Stalker

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The Stalker serves as a mobile heavy weapons platform in the Chimeran armies.

These Chimera vehicles are equipped with AA autocannons, a missile pod and an anti-personnel gun. This allows a single Stalker to prevent any enemy air support on the battlefield. The machine's multi-legged locomotion also provides superior maneuverability over all forms of terrain.

A Stalker is heavily armored to shield it against catastrophic attacks. The only known weakness of the vehicle is the partially exposed power core on the rear of the hull, although a LAARK will easily take one down, no matter where it is hit.

[edit] Resistance 2

The Stalker in Resistance 2 seems to have been converted from a vehicle into a drone, as the cockpit has been replaced with a sensor node and a large red "eye" has been mounted on the front. It also produces a mechanical roar when damaged, unlike the earlier model. These changes may have been made in response to the British army hijacking the vehicles during the Liberation of Britain two years earlier.

The Chimera also developed a prototype Stalker, with far superior armor and firepower, which appears in the Co-op campaign of Resistance 2. This type of Stalker is a far more challenging enemy, even against a full team of eight, and is considered to be a level boss in Co-op. Also, shooting the Stalker's power core does not affect the vehicle itself.

[edit] Tactics

An easy way to kill a Stalker is with the Auger Rifle. The shield from the Auger's secondary fire will protect the player, thus making the Stalker's weapons useless, and shooting through the body of the Stalker to where the exposed part of the power core is will make easy work of the Stalker. In Resistance 2, there usually is a LAARK lying around for the player to use to destroy any nearby Stalker.

[edit] Trivia

• The player has the chance to drive a Stalker twice in Resistance: Fall of Man; in Bristol, Parting ways, and in Thames, Giantslayer.

• The Stalker is based off the Landstalker from Ratchet: Deadlocked (Gladiator if from Europe), and they both function the same, and have machine guns with a secondary mortar attack.

• At the first mission of Resistance 2, just after you get out of the trench, and before entering the airplane bunker with Blake and finishing the mission, there is an open view of a Stalker that tried to kill you a while ago, and you can destroy it by sniping it with LAARK fire. The ammo is unlimited due to the fact that there is an ammo crate for the LAARK lying around before you fire the last shot to the Goliath.

Chimeran Techonology
Siege Vehicles		Burrower | Chimeran Dropship | Chimeran Fleet | Drone | Earth Mover | Goliath | Hammer | Stalker
Chimeran Structures		Chimeran Tower | Chimeran Conversion Center
Chimeran Defenses		Chimeran AA Turret | Chimeran Gun Tower | Chimeran Mine | Chimeran Mortar | Hellfire Turret | Sentry Gun