I agree, small hard to see hitscan enemies is really bad game design, I got no idea how to avoid their fire in the open.

I switch to the laser weapon when they show up as they can't shoot you while being shot with it. Grenade launcher is also good to get rid of them quick. Shotgun isn't to great against them though

Pretty sure that if you shoot at them before, they won't shoot at you, but yeah, in groups it can be tough.

Spider bots was designed to be annoying.

Originally posted by iPie:

Spider bots was designed to be annoying.

gigachad

The tiny eye that shoots the laser is my one complaint with this game.

100% of my deaths came to that one enemy type.

Originally posted by iPie:

Spider bots was designed to be annoying.

Were they changed much between the demo and final release? I like the demo found them annoying enough that I stopped playing. There's fun I want to get them annoying and just I can't be bothered annoying. Probably won't be buying if they are like that in the final product. Not sure if that was the kind of annoying you were going for?

I nerfed the damage to them, but I don't remember exactly if it was before or after the demo. Each opponent in the game provokes a certain response from the player. Spider robots are used only in places where you can quickly react to them, or hide behind a corner. They are not used in places where damage from them cannot be avoided. If you immerse yourself in history, you can remember scorpions from Serious Sam, cultists in Blood and Doom 2 Archviles. It seems to me that these opponents are much tougher and more dangerous than spider robots.
If you think about this topic more philosophically. Probably the lead designer of Dark Souls also received feedback that it is very difficult to play and in general a game where everyone humiliates you sucks. But now Dark Souls is a cult game, and the founder of a new genre - souls like. ILLWILL does not pretend to be a cult, I just make the game the way I think it should be.