Is there a way to limit what types of enemies spawn?

Theflyingpen · 2014-10-23T15:49:14.000Z

I’ve finally started to get the hang on the game, I’m lasting more than a night or two but the one thing that always ends up killing me are manhacks. I did a bit of searching but I didn’t find anything about disabling either Zombie Scientists from spawning or just removing manhacks. I just hate getting torn to shreds because I can’t out run them, hit them, or even close a door or window because the swarm just follows along on my heels.

Valpo · 2014-10-23T16:03:21.000Z

theres no option to decrease the spawn rate of specific enemies. You could disable special enemies completely or reduce the overall spawnrate.
Or try defeating them manhacks

i2amroy · 2014-10-23T16:33:54.000Z

Alternatively open up mongroups.json and search for whatever monster you don’t want to spawn, and then edit its numbers down or remove it completely from that file.

Theflyingpen · 2014-10-23T20:01:44.000Z

Thank you for the idea, I ended up looking through the file and just changing his special from “SCIENCE” to a standard “BITE” to avoid manhacks messing my day up.

I hate those little buggers.

Umbra_Vorago · 2014-10-24T04:00:10.000Z

I used to hate them too, but I learnt how to deal with them.

First, never try hitting them in melee, you’ll miss, a lot. Second, throw things at them, you’re more likely to hit, or better yet, use a gun. However, my favourite method is to use the Control Laptop, turn them in to your allies, then pick them up and store them for later.

Seriously, Manhacks are so powerful, I just unleashed a swarm of 20 manhacks which then proceeded to kill over 200 zombies in the biggest horde I have ever seen, without taking ANY damage.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-10-24T04:22:15.000Z

You could also try reducing your torso encumbrance, 0 is best, then you should have no problem hitting them.

Caprice · 2014-10-24T04:51:12.000Z

HunterAlpha1:

You could also try reducing your torso encumbrance, 0 is best, then you should have no problem hitting them.

Having recently started a few characters with the Locked in Lab start, manhacks never struck me as particularly threatening. Even with shitty weapons and low skills.
(Granted, after the first one you’ve a decent shot at having a combat knife, and they’re a lot less likely to swarm you in the dark, but still…)

It’s probably encumbrance, yeah.

blazing_glory · 2014-10-26T03:02:40.000Z

Just throw your rubbish at them, They tend to die after I throw my crowbar and wrench.