What do you use to kill the Skaarj in Unreal 2?

[Metalloid]

I hate these things!!! It takes a well placed grenade out of the launcher to kill them, and I am running out of ammo for it. It takes quite a few shots with the CAR, and they run faster than me so I can't avoid them easily. And the Shock Lance and Dispersion Pistol just suck. What is the easiest way to kill them given my current inventory?

 

[VBboy]

I hated the game so much, I used cheatcodes. Sometimes it's too easy, sometimes - too hard. Bleh.

 

[BFG10K]

I use the shotgun or the assault rifle. Just keep firing at them and manouver around their jumps and they'll eventually die.

 

[Metalloid]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I use the shotgun or the assault rifle. Just keep firing at them and manouver around their jumps and they'll eventually die.

What do you usually do if they run striaght at you? I can't run from them because they are so fast. Running in circles helps a little, but they usually still get a few good hits in before I take them down. What do you do if you are in a small area?

 

[BFG10K]

What do you usually do if they run striaght at you?

Sidestep, repeatedly if necessary. Jumping also helps too, especially while sidestepping.

Have you played Serious Sam? The tactics are much the same when dealing with the Kleer (Skeletons) and the Werebulls. You've got fast opponents who can't manouver as fast as you so the trick to dealing with them is to outmanouver them.

What do you do if you are in a small area?

The same thing but if it's too tight then I'll back off to a more open area. Also the flamethrower is good for cooking them if they're really close and you're in a tight area.

 

[Metalloid]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

What do you usually do if they run striaght at you?

Sidestep, repeatedly if necessary. Jumping also helps too, especially while sidestepping.

Have you played Serious Sam? The tactics are much the same when dealing with the Kleer (Skeletons) and the Werebulls. You've got fast opponents who can't manouver as fast as you so the trick to dealing with them is to outmanouver them.

What do you do if you are in a small area?

The same thing but if it's too tight then I'll back off to a more open area. Also the flamethrower is good for cooking them if they're really close and you're in a tight area.

I haven't played Serious Sam, but I will definetly try these tactics. Thanks.

 

[elkinm]

I started with the granade launcher with some well placed hits. The light skaarj are eare easy to kill so I use the CAR secondary fire. The medium skaarj are the tough ones. They are big strong and very fast. Use the granade launcher at first. And when you are in other areas with room manoover arround and use the shotgun right at them. It should kill them eventualy and it should slow them down enough for you to move arround.

They are much tougher then the serious sam foes as sam is much faster then unreal 2 and the skaarj ar faster then the serious sam guys so it is double the bad. But BFG is right as menovering to the side quickly is the way to get arround them it is very hard and it takes a lot of luck as the skaarj can easily jump right at you when you move aggain and aggain. The heavy skaarj are slow and quite easy even tough they take a lot of ammo.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Alt-Fired Shock Lance (EMP shockwave) in the face, followed by a couple CAR altfire packets = Dead Skaarj very, very fast.

- M4H

 

[elkinm]

The shock rifle or the CAR secondary fire don't fork for me against the medium Skaarj as he is to fast and just gets out of the way. After shooting for a while you do get him but it is luck as he can just keep dodging while firing his weapon at you wich much harder for you to dodge. The CAR primary fire is instant so the skaarj cannot dodge it, same with the shotgun but averyones strategy is different and with the skaarj it is best to thing on your slow moving feet. Once the patch comes out the speed should be ajustable which should make things a little easier.

 

[Glitchny]

i just killed most of them with the assualt rifle and kept dodging them by double tapping a direction. and the shocklance is much better after its unlocked or increased by the guy on the ship. Comes in very handy in that damn mechanical level

 

[tk149]

Assault Rifle and strafe a LOT. I think the shotgun is good too. I aim for the head, but I'm not sure that makes a difference. Grenade launcher is good for the first shot, but then they're in your face and you can't use explosives anymore. I beat the game on medium (but I cheated once on the "Defend the Door" level). Haven't tried Hard yet. For the really tough guys, I use the Rocket Launcher secondary fire mode.

 

[Jeff7181]

Flame thrower works very well too if you have one.

 

[Lonyo]

Inc grenade against the bigger guys, or rocket launcher, or sniper rifle.

Shotgun against the smaller ones usually, since it's quite quick, or the CAR with alt fire and a few bursts of normal.

 

[Metalloid]

Yeah I started using the alt fire on the CAR and 2 shots usually got me a kill. I used the shotgun once I picked it up in the Swamp level. I am now on the Na Koja Abad level.

 

[BFG10K]

I've finished game twice now and the second time I used the grenade launcher (concussion and indendiary) more than I did the first time against the Skaarj. My other tactics stayed the same.

BTW if you found the game too easy then play it on the hardest difficulty level and you'll get more of a challenge. It's a shame the game is so underwhelming though; it could've been a lot better.

 

[Metalloid]

I am playing on medium. It is just hard enough to keep my interest and make it somewhat of a challenge, but not so hard that I can't beat it and stop playing.

 

[BFG10K]

OK.

Personally I found the game ridiculously easy on medium difficulty.

Oh, and make sure you patch the game. I can't stress this enough as it'll make things run much faster.