Bile Titan

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Bile Titan
Faction	Terminids
Difficulty	4
Size	Titan

The Bile Titan is a massive, heavily-armored Terminid that appears to be the final growth stage of a Bile Warrior. They can be found on Challenging difficulty (4) as an Elimination Target and begin to spawn naturally at Extreme difficulty (6)+ and more frequently as difficulty increases.

Despite its size, it can quickly catch up to Helldivers, spewing its lethal bile onto them. Helldivers near it can also be crushed or speared by its hulking claws.

WARNING: As the name implies, Bile Titans are massive. Though they can be destroyed, their death throes are no less dangerous than the attacks they unleash whilst alive; oftentimes a Helldiver who is unfortunate enough to find themselves underneath a Bile Titan as it is falling will most likely perish on the spot due to the massive weight crushing down on them.

Tactics

• Bile Titans appear naturally on the Extreme difficulty level and above, and are assigned their own special mission on Challenging. Bile Titans are enormous but move quickly. Like Bile Spewers, they spit out streams of corrosive bile at their target, damaging and slowing them.
• The bile titan's carapace is heavy armor, this includes it's legs. However, it's underside bile sacs are unarmored.
  • Destroying these bile sacs not only deals heavy damage to it, but it prevents the titan from vomiting bile. This does however, have the side-effect of forcing it to attack at close range all the time.
  • It is possible to destroy a bile titan's torso carapace with enough sustained damage, which reveals it's bright-green flesh underneath. These parts are also unarmored, and can be shot by any weapon to further deplete it's health.
• If a Helldiver makes it underneath a titan, it will start trying to stomp and slash them with it's legs. Titans are deceptively agile despite their size, they should not be underestimated, just because they can't use their main attack against you.
  • The area of effect from its melee stomp will not instantly kill, but will damage and stagger a Helldiver, which typically opens them up for a killing stab with it's leg.
• Upon death, a bile titan's corpse will crush anyone and anything under it, most oftenly with lethal results, it is heavily advised not to be under a bile titan when it's body crashes into the ground.
  • A bile titan's corpse will also turn into difficult terrain for several minutes until it despawns. Helldivers can simply climb over them with the appropriate action button, but vehicles like exosuits are not able to go through the corpse, which may be problematic if a titan dies on an important route.
  • Bile titan corpses are also responsible for some rarely-occurring but very weird physics-related bugs. Sometimes, they cannot be climbed, despite nothing interfering with a helldiver's ability to do so, and sometimes they will randomly launch helldivers into the air which inevitably injures or kills them.
• A bile titan's vomit attack is considered "explosive", and has a substantial AoE. While being in the center of the stream is lethal, a sizable area around the impact area will still be affected by it, suffering lesser damage and slowed by the acid effect. This effect goes through solid cover.
  • In a very weird exploitation of mechanics, this can be turned against the titan. If one is able to deploy a FX-12 Shield Generator Relay before a titan vomits, and the bubble is right on the titan's face, the titan will effectively kill themselves with their own attack.
• Use the terrain to your advantage. While it can climb over most terrain, its attacks can be easily dodged with cover.
• Bile Titans are immune to Stun Grenades and EMS strikes.
• Using another teammate as bait will allow teammates some time to better target its weak spots.
• Baiting out its vomit attack gives an opening large enough to use a stratagem.
  • This is useful for stratagems that require aim, such as Orbital Precision Strike, Eagle 500kg Bomb, and Eagle Airstrike.
• Throw-and-forget precision stratagems such as the Orbital Railcannon Strike, 110mm Rocket Pods and the Orbital Laser are useful. If it does not die, its armor will be damaged, which makes it vulnerable to all forms of weaponry.
  • Orbital lasers aim underneath the center mass of Bile Titans, which may cause it to miss.
• A SEAF Artillery: Mini-Nuke, NUX-223 Hellbomb, or Eagle 500kg Bomb are able to kill a Bile Titan in one hit, however the latter requires the titan to be near the epicenter of the explosion.
• The Spear can kill Bile Titans in one hit, provided that the rocket strikes the head. Three rockets are guaranteed to kill a Titan.
• The Expendable Anti-Tank, Quasar Cannon, and Recoilless Rifle are capable of killing a Titan in one headshot. Rockets from the MLS-4X Commando and Patriot Exosuit require two headshots to kill.
• Hellpods are quite effective weapon against Bile Titans. In desperate situations, it is entirely possible to kill a titan by simply dropping hellpods of various contents on it.
• Bile Titans can (and often will) emerge from bug breaches on Extreme difficulty and above. They have a long spawn animation, which allows you enough time to use a stratagem.
  • Bile Titans have their own combat theme. If the crescendo of the combat music picks up: a Bile Titan is on the attack near a Helldiver.

Notes

• The Bile Titan may be inspired by the Hierophant Bio-Titan employed by the Tyranids in Warhammer 40,000.
• During development, the Bile Titan was known internally as the "Strider" prior to receiving its final name.
• As of the patch on September 17th, Bile Titans have lower health and armor, allowing it to be taken out by much more options. The area below the abdomen now has light armor, allowing it to be killed simply by shooting enough at its stomach.