The assaultrons with lasers mounted on their heads for instance take significantly less damage to that location, while swarmbots take bonus damage if you aim for their bottom thrusters. Unlike with normal enemies, aiming for the head isn't always the best option with Automatron foes.
Basic Automatron Strategiesīesides a few Rust Devil raiders, every single new enemy you come across in Automatron will of course be a robot. Besides the robotic crafting (see our complete guide here), Automatron offers a handful of new quests, with one open ended robot-slaying quest afterwards for mopping up all those pesky 'bots still rampaging across the Commonwealth.
