Something is amiss (Demo mech pre-Chapter 3)

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In guides I've read, apparently I'm supposed to enrage the demolition mech by shooting it in the face with plasma and/or meleeing it. Neither works. I've cycled through about thirty deaths and this point and I'm beginning to wonder if I've hit a bug.

It won't enrage, and thus won't assault the statue in the middle of the room. I can't damage it, and guides say that part is correct. It's supposed to get a red aura when it's enraged - I see no such aura.

Are the guides wrong, or is there a glitch here?

EDIT: Pretty sure this was some kind of bug. I got it enraged after almost no effort. No clue why it wouldn't work before or why it suddenly worked after so long.

[Kargor]

Yes, you have to enrage it. It's not going to attack the statue automatically when you do, though -- you basically have to run around the statue, then use the "hey" to make it come at you.

Back when I played it, this worked just fine.

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Originally posted by Kargor:

Yes, you have to enrage it. It's not going to attack the statue automatically when you do, though -- you basically have to run around the statue, then use the "hey" to make it come at you.

Back when I played it, this worked just fine.

Yeah, I've been standing all over the statue shouting. I've shot at it from the other side of the statue. It just doesn't seem to be doing the "enranged" part of the fight. It just calmly strolls about, sometimes trying to walk into/along the statue (you know the way broken pathfinding does) but it doesn't smash it or run through it or anything like that. I can't figure out how to to trigger the enraged/smashing statue state.

[Chiken_Sammich]

Kargor mentioned something you seem to either be missing or not mentioning. Monkey performs a shout ("Hey!" or "Over here!"). That will get the mechs attention & it'll charge in the direction of the shout.

I assume you are at this part. If you're actually on Chapter 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiz1o_KvYV0

If not you're here, where the statue is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9x96JXceGA

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Yeah, I have been using the "OVER HERE" shout. That's why I said "standing all over the place shouting". The problen wasn't that I wasn't shouting, it was that the mech wasn't becoming enraged at all.

I was by the statue, but I said "chapter three" because the guide that told me how to get the mech to attack the statue claimed this happens in chapter three. Whoops.

I tried again today and it just...worked. I don't know why. I don't know why it didn't work yesterday. After a couple of plasma blasts to the face and a bit of meelee, it enraged. *Shrugs*. This isn't even the first bug I've come across in this game, just the only one I couldn't get around.

[Manic]

I think it only enrages with melee...at least, I only ever used melee to enrage it. Glad you were able to get it done, though.