How to find and kill Chargers in Helldivers 2

Chargers are massive, nasty bugs in Helldivers 2, and you’ll want to take out a number of of them if you would like to full some Personal Orders (as of this writing, it’s “Strain Culling”) and choose up further Medals.

In this Helldivers 2 information, we’ll inform you the place to find Chargers and offer you some bonus tips about how to cope with them.

Where to find Chargers in Helldivers 2

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Chargers aren’t the primary “mini-boss” type enemy you’ll encounter in Helldivers 2, however they’re the primary that ought to actually scare you. They have a great deal of armor, are very quick as soon as they cost, and even their weak spot can take a ton of punishment. But we’ll get to how to kill them later; first, you want to truly find a Charger.

Chargers solely appear to seem in missions which might be rated Medium issue or above (which means you’ll have to work your method up by means of the difficulties by clearing simpler missions first). However, even on Medium you’ll solely actually find Chargers in missions that ask you to particularly kill Chargers. And whereas that can be helpful, not one of the Chargers I killed on the Medium issue counted for “Strain Culling.” That might have one thing to do with the server points on the time of this writing, however your finest guess regardless is to play on the issue above Medium: Challenging.

Starting on Challenging issue, Chargers will simply present up in nests or while you’re attempting to full an goal. They appear to spawn extra continuously while you’re in a gaggle (which will be troublesome given the aforementioned server points). Just preserve taking part in missions on Challenging and looking down nests. You ought to find all of the Chargers you want in only a handful of missions.

How to kill a Charger in Helldivers 2

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So, you’ve discovered some Chargers, however now you may have to truly cope with them. I received’t lie to you, till you and your squad have a deal with on how Helldivers 2 actually works, a Charger might be going to kill one or two of you except you’re very well-equipped or extraordinarily cautious.

But that really leads us to one among our first massive suggestions for Chargers or any massive enemies: Drop immediately on them. Yes, that’s proper, you’ll be able to drop your respawn pod on high of a bug and they’ll explode. It’s not definitely worth the revive when you can kill the Charger one other method, however when you’re already pulling in a reinforcement, do your finest to squish the Charger in your method in. It’s a fairly quick method to finish any struggle.

Now you’re not going to squish a Charger each time you kill one, so it’s essential to produce other ways. First, you’ll be able to simply shoot it in its massive, glowing ass. The Charger is closely armored on the entrance, however its again is uncovered. Shred it with a turret or your individual private heavy machine gun. You can, in fact, simply use your major assault rifle or pistol, however on Challenging and above, it’s going to take a very long time when you try this.

You may also destroy the Charger’s armor with one thing just like the Recoilless Rifle. Now this can be a nice possibility when you can persistently get two to three pictures onto the identical spot on the bug, because the Recoilless Rifle and different armor-piercing weapons appear to be higher at punching a gap by means of armor and ending the job that method than uncooked harm towards already uncovered weak factors.

Your finest guess for Chargers, nonetheless, is to merely blow them to hell with Stratagems earlier than they even get the prospect to see you. They’re massive — sufficiently big that you could spot them in their nest earlier than they spot you. And, till they’re threatened, they transfer fairly sluggish. You and your group can use this to your benefit by dropping Orbital Strikes, Eagle Strafing Runs, and all different kinds of Stratagems on high of the Charger. If you’ll be able to rating a direct hit, you’ll in all probability kill it earlier than it even will get the prospect to chase you.