How Many Rockets...

[dacarr02]

...does it take to bring down a strider?

Here is another question:

Is there any other way to take down a strider?

One thing I have loved about this game is the fact that - especially thanks to the grav gun - there are usually multiple ways and paths to completing a task. Is that true with striders? Seems not.

 

[ktimekiller]

well, if you can kill a strider with anything but the rocket, have fun taking an hour wasting all your bullets

 

[WhiteZero]

3 for easy, 5 for normal, and 7 for hard

 

[CookieCuttah]

Yes you can kill a strider with other things: Blue manipulator+Plasma balls. Thats only way to kill the last one, it takes 2 or 3.

I think there is a hot spot on striders cuse sometimes it took 10+ and sometimes it took 3 ((They were all just coming in undamaged)) I was playing on normal all time. So I think it depends on rocket velocity, time in air and place you hit. ((Back=More damage.))

 

[dacarr02]

More Than A Number

First, wow! I just got up for a minute and returned to find 3 quick responses. Cool.

Second, I think CookieCuttah has it right - it is more than just a number. Even on Easy I find that 3 does not always do the trick.

Well, good to know, thanks. I wondered if placement might have some effect. So, back to the killing grounds of Follow Freeman!...

 

[WhiteZero]

Yeah, in the Strategy guide, it says "Direct Hits". So it can vary a little. But those are the baseline ammounts.

 

[TigerRei]

I would have loved if physics mattered when they're alive. I wish I could just shoot a rocket at a leg and knock it off balance.

 

[CookieCuttah]

Actually physics do matter, Half-life 2 is using a IK system where the strider will flatten its legs and stuff. For example if it steps on a step higher than it is, it will shift a bit to realisticly be standing with 1 leg up on it and the other 2 down at bottom, same goes for people going up and down stairs.

Shooting in the leg woulda been awesome, buildings blowing up would a been awesome, more frequent cannon use woulda been awesome. But ya know its not done...So except for shooting/running from a strider theres not much more fun here...

 

[PvtRyan]

You can use anything.... if you like to waste an hour or three...

 

[boglito]

I just fought some striders and had problem with one in particular. Spent all my rockets on it, my teammates hit it quite a bit, they died and i looted them for more ammo, but in the end it didn't quite cut it. In a final moment of desperation i chugged an smg1-grenade up its butt, and lo and behold, no more strider. (Later found one of those never-ending crates of rocketammo nearby...)

.bog.

 

[Chronos]

There should be other way to kill a strider... I don't mean its implemented in the game, but , come on, strider is just a tripod, which means you deliver a package to one leg, the whole thing will sleep with fishes.

Would be cool if couple of sawblades frisbeed to the leg would cut it , and then the thing just falls down. Perhaps not before getting confused and shooting around at Combine for failing to protect it.

There is also a psychological way. You directly, telepathically communicate to the brain of the strider and concisely explain to him that the things it is doing are generally bad, and then it, like, becomes so upset and shoots itself with its own missile.

 

[ktimekiller]

if it was like that, one shot will take down the all mighty strider, not very fun

 

[LAYP]

There should be other way to kill a strider... I don't mean its implemented in the game, but , come on, strider is just a tripod, which means you deliver a package to one leg, the whole thing will sleep with fishes.

Would be cool if couple of sawblades frisbeed to the leg would cut it , and then the thing just falls down. Perhaps not before getting confused and shooting around at Combine for failing to protect it.

There is also a psychological way. You directly, telepathically communicate to the brain of the strider and concisely explain to him that the things it is doing are generally bad, and then it, like, becomes so upset and shoots itself with its own missile.

you could mod it. I am looking foward

 

[spencerjrus]

If they make all the enemies realistically crappy then the game will have no more challenge and be pointless. Sometimes things being harder than they would be in RL adds fun to the game.

 

[CookieCuttah]

Actually im thinking the other way , if they made it realisticly it would be actually harder, you would die more easily, throwing things with manipulator wouldn't kill as fast. You could be able to shoot your allies ((Though sometimes i doubt this is bad lol)) And so many things, it would be so easy to die it would be just plain frustrating. And some of the funner things wouldn't be really possible, its the whole point of the game i guess, to make you feel super human.

 

[Captain M4d]

I not only use rockets, but I also use the nades from the SMG, and the secondary fire from the Combine gun.

 

[CookieCuttah]

Yeah the plasma balls, they are pretty awesome and i think they do even more damage than rockets when they blow up.

 

[Tynan]

If it was realistic warfare, the striders would be utterly useless.

You can see them a mile away. Any modern tank could take out a strider from 2km distance. A single rocket would kill it anywhere.

Of course, Gordon would also go down in 1-2 hits and wouldnt be carrying his 12 fully ammo-filled guns at once so the game probably wouldnt be as interesting.

 

[67_GTO]

you have to shoot the striders in the right spot also, if you hit them from the top and hit the shell the rockets will do nothing. Ive found that the best place to get them is just above their guns from the bottom.

 

[Harmless]

after i spent all my rockets and just couldn't find anymore nearby, i found a great little improved rocket. roll a grenade right in front of you, grab it with the manipulator and toss it at the striders. i don't know how many it took (after 2 rocket hits) but i remember using this method for the kill shot

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

smg nades. hand grenades.

 

[CookieCuttah]

This is quite amazing: Anyhow i was fighting strider and i was out of rockets so i took cover and then looked through my inv. Ah 1 plasma shot in my plasma mg. Well i come out, aim at strider and BOOM. It goes off, well it misses so i take out manipulator, the ball of plasma bounces off 1 building to next and comes right at me! I grab it with my manipulator and shoot it at strider BOOM. Dead. Fatality