The Sinking City 2 Enemies and Weak Points

The enemy roster

Focused aim is the whole game

Frogwares answers "combat is too hard" with three suggestions, and the middle one is the mechanical key: shoot enemies at weak points during focused aim. Focus is not a cosmetic zoom — it is the mode in which weak points can be targeted reliably, and the difference in rounds spent per kill is large enough to change how a chapter feels.

The habit: stop, focus, one accurate shot, reposition. Panic-firing at a moving Slither burns a magazine to do what two focused rounds would.

Knock down, then stomp

Downed enemies are not dead enemies, and melee will not finish them — the stomp does, bound to Ctrl or the lower mouse side button on PC. It costs no ammunition, which makes shotgun-to-stomp the most economical kill in the game.

Groups versus singles

• A single enemy at range: handgun, focused, weak point. Cheapest kill available.
• Two or three closing: shotgun. Stagger buys you the space to reposition.
• A crowd: SMG, or disengage. Crowds are where ammunition disappears.
• Lined up in a corridor: the Black Reef Longshot pierces multiple targets.

Weapon detail on the best weapons page.

Enemies that are not worth fighting

Avoiding encounters is listed by the studio as a legitimate answer, not a cheat. Two situations where it is clearly correct: an elite guarding nothing you need, and any group encountered when you are low on ammunition before a chapter's boss.

The game's structure supports this — most encounters outside boss arenas are avoidable with positioning and distance.

Enemies in the dark

Half of the difficulty in identifying what you are fighting is visibility. This is one of the darkest games of the year, and the difference between a Slither and a Slither Pawn matters when one of them will close on you and the other will flank.

Raising gamma is a legitimate fix rather than cheating — see PC settings — and it also makes the upgrades sitting on tables considerably easier to spot.

Known enemy issues

OfficialFrogwares' own known-issues list includes Slither Pawns falling through the floor and enemies getting stuck in collision after a melee or stomp. The studio's fix for both is to reload the last save. The Acheronian Juggernaut's shadow can also persist after death, which is cosmetic.