Battling theTerminid threatinHelldivers 2can be a complicated affair. This is especially true when a few chargers and multiple Bile Titans get thrown into your already exhausted team, but Super Earth depends on your success, so slaying those Titans will become a priority.
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Bile Titans are gargantuan, four-legged Terminid insects that can easily vaporize or crush an oblivious Helldiver. Thesetowering monstrositiesare practically impervious to small arms fire, are fairly fast for their large size, and require dedicated weapons to bring them down. Despite those challenges, with this guide, you’ll learn how to slay these beasts and teach them the ways of managed democracy.
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Recommended Equipment For Bile Titan Hunting
Recommended Stratagems
Strategies For Beating A Bile Titan
Your overall strategy boils down tokiting the Bile Titan and staying as far away from it as much as possible.A single stomp or a few ticks of its acid spray will result in a very dead helldiver. Use terrain to make the Bile Titan struggle to keep up with you (it gets confused if you put large rocks between yourself and the titan) and use turrets to draw its attention to something else that isn’t you. Ideally, you’ll want sprint for a short while, then when the Bile Titan catches up to you, sprint just before it tries to stomp on you. The Autocannon turret is a great solution here since it can hurt the Bile Titan and distract it long enough for you to call down a stratagem to help.
If you’re too close to it, you can still run or dive underneath the titan and start shooting your primary weapon into its abdomen. Follow up with your favorite Orbital strike and this should result in a dead Titan.
Use An Anti-Tank Weapon For Bile Titan Slaying
This strategy is the most straightforward - equip the Expendable Anti-Tank gun (EAT), Recoilless Rifle, or Railgun and fire away. These weapons will penetrate through its tough hide and deal a good chunk of damage. You’ll also want to support this strategy by using other stratagems like airstrikes to help drop the Titan faster or clear out the surrounding enemies so you can kite it easier.The Recoilless Rifle will be the hardest to use since you won’t have too many opportunities to reload it when the Titan is chasing you.However, if you’re playing with at least one other diver, they can distract the TItan long enough for you to reload and safely take a shot at it.
While it’s not a bad idea to have your partner take the support pack to reload your Recoilless Rifle, it usually takes too long for them to run over to you and reload your weapon. Having your partner be a distraction is an easier strategy to consistently pull off.
For the EAT-17,you’ll want to shoot its head for maximum damage.Bile Titans tend to go down from anywhere between 2 to 6 EAT shots, averaging out around 3 shots to the head. You should be able to run around and dodge the Titan’s attacks to buy more time so you can call down more EATs during the fight, or use other stratagems to soften up the Bile Titan between EAT calls.
The Railgun requiresbetween 6-10 Unsafe Railgun shots into the Bile Titan’s head to bring it down.This strategy is much easier to do since you don’t have to rely on anyone else and it opens up your backpack slot for something else. However, this strategy takes time because the Railgun can only penetrate a Bile Titan’s skin with an overcharge Unsafe shot (~80% charge). You can also shoot at the Titan’s mouth while it’s winding up to spray acid to deal more damage and flinch it out of its attack. .
Use Heavy Hitting Stratagems
Large heavy-hitting stratagems like the 50kg bomb can make quick work of a Bile Titan. The only issue is keeping the titan in place long enough for that to happen.Using the Orbital Laser and Orbital Railcannon fixes that problem, but these two stratagems have some drawbacks as well.The Laser can only be used three times and, unlike the Eagle stratagems, it will not recharge once fully used up. Additionally, the Orbital Laser may not kill the Bile Titan if it moves too much or if the atmospheric interference hazard is active, so make sure you shoot at the titan periodically to make it slowly turn toward you, or to convince it to sit still and shoot acid at you.
Alternatively, the Railcannon has unlimited usage and a shorter cooldown, but it will sometimes leave the Bile Titan limping after you instead of outright killing it.Keep an eye out for that and be prepared to unload some heavier ammunition into the wounded Titan to finish it off. The easiest way to make sure the Railcannon shot brings down a Titan is to first fire a few shots of any gun into its green abdomen, and then call in the strike.
Another option is the Eagle 110mm MIssile Pods. Ideally, this stratagem will fire all of its missiles at the Titan and immediately bring it down.Since it has two charges (threeafter the ship upgrade) it’s fairly useful if you need to take down several Titans back-to-back without the drawbacks of the other orbitals.However, this stratagem’s biggest issue is consistency. Sometimes the missiles don’t all land and you’re left with a wounded Titan chasing after you. In times like those, you’ll have to use an additional charge of the Missile Pods or finish it off the monster with a stratagem weapon likethe Arc Thrower.
Avoid It Altogether
Bile Titans are big and will move awkwardly around large terrain. If the titan has nothing to do with your objective,you could very easily just ignore it and complete the mission.To do this, navigate yourself close to large pieces of terrain or swarms of enemies. You’re looking for anything that can force the Titan to look for an awkward path around if it wants to reach you. If you’re by yourself and being chased by a Bile Titan, run away until your stamina bar is empty. Then, when the Titan catches up to you, keep an eye out for what attack it’s going to do and immediately continue sprinting to avoid it.
The Bile Titan will drop everything it’s doing to target a turret. you may drop a turret near the Titan then leave the area as quickly as possible to shake the giant bug off your tail.
At close range, the Titan will do one of three moves - a single quick stomp, a series of stomps, or an acid spray.Ideally, it does a series of stomps because you can sprint out of the way, then recover your stamina while it’s busy stomping. The Bile Titan will let out a distinct roar before it stomps. When you hear that roar, that’s your cue to start sprinting.
The Acid spray is the most problematic attack to dodge because it has a surprisingly long range, a wide turning arc, and the audio cue from the Bile Titan can be on the quieter side.Keep an eye on what the Titan is doing, and sprint away/dive just as it rears back to spray acid. Putting terrain between you and a Titan also helps ensure this attack is sprayed into a wall instead of at your Helldiver’s fragile human body.
Bile Titan Weak Points
The glowing green areas on the titan’s underbelly are weak spots and can be harmed by small arms fire. Explosive weapons will deal bonus damage to these spots. However, be aware that these spots will break after enough damage, which will disable the Titan’s ability to spit acid, but afterward you’ll have to figure out another way to harm it.
Another weak spot is its head and, more specifically, its mouth. When it opens its mouth to attack, you can shoot at it for more damage. The orange sides of the mouth are also vulnerable spots when the mouth isn’t open, so a Helldiver with good aim can still land a critical shot into those areas with an armor penetrating shot.
Desperation Tactics
When all else fails and you need to do something drastic to take down the titan, these aren’t bad options to use.
Landing A Hellpod Onto The Titan
If a Bile Titan ever catches you, you’re going to see a death screen sooner than you’d think. When that happens, your friends (or if you’re playing solo, the game) can respawn you near the Titan so you have a chance at crushing it with a hellpod. This isn’t a one-shot and it’ll take a few hellpods to take down a full-health titan, butif you need a wounded Bile Titan dead, and you’ve already lost a helldiver or two, you might as well aim your pod into this bug’s body.
Purposeful Out-of-bounds Artillery
When you stay out of the zone for long enough, you’ll be labeled a traitor to Super Earth and artillery will rain down from the sky in an attempt to blast your traitorous soul back to where it belongs. With this knowledge, you could run yourself toward the Bile Titan and hope the artillery takes you both out. If you stay underneath the large bug, its legs will struggle to hit you, and its body will shield you from the worst of the artillery (sometimes). Be aware that this tactic is the most desperate and inconsistent plan a Helldiver can use, and every other option should be exhausted before even considering this.
Where To Find Bile Titans
Bile Titans first start appearing in their own mission in Difficulty 4. Look for their unique symbol in the mission list and you’ll be assigned to “track down and eliminate the Bile Titan.” Once that happens, move into the mission area, and the Bile Titan will be near the center marker, surrounded by a swarm of bugs.
At difficulty 5 and above, Bile Titans can appear as enemies during a mission. They can be commonly seen protecting bug holes and sometimes spawning in during a Bug Breach. At difficulty 7 and above, Bile Titans will consistently spawn in during breaches, and will appear in greater numbers.
Remember, more difficult enemies will spawn at larger frequencies based on how long you’ve been in the mission. Don’t be surprised if a conga-line of Bile Titans decides chase after your team at the 10 minute mark in Helldive (Difficulty 9) missions.
Bile Titan vs Patriot Exosuit
The Patriot Exosuitis an amazing way to bring down a Titan. It should only take anywhere between 2 - 4 rockets to the Titan’s head to turn it into a dead ragdoll. Shooting a rocket at its body or legs will require upwards to 6 - 10 rockets in comparison. Since your mech comes equipped with 14 rockets, if all of your shots are going into the Bile Titan’s head, that’s 3 - 7 dead Titans per mech call.
While the Exosuit is fantastic at slaying Titans, it’s poor on the defensive. Don’t rely on the mech’s armor and stay far away from the Bile Titan.
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