Explosives can take out most of a group in one hit. Try to get away from it if you see it, then attack.Īny weapon works against it, but the Machine Gun should be used to conserve ammo for stronger weapons.Ī group of machine gun guards can be quite powerful, so try to destroy them as soon as you can. It's cannon-fodder status means that it'll annoy you while you try to take out a stronger target.ĭespite being weak, the Machine Gun Guard can inflict a decent amount of damage if you're close to it. With a group of enemies, the Shotgun Guard should be one of the first killed. You can counter them with your own shotgun if you have the skill and guts.Īny weapon is effective against it, but the Machine Gun should be used to conserve ammo for stronger weapons. If you see it, stay away from it so that its shotgun will have very little effect on you. Therefore, try to take it out as soon as you see it.ĭespite being cannon fodder, the Shotgun Guard can inflict a decent amount of damage if it gets close to you before firing. Its blaster shots can get in your way, making it harder to focus on a powerful foe. With other enemies, the Light Guard is cannon fodder. A fully charged blaster shot to the head will kill a guard instantly. You can either bombard them with the rocket launcher, utilize the Dark Matter Gun. If there's a group of them, explosives will manage to take out the entire group in one or two shots. They are quite agile, so don't use weapon that demands accuracy on them. Strafe to avoid them.Īny weapon can kill it, but the Machine Gun should be used to conserve ammo. They're quite fast, so you might get caught off-guard and hit by them once in a while.

Being equipped with a close range weapon, they tend to charge you much more than the other guard types.ĭespite having low health, the Light Guard can inflict a good amount of damage if all of its shots connect. Besides firing their shotgun normally, they will often dive forward and roll towards you and fire a shotgun blast at you as soon as they come out of their roll. Shotgun Guard: The Shotgun Guard has yellow mechanical parts and is armed with a shotgun for its right arm.Fortunately, its accuracy is rather poor, especially at long range. Besides firing its machine gun at you normally, it can also sweep its machine gun left and right while firing, hosing down the entire room (albeit rather inaccurately). Machine Gun Guard: The Machine Gun Guard has red mechanical parts and is armed with a machine gun for its right arm.It typically fires a 5-round burst from its blaster, with a short delay between bursts, it will take about 2 seconds to aim. Light Guard The Light Guard has bluish-gray mechanical parts and is armed with a blaster for its right arm.Later in the game, tactical Stroggs will slowly replace the Guards, the latter is still encountered frequently, often act as support for stronger Strogg units or fight against player in numbers.īesides shooting you with their main weapon, guards can also bash you with it at close range for a melee attack. They have decent intelligence and can move behind cover to hide from attack, although unlike Tactical Strogg they cannot lean around or over cover to fire their weapon. However, their light weight and relatively small size gives them better agility than larger, more heavily armored Strogg guards can run at a decent pace, and can also hop sideways several feet to dodge gunfire or projectiles. Relatively small (being human-sized) and unarmored, guards are highly vulnerable to gunfire. Guards have relatively weak weapons and low health, and can be brought down with just 6-8 machine gun rounds or a single shotgun blast.

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