Scrake hitbox

[Stricken]

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]

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?

 

[Agent Orange]

maybe this mutator can help you:

[URL="http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=77709"][url]http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=77709[/URL][/URL]

or you can take a look on this tread:

[URL="http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=80892&highlight=scrake+hitbox"][url]http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=80892&highlight=scrake+hitbox[/URL][/URL]

isn't the hitbox affected by the lag on a server?

 

[Amber Glass]

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.

 

[Agent Orange]

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.

going for the neck in his swinging head animation alway's seem to do the trick for me.

 

[karsey22]

Killing Floor - Scrake Head Hitbox for Sharpshooter and Beserker (Hell on Earth, 6man) - YouTube

This video was made before the update which included the m99 and the crossbow reload speed bonus. With the faster crossbow reload speed, you don't need to adjust your aim for the 2nd shot if you fire as soon as the bolt is loaded. Even if his head is in the downwards position.

 

[Althamus]

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]

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.

 

[TheMutant]

With the "fast" xBow you can also shoot two times at the same direction (like you do with LAR).

 

[ChronoLogic]

I hope this clears up people's confusion. My first video was hard to understand and partly incorrect so this is my updated video:

Killing Floor Tutorial: Scrake Head Hitbox - YouTube

 

[Althamus]

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.