Or that the ability to leap allows Elite Scavengers to survive for longer than regular ones. Thus becoming some sort of “elders” among scavengers and earning the elite title.

Bro I ended up killing like one or two elite scavs who had their highest karma as 4. All I wanted was to leave metropolis after the ending. I had to kill like 30 more scavs to find one with high enough karma.

Well, naturally!

Feels like a mouthfull of plot armor

No, that's just a taser spear

70º range to be precise.

@@Whydoiexisthere-thats over double, goodness me

Not really , scavenger's head take 10x more damage from all sources of harm except shockwaves Thats results their death after bite in the head by anything

artificer spoilers, just in case (if this spoiler warning applies to you then godspeed to you but you ARE in danger run run run!!!!!!) is arti’s other ending really happy? its implied she failed ascension due to her hatred tying her to the world (like one of the arti-exclusive echoes and five pebbol mention) so she might have become an echo or something

@outspacedest I mean, if you've got an ending where a genocide happens and one where it doesn't, i don't think you need to be a philanthropist to see which one's better. I mainly call it a "good ending" when juxtaposed with the other one, which i consider an "evil ending" but artificer does get some reward for their efforts to let go, and they're at least able to find a little peace with themselves

In my view, neither ending is good, regardless of what artificer does she cannot let go of her wrath no matter how hard she attempts to. By going through with her scav murder, she’s locked herself onto the path. Attempting to ascend leads to nothing for her, the only thing she gets is to see her two pups but then she gets taken away once more, and isn’t treated to a full ascension like the others. Neither of these is a “good ending” to me. To me it’s the “canon” and “neutral” ending, as she never redeems herself nor gets full comfort in either one. You could argue that seeing her two pups was enough, but I don’t view it as such. It just never felt right, but of course other people are entitled to their views and theories on the situation. ^^

This is kinda a long shot as not a lot of people are familiar with it but I look at it the same way a person could look at the different endings of Lisa: the Painful. In reality, it end the same way, taking the more difficult path results in minute differences. But you the player get to decide whether the effort makes it worth it.

_casually stabs fellow scav_

That's because they hunt you down, unlike lizards and vultures which they are scared of.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking at the time but I wasn’t sure how to word it.

Aw shucks, thank you for the compliment! Now if only I had a cool documentary voice like zefrank. That is an interesting idea! I have found that creatures with the same IDs do have the same stats, though not necessarily the same looks of course. I am a bit wary of manually spawning creatures into safari mode, as often times they act as though they were transitioned from another region (like if you were to take your tamed lizard with you through the gate) and will hop between different den sites instead of having a main den they return to. I’m not sure how a scavenger would react upon being dropped in to a region they didn’t naturally spawn. I’ll have to test that!

This

"That is how Slugpups dew. Brilliant little creatures, look at them go - one even has a Vulture mask!... wait how did that happen, Jerry did you see how it got that?"

In the official Level editor for the game they are referred to as Wack-a-mole holes.

Sorry if i come off as a douche Still doesnt explain why one of the elites straight up stole a pearl.

They very silly!

Would make lots of sense, Since there are many vultures in metropolis it looks like many were able to become elites! I think that a king vulture would work better tho as the marking are hidden because of paint the scavs put on

It's Artificer's safari overseer actually. Spearmaster and Artificer overseers look very similar.

Give porl, and try not to murder them. Giving them mushrooms works well too.

I suggest going to the scav roll in garbage wastes near shaded citadel entrance, there’s a storeroom pretty close by and pearls there respawn every cycle making it quite easy to increase reputation

give them spears, crouch when you're around them, hand them pearls if they have stuff you want and they may drop them, and always pay the toll tolls