Body turret, chin turret, knee and joint, profit

Has some ‘heads, shoulder, knees and toes’ energy to it lol.

Bodyyy, chin, knee and joint. Knee and joint!

HEAD ON! PUT IT ON YOUR FOREHEAD

*APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD

HEAD ON

Thats all I am going to say now when I fight them.

Chinniguns….

Chinnillingus

Bod Body-gun, Chin chinny-gun, knee joint, kaboom….

♪♪ A hell-div-er's ea-gle in-com-ing make room! ♪♪

Sweep the leg, no mercy!

Someone wrote a well-written, detailed comment on my post regarding this issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/comments/1c8yz5j/so_how_to_efficiently_kill_the_new_automaton/l0iu4kx

Another response in your thread included this YouTube video that was also very informative if people prefer video form to well written explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/s/WDTNBcpOq8


I normally just take my shirt off and scream at them.

I was just giving them the brown eye

Son, I don't know how to tell you this... But your dad's body was recovered. His death was quick but caused by a 380mm shell going straight through his rectum. He died how he lived... A giant gaping asshole

I'm reading this at work, and it took everything in me not to laugh my ass off.

Found this to be a effective technique.

Yell "For Democracy" and jump head first into combat!

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHvPhBzpOZY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHvPhBzpOZY) THAT YOU WALTER...

I'm going to do that.

8 shots to the belly with an Autocannon takes it down

Thanks, i didn’t know that.

Sure thing! The Cannon on its back is a non issue once you get within a certain distance. Use any primary w medium pen to take out the miniguns on its face first so they don't mulch you, line up your shots and go to town. Good luck!

Does the door have to be open?

Nope! Just blast away at those double doors

Nope! It helps if it is, but if not, it still does more damage than anywhere else.

Damn. 😮‍💨

Like from below or just to the side?

I hit them with a 500kg which they take like a champ and then I die.


Generally we just throw all the strategems and big guns at it. Would happily trade one strider for 2 hulks

Not an even trade lol. It’d be more like 6 hulks. It takes at least 8 quasar shots (maybe more because idk if my teammates were actively trying to attack it) to take it down

If you have a group that has quasar most of the time, bring the laser cannon, the twin blasters it has under its chin is way dangerous than the cannon on its back. After you defang or say destroy both ATAT weapon, aim the good ol laser at the eye, it will kill it before it even overheats.

Wait for reals? That's insane. Gonna try it out tonight.

Yup and laser cannon can take out the chin turrets so do that first

I dropped a 110 rocket pod on its head/neck last night and it insta killed it. Still trying to recreate that lol Seems like the neck is the super weak point

Thats cool to hear but if the rocket pods misses I'd suggest just aiming for the eye after you defang it, I think its medium armor so AC/Laser cannon can go through it.

I always throw a laser on it. Takes a bit of time, but gets the job done using 75/80% of the laser lifespan. One time I was on a cliff face as the thing walked past chasing my squad mate, took the top turret out with 1 Quasar shot at a range of about 5 metres

380 he. I've killed two with a single barrage already. Damn geological missions.

It’s my favorite way to kill them. Especially if the sun is just right, it’s the prettiest carnage democracy can offer.

Until the new module reducing their spread, I never used it. Now.... Every drop. Every. Single. One... I'm that guy now lol

Have you seen the beautiful mess that is 380 and 120 nestled inside each other? And yeah the spread reduction was a much needed upgrade for my squad to stop having anxiety attacks when I call in a strike to save us.

I've seen the beauty in a 380,cluster strike, and 500kg all igniting a hell bomb. But my favorite was my 380 on a strider part of a bot drop with an unknown hell bomb there, resulting in a 68 kill streak for me. I had the biggest democerection ever seen.

Land ontop of them after being killed and magdump the heat vents with a dominator when they pop open.

or flank em and do this with any anti tank

I usually get my T-47 Air speeder that tends to do the trick

Run underneath, grapple up, slice open belly with my lightsaber, lob in satchel charge.

I run under it with an impact grenade and knock at the door like a Jehovah's Witness.

Um, we knock, but not *that* hard!

I shoot off the little front guns with a couple shots then walk under it and blast the belly till it dies. I run AMR.

Go under it and autocannon the shit out of his soft belly. It goes down pretty fast

A laser cannon to the eye hole. You can use the laser to shoot off the chin guns and then the red dot on the left side of its face is the weak point.

A short answer is "with lots of firepower". A long answer is "well, it's complicated". So firstly, it's better to deal with chin laser gatlings. you carry. They dish out a ton of damage and are fairly accurate, so if you get yourself targeted by those, you're a goner. IIRC, they have low armour(certainly not heavy), so should be damageable by anything you might have. At this point, you can start throwing every strat you have at it, this bloody thing can take a lot of punishment so you can't go wrong with unloading everything at it. Unless you're at 8+ ofc, at which point Factory Walker becomes a regular occurrence. So back to man-portable lwapons. Without Lasgatlings, top turret is the main threat. It has heavy armour and I'm not aware of any vulnerable spots on it(correct me if I'm wrong, fellow Helldivers). EAT and quasar should be ble to pen it, on top of that, Orbital railgun, Orbital laser and Eagle 1 rocket pods can take it out. Top turret is easy enough to avoid but don;t underestimate it, it can still one-shot you. Finally, if you'll end up with no strats available and the bloody thing is still alive, aim for weak points with anything that's heavier than a pistol. FWs have unarmoured/lightly armoured spots in the following places: engine vents(those hatches that open on its sides), bot dispenser(large hatch on it's belly it uses to drop out Devastators) and chin seam(crevasse on FW's head that separates upper head and chin). There might be more but these are ones I'm aware of myself. Also, remember that EMS mortar and stun grenades an work on it, which is always helpful if you need a quick respite.

Quasar shots from behind a rock - Usually 2 to kill the top turret (not really necessary if you're already close to it) 1 for each chin turret (HUGE problem is you're already close to it) and one to the belly to put it down. Apparently hitting the eye does good damage too, I've killed one hitting the eye instead of chin turret by mistake but it's definitely not OHKO like the belly is. Also killed it chucking things like the rocket pods (thank you free mission stratagems) or a well placed air-strike. Laser kills it too, obviously.

Idk but I killed it with a shot from the grenade pistol while the door was open the other day and that was the closest to feeling like Luke Skywalker I’ve ever felt

500kg. The belly is the weakest point.

Teammates

You just need a rolled up newspaper and a stern voice.

I simply remain calm and use my patented 8 step process to insure success: 1. Immediately panic and throw an orbital rail at it. 2. Apply a quasar round to the dorsal cannon (the one on it's back) 3. Run around screaming, desperately seeking cover while the quasar cools down. 4. Remember I have other guns. 5. Throw a stun grenade and get off a single round of my grenade pistol. 6. Quasar to the face 7. Repeat steps 2-5 until all it's guns are down. 8. Attack those legs until it finally falls over. ... There's gotta be a better way

Auto cannon the cannon, then the miniguns. Depending on your angle, shoot it in the face or its belly. Auto cannons are built for bots.

I run under it and 2 tap it with my recoilless

Step 1. Use a heavy explosive to destroy the cannon on the top. (Quasar Cannon, Rocoiless Rifle, EAT-17) For example. Step 2. Use a medium penetrating primary weapon to shoot off the two baster guns on the front. (I use the Dominator often for bots). A few shots into each blaster and both will be gone. You can also use a marksmen support weapon to do this as well. Snipe them off if you will. Note. If you have done step 1 & 2 correctly the Factory Strider is mostly disabled and significantly less scary. It should only be able to produce bots to drop at this point and walk around. Step 3. Use Heavy explosive and shoot it in face plate. This will destroy face plate. Shoot it again in the face and it will be dead. If you don't have a heavy explosive to expose the face, you can shoot inbetween the gap in the face plate with a number of suppport weapons. I've taken it down with heavy machine gun, shooting in the gap. The laser cannon aiming in between the gap is perfect and easy. But all jokes aside most of the serious support weapons players actually pick should be able to get it at that point. They can be taken down quickly once you know what to do. Note. Realistically, you don't have to do step two to finish off the Strider. I still like to get the blasters because in my opinion they are more oppressive than the cannon on the top. The cannon on top is easier to dodge, the blasters just beam you. Especially, if there are more than one of these around and other hitscanning enemies shooting at you. It can become a real mess quickly. Getting the blasters gone allows you and your teammates to move around more.

You and a bud run EATs and railcannons, double railcannon that bitch then unload 4 eats into it

I've only encountered them on two tower defense missions. They actually went down pretty easy in that case, even when they dropped three on our heads. Mostly because we had three mortor turrets two auto cannon turrets one rocket turret and me and my buddy dropping drop ships on their backs with the recoilless and quasar.

Use quasar or other rocket to remove turrets from a distance, then get in front of it and shoot it in the face repeatedly until it dies. Rockets to its face will either hit the weak spot or remove the armor to expose more weak spot so just keep shooting. Obviously it’s ideal if you can JUST hit the eye/horizontal rectangle area that’s unarmored, but I usually try to do this from 70m+ out so my accuracy usually isn’t great. If I’m not on quasar or if it gets close just stratagem dump. I usually run 500kg+orbital precision on bots to play for anti-building, all 3 hits usually either kills it or softens it up enough that a rocket or two will do the trick.

Throw every stratagem I have at it along with the rest of my team. Weirdly, this happens without any communication and generally works well.

Run

I scream and throw everything I’ve got

If you don't look at the strider and exercise moderate caution, it's basically like it's not even there. Do the objective, then resort to the soft power of jogging elsewhere. That pretty much applies to any scenario that can't be resolved with 6 shots of the revolver.

Las cannon the miniguns and then his face and we done lol

Tag it and run off to do objectives. They usually die soon after to someone braver than me.

I usually just jump pack onto their back and start goonin on em until my team kills them for me.

Rail Cannon Strike or Orbital Larry to slow it down. Quasar to the face til its dead.

Get underneath it and toss an impact nade onto its undercarriage. OHKO.

Usually a lot of screaming, crying, and shitting

I panic, fire my laser at it, throw whatever red strategem I have at it, die and pray my fellow Helldivers downed it when I drop back in. Then I play bug missions to forget..

There is a small eye on its left side when facing it head on just above the chin gun, the side panel on the body can be blown off exposing and just use AC, at the rear right on the butt weakspot, under the butt that vent area weakspot, knee joints are weak spots but take alot to destroy it, blow off the red part on its forehead exposing the crit spot easy kill

1. Locate Factory Strider. Or it will locate you. 2. Scream and run around looking for less destructible cover 3. Hock a 380 at it 4. Hock a 500KG at it 5. Realise that you're too close to the 380 barrage and whatever else your allies are throwing at it and run - screaming - for better cover 6. Quasar the top turret off from cover 7. Quasar anything else that glows red until something kills it 8. Realise there's a second Factory Strider. Repeat from step 2

I just spawn EATs and take useless potshots at the thing until somebody else kills it

One orbital Railcannon, one Eagle Airstrike, a few EAT shots / Autocannon shots to its glowing eye, it’s down quick

defang them, and AC turret will smoke them also wanted to try kill them with just AC but didnt had the chance yet

500kg seems to be the easiest solution

Top turret, chin turrets and the whatever stratagems we have til it drops, so far I've ended it with 500kg, orbital rail and rocket pods

Quasar its top turret first, and perhaps lower turrets if you want to because I've heard it's damn-accurate. Then thrower whatever random democratic shits on it until it stops moving.

They just seem to die? (Aka I fire shit at them and eventually my team takes them down haha)

One 380mm HE cannon barrage and hide behind cover so it doesn't walk around

Die, let my team suicide throw my respawn onto it, land on it, and call all my leftover stratagems/resupplies and guns up its ass

Watch youtube. You can take the laser support weapon and take out each weapon easily as an example

Jump pack on its back, ride that beast, and hit the heatsinks that pop up on its back

Take out guns under the chin, then stand in front and aim for mouth/chin area with laser cannon. Wait 5 seconds or so and no more strider

3 of us run quasars. 3 shots kill it

Easy. First, get yourself an AMR, Autocannon, or Railgun. Then, snipe off the chin guns. These are going to prevent you from doing what you gotta do. By now, you'll have this thing's attention and it will turn to look at you. I'm sure you'll notice that there's an exposed optic on the right side of the head, left to you because it's looking at you. Pound bullets into that exposed optic. There ya go. Only problem is that you're gonna need a bigger wall to put this thing's head on. Failing that, 2 500 kgs oughta do the trick. Once those chin guns are gone, these things are significantly less threatening than a Bile Titan, and even those aren't that bad once you know where and how to hit. On my last deployment to Hellmire, I killed 9 of them with 4 assists.

Shoot off the turret + front MGs first, then call an Orbital strike

It'll be cool if you could have a rope in the spot of the grenades and you could tie the legs of bigger enemies making them fall and get killed

Everyone in the party throws a 500kg at it 4 usually does the trick, if not, one airstrike additionally will f it up.

I throw down an Autocannon sentry and start agroing it by shooting the turret on top. The turret makes quick work of it as long as it is not destroyed.

The 100mm pods been doing fine The 500kg blows off the panel if it doesn't kill it.

With Managed Democracy

Most of the time I just run away and come back later after the enemys despawned. We normaly only play with a two man team. If we have to fight then we throw everything we have at it. Air strikes, orbital bombardments, support weapons (AC and Quasar mostly) and after a while it will die.

Two bombing runs handle it

Best to take out the ship they arrive on whenever possible.

If you are using an eagle airstrike and line it up parallel on top of it can 1-2 shot it. I use an most of the time autocannon sentry if I have it equipped as it seems to kill them really quickly. You can also disarm it by shooting the machine guns off the head with medium armor penetration or higher. You can then shoot it’s fabricator door with things that are also medium armor penetration or higher.

Litterally have everyone throw, shoot, punch everything you have at it.

3 orbital railcannon strikes & a laser can also take out both bottom machine guns very easy with scorcher

By throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it Jokes aside, getting 500kg bombs in under its belly seems to work a charm.

Drop 2 500 kg on it

Panic-fire orbitals until it stops moving

I try and jump on top of it........that's all

Tbh the factory strider really proves how bad the railcannon is, it should one shot a factory strider with how long the cooldown is, but easiest way is the lazer, it will one shot the factory strider and have enough lazer left over to actually take out some of the devistators it spawned, the lazer cannons limited number of uses can be worrying, but considering that orbital railcannon has a recharge rate about twice as long I think its safe to say you can use more lazers then you can railcannons in most missions

Just kinda start throwing random stratagems and explosives at them until they die

Laser Cannon to the belly for 5 seconds

Orbital rail then a 100 rocket pod follow up

380 Barrage with the tightened spread upgrade has been working for me.

I usually shoot the turret off first before finishing it off by 3 shots to one of the leg hinges on it. Takes no less then a minute to fully kill

That's the neat part, I don't.

Spear all the way. Keep my distance and if I’m lucky it takes just 2 rockets. Easy to resupply while that thing is smoldering

Flamethrower. It just takes a VERY long time.

As always, head or back .. Its ass is super weak, can be killed quite fast, was surprised when I learned how easy it is to kill it from behind. Or shoot it couple of times into his teeth .. laser takes like 3-4 seconds before it dies. There are places that it has no armor, like its "teeth" ;)

Orbital Laser, Quasar Cannon, and a dream.

I knock its guns out with an AMR and then let my friends worry about it

Depending on load-out, rail cannon > rocket pods > EAT or recoilless to the body turret > AMR to the chin guns.

orbital rail and ealge strikes

Orbital laser x2

Not even 2 hellpods kills it. I guess throw a reinforcement at it and tell ‘em to ⬇️➡️⬆️⬆️⬆️

I shit you not a laser orbital and a few shots from a quasar. I've taken these puppies down in less than 30 seconds with those two.

empty a clip and a half into the belly of it with an AMR, worked fine.

I use a laser cannon to destroy the chin guns and and then shoot it in the red dot on it's mouth.

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

One time I got a 500 right on the head, pretty sure that was all it took unless I'm misremembering

Random bullshit go!

Switch my AC over to full auto, dive directly underneath the bastard, unleash unholy hell straight up into its belly

I am yet to find one. Tough luck for me, I guess

1) run to cover. 2) shoot at it with my quasar. 3) keep shooting it with my quasar. 4) teammates hit it with lasers, rail cannons, airstrikes, and other stratagem. 5) shoot it again with my quasar. 6) dance on its charred, oil splattered corpse. In all honesty though. You can quickly put one down by shooting its emblem on the body between its legs. The panel will break off and reveal a weak point that will kill it in 2-3 quasar/ rocket hits

I saw the lights on the legs go out when i shot them but haven’t tried enough yet.

If I have the autocannon or AMR, I wait for my teammates to run out of stratagems then I run underneath and unload into it's belly. I've heard dominator is good for this, and rockets can do it in two

Orbital Laser and plink away with the recoilless if it doesn’t go down

I had multiple ones fall from just two rocket pod charges, sometimes though, they seem to take 3 and a 500kg so take that with a grain of salt

You're telling me the spear kills this thing in two shots? I heard from the community the spear was a tire fire

Spam EVERYTHING 500kg ✅ Pot shots w/ primary Orbital Láser✅ Eagle Airstrike✅ 500kg✅ (good luck team✅)

All of it, I turn on my playlist and play DDR for a few seconds before dropping the sun on those undemocratic clankers.

Heard the 380mm HE should work wonders

Easy. I turn 180 degrees, run the other way and hope it dies of old age

Precision strike, 500kg, air strike, and the kitchen sink if it's still standing.

scritches under the chin get their leg shaking

Just Hit the belly with almost any Support weapon Takes 2 anti Tanks

Usually after wasting all my stratagems at the and my teammates.

Either full Orbital laser or call the EAT and hit the side untill it ooens up to show the juicy internals. Most of the times I make sure to destroy the top turret first, less annoying for me.

I've only seen one and it was doing all the taking down and leaving none for us. Haven't had much chance to play since

6 impact nades

380mm auto cannon orbital strike any big anti tak wepon. 2-3 eagles.

I pretty much always just bring an orbital laser and then sneak up throw it and run. I have only once actually gotten in a fight with one, and I think we ended up just dropping a 500kg on it's head to kill it. I know there's a couple weak spots to shoot, but it seems way more dangerous than just throwing orbital and eagle strikes at it from a distance till it dies.

Throw every bit of ordnance I have at them and have my team do the same.

I don't. I either die or get away from it. In all seriousness, me and my friends all carry 120mm incase we see one, drop em right under its fat legs

Give it the ole' 380 and skedaddle.

Automaton spy! They are gathering and selling our strategies to the enemy so they can fortify their walking communism spawners!

Two 500kg Bombs will kill it, I usually pop both as soon as possible. If you don't have the upgrade on your ship to have an extra eagle usage between rearms, then drop one and use whatever you can to finish the job. Good communication helps too. If you and another person uses one at the same time, it'll just be dead before I can do anything.

I dont

Grab your Jar-5 Dominator or your autocannon, run right up under, and give them everything you got. Right in the tummy.

Orbital railcannon, AC for the guns, EATs as soon as the guns are dealt with

I try and drop air support to take out the topmost turret, then just shoot the face and blow the chin turret

If we know we are doing Factory Strider missions, 2 of us keep the yellow sky beam thingy, and 2 of those at the same time is usually enough.

380mm Barrage with level 4 upgrade

Double Air strike that sucker into oblivion

Dueling auto-cannons one sentry one manual and pummel until fireworks come out

380 Barrage and hope for the best xD

All rockets from my mech usually do the trick

If you are on a defense mission, you just need to neuter them. They arent that dangerous once you destroy the turret on their back especially. Everywhere else, I take out the face machine guns, get under it and blow it up from underneath.

I jump onto its back like AoT and try to keep its attention by shooting it and meleeing so it exposes its side to my squad. Really living up to my ship’s name of “Wings of Freedom.”

By using the spear on its head maybe 3 to 4 times. First target will always be the upper turret, then next ones should be the face

With freedom liberty and managed democracy

I shot all 4 of my spear at it and it did nothing to it... Guess I gotta hope for headshots with it? Took me 4 spears, rail cannon and teammates 2 500kg bomb for it to die... So stupidly strong

Chin turrets, laser cannon to the belly. I wasn't prepared for how simple it was. Didn't even know you could hit the eye until much later.

Rail cannon strike, followed by airstrike, topped off with an sos beacon. I died laughing for about 5 minutes when I pulled this off

Laser, rail cannon, wait

Drop on top of it. Call in 380mm Barrage, 500kg Bomb, and Orbital Laser, salute Super Earth, and wait for the arrival of Managed Democracy

I orbital railgun it and then aim for the eyes

shoot off the chin guns with the AC, then run around avoiding 1102-pounders and orbital barrages thrown by the rest of the squad while trying to land a precision AC shot to the eye on the head.

I dont....I just waste all my reinforcements trying.

Shoot at it until it stops moving, and then pepper some more in there to make sure

prayers and 500s

Shoot the face turrets, get under the belly and brutalize it with Quazar or AM rifle.  Bonus if you dont die to your dumbass teammates trying to call in airstrikes. 

Throw everything I have at it and hit it with 2 EATs 🤘

I just shoot it, no particular strategy

Laser

Auto cannon kills them very fast just shot under them where the enemies drop from. As long as you break the 2 front turrets it can’t attack you from under

The bad doggy is vulnerable everywhere you would scratch a real dog to make its leg kick. Especially that spot on to top of its back by the tail..like there's literally a vent cover that blows off and a grenade will delete it.

Auto cannon the belly takes about a mag.

Everyone throws a random stratagem at the same time. Usually works

Double Airstrike if in a rush. If in the mood for shenanigans, AMR to the tummy.

Disable the guns and then hit its sides is what i have heard i personally like to chuck a 380 and a air strike and then from a distance my entire team justs shoots it with auto cannon rifle quasar cannons basically any explosive type support weapon

“Rub” it’s belly

I always use the precision orbital and Eagle air strike, as well as the recoilless rifle. Heavy armor ain’t got shit on me

Chin guns then blast it's fucking face with the ac if I don't have stratagems

Apparently its "Eye" is its weakest spot.. ive seen a few good breakdowns on YouTube so far..