Cyberpsychos, how to incapacitate

[veryinky]

Specifically, how can I tell if I incapacitated or killed them. I get that there's no 'stun' weapon that works on them so I should feather my last attacks until they go down, but how can I tell if I knocked them unconscious or outright killed them?

[Pieshaman]

Escrito originalmente por BIGDOJO:

Escrito originalmente por Pieshaman:

they die pretty dead when I just use full force so I don't think that is correct what he said

its true, i was obsessed with finding a pax mod and couldnt find one, but found out by accident that i could just use my normal katana to incapacitate cyberpsychos and others i didnt want to kill, and went on a knockout spree through the whole game. at 1% hp they all go incapacitated, fall to the ground, and its not even difficult in most circumstances to notice and stop attacking.

that is weird cause I had to reply 1 or 2 cause I killed them accidently.
I will try it out later today.

[BIGDOJO]

Escrito originalmente por Pieshaman:

Escrito originalmente por BIGDOJO:

its true, i was obsessed with finding a pax mod and couldnt find one, but found out by accident that i could just use my normal katana to incapacitate cyberpsychos and others i didnt want to kill, and went on a knockout spree through the whole game. at 1% hp they all go incapacitated, fall to the ground, and its not even difficult in most circumstances to notice and stop attacking.

that is weird cause I had to reply 1 or 2 cause I killed them accidently.
I will try it out later today.

also it doesnt apply to everything, just to characters in specific gigs and missions where you are given a request not to kill someone

[stbehre]

Using quickhacks like Short Circuit or Overheat works pretty well. "Killing" people with either of these will always incapacitate them. Works on normal enemies, too. I'm sure there are more quickhacks you can use for it but these are the two I'm always using.

[Twister_]

i usually just get them to low health and throw an emp grenade at them

[RedEssence]

I usually let them die via status effect when they are low has a 100% success rate for me so far

[Seth Abercromby]

Escrito originalmente por stbehre:

Using quickhacks like Short Circuit or Overheat works pretty well. "Killing" people with either of these will always incapacitate them. Works on normal enemies, too. I'm sure there are more quickhacks you can use for it but these are the two I'm always using.

In most cases the 1-2-3 punch a netrunner build can pull off in overclock mode is double cyberware malfunction, short circuit and then synapse burnout (since short circuit will gain bonus damage for every malfunction stack, and burnout gains a massive damage spike when used with minimal to no RAM). That will usually send any non-boss enemy straight to the floor. Overheat is very powerful, but I've had DoTs kill enemies by accident too many times to use it for incaps personally. It's great when you use it with something like the Raven Microcyber Mk. 3 though, which has a bonus chance for spreading quickhacks to nearby victims during overclock.

If you have to fight a psycho and they're trying to melee you, they're good practice targets for melee combat and learning the timings to counter them and then beat them into submission. Hammers are very strong at mauling people, especially when you send them to the floor with a stun. A certain boss in the vanilla story will come at you with very powerful mantis blades, so the practice will come in actual handy too.

[ImHelping]

I remember back at launch where upgraded versions of some non-lethal anti cyber hacks would ruin the non-lethal attempt, because of the "And then when the effect ends they explode" added onto a non-lethal power, changing the non-lethal takedown into 'oops they are actually dead now'. I think it was one of the implant disablers?

[Dank Sidious]

Lethal weapons don't usually just kill boss type enemies, generally you have to double tap them to kill them.

So just attack cyberpsychos normally. if they are still moving or your crosshair turns red after downing them they are alive. If you say they are dead in your message to then you have to reload, but usually that won't happen unless you accidentally attack the psycho once they are down.

[Doug Dimmadong]

Whenever you get someone down to 0HP they're incapacitated. Any damage after that and they're dead. Unless you've blown limps off and such.

[d.galious]

Though the v2.1 of the game does not tell you any more which hack is non-lethal, the most simple way is to deplete the enemy's health to a minimum, then to quickly approach and hit with the gun as melee attack (hotkey Q). And this will result as a non-lethal takedown.

[TH3R4BB!T]

I shot them to around 5% HP, then do an overheat quickhack, and hide until the cyberpsycho lay on the ground. If it is rolling around, it is still alive, and it did work for me 100%. Only some I did kill, but Regina did not mind that, she already said before it was okay to 'use force'

[Rickymicky]

Soon as the fight starts, I'd always just queue the 'Reboot Optics' & 'Cripple Movement' quickhacks, then go behind, grab 'em and perform a non-lethal takedown.

[Das_P0m]

I don't even use a weapon... I roast them via overheat and they are done :D

[veryinky]

The problem was Lieutenant Mower, one of the first Cyberpsychos who didn't seem to get 'knocked-out' even after 10 tries. She didn't move when she was down, and no matter what I did the text to Regina never said Mower was unconscious. I moved on and did the entire questline and it resolved that I had knocked unconscious all 17.

Locking movement quickhack and knocking the cyberpsycho unconscious made the questline easy.

[markymint]

Shotgun to the balls til they sit the ♥♥♥♥ down