If you don't have 100% confidence in parrying the next heavy attack, just do a normal blocking and back down to catch up the tempo, don't risk taking full damage, or you'll drive your medic mad. Most melee weapons can use reload button to cancel the blocking recovery animation, which can decrease the time you need to begin the next parrying animation. Same applies to FP, unless you absolutely need to solo it with Pulverizer or hold it off, just take a single hit to derage it and get away immediately so your teammates can get another shot at it. You should also take action accordingly, don't face hugging every single zed you see, especially when your sharp/demo needs only one headshot to kill SC, they can't get a clear shot if you send the SC into various of unpredictable animations.

So a common tanking tactic is to activate red eye by parrying, then switch to Bone Crusher blocking for maximum damage mitigation. The red eye buff gives you 40% extra all-damage resistance, which can be combined with other resistance. That's pretty interesting, though I'm surprised by how long it's been in the game if that's the reason.Most weapons block more damage when parrying than simply blocking, except Bone Crusher, which does the exact opposite. To answer the OP, no I do not believe the Scrake to be a reference to Resident Evil. It takes a bit of time to set up, but when it works I find it very satisfying. If the demo misses, there is a high chance he is going to be cut in half. I believe that Demo did not have the same skill set it does today, so it wasn't quite as effective as it is now.

Tripwire remedied this with the RPG dud shot, a high risk, high reward method that gave demo a better option of dealing with this high tier threat.

Demolitionist was the answer to flesh pounds at that point but couldn't help with scrakes due to the explosive resistances they had. Originally, when demolitionist was first implemented, there wasn't a reliable way to quickly and efficiently take out Scrakes. Sharpshooter is the best at killing Scarkes IMO since most of the weapons (crossbow especially) can stun him which makes him an easy target. Originally posted by Netsa: If not, does anyone know what the real reason is for this stat being in the game? It's a 4x multiplier on one of the most powerful weapons in the game, it's completely unnecessary.

Killing floor 2 scrake weakness