Do you shoot charger butts or heads or legs

[橘光]

It used to be 1 AT shot to the head and no problem, now I'm finding myself shooting the head only 10% of the time, 60% of the time I shoot the butt, 30% of the time I shoot the legs.

Used to use recoilless rifles all the time for bugs, but now there are so many grunts I picked up the all laser build again and clear hordes most of the time, and help with chargers/titans with precision strike, or shooting butts/stomachs with laser cannon. Grenades help a lot too, sometimes throwing a grenade when chargers rushes you just deletes it and make it spin like a wheel lol

Are you guys having fun? I'm having a blast killing hordes upon hordes of bugs in diff 9, and I use to play diff 7 because I hate killing heavy armors, now in diff 9 I'd say there are more heavy armors but it's more fun

[ZTEQ]

The charger behemoths are definitely much more durable then the old charger variant. I often run eats which seemingly do very little to these things. I have hit one in the head for 4 eats and it still didn't die.

I'm not sure if they have a new weak point or what, but I just resorted to using precision strike orbital on them now which after the buff is oh so good and has a very fast refresh.

[Gundug]

I run the Quasar for head shots on Chargers. If I don't have the angle, I will go for a leg, then finish it off with my Breaker Incendiary. The Breaker is for erasing hordes of the small trash. I carry stun grenades so I can stop threats from getting to fleeing teammates when I can't shoot or use explosives due to them being too close. My grenade pistol closes bug holes and deals with Spewers.

[Cinnamon Toast Cat]

For normal chargers I still just go for one AT to the head, unless something is making the shot exceptionally difficult. I will go for a leg if the situation demands it, but almost never the butt since I find it doesn't one shot kill very consistently, and it's easier to shoot a damaged leg than the butt imo.

For charger behemoths, I haven't quite decided whether I prefer two shots to the head, or going for a leg shot and cleaning it up with my gun. So far I tend to shoot its head twice or use stratagems to kill them, especially easy since the precision strike got buffed.

I have been having a lot of fun though, it's nice to see a few heavies exchanged for more horde bugs on higher difficulties.

[黒人]

Ass, head or the legs? An age old question.

Personally, I'm an ass man.

[Inardesco]

You just flamethrower the guys...They die as quick as normal chargers.

Also, behemoth back legs doesnt have the extra armour and thus you can shoot back leg and kill it with primary.

[(SG-ᐰ) StarGate]

Originally posted by ZTEQ:

The charger behemoths are definitely much more durable then the old charger variant. I often run eats which seemingly do very little to these things. I have hit one in the head for 4 eats and it still didn't die.

I'm not sure if they have a new weak point or what, but I just resorted to using precision strike orbital on them now which after the buff is oh so good and has a very fast refresh.

The old ones (common before the update) are very easy
- Head oneshot (eg. quasar and others)
- Leg Shot (break Shield) and shoot some bullets into the weak leg
- burn it to death within one flame mag (much faster if the leg hasnt a shield of course)

The new one (not rare anymore after the update - so more of them than the old one?)
- Headshot??? no, even 4x Quasar dont break the Headshield
- Legshoot? lol are you dreaming 2x Quasar still dont break the front leg Shield
- It seems, the back legs shield are more weak than the front ones
- They're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fast as hell and agile (slides and change direction instantly - so more harder to dash)

The old ones I was able to dash very easy and even with 3 charger it was possible to just walk around in circles, elipes or so and didnt get hit by one. The "new" one can instantly change his direction and kick you out ouf the map or into the ground, and as I wrote, cant hit them from the front side.

[Inardesco]

Quasar is the weakest out of all anti-tank weapons so not exactly a solid metric.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by omiTciM:

Do you shoot charger butts or heads or legs

Head, when at all possible.

Behemoth Chargers i focus on the Abdomen.

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Quasar is the weakest out of all anti-tank weapons so not exactly a solid metric.

Unless i missed an update it has the same damage as the Recoilless.

[Gustavus]

I shoot myself because I'm sick of having 6 behemots spawn every few minute.

[Mezore]

I shoot the head and if i fail, i shoot what was exposed or the butt (a quasar to the leg + one round of grenade pistol on that leg kill a normal charger). It is fun to slowly take them down but other bugs doesn't agree. Especially hunters.. Charge are less annoying/dangerous than hunter and you can't change my mind on it :D

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Ishan451:

Unless i missed an update it has the same damage as the Recoilless.

Its weaker. Shrieker nest needs 2 RR shots to die. Quasar needs 3.

Same with Spore Spewers, 2 RR shots, but 3 quasars.

[Sir Walrus]

Originally posted by Cinnamon Toast Cat:

For normal chargers I still just go for one AT to the head, unless something is making the shot exceptionally difficult. I will go for a leg if the situation demands it, but almost never the butt since I find it doesn't one shot kill very consistently, and it's easier to shoot a damaged leg than the butt imo.

For charger behemoths, I haven't quite decided whether I prefer two shots to the head, or going for a leg shot and cleaning it up with my gun. So far I tend to shoot its head twice or use stratagems to kill them, especially easy since the precision strike got buffed.

I have been having a lot of fun though, it's nice to see a few heavies exchanged for more horde bugs on higher difficulties.

Two headshots with the EAT should kill it.

[Oh Heck]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Ishan451:

Unless i missed an update it has the same damage as the Recoilless.

Its weaker. Shrieker nest needs 2 RR shots to die. Quasar needs 3.

Same with Spore Spewers, 2 RR shots, but 3 quasars.

I still take out Spore Spewers with two quasar shots.

[LeftIsBest-James]

Quasar:
- Headshot (from front).
- Armpit of FrontLeg (from back).

[Mezore]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Ishan451:

Unless i missed an update it has the same damage as the Recoilless.

Its weaker. Shrieker nest needs 2 RR shots to die. Quasar needs 3.

Same with Spore Spewers, 2 RR shots, but 3 quasars.

I'm sorry but it seems you are wrong, quasar does the same damage as EAT and RR if we trust this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3221849493&searchtext=damage