>>5308525Shooting at the joints could sever the limb we aim at though, even if it could still function after that it now doesn't have the force of a whole body to attack us with.
Even if shooting it only stuns it and it really does work like some liquid metal we know the shotgun isn't effective on something like this and have some time to see how it works, like if any of it splatters on the grass and burns or gets absorbed, telling us if it's safe or not to melee it directly. Stuff like that.