As the title sugests.

We've seen them survive a direct hit from a grenade launcher, Would a light need to reload 3 new clips to find the heavy turn around smiling and knocking him out cold with his gun.

Ofcourse they might not be this tough. But what do you think?

I'm pretty all 3 body types can survive a direct hit from the DL, although the lights may do it just barely. Grenades are not damage focused in the game, they are more for knocking people over.

But there are so many variables to what youre asking, its hard to say. Are you asking headshots? bodyshots? SMG? AR? standard clip? extended clip? unbuffed? buffed? range?

It might take take 1 SMG clip point blank, 2 at medium range if they dodge, a few to the head, maybe cut the numbers in half if you are talking buffed ARs , but then they have a slower fire rate. And then its just guesswork on top of it.

Basically, what I'm saying is that the numbers wont be as clean cut as they are in other games.

I am not asking for hard numbers. Your guess is what i was after. will one clip unbuffed be enough to take a heavy down.

point-blank SMG, if every shot hits? probably

point-blank AR, if every shot hits? I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

medium range SMG, while hes dodging? doubt it

My guess that It will take about half a clip if you can properly aim at the head (Meaning that you can do 3+ headshots) at close to mid range with an SMG.

Unbuffed SMG? Make sure to get headshots or you are as good as dead.......

You could always kick them in the face with your energy legs.....

But they shouldn't take 3-4 clips to kills one that would make it unbalanced. The best answer would to do this bliviongate:

Catch them off guard.

I think maybe a 3-round burst from an assault rifle to the noggin mite do the trick

Everybody survives a direct hit from a GL, since direct hits do not cause death, they cause knockdown. It is a game mechanic that both makes GL's useful in their own right, while eliminating "noob tube" spam.

From what I'm imagining it'll be something like

Lights: speed 150 - Health 50
Medium: speed 100 - Health 100
Heavy: speed 50 - Health 150

(these are made up)

Now let's say your a light and you run into a heavy close range, what should you do?
A) Face him Head on! Your a beast!!!
B ) Throw a Grenade and retreat behind cover, then pop back out when the heavies on his ass
C) RUN AWAY!!!!!!
D) Call one of your teamates for help

Now most of these answers are good answers, you could try facing him head on, but most likely you'd get creamed since he has much more health than you, unless you've found a full proof way of ducking and weaving this probobly won't work. Throwing a grenade at the guy sounds like a good idea as well, but would only work if you were in a place with some cover, an open empty field would probobly cause you to die if you wasted your time with a nade. Running away could be a good idea too, you could retreat to higher ground and get him when your at the advantage. You could also call one of your teamates over, but unless you did one of the other options as well, then your pretty much screwed.

The best answer is to retreat and throw a grenade back, just in case he chases. If he does chase the grenade would nock him on his ass and you have the kill. If he doesn't chase, then try to flank him or get some sort of advantage on him.

Remember kids! Never face a heavy face on! You'll just end up like this guy! :gun: :dead:

Everyone would survive this. Grenades are not designed to kill in Brink.

He may be talking about when they get a direct impact from a grenade launcer... I personally think it should knock a light down in one hit if you direct hit him just because it would rarely happen...

That would actually happen much more often then you might thing due to the automatic grenade launchers..

^true, didn't think of that one... Although I'd rather not get knocked on my ass over and over from a rapid fire grenade launcher...

The whole point of Brink being designed like this is to put more skill in strategy and manuevers. This way noobs can't just go tossing nades and luanchers at people for easy kills. As for dealing with a heavy the previous options pretty much sums up all that you can do. Even if unload a whole clip on him while approaching he could still have a good amount of health depending on how much you hit him. Best option - Get to advantage point ->Gun him down or have teammates mop up.

OR just follow my EZ-Kill plan! (Guaranteed to work 10% of the time. Planner not responsible for mutilation, death, loss of limbs and/or pride)

Step 1 - Strafe past a heavy, shooting him a couple of times to obtain his attention. Repeat as necessary until his attention is decidedly fixed on you.

Step 2 - Run around a nearby corner.

Step 3 - Climb up the nearest wall and then jump up to the nearest flat surface that is directly above said corner.

Step 3 - Wait until the heavy comes into view.

Step 4 - Drop down behind that svcker and melee him into the ground!

Step 5 - Quickly introduce him to either: Your boot <-> Your shotgun

Problem solved, folks!

Baseball bat & Samvich.


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A some shots to his huge body, maybe some to the head and some evasive maneuvers. Perhaps.

It would probably be more; I'd expect that to be the average amount of life for a Light. Maybe six for a Heavy?

But scoring all six shots would be pretty hard.

Hey but he punched all of my blood out right after I said "If you was from where I was from....you'd be dead."

welcome to forum have a :turtle:

now if the heavy is powerful enough to take all you can put out at one time and still kill you while your dealing it wont that make him a little of a beginners tool or make him overpowered and another thing what will be the primary strategy to take him down? surprise attack?or just use your agility to avoid his shots while you set up a trap for him or set it up for a ally to get him?I hope a demo will help answer some of my questions.(hopefully all of them)

Simply put play to your strengths and don't play to his. Use your brain its not that difficult.

Some people make the Heavy sound like the Tank from L4D. It's not going to be that extreme.

Your theory is flawed! have you ever played an MMO?