hey there fellow generation zero players welcome back to the channel today we're diving deep into the heart of danger as we tackle the most feared machine in the game The Reaper in this video I'll equip you with the knowledge and the strategies you will need to take down this deadly adversary so let's get started before we jump into battle it's crucial to understand what we're up against the reaper is a formidable machine equipped with Advanced weaponry and deadly accuracy and its armored plating makes it a tough nut to crack but fear not I have some tricks up my sleeve now rape is their hands down the most dangerous machines in game hosting many apocalypse type weapons and impenetrable shield system a hefty amount of health and a destructive attack called the thermobaric explosion so powerful it kills everything in its blast radius however it's not impossible to take down we already know the strengths of this machine but let's get to know some of its weaknesses first being the sure generators there are four Shield generators on the reaper two on the shoulder joints and two on the knee joints destroying these is no easy task but it's the only real way to deal damage to the reaper so make this a priority now once those Shield generators are destroyed think of the reaper like any other tank just with 100 times the health so focusing on these same weak spots such as the knee pads which ones shut off will reveal a weak spot in the knee joint the machine gun and mortar on the underside of the reaper can be shut off preventing the reaper from using hard to predict attacks and forcing it really to rely on million gas attacks only another huge weak spot is the head protection which is protected by three thick plates of armor that will require lots of bullets to shoot off but once the armor is breached this is a spot that will deal very high damage the last weak spot we'll talk about is a critical spot located where the two leg joints meet the main chassis of the tank now understanding the Reaper's attacks is a whole other story no fight is the exact same making it very difficult to predict its movements and attacks just know that usually once the machine guns have finished firing the reaper launches a volley of missiles and this tends to repeat until you actually start dealing some damage to him whereafter he will start venting green gas which also indicates the thermobaric explosion which means you get to cover behind a solid wall or Rock So entry stumps work as well now keep in mind this blast is approximately 120 meters in radius crazy anyway after using the thermobaric blast the reaper will always spawn in a handful of Runners to his Aid and then the cycle genuinely like generally starts over the only other difference in attacks will be if you get too close to him in which it will use the purple gas attack which is crazy powerful all the reaper utilizes its Shockwave Stomp and merely Rush ability where it will run at you causing significant damage if you're anywhere close to those giant feet of his preparation is key when facing the rebar let's talk about the essential steps to take before engaging in combat now we understand just how much health the reaper has which means you'll want to utilize the most powerful weapons in game this being experimental weapons such as the PVG 90 kvm59 and even the 44 magnets don't get me wrong you can take down the reaper without these weapons but you'll have a much harder time without PVG 90 makes quick work of the reaper Shield generators and allows you to use range to your advantage whilst weapons like the kvm-59 with its high capacity magazine will uh will deal significant damage to the Reaper's exposed weak points I also like using the experimental 44 Magnus which if if shot at say like a tree it will Splinter the bullets into fragments which deal insane amounts of damage upon impact so this weapon comes in handy for hitting weak points and also stripping armor off covered components so if you want to make this easier on yourself be sure to check out my video on the best way to get experimental weapons in game you will also need to craft a hefty amount of ammo for this fight with the reaper I'm talking thousands of rounds not to mention if you're wanting to use rockets and other equipment this means using a significant amount of resources so let's discuss some of the best ways in my opinion to bulk up your materials and suppliers so you're ready for this fight first off I know it sounds obvious but loot everything a lot of people don't do this and understand why because it does get a little bit boring but it's the it's the easiest way to get your hands on free ammunition and even things like first aid kits and even self-revives which you will need for the reaper fight so go out there check every box every 10 every house secondly the best place to find ammo is probably the farmlands region there are a lot of trenches and Military encampments so make sure you check out these spots for a ton of suppliers and lastly some of the easiest ways to gain materials and resources is to just do the weekly challenges in game it's super easy and the rewards are pretty decent if you can make it to the final tier of challenges before the weekly timer runs out I want to quickly mention as well that I do not recommend that you use experimental ammo for the reaper fight firstly at the time of making this video the two best Special ammo types that being the shock and the heat ammo no sorry no longer actually work properly in game so hopefully that gets fixed as soon as possible and secondly it is just ridiculously expensive to craft you'd have to grind hundreds of Base assaults and base defenses in order to just craft a few thousand rounds if that of experimental ammo so I would advise against it but that's up to you now that we're fully prepared it's time to devise the battle plan to take down the reaper remember strategy is just as important as Firepower so let's go over some of the best approaches for defeating the Reaper first I would say that a lot of the shooting should be done from a distance and I'll explain why so we've already discussed the fact that the reaper has thick armor plating over some of its weak points and that it has incredible Weaponry so it makes sense to tackle this from a distance firstly destroy the Force Shield generators that make the reaper immune to damage then I would focus on taking off some of those uh thick armor plates that will reveal weak points for us to hit at a later time so using your PVG from a safe distance away Target the two armored knee pads the three layers of armor on the head or the main body of the tank and finally the weapons the Reaper's weapons will be very difficult to destroy but it's The Logical Choice as even from a distance the reaper will still try its best to kill you with them if long distance typing isn't for you and you have good movement and weapon skills you can choose to do all of what I just said up close and personal it will be much more difficult but using the experimental 44 Magnus it would be very easy to strip all those armor and weapons off the reaper once the shields have been taken out now once the weapons and thick armor plating have been removed the reaper is left with not many choices as to how it will defend itself by this point in time I would move much closer to the Target and focus all my efforts on the weak points that we mentioned previously in the video if playing with friends or in multiplayer coordination is key I would follow the same steps I just laid out but once the shields have been taken out you could have one player using snipers and Rockets from a distance while having the other utilizing High ammo capacity weapons to deal as much damage to weak points as possible the options with multiplayer are kind of endless so get creative and try to see what works for you now let's talk about how to evade the Reaper's attacks and how to stay alive during the intense battle personally I think this heavily depends upon which region you decide to spawn him in for me I tend to spawn the reaper in the forest region which doesn't offer a lot of cover so you need to be able to evade the reapus attacks however if you spawn it in the farmlands regions for instance there is a lot more cover that offers greater protection nevertheless machine gun fire can be evaded relatively easily however the missile volley is a different story because the missiles spread out and cover a wider range of area this is why I would try to take the weapons out as soon as possible to avoid getting blown up from this attack now the thermobaric explosion is a bit more tricky to get away from as the radius of the blast covers over 100 meters so you'll need to get behind a solid object such as a building rock or even a thick tree stump will work keep in mind if you do get caught out in the blast you will instantly killed so yeah the rape is other attacks like the biochemical guard and gas Shockwave Stomp and melee Rush are also a little tricky to evade as the gas is fast moving and the melee rush and stomp can be very unpredictable especially when up close my tips would be whenever you're fighting up close and personal keep some of you stamina so if either of those attacks do go off you can quickly Sprint away before taking any damage alrighty guys before we go ahead and put all these practices in place it's worth noting that the more damage you deal to the reaper the more frequent his thermobaric explosion is so if you notice that he's doing the attack very often sometimes even one after the other then you need to deal as much damage as you can as possible because this means he's low on health and each thermabaric explosion he does is dealing damage to himself if you do notice a lot of red venting coming from the main chassis of the reaper and he starts to release the gas for the thermobaric explosion this will be your final chance to take him down because that explosion will destroy him it's time to put our plan into action and claim victory over the reaper let's go alrighty guys so it's time to put all that practice and all that knowledge now to the test so we're gonna go and um I'm gonna go take down the reaper now my only only thing with this right now is he's in a pretty rough area right now there is there's certainly no cover around them which is my own fault because I shouldn't really be spawning them in the Farm Lane straight in the forest region Farmers sorry region is way better for cover just my personal opinion but yeah so how this is gonna work is I'm probably gonna do it in little segments I'm not going to make you guys watch like a 20 25 minute engagement with the reaper so what we're going to do is we're going to take out his Shields and I'll cut back to that so I'll start taking out his Shields and that'll cut to when they're done then I'll show you take Jesus I'll show you taking out um is the the knee joints and maybe the chest armor or the front front chassis armor and I'll cut back to when it's gone um and then we'll go from there now this won't be like a normal engagement because normally I would like to go up close and use the 44 Magnus but I don't think he's going to give me that opportunity because there is no cover but uh yeah we'll see how we go guys alrighty guys sorry we have actually taken off the first two and he's going crazy with his Mr polish today yes we actually have taken off the Reaper's uh top two shoulder uh Shield generators now I know I say take out the shield generators first before going then for the thick knee armor plates but in my opinion it is much easier he always if you're engaged with him which I am now he always stands like face facing you so you're not going to be able to get those Shields off behind his knee um so it's easier just shooting the knee pads off so you can gain better access to the shield generators not to mention the fact that the PVG has a penetration effect similar to the 44 Magnus where um if you shoot through an object sorry if you shoot through say right there like I just did if I shot through that knee pad right there like the exposed knee joint The Shield generator is on the opposite side of that knee joint it goes straight through and Deals like crazy amounts of damage to the uh the tissue generator on the opposite side all right that is unfortunate that's okay only after volley after volley everywhere's freaking exposed all right there he goes there all right there we go guys so his shield generators are all off at the moment so we can't can't put his Shields back up which is good for us um now we're probably just gonna focus on E3 front armor panels and then maybe the weapons if I can get close enough and yeah guys I'll um pop back in with you once we've done that alrighty guys so we have just we've just destroyed the missile pod and that's because he keeps going into a state where he um he keeps doing his thermobaric explosion and it makes it really easy I'm gonna die damn it it makes it really easy for us to uh get quite close to him and use one of the logs with the 44 Magnus and that's how I'm doing pretty much all the damage to him right now all right here we go so right now he doesn't have his shield up I just have to dodge all these um idiots and then I basically come in as close as I can help us with my gun's Reloaded there we go we just took something else off there as well and we need to get behind this real quick all right and then we can do it again I guess so he hasn't got any more guns now everything's destroyed now we can just uh lay into him now he's gonna run around like a headless truck right now but it doesn't really matter um we've got all the logs around that we need that we can just keep using that 44 Magnus and just absolutely smoking right now he's in a state where he doesn't know what to do sometimes he charges sometimes it just stands there like an idiot so um we're gonna make use of that we're gonna ride in front of him now remember he can still do his gas attacks just be careful right now like I said he's in like a little bit of a weird state where he's not really doing anything all right there we go three Shields back up so you can't really do anything that's not a problem now we are doing an absolute ton of damage to him so we're gonna have to be really careful with this and actually kill himself all right run back see he's doing he's uh another thermobaric straight away so you know he's damaged all right I'm just gonna have to guard back now he's not he's not red venting just yet so he shouldn't actually destroy himself all right killed all those minions of his we've gone back in with the 44 there we go he's red venting so he's damaged we need to pump as much bullets into him as we can right now boom there we go still gonna do the vent I mean the explosion this is a bad SA and there we have it guys it's um it's that simple like I said don't don't be silly like me the forest region is ridiculous um to defeat him it's just so open there's barely any cover I had to I had to um I had to make like I think I had 11. adrenaline shots at the start of this so I went through 10. um again just do it in the farmlands region this is so much more cover but uh yeah I was just being silly but yeah that's that's that's how you do it guys it's that simple and there you have it fellow Gamers we've covered everything you need to know to take down the deadliest machine in generation zero the reaper remember preparation strategy and perseverance a key to emerging Victorious I hope you all enjoyed this video if you did be sure to smash that like button and let me know if your experience is taking down the reaper Below in the comments section and if you haven't already don't forget to hit that subscribe button and join this awesome Community here at cure replays we've got plenty more gaming content coming your way so stay tuned and until 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