Killed by Healbot?

[moJoe]

I was playing on Hard, and had just cleared Aqua Station, heading into Fusion Core. I walked up to the heal bot and when I interacted with him, he killed me.

If it's a bug, it's a bug. If it's a feature, it is not a fun feature.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Sometimes the Healbot has a red hat and damages you if you use it. Instead of pressing E and getting heals like you'd expect every single other time, it's a stupid "gotcha" moment and you just take damage instead.

Easily one of the dumbest concepts in the base game.

[Mr. Rubber Ducky]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Sometimes the Healbot has a red hat and damages you if you use it. Instead of pressing E and getting heals like you'd expect every single other time, it's a stupid "gotcha" moment and you just take damage instead.

Easily one of the dumbest concepts in the base game.

Red cap healbot only appears in corrupted levels and it's supposed to be a mimmic. Deals explosion damage so that's usually enough to completely erase last bits of your health.

I guess it makes sense for corrupted levels as even heal-bot toys on that idea, it's not always you would see him though. (still a gimmick and an annoying one esp on a good run but nothing that's very dramatic imo.)

tip for op is to shoot healbots, that way you can just ignore this mechanic altogether as real one will take damage, the fake one will spew healing cells instead.

[buda]

What? haven`t seen one yet

[Mr. Rubber Ducky]

Originally posted by buda:

What? haven`t seen one yet

they're pretty rare, pretty sure there was a patch at some point after early access that lowered their chance to appear greatly. might be wrong though.