Possible *SPOILER* Alert:

So, I've completed the campaign on Soldier difficulty and plan on doing it again on the highest difficulty level, purely because the game is bloody brilliant off and online in my opinion.

And, so, I need an effective strategy and weapon combination to take out the Pingers relatively quickly and efficiently.

Every Pinger I encountered in the campaign I tended to use a strategy of:

? Cloaking, moving to the back of the Pinger and finding suitable cover.
? Firing a Jaw at the weak-spot.
? Quickly cloaking again, and moving to the back again to repeat.

Whilst this strategy generally worked, it took a long time to take out the Pinger and it could often drain my Jaw ammo to nothing (especially on the power outage bit, where heavy weapons were quite sparse).

So, has anyone got any better strategies and weapons than this that I could use on my next high difficulty level play-through?

Any comment is appreciated, thank you!

u can use the c4 to make it go a little faster to kill it

C4, C4, C4.

Fire 3-4 JAWS at its vulnerable spot and then go cloaked right up behind it and toss 2 C4 packs on its back.

Done.

Also, don't forget to pick up the Nano Catalyst :]

Jaws and C4... make sure you hit it in the back where the red is. thats the weak spot

Indeed, thank you people. I hadn't really thought of using C4 before...!

If you don't like getting close, I've been using the DSG-1 sniper as a method to kill the Pinger. Takes about 8-10 shots, just wait for it to do the EMP blast, when it's immobilized for about 5-ish seconds.

all i use is 4 c4. i cloak, run up behind it, uncloak throw all 4 or 5, armor and KA-BOOM. it will fall right there no need to hide unless there are other squids. but this worked for me on supersoldier so i guarantee it will work for you. and yea deff get the 2000 catalyst

Yep C4 for the win !!!