Any tips for killing stalkers

[henhovla]

I have been having a lot of trouble with them in all of the game modes as I don't have a lot of situational awareness, so they often catch me off guard, and as a full magazine of my redeemer won't kill it, it often gets away, and then I get overrun by another one from behind. Should I just get better at looking for them, or am I doing something wrong? I am mainly playing with randoms.

[12InchParadise]

Get an auto shotgun and aim at the face, it melts them. Clip has 13 bullets, it downd one in about 10 (which is around one secon)

[Average 240 FPS Enjoyer]

Originally posted by henhovla:

I have been having a lot of trouble with them in all of the game modes as I don't have a lot of situational awareness, so they often catch me off guard, and as a full magazine of my redeemer won't kill it, it often gets away, and then I get overrun by another one from behind. Should I just get better at looking for them, or am I doing something wrong? I am mainly playing with randoms.

Best way is to locate and destroy stalker lairs to be honest.It prevents them from spawning at all
As for how to deal with the stalkers themselves is to spot them from far away and shoot before they close the distance,otherwise take the L,heal and shoot them again.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

yep shoot them in the face, simple as

[Anarchy]

Literally any gun on the head

You don't need a breaker
you just need to be able to aim
Legs are also kinda somewhat valid spots if you can blow them off for like, most bugs that don't have heavier armor.

Stalkers also like 9/10 times with their knockback don't even kill you and actually save you from being killed by them, in my experience.

[Willow]

Find their lairs fast, when you see one note which direction it came from and you can click on places that look like nests in that direction till you location it and it'll ping. Also using the punisher or the slugger are great anti stalker weapons as they stagger everything below a charger.

[The Colgate King]

Punisher can stunlock stalkers, takes about 3 to 4 shots to put one down. They trigger the combat music even when nothing else is around so if you hear it but there is nothing on you then you know there is a stalker nearby as they auto aggro when they spawn. After that its just hunting down and destroying their lair.

[*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆Prinny☆]

Being quick. They will run from you if spotted, but they don't seem to move very fast, or in any unpredictable way once stealthed. If you can spot their silhouette, you can shoot them. Best to aim for the face.

[Wutever]

Shoot face, run it down when it retreats. They will generally move towards the lair that spawns them. Punisher, Slugger, Breaker work best from what I've seen. Breaker Incendiary and assault rifles don't seem to scare them off as easily. I think medium penetration can go through their claws when they protect their head, so a Senator is pretty neat (as is the already mentioned Slugger).

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Keep your head on a swivel and shoot them before anything else. Sometimes you'll get ambushed from around corners and that's just unfortunate, but sticking with teammates should help a lot. You need to go find the nest ASAP and get your team to come with you if possible.

If your primary runs out of ammo in the mag, you can always switch to the secondary to finish it or at least do enough damage to scare it away. You should always be using the Redeemer btw. All other secondaries suck. You can fire it while moving in any direction, no need to hold down the zoom button to aim. Sometimes the stalker's attacks wont have enough range if you're doing this.

[Driverben]

Breaker is probably the best tool against Stalkers, but the slug shotgun can stun most enemies. At least if you're getting jumped constantly. If you can figure out what direction they're coming from you can usually figure out where their nest is so you can quickly take it out, or at least keep an eye in that direction and can see them coming. Shield backpack CAN save you sometimes, but not always a guarantee. Keeping an eye on the map can sometimes show stalker nests ahead of time, so you can predict where they're coming from and avoid getting jumped. I always make destroying Stalker nests a priority.

[Dain_Ironfoot]

Certain regular guns will handle them easily by quickly shooting them as fast as possible repeatedly until they die, preferably in the head region. If I have a slow firing primary weapon, a lot of time I'll bring something like the machine gun support weapon and that does the trick pretty quick. If I have a slow firing support weapon, then I'll be sure to bring a primary weapon that can spray them quick enough to kill them fast. Of course, certain slow firing weapons will take them out easily as well, but some of them are slow to aim, etc, so you've just got to be prepared.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by 12InchParadise:

Get an auto shotgun and aim at the face, it melts them. Clip has 13 bullets, it downd one in about 10 (which is around one secon)

This worked wonders for me so far. I think they die way before the 10 count at close distance.

Whenever I see one start looking around me every few seconds trying to catch them in the distance as they often very visible and stick out against the fog. I keep harassing them while chasing to the lair and if any gets too close the breaker blends them rather quickly.

I actually enjoy the mechanic, just be careful of not tunneling while giving chase because they tend to be in greater numbers than you think every time. It's like the raptors and the hunter scene near the end of Jurassic Park, be mindful so you don't get clever-girled and be quick on the dive.

The automatic pistol is also very good at mashing anything extremely quickly if you unload a full mag with decent control. It saves quite often if not forgotten.

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by Wutever:

Shoot face, run it down when it retreats. They will generally move towards the lair that spawns them. Punisher, Slugger, Breaker work best from what I've seen. Breaker Incendiary and assault rifles don't seem to scare them off as easily. I think medium penetration can go through their claws when they protect their head, so a Senator is pretty neat (as is the already mentioned Slugger).

Scorcher kills them ridiculously fast too btw.

Don't even need to hit head really with that one.

[MagikarpMagi]

Stalkers take too many AMR hits to take down.

That just annoys me and I wanted to say it.

[tompianta]

Breaker, and the stalker dies. Spot them before receiving an assault from behind help too.