Scrake hitbox

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Stricken

FNG / Fresh Meat
Feb 22, 2012
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How do you hit the scrake with an Axe in the head? This game is so bugged, a lot of times i JUST CAN NOT hit his god damn head, what the hell happens?
Today i was the only one left at wave 8 , soloed everything and at the end of course had a pack of 4 scrakes, was like... "hah it's over, easy part now :)"!
And guess what happened? I died like a noobcake which i am to a scrake as a zerker. I just couldn't hit his head with an axe for some reason. I could bet my life that i was hitting his head but for some reason i wasn't.
THIS GAME ****ING LIES!
HOW YU KIL SCRAKE AS A ZRKER ???? Fck this game :(
What's up with hitboxes, someone explain please.
 

Stricken

FNG / Fresh Meat
Feb 22, 2012
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So here is the best tutorial i've found.
Tutorial: Scrake Hitbox HD - YouTube
I'll just have to practice it a bit on testmap. So for a scrake that spawned on a 6 man HoE and none did any dmg to him, you do two upper swings and rest down/left.
But one thing i still don't understand completly:
"Altough the scrake's head may move in these ways. remember that other factors sucha as decreased player count, a release from stun, and previously inflicted damage may alter the way the head behaves."
I guess you can never be 100% sure where his head hitbox is if you play on public servers and people keep shooting around and joining/leaving the game?
 

Amber Glass

FNG / Fresh Meat
Dec 19, 2011
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for the axe and LAR, the first two shots are in the same place, where his head would appear upright, then all following shots are delivered to his lowered, swinging head.
 

Althamus

FNG / Fresh Meat
Mar 13, 2012
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To my memory, if you're on full health and spam-bodyshots on a raging scrake with a katana or better as a zerker, you'll kill him before he kills you even on HoE 6man.

You'll drop to almost dead, and need to spend 5 mins healing up, but useful nonetheless if you have no other options.
 

Malhaven

FNG / Fresh Meat
Jan 11, 2010
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To my memory, if you're on full health and spam-bodyshots on a raging scrake with a katana or better as a zerker, you'll kill him before he kills you even on HoE 6man.

You'll drop to almost dead, and need to spend 5 mins healing up, but useful nonetheless if you have no other options.

Killing Floor - Katana vs Scrake on HoE - YouTube

"This is performed online on a 5man HoE game. If you're playing on a 6man game, you should hit the scrake 3 times with alt-attack before he rages."

Also, LOL at "spam-bodyshots" as a Zerker. You should always aim for the head, always.
 

Althamus

FNG / Fresh Meat
Mar 13, 2012
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Also, LOL at "spam-bodyshots" as a Zerker. You should always aim for the head, always.

Well, duh. But if you're having trouble hitting headshots with the axe, as OP presumably is (because he made the topic), it's worthwhile knowing that if you spam bodyshots you'll survive, as opposed to panicking and running or something silly.

Note how I mention it's useful if you have no other options. Not as a main tactic.