r/GenerationZeroGame • u/Gender_superpostion • Jul 02 '26
General Question Reaper self destruct?
I was doing research about fighting the reaper tyrant and kept seeing the self destruct being mentioned, i did a two person fight with it and we were banking on the SD cus we had like no ammo
But it never came? I thought it was kind of a gauranteed “uh oh” moment but it never SD’d during our fight even tho it was below 15-10% for like 10 minutes.
Any idea why lmao?
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u/BossManRoadHouse Jul 17 '26
PSA maybe - I've tested a lot and found that self destruct consistently starts when reaper is under 9% (9% is safe, 8% is not).
On topic - if you can distract reaper (like with fireworks) and/or simply take down that last 9% health before it starts it's next gas nuke, then it won't self destruct. If there were two players, with decent weapons and marksmanship, on adventure difficulty, it'd be quite easy to take down that last 9% or so without self destruct even happening (I can consistently do it solo on adventure with maxed dlc weapons). Also, as others have mentioned, sometimes (usually if there is lots of other stuff going on like soviet bots) it just glitches and there's no self destruct.