Scavenger droids

[Shade]

I'm fairly early in the game on a mission to infiltrate a starship (second mission possibly). I have no Deltas with my and I'm crawling through a utilility area with Scavenger Droid enemies. These droids die from one blaster hit if i shoot them while they are on a pipe, however some spawn already flying.

These droids shoot lightining at me which causes my character to dies in ~2 seconds. Is this working as intended or a bug, is there some sort of strategy to defeating this things?

[Superdude]

yolo it

lol na dude just remember were each of the are and shoot them before they see you
I think i had trouble with it my first play through

[sePL80]

I don´t think any of them spawn flying. (I also had problems with this part)
Just be careful in your approach.
Those things throw electric bolts at you....
maybe you even get visual distortions when you´re getting close to one.....even before they are actively chasing you.

Scan your surroundings and it will be no problem.
Also don´t forget to safe often :)
May the powerful genes be with you.

[bruh]

Originally posted by Shade:

I'm fairly early in the game on a mission to infiltrate a starship (second mission possibly). I have no Deltas with my and I'm crawling through a utilility area with Scavenger Droid enemies. These droids die from one blaster hit if i shoot them while they are on a pipe, however some spawn already flying.

These droids shoot lightining at me which causes my character to dies in ~2 seconds. Is this working as intended or a bug, is there some sort of strategy to defeating this things?

Those things used to scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of me, if they manage to grab onto you just spam your melee key.
Anyway yeah, the lightning takes a bit to destroy shields, may be a bug.

[Shade]

I've since completed the level, I never remembered those things being hard when I first played the game. I had to just do a lot of quicksaving and memorize the encounters when they would spawn. They did seemingly random amounts of damage. Some would barely scaratch me while others would do damage equivalent to that of the large Trandoshan elites repeater. I originally theorized they have a damage multiplier based on how close they are to you but upon experimenting this doesn't seem to be the case. It was odd how these little droids have been the toughest encounters in the game so far

[erick_liban]

if all else fails you can access the console commands with the ~

and enter "TheMatulaakLives" to enable god mode

[Shade]

Originally posted by erickliban:

if all else fails you can access the console commands with the ~

and enter "TheMatulaakLives" to enable god mode

Im all good now, I felt like saving all the time was essientially cheating anyway. The scavenger droids on the later levels (trandoshan slave camp) seem to be doing neglible damage again, it takes them a while to kill me with lightining.