Orbitals laser is really good against factory striders, it wasn't a few days ago but that changed as well as the face weak spot being on par with the underbelly weak spot. I'm making another vid but this one still serves as a baseline for TTK with support weapons and other tips.

Can we all appreciate this video took at least 3 shirts to make?

Autocannon users stay winning

Its important to note: the AT-AT has 4 vents on its back. If an airstrike or precision strike (or equivalent) hits them then it dies instantly

Factory strider top cannon can even destroy stratagem jammers. Witnessed it today during a particularly hot drop.

A single 380 mm barrage can clear multiples. I have the ship module to reduce spread, and the Striders are so large that it's common to hit one multiple times. I've killed two, several patrols, and an inattentive teammate with a single stratagem.

The devs really need to work on consistency of damage. Under no circumstance should an auto cannon defeat one of these in 6-7shots, yet two 500kg bombs can't.

The fact that a primary can kill it (Dominator) is insane. Especially as fast as it does.

If they don't simply outright buff the Railgun, I'm hoping in the future we get something like the exosuit-unlocking Major Order, where we secure a planet doing finishing touches on Railgun development (the flavor text of the weapon calls it "experimental" so the idea is getting it out of that phase of development and refining its effectiveness), and that coincides with a rework of how it functions; no longer having a Safe mode, but you can hold a max charge for ~5 seconds before it explodes (so people can still blow themselves up for comedy), and making it always possess very heavy armor penetration, so charging up just increases the damage. There's no reason for the Railgun to exist as it does right now when the Quasar Cannon exists.

If the adjudicator is the clown then the railgun is the entire circus...

Love how you do the timeline at the top of the video with the weapons and the blue progress bar. Waiting for the OhDough graphic design spin-off channel 👍

You got the wrong guy... It takes 20 max charge shots 🤣

That shows why railgun should be buffed again, it just not does what a railgun should do.

I love the infographic-ish indicating which weapon r u talking abt at the top of screen. Thank u for great content

Whoa, a lot of work you did making this video and its greatly appreciated. The amount of editing alone I could imagine, well done. Lots of helpful information broken down concisely with examples as well.

Eruptor will one shot the turrets on it's face, and of perfectly fired, will take out both in one shot. I found the explosion from Eruptor shots is finicky so sometimes it won't explode right, that's why I sometimes 2-shot devs to the chest and other times I don't. Could be server shenanigans.

Excellent editing with the weapons at the top filling up as their segment progresses. Nice touch.

I'm still kinda shock some people on reddit are still defending the railgun nerf to this day when a gun like AMR does an infinitely better job than it now....its so ass rn in terms of being a support weapon and unsafe mode is so not worth it given its huge risk and abysmal reward

The railgun is truly one of the weapons of all time.

thank you for the timestamps & concise explanations/showcases. excellent work

I was about to hop on, I’m glad this came out before I did. I would have been completely naked against thing machine monstrosity. Thanks Dough

always goated with great info. Direct and to the point. Plus great time stamps. thanks for quality vids as always

Very thorough, very informative 🙏 Much appreciated dude, I went from never even seeing an AT to seeing 3 of them in one mission, got absolutely clapped into the ground. We ended up just chucking Orbital Lasers and Airstrikes at them till they died. AMR and Recoiless are my favourite supports rn so I'm glad they're both decent at taking these things out

One of the most consistent and thorough HD2 Testers I watch!

It’s wild how dirty they did the rail gun just to give us the quasar.

hey youtube, this video was good.

As always, thanks for the informative video!

Dang dude that is a huge amount of testing, gg! I loved the way you used the icons of the weapons and stratagems on the vid.

this video is very helpful. appreciate the effort

Glad you got to post you strider factory guide 🤘

Bro, your hd2 content is S+ most insightful and detailed. second to none. Keep it up man.

really great video was waiting for yours to come out to get a comprehensive view.

I’ve one shotted factory strider with a single orbital precision strike before. I landed it right on top of the strider so that might be the best way to take these things down since unlike the 500kg it doesn’t land under the strider. I’ve also one shotted with an eagle airstrike too, it works if you throw it perpendicular to the strider and have almost all the strike lands on it. It’s super cheap and has a 100 seconds cooldown. I haven’t really tested all of this but both times the strider just dropped from the dropship so i would assume it’s full hp

Dude you are the goat for testing

Knowledge is power is this is some great data! Thanks for taking the time to do thorough testing! Much appreciated!

Dude thank you for all the work you put into this it’s really nice to get all this info in one video

Jesus Christ, it's like fighting a Strider from Heavy Gear.

jar-5 dominator mains rise up

Happy to see you were able to post this video in the end

Thanks for all the testing!!

dev used to describe the railgun as "spicy sniper rifle" now this thing is more like a sniper rifle in ICU

Thank you so much for making these kinds of videos in a community so rife with misinformation

This was a great and comprehensive video.

Super helpful - great content!

Oh, no way, you actually found one? The thing is like trying to find big foot for me

W EKKO SPONSOR DID NOT EXPECT THAT

Great video! Thanks!

That's a ton of science. Thanks for your work Ohdough.

I'll outright say thank you for this video. Of course this is kind of skewed towards your biases of support weapons and stratagems, BUT it at least gives me a base line of what to expect when I start running into them (I never did before the "Reclaimation".) Knowing that base line of like "Dominator is a solid primary against them" as the Dominator is a solid primary against the majority of bots to begin will is really helpful. Planning for a mission, dropping thinking you've got everything covered and then you run into a bile titan only to realize you and your team only have stuff to take out a mass of chargers like arc throwers and stuff.....it hurts. Knowing what can be doubled up (besides obvious meta weapons like the Quasar Cannon [yes, it is meta as an infinite EAT and the fact that EATs will solve most problems makes QC a very fast choice for meta builds]) helps me know what I can and can't do. If someone brought a Stalwart and they're going in charging at an Automa-chongus (hulk) I kind of roll my eyes and see what they find out with their fooling around. I think it's also safe to call factory striders, Automa-cows. They're large lumbering beasts that "birth" other things and they "practically" have udders. Not anatomically correct, but that's kind of the idea I was getting from watching this. "SLAP THE MECHANICAL UDDERS!!!!" Maybe that's just me because I feel like some of the bot spamming is just complete bulls*it. What? that's not offensive to call them mechanical udders. They're Automatons. They don't vote so they're not legally alive anyways.

First! The AT-ATs are here! D:

Good work dough. Thanks for the info

i hope this video gets over a million views with the work you put in on it. holy shit man. legend

Thanks for this massive effort brother

You sir are a legend. Was having serious trouble with these guys until I watched this video. That undercarriage weakspot is killer.

In case you aren't aware for future testing, EAT, RR and Quasar all do the same damage and have the same penetration, so you could just group them all together.

havent been dropping on automatons lately, so when i actually saw 1, i was just blasting it with laser orbital, and autocannon those dim lights from the sides of its legs. Thanks for this info.

Great video my dude!

Crazy good video dude! Feels like helldiver academy training 😂

After bringing up nearly every other support weapon, they really gotta take the disrespect off the railgun.

awesome video. Thank you for doing this.

Subbed for the drawing, thank you.

Great job, thx man !

Appreciate your research Diver! You're the GOAT.

U got style. Love it

This was a massive video. Well edited, precise and super useful. Thanks a lot. On another note, stupid question that probably was answered before: But what kind of pen does the anti-materiel rifle have?

Laser cannon is pretty much the most versatile stratagem for automatons at this point. It can literally take out any armored type of enemy quickly if you aim for weak points. If you have the pistol grenade, you can use stun grenades instead to make it easier to take out hulks.

Can't wait to dive in to test the eruptor and further test the quasar cannon against the Factory strider.

Have my subscribe great video. When you mention sheild and cannon on mech I was sold. I like armor core but that would be so cool.

Encountered them for the first time today and it was the battle to end all battles. I saw at least 5 in my last helldive and one of them was sitting on the extraction point.

I remember the first time i saw a walker on the day they were added. Me and the 3 randoms i joined into had no idea how much it could take, and didnt want to take any risks. So we waited for our cooldowns, and threw 3 500kgs, 2 orbital rail cannons, 2 orbital lasers, and a precision strike cherry on top. It was dead before the smoke cleared.

Awesome video

Great video

I can confirm you can kill one with Arc throwers, me and two other friends did it with 3 Arc thrower. But it still took way too long to ever be considered viable

A-Tier, Case-uh-dilla cannon. Lol! Thanks so much for this testing video. I was worried for a minute when I heard the auto-AT’s were coming and had no apparent weak spots.

Thank you!

Thanks!

I just wanna say that was the best sponsor section I've ever seen from a youtuber and it wasn't even paid for.

Not sure if it had already taken damage, but when it was still a rare sighting I got a one-shot with a lucky perfect air strike. The Strider was perfectly aligned and positioned with the air strike and nearly every bomb hit (only ones that missed would have been because the strike length is longer than the Strider itself).

Great Video

Something to note about the spear, it can engage from well outside of the striders effective range (as long as there's nothing obscuring visibility). Not the fastest kill but it can be extremely safe.

fun fact: in Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 for the ps2, the neck is the only area of an AT-AT that does extra damage when hit. it makes sense that one weakpoint for the Stryder Factory is its neck, since they're so similar.

Thanks, this was a really helpful and informative video. Definitely feels like they have less health values than before e

Awesome video. Did I missed the Cross Bow somehow or you didn't unlocked it yet?

All in one part, cant imagine how long this took. very nice

This video is fantastic. You're tier list is for this hostile only and not a one size fits all BS list . You're not telling people what they should and should not use. You're just simply giving reported facts. The world needs more people willing to do this kind of work for all sorts of things. Thank you. Seriously thank you

Wow the info in these videos is amazing! Do you have a spreadsheet keeping track of how many shots each weapon takes to kill each enemy?

Hell yeah, Laser Cannon was already becoming my go-to against Automatons because of how fast it kills gunships and lets my ballistic-shield loadout handle rocket devastators and hulks. Just more reason to keep using it.

Love how he has a million names for the quaso cannon

@OhDough love the video man can’t wait to take on these new factories. Got a question for you do you plan to return to remnant 2 with the announcement of the new DLC? Loved your remnant 2 videos so was wondering if you’d jump back to it with the DLC and all. Thanks for the content as always

I managed to one shot it with the 500kg earlier by getting the beacon/bomb on the head, I was surprised but it works. Others have mentioned it but the vents that pop up on the back are also a weak point, I'd like to see how many grenades are needed for that.

Autocannon gang here 😎😎 happy to say yeah, this weapon still rocks n reigns supreme above a lot of other things in the game. So glad I got used to playing with it on bots n bugs, it’s so versatile

Very good video. I still think these things are a little over tunned to be turning up 2-3 at a time but this will help deal with them faster without just giving up 4 stratagems as a team effort.

with the new eagle upgrade where it drops an additional bomb if you aim it properly you can kill em with one eagle strike, best strategem evur.

About the railgun. The railgun is used to pen heavy armor. There is a thing that exist called "over penetration" where a projectile just cuts through armor instead of destroying it out right

I'm killing it with HMG consistently now. When you're right in front of the thing, it completely stops and just stares at you. This is where you go prone and unload it right in the eye. Doing this at literally melee range is no big deal.

the grenade launcher has a minimum arm distance before they'll detonate, anything before that and it'll bounce off. So if you get the right spacing a single belt can wipe a strider out.

A good way to deal with these ATATs is disarming them first by removing the gun in the front and the top cannon, then it will only produce normal devastators which cost the overall spawning score and leads to less spawns for rocket and mg devastators, tanks or hulks, thus mobile factory itself also cost a lot. Though this won`t affect portal groups which has already spawned. So fight wisely when an alarm fight is going. BTW, the cannon can also destroy bot`s building in one shot.

precision and eagle-strike remain one the most universally reliable strats i have used. I'm curious about clusters tho, they don't take out buildings but they are still wide-area multi-explosives so can do horrible things to a remarkable number of enemy units and types.

For spear, you need long range side shot to hit weakspot. But it can disarm the strider easier than the others.

this took some fucking time and effort. sub plus like mate.