How to DESTROY Firebirds In Generation Zero 

I think instead of the machine dying when you destroy all thruster modules it should land and walk around like a Vulture droid for Star Wars or similar I mean it has legs for wings

Am I the only person who immediately panics whenever blowing one out of the sky? I'm always instantly certain that I won't find the remains after it comes crashing down from the heavens. This game continues to make me want to explore every inch of the map. Generation Zero has really evolved into a masterclass open-world apocalyptic survival experience... Great video! Very helpful tips!

This is good info for when I am done driving my dirt bike from gas station to gas station and beeping my horn at robots. It will be a while.

One thing I hate about the firebirds is sometimes when you kill them, they drop in an area where you can't even get to them for the loot. Had one fall on top of a building. Had another fall into the middle of a small pond. UGH! That one was a rival that took me a bit to kill, so it was very frustrating.

I'd love to see a boss level soviet machine like the Reaper, and having it be a super amped up Firebird makes sense since I believe it was stated in the audio log in the new mission that they were designed to be the most powerful machines in the Soviet's arsenal.

I've encountered the classic bug of the fire hawk unloading a massive barrage of it's howitzer in less than a second. Same as the bug with the other Russian bots where they'd just fire 4-5 times in an instant.

First time seeing one in farmlands near the airbase was awesome.Went to check out some burning fire just north of the airfield and all a sudden I hear a noise and rising up from the trees....there it was!So cool and scary!Love them

What I learned: The best way to fight these things is to have a 5* 50 caliber sniper rifle.

I've really enjoyed fighting them so far, only had the Scout and Soldier classes and zero success with drops but still an absolute blast! I love how they also get in on the fight against the Swedish robots too, always handy to have a pack of runners or a couple of hunters running a distraction for you! 😁 And even though I haven't had a moped drop yet I was lucky enough to stumble on a static spawn "collectible" one so that was a nice surprise!

Haven't played Gen Zero in about 3 months. Looks like I need to keep my eye's upwards on the look out for these flying machines. This is slowly looking like Judgment Day....

i spend less bullets going for the trusters and when it comes to fighting many at once its better to shoot the thrusters cause they are always out in the open while their fuel tanks are going to be behind them since they are looking at you

Thanks for the tips man. I was having a heck of time trying to take them down.

A cheesy tip for anyone who wants a truly easy kill, the firebird has a 90% hacking chance when using binoculars, so in addition to it destroying loads of mobs in the area for easy exp, it becomes a shooting target for you.

That snow camo looks good on that gun I wish the camo would go on your attachments as well when they are attached to your gun if you choose to I just think it looks crappy when the skin and attachments don't match

I found that using rocket launchers is one of the best ways to deal with them. It takes around 10 rockets to take one down, and since rockets deal damage in one shot, you can dodge their fire while reloading.

a neat trick I use is somewhat meta, but generally hosing them with the Experimental KVM 59. the chain lightning from it will jump around to most components, regardless of impact point and can drop them in anywhere between 50-80 rounds. Often times i can get back around that much or more in ammo as loot off the Firebirbs or even the Lynx or Wolves that can sometimes be found near them, often leaving me with a net positive on ammo. Again, that's what works for me, and requires you have the Experimental 7.62 Machine gun.

Wow time flies. Its already been a year since the firebirbs came out.

If you have the hacking capability, every class got a 90% chance of hacking success rate so you can use your skill to stop them dead on tracks for easier aiming. I don't think this would stay long tho since I am not sure that 90% hacking rate is intentional or nah. I mean, compare a wolf or a harvester which has less success rate and less damage output to the firebird which has almost guaranteed success hack with probably the deadliest weapons to both machines and players. For me, it's fun to see your firebird "friend" kill off many of the robots it encounter.

My preferred method is running. Took me and my buddy 10 whole minutes just to shoot down one, and a lot of luck because if you get shot by this thing even one time, it's insta death.

Thanks for the schematic locations. Btw, scouts can be taken down with 4 HEDP rounds. Also for someone reason, as long as you can sneak yourself down under them, you can shoot with rockets and they won't detect you if you immediately prone after shooting.

I had this pop up in my recommended and I honestly couldn't remember what Firebirds were. Then I looked at the thumbnail and realized this video is about how to shoot down ammo piñatas.

Thank you tenebris, this helped me a Lot.

just few hours ago i was playing with a friend, we faced huuuge battle between the bots and there were two of these birbs up in the sky. i just took control of both of them with the hack and watched as they laid waste to the armies below. also our own dogos were spitting missiles all over. it was so fricking chaotic and so beautiful. i love this game.

One firebird is ok to deal with, but two...you best use the hack skill on the binocs, as it's always 90% chance. You hack one and let it be, tag one, attack it to get it close and start on the optics, then hack it and it will turn around, shoot the fuel tanks, voila. Rinse and repeat. You have absolutely no chance in the open against one, they WILL set you on fire and their weapons are brutally strong. The "baloon mines" are something else! I really LOVE this enemy, it adds another creepy, scary thing to the game. I couldn't imagine a Reaper version of this, but I wish all big enemies could be a Reaper.

Info for weak points is at 3:20 and is the two fuel cells and the optics. Aim for where the fuel cells are at if you're on the wrong side. The thrusters and weapon won't do much damage to it. He suggests using EMP rounds for multiple birds to stun them for a while.

the first time I saw this machine I hadn’t played in a while and I was so confused so I spent a few rockets then I watched your video and so I just use one rocket and a few 50 shots

Now we need video on how to tame a Firebird

The only instance I would recommend shooting at the thrusters is when you’re at long distance and they are preoccupied fighting the opposition, your pot shots at them they don’t seem to notice. Great videos!

I hope the next update brings another type of robot (with scary sounds).

1 EMP as it flies at you, and 6-8 shots into the eye from my 50mm... done!

Great video! The strategy I came up with that helps if I am pinned down by these is to use my rocket launcher with EMP ammo to temporarily stun it, then I unload on its crit spots with a sniper using AP rounds. Usually two rounds of this takes it down.

this has been helpful. now i know what components are destructible

I know this was 10 months ago but just wanted to put this out there when fighting a firebird, Shoot it with an EMP rocket and then use your 50 cal on the thrusters, comes down fast.. you just have to be fast at shooting the thrusters or shoot it with another EMP then finish it off.

Seeing these things at a distance gives me strong Terminator vibes, with the flying machines they had. Plus a lil.. idk what exactly. The smoke of their engines is so strong, it almost looks like they're either Seeding the land, or fumigating (us? O_O )! My first run in with one was outside one of the underground bases just a ways south west of the mission location. Could still hear the bloody thing under all that rock, and behind all those doors! xD

These flying machines are rough!!! I freeking love it!

Hacking them is super fun. And even more fun to watch the chaos

Finally great use for the emp rockets and then quick switch to sniper rifle works great.

Like I said before, it’s fun to shoot the thrusters out and watch them, literally spin out of the sky to the ground

Damn I haven’t updated yet so this is all new info for me

These new aerial drones are a lot of fun to fight one of my favorite new enemies

I love the physics when they fall down

I went the opposite way, I charge the hell out of it while doing serpentine and hit it with the rocket launcher while directly under it, with 2 hits I generally get either the weapon (it will fly really low to the ground and try to crush you but after one sweep it stay about 10 ft from the ground and not move) or the eye (it will stay stationary in the air after that) but legit maybe 4 rockets while dodging its shots which is surprisingly easy to do while under it

I’ve had some luck fighting them near my bases and the sniper nest helps you take them out. Just don’t fight from the base get close enough for guns to detect the bird and use what the game provides as cover bc it’ll destroy your base.

Thanks for the schematics locations!! 👏🏻👏🏻

well at least I learned they can be destroyed, hopped on after a few years to find one of these hovering over my safehouse and it ate 13 hedp rounds and never started smoking

Sniper them with the experimental sniper weapon, Easy kills !

Experimental rocket lunches go boom

I emp the firebird so it's easier to hit, though I hate when I kill one and it lands on the roof of a building I can't get to

I feel like they should add one as a companion for a dlc

I haven’t been able to play at all I lost my Xbox one in a house fire so there’s that

I like the firebird's as a single enemy when the game spawned 3 of them all my ammo was gone and my med kits as well

Component knowledge you mean a whole lotta bullets

Bro is it just me or do the lynx come in like packs of 20, I left a safe house and I spotted a firebird, a wolf, and literally 20 lynx’s

I always go for the engines the thrusters taking a couple of those out is a sure fire way to knock it out of the sky. I’ll use a building is cover it winds up hitting the roof and then I just back up and snipe it.

Scoring hits on the wing thrusters should give it an accuracy penalty.

So firing everything you have at them is not the answer? Thank goodness for these videos

Hi Tenebris. I've encountered a "good" bug on PC for this update. When playing as survivor specialization, you can use the revive skill for an unlimited time in combat, which essentially means you won't need any med kits or adrenaline shots. Perhaps you can check if it is reproducible too?? Maybe it is a new method to do some massive farming for med kits 😂 Also, death due to fall damage immediately requires an adrenaline shot to revive for some reason

I prefer accuracy by volume. It works pretty good so far.

I am going to recommend Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" as musical accompaniment to such activities.

LOL, "fireburbs" 0:07

I usually just shoot out all the thrusters, it works really well and it staggers it a lot of the time

We need more highflying enemies like these. These are definitely a lot of fun. I’ve been running around looking specifically for these machines because there’s so much fun to fight.

Hi guys! The best way to kill this monster is the experimental kvm59. a whole magazine on it, the shocks have influence in thrusters and stability, run, shoot, run shoot. THe explosive ammo does not really have effect, not on 50cal and either 9mm. Hagaboda mission, first kill the 4 or 5 firebirds, awesome powerful these things, you are in the basement of safehouse and he still affects you. Then go for the beacons. Aweful fights. Another tip. I have 500 kg of weapons, ammo and utilities. how? I always collect all until limit, go to my safehouse (Boo church) and deposit in front of the Plunder stuff, then i go again, collect again, deposit again. 3 backpacks full of weapons ammo etc. If you stuck in play, shit happens, it vanishes. But if you only die you respawn in your safehouse and all is there still. If you want to stop playing stay in front of plunder and backpacks and get ALL. So then you go to mainmenu. Then I also make upload to cloud. Switch off the AUTOMATIC upload !! If you get frozen without chance to move or game breaks then the system will upload this situation WITHOUT your backpacks. Guys, I have unlimited ammos, Weapons etc for a whole ARMY kkkkkkk GZ is FUN. Have a nice weekend!!! Greetings from Brazil DUDE !

Why do they stalk you? I am literally being stalked and followed all over the map by these, I go in a building and they just hover over it, I put down a waypoint and they hover over that!! Bane of my life!! 😆

Well it's more like Spider droid that can fly and I kind of expected a little bit different design ... oh well good enough I guess .

So I watched another RU-vidr named Brian something play generation zero for the first time, and I was extremely hooked on the gameplay… Killing zombies is fine nothing wrong with it, but there felt like a sophistication taken down machinery, and then the game mechanics how you get bigger and better and stronger weaponsany recommendations for a new player to go to watch beginners intermediate tips?

I’m stupid enough to try and take this guys with a bow since I was challenging myself to only use the bow and hooo boi it was a slog xD

I encountered a different way to do this I use a non experimental PVG and a machine gun it takes them down pretty quick for non experimental weapons

I've had three drop in water out of reach, and at least four with nothing to loot.

The higher tier ones, especially when you’re flying two or three can definitely deliver a decent challenge and I find it very fun to take these guys on. I’m really glad that they put them in the game.

So far blasting them with 7.62 light machine gun (I'm using RPK) with AP ammo work wonders for me. I tried 50BMG or rokets against these guys but I find it mowing down with machine gun works better. Double the points with EMP.

Heading to thrusters to how do you hit one or two of them they’ll spin out of control in the air and crash and it’s pretty wild and funny to see lol

I think these bird boys are wannabe ac-130s

3:32 bro was using armour piercing on the experimental pvg💀 ignorance is bliss i suppose

@Tenebris Infinite, An idea....I wonder if the "Unorthodox Skiing" mission would allow you to use the moped? An even better idea, slalom unorthodox skiing competition using motorbikes. I wonder how you would do on timing and doing this?

It would be cool to instead see a different type of teir for the soviet machines, possibly focusing on their specialisations rather than what fnix does with the whole poison,fire etc stuff. Great video by the way 😁

I highly recommend the hacker perk

I hate them but at the same time they are one of the coolest machines.

I love using the portable homing turrets they are super effective. I have no idea why the soviets never gave the firebirds any countermeasures

yeah I have a green 50cal and a blue automatgevar4 and it takes a year to take these things down 😂 also only lv13 and the 50cal has so much sway it is really hard to hit anything accurately.. but thanks still, this is really good info..

Man I had TWO of these fighting by hacking one. It took like half an hour for me to get it damaged enough with a green PVG. BUT, it dropped a gold PVG and the other drone flew off. Talk about luck.

I love your content bro, but this time I have to argue with you. I kill these things with 4 shots max with the exp 50 bmg. I shoot the thrusts and that's it. It just requires elegant patience. I tried this method of yours. I suck at it. It is 4 shots if you shoot right up the thrusts so be right under it. Each one may take 2 shots if you hit it from the side through the metal. Maybe.

I play solo and saw one of these these fighting the other mechs. Thought they were all on the same side? Worked for me though since I got to pick over the remains ! Also looks like there are multiple good ways to take one down. I hit it with 2 rockets and then a 4-star Sjoqvist with 4-star choke 5-8 12guage slugs right in the eye.

I deal with multiple firebirds by spawning a Reaper, drawing 2 or 3 to the Reaper and then disable Reapers shields. Then let them battle it out. Reaper will be way more focused on them than you.

got annihilated the first time i came across one of these ended up getting it to fight a tank and a harvester it killed them both and flew away

I had missed a blueprint and i notice that russian beacons are active even after the mission! Firebirds like rain!!!

Today i fought a firevird lvl 4 threat that became a mini boss, and it fucking fell in the water.....

Gold 7.62 Lmg and just unload about 200 rounds and they blow up

Sometimes the fastest way to take a down is by using rocket launchers. But it's Loadout is definitely a pain in the ass. I usually use a rocket launcher to do more damage. But there are times where I miss

I have bad luck with them cause every time I destroy one of the rival ones of these they fall either into water or on top of a building so I can't get them

Though the hacking mechanic was largely useless overall, with these, I had a 90% chance of hacking one and it could lay down an immense amount of hate on any other machine. I had one at 9% health go up against a tank and emerge from the fight at 4% health. They were basically just free sources of xp for me, once hacked. I called them "guardian angels".

Thanks Dude!

Honestly just aiming at the eye kills it easily

I managed to disable a white firebirds air borne mine thing. Well only one of them.

I play this game coop with a friend. We always hack these guyes. And when all other enemies are dead we shoot it while its hacked.

As cool as they are, when they put the mines (the balloons that drop explosives) my game slows down, and when they explode, game crashes.

Still quite peeved that they have not fixed up the preview models of the machine schematics for FNIX and the Lynx and Wolf...They're terribly inaccurate like the Proto and army Tank having red wires with no markings like PT-202 or Resen 05 or Wolf and Lynx all being just the Scout model. The Rival portraits need fixing up too. I still see a Scout wolf with those laser mine launchers which they should not have it and now the FNIX tank has military markings on it which is again not seen on a real FNIX tank...

Nice video^^ I'll just use Shock ammo ^_^ didn't take many rounds to get them^^ with that ammo u can shoot them down from distance

I don't get it, why is your binocular showing the weak points. It could be edited but that would be a lot of work and the percentage of the parts won't be that accurate. I'm only curious how this is working.

Can you make it list what weapon do you use? It kinda annoying because it level up and I have hard time to defeat it. Sadly I dont have sniper rifle. Only I have now is mini machine gun, assasult gun, missile launcher, shotgun, and hunting rifle.