up to four orbital strikes. They are not a target you need to tackle solo.

True, but if you've had a breach cut you off/ are hit with the multiple patrols the game loves to spawn out of thin air, you tend to have people splitting to handle different sides

[Asto]

Impalers are a joke, takes only a few AC hits and gone they are.
Bile Titans and Behemoth chargers are way more threatening imo

[Singularity's Marauder]

Originally posted by Asto:

Impalers are a joke, takes only a few AC hits and gone they are.
Bile Titans and Behemoth chargers are way more threatening imo

that almost sounds like a good trend

[Chaos]

Yeah, their "weak" point is actually quite durable, like a shot from EAT/RR doesn't really one shot it, like wtf?

Even base charger will die in one shot if you hit it right in their armored face, but not this?

[DapperDeeds]

I think their health pool is pretty good honestly and is manageable. precision, 500, railcannon, I still run inc breaker because its still good and a mag or so to the head kills it pretty quick.

[Jagdtiger]

Why can people not just read numbers? The impaler's face has 1700 HP, which means it will take 3 shots of RR, or 2 hits of spear. It will go down in 8 shots of autocannon, or around half a belt of the machine guns. Don't use weapons that aren't effective against the target and then complain the target is too tanky