Is there a way to avoid damage from Kolibri?

[n13e86]

Playing on Survival, I noticed that they actually do damage - aside from being inconvenient.
I can't tell if they do damage continuously, once, or several times throughout the encounter.

[Salty Juniper]

How much damage? I would just switch radio stations until they died. But I heard some people would switch the radio station once and then fight them. I'm mentioning this because I don't think they do much damage if you just kill them with the radio.

[n13e86]

Originally posted by Salty Juniper:

How much damage? I would just switch radio stations until they died. But I heard some people would switch the radio station once and then fight them. I'm mentioning this because I don't think they do much damage if you just kill them with the radio.

I often notice that immediately upon entering a room with Kolibri, I take enough damage to drop one "health level" - not sure if it's just a lot, or if I was close to a threshold to begin with.
I tried fighting the first one (without extra enemies) by going through all three radio checks, but it got me down so much health that I simply reloaded.
Otherwise, I fight them by shooting at random, preferably from a shotgun.

[Kylnoffey]

Hello, they sure make damage overtime and when you have other ennemis around, issues come quickly in survival.
No way I'm aware to avoid their damages unless killing them quick

Methods to do so: You can shoot them and if you damage the real Kolibri it should instantly die with the others.
Or probably easier and better for your ammo stock, set the radio frequency you are told when entering, leave it few seconds outside the radio menu and back to the radio menu turn it towards the side where there are more high bars in the radio visualized. Leave it few seconds out of the menu and could need a third time before they generally die
Sometimes the first frequency doesn't do much and you better leave the room and retry to don't take useless damages