Contraband Police

Contraband Police

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How to cheese wave ambushes
By Greenmovie13
This is an intriguing, interesting method I have found which involves the outhouse on the side where the enemies attack from. It's rather simple, and arguably hilarious how badly the AI tends to be.
   
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First Step: Preparation
Before you enter this impenetrable fortress, there's a couple things you should probably know about how this works. Essentially, you are barricading yourself in the enemy frontlines, and since you are closest to the enemy, they are programmed to throw grenades at you and only you. As long as there are no distant enemies in front of you, grenades will not kill you. Additionally, any enemies in front of you will be shot at by your patrolmen, oftentimes preventing them entirely from gaining the opportunity to throw anything. Since most of the enemies are focused on you, you do not have to worry much about your allies being shot, except for ones that ignore you; however, those that ignore you are exposed entirely to you if the outhouse door is open, and they will have no cover from you; if you are worried your allies will fall during an ambush anyways, opening the door to take care of any enemies that go for your allies will suffice.

The first thing you need to do before entering this outhouse is to take care of the gas canister outside. For whatever reason, these explosives can damage through walls, or at least in this instance. Destroying it beforehand ensures you won't be blown up.

Step Two: Execution
As you may have noticed, there is a heart-shaped hole that is conveniently at eye-level in the outhouse door. When closed, it not only provides you cover and still opportunity to headshot any enemies, but it causes enemies to cluster around the door, giving your firing squad a huge target. Don't let them take care of all of them, though, because eventually there could be too much. The sniper ally helps a lot for this, but this method still works with default upgrades. Just center your crosshair on the heart and shoot whenever an enemy walks in front of it.

Oftentimes, enemies may open the door, but for whatever reason, half the time they don't even shoot at you anyways. Closing the door can be difficult sometimes with the mound of corpses that gathers right in front of it, but staying inside is still the best option for this scenario; just wait for the bodies to despawn and close it again.
Conclusion
That's pretty much all there is to this guide; if you have any questions or issues regarding this, let me know and I'll try to help. Do also understand that no solution or method can be perfect, and that there's typically exceptions or circumstances that serve as weaknesses for them; while the preparation section eliminates the largest exception to this increased protection, it mitigates risks as much as possible, not completely removing risks. I wouldn't be surprised if there was another way to cheese these ambushes, but currently I enjoy this one too much to look for any others.

Also, here's a few screenshots showing just how ridiculously broken this method is:


9 Comments
Greenmovie13  [author] 17 May, 2023 @ 10:20am 
surprised it still works two months later
GavinGWhiz 17 May, 2023 @ 7:23am 
I've been doing this method for several days now and the only time I've died was when I forgot to destroy the propane tank. Even grenades thrown behind or directly in front of the outhouse did nothing with even one health upgrade.

One important thing to note: You can save a ton of money with this purely from not upgrading your guards. I'm on my second playthough and have only upgraded the guy in the tower to give him a sniper rifle. Nobody else has any armor or good weapons and none of them have been injured the entire playthrough.
Greenmovie13  [author] 18 Mar, 2023 @ 5:12pm 
it's still free money
Devas 18 Mar, 2023 @ 12:52pm 
well, now you can just turn off attacks in options
Greenmovie13  [author] 16 Mar, 2023 @ 7:38am 
huh, that's odd. staying in the outhouse should prevent you from dying to grenades unless there's some gap that grenades can deal damage through
Ashes_Upon_Ashes 16 Mar, 2023 @ 3:31am 
If it fails, it would be a crappy way to die.
600W Microwave 15 Mar, 2023 @ 7:07pm 
just tried this. a grenade was thrown at the backside and i couldnt get out due to the bodies blocking the door. died on my first attempt lmao.
TheWildThorn 13 Mar, 2023 @ 5:17pm 
Like a true Acaristanian
Bez 13 Mar, 2023 @ 1:23pm 
Sitting on tha toilet