HARVESTER

• Although they are not as healthy as other towering units such as Bile Titans and Factory Striders, Harvesters are extraordinarily durable in their own way: they are protected by a regenerating energy shield. • Their energy shield is guaranteed to absorb any single instance of damage and can regenerate after breaking. High damage output is necessary to remove this shield and damage the Harvester directly. The prongs located above and below the Harvester's eye are its shield generators; only one needs to be removed to disable a Harvester's ability to shield permanently. • The eye and the hip joints are the main practical weak points. In general weapons with higher durable damage will see better performance from aiming at the hip joints, whereas ones with lower durable damage can favor aiming for the eye, in particular weapons with heavy penetration and especially ones with spread/recoil since missing the small eye will still yield damage to the main health pool through the carapace and chasis. Anti tank weaponry such as the EAT-17 and GR-8 Recoilless Rifle should generally target the eye/head as it is far easier to hit. The commando, however, can benefit from a hip joint target since it requires only one missile, rather than two to the head. • Destroying the eye will empower the Disintegration Beamer's damage to 1,800 DPS, from 1,400 DPS, and allow it to taper off into a thinner beam at the end of the Beam's duration. However, since overkill damage transfers to main the GR-8 Recoilless Rifle or Variable in total-fire mode can 1 shot a Harvester to the eye. But even if you miss and hit the carapace it'll kill the Harvester. • Explosive weapons that produce shrapnel, such as the R-36 Eruptor and the AC-8 Autocannon in flak mode, are especially effective at cheaply removing a Harvester's shield with only one or two shots. • It is important to note the complete explosion immunity that Harvesters have across their exterior body parts. This renders them highly resistant to stratagems like the Eagle 500kg Bomb and immune to damage from purely explosive weapons whose AP is below Heavy, until their carapace is broken. • The Harvester possesses some of the deadliest weaponry of any enemy in the game; even a graze from their Disintegration Beamer can bring any Helldiver to death's doorstep, and its Tesla Ripper's arc attack is capable of killing multiple teammates with one shot. Said arc attack has far better targeting, but can only be used at close range, and Harvesters cannot easily close the distance to their target. • The M-102 Fast Reconnaissance Vehicle and Patriot or Emancipator exosuits are more vulnerable to Harvesters due to their large frame, though their large health pool is enough to survive a few seconds of direct fire. • Even after being eliminated, the corpse and especially the detached legs falling onto Helldivers can be fatal. • Continuous ARC-3 Arc Thrower attacks are capable of halting the fighting capabilities of a Harvester…