Borderlands

HOW TO BEAT CRAWMERAX WITH ANY 2 PLAYERS. Including splitscreen with using 2 controllers.

I was tired of seeing that you had to have a siren or two hunters or four level 61 players to beat this guy, so I went out and looked up this method and added a few things to it. Most of the credit needs to go to HaloHunter72 and the glitch's originator HelterSkelter. Also I want to thank Katiahnya for the screen shot of where you need to stand.

First you will need a reasonably powerful sniper, (nothing huge) or a very accurate scoped weapon. Also you will need a smg, assault rifle, sniper or anything with a scope that can REGENERATE ammo (higher the fire rate the better)...or for soldiers and hunters a class mod.

Once you have your weapons set you and your other player go to the elevator to Crawmerax. One person goes up and the other decoy stays at the bottom of the elevator. Now facing forward move to the left closest angle to the front of the elevator and head on up to Crawmerax. As soon as the elevator gets to the top RUN LEFT to the ledge and DUCK DOWN (crouch) against the wall.

Link to a screen shot of where to stand to freeze glitch Crawmerax posted by Katiahnya over in the Gearbox Forums

(IMPORTANT)
Only crouching enables the glitch and this does take a few tries each time to get Crawmerax to freeze glitch, it doesn't work every time.

In this spot Crawmerax will glitch and freeze and not attack you nor will his little worm buddies. He will sit there and roar over and over while you shoot all of his critical points. (This does take awhile depending on your level and how proficient you are with your gun the regens ammo) You will eventually blow off his 4 arms and pop his eye, but you have no angle to shoot the weak spots on his back and if you move you WILL die. Now here comes the decoy's job. Player 2 that was waiting at the bottom of the elevator comes up the elevator and Crawmerax will turn to attack him exposing his rear weak points to you. Make sure to stay DOWN and crouched in the glitched spot and snipe or aim well with your long range weapons and crit his rear weak point. (when the other player comes up you are no longer safe while he is alive so stay where you are.) If your partner dies and you stay in the glitched spot Crawmerax should not attack you and turn to face you and start roaring again and all his buddies should freeze. (make sure your decoy does not run towards you, have him run to the right when he leaves the elevator. Rinse and repeat with your decoy coming up the elevator and you sniping the final weak spot. When he pops enjoy the achievement and the massive amount of loot he drops.

(((Again I cannot stress this enough... if your decoy or decoys are just downed and dying you are still VULNERABLE even in the glitched spot, take you shots quickly and have your decoys force respawn by pressing X. Most of the time Crawmerax will go back to being freeze glitched.)))

This tactic is a great way to farm legendary and pearl weapons on either playthrough. I also recommend if you do have more than one decoy this would be easier. Just have the one player go up and freeze glitch Cramerax and once only the rear weak point is left bring up the rest of your team and crush him, but keep the one guy in the glitch spot just in case.

Finally I did this as a lvl 61 Berserker using a scoped ammo regen smg that had about a 30% increased fire rate... (it really wasn't that powerful of a gun and I found it in the knoxx armory on playthrough 1) and a legendary orion sniper for the final rear critical point it did about 900 damage a shot even though my sniper proficiency is only a level 9, my partner was a level 52 hunter THANKS Anaxaminder !!!!

DOING THIS ALONE via SPLITSCREEN is just a matter of timing.

If you decide to try this you can use any two characters still but I recommend your decoy be a soldier so you can level him up to about a lvl31 ish and equip soldier class mods that team regen ammo just in case you haven't found any regen ammo guns. (Do any leveling in the knoxx DLC because it goes super fast, or (SPOILERS) the area near the vault with all the guardians.

Splitscreen works the same as the solution above except when you send your decoy up make sure to keep your main character in the glitch spot and take a quick shot maybe 2 or 3 depending on your long range fire rate, then RESPAWN your decoy quickly because Crawmerax will turn on you even if your decoy is just downed. Once you force respawn the decoy as long as you in the glitched spot Crawmerax will re freeze glitch and you can rinse repeat.

This is easily done by having more than one person and each having different mods to help you get this.

The video below shows a glitch where he gets stuck and you can shoot him as much as you like.

Our weapons didn't do as much damage but we were still able to kill him using the same method just took a little longer.

Thanks to xNecris666x for the video

*THE BEST SOLO TECHNIQUE OUT THERE*

This can be done by ANY class, regardless of level or skill point setup. I recommend using a soldier with a decent Supply Gunner mod, because you DO go through a lot of rounds here and I'd hate for you to run out. It's never a problem with me (I usually go in as a Rifleman or Heavy Gunner, personally), but ammo is the ONLY thing you have to be concerned about in this.

WHAT YOU NEED:
-Lots of ammunition
-Decent weapons that can hit the mark at long distances (nothing fancy required)
-LEVIATHAN (It rises!)

The technique is to do essentially what most others have outlined (and what you see in the video below). If you go up the elevator to Crawmerax, turn left toward the cliff and go all the way along it to the big cliff that makes the back side of the arena. Hide on the other side of the ledge there.

From there, just start unloading on his weak spots. Unless you've already beaten him (or a friend's given you weapons FROM him), you're probably not going to have anything powerful enough to take him out quickly. So, you'll want to find good timing and aim for your shots to maximize damage dealt without wasting too much ammo.

Once you've destroyed his eye and his four arms, you'll need to take out the weak point on his back. This is where Leviathan comes in. You'll want to aim above him so the rocket arcs and comes back down on the back side of his body. It'll probably take about 50-60 hits to take him out, but you WILL get it done! This is better than other rocket launchers because it hits more directly and does much more damage that way. I was doing 12-50 damage per hit with other launchers, but 225 with a Leviathan that had lower damage rating than the others.

With enough patience, you'll have yourself a new achievement (or possibly two) and a TON of new weapons to sort through!

NOTE: I recommend either only having what you NEED in your inventory when you go at him, or else having a second character logged in and chilling at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Crawmerax drops a LOT of loot, and it's easiest to sort through if you don't have to while it's on the ground. The more you can just pick up and move along, the better.

Video by xNecris666x.

This guy can easily be beaten with two, three or four lvl 61's (I haven't tried to solo it). The key is to have one person's job to stay alive no matter what. As long as one person is alive at the top of the elevator he will not go back to full health. I perfer to use a siren for this as they are difficult to kill. As soon as you get to the top of the elevator start running to your left, there is a little spot that drops down and if you duck down they (most of the time) won't bother you. From here you can controll which direction he looks by shooting him and controlling the aggro, this opens up his weak points on his back and claws to the rest of your team as you attack the eye. He has one long range attack that can devastate your sheilds and health, a siren can easily brush this off with phasewalk, this strategy can be applied to the little worm guys that bug you if you have too much aggro. It's important that people stay spread apart to avoid some wide area attacks but also remain close enough that you can heal each other. IMPORTANT! If it's too risky to pick up a teammate just let them die. As long as the one that's hiding remains stationary in that spot and stays alive then everyone else is expendable. Don't worry about the money, you'll get enough loot at the end to compensate. I've successfully used this strategy many times now and can get it down to 10 minutes.

Hope this helps! Good luck everyone!

EDIT You can do this with people over xbox live as well.

You can do this solo in split screen with 2 controllers. After you reach the top of the lift turn a little bit to the right, near the cliff you will see a V shape cut in the rocks. As fast as you can run there with your second character and crouch in the gap. If you were quick enough your enemies should ignore you. Now with your powerful main character get downed in front of crawmerax on the left hand side of the map. You should be free to shoot his week spots with any powerful weapons. When you die just repeat this. Your secondary character should be alive to stop crawmerax regenerating. It should only take about 25-30 minutes.

Crawmerax can be killed easily with several people, or solo if you're a siren without relying on the glitch. The maggots are vulnerable to electricity, the green worms to fire, and the armored worms to corrosive. First, kill the minions until you have three armored worms. (If you have a good smg or shotgun, you can kill them very fast, and there are always three total in the area at any time). Having someone with ammo regeneration or a weapon that does helps alot as well. It also helps to weaken them a bit and not kill them, so you can second wind faster. For Crawmerax you need to shoot off all six of his critical locations. Anything works, but two weapons that I think work very well are the Liquid Orion sniper rifles, since it's special effect sends bolts in different dirrections, you can actually hit him in several places with one shot; also double anarchy smgs(the ones that fire four bullets at a time) The anarchies make it so much easier to hit his spots. Also, it is worth noting that you can hit his claw spots from the front, even if you cant see them, just aim where the sphere is and you'll still hit them. Also, never stand near the edge where the elevator/cliff is; you can get sent flying off.
As a group, try to stay close but not bunched up, you can revive your partner even if crawmerax is attacking him as long as your partner is directly between you and crawm', he won't actually hit you. If you stay on opposite ends of the arena, you can shoot him whenever he's not looking, but the worms may run after someone else if you get downed. Finally, make sure someone stays alive no matter what (duh)
If your solo siren, you can farm him easilly. Follow mentioned above, with one difference. Stay near the pillar and the arch of rock in the arena (the arch especially) he can't get through it, and must go around, while you shoot him the whole time. It also blocks those sphere attacks he uses, but he can melee you between the arch if your too close, so be careful.
Anyway, I hope this helps.

Another thing that helped me is the elemental guns that kill his little buddies.
Craw maggot-dies very easy with shock damage
Green craw things- die very easy with fire
Armored craw worms- die very easy with acid

With all 3 types of these elemental guns killing his cronies around Crawmerax is very easy

I just got the achievement with my friend he was a soldier and died alot i was a siren which is highly recommended. The soldiers ammo regeneration is VERY important. this fight can last from 30 mins to 2 hours.

Playing a Siren?

Lucky! With a bit of preperation you can survive the Dance with Crawmerax all on your own. I wiped a few times until I got the strategy right but then it just went through like a breeze.

I farmed the armory until I had the proper equipment, if this is the first time you are reading about this do some research on the web. 'Borderlands armory glitch' gets you all the info you will need.

Here's a video that Shows the strategy (full credit to Arthur Gardner, he posted this back in 2010):
You WILL beat this guy if you got the right weapons and are executing the strategy like in the video. If you are running into Problems with the armored enemies that only means that you are not putting enough distance between you and Crawmerax.

They will ALL chase you if you do it right.

Good luck! :)