Manhacks

Soyweiser · 2016-07-03T23:57:27.000Z

Gnorse:

[quote=“Soyweiser, post:11, topic:12156”](Do they come from above? or spawn underground?)

i very much think they spawn underground[/quote]
Well that is a bug then. They shouldn’t magically appear like that. (Underground at least, and im assuming you are not having a base inside a sewer).

Gnorse · 2016-07-04T09:01:42.000Z

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i very much think they spawn underground
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Well that is a bug then. They shouldn’t magically appear like that. (Underground at least, and im assuming you are not having a base inside a sewer).
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as i said , my actual base is in an evac shelter and the storage area this i am trying to keep them out of is the basement

Dec · 2016-07-04T09:07:49.000Z

I find wasps much more annoying than manhacks. Maybe it’s just me. Plus I usually have characters with ludicrous melee skill by the time they’re facing manhacks.

pisskop · 2016-07-04T09:26:46.000Z

Just remember that even a level 0 skill gunner can down a manhack with a snapshot at melee range.

Arek_PL · 2016-07-04T09:33:41.000Z

while manhacks are quick they are fragile too, EVERY ranged attack (and reach attack) is deadly to them, i sniped few manhacks with tin can of canned chicken at 1 lvl of throwing

Soyweiser · 2016-07-04T14:46:26.000Z

Arek_PL:

while manhacks are quick they are fragile too, EVERY ranged attack (and reach attack) is deadly to them, i sniped few manhacks with tin can of canned chicken at 1 lvl of throwing

Seems recently throwing does a lot less damage. Even with throwing 2 or 3 I could hardly damage them after I threw all my sticks and tools at them.

Gnorse:

as i said , my actual base is in an evac shelter and the storage area this i am trying to keep them out of is the basement

Yeah, I assumed as much. Very rarely storage areas interesect with other underground structures, or at least they used to. So I was wondering about that.

X-PLODE · 2016-07-05T01:04:22.000Z

NPC’s can spawn underground in evac shelters.

I once had 3 or 4 NPC’s huddled in a corner and didn’t dare attack them cos they had shotguns and uzi’s.

I manhandled them later on with krav maga or something and disarmed them on by one and may have blasted one or two with a shotgun point blank range.

Manhacks are easy to kill, just throw shit at them.

Breligar · 2016-07-05T02:25:07.000Z

Flying enemies like wasps, manhacks, etc, are a pain to melee. Bows are great. You can usually one-shot manhacks with a bow. Early on a shotgun (if you can get one) is good for flying critters and other deadly encounters. Yes, it’s loud. Yes, you need to leave the area when you’re early-game, since you can’t handle the effects of ringing the “dinner bell”. But your other option is to get killed by the wasp/manhack/etc, so it’s almost always a better choice to just shoot the thing and run away.

pisskop · 2016-07-05T07:51:59.000Z

hordes are an overrated threat. and not nearly as auto-tracky and instant as in the stable; if you arent in a city when you make noise

you didnt ring a dinner bell you rang a shopping gong

Arek_PL · 2016-07-05T10:06:54.000Z

point blank pistol should work better than shotgun agaist manhack

Dec · 2016-07-05T10:13:02.000Z

Arek_PL:

point blank pistol should work better than shotgun agaist manhack

I find that there’s not that much of a difference when it’s point blank.

Unskilled characters still miss like, once in a blue moon up close, but even a graze’ll do it, and I’ve emptied a whole mag into a few enemies up close with a guy at 0 gun skill and still hit them with every shot.

Arek_PL · 2016-07-05T11:26:04.000Z

and shotguns are louder so pistol is better

Necrosia · 2016-07-05T12:38:52.000Z

Use a gun. A single manhack can often outdodge you and kill you, but with even a weak pistol you can drop dozens of manhacks no problem.

Soyweiser · 2016-07-05T20:49:00.000Z

I hate the ‘only gun works’ solution for manhacks.

I died several times to running into manhacks. Once while running back to base (I had a m4a1 there) with the manhacks that followed me just cutting me to shreds.

But yeah apparantly im a bad player.

pisskop · 2016-07-05T20:55:06.000Z

Nope. Manhacks are literally designed to hack men. Suprise.

Thats their job. To shred unarmored rebel flesh. To flush out the poorly equipped and annoy everyone else. If you have to make noise to kill them its better for the cops manhacks faction because they can hear you.

Sundaysmile · 2016-07-05T21:08:13.000Z

Y’know one thing I’ve never tried to do, like ever?

Try using a Manhack against some Manhacks.

Get some Manhack on Manhack action in the Cataclysm

Soyweiser · 2016-07-05T21:26:28.000Z

Sundaysmile:

Get some Manhack on Manhack action in the Cataclysm

Had a test game open so I just tried:

Works very well.

TheKobold · 2016-07-06T01:01:46.000Z

I just obliterated a swarm of them while raiding a lab. But I have an awl pike and survivor gear and relatively decent melee skills.

My early game way of dealing with them has always been to hope I hit them while kiting them around a bush or fence. Or run the fuck away.

pisskop · 2016-07-06T01:29:57.000Z

yea. Manhacks are hit_and_run mobs.

when you cant beat them stand in a doorway or just behind it. let them hit you and when they retreat close said door

Necrosia · 2016-07-06T01:46:58.000Z

[quote=“Soyweiser, post:26, topic:12156”]I hate the ‘only gun works’ solution for manhacks.

I died several times to running into manhacks. Once while running back to base (I had a m4a1 there) with the manhacks that followed me just cutting me to shreds.

But yeah apparantly im a bad player. :D[/quote]

My only gripe is how much stronger Manhacks are than zombies. It’s disconcerting. I can get hit by a zombie five or six times and get pain 7 or 8 unless they bite. Cut by a lone manhack three times and I’m at pain 40+. I always thought of DDA manhacks as Half-Life manhacks, which they basically are. Light anti-riot tools used to flush people out and suppress crowds, not combative killing machines.