Whether you’re completing your Personal Order or are simply fed up of having acid thrown at you from afar, here’s where to find and kill Bile Spewers in Helldivers 2.
Where to find Bile Spewers in Helldivers 2
Bile Spewers are giant bugs with glowing green abdomens. These critters only appear on Medium difficulty levels and higher. You must unlock Medium difficulty for Bile Spewers to spawn, as they can’t appear on Trivial and Easy modes. But, they don’t commonly appear with the rest of the Terminid faction. Bile Spewers spawn on planets with brighter, more saturated color schemes, and with other bile-speweing enemies like Nursing Spewers.
If the Umlaut Sector is shut, you need to head to the Draco Sector to find common Bile Spewer spawns. You can find Bile Spewers on:
- Crimsica (Draco)
- Turing (Umlaut)
Unlike the Bile Titan, Brood Commander, and Charger, who have their own elimination missions, the Bile Spewer spawns only in Nests and on objectives. They typically spawn as pairs, so battling them close-range is tough. They also bring many smaller enemies with them, like Bile Scavengers, Warriors, and Hunters.
How to kill Bile Spewers in Helldivers 2
I highly recommend using long-range weapons against the Bile Spewers. Their main attacks involve throwing acidic bile at you, dealing ticking damage over a short time. They either throw their bile in a line at close-range or as three balls of bile at mid-range. These attacks are incredibly hard to avoid up-close and will kill you incredibly quickly if you’re fighting multiple Bile Spewers at once.
Here are our recommended weapons to kill Bile Spewers:
- SG-225 Breaker
- LAS-16 Sickle
- Arc Thrower (three shots)
- Anti-Material Rifle (three to five shots)
- Railgun (one shot)
- Expendable Anti-Tank (one shot)
- Orbital Precision Strike
- Orbital 120MM HE Barrage
The Bile Spewer’s weaknesses are their head and the giant green sack on their abdomen. You should aim all of your weaponry at their face when exposed, or at the Spewer’s sack. I found great success fighting off these creatures using the Anti-Material Rifle and placing orbital strikes when there are multiple Bile Spewers and many Hunters, Warriors, and Scavengers in the vicinity.
Hunters are difficult to fend off while you’re fighting Bile Spewers. Keep switching between weapons to keep the swarms off your back while you reposition away from the Bile Spewer to get a few good hits in with a long-range weapon.
If you decide to fight close-quarters, make sure to have your finger on the prone button to leap into a dolphin dive and avoid any bile coming your way. Fighting the Bile Spewer head-on isn’t recommended, but accurate shots from powerful weapons like the SG-225 Breaker can take it down (so long as you focus on headshots). Regardless of your loadout, make sure to repeatedly move backwards and reposition throughout the fight.
Pick off swarms with your primary and secondary weapons, and use grenades in case bug breaches occur. Use orbital strikes to clear the area while simultaneously dishing out huge damage against the Bile Spewer. The recommended barrages are enough to bring down your target.
