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Troopers are the shotgun-wielding counterpart to the Lancer. Armed with various shotguns, including Sobek Sobeks (and previously used Strun 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
IconGrineerB Saturn Cassini Capture 21 - 23 Grineer Galleon
IconGrineerB Saturn Numa Rescue 22 - 24 Grineer Asteroid
IconGrineerB Sedna Adaro Exterminate 32 - 36 Grineer Asteroid
IconGrineerB Mercury Pantheon Exterminate 6 - 8 Grineer Galleon


Frontier Trooper
Target Planet Name Type Level Tile Set
IconGrineerB Earth Mantle Capture 2 - 4 Grineer Forest
IconGrineerB Earth E Prime Exterminate 1 - 3 Grineer Forest
IconGrineerB 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 DmgSlashSmall64 Slash and DmgPunctureSmall64 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 Strun instead of the Sobek 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 DmgImpactSmall64 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.
  • TrooperReload

    Trooper Manually Reloading Some Ammo

    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 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
DesertShotgunLancerAvatar
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Disruptor 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Lingering Torment 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Melee Prowess 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Pistol Gambit 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Shocking Touch 0.3318%
Mod TT 20px Sundering Weave 0.3318%
Endo Endo 0.0603%
Tileset Grineer Settlement
Weapon Sobek Sobek
Sheev Sheev
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 120
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 100
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Frontier Trooper General Drops
Frontier Trooper
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Disruptor 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Lingering Torment 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Melee Prowess 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Pistol Gambit 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Shocking Touch 0.3318%
Mod TT 20px Sundering Weave 0.3318%
Endo Endo 0.0603%
Tileset Grineer Forest
Weapon Sobek Sobek
Sheev Sheev
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 65
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 100
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Drekar Trooper General Drops
SeaLabTrooper
Introduced Update 17.0 (2015-07-31) Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Disruptor 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Lingering Torment 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Melee Prowess 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Pistol Gambit 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Patagium 0.3318%
Mod TT 20px Shocking Touch 0.3318%
Endo Endo 0.0603%
Other Drops:
Boar Boar Blueprint 0.5%
Tileset Grineer Sealab
Weapon Sobek Sobek
Sheev Sheev
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 120
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 100
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Kuva Trooper General Drops
FortressShotgunLancer
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Disruptor 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Lingering Torment 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Melee Prowess 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Pistol Gambit 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Shocking Touch 0.3318%
Mod TT 20px Sundering Weave 0.3318%
Endo Endo 0.0603%
Tileset Kuva Fortress
Weapon Hek Hek
Sheev Sheev
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 120
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 150
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Tusk Trooper General Drops
EidolonShotgunLancer
Introduced Undetermined Mod Drops:
Mod TT 20px Disruptor 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Lingering Torment 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Melee Prowess 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Pistol Gambit 0.5691%
Mod TT 20px Shocking Touch 0.3318%
Mod TT 20px Sundering Weave 0.3318%
Endo Endo 0.0603%
Tileset Plains of Eidolon
Weapon Karak Karak
DmgFireSmall64 Heat Napalm grenade
Sheev Sheev
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 120
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 150
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Affinity 100
Base Level 1

Trooper Survivor General Drops
ShotgunLancerAvatar
Introduced Update 29.0 (2020-08-25) Mod Drops:

Tileset Cambion Drift
Weapon Miter Miter
Codex Scans 10
Statistics
Cloned Flesh 1000
DmgSlashSmall64 + DmgFireSmall64 + DmgViralSmall64 +++ DmgImpactSmall64  DmgGasSmall64 ‐‐
Ferrite Armor 150
DmgPunctureSmall64 ++ DmgCorrosiveSmall64 +++ DmgSlashSmall64 - DmgBlastSmall64 -
Base Level 1

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.
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