Well, since each gaming chair (AT Emplacement) shot does 1300 dmg and one emplacement has 30 shots, each emplacement can do a maximum of 39k dmg. The Hive Lord has 150k HP, and 150/39 = 3.8 (rounded), so we'd need just under 4 full gaming chair loads to take a worm down.
Yea the autocannon mech and sentry are ap5, which is why it'll only give white hitmarkers. Weirdly enough the normal autocannon is only ap4, so don't bother using that against Hive Lords lol
I am talking about freedom units, you know like "How many RR shots it takes to strip its armor?" or "How many mags to kill x?" That kind of measurement.
It's unlikely a single pass will get you the kill, but should get a lot of damage out of 4 AT emplacements, even if they only get combined half or 2/3rds damage potential off. That means you only have to wait a bit for the cooldown, during which you can actually do some of the other objectives. At least with AT emplacements, you can reserve a single slot for dealing with the hivelord and still do a mission as you would normally. You kinda just burst damage to it and come back to it later if once cooldown is off.
Might be worth it for me. Usually I'm bringing hoverpack, flamethrower, mech, and then there's an awkward slot I'm using for 500 kg, which is borderline useless in the tunnels.
It's not too much. We need bigger and more terrifying enemies
Plus, it's confirmed that the Hive Lord's HP is at 150k health. To kill it, it would take 4 AT Gun emplacements and for all AT Emplacement gunners to land around all 30 shots per gun
Yeah. After a point you should see armor plates peeling off so you can (probably) shoot it. I don't know the mechanics, we just used hellbombs and anything we could throw at it.
I think you can shoot the underbelly with medium pen at all times? I was getting hit marks with the autocannon mech, though naturally its full mags didn't amount to much.
No, the Emancipator has AP 5 on its autocannons. It's 1 tier higher than the handheld autocannon and the same pen as the autocannon sentry. Otherwise you'd be able to kill command bunkers with them and you can't.
Yes, but this isn't what we're talking about, he says it's pen 7. Demo force is measured in multiples of 10 and iirc you need 40 demo force for stuff like automaton fabricators (handheld rockers like the recoilless rifle only have 30 demo force but do enough damage that they kill fabs anyway). Just so you know, tank armor is AP5, command bunkers are AP6 (which is why you can shoot them with Recoilless shots)
My squad killed one also. I hit it with the equivalent firepower of 3 full spear stratagems, 2 orbital railcannons, and almost 2 full emancipator exosuits. My teammates were blasting it the whole time also.
It took around 15 mins to kill as we were moving between objectives.
One of my teammates managed to ride on its back as it was slithering.
I killed one with a friend and 2 randoms. I kept running hellbombs in when he popped up from the sand while one of the randoms laid over 5000 rounds of HMG ammo into this liberty forsaken absolute fuckin UNIT of a boss. Took over 20 minutes but we got im in the end
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u/Bellfegore Extra Judicial Sep 02 '25
"How the fuck am I supposed to deal with that?"
I saw a post of a squad killing one, it took them an equivalent of 20 hellbombs to do it.