Heavy Devastators

[Darth Neon]

F*%& these guys. Seriously. I do not know how to deal with them and it makes fighting bots so exhaustingly unfun because they're stronger than chargers and more common than hunters. I just do not know what to do to make these things easier to fight. I've tried EAT, i've tried Railgun, i've tried impact nades and HE nades, i've tried laser primary, laser cannon. I shoot the face, i shoot the ammo. Its so hard to get a kill on these POS bots. God forbid they spawn near a chicken walker, so even orbital rail wont work. I cannot fathom why the game seems to think dumb walker turrets worthy of a "dangerous enemy" large red dot, but gives heavy devastators (and all devastators for that matter) just a normal weak enemy radar dot. Their ability to kill at enormous ranges with their ridiculous damage output is so oppressive.

Is there anything i can do besides just be more accurate with a railgun and wear accuracy increase armor or something? i couldn't tell you the number of times i've seen a railshot just bounce of the shield

[Watcher Rat]

My honest suggestion: the Punisher shotgun is great against them.

At range, it will stagger them, letting you advance on them while preventing any return fire.

Up close, a single well-placed shot to the red dot can one-shot them.

If there is too much around to rush them, you can easily stunlock them and wait for an eagle strike to erase them; you can even keep 3-4 locked in place at once if you aim well.

Punish them for their lack of democracy, soldier!

[Dootslayer]

The railgun, sniper and 20mm absolutely destroys them

[Explodium]

Shoot them in the robo-crotch. It's a weak spot on devastators.

Edit: thought this was about rocket devastators. For the heavies, I usually use the autocannon

[ArcKnight]

only advice i can give is either shoot them in the eye or shoot the gun arm off and laugh as they slowly walk toward you.

[Eudicots]

Railgun should still damage them in unsafe mode as long as you charge up your shot enough. If aiming for the head to difficult try breaking their midsection. One shot can also kill them if you separate the torso from the legs.

The slugger can kill these guys with a well-placed headshot.

[Botji]

Slugger and aim for their head/shoulder/arm.
If you hit their head its a 1 shot kill, if you hit the shoulder or arm it staggers them which moves their shield making it easier to hit their head or at least keep staggering it if you miss and hit around the head(chest etc).

I dont really get all the Youtubers claiming garbage like Scorcher etc being S+ tier weapons when the only situation you might not want a Slugger is if you are a derp trying to shoot the walkers through their front armor.

Despite its description showing Light armor penetration, its more like medium pen and then some with its ability to penetrate multiple enemies(the weak ones but still).

[McFuzz]

Scorcher, but that's lategame.

Even stalwart or machine gun on the weakspot is enough.

But the easiest way to kill them; 2 players. Their backpack is a weakpoint.

[Saurdaukar]

2 -3 grenades from the grenade launcher should do the trick or impact grenades.

[Aestrea]

When in doubt, impact grenade

[ganjou241]

LMG, aim to the upper left

[Dynamiez]

Was already said from other players but scorcher (kills every bot except hulks and tanks) or good old railgun in unsafe mode. Aim a little bit over the shield, their head is actually not covered.

Sidenote fighting heavy devastators or rocket devs, remember CCC (cover, courage and more cover). They seem to have a "sniper minigun" (really, they can aim with their minigun even on 200m)

Oh i forgot... 2 grenades in their face will do the trick too

[Niknar]

Originally posted by Botji:

Slugger and aim for their head/shoulder/arm.
If you hit their head its a 1 shot kill, if you hit the shoulder or arm it staggers them which moves their shield making it easier to hit their head or at least keep staggering it if you miss and hit around the head(chest etc).

I dont really get all the Youtubers claiming garbage like Scorcher etc being S+ tier weapons when the only situation you might not want a Slugger is if you are a derp trying to shoot the walkers through their front armor.

Despite its description showing Light armor penetration, its more like medium pen and then some with its ability to penetrate multiple enemies(the weak ones but still).

Slugger is my main now, love it. Works well pretty much all the time.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Dootslayer:

The railgun, sniper and 20mm absolutely destroys them

On top of that, any weapon that has long range and precision is good, plus slugger.

Hell, use smoke grenade and flank them.
Use normal grenade to stagger and pound them.

Lascannon will melt them too.

[Urmanin]

The railgun used to pierce their shield at high charge (90%), but after nerf it doesn't even if you redline. I just use the slugger, throw grenades or an airstrike, or an autocannon. Or run away.

[sweng]

I think the problem is not how to deal with one of them but 4 or 5 of them at once. 2 of them is enough to pin you behind cover and it spawn everywhere just like the rocket devastator