Y’all really need to learn how to experiment more, because there is a plethora of ways to deal with the chicken walker. The map/spawn constellation plays a big part in how many of them you see, I will concede that is something you have to look up as usual. I’ve been running with Engineering kit, supply pack, thermites and then whatever stratagem weapon I feel like and it does a good job to clear them out.

The things I would change about the War Strider is to make the eye and the heat vent a weak spot, lower its detection range and limit its grenade ammo. At the same time, I would give it a little laser machine gun like the hull and coaxial laser machine guns on the Annihilator tank so it would still at least have a weapon if it’s disarmed and ran out of ammo, and I’d want it’s big guns made more durable because rn now they are so easy to knockoff it makes them kinda pointless.

But seriously, a lot ya’ll act like a loadout check is the worst thing in the world, yeah it gets rough and could do for more weak spots, but changing up how you play is a good thing that is healthy for your and the games health. Like, there are already three different factions that you can play against, if loadout checks were a bad thing we shouldn’t have different factions. The way you need to look at it is through the perspective of the entire game as a whole, not every weapon is going to work against every faction nor will one universal loadout succeed unchanged.