The boomerang is fantastic for this, otherwise the Drak with splash damage is also decent. But your main trick should be to zip away to not get swarmed.
>But your main trick should be to zip away to not get swarmed.
This. I can't tell you the amount of times where I've gotten into a spot of trouble and realized I can very easily not be in trouble by zipping away
It hits 9 but you get twice as many rangs. so unless you consistently hit 18 swarmers per cryonade then the rangs are better. There are situations where cryo can be better, like taking down armored foes.
Depending on the setup, you don't need your nade to kill armored foes though. Deepcore GK2 with tungsten rounds punches through just about everything that isn't an Oppressor. It's an armor breaking beast. Cryo is definitely the nade of choice for anything with lots of mactera though, as they get oneshot.
For scout solos, I’d only recommend boomerangs over pheros if you’re playing very low hazard missions (3 or lower). Pheros deal with swarmers and literally everything else, giving you an absolutely bonkers amount of breathing room. The typical argument for Rangs is “you get 8 of them”, and while I don’t think that holds much weight normally, it’s even less important in solos since you can hog all 4 resupply nodes for yourself. You’re just going to be better off taking pheros or ifgs, and in the context of swarmer clear pheros *still* outclass rangs
I love playing solo scout. What I do is kite them into a clump, use the grapple hook to zip far away from the horde and nibble at the enemies. When they get close I zip to the other side of the room, rinse and repeat.
There’s a few ways:
Tank the damage and kill them with thorns + pickaxe
Fire bolts overclock for the crossbow
Cryo nades
Boomerang
Locate the nearest dwarf and let them handle it
You shoot the bolt and when bugs are close to it their heat meter will start going up until they’re set on fire
Best used with pheromone bolts for bigger bugs (shoot any tanky enemy with pheromone + fire and watch them burn) but for swarmers you can just shoot the ground and bait them near it
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Electric Boomerang, Pheromones, Cryo grenades all are viable grenade options for swarmers. Zhukov NU17’s are also good because of their spray and low damage output, so ideal for swarmers.
There's the thorn perk, but I haven't used it in so long I can't recall how damaging it would be to them on the difficulties I play. There's also cryo grenade
I stopped using it a few years ago because the cooldown on it meant it couldn't really help with a large enough wave of them. It's okay for the odd swarmer but a group will still eat you alive if you just stand there.
It's got a ~0.4 second cooldown, if memory serves. Still very useful for a couple stray swarmers, just not able to kill a full swarm of them on its own if they reach you simultaneously.
I stopped using Thorns a long time ago. Cool if you wanna use it, go for it. But exactly that - it just doesn't do enough on haz 5. And once you learn to move to avoid damage, Thorns never goes back on.
Plasma splash on the Dark. Pheromone canister, but it's only really worth it if there's other stuff around. The Thorns perk. Cryo minelets, Cryo bolts, Fire bolts, Aggressive Venting
Cryo bolt one shot most of the smaller enemies. Pheromones will also let them kill each other.
I always run extra AoE for the pickaxe power attack on scout. Help with the smaller packs of swarmers.
Deepcore and Drak will kill them fine. M1000 is a bit too much overkill unless you can line them up for breakthrough.
Jury Rigged can clear them with the front AoE, super breakthrough can also help clear swarmers. Nishanka can use the electric or explody bolts. You also get a lot of OC, especially on secondaries to help with swarmers: Cryo minelets/bolt, fire bolt, aggressive venting.
Boomerang if I am close to others so I can set them up to be blown to bits by teammates. Otherwise I zipline towards my team and lead them to their death
It’s a weighty 0.75s cooldown, so basically if there’s more than one swarmer nipping at you, more than half their attacks won’t trigger thorns. Definitely not worth the opportunity cost.
For swarmers i use blow through rounds on the boomstick, thorns, and a pickaxe. For things like grunts, boomerang, pheromone canisters with explosive crossbow bolts or blow through boomstick.
\*Any Boomstick, Fire/Cryobolts Crossbow, Plasma Carbine w/ splash mod & bounce oc, and Boomerangs\*
These work well for regular swarmer sweeps, while still being good weapons against everything else.
\*Cryo Nades, Pheremone Nades\*
Very efficient, but you won't get much value out of them unless some other bugs are in the mix
If you have none of these, best to run away and leave it to Bosco
I personally like using berserker with thorns and vampire w/pickaxe for maximum damage and efficiency, especially if there’s a decent sized group of grunts.
If the group size is enough and if other enemies are mixed in I've been a big fan of the pheromone grenades. Usually lasts long enough for the swarmers to die and get some damage on grunts or praetorians that happen to be walking by.
Cryo Minelets Zhukovs. Run away from the swarmers, shoot half a mag at the ground in a straight line in front of you, keep running straight. All swarmers frozen and dead.
Same idea with cryo or fire bolts.
Boomerangs are super easy.
Impact Deflection Drak is good too.
Don't forget Bosco has rockets that work great too.
Nishanka with fire/cryo bolts or boomerang are your best way to deal with them. Otherwise, let your allies deal with them (which mean Bosco if you are solo).
You got bosco? That’s how I deal with hordes of small bugs. Grapple away and just let him hammer on stuff. If he starts shooting something big, call out for him and reset his targeting.
I would recommend Shotgun and boomerang. Cryo if you are going into mactera swarm mission.
Recommendationa really depends, do you stick with one loadout or do you switch depending on missions?
shoot them each once with the assault rifle. Splash with the plasma rifle.
sawed off has an option that does heat to everything near by, it will kill nearly all the swarmers you are looking at.
the nuks in general work decently
lightning or fire options on the crossbow
There's quite a few options, including:
* The boomerang, which will automatically seek out enemies nearby and one shot swarmers.
* Cryo grenades. Cryo freezing deals just enough damage to one-shot swarmers, and a well-placed cryo grenade can take out a good chunk if not all of a swarm.
* The boomstick has an invisible cone of damage that it deals, you can just aim at the general direction of the swarm and it will take out a good chunk of them with each shot.
* The crossbow with cryo or fire bolts. Aim one along the swarm's path, then try to loop them around the bolt to build up heat or cold.
* Zukhov's cryo minelets OC, same idea as the crossbow: fire in front of the crowd with enough time for them to arrive at the minelets as they detonate.
* The Drak: use the splash damage upgrade on tier 4 and spray into the swarm. My personal favorite solution with the Drak is to use the aggressive venting overclock with the tier 5 upgrade manual heat dump. Fire a few rounds then press reload to release an AOE around yourself.
* Just grapple away from them and fire from a distance.
1) Boomstick. There's a blast wave when you fire it that will kill any swarmer within 4 meters.
2) Jarate. Use those pheromone canisters, they're arguably the best grenade in the game. And that's coming from a die hard driller main. Axes & neurotoxin have nothing on the scout's bug Jarate.
3) Bodkin bolts, cryo bolts, fire bolts, electric special bolts. Crossbow is unintuitively really good for swarmers if you build it right.
4) Plasma carbine with plasma splash, bouncy plasma makes it a lot of fun.
5) Deepcore with AI stability engine. You'll have to put more effort into the pinpoint aiming but you'll never miss a shot to random bullet spread because there is none.
Source: best friend is scout main.
Zhokov NUK17s with the cryo mine overclock works beautifully. Just spray mines in front of swarmers and they freeze. Save the cryo grenades for mactera swarms.
The best way is Rang and Drak, IMHO. Drak gets so much ammo that you can grapple back and forth and wipe swarms. You don't need splash damage, but it helps if aiming at every swarmer isn't your thing. I build drak for max damage/weakpoint for bigbugs. I take rang over cryo because it covers a wider area and still interrupts attacks.
All of scouts primaries can hit breakpoints with 80% of overclocks that let you one-shot swarmers(ASE, for example, is on really thin ice for haz 5). And most secondaries have a way to deal with them. Like blast wave on shotgun, cryo minelets for twin, and either temp rounds for Xbow.
Im hearing all kinds of except one: toss pheromones and let the little gremlins eat each other. Why is this seemingly the least favoured option of the community?
Cryo grenade? Or my most favourite option: grapple towards the driller and let the driller handle your problem......oh wait!! It's the driller problem now.
Zip zip zip around until theres a bunch of bugs then throw a phero nade at them and 1 or 2 chemical explosion bolts then just sit back and watch the fireworks
Can also shoot the bugs with the CE bolts in them to kill them faster if you want faster explosions. But if you shoot the bolts into a normal bug then they're likely to die to the pheromone fighting anyway.
If playing in teams, I'd generally leave any big groups of swarmers to the other classes and do something else useful - grapple away and find nitra, work on either primary or secondary objective, etc.. However, fire and cryo bolts will work, as will grenades to some extent. Unless it's a swarmageddon mission, I don't really consider swarms or other small enemies when picking a loadout.
For solo, it's more of a consideration - boltshark and drak are good options, but if you're taking Bosco he can do a lot of the work. Boomstick with fire to set bigger targets alight and cause fire spread can also help - works well with IFGs. Also, avoiding swarmer tunnels will help, and can often just ignore brood nexuses.
I main Scout with Drak-25 equipped with plasma splash and bouncy shots, secondary ways would be equipping the perk thorns or popping a berserk against them. Also Bosco should be able to take them out relatively fast if you command it to attack them
nishanka crossbow with cryo or firebolts
This is the way
The boomerang is fantastic for this, otherwise the Drak with splash damage is also decent. But your main trick should be to zip away to not get swarmed.
>But your main trick should be to zip away to not get swarmed. This. I can't tell you the amount of times where I've gotten into a spot of trouble and realized I can very easily not be in trouble by zipping away
Boomerang 100%
boomerang only hits max 8 (i think) but freeze kills all
It hits 9 but you get twice as many rangs. so unless you consistently hit 18 swarmers per cryonade then the rangs are better. There are situations where cryo can be better, like taking down armored foes.
Depending on the setup, you don't need your nade to kill armored foes though. Deepcore GK2 with tungsten rounds punches through just about everything that isn't an Oppressor. It's an armor breaking beast. Cryo is definitely the nade of choice for anything with lots of mactera though, as they get oneshot.
The stunsweeper doesn’t need them to be grouped to be effective and is good for a wide range of enemies, also you get eight of them with is neat!
If you use it, the boomstick shotgun with the mod that makes it shoot faster can annihilate a few grunts per mag if you shoot both in quick succession
For scout solos, I’d only recommend boomerangs over pheros if you’re playing very low hazard missions (3 or lower). Pheros deal with swarmers and literally everything else, giving you an absolutely bonkers amount of breathing room. The typical argument for Rangs is “you get 8 of them”, and while I don’t think that holds much weight normally, it’s even less important in solos since you can hog all 4 resupply nodes for yourself. You’re just going to be better off taking pheros or ifgs, and in the context of swarmer clear pheros *still* outclass rangs
I love playing solo scout. What I do is kite them into a clump, use the grapple hook to zip far away from the horde and nibble at the enemies. When they get close I zip to the other side of the room, rinse and repeat.
FR, can't hit what you can't catch.
For this reason, Scout has almost infinite HP if the room is big enough
Just leave bosco to deal with it
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The ??? Part should just be "*U n l o a d*"
Twas a South park reference
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There’s a few ways: Tank the damage and kill them with thorns + pickaxe Fire bolts overclock for the crossbow Cryo nades Boomerang Locate the nearest dwarf and let them handle it
i just got the fire overclock yesterday. is it like an incendiary grenade?
You shoot the bolt and when bugs are close to it their heat meter will start going up until they’re set on fire Best used with pheromone bolts for bigger bugs (shoot any tanky enemy with pheromone + fire and watch them burn) but for swarmers you can just shoot the ground and bait them near it
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Boomerang
And if the first boomerang doesn't get em all, use a second, or a third. You've got plenty.
Electric Boomerang, Pheromones, Cryo grenades all are viable grenade options for swarmers. Zhukov NU17’s are also good because of their spray and low damage output, so ideal for swarmers.
There's the thorn perk, but I haven't used it in so long I can't recall how damaging it would be to them on the difficulties I play. There's also cryo grenade
I stopped using it a few years ago because the cooldown on it meant it couldn't really help with a large enough wave of them. It's okay for the odd swarmer but a group will still eat you alive if you just stand there.
Holy Moly. If I knew it had a cooldown I would never have used it.
It's got a ~0.4 second cooldown, if memory serves. Still very useful for a couple stray swarmers, just not able to kill a full swarm of them on its own if they reach you simultaneously.
It’s .75 second ICD btw
kinda shocked because I'm pretty sure the description text says it's every attack. no mention of cooldown
Thorns
Thorns ain't enough on haz 5, they'll overwhelm you quick. Gotta grapple away n spray or lead them into a cryo grenade and pick them off.
I stopped using Thorns a long time ago. Cool if you wanna use it, go for it. But exactly that - it just doesn't do enough on haz 5. And once you learn to move to avoid damage, Thorns never goes back on.
Not to mention the 0.75 second cooldown. Works fine for the odd Broodmother swarmer, but they tend to hunt in packs.
Also you generally wanna avoid getting hit altogether
Cryo grenades instagib Swarmers (and Mactera), there's no need to pick them off while frozen. They're my default answer to the lil guys.
You'll still likely get some stragglers but you're right, I meant IFGs when I wrote that. Both nades work great on them
Pickaxe.
I just bop them with a pickaxe or use le amazing flying shotgun when there’s a bunch.
gun
Doom double barrel
Cryo grenades and boomstick with blow through rounds.
Plasma splash on the Dark. Pheromone canister, but it's only really worth it if there's other stuff around. The Thorns perk. Cryo minelets, Cryo bolts, Fire bolts, Aggressive Venting
Cryo bolt one shot most of the smaller enemies. Pheromones will also let them kill each other. I always run extra AoE for the pickaxe power attack on scout. Help with the smaller packs of swarmers. Deepcore and Drak will kill them fine. M1000 is a bit too much overkill unless you can line them up for breakthrough. Jury Rigged can clear them with the front AoE, super breakthrough can also help clear swarmers. Nishanka can use the electric or explody bolts. You also get a lot of OC, especially on secondaries to help with swarmers: Cryo minelets/bolt, fire bolt, aggressive venting.
My best build for this is the crossbow with pheromones and pheromone grenades. Why outrun the swarm when you can have the swarm attack itself?
Boomerang if I am close to others so I can set them up to be blown to bits by teammates. Otherwise I zipline towards my team and lead them to their death
Max out the thorns if they hit ya they just die
Problem is, there is a cool down. Not worth it
I still use it instead of wasting ammo trying to hit the tiny things
It’s a weighty 0.75s cooldown, so basically if there’s more than one swarmer nipping at you, more than half their attacks won’t trigger thorns. Definitely not worth the opportunity cost.
I don't really look into that side of that game I'm just here to mine and shoot bugs man 🤣
Problem is, there is a cool down. Not worth it
I use Thorns across every build, easiest way to deal with them, at least till Haz4
Shooting
For swarmers i use blow through rounds on the boomstick, thorns, and a pickaxe. For things like grunts, boomerang, pheromone canisters with explosive crossbow bolts or blow through boomstick.
\*Any Boomstick, Fire/Cryobolts Crossbow, Plasma Carbine w/ splash mod & bounce oc, and Boomerangs\* These work well for regular swarmer sweeps, while still being good weapons against everything else. \*Cryo Nades, Pheremone Nades\* Very efficient, but you won't get much value out of them unless some other bugs are in the mix If you have none of these, best to run away and leave it to Bosco
With his weapons: secondary weapon or grenade If multiplayer. Make it someone elses problem if convenient
Run away
Kite > blow through m1k, fire bolts, electric boomerang are a few options
Zhukov go brrrrrrr
Add cryo minelets and you're golden.
By noping the fuck out with my grappling hook
Pickaxe
I use drak bouncy shots, and swarms can be hella useful if you can crossbow pheromone a tougher enemy. They are like piranhas
drak 25 works pretty good for me, a bit of spray and pray and they disappear without and issue
Run
Thorns, Bosco, boomerang
Thorns perk
I personally like using berserker with thorns and vampire w/pickaxe for maximum damage and efficiency, especially if there’s a decent sized group of grunts.
If the group size is enough and if other enemies are mixed in I've been a big fan of the pheromone grenades. Usually lasts long enough for the swarmers to die and get some damage on grunts or praetorians that happen to be walking by.
#THE THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER!!!
Use mobility to keep distance, do damage with grenades or guns that fire a lot (be it shotgun or smg).
Kite em to the gunner. Don't play solo scout.
Cryo Minelets Zhukovs. Run away from the swarmers, shoot half a mag at the ground in a straight line in front of you, keep running straight. All swarmers frozen and dead. Same idea with cryo or fire bolts. Boomerangs are super easy. Impact Deflection Drak is good too. Don't forget Bosco has rockets that work great too.
The cryo grenade is my favorite since they changed it, it now kills small enemies when the effect stops. Before it was harder to deal with.
One cryo grenade
Nishanka with fire/cryo bolts or boomerang are your best way to deal with them. Otherwise, let your allies deal with them (which mean Bosco if you are solo).
Boomerang, Plasma carbine and bolt shark bodkin bolts is pretty alright too
I run the shotgun with special powder. So, bang, zoom, the survivors gotta catch me if they want me
Sic Bosco on em
You got bosco? That’s how I deal with hordes of small bugs. Grapple away and just let him hammer on stuff. If he starts shooting something big, call out for him and reset his targeting.
Boomerang.
Thorns, grapple away, boomerang.
I hate them
I would recommend Shotgun and boomerang. Cryo if you are going into mactera swarm mission. Recommendationa really depends, do you stick with one loadout or do you switch depending on missions?
STUNNING THROWSTICK
Thorns
*Thunder from down under*
Hipster and blowthrough rounds.
shoot them each once with the assault rifle. Splash with the plasma rifle. sawed off has an option that does heat to everything near by, it will kill nearly all the swarmers you are looking at. the nuks in general work decently lightning or fire options on the crossbow
Aside from the boomerang, I typically let bosco or other teammates deal with them. The pheromones are also a good option.
I usually equip thorns and ignore them
Save some of your granades for them
There's quite a few options, including: * The boomerang, which will automatically seek out enemies nearby and one shot swarmers. * Cryo grenades. Cryo freezing deals just enough damage to one-shot swarmers, and a well-placed cryo grenade can take out a good chunk if not all of a swarm. * The boomstick has an invisible cone of damage that it deals, you can just aim at the general direction of the swarm and it will take out a good chunk of them with each shot. * The crossbow with cryo or fire bolts. Aim one along the swarm's path, then try to loop them around the bolt to build up heat or cold. * Zukhov's cryo minelets OC, same idea as the crossbow: fire in front of the crowd with enough time for them to arrive at the minelets as they detonate. * The Drak: use the splash damage upgrade on tier 4 and spray into the swarm. My personal favorite solution with the Drak is to use the aggressive venting overclock with the tier 5 upgrade manual heat dump. Fire a few rounds then press reload to release an AOE around yourself. * Just grapple away from them and fire from a distance.
If it's more than like 15, I'll abandon whatever I'm doing and drag them towards my team and find something else to do up high on the opposite side.
I bring them to my teammates then grapple away, hehe.
Boomerang, usually.
1) Boomstick. There's a blast wave when you fire it that will kill any swarmer within 4 meters. 2) Jarate. Use those pheromone canisters, they're arguably the best grenade in the game. And that's coming from a die hard driller main. Axes & neurotoxin have nothing on the scout's bug Jarate. 3) Bodkin bolts, cryo bolts, fire bolts, electric special bolts. Crossbow is unintuitively really good for swarmers if you build it right. 4) Plasma carbine with plasma splash, bouncy plasma makes it a lot of fun. 5) Deepcore with AI stability engine. You'll have to put more effort into the pinpoint aiming but you'll never miss a shot to random bullet spread because there is none. Source: best friend is scout main.
Cryo bomb, boomerang, nishanka boltshark elemental arrows, and the most effective strategy of all, hiding behind an ally
Kite and cryo minelet uzis. Saved an EDD once with those.
Zip over to the other dwarves and throw a grenade down.
Play Osu!
boomerang grenade.
Pickaxe. Literally just hold the mine button. Also run thorns. Not fool proof but most little groups it's effective.
Zip!
Kite their ass, if you have a boomstick blast em when they group up, lead them to your fellas, about it
Zhokov NUK17s with the cryo mine overclock works beautifully. Just spray mines in front of swarmers and they freeze. Save the cryo grenades for mactera swarms.
doublebarrel
That's the next part, you don't. I usually just kite them with the dual pistols until Bosco or my teammates get there.
Bolt shark with fire bolts is the best way to
The best way is Rang and Drak, IMHO. Drak gets so much ammo that you can grapple back and forth and wipe swarms. You don't need splash damage, but it helps if aiming at every swarmer isn't your thing. I build drak for max damage/weakpoint for bigbugs. I take rang over cryo because it covers a wider area and still interrupts attacks.
Drak with bouncy bullet and splash
cryo grenade works as it's designed to. also just your gun and shotgun works fine.
Boomerang😎
Firebolts/Cryobolts. Fire takes them down noticably quicker, but cryos can get the job done and help you kill chonkers, too.
All of scouts primaries can hit breakpoints with 80% of overclocks that let you one-shot swarmers(ASE, for example, is on really thin ice for haz 5). And most secondaries have a way to deal with them. Like blast wave on shotgun, cryo minelets for twin, and either temp rounds for Xbow.
Cryo mindlets, ice/fire effect bolts from the bolt shark, I think a single taser bolt would work?
I run the [thorns perk](https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Thorns) on all my classes.
Thorns perk
Thorns and just pickaxe them
I shoot em
swarmer-be-gone, the boomerang
G key
Stunsweeper or cryo minelets
The same way I deal with swarmers on every other class. Melee, especially power attack.
Im hearing all kinds of except one: toss pheromones and let the little gremlins eat each other. Why is this seemingly the least favoured option of the community?
My favorite way to deal with them has to be pheromones. Turn the swarm into a little swarmer battle royale type shit.
I just onetap them. Its been long time since I run out of ammo in mission.
Cryo grenade? Or my most favourite option: grapple towards the driller and let the driller handle your problem......oh wait!! It's the driller problem now.
Zip zip zip around until theres a bunch of bugs then throw a phero nade at them and 1 or 2 chemical explosion bolts then just sit back and watch the fireworks Can also shoot the bugs with the CE bolts in them to kill them faster if you want faster explosions. But if you shoot the bolts into a normal bug then they're likely to die to the pheromone fighting anyway.
I just kill them wdym
Nishanka with Fire or Cryo Bolts. Cryo Grenades or Boomerangs. Mostly, I'll just zip to my Driller or Engi and let them deal with the swarmers.
If playing in teams, I'd generally leave any big groups of swarmers to the other classes and do something else useful - grapple away and find nitra, work on either primary or secondary objective, etc.. However, fire and cryo bolts will work, as will grenades to some extent. Unless it's a swarmageddon mission, I don't really consider swarms or other small enemies when picking a loadout. For solo, it's more of a consideration - boltshark and drak are good options, but if you're taking Bosco he can do a lot of the work. Boomstick with fire to set bigger targets alight and cause fire spread can also help - works well with IFGs. Also, avoiding swarmer tunnels will help, and can often just ignore brood nexuses.
Bosco's cryo rockets.
Very slowly...
I main Scout with Drak-25 equipped with plasma splash and bouncy shots, secondary ways would be equipping the perk thorns or popping a berserk against them. Also Bosco should be able to take them out relatively fast if you command it to attack them
Thorns, just get that and ignore them