Are the ghoul rushes weird for anyone else?

[Great Leader]

As soon as I shoot an infestation, about thirty ghouls spawn and I'm immediately overrun. Grenades don't do anything because they run away too quickly before coming back to whack me, and even the high-capacity submachine guns don't stop them. Is it broken, or is it supposed to be like that? I think they changed it in this update. Before now, you could take them out with a rifle no problem.

[Pistachio]

I find that the bottleneck when it comes to dealing with infestation as of 0.40 isn't the rifle's lack of short range capability, but rather the issue of reloading. As soon as I have to reload I'm out of luck and hope.

You need two automatic weapons with as big of a magazine as you can find. Rifle + Rifle, or Rifle + SMG (ideally 60 round stuff) should be enough, at least it was for me. I switch guns instead of reloading.

Nowadays I just use PRK 16 with 95 round magazine. It has enough ammo to kill all the ghouls, blast the nest, and have 1/4 of the magazine still left.

[JudgeMental1337]

it was always like that to be honest.

[BlueSpark]

"Thirty ghouls" is exaggerating quite a bit. I believe infestations spawn one wave of 10-12, and that's it. I just posted in this thread about my experiences with and strategy against infestations.

Originally posted by Judge Mental:

it was always like that to be honest.

Not quite – ghouls used to spawn several smaller waves in earlier game versions. I also talked about that in the post linked above.

[Dracoco OwO]

You're supposed in my opinion to bring an SMG for insestations like there is no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way you are doing this with a mag size of 30 bullets from an ak, bring one of these with 70 bullets in them. I still think they are kind of bs especially after the gun change.

[ANS]

The mutants swarm you but they will always attempt to attack you from your flank causing you to lose focus on one side, rather than shoot the one side, pepper it and reload into and run in a S shape to bait out the blood balls they shoot and repeat till their gone .

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Pistachio:

You need two automatic weapons with as big of a magazine as you can find.

Originally posted by Dracoco OwO:

there is no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way you are doing this with a mag size of 30 bullets from an ak

It's absolutely possible to do it with a single 30-round mag of an AR.

I haven't tried it with the weaker ones (EC 74 & EC 74U), but by the time I'm dealing with infestations, I'm either using an ECM or a ZZ Vel. It's tight, but one mag is definitely enough to take out a wave.

They tend to come at you in a line. Aggro the infestation from range with a single shot, take out the ghouls as they come out and rush after you.

Or better yet, situation allowing, take it out with a sniper from max range. That won't trigger a wave.

The big problem, as I mentioned in the thread BlueSpark linked to, is when the infestation is positioned in such a way that you can't see/shoot it unless you get really close.