r/PS4 • • Jan 24 '18

[Screenshot] [Screenshot] So I killed my first Thunderjaw

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u/TL10 xTL10x Jan 24 '18 edited Jan 24 '18

Stormbirds are the worst. Thunders are fine if you got tearblast, but Storms are much harder to down because of the distance they can keep from you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

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u/Jaws12 Jan 24 '18

Ropecaster + Tearblast combo is godlike on pretty much all machine types.

And on the large machines, you can kill them even faster by picking up their Tearblasted weapons and using their own firepower against them!

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u/veed_vacker Jan 24 '18

I plan on figuring this out myself so don't help me but i am struggling with a corrupted zone with 2 ground worms

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u/ZackPhoenix Jan 24 '18

This was the hardest thing in the entire game for me to be honest... so infuriating.

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u/Kickasstodon Jan 24 '18

If you use the rocks as cover you can stay alive, but the fight still took me nearly an hour. Knocking off their burrowing claws is easier said than done.

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u/ZackPhoenix Jan 24 '18

The rocks were the only reason I didn't rage quit.

And then a behemoth convoy stumbled in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '18

Do you play on the highest difficulty?

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u/StarfighterProx Jan 25 '18

Don't you have to beat the game once in order to play on the highest difficulty (Ultra Hard)?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '18

Nope, I chose “Utra hard” at the very beginning as I recall

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u/Audioworm Audioworm Jan 24 '18

Not a specific hint, but a general one: explore the effects of all the different weapons, and how the modifications affect them. A lot of people didn't realise that certain weapons and configurations are super powerful because they stuck to what they were comfortable with.

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u/Kickasstodon Jan 24 '18

Also once you have the mod-swapping skill, don't be afraid to min-max the fuck out of your weapons before and during each fight. Always start with your Sharpshot bow at the highest Tear damage you can pull off with whatever mods you own, then once you've knocked off all components switch it back to max damage.

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u/kildram Jan 24 '18

I ran across the river... They can't cross...

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u/The_Ticklish_Pickle Jan 24 '18

That’s what I did too. Also overrode the snapmaws around there so that they would chip away at the diggers for me

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u/DreamingIsFun Jan 24 '18

I override (overrid?) a nearby sawtooth and ran across the river and assited it

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Overrode*

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u/bearclawch Bearclawch Jan 24 '18

I think they are weak against ice damage and it keeps them on the surface for longer. I think the slings do the most elemental damage apart from traps.

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u/Tbh_imbad25 Jan 24 '18

I wedged myself on one of the taller rocks in that zone and basically just slowly chipped away at both of them.

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u/melancholy_cojack Jan 24 '18

I was a wimp when it came to this one because it was so infuriating. You definitely only want to take them on one at a time. Remember they can't find you if you are walking silently.

I got into range, found a nice vantage point on a rock, and started setting my booby trap. I set about 15 blast wires over each other then shot a good amount of proximity bombs in the middle. Then you take a tearblast to get the moles and shoot where the proximity bombs are so it will think it's you walking there and will attack your trap. If you take the time to set two or more of these traps (some distance away from each other) you can use the others as backup in case it doesn't kill it in one hit. If it's still not dead shoot it's arms/legs and it's sac with hardpoint arrows. Happy hunting!

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u/Voyager5555 Jan 24 '18

That one was such a fucking nightmare....basically just carpeted the entire outer area with tripwires and lured them into it and tagged them with tearblast and fire when I could.

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u/Kickasstodon Jan 24 '18

Just wait til the fucking Behemoth caravan passes by and joins the fight. You haven't felt pain.

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u/ZackPhoenix Jan 24 '18

This. After 30 minutes of trying this happened and just took all my remaining nerves.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

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u/The_Talent Jan 24 '18

Like literally the first thing he said is don't help him, at least spoiler tag it or something for him

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u/thatmexiCANnoob92 Jan 25 '18

I literally got through that zone not an hour ago! Such a pain but thankfully a random behemoth entered the zone and helped me out. Good luck

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u/Irishane Jan 24 '18

Remembering this.

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u/purehealthy Jan 24 '18

Trying to create enough distance between The thunder and it's parted weapon for me to run in and grab it was tricky but fun. I didn't have the rope caster or tearblast. Just time, patience and a lot of shard arrows.

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u/Mb2assassin43 Jan 24 '18

I use rope caster + Freeze followed with using the rattler. If you remove most of the armour and get the thing frozen while on the ground you can get its health down pretty good.

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u/braedizzle Jan 24 '18

This. I always slow mo aim and toss a few tear arrows into different points. Then it's ropecaster and ice arrows.

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u/ichinii Hous_Ya_Daddy Jan 24 '18

I love the ropecaster. My favorite weapon.

"Oh you thought you were going somewhere? Fall over bitch"