Struggling to deal with Sentry Bots

[Socrates]

I recently got into Depot A....didn't find the mutants too troublesome. Blasted them with psi from range and whack them with machete when they close the distance. I am however very annoyed with Sentry Bots. I cannot find an efficient way to kill them. I know EMP grenades will be the go-to but I never seem to have enough of them. What other options are there for bypassing the resists on mechanical enemies?

 

[Sweeper]

Expose weakness.
Sledgehammers.
Use throwing nets, tasers and door cheese.

 

[Socrates]

Expose weakness.
Sledgehammers.
Use throwing nets, tasers and door cheese.

Im not running a STR build so sledgehammers are out....

What good would throwing nets do?

 

[lukaszek]

you can get decent shock knife, since you are using matchetes it should be your go to choice. Easiest if you got stealing skill

 

[Shaki]

Expose weakness.
Sledgehammers.
Use throwing nets, tasers and door cheese.

Im not running a STR build so sledgehammers are out....

What good would throwing nets do?

If you throw a net at it, the sentry turret will decide you're too retarded to be a threat and it's not worth to waste ammo on you.

 

[ghostdog]

Psychokinesis school as a whole and the Temporal Distortion feat are good against robots IIRC. But I'm guessing you don't have them and you're metathermics? Then you're probably stuck with EMP until you can raise enough your crits with metathermics and bypass such resistances.

 

[Socrates]

Psychokinesis school as a whole and the Temporal Distortion feat are good against robots IIRC. But I'm guessing you don't have them and you're metathermics? Then you're probably stuck with EMP until you can raise enough your crits with metathermics and bypass such resistances.

I went back to SGS and purchased Electrokinesis which is perfect against bots. Thanks!

 

[Tygrende]

At this stage of the game:

• psi can deal with bots using either temporal distortion or electrokinesis. It's important to note that temporal distortion requires zero skill to learn, so you can use this even if you don't intend to commit to temporal manipulation, all you need is psi empathy. Electrokinesis requires 30 base skill to learn, so you need to be at least level 4 to learn it and commit to psychokinesis a bit.
• melee deals with them using shock weapons. They probably have the hardest time overall out of all builds (bar self-restriction builds like metathermics only) because shock weapons are not commonly available at this point in the game, you have to either spend a fortune to buy one, be very lucky to find one, be lucky and have high enough pickpocket to steal a shock knife from one of junkyard's gangsters, or be a bit lucky and have mechanics/electronics to buy an electroshock generator and craft your own shock weapon of choice. Expose Weakness also works, but it only becomes available starting from level 6, and you're most likely not level 6 at GMS. Sledgehammers can manage without shock, so if you couldn't get a shock weapon and you have the STR for it, you can pick one up.
• guns deal with bots through smart use of W2C ammo and getting a higher caliber weapon. Buy W2C ammo at any opportunity. Typically you can deal somewhat decent damage to them even with regular ammo, so it's best saved for use with Aimed shot if you have it. ARs, LMGs and sniper rifles have enough base damage to manage without W2C. Pistols, you really want to have 9mm/.44 at this point. SMG, 7.62/8.6 would be preferable, but 5mm can manage with a bunch of W2C. Shotguns, use 6p shells, 3p if you have them.
• crossbows deal with bots using shock bolts. Crafting them with electronics is near mandatory, they can be bought, but in small quantities.
• energy weapons don't struggle at all, their damage is completly unresisted by bots.
• chemical weapons are not something you're likely to have at this point, but if you did manage to craft one, acid is mostly unresisted by all bots.
• If all fails, you're left with the stealth approach - use vents, noise and being spotted by cameras to manipulate sentry bots into moving somewhere else