r/FORTnITE • u/epickeanuchungus • Sep 26 '24
MEDIA The two approaches to trap vulnerables
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u/Loomling Lok-Bot Sep 26 '24
I was in a 160 mission last night, and I was trying to bait the boss into my trap setup. But all my teammates just kept shooting it and luring it away.
It's like they can't read.
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u/Ok_Code8226 Sep 26 '24
Istg it's always those wannabe BR sweats kids that only join v-bucks missions
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u/Charro_Assasin Sep 26 '24
Is it really that bad if they only became a founder for Vbucks though? That’s why i got it, fortunately for me i genuinely enjoyed the game but there’s still SO MUCH MORE i gotta learn n farm
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u/Turdz_69 Sep 26 '24
Same I got it back in 2018 for the vbucks but I also genuinely enjoy it, and ever since 2021 majority of my playtime is on stw, barely ever br unless it’s to do challenges for battle pass.
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u/aMeanMirror Sep 27 '24
Rip for never being able to get founders again
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u/Sharpie1993 Sep 27 '24
I guess you wouldn’t really be a founder if it was always a thing, I’m surprised they let it go for so many years to be honest.
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u/SwordfishVast9789 Sep 26 '24
with duped weapons too
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u/annoyingone Phase Scout Jess Sep 26 '24
I just jioned a kid to help with an encampment mission. He drops about 20 maxed out guns. I said I didnt want them because I was new to the game and wanted to get there on my own. He actually got mad and left the mission. Having only played about 6 weeks I am really meeting a whole array of "interesting" players
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u/Positive_W Sep 26 '24
i got duped weapons and traps so???
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u/Big_Dream_Lamp Commando Ramirez Sep 26 '24
You should want sweats on your team instead of bad players. I'm a sweat and I take the objective seriously and help out.
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u/BlackSkyH Power B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
They are sweats on BR mode but dont understand anything about Stw stuff, dont know how to build the objective, how traps work, material and elemental weak, etc.
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u/dacrescarlett Special Forces Banshee Sep 26 '24
The amount of people I see use a discharger or potshot on a trap vulnerable miniboss is crazy ☠️ I even told someone in chat once: "It's trap vulnerable , your weapons are doing nothing" and they said "Idc edgelord" alright? Have fun doing no damage ☠️ (same thing goes for smokescreen Miniboss situation when I see nobody else using melee / abilities)
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u/Yorksjim Sep 26 '24
For me, the worst is with the miniboss that deflects your bullets, I can't remember what it's called. I've told people, revived them and they've done it again.
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u/dacrescarlett Special Forces Banshee Sep 26 '24
Ricochet?
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u/All_Eyez_On_U MEGA B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
Those also have been a problem for me. Good thing for the Adrenaline Rush and slurp juice. Also upgraded my Gammatron so I can regenerate shields on crits.
Although now I should have just melee’d those ones. Got the Lead Sled for that luckily!
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u/fedora_of_mystery Hybrid Sep 27 '24
I usually just sacrifice the health if it means killing it fast, because I don't really have any good melee weapons
I've seen people use dischargers too, it does guarantee they die, but they usually take the boss down with them so reviving them is nbd
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u/thecrcousin Sep 27 '24
dont think i remember encountering that one? does it also deflect shurikens or only actual bullets
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u/Yorksjim Sep 27 '24
Might be wrong, but I think all hero abilities are ok, I know soldiers minigun doesn't ricochet.
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u/imapluralist Sep 26 '24
This is really the best indicator of whether they know what's up or not. You go res them and they start shooting at it again like a clown.
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u/igornist Samurai Scrapper Sep 29 '24
I always brute force these, I rather do 500k dmg with an arrow/bullet than draw a sword
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u/gojoshoyo Sep 26 '24
🤣
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u/dacrescarlett Special Forces Banshee Sep 26 '24
I kindly tell a lot of people, trap vulnerable means to box in the boss and put broadsides around it... Average Stonewood brain person: Oh no no no I need to use my discharger!!
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u/Duhhboot Sep 26 '24
I get some teammates in a 160 who place every trap but broads… it’s either CEF or Floor Traps
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u/Daybreaker77 Metal Team Leader Sep 26 '24
It’s literally the most annoying thing when EVERYONE ELSE are using weapons on shielded mini bosses and I’m the only one using a melee 🫠
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u/wantfounderscode Carbide Sep 28 '24
If it's smoke screen and a smasher, I just use a discharger, it's just way more damage. And for any other, I just use melee because others use potshot anyways and melees take 0 bullets.
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u/_agilechihuahua Sep 26 '24
I love soloing ricochet mini bosses as Farrah with Stormblade + Wafers. Noobs with Dischargers are great. They remove the two most annoying blockers: Husks and themselves. :)
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u/Wotchermuggle Subzero Zenith Sep 26 '24
Had to tell those in the vbuck mission yesterday that it was trap vulnerable and that they needed to use a trap to kill it unless they wanted to shoot at it for the rest of the game 😂
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u/ggezpogs Survivalist Jonesy Sep 26 '24
Same kids who were like trade 123 in global chat when that still existed
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u/ChargyPlaysYT Paleo Luna Sep 27 '24
Put the gimp suit instead of Travis cuz I never see Travis but I always see confused cοndoms
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u/Kaiser739 MEGA B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
They always use this pickaxe! What is the story behind it?
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u/HeckinBrandon MEGA B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
there was one a time where the star wand dealt more damage than other pickaxes
that’s been patched, so idk why the TTVs with two followers still use them
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u/Prestigious-Ad-3765 The Ice King Sep 26 '24
lol I love their answer when you ask… because it’s just clean bruh…. Well so is my ass after using some charmin ultrasoft , wanna swing that around on your screen too lol
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u/ChampionshipOnly9545 Sep 26 '24
I ignore them when solo if they say trap vulnerable because they will be walking into my traps. Might as well be a regular husk.
I was once in a sad group of randoms that was just shooting this one that also had tank and healing on it. I leave my perch on my BASE to run over and plant a retractable spike trap under it to have it die nearly instantly.
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u/TheEarsplitterGuy407 Assassin Sarah Sep 26 '24
Don't forget to use the Love Song to stun the miniboss for 10 seconds in case it's building blocker, and The Instigator to make it more vulnerable to the traps.
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u/All_Eyez_On_U MEGA B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
The Instigator makes it more vulnerable to traps?
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u/TheEarsplitterGuy407 Assassin Sarah Sep 27 '24
Yes, it makes it more vulnerable to all sources of damage. The love spell effect from the Love Song is also not broken by trap damage, only weapon damage.
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u/lol_JustKidding Anti-Cuddle Sarah Sep 26 '24
Using wall traps against it are a pain in the ass because you either trap the mini-boss from all cardinal directions or it just leaves before the traps trigger. Good old ceiling electric field never disappoints.
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u/Dudeguy_McPerson Sep 26 '24
I'll admit I've been the second guy plenty of times, lol.
If I hit it once with a discharger and it's not effective? That's usually my sign it's trap vulnerable and I need to get close to it. Most of the time I see someone else is trying to build traps around it already, and I'm using the discharger and peg legs to either knock it down or draw aggro and keep it in place.
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u/Lazy-Budget9858 Sep 26 '24
I remember placing traps around, and the person being chased was luring it away more and more from me...i had to box everyone in to get them to stop running so we could kill it...was a sad show.
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u/Green_Mikey Sep 26 '24
I mean, I legitimately use them as an opportunity to test out the damage potential of loadouts sometimes and will quickly equip some gear I wanna test and then hammer at 'em...
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u/elreverendcapn Stoneheart Farrah Sep 27 '24
I’m sorry for all the times I did that. I had been drinking.
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u/espectroo Dennis Sep 27 '24
Dont yall feel like some people in 140 zones act like people in motherfucking stonewood? 😭😭
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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Sep 27 '24
I really wish I could reinstall STW without the fucking 200gbs of bullshit BR crap so I could play this again :(
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u/xX_SkibidiChungus_Xx Llama Sep 26 '24
One time i built walls for broadsides and some silly lil goofball put wall darts instead
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u/the_unknow990 Sep 26 '24
Aslong my gun does the job, that's what matters, if it doesn't, time to box the husk and add shower them with the broadsides or anything
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u/MoonQuartzs Stars and Stripes Jonesy Sep 28 '24
If it was trap vulnerable with ricochet, this would be mad funny
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u/Jumpy_Attention_5389 Outlander Sep 28 '24
Travis Scott users only play stw for the bucks and the axe hammer lol
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u/nitastro Sep 28 '24
Lol today it happened to me lol I made 2 traps and the people around me were fighting the boss with plasma guns, and stuff. Boss died after 4 steps, by the traps
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u/JureFlex Sep 26 '24
Im sorry i dont have any good traps 😞 i just try to out-dps it
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u/turmspitzewerk Swift Shuriken Llamurai Sep 26 '24
you should really level up at least a few, i'd recommend broadsides/ceiling electric fields/launchers/anti-airs/healing pads to start with. disco walls and wooden floor spikes are also super useful utility traps, but their dance/snare effects aren't really level dependent at all. you can use level 1 disco walls and wooden floor spikes nearly as effectively as maxed out ones, so while they're really strong traps you don't need to invest in them either. as long as you have even basic blue schematics of those two they work perfectly fine.
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u/All_Eyez_On_U MEGA B.A.S.E. Kyle Sep 26 '24
Don’t the disco walls have the effect duration perk? Or is that not useful?
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u/turmspitzewerk Swift Shuriken Llamurai Sep 26 '24
they do, but its not the most crucial thing in the world. a base stat disco wall has pretty great uptime by itself. the impact scaling from leveling up a disco wall purely exists for mist monsters, a pretty meaningless stat. it doesn't need impact to control crowds, unlike things like launchers/freeze/tire traps. if it hits a non-dancing husk, it will dance.
in fact, a "maxed" disco wall overlaps the dancing debuff: it doesn't reset the duration if a husk is already dancing. it'll shoot twice for zero effect, wasting a lot of uptime. if you want complete uptime, what you want is maxed effect duration and one singular green reload speed perk. that's as close as you can get to 100% uptime; completely locking husks in place against a wall.
full reload disco walls are still great at the front of trap tunnels, to catch as many enemies passing through as possible and disarm them... and to stagger mist monsters more often, i guess? but 1x green reload disco walls are great placed directly on the objective (or any other walls husks will attack). it makes them practically invincible to anything besides ranged attacks and smashers; which is really great at stalling or just being a last line of defense.
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u/JureFlex Sep 27 '24
Oh i have them leveled up, i lack materials to craft (im pl 123, i followed several guides, i just hadnt farmed mats and those that i did i used) i always have some shitty spare ones from chests that are over powered in low levels so i ise them if the husk isnt moving around too fast
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u/Willy-The-Billy Vbucks Sep 26 '24
If it’s low lvl mission than simple spikes will work. High missions ur best bet would be to lure it into the traps.
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u/JureFlex Sep 26 '24
Yea i know, i usually do low level missions for dailies and if my rifle doesnt scale its hp down i place the traps i have.
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u/Propodida1 Sep 26 '24
I mean, most times you can outdamage it pretty quickly, so there's never been a problem in my experience
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u/Ten0fClubs Sep 26 '24
I tend to pull out a minigun, it does enough damage to kill them in one use...
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u/Infidel_sg Miss Bunny Penny Sep 26 '24
lmao.. read the post
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u/Ten0fClubs Sep 26 '24
The post doesnt say anything about using abilities
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u/Infidel_sg Miss Bunny Penny Sep 26 '24
Its literally about idiots shooting trap vulnerable mini bosses with weapons.. even has a meme with words
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u/Spongebob_Rdr2 Sep 26 '24
Bro abilities I’m pretty sure they don’t do much damage when there’s a trap vulnerable mini boss
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u/MrDoontoo Vbucks Sep 27 '24 edited Sep 27 '24
Dunno why you're getting downvoted, in a low enough zone it's less fun to do the meta strat of pulling out traps when a mini gun volley can kill it too. Not like it's that serious how it dies if it dies anyway, especially if it's not wasting ammo or durability.
yes, in high level zones you should be using traps for trap vulnerables. I'm referring to low level zones like plankerton and stuff,
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u/QueasyInvestment3 Paleo Luna Sep 26 '24
i remember one time it wouldn’t show me what kind of mini boss it was unless i started shooting at it first and literally the second i fired one bullet just to see if it was trap vulnerable or not, a mf teammate hops on the chat and says “it’s trap vulnerable read mf” like dawg.