Scrap Mechanic

Scrap Mechanic

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COMBAT GUIDE
By 444elistnik
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Why are you here?
You, I see, you are definitely here for something special... Maybe I you are a fan of fast FPS shooters and games of the SUPER GORE category, who has a creative mood, maybe someone who is looking for something to do in this game, believing that he has achieved everything, or maybe you are the one who could not believe that you died onece more in the Warehouse and came to seek salvation in the guides...

Anyway, wanderer, you will get what you wanted and become the top of the food chain in this world again
You may not know...
But some games such as quake and doom have a special technique which is called "Quickswitching"

The first thing to know is that you can skip cooldown animation of every weapon using this technique by, of course, switching slots. SO, you can accelerate your fire rate and gain an advantage.

The Hammer

And if I am telling you all this ♥♥♥♥ right now I want to say that Scrap Mechanic has this accelerating technique. And here it is... The most effective and simple technique

Right now you can see average fan of punching air without any tricks. This looks like he is gonna die soon because of fatigue.


On the over hand you can see gigachad average techniques enjoyer who prefers destroying trees like a man instead of robbing houses near the road. Because of this ultimate power the sun has risen. As you can see with each punch I switch my weapon slot to encrease my firerate. I would recommend you to set "1" and "2" like "z" and "x"


So you might already understood that this technique can destroy rocks and robo-heads as well

Actually, at this point, you can leave this guide. But if you want more advanced tricks let's see the next part of this article

If you noticed, after any hammer shot, your character slows down by 0.5 seconds, which is just terrible and unforgivable! Are you going to spend your whole life in your computer games? Then learn to save these 0.5 seconds! Switching to any other item cancels the current deceleration instantly, but be careful-switching to the hammer back any time will slow you down again immediately and make you wait the same amount of time, so the best option is to" recharge " the hammer while standing at the broken box, waiting for the loot to fall out, or simply avoid the deceleration stage by constantly switching after hitting.

Here you can see 2 variations.The first one is done without this technique and the second with it



Ok, now let's see what quickswitching can do with other weapons

Semi-auto Weapons

First of all semi-auto weapons are Spugun and Spudshotgun. Both of these weapons have the same firerate, so I am gonna accelerate only shotgun.

Here it is-natural fire rate of the semi-auto weapon. Nothing special











And this is how THE REAL DAMAGE LOOKS LIKE. This technique has the highest DPS in the game. It can kill farm bot without taking any damage very quick


Automatic Weapon

There is only one automatic weapon and there isn't anything special about it. But you can control firerate by always clicking the fire button for getting better accuracy

Without stabilization


With stabilization


You may say that this is useless but hear me out. Spudling gun can drain your ammunition very quickly and not because of low accuracy but because of the fact that you hit every unit more than it actually needs. I would call this weapon V2 of the spudgun with function of fullauto in sticky situations

Faltering System

The water bucket is actually a weapon. You can falter Haybots with it. Let's see what we will get by stunning hay bot and then using accelerated hammer


You may say that this method is inefficient beacuse you can't hold many buckets and it's hard to fill them with water but there is a trick with a vacuum pump which will give you 600 water buckets


So the only thing up to you is how many buckets are you gonna take with you. Water buckets will open you possibility to kill haybots for free (without using any ammunition) and will give you ability to split groups of enemies for better combo performing
Combos
In this article I will show you some weapon combo in order of decreasing potato consumption.

4 Potatoes
The most simple, ugly and inefficient method
Shotgun+Shotgun

3 Potatoes
My favorite one after getting shotgun. Really fast and efficient
Spudgun+Shotgun+Hammer

2 Potatoes
My favorite before getting the shotgun
Spudgun+Doublehammer+Spudgun+Hammer


Pretty good variation with 2 scenarios
Shotgun+Doublehammer


Doublehammer+Shotgun


1 Potatoes
Eco mod. You can fire to make unit spot you or to give it extra damage in the middle of the combo
Spudgun+Doublehammer+Doublehammer


Doublehammer+Spudgun+Doublehammer


Potato Free
Nothing really interesting to say here
Hammeruntilitisdone


Waterbucket+Hammeruntilitisdone

Stats
In this article I will show you some data about damage taken, heal and more.

Weapon Damage

I noticed that even in wiki there isn't any information about bot's resistance to weapons, so here it is-
Table including resistance data.

First of all let's see all entities in the game to make navigating more simple for newbies


P.s1 In column "shots" for shotgun after first number there is this figure "(...)". Well, you see, shotgun shots 4 bullets at once, so the first number is how many times you need to shoot actually and second number is how many bullets have to reach the target

P.s2 R.Penetration is measured as a percentage relative to Spudgun penetration which is always 100%. The less R.penetration weapon has the stronger unit's resistance to this weapon is and the opposite

P.s3 Glowb has the same data as Haybot, Tapebot type:red has the same data as Tapebot type:blue

Unit
Hammer
Minigun
Spudgun
Shotgun
Unit
Hammer
Minigun
Spudgun
Shotgun
haybot
Shots
5
5
5
2 (7)
tapebot
Shots
Head
2
1
1
1 (1)
haybot
Penetration
100%
100%
100%
80%
tapebot
Penetration
Head
50%
100%
100%
100%
haybot
Cost
0
5
5
4
tapebot
Cost
Head
0
1
1
2
totebot
Shots
3
3
3
1 (4)
tapebot
Shots
Body
2
2
2
1 (3)
totebot
Penetration
100%
100%
100%
80%
tapebot
Penetration
Body
100%
100%
100%
80%
totebot
Cost
0
3
3
2
tapebot
Cost
Body
0
2
2
2
farmbot
Shots
80
55
25 (100)
Woc
Shots
10
10
10
4 (13)
farmbot
Penetration
0%
66%
100%
50%
Woc
Penetration
100%
100%
100%
80%
farmbot
Cost
Nerves
80
55
50
Woc
Cost
0
10
10
8



Entity Damage

Difficulty
Totebot
Haybot
Farmbot
Tapebot
Tapebot Red
Easy
7
Poke-10
Swing-15
Kick-5
Swipe-17
Projectile Impact- 2
Projectile per sec. - 5
27
31
Normal
15
Poke-20
Swing-30
Kick-10
Swipe-35
Projectile Impact- 4
Projectile per sec.- 10
55
62

Heal

This crazy game only has 3 items to heal yourself

Sunshake
Veggie Burger
Pizza Burger
10
100
100

Special Techniques
There will be some creative combat techniques even if they are not really efficient.

Ultrasaw
Crash your enemies using this powerful device! If you will hit it with good angle it will kill haybot instantly or it will drop bot on the floor. When you use this technique bots can't get close to you because they are to scared of you.

Planting video


Show of force


Bhop
Many old players know that it was removed and this is true. However, I can offer a movement option that, while maintaining the usual speed, will allow you to jump 3 times higher if you want to surprise others with your acrobatics and give bots a slap in the face by jumping over them. Of course, we are talking about placing an elevator and activating it right on the run.

However, many scrap mechanics have faced such a problem that when they press the run button, they can't change the slot of the selected weapon and lift the elevator. To do this, you can set the auto run by selecting the Shift+w combination for the running action and at the same time set the lift lift to a more convenient button (for me this is CapsLock) Then all you need is to hold down Shift and W, getting the auto run. The technique can allow you to hit the heads with a hammer, if you get the proper skill, right between the elevator placement


The End
This guide was provided to you in order to increase the pleasure of the game and expand the game experience, it is useless to argue that almost all the techniques shown have no value, since you can just shoot a shotgun at anything and get the same result. The shown techniques only allow you to add life and action to the combat system, giving out the saving of potatoes in profit. Most people will only be interested in the opportunity to hit the hammer more frequently, but if you are one of those who does not like to look for easy ways, then you will definitely like this guide.


Thank you for reading my guide! Let me know your opinion in the comments and if you want to add your techniques to my guide, I will be grateful.

I also plan to release a guide to collecting resources such as component kits, so support me if you rate this idea positively.

I am not a native English speaker so maybe I need an editor, notice me
27 Comments
garryfstevens 6 Jul @ 1:44am 
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444elistnik  [author] 7 Jun @ 4:24am 
Hey-hey, thank you for reading that whole thing! I think I've seen spudgun do that(the thing you mention) not sure how to replicate tho. Getting prepared to write guides on the upcoming new content.
Xane Tempest 26 May @ 5:20am 
A very helpful guide for a non-combatant builder like me/
Not sure if it's a new thing, or I'm just dim, but I can really get an impressive ROF on the base spudgun, allowing me to kill a farmbot unharmed while backpedaling. There's a specific timing that fanning the action button allows you to fire faster than holding it... a LOT faster.

As for everything else, thank you for making this guide and your English is better than many native speakers. I don't think you need much, if any editing here!

A Resource Farming guide would be useful to some, I'm sure. For me, I just smash crates and haybots wherever I find them...
MORT 10 Jan @ 7:23pm 
Thank you, I found it usefull! :ccrcoin:
vladimir 6 Jan @ 12:43pm 
cool.
444elistnik  [author] 4 Aug, 2023 @ 6:56am 
That's pretty interesting! There is also that one which uses a bearing with a block on it which seems to be working really consistent
DΛRK 1 Aug, 2023 @ 5:40am 
Very nice guide, thanks for collecting the data for everyone to see! One thing that would fit very well into this i think, is an early game method for killing farmbots. And i mean EARLY game, all you need is your trusty hammer and a tree. That's it. You turn the tree into rods, lie them flat on the ground, perpendicular to the farmbot, and then hit it into the farmbots legs. If you want a more indepth explanation on this, hit me up
(ham mafia) snuggleg 21 Apr, 2023 @ 3:54pm 
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(ham mafia) snuggleg 21 Apr, 2023 @ 3:54pm 
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DoktorBlin 21 Apr, 2023 @ 5:20am 
god dauym there is real good stuff in here