How to deal with the Heavies?

[Fang]

Hey guys, almost finished the game as a Stealth focused character, so I never had to deal with the Heavy enemies. Y'know, the ones in the large exo suits with the battle rifles.

Second PT will likely be more lethal combat focused, but I already noticed it seems to be impossible to do a melee takedown on them. What's the best way to deal with these armored pricks? Any quick ways to do it besides unloading 20 AP rounds in their faces?

[Apoc]

I have yet to test myself but someone said that if you use EMP on them you can knock them down with a Takedown.

[GM Pax]

Armor-Piercing rounds to the face work well enough.

If you still want ot be sneaky, put a silencer on whatever you shoot them with.

Once you can, I'd go with a Battle Rifle, though. For Combat rifles, they're a bit "sponge-y".

Or maybe trick out a specific "tankbuster" Revolver, spend weapon parts on damage upgrades?

[Fang]

Originally posted by Apoc:

I have yet to test myself but someone said that if you use EMP on them you can knock them down with a Takedown.

Nice. Sounds plausible. I'll have to try that. There are... quite a few of them around at this part of the game, so plenty of ways to try before a little quicksave. :p

[Fang]

Originally posted by GM Pax:

Armor-Piercing rounds to the face work well enough.

If you still want ot be sneaky, put a silencer on whatever you shoot them with.

Once you can, I'd go with a Battle Rifle, though. For Combat rifles, they're a bit "sponge-y".

Or maybe trick out a specific "tankbuster" Revolver, spend weapon parts on damage upgrades?

Sounds good. Combat rifles are indeed spongey. I tried that once for fun and it requires a lot of ammo.

The EMP takedown works. Simply knock out the regular guards then toss an EMP and you can take down the exo's with a non-lethal takedown. Beautiful.

[ImSexyAndiNOED]

If you didn't rush ,you might have known that EMP ammo would weaken the exo suits and then you could take on the takedown.

[Ewell]

The stun gun also allows you to disable them long enough to knock them out. If you're doing a non-lethal run you probibly have one on you.

[GM Pax]

Well, combat rifles are spongey on everything if you go Center Mass.

Headshots, except guys with some kind of helmet, POP and they're dead. :)

[Fang]

Originally posted by skywalkr_00:

If you didn't rush ,you might have known that EMP ammo would weaken the exo suits and then you could take on the takedown.

Like I said: Stealth playthrough. I go out of my way to NOT get into combat. I also did all side quests so no, I didn't rush.

Originally posted by Ewell:

The stun gun also allows you to disable them long enough to knock them out. If you're doing a non-lethal run you probibly have one on you.

Cool. I expected that to not have enough power to stun them. Good to know. Maybe worth keeping one on me even with a lethal pt because stun gun ammo is quite plentiful.

[Trehek]

I can confirm that stun gun + takedown works as a stealthy non-lethal elimination of an exo-suit. Got Ghost + Smooth Operator from a section where I used it.

[T H I N G S]

One shot with EMP ammo, then you can do takedown on them.

[FhqwhTODD]

or you can just keep on using the stun gun on them. They go down after 5-6 shots. Make sure you have enough shots loaded because you have to keep shooting as fast as you can.

[Flaccid Snake]

If you hit them with the stun gun, you can immediately (and I mean immediately) follow up with a melee takedown

[Frank Castle]

Use a stun gun and then quickly do a takedown within the short time he's zapped.

[Morgian]

Stun gun or EMP pistol followed by takedown works. Giving him 2 shots with an AP revolver also does the trick. I have not tried it, but a lancer rifle to the head might do it, too (does 100 damage after all).

[DeadBeat]

Stun gun and immediate takedown voided ghost for me on 'give me deus ex' difficulty. Before encountering the heavy I saved and tried many times but every time I took him down and finished the level no ghost. I think with higher difficulty levels that even 'suspicious' voids ghost. So if anyone knows how to take these suckers down without voiding ghost I'd appreciate the imput. :)