It Just Wouldn't Die...

[woolfoma]

83 Pistol hits
4 Rifle hits
2 Shotgun hits
? Hits on the destroyed sensor (approx. 4 more pistols shots, no other weapons hit it)

It still wouldn't die... WHY WON'T IT JUST DIIIEEEEE!!!!!
WHY!!!!!!

[Shad]

Not the squirrels!!!

[falcongrey]

Yeah, those squirrels are the deadliest thing in the game! Of course you have to kill those before trying to tackle those CentiMechs... Nasty little buggers!

[falconbunker]

Are you sure that is not a tank in disguise as a centipede?

[Keychan]

Mechaniods are suppose to be intelligent combat AI.  See how none of the pawns are dead or incapacitated.  Even they know eliminating squirrels is top priority.

Also, I find the reason why Centipedes are so hard to kill is that they have all so many body parts, the rings mainly, that it's hard to completely destroy a vital part.

[Shurp]

Note that most of the wounds are pistol wounds.  That's part of the problem.  Don't bring a pistol to a machinegun fight

[porcupine]

I look at this picture, and I already know who dies. 

Rubio takes a shot in the back of the head from Victor, guaranteed!

[Lerxst]

Dev console. This is the one and only random event I cheat past since it usually happens when I'm still carrying pistols and knives.

[porcupine]

Dev console. This is the one and only random event I cheat past since it usually happens when I'm still carrying pistols and knives.

That's no fun.  They're still entirely manageable with pistols and knives in most scenario's, you just have to get creative.  Box 'em in somewhere (IE: with heat), try to lure 'em to attack somebody or something else accidentally, lure 'em somewhere you can have a cave-in occur, explosives, turrets, start disassembling stuff to build a comms. console and beg for help, mass melee and pray for the best, or just wait 'em out and hope some other event plays out that might help, etc.

[cultist]

Before centipedes had their melee damage buffed, I sometimes used brawlers in power armor to take them out. Getting my first melee kill on a mechanoid was pretty satisfying. I wouldn't recommend it in the current version though.

[Shurp]

Question: why do you only have pistols and knives?  Surely pirates have dropped a few rifles and combat suppliers have offered a few more for sale before mechanoids show up?

[woolfoma]

I look at this picture, and I already know who dies. 

Rubio takes a shot in the back of the head from Victor, guaranteed!

Nope, thankfully that didn't happen

Not the squirrels!!!

Ik! I had 3 squirrels self-tame (all separate events) and had trained release on them. they all went down it this brutal battle. Rest in pieces squirrels of war... rest in pieces...

Dev console. This is the one and only random event I cheat past since it usually happens when I'm still carrying pistols and knives.

I killed it in about another 6 hours. The 50 plasteel (+25 from the other mech) I got went towards a certain plasteel turret currently tearing apart raiders. No one got permanent injuries from the encounter. Everyone went up about 1 level in shooting or more (depending on passion). All in all a good trade off. Though there is actually 2 crashed ship parts that happened back-to-back, so I now need to go deal with the other one

Question: why do you only have pistols and knives?  Surely pirates have dropped a few rifles and combat suppliers have offered a few more for sale before mechanoids show up?

Nope, sadly all the raiders were carrying were grenades and swords (the snipers hung back and then fled when their friends died) and all the combat suppliers charge an arm and 3 lungs for a pistol. I'm just over a year in and the only weapons I've gained have been shotguns, pistols, and grenades... I'm mainly relying on turrets to do the bulk of my fighting, which doesn't help me when I need to take out crashed ship parts.

[mumblemumble]

Yes,  centipedes in particularly are tanky for several reasons.

One,  they are not organic. This means no pain, bleeding,  shock,  or weaker biological functions which can be crippled to incapacitate the host as easily. Compared to Raiders,  its much harder,  because theres no pain incap,  bleed out,  infection,  ect.

2nd, they are massive,  and have many useless parts,  which are meaningless to hit. Unless you destroy the processor,  or a couple other parts,  it won't drop.

My advice is to use high damage weapons... Grenades would help, they hit hard compared to pistols,  and that is what you want,  so a hit will break something 

[Listen1]

I like this kind of enemy, another thing that worked was grenades, since they hit multiple body parts. I tried derping the centipede with a jogger and other colonist started trowing grenades behind cover. Worked pretty well.

Also, grenades work wonders to defend small corridors and to kill some wild hunter packs in the doorway. And hunting. *giggle*

[Limdood]

I look at this picture, and I already know who dies. 

Rubio takes a shot in the back of the head from Victor, guaranteed!

As far as I'm aware, and what i've seen playing dozens of playthroughs has circumstantially proven it, you won't accidentally hit someone in a tile adjacent to them.

I've often set up 2 adjacent rows of pawns, with the back row shooting thru the front row with no issues (other than enemy misses getting easy accidental hits on my other pawns).  But when i set up a third row, my back row would occasionally hit the front row.

This can be useful if you have shielded pawns directly in front of shooters, but you're still better off spreading out (and merely making the shielded pawns in their own cover, closest to enemy) - simply because a missed shot AT mr. shield can hit mr. sniper