How do you efficiently kill the shadow clone jutsu dog

[redcoatguner]

I used 10 grenades 300 rounds of ak ammo all of my bandages and all of my health kits 20 each there's gotta be a better way

[Mechanique]

Shift + W

[EliteZaur]

Run; but in all seriousness it is a hunt. You have to figure out which one the real one is; usually stays a medium distance away and is the one that howls to summon more. If I am forced into fighting them, then I push hard and heavy to weed out the one that bleeds and put it down.

[Soth]

Originally posted by EliteZaur:

If I am forced into fighting them, then I push hard and heavy to weed out the one that bleeds and put it down.

This.

[Nite69]

Keep an eye on the one that does a Blue shield like effect, thats the real one, just use the Saiga shotgun on it

[尺卂乂乂ㄚ]

Single fire, shot until one bleeds then fire away that one

[Maine]

re-load your nearest save, savescum or run away, if you see a mutant because they're never worth fighting, unless its a quest.

skip every mutant encounter, as they are not only just a waste of ammo, durability, time, time which they take away excessively, so just do yourself a favor, if you see a psuedo giant or any mutant bigger than a dog, just reload your nearest save or run away much faster than just killing it, theres nothing to be gained and only things to be lost from fighting any mutant.

as for forced arena encounters during missions, spray and pray their 1mil health bar drops and you hit the right one. <---- save your good ammo for these which means you'll be using ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ammo for everything else in the world and it's never worth the headache just savescum open world mutant encounters or run away from all of them.

either that or get a mod that fixes mutant health.

[Nite69]

^^^ they fixed most of them already in the 1.01 patch, things like the snork, bloodsucker, rapid dogs, burrer, poltergeists, boars, fleshes, psy dogs, conntroller etc are all easy to me now

Ones that havn't been fixed yet are Bayan (psy cats), Psodogiant giants, chimera's and Mutated Deers

[WooKie]

Find the one that doesn't disappear in 1 shot and focus on that one. That's the actual one you need to kill.

[ImHelping]

Last psi dog I saw still had a dozen clones after I shot six of em in a row, and even the clones were hiding behind boxes and rocks to make a mockery of "The hiding one is the real one!" tips. So yeah I just sprinted away from that one too. When normally I'm real bloodthirsty (way too many cases of mutants loitering around anomalies instead of suiciding into them. Flesh only jump into anomaly zones if their AI knows their flying corpse will cause impact damage smacking into me)

[Whargoul]

Take psi block and the clones disappear

[redcoatguner]

Originally posted by Whargoul:

Take psi block and the clones disappear

wait what hold on a SEC they're illusions please tell me this really works

[Kaszak]

Take a high ground, jump on a car, stack of crates, a roof, whatever's nearby. Mutant AI is really dumb, once they can't pathfind to you, they run for cover and just sit there doing nothing. For psydogs, that means they also stop summoning clones, so you know the one left is real. Once that happens, jump down sprint up to it, unload a shotgun into it as it's doing the summoning animation, and if it's still not dead, run back and repeat.

[HiggsLP]

Originally posted by Nite69:

^^^ they fixed most of them already in the 1.01 patch, things like the snork, bloodsucker, rapid dogs, burrer, poltergeists, boars, fleshes, psy dogs, conntroller etc are all easy to me now

Ones that havn't been fixed yet are Bayan (psy cats), Psodogiant giants, chimera's and Mutated Deers

Pseudogiants? They are like boss fights, only enounterd 2 of them in 100h, so I think they are fine.

Deer? Supe 1-2 shots and done...
Havent encountered cats yet, or do u mean those hallucinating ones, which start voices in ur head? Pop Psi pill and bum rush them with shotty, ez.

I really wonder if any1 ever played any RPG b4 S2? Where u have to get better gear, think about different tactics.
If no good ideas pop into head go to forums and start discussion about different ways to handle situations.
Noqadays every is it seems every1 is used to CoD whete the dotted line brings u from point A to B, then jump around like bunny and let the cheat/aim assist do the work on controller...

[Soth]

Originally posted by redcoatguner:

Originally posted by Whargoul:

Take psi block and the clones disappear

wait what hold on a SEC they're illusions please tell me this really works

Like, it would totally make sense. Anyone can verify?

[Baron01]

Pseudo dogs are rare, luckily, and there are only few pre-defined places, usually part of quest, they spawn at and even less spots where they spawn all the time. The only later spot I recall is on your way to Pripyat.
If you have to find them, best way I find is to try to get jump on them--if you get close enough without them going aggro, you can quickly kill them with Saiga or other high-powered weapon before they summon clones and swap with one of those clones. You can do this to the one on the way to Pripyat, it spawns in one of those garages so if you sneak to the doors you can run in and kill it before it can do anything.
If you can not get jump on them, have AR or SMG with high capacity magazine ready and shotgun as a swap--save the shotgun the for the real one. Use AR/SMG on single-fire mode to drop any illusion that run straight at you. This is also your hint to finding the real bastard, it usually does not attack you and tries to run away and hide. Most illusions run straight at you while the real dog hands in the back or even move behind cover. Grenades are pretty pointless as it takes way too long to even prime one and they do pitiful damage anyway unless you are using F1 grenades, which is massive waste anyway.