How to kill Technopath

[sunny29990]

Hey friends I just encountered the Technopath enemy for the first time in the side mission where you have to reset the license for neuromod fabrication. My question is how to kill this guy without me wasting tons of ammo and getting a lot of damage...my first encounter with him...he just came up to me and starting ordering my own hacked turrets against me and also when i tried to stun it my character just held up his gun like as if he was unable to fire the gun...i finally somehow got it down by killing my turrets first and then sprinting around the whole room and shotgunning them...in the ended wasted lots of my shotgun ammo, my 2 friendly turrets were destroyed too...can you guys tell me an easy way to defeat him as i know he will be frequent later on in the game?

[CreepyD]

It actually took me a while to realise Psychoshock would work on them, thinking they were mechanical, but yeah it stops them using all abilities for the duration (10s 1st level) - it's quite a while.
You can also use Machine Mind on any turrets they have with them.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

I've just blasted them with that Disruptor Pistol. Sneak up on them and blast them with a few fully-charged shots. Stunlocks them while also dealing a fair bit of damage.

[sunny29990]

引用自 RUN PROGRAM > SENTIONAUTS：

Stun Gun...that is all.

The thing is, each shot not only takes chunk of his HP but also stuns him for few seconds which is just enough for you to shoot him again, so you see like this you can keep him stunlocked while constantly damaging him. This worked for me even when I haven't had any upgrades on it. Just takes bit longer and you have really short time window to shoot again.

Oh and about stun gun, you need to "charge" each shot by holding down attack button. With no upgrades this takes few seconds. If you release it before its fully charged it just do nothing.
Not sure if he ever disabled my stun gun...thou maybe it can happen.

Yes i believe they can disable stun guns for a short period of time too because i was unable to shoot at it even if my gun was fully charged

[Slickstream]

Stunlocking and killing with the disruptor gun is the most effective way. I play on nightmare and am on 2nd playthrough and have never had my disruptor gun disabled by a Technopath.

Awesome thing about this game though is you can approach a problem in many ways, as proven by this thread.

[illage2]

引用自 sunny29990：

Hey friends I just encountered the Technopath enemy for the first time in the side mission where you have to reset the license for neuromod fabrication. My question is how to kill this guy without me wasting tons of ammo and getting a lot of damage...my first encounter with him...he just came up to me and starting ordering my own hacked turrets against me and also when i tried to stun it my character just held up his gun like as if he was unable to fire the gun...i finally somehow got it down by killing my turrets first and then sprinting around the whole room and shotgunning them...in the ended wasted lots of my shotgun ammo, my 2 friendly turrets were destroyed too...can you guys tell me an easy way to defeat him as i know he will be frequent later on in the game?

I used the energy blast ability.

[death blossom]

引用自 sunny29990：

Hey friends I just encountered the Technopath enemy for the first time in the side mission where you have to reset the license for neuromod fabrication. My question is how to kill this guy without me wasting tons of ammo and getting a lot of damage...my first encounter with him...he just came up to me and starting ordering my own hacked turrets against me and also when i tried to stun it my character just held up his gun like as if he was unable to fire the gun...i finally somehow got it down by killing my turrets first and then sprinting around the whole room and shotgunning them...in the ended wasted lots of my shotgun ammo, my 2 friendly turrets were destroyed too...can you guys tell me an easy way to defeat him as i know he will be frequent later on in the game?

If it's early game, don't try. Just sneak by. You'll just waste resources.

If you've got a Q-Beam, use that. It's the quickest way. If you don't, find one.

The wrench upgrades are awesome. Also, infinite ammo there.

If you want to hit from far away, invest in the super-strength mod, the one that let's you throw everything. Not only is it infinite ammo (because you can throw everything for big damage), but large objects also form cover. And, if placed correctly, prevent the enemy AI from moving in range to kill you. The Typhon AI isn't nearly as good at maneuvering around obstacles as you are.

Don't worry, late-game you'll be smacking them down left and right. It'll feel nice.

[Monkeyjunky]

I made the same mistake with the stun gun, you have to hold down the shoot button until it's charged then release to fire it. I tried pressing it like a normal gun for ages wondering why it was so ineffective...

[Black Captain]

If you stun gun it, it will die.

Did a human powers only run on my first try. I tried everything. Then I found the stun gun is super effective. I only upgraded (fully) the stun gun and the shotgun. If you upgrade the stun guns' stun duration, and even just a single shotgun ammo capacity, you can get off 5 shots EASY while the thing is incapped.

If you are using powers, I think it's the pyschoshock (typhon equalivaent of the stun gun).

I wouldn't bother using turrets against it as it will destroy them and/or turn them against you.

If you see one with turrets on it, you pretty much have to lead off with the EMP nade or electric typhon attack (psychosock?). Otherwise, just evade it until you are geared enough to beat it.

Alternatively, Leverage III items make cheesing him ridiculously easy.

[sunny29990]

I think i just encountered a glitch then where I was unable to shoot my stun gun at the technopath even though it was fully charged ....or maybe only I was the one who discovered its new ability that it can block stun guns too for a short duration :P sometimes i was able to stun it..other times when the gun was charged and i let go of the left click button to shoot it Morgan would hold up the gun to himself like he holds the wrench and not shoot and a red error icon would come on the screen assuming to tell that the weapon can't be fired

[Majestic]

I've noticed too that if you don't suprise them, they're invulnerable for a period. Recyclers also don't work.

[virtualmatrix258]

I throw a Nullwave Transmitter at them and Q-Beam them back to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they came from.

[matthew]

I ran, didn't know what it was at first, but it was big nasty and not something to mess with. I will come back once I am better equipped.

[Majestic]

The first one I played ring around the rosy with a pillar and clubbed him down with a wrench x'D
Only things I run away from are the Nightmares, just because it takes too much ammo.

[Soulstrike]

引用自 sunny29990：

I think i just encountered a glitch then where I was unable to shoot my stun gun at the technopath even though it was fully charged ....or maybe only I was the one who discovered its new ability that it can block stun guns too for a short duration :P sometimes i was able to stun it..other times when the gun was charged and i let go of the left click button to shoot it Morgan would hold up the gun to himself like he holds the wrench and not shoot and a red error icon would come on the screen assuming to tell that the weapon can't be fired

The Technopath can (electro) shock you and disable some stuff like the stun gun for some seconds.

[Morgian]

Sneak plus modified stunner means kill in three hits, since they are vulnerable to it. Technopaths become easy at the moment you can do that.

Telepaths on the other hand...