Generation Zero – Tips to Beat Soviet Machines
By Sophia Edwards
Some of them are much too powerful. “Small” terrestrial robots are perfect, but flying machines and large robots…
How to Deal with Soviet Machines
- Go to SKILLS, then look at the TECH tree which has two branches. REMOTE HACKING is the fifth skill on the left side of the TECH tree. You’ll have to choose all the previous skills before you can get that one though, but it’s worth it.
- Once you have the first level of REMOTE HACKING, you can hack machines. Use your binoculars and focus on a machine. Press X (or whatever button your console uses) to go into TECH mode. A yellow outline of the machine will appear along with some info like health, what it is currently doing, and more importantly what percent chance you have of successfully hacking them., On the bottom of the screen, it will tell which button or key on the keyboard to press to hack the machine you’re focused on. On keyboards, default is “Q”. Press that key or button and it will either be successfully hacked or not. If it does, the machine will have a pale blue glow to it and the machine will make a sound. If you don’t have HACKER as the active specialization, the machine will become confused and sometimes will shoot other machines. If you DO have HACKER as the active specialization, they will definitely attack their side.
Some other things though:
- Make sure to do this at a distance and in a place where they can’t get to you if possible. If you continue to hack the machines and stay in the same spot, they will eventually be able to target you.
- So if you’re in spot where it’s possible for them to get to you, right after a successful hack, IMMEDIATELY move to another spot, the farther the better, and keep out of their line of sight. If you can see them, the can also target and see you eventually.
In my own experience, I don’t always see the full fight because I’m hiding out of their line of sight, but the battle sounds I hear, the night sky lighting up and sometimes the earth shaking is pretty exciting!
- When moving to another location after a successful hack, the best way to move without them detecting you is in the prone position (lying on your stomach flat on the ground). You’re basically crawling away, but it’s really very difficult for them to sense you that way. So don’t panic and run away – they’ll be able to target you easier if you’re standing. Just stay calm and crawl away in the opposite direction until they’re unable to sense you or it says you’ve escaped the battle.
- Hacking them so that they are weak enough to finish off takes time. How I speed it up is that I take pot-shots at them with a weapon that has a silencer. You can shoot them at least two times before they’ll try to search for the shooter. So that’s what I do: shoot two times and then dive into cover and wait until the indicator that they’re searching is gone and then I do the two pot-shots all over again, rinse and repeat.
More Guides:
- Generation Zero – Guide to Killing AI
- Generation Zero – How to Kill All of the Machines
- Generation Zero – Detection Guide for Dummy’s
- Generation Zero – End Game Hunting Guide
- Generation Zero – 100% Achievement and Collectable Guide (FNIX Rising DLC)
