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

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by 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.

it honestly feels like smoke and visual impairment in general rly doesn't do anything against them at all unless they're just getting lucky random stray shots.

[Dynamiez]

Originally posted by 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

Cover. Look for the nearest rock and prone there. If you use the railgun (unsafe ofcourse) load it BEHIND the cover, strafe sidewards so you just see one of them and headshot it. Strafe to your cover and so on. But honestly, for 5 heavy devs i would actually throw a eagle airstrike or a 500kg bomb to be sure. Or a teammate has to be the bait so that they turn their back to you and shoot them with whatever you have in the back. No shield there.

Edit: okay, if you are in an open field and there spawn 5 heavys its death 🫣 rocks are your friend against bots. You just can try to run over those smoke mushrooms, they loose sight with help of those smoke plants

[DMesse]

Nothing airstrikes can't fix. Remember to swap out from cluster bomb to a normal bomb dropping one when fighting Automatons. You can kill Tanks with bomb run hits as well.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Darth Neon:

Heavy Devastators
F*%& these guys. Seriously.

You are having issues with one of the less threatening "big robots" in the automatons arsenal? You've already mentioned quite a few ways to deal with them.

Personally, one charged up (about 50%) of my railgun to the torso destroy one instantly?

[sweng]

Originally posted by Dynamiez:

Originally posted by 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

Cover. Look for the nearest rock and prone there. If you use the railgun (unsafe ofcourse) load it BEHIND the cover, strafe sidewards so you just see one of them and headshot it. Strafe to your cover and so on. But honestly, for 5 heavy devs i would actually throw a eagle airstrike or a 500kg bomb to be sure. Or a teammate has to be the bait so that they turn their back to you and shoot them with whatever you have in the back. No shield there.

Edit: okay, if you are in an open field and there spawn 5 heavys its death 🫣 rocks are your friend against bots. You just can try to run over those smoke mushrooms, they loose sight with help of those smoke plants

Well, for me, encounter multiple rocket devastator and heavy devastator is just bad luck. Sometime they spawn right behind you and you die before get to cover. Rocket devastator is just shoot too fast and too accurate to the point that they can hit you 2 times in 1 barrage . they shouldnt have 4 -5 spawn in one patrol

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Just for the sake of clearing up possible confusion... What is OP actually pointing at with his "Heavy Devastator"..?

[Urmanin]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Just for the sake of clearing up possible confusion... What is OP actually pointing at with his "Heavy Devastator"..?

To the heavy devastator, an enemy in the game.

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Just for the sake of clearing up possible confusion... What is OP actually pointing at with his "Heavy Devastator"..?

Either the shield variant or rocket variant I think
Possibly both but I am leaning towards shield.

[Neon Samurai]

Honestly I find the rocket devastators more annoying than the Heavy. The heavy just try to use cover and destroy its right arm, or shoot it in the eye if you get a chance. Autocannon, Grenade Launcher, Arc Rifle, Railgun, Anti Material Rifle, and Machine Gun, all tear through them pretty easily, just don't shoot the shield.

[m4ko]

What? The devastators are so easy ...

2-3 shots autocannon
2-3 grenade launcher grenades
shoot head with primary (slugger / sickle) also kills them super fast
etc.

With chargers you have 0% chance to kill them without a secondary weapon. And they swarm you.

The devastators just sit there doing almost nothing. Just take your time. Aim for head. Pew pew. Dead.

Saying they are more difficult then chargers is ... just wrong.

[Foxtrot39]

Use the slug shotgun to stagger them on every hit,


A good headshot from the revolver, slug shogtun, AM sniper does the job

I usualy use the AMR and snipe whole groups, you can use cover and still get a clear LOS on their heads as long you poke from the right side so all their shots hit the cover on your left side