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Rager Bear
Ragers are infected black bears and the toughest animals in the game, with well over twice a normal bear's health. Treat one like a boss fight: keep your distance, set it on fire and pour in shotgun or heavy rifle rounds.
- Threat
- High
- Type
- Animal
Appears in
- Nose Down, They Feed YaA hostage rescue for Copeland's camp. Manny, the camp's mechanic, has gone missing. You follow his tracks, free him, survive a nasty fight and see him back to his bike.
- Mayday! Mayday!You cross into the Diamond Lake valley in the south and hear gunfire. You go to investigate and find two Militia soldiers pinned down by a Rager bear.
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Good to know
- A Rager has well over twice a normal bear's health and hits much harder.
- Many carry barbed wire or an axe in their hide, and it does not slow them.
- Their hearing is sharp, so sneaking up on one is hard.
- Fire stuns a Rager and slows it for a moment.
- Shotguns work well, along with explosives and heavy rifles.
- Your first Rager is in Mayday! Mayday!, where Militia soldiers are pinned down in the Diamond Lake valley.
- Copeland's rescue job Nose Down, They Feed Ya also ends in a Rager fight.
- Executioner lets you kill large animals as you break free of a grab.
- A knife kill on a Rager counts for the This is a Knife trophy.
How it behaves
A Rager charges hard and keeps coming through damage that would drop anything else. Its swipes and bites take big chunks of health. Its hearing picks up careless movement, so expect it to find you if you get loud.
How to beat it
Open with a Molotov or Napalm Molotov to stun and slow it. Use that window to back off and unload a shotgun or strong rifle. Keep a second firebomb ready for when it recovers. Grenades and pipe bombs help close the gap on its health bar.
Where you meet it
The first Rager attacks a Militia patrol in Mayday! Mayday!, as you come over the ridge into the Diamond Lake valley. Another waits at the end of Nose Down, They Feed Ya, a hostage job for Copeland.
Easy to miss
With Executioner, breaking out of a Rager's grab lets you finish it on the spot. That is one of the safer routes to This is a Knife.
More animals
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationAnimalBear
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- Animal
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- Animal
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- Animal
Deer
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