Troopers are the shotgun-wielding counterpart to the Lancer. Armed with various shotguns, including Sobeks (and previously used Struns, which they are shown holding in the Codex), they lack the accuracy and range of Lancers and outfitted in more heavily armored yellow attire. This makes them comparatively more effective in close quarters, with shotguns and higher armor.
Farming Locations[]
These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the enemies until better facts are proven.
- Trooper
Target | Planet | Name | Type | Level | Tile Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saturn | Cassini | Capture | 21 - 23 | Grineer Galleon | |
Saturn | Numa | Rescue | 22 - 24 | Grineer Asteroid | |
Sedna | Adaro | Exterminate | 32 - 36 | Grineer Asteroid | |
Mercury | Pantheon | Exterminate | 6 - 8 | Grineer Galleon |
- Frontier Trooper
Target | Planet | Name | Type | Level | Tile Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Earth | Mantle | Capture | 2 - 4 | Grineer Forest | |
Earth | E Prime | Exterminate | 1 - 3 | Grineer Forest | |
Earth | Pacific | Rescue | 3 - 6 | Grineer Galleon |
Tactics[]
- Troopers generally share the tactics of Lancers: hide, shoot and throw grenades. However, they often refrain to take cover and move closer to their targets with their shotgun, making them significantly more dangerous in close range.
- Troopers will occasionally take cover and blind-fire at their targets, albeit with suffered accuracy; (a) if ever their cover is half of their standing height, almost completely covering most of their weak-spots, (b) if standing near a post or an end of a wall, they will rotate their weapons sideways, hiding most of their bodies until moving sideways reveal them.
- They occasionally throw grenades, and when behind cover there is an increased likelihood they will throw one.
Notes[]
- They are somewhat stronger and more durable than the standard Lancers and some lesser units.
- With accordance to the Sobek used by players, this weapon fires up to 5 individual pellets, although these are inaccurate.
- Their helmets do not change the hitboxes of their heads compared to the Lancers, instead it distinguishes them from their less armored comrades.
- Because they utilize shotguns, Troopers have a great chance to deal status effects such as Slash and Puncture
Trivia[]
- On Halloween 2013, they were among the Grineer units whose helmets were replaced by Jack-o'-lanterns.
- Prior to Update 11.0 (2013-11-20), Troopers in space-based tilesets used to wield the Strun instead of the Sobek. Until Update 16.6 (2015-05-27) their AIs did not take into account the higher fire rate of the Sobek compared to the Strun, resulting in a very sporadic and slow fire rate. This was fixed in the aforementioned update.
- Troopers can spawn with their pre-rework variant (Default helmet, Strun) when the vault alarm is triggered in a Spy mission. They are far more dangerous, given that Struns are also hit-scan and delivers high Impact damage if all pellets make contact.
- This, however, is limited to one tileset, notably the same that will also trigger the Lynx to spawn.
- Troopers will manually reload some of the shells when initiating a reload, using a separate animation from players. This may be a relic from when the enemy originally used the Strun, and now that players reload the Strun's ammo one shell at a time the Trooper still has trigger to do so as well.
Variants
Arid Trooper | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Disruptor 0.5691% Lingering Torment 0.5691% Melee Prowess 0.5691% Pistol Gambit 0.5691% Shocking Touch 0.3318% Sundering Weave 0.3318% Endo 0.0603% | ||
Tileset | Grineer Settlement | |||
Weapon | Sobek Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 120 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 100 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Frontier Trooper | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Disruptor 0.5691% Lingering Torment 0.5691% Melee Prowess 0.5691% Pistol Gambit 0.5691% Shocking Touch 0.3318% Sundering Weave 0.3318% Endo 0.0603% | ||
Tileset | Grineer Forest | |||
Weapon | Sobek Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 65 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 100 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Drekar Trooper | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 17.0 (2015-07-31) | Mod Drops: Disruptor 0.5691% Lingering Torment 0.5691% Melee Prowess 0.5691% Pistol Gambit 0.5691% Patagium 0.3318% Shocking Touch 0.3318% Endo 0.0603% Other Drops: Boar Blueprint 0.5% | ||
Tileset | Grineer Sealab | |||
Weapon | Sobek Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 120 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 100 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 100 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Kuva Trooper | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Disruptor 0.5691% Lingering Torment 0.5691% Melee Prowess 0.5691% Pistol Gambit 0.5691% Shocking Touch 0.3318% Sundering Weave 0.3318% Endo 0.0603% | ||
Tileset | Kuva Fortress | |||
Weapon | Hek Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 120 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 150 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 100 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
- Have no eximus variant.
Tusk Trooper | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Undetermined | Mod Drops: Disruptor 0.5691% Lingering Torment 0.5691% Melee Prowess 0.5691% Pistol Gambit 0.5691% Shocking Touch 0.3318% Sundering Weave 0.3318% Endo 0.0603% | ||
Tileset | Plains of Eidolon | |||
Weapon | Karak Heat Napalm grenade Sheev | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 120 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 150 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Affinity | 100 | |||
Base Level | 1 |
Trooper Survivor | General | Drops | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduced | Update 29.0 (2020-08-25) | Mod Drops: | ||
Tileset | Cambion Drift | |||
Weapon | Miter | |||
Codex Scans | 10 | |||
Statistics | ||||
Cloned Flesh | 1000 | |||
+ + +++ ‐ ‐‐ | ||||
Ferrite Armor | 150 | |||
++ +++ - - | ||||
Base Level | 1 |
- These are friendly units, spawned along with Garv during Cambion Drift Bounties.
Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 17.7 (2015-10-14)
- Drekar Troopers now have a chance to drop the Boar Blueprint.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Introduced.