Double Takedowns

[Joruba]

How to make them work? I have the aug unlocked, but it simply doesn't work on two hostiles standing close to each other. It used to work in Dubai (tutorial).

[Nihleen]

Its suppose to work when 2 enemy are close, like when thet talk, in HR i had no problem, but in MD i think its not working correcly, sometime that counted only 1 enemy for me

[Tirvon]

Agreed. This has not worked for me once in MD, and it was one of the first upgrades I bought because it was so useful in HR. Waste of 2 praxis. So lame. FIX THIS SH*T PLEASE!

[WangtorioJackson]

Seemed to work fine for me, got it when going through the last area of Golem City and used it a couple times with no issues.

[joxertm22]

It's generally bugged. Use other means to takedown multiple mobs instead.

[Entropie]

In my experience it worked as long as no cover etc complicated the issue.
Though I usually had to go in invisible against ppl facing each other since they would spot me before the multi takedown was possible (only really relevant if you want the ghost bonus though).

But yeah, as soon as some sort of level geometry is involved things failed for me as well.

[AlexMBrennan]

I've only seen it not work once (metro with two police, tried crouching on the handrail and everything but couldn't get the promt to show up); every other time I tried to use it worked fine.

[Shifroval]

Don't be confused: if one of the enemies is SITTING (on a crate, or chair, usually chatting with another enemy) - you won't be able to perform a double takedown, until the sitting enemy stands up.
Likewise it's not possible to use a double takedown against two sitting enemies (Dvali's sewer base has some, also spotted two in Golem City)
This was also the case in HR.

Otherwise, you should just be really close to perform a takedown. The developers also tried to minimize the easy to spot pair of enemies facing the same direction. I have only discovered one pair, in Golem City, on the balcony.

P.S The takedown system is strange, sometimes you can perform a knock down from 2 meters and sometimes the button prompt never appears, until the enemy changes position. I suspect it depends on a "scene" where you knock out/kill an enemy.

[MrBananaGrabber]

I also had the same problem, you have to keep moving around until the double takedown icon appears. But sometimes it just doesn't. Despite two people being right next to each other.

The engine is far from perfect, the blink ability is incredibly flawed as well.

[One X]

Had far more luck with double takedowns in this game, than in HR. I've been double takedowning enemies left and right with ease when they are standing 2 meters away from each other.

[76561198072771897]

I know a guy who performed 9 double takedowns in Dubai... set them up and everything like in Human Revolution. Made a video of it, so watching the video and reading your comments make me feel like: What are you guys talking about it seems to be pretty easy.

Here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2iE-kcU2o

[Vassago Rain]

It works fine, but there's not a lot of times where you can use it as a sneak character.

[Rochelle]

Nice to see these problems, and thread, are as old as the game: I'm in the Ruzicka Station mission and the forensic technician and SWAT cop talking to each other, standing close enough to kiss, can't be eliminated using Multiple Takedown.
I thought it was some deal with the game handling civvies and hostile targets differently, and not able to "combine" them in a Multiple Takedown usage, but it just seems the game is a buggy mess?

[Joruba]

Originally posted by Rochelle:

Nice to see these problems, and thread, are as old as the game: I'm in the Ruzicka Station mission and the forensic technician and SWAT cop talking to each other, standing close enough to kiss, can't be eliminated using Multiple Takedown.
I thought it was some deal with the game handling civvies and hostile targets differently, and not able to "combine" them in a Multiple Takedown usage, but it just seems the game is a buggy mess? :nonplussed_creep:

After all these years...

[F.U.D.F.]

Double takedown is hard to use in stealth but easy to use in combat.

Case closed.

[Rochelle]

Originally posted by Joruba:

After all these years...

?