General Bug and Bot Speed Guide
By MajMeow
Bugs
Bring crowd control, lots of crowd control. Also make sure to bring 1 stratagem that can take out a bile titan. Play bug missions like your main goal is to commit war crimes. I recommend flamethrower as it can kill most bug types easily and autocannons for shrieker nests.
Bots
Bring lots of anti armor weaponry as bots have a lot of armor. Be a sneaky boi so learn to crouch and move around patrols. If you get spotted, be prepared to run and hide. Speedrun main objective asap. Armor piercing on these is mandatory. I personally recommend either EATs or autocannon.
Defense Operations Science Team Rescue Speed Guide
General Tips
Keep 3 people wrecking havoc away from the evacuation area unless enemies start spawning at the evac point. DON’T bring turrets as they will kill civilians as much as they kill enemies (EMS mortar is the singular exception and is amazing for this). Don’t bring guard dogs as they civilians kill a lot too.
Bugs
Very easy just bring crowd control and it will be fine. Also make sure you have anti bile titan weapons. I would recommend 500kg bomb then your choice of crowd control.
Bots
First accept you will die a lot. The person evacuating people should bring 3 smoke stratagems to hide civilians. EATs are somewhat mandatory or tanks will end your run make sure someone brings it. Bring as much stun as possible. Take out devastators as soon as they spawn or they will obliterate your team. Don’t bring many directly offensive stratagems like eagles or orbitals as they won’t help much here (You will only need 1 just).
If you bring an orbital or an eagle don’t drop it on the evac zone unless 100% necessary. Finally the absolute hardest tip is to coordinate with your team beforehand and make sure they know what to do. Recommended weapons are slugger for primary and autocannons for secondary to speedrun devastators. If you don’t have autocannon , bring a machine gun.
Shrieker Towers
Don’t go too close to them unless you plan to drop a stratagem on the towers. These are taken out by whatever you use to take out research stations so treat them as research stations you need to hit from afar. Now when dealing with the actual shriekers I would recommend bringing a guard dog as they can easily hit them in the air.
Try not to kill them if they are doing a strafing run as their dead bodies will insta kill you as opposed to claws which will do a lot less damage. Other than that they should be fine. My recommended weapons of choice for these are EATs as they can snipe the towers from a distance or autocannons as they can do the same thing and are useful for bile titans.
Stratagem Jammer
These are priority targets as they will prevent you from using stratagems. If you are being jammed you can find the jammer by looking up and going in the direction of where the waves are coming from. After that its relatively easy to get rid of them. Just be careful around the bots and use cover as these tend to have a lot. I have no recommended loadouts for this.
Research Station
Use any explosive stratagem or hellbomb on the building that doesn’t look like the others. That’s it.
Stalker
Stalkers are strong and can easily kill you. Stalkers can also turn invisible which is not fun. If you see even 1 stalker open your map and spam ping around areas with hives until you find it (this also lets you find all the side objectives easily if you didn’t or can’t activate a radar station).
If you don’t find the nest asap and destroy it they will keep spawning and hunt you across the whole map and will always know where you are at. After you get there just throw grenades into the holes and the stalkers will stop spawning.
Radar Station
This is the single most important side objective and should always be done if possible as it reveals every other side objective on the map. There is no easy way to find it except for spam pinging the map.
Mortar Emplacement/ AA Gun
These 2 are very similar so I’m grouping them together. The mortar will shoot at your team from across the map and the AA Gun will stop you from using eagle stratagems. To get rid of them just use either an explosive stratagem or shoot the vents with any armor piercing weapon.
Sensor Tower
These are extremely important to know about. If you get too close to one it will immediately start calling in reinforcements and make a loud noise in that area. To get rid of them either run up and drop a hellbomb or use a stratagem.
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