Husk waves

[Vapid]

Eurghh, seriously, these are seemingly impossible. I play Suicidal and generally don't have any problems unless I make obvious mistakes or occasionally get caught in a bad spot, but no matter how good my team is I am consistently unable to beat Husk waves - there's just too much fireball spam!

Does anyone have any tips? Is it just me that finds these the hardest single-zed wave type?

 

[Tony]

1. It's easy to dodge fireballs if you stay outdoors, keep distance and stay alert. Never stay at one spot. Keep moving. You don't have to run far though, you will dodge stuff even if you moved a little bit. So shoot->move->shoot->move
2. Their suicidal move is extremely dangerous, so again keep distance and stay alert. You have to know what's happening 360 at all times.
3. Their friends EDARs are easy to kill, just aim for the red dots with anything stronger than 9mil + accurate.
4. Have balanced team. 6 zerks will have a hard time with this wave. Bullet classes are the best against them. Especially SWAT and GS.
5. Always go for the weak points! It's the key advice really. You will have a hard time getting through their overall healthpool. Also they will try to suicidekill you.
6. Spread out. Because a. they have aoe, and b. it's much easier to hit their backpacks (the weak point) when they are going in different directions.
7. During the Halloween event their backpack isn't the easiest target though. But they have another weak spot nowadays - cannon in their chest. They open it up when shooting fireballs. So all you have to do is to shoot the husks that opened up and about to shoot. There will always be one, lol.

 

[Tony]

oh you also have to use obstacles to avoid their fireballs. get around the corner for a sec, let them "cast", kill one or two while they are vulnerable, and then hide. then repeat. if you play cube map you're screwed ;D

 

[Vapid]

Got massacred in another Husk wave on Endless yesterday - this time it was only on Hard. Much tougher than Skrake rounds.

 

[thresher3253]

1. It's easy to dodge fireballs if you stay outdoors, keep distance and stay alert. Never stay at one spot. Keep moving. You don't have to run far though, you will dodge stuff even if you moved a little bit. So shoot->move->shoot->move

Yeah, if you're outdoor. Which basically means that in most official maps you're dead. Thank the spawn system.

 

[Tony]

official maps that are really tight don't have endless mode, I believe. Powercore, Thedecent, not sure about nightmare.

 

[Dr. Lethal]

Not sure if zed friendly fire is toned down during Husk waves, but I always try to get some to flame each other and start a fire fight. They dont always attack each other though despite the obvious spraying.

 

[Aleflippy]

It certainly is one of the hardest wave in the game and one I very often struggle with. Obvious tip would be to pray to be a firebug when the wave start... with either the Mac-10 or Trenchgun in your hands. I also find the demo very effective against them.

Besides that, I do what we already said : aim for the weak-points, try to strafe a lot and RUN FOR YOUR LIFE if you see one trying to kamikaze.