Security bots at night

[Princz]

Wasted 20 arrows and a knife and all i got from the encounter was a broken arm.. should i set up traps or what i am doing wrong? I need the loot from them to progres further into the facility. (i haven't gone through the portal yet)

[Kowa4ui_korm]

Kite them by running around and hit with your melee. Eventually, it'll die.

Or use traps \ crossbow.

[Michael糜睾]

use spear,take adv of high ground and narrow spaces

[Mad Max]

Use the Metal Blade Trap (I forget the exact name) to easily kill the robots during the early game.

Later when you unlock the Electric Thrower they become a joke.

[simon]

you can stand on the fountain in the area with the security guard by the canteen and kill the bot that spawns near the security door and it can reach you.

[Anker]

You can stealth kill them, which is how I usually do it.

"But wait," I hear you say. "They have way too much health to stealth kill with any weapon." And you're right.

But if you crouch at the side of the pod and stab it from behind, with anything other then a heavy weapon, it'll get stunlocked and unable to turn to properly detect you with it's light-up vision cone, so every hit is a stealth hit. Sure, you end up stealth-stabbing them a good 10, 20 times, but it still counts.

But if you want to farm their drops and you aren't confident in that, step up a blade trap and stand on the other side of it. You don't need to wait for night when your traps run out of power- Just stab the pod in the daytime until the robot wakes up to fight.

[Heavy Papa]

lead them into that bit with the electrified water

[Flush]

Use the electrified water up the lift by the portal room

[Anker]

Originally posted by Heavy Papa:

lead them into that bit with the electrified water

Originally posted by TEAM KILLER:

Use the electrified water up the lift by the portal room

This also works very well, though you can only farm this one bot once per respawn, which I think is once per day.

[MechWarden]

Chopinator (big helicopter blade trap) and batteries,
Electric Water hazard,
Walking them into 3 trip mines,
All are good early game ways of dealing with them.

And yes, the Electro-Thrower later on in the game is good vs them, maybe a bit too good.

[Anker]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

And yes, the Electro-Thrower later on in the game is good vs them, maybe a bit too good.

Well, they DID nerf it in the latest patch. Though honestly, tell me: By the time you got it, were security bots *really* still a problem for you?

The only time I bothered to set up security bot defences was in the labs, where bots will activate even during the daytime. Otherwise it's not too hard to avoid them at night.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Anker:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

And yes, the Electro-Thrower later on in the game is good vs them, maybe a bit too good.

Well, they DID nerf it in the latest patch. Though honestly, tell me: By the time you got it, were security bots *really* still a problem for you?

The only time I bothered to set up security bot defences was in the labs, where bots will activate even during the daytime. Otherwise it's not too hard to avoid them at night.

That's the thing! I was fine 'bullying' the slow easy to fight Office Sector Bot with over powered stuff, but I had some high expectations when seeing the Lab Sector bot doing some new stuff.

I was in the process of getting parts to make a two Tesla Coil trap I could deploy, I triggered one of the aggressive bots at the Lab Sector, used my best weapon which was the Electro-Thrower, and killed it as if it was some nOOb.
...
I then used the bot's parts to finish the coils, make whatever item I needed progress further with the CPU, and mounted my now useless trap setup out of the way, unconnected, near my bed, in case I actually do need it later on.

Out of the 60-70 of play on this game, I think I actually used 4 traps, 3 trip mines (which are also mothballed) and one cheeky Tesla Coil to zap unwanted guests at the front shutters.

[Fx3.髭男]

Originally posted by Anker:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

And yes, the Electro-Thrower later on in the game is good vs them, maybe a bit too good.

Well, they DID nerf it in the latest patch. Though honestly, tell me: By the time you got it, were security bots *really* still a problem for you?

The only time I bothered to set up security bot defences was in the labs, where bots will activate even during the daytime. Otherwise it's not too hard to avoid them at night.

Except he's not talking about struggling to kill them, he's responding to the above comment

Originally posted by Mad Max:

Later when you unlock the Electric Thrower they become a joke.

Is context *really* still a problem for you?

[⑨ ChocolateMystia]

I like to set up a chopinator with 2-3 shock traps below it, then lure the bot to the trap. The shocks will keep stunning it so it doesn't break the chopinator too much with its attacks. I also set it up with a battery and a lever, so I can turn it on when farming bots, then turn it off to not kill myself accidentally.

[Grug]

By far the easiest method is to build a Chopinator directly in front of the charging station on the first floor, then use power strips to connect it to a battery and the wall. Every morning you can wander over and collect the loot from the already dead robot. Just bring a hammer to repair the trap on each trip.

[Bonkers]

Lead it into a Chopinator (by destroying the robot's charging station during the day or by hooking up the trap to a battery) and repair it with a hammer if needed. Easy kill, no wasted ammo.