>>532181263
Fleshmobs aren't even really the problem. You can bring weapons that can keep ambient/patrol spawns under control. It's just that you'll become starved for ammo if niggers keep ignoring the watchers and trigger every squid drop. It is night and day playing with team that prioritize killing watchers and those that ignore watchers.

>>531009148
Two things:
>1: A lot of pubbies just run the fuck away screaming in the face of fleshmobs.
This is bad since there isn't really an "easy" way to kill them. They're just a DPS check. Some weapons are better than others at dealing with them, but the team will eventually start struggling if three players are just shitting and farding while only one person is actually trying to mop them up.

Explosives in general are the most effective way to kill them. Eruptor/xbow/purifier are some of our best primary options. The AC(flak mode)/ABRL/GL are good too, but you can overtax your ammo if you are the only one killing dozens of mobs. The grenade emplacement has a fast cooldown and can kill a dozen of them with its 60 round drum mag, but positioning can be awkward especially if your rundiver teammates just run and then you get attacked from behind while you are busy flattening the squid drop.
>2: Pubbies consider watchers to be a minimum priority target
As a faction, illuminate are the ones who should be least capable of calling for reinforcements since only watchers are capable of calling for backup. With an intelligent team, it is entirely possible to 100% deny the squids from calling a single reinforcement drop during a mission. But when pubbies pose for a photo with watchers, suddenly you're going to get a big drop of squids on your face. This tends to involve a handful of fleshmobs spawning, which then leads to to the rundivers from 1 just running the fuck away screaming.

Honorable mention is that squids attract melee retards like a magnet. They think melee is so great since they'll just stand in a corner and melee voteless all day, but it's the world's fucking slowest voteless kill time and while they're wasting time more shit is spawning and they're not pulling an ounce of weight towards completing the mission.

>fleshmob fleshmob fleshmob fleshmob fleshmob
Just shoot the fucking watchers you faggot. Fleshmobs only get spammed during squid drops. There's normally only two, maybe 3 or 4 if you're unlucky, fleshmobs in a random POI's pool of ambient enemies or in a patrol. You can deal with 2-3 fleshmobs really easy with a variety of options. They only get spammed to hell and back if you let them call in reinforcements, and it is very realistic for an aware team to just snipe these conspicuous disco light motherfuckers before they can take a picture. 2-3 quick shots from a talon is equivalent to preventing a good half dozen fleshmobs from even appearing on the field.

>>529152039
It mostly comes down to killing the fucking watchers. Fleshmobs are annoying, but they aren't too terribly common within POIs and patrols. You can easily keep them mopped up with an HMG. Maybe set them on fire with a dagger or something first if you want to save a bit of HMG ammo. Their numbers, and the amount of damage needed to keep them under control, only starts getting out of hand when people start posing for selfies with the watchers and the squids are permitted to call in a dozen of the fucking things via reinforcement waves.

If you want to be a bit unorthodox, you can trying bringing the Grenade Wall emplacement for when someone triggers a squid drop. The 60 round grenade launcher on it completely fucking mogs all of the voteless/overseers/fleshmobs within a squid drop. It's just a bit poor at killing harvesters. The poor sightlines in megacities can make good emplacement placement a bit tricky though. You probably want a guard dog to help keep voteless off your back, since those cunts love to teleport into existence 5 meters behind you.