Crippling enemy limbs?

[jwell]

If I deplete an enemy's arms and head, what do they actually do now?

[★Brosef]

You can cripple limbs in this game? Huh.

[Nailfoot]

Same as you do when your arms are crippled. You can still shoot it's just inaccurate.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Ω Marion:

You can cripple limbs in this game? Huh.

Yeah. You haven't noticed that? Really?

[maobe]

shooting ferals legs of with a combat shotgun (or any other weapon) is a good way to keep them at distance. so, yes, what can hit the player can hit the mobs to, the have hitzones.

[Sempophai]

Problem is, mostly of the time, the amount of shots it takes to cripple a limb, i can just kill them anyway, unless it is a legendary weapon that cripples limbs.

[★Brosef]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Originally posted by Ω Marion:

You can cripple limbs in this game? Huh.

Yeah. You haven't noticed that? Really?

Nope, well I did know limbs could be crippled but I always figured they died before that happened or if explosives were used.

[G-Man]

Cripple their head and their accuracy becomes very poor. This is rare because headshots usually kill the enemy, assuming your weapon isn't extremely weak.

Cripple a leg and they will start to limp. They can only move very slowly and will drag their leg behind them.

Cripple an arm and they will lose accuracy, but can still shoot a gun if they have one. They are very likely to drop their weapon, but might pick it back up if they live long enough.

This is all humans mind you. Other creatures might react differently. Feral ghouls will actually lose the limb you target and keep fighting, even if they have to drag themselves forwards with their hands.

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Ω Marion:

You can cripple limbs in this game? Huh.

Not just cripple, you can blow them clean off.

[jwell]

Originally posted by G-Man:

Cripple their head and their accuracy becomes very poor. This is rare because headshots usually kill the enemy, assuming your weapon isn't extremely weak.

Cripple a leg and they will start to limp. They can only move very slowly and will drag their leg behind them.

Cripple an arm and they will lose accuracy, but can still shoot a gun if they have one. They are very likely to drop their weapon, but might pick it back up if they live long enough.

This is all humans mind you. Other creatures might react differently. Feral ghouls will actually lose the limb you target and keep fighting, even if they have to drag themselves forwards with their hands.

I appreciate this list, thank you. I'm running a luck based pistol build, so crippling enemy limbs is a lot more important than in my previous playthrough where I just packed a Gauss and Minigun and just cripplied their mortal coil.

I've played a lot of this game and the Fallouts before it but I've never seen an enemy actually lose their weapon in Fallout 4. You can't even shoot guns out of enemy's hands, which is a bummer as it was really useful in the older games. It seems that enemies getting disarmed has been sectioned off to the Gunslinger perk.

[jwell]

Originally posted by kdodds:

Originally posted by Ω Marion:

You can cripple limbs in this game? Huh.

Not just cripple, you can blow them clean off.

Only with the kill shot, I believe.

[Sempophai]

I do cripple assaultrons legs when i'm a lower level and they're quite hard to beat, I usually drop mines at choke points and fall back, drawing them over them, usually cripples their legs and they end up dragging themselves across the ground, much easier to cope with then. A regular frag mine, or even grenade, can cripple their legs, a bottlecap mine will flat out kill them.

[jouertue]

headshots also stagger the target, i don't know if it's a separate effect or if it happens when you actually cripple their head. also i found extremely useful crippling insects and animals legs or wings.. deathclaws recover the crippled effect after a few seconds so keep pumping bullets.

[kdodds]

Originally posted by jwell:

Originally posted by kdodds:

Not just cripple, you can blow them clean off.

Only with the kill shot, I believe.

Except for ghouls, I believe you're correct. But it would stand to reason that a human with an arm or leg blown off would bleed out pretty quickly anyway.

[jArmAhead]

I really want a mod to make this easier to do. It's insane how much it takes to cripple a damn leg. A couple of rounds to the knee should do it. It doesn't need to do extra damage or anything, just have the cripple effect so you can slow someone down, reduce their accuracy, etc. Annoying to dump 308 rounds into a legendary suicider's legs and have nothing happen and therefore be unable to do anything about him blowing the ♥♥♥♥ out of you.

[Fellby]

Originally posted by jArmAhead:

I really want a mod to make this easier to do. It's insane how much it takes to cripple a damn leg. A couple of rounds to the knee should do it. It doesn't need to do extra damage or anything, just have the cripple effect so you can slow someone down, reduce their accuracy, etc. Annoying to dump 308 rounds into a legendary suicider's legs and have nothing happen and therefore be unable to do anything about him blowing the ♥♥♥♥ out of you.

Shoot his right arm ( on the left if he's charging you).

He'll pop