Slave Hunters

[Tyranthraxus]

Watch out for these guys. Ive just hit level 10 and they are still kicking my ass. Its not so much that they are so powerful individually but sometimes its 5v1 or 6v1.

[Reef]

i dont like them cause slave hunters want slaves but they are killing their victims lol

[Roberto]

I managed to kill one group of them but it was not really worth it (got addicted by using heal stims heheh) Anyway those groups are too powerfull for even 15 lev low-average endurance characters just because of low hitpoints. Hopefully there will be possibility of permament stat raising (with level) someday, that would help to survive such encouters...

[Gosch]

Where on the map can meet them. I can not find them.

[Sloul Des Tucs]

I crossed their path once, at the very South of the map.

And I came to the same observation than Reef, I don't get why they want to explode me with grenades if they want to sell me on the market.

[Tyranthraxus]

Generally you find them close to the bottom at the South... Near one of the large towns in development and south of the Raider stronghold./Bandit. Ive yet to win against them but Ive come close.

[Shiggy]

Run towards a tree to provide line of site cover on your first move or if there are no trees around run towards a melee enemy to provide line of site cover which will help the guys with guns hit their buddy instead of you. I could only beat them once I bought metal armor off one of the random caravan traders and I used the m16 which you can burst with 5 ap (Having 10AP is a must) and a lot of stims.

[Bachmann]

Where did you find a M16?

[Tyranthraxus]

I found one on a Caravaneer and another beneath a house being wielded by a bandit.

I prefer the AK-47 myself.

[Roberto]

In gun fight situation AK-47 is not best option because of high ap burn (if you're super dextrous you may be able to shoot twice in turn) and quite rare ammo (7,62 isn't easy to find). Much better option for gunslingers is to use AKSU or Vintorez (though ammo for AKSU is very rare too)
As for M16, it use 5,45 ammo (same as AKSU that is quite weird because NATO standard is using 5,56 but i believe devs didn't wanted to add another ammo type to loot table) as for vintorez , cheap ammo (9mm) and nice low single shot cost makes it very versality.
But in most circumstances old soviet army knife shouldbe remedy for all kind of problems ..;)

[Bogan]

Originally posted by Roberto:

In gun fight situation AK-47 is not best option because of high ap burn (if you're super dextrous you may be able to shoot twice in turn) and quite rare ammo (7,62 isn't easy to find). Much better option for gunslingers is to use AKSU or Vintorez (though ammo for AKSU is very rare too)
As for M16, it use 5,45 ammo (same as AKSU that is quite weird because NATO standard is using 5,56 but i believe devs didn't wanted to add another ammo type to loot table) as for vintorez , cheap ammo (9mm) and nice low single shot cost makes it very versality.
But in most circumstances old soviet army knife shouldbe remedy for all kind of problems ..;)

Where do you get the AK

[Bogan]

Originally posted by Snake Plissken:

Man I want this game so much :)

Yeah it's actually really good.

[Roberto]

AKSU? or AK47? AK-47 can be found in main mission bunker, i found it there at least, as for AKSU is much more complicated, from random encounter with skavengers merchants (stalkers) may be rerely purchased or by killing them - tho i didn't tried last option cause they're using those and such try may hurt a bit :)

[Tyranthraxus]

Ive yet to find an AKSU. THe slave Hunters use the sniper rifle, so if you want one kill a slave Hunter sniper. Ive yet to find a Sniper rifle for sale.

[DevinLv21]

They can deal 90+ damage in a single machinegun burst - a regular hit, not a critical - even with the bulletproof armor and the ghostly protection perk. ♥♥♥♥ this dumbass game

[ElPrezCBF]

I've yet to beat slave hunters and think the problem is you start off surrounded by them carrying way more powerful weapons than you if you're unfortunate to run into them before getting powerful automatic weapons of your own. And even if you do have the firepower, you still need high armor and endurance levels to survive long enough to heal up your characters and counter attack at the same time.

Them having more powerful weapons actually isn't the biggest issue but them starting off the encounter surrounding your squad with full line of sight is arguably unfair. Although Kovalev's assassination was a different scenario, I was able to beat the bandits there despite them having way superior firepower because of guard support and them not all having clear line of sight on your squad at the beginning. If the slave hunter scenario could be modified such that they do not surround you immediately or have to navigate obstacles to get clear shots on you, then I'd consider that to be a fairly balanced encounter. Still, the lack of enemy scaling with your character's level means such unfair encounters will continue, albeit randomly.