The way I deal with them is use arrows to set off the mines they place around the ground. Then when I notice their shimmer I'd place 2-3 proximity bombs behind them. Since they like to move back and forth. Once the bombs go off, I go in and take off the components. I however have never aimed for their eyes since the focus doesn't highlight them. And it's also because they're reall hard to hit. Because the weapon loadout I prefer is shadow carja, shadow sharpshot, sling, and rope caster. And I don't use my rope caster unless there are too many enemies. Because if it's 3-4 I can deal with them, or I'm just being stubborn.
I just recently got the Complete Edition on PC (amazing game) and most of the times I've stumbled upon Stalkers they didn't seem to be "out in the open" while Cloaked (which is annoying)... Thus far, I only found one (maybe two) areas where their proximity mines let you know they're around but other than that I only notice them because they are somewhat far and I get shot by their Dart gun or they eventually aren't far and give away their location when approaching me and once I did sneak up on two of them so they weren't cloaked but I think most of the time the buggers are both cloaked and hidden somewhere. I think between the beginning of The Bitter Climb and the Underequipped (?) Side Quest (where there's one Stalker relatively close to Nora territory that kills Dirid with the Dart gun) they aren't walking around letting me see their outline. They are a tad on the agile side too which makes it kind of a pain to hit them at times and they tend to run in packs (or are accompanied by other machines). I don't play the game on Hard (life is challenging enough so I don't play games looking for more punishment thanks) so I don't find them specially hard but god they are annoying (I find them more annoying than Glinthawks lol) I also noticed when I first killed a Stormbird (close to Dawn's Sentinel) after I Tearblasted all the engines on its wings (after tieing it with the ropecaster then pelting it with freeze arrows) it couldn't go airborne anymore (no wing flap wind blast attacks either) The second one (in The Bitter Climb) managed to vary its attacks more (I didn't have as much ammo for ropes and tearblast or freeze arrows) so I had to let it take flight a bit more and hit it with hardpoint arrows while tryng to dodge the windblast from the wing flap attack (it tried to hit me with the tailwhip twice but I had enough distance to dodge) I seem to have been getting a lot of duplicated mods (The purple mods I have are almost all elemental or tear aside from outfit weave mods) The only purple damage mods I've got are spear mods so not helpful for arrows
I usually just tag them with a few tearblast arrows to take all the components off, then a few freeze arrows and hardpoints to the head finish them off on ultra hard
Hey maybe you're the guy to talk to about this, but I have a tip for those who do melee only. It's the heavy attack cancel into crit strike, when you knock over a machine and stand where the command for crit strike appears, use your heavy attack and the moment the heavy attack connects you press crit strike attack to cancel the heavy attack recovery animations. I've never seen anybody do this and was wondering if people knew but thought it was less efficient in speed runs.
How to deal with Daemon version of Stalkers? Cause now Shock is their strength instead of their weakness. Are you still able to stun them? In fact, in general, how to deal with machines that are weak against Shock before but are now strong against in their Daemon versions?
Your background music is a little too loud to hear the audio cues you’re describing. I’d recommend bringing that down for future entries in this series.
The way I deal with them is use arrows to set off the mines they place around the ground. Then when I notice their shimmer I'd place 2-3 proximity bombs behind them. Since they like to move back and forth. Once the bombs go off, I go in and take off the components.
I however have never aimed for their eyes since the focus doesn't highlight them. And it's also because they're reall hard to hit. Because the weapon loadout I prefer is shadow carja, shadow sharpshot, sling, and rope caster. And I don't use my rope caster unless there are too many enemies. Because if it's 3-4 I can deal with them, or I'm just being stubborn.
wish i'd thought of shotting the mines! thanks.
I just recently got the Complete Edition on PC (amazing game) and most of the times I've stumbled upon Stalkers they didn't seem to be "out in the open" while Cloaked (which is annoying)... Thus far, I only found one (maybe two) areas where their proximity mines let you know they're around but other than that I only notice them because they are somewhat far and I get shot by their Dart gun or they eventually aren't far and give away their location when approaching me and once I did sneak up on two of them so they weren't cloaked but I think most of the time the buggers are both cloaked and hidden somewhere. I think between the beginning of The Bitter Climb and the Underequipped (?) Side Quest (where there's one Stalker relatively close to Nora territory that kills Dirid with the Dart gun) they aren't walking around letting me see their outline. They are a tad on the agile side too which makes it kind of a pain to hit them at times and they tend to run in packs (or are accompanied by other machines). I don't play the game on Hard (life is challenging enough so I don't play games looking for more punishment thanks) so I don't find them specially hard but god they are annoying (I find them more annoying than Glinthawks lol) I also noticed when I first killed a Stormbird (close to Dawn's Sentinel) after I Tearblasted all the engines on its wings (after tieing it with the ropecaster then pelting it with freeze arrows) it couldn't go airborne anymore (no wing flap wind blast attacks either) The second one (in The Bitter Climb) managed to vary its attacks more (I didn't have as much ammo for ropes and tearblast or freeze arrows) so I had to let it take flight a bit more and hit it with hardpoint arrows while tryng to dodge the windblast from the wing flap attack (it tried to hit me with the tailwhip twice but I had enough distance to dodge) I seem to have been getting a lot of duplicated mods (The purple mods I have are almost all elemental or tear aside from outfit weave mods) The only purple damage mods I've got are spear mods so not helpful for arrows
I usually just tag them with a few tearblast arrows to take all the components off, then a few freeze arrows and hardpoints to the head finish them off on ultra hard
That is certainly one option!
Hey maybe you're the guy to talk to about this, but I have a tip for those who do melee only. It's the heavy attack cancel into crit strike, when you knock over a machine and stand where the command for crit strike appears, use your heavy attack and the moment the heavy attack connects you press crit strike attack to cancel the heavy attack recovery animations. I've never seen anybody do this and was wondering if people knew but thought it was less efficient in speed runs.
It's a known thing, but thank you.
@@Psykko_ oh cool
How to deal with Daemon version of Stalkers? Cause now Shock is their strength instead of their weakness. Are you still able to stun them? In fact, in general, how to deal with machines that are weak against Shock before but are now strong against in their Daemon versions?
My go to strat to kill Stalkers is to Freeze them. Freeze, followed by Hardpoint Arrows while the Stalker is momentarily stunned.
so... wheres the rest of the videos
Incomplete.
Your background music is a little too loud to hear the audio cues you’re describing. I’d recommend bringing that down for future entries in this series.
Thanks! I was worried about that and debated just not having sound for that part.
@@Psykko_ either way this is a lot of good details. Very useful.
@@KyleHorseman I appreciate it! Thank you for your feedback!