April 2017
You mean the attack when the fiend grabs you and kills you?
As far as I know there is no way to escape them. You have to avoid being grabbed. I use the invisibility skill (don't know the English word right now) to get some distant between me and the fiend and take the chance to attack him. Its a tech skill and also the Infiltrator profile will make you invisible for a few seconds after dodging.
April 2017 - last edited April 2017
i did it once somehow. glitch i suppose. i'm not entirely sure how it happened... i was using the vanguard profile tried to do a timely dodge (though they seem to have completely changed the timing from ME3 evades), and the fiend caught sara even though it looked like she should have avoided the grab, i kept tapping jump, dodge, and the direction key away from the fiend, all at the same time. as she got slammed on the ground ryder dodged backwards and avoided the killing blow. though i've never been able to repeat it. might have been that i actually did avoid the initial grab but the sequence still played out i guess.
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however, it was a "oh, hell yes that was bada**!!!!" moment. and my expectations for the game grew, untill i realized that wasn't an actual feature. as it never happened again. i was so depressed afterward.
April 2017
@CasperTheLich wrote:
i did it once somehow. glitch i suppose. i'm not entirely sure how it happened... i was using the vanguard profile tried to do a timely dodge (though they seem to have completely changed the timing from ME3 evades), and the fiend caught sara even though it looked like she should have avoided the grab, i kept tapping jump, dodge, and the direction key away from the fiend, all at the same time. as she got slammed on the ground ryder dodged backwards and avoided the killing blow. though i've never been able to repeat it. might have been that i actually did avoid the initial grab but the sequence still played out i guess.
This really sounds more like a glitch/bug :/
April 2017
ok, what just happened to my post?
April 2017
I don't know! That's pretty strange.
Especially because I quoted your post and my post with the quote is still there. Weird.
Did you get any message about it?
April 2017 - last edited April 2017
nope, none
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did i just get ninja edited by a mod for some reason?
April 2017
Posts bug out and vanish sometimes when you edit them i noticed.. and often reappear randomly later
April 2017
I got lucky once think it's health was low and my team killed it before it finished me off other than that no... There used to be a bug before the patch where you are knocked out can hear everything happening around you, your team will still be fighting but you cant get up... cant reload cant do anything. cant be healed... thank goodness that's fixed.
April 2017
well, i guess the quoted bit is still there so that should do.
back to topic
now, that i think about it... i think bioware should take my glitch and add an escape mechanic to the fiend grab sequence based off of it. because that was just so awesome, that word doesn't do the scene justice.