EDAR's weakness

[Dark Savior]

Did some testing on the EDARs, after finding out how to spawn them in a test map.
I found that the "weak spot" of the EDAR that is located on his chest behind is armor is actually the yellow square on his chest and a small portion of his chest underneath it.
In addition the "weak spot" also applies to his chest armor.
EDARs also has no armor on their back side.

This means that their chest armor has a critical weak spot which will be key to taking out the EDARs more efficiently.
With a level 25 survivalist:
Winchester: 1 shot armor, 3 shot body (w/Weak spot) || 3 shot armor, 11 shot body (without weak spot)
SG Starter shotgun: 1 shot armor, 2 shot body (w/Weak spot) || 2 shot armor, 6 shot body (without weak spot)
Double Barrel: 1 shot armor, 1 shot body (w/weak spot and point blank) || 1 shot armor, 4 shot body

With a level 23 support with Salvo:
Double Barrel: 1 single shot destroys it (with weak spot) || 1 alternative shot destroy it (with weak spot).


EDARs aren't tanky if you can aim at their core.
This is similar to bloat takedowns, where headshots are the only efficient way to take down a bloat.

UPDATE: DO NOT shoot the legs. The legs have about 1008 hp.

[[MM] Cpt_Mustard]

Finally someone realizes it

but you can still shoot their belly part, because it still counts as the core. You can go ahead and test that out

[CommandoCupcake]

with the huge waves of zeds pumming you, and EDAR won't stop hop jumping around its hard to bother aiming at the sweet spot. usually I just splash a wave of bullets into the chest area since thats what people been saying it's the best way to take em out

I wish it was more like husk gas tank, waiting for husk charging it's shoot, aim for the gas tank with just a few bullets for that sweet sweet KABOOM

[Sam]

So, is anyone gonna comment on the supposed EMP blast that's supposed to happen after you kill them by shooting their core?

[Acidic__Thought]

Originally posted by Sam:

So, is anyone gonna comment on the supposed EMP blast that's supposed to happen after you kill them by shooting their core?

Not implemented yet.

[Leon]

i mean patch notes already said that like... since beta 2?

[Dark Savior]

Originally posted by Krim Son:

Finally someone realizes it

but you can still shoot their belly part, because it still counts as the core. You can go ahead and test that out

The critical area is from the yellow chest piece to the upper stomach area.
The lower part of the stomach area all the way to between the legs are consider body multiplier.

[Huntah]

You can also use the microwave gun against them; according to the wiki, the multiplier is about x3 with that weapon.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

i just spam the MWG and kill them with 3 tap fires and 1 alt blast if needed

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by Huntah:

You can also use the microwave gun against them; according to the wiki, the multiplier is about x3 with that weapon.

wasn't it 500% extra damage so 5X?

[spearten.com]

Originally posted by Huntah:

You can also use the microwave gun against them; according to the wiki, the multiplier is about x3 with that weapon.

x3.25 to be exact. A VERY VERY good reason to play Firebug, other than demolishing all trash zeds in any choke point.

Edit: Still, other perks struggle so much with these guys, especially demos in early waves (Cuz not every team will have a Firebug). Try killing one EDAR with an M79 while a bunch of other zeds surround you and you'll get what I mean. What would be cool is if the head was a zed head you could headshot to kill them, but it plays an animation to armor up with its helmet when it does its special attack (i.e. Rockets, Lasers, Trapping).

Or, they could just make the Chest Core considered as a zone that Sharpshooter and Gunslinger can actually use Rack Em Up for. Either way would be nice.

It's just that some perks absolutely suck in comparison to other perks when fighting EDARs. It reminds me of the resistance update where some perks just sucked at killing certain enemies all of a sudden, and it wasn't fun.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by Bread Sauce:

Originally posted by Huntah:

You can also use the microwave gun against them; according to the wiki, the multiplier is about x3 with that weapon.

x3.25 to be exact. A VERY VERY good reason to play Firebug, other than demolishing all trash zeds in any choke point.

ah then i was wrong
but yeah MWG just destroys EDARs
you can also go survivalist and use the MWG and a flamethrower and you should be the ultimate medium zed killer and below

[Princess]

I just do the forward heavy attack with the Static Shockers (the one that does a double hammerfist I think is what its called) and it usually insta-kills them or atleast takes the head off.
Also seems that every heavy attack with Static Shockers causes them to start stumbleing around as if dazed and confused.