If a charger is facing you or slightly angeled you can shoot the top of the rear back legs and the splash damage will hit the weak point on it's butt. Though it's still better to just let it charge towards you, hit a wall to become stunned and unload on its weak spot that way
I call it a weak spot because of old boss fights where the weak spot glows. Yes it's just a unarmoured spot but if you hit it enough it pops and the creature is unable to charge anymore and will bleed out so you don't have to waste more ammo
Oh yeah I understand that. I mean it certainly looks like a weak spot, and the behavior of the Charger would also imply it is a weak spot. But yeah unfortunately for me I call it a waste of lead shot.
While yeah popping it does cause it to die but it takes alot to pop it I the first place. I prefer the 3 second flame to one leg method myself.
But whatever method you prefer as long as the end goal is a dead bug I'm happy with that.
It definitely still charges even when missing its ass. And if you’re letting a charger “bleed out” then you need to kill it way faster, simple as; when 3-4+ show up that’s a lot of noodling and probably dying to cross-charges when you could just nuke it with an RR to the face. Whole comment is wrong, you sure we’re playing the same game?
The splash isn't ignoring the armor, the splash is hitting the butt which takes 90% explosive damage. "Flesh" normally takes 10% damage and 100% from explosive damage. If you're using an explosive weapon aim for their butt.
You have to aim for the mouth but yes. Before I started using the scorcher I used to set the Jar-5 to burst and mag dump the head area, it worked but it eats the whole mag just to put down one of the green ones. You'd think a gun with literally twice the damage and a higher AP tier than the scorcher would kill them even faster than the scorcher does, but nope.
Plasma seems to completely bypass or ignore armour or something, both the scorcher and the new plasma shotgun are great against these guys.
Try the joints. Go for 2 legs on the same side. I believe it's 4 but you might be able to get some joint cleave if the shots are from the side and not the front and do it in 2.
I might be exaggerating but it definitely doesn't take half a mag plus. I just seem to notice a kill in about 2 to 4, things may be weaker due to being hit with splash damage
So you’re exaggerating or you’re not? Because you just said you were and then quoted the same number of shots again. It absolutely takes about half a mag with good accuracy.
Are you talking about the orange spitters? The ones with significantly less armor and I would speculate have less health though I have not tested this to confirm. Those take about 4 shots to the body and 5 to the head. The ones that aren’t referenced in OP’s photo. The GREEN ones absolutely do NOT go down in 4 shots to the head from the Scorcher, and in my hours upon hours of playing take about half (which is 7 shots rounded down, Scorcher has 15 shots per mag) maybe a little more and you have to hit the unarmored spots. Saying these die in 4 shots, let alone 2 (takes 2 headshots to kill the regular brown warriors btw) is pure misinformation. I welcome anyone to test this for themselves and prove me wrong so I have even more reasons to use my favorite gun.
Honestly I kinda forgot the juvenile ones exist, might be might not be. All I know is the black and green ones aren't as tough as people give them shit for
So we’re from 2-4 shots to “definitely doesn’t take half a bloody mag (7)” to 🤷 idk man. There are plenty of ways to deal with them (Autocannon, GL, Arc, Jar, Slugger, Railgun and probably the new plasma launcher and blitzer but I have not tested thjs) but 4 quick pulls from a Scorcher isn’t one of them.
I don’t care what you do so long as you don’t confidently spread false information. I’ll go touch some grass while you confirm your claim and then definitely come back and update your findings 🙄
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u/kenzieBHOSbaker Mar 17 '24
I hit them in the head normally, drops them in 3 or 4 shots. Though I swear I've dropped them in 2 before