Dealing With Raiders...Any Tips?

[Greycut]

Just scraped through Murder in Madera P3 and then only because of the kindness of strangers lending me a gun hand. Solo i was getting wiped.

The Blitzer Raider seems especially accurate at any range and are nippy little bullet sponges. Are they weak to a particular element? What tactics should i be using? Uh...help?

Thanks.

[Seiox]

Use cover as much as possible, and take time. If you can, try and climb a ladder since they cant climb.

#1 rule with raiders though is to pay attention

[Jenua]

If you have decoy, use it as much as possible while fighting raiders! They always fall for it (like NPCs should) and are easy targets at that point.

[Hello Buddy]

I use cloak to find a higher level and pick em off or shot gun to the back ;-). Seiox is 100% right though, nothing beats good cover. If you have time, case the place for good cover like rocks or stacked boxes and such.

[Greycut]

Cheers for the advice.

I do try and get some cover between me and the bullets but every mission seems to be 'press square at the hot-spot and then the enemy spawn around you'. It has gotten to the point that i ready my quad beforehand and then turbo the hell out so i have some distance.

I have only used Overcharge so maybe it's time to respec to Decoy or Cloak.

[Hello Buddy]

Yea I used overcharge at first also and it did not help me much at all. I snipe A LOT though so it's going to be hard for me to leave my beloved cloak alone. And I feel you on the enemies spawning around you, that ish happened to me quite a bit in the beginning it seems......

[SlashZaku]

The Blitzers use SMGs right? I think they need to be toned down or something if that's the case cause the #1 reason I go down fighting Raiders is the Blitzers (living up to their name) peppering me from AR range with their SMGs and hitting me the entire time while they close the distance. And there is always 2-3 of them. They're too accurate if they're using SMGs from long distance (I don't think the Raiders have a designated long distance unit outside of the RPG guy).

[Hello Buddy]

You are absolutely correct, SMG's should not be able to reach sniping distance, I do run into this problem when the cloak runs dry :-(

[Saber024]

yep. those dang raiders are a pain.

[Seiox]

Sniping raiders when they've aggrod you is annoying as hell. I don't mind if a enemy is running cause then you can lead the shot, but these guys just stand there and "twitch" and dodge my bullet by a hair and it angers me to no end. Luckily they dot have shields