How to kill the Gluttonous Thresher?

How can I kill the Gluttonous Thresher? I died like 20 times and it's taking all my savings!

I'm level 16 and can't kill it. I use my saber turret to break its shield, but after that I can only deal like 200 damage and after a short time its shield regenerates.

Is there a strategy which doesn't use the rocket launcher? Because the only one I have found is level 17?

Solution 1:

• Use a shock weapon with as high damage output as possible. Its shields will keep regenerating, but shock damage will make that a non-issue.
• Try hitting it slightly from the side if possible. The eyes are weak spots.
• Keep your distance, and take a few steps back when it goes underground to avoid it re-emerging too close.
• Use the terrain to your advantage and hide behind containers and whatnot to reload/recharge.

Solution 2:

I ran all the way back across the river, where there's a place you can climb up a ladder to a weapons chest. While I was standing there, the thresher just stayed in the doorway. I used a shock weapon to take its shield off quickly and then fire weapon to kill it. Pretty easy once I did this.

Solution 3:

This thing is unquestionably a bstrd! It doesn't seem to have a realistic way to consistently defeat it. It buries down, and comes out on you whatever you do. Unless you get lucky and it gets stuck.

BUT... I noticed that the robots will attack it. Again, you need a bit of luck to ensure they aggro it early enough, but I literally sat back and watched as my turret and the loaders did the job on him. I pumped a few shock rounds in to him with the sniper just to keep his shields down. I must have failed on this 15+ times, and on that go I barely fired a shot!

Solution 4:

You can cheese it by jumping into the river and climbing up one of the ladders on the other side to the previous area. The thresher can still fire projectiles at you but won't follow across the river, so it's pretty easy to find a stack of crates to stand behind and fire continuously at the thresher without being hit by the projectiles at all.