Mecha Zombie

The Mecha Zombie is a stronger variant of the regular Zombie. It was introduced in Doom Eternal.

Appearance
The Mecha Zombie is notably taller than its normal counterpart and has obvious signs of machine enhancement around its body. The most obvious difference being the arms cannon that has been grafted to the zombie. It also possesses a metal claw on its left arm, a pair of red eyes, metal feet, and other mechanical additions in various places.

Combat Analysis
Mecha Zombies pose a greater challenge than regular Zombies. Their arm cannon serves as a rapid-fire energy weapon at long distances, and a flame-thrower at close range. When next to the Slayer, the Mecha Zombie will take a swipe at them with their claw on left hand.

Outside of its increased arsenal, the Mecha Zombie possesses the same flaws as its lesser brethren. It is ridiculously slow, and while capable of taking a higher amount of damage, they can still be killed with ease. While the Mecha Zombie cannot be instantly defeated with sticky-bombs or scope-shots, they will instantly stagger them instead, making them good targets for a quick glory kill. The Mecha Zombie's attacks are very weak and the Slayer can easily withstand them for relatively short periods of time depending on the difficulty being played on.

Unlike most Fodder demons, the Mecha Zombie has enough health to withstand a Precision bolt (PB) shot to the body, however a headshot from the PB will kill it instantly. It is recommended to take out the Mecha Zombie with either the combat shotgun (sticky bombs), super shotgun or, the PB/Heavy assault rifle. It is pointless to use any other larger weapons on it as it will simply result in loss of ammo for doing the same job.

During some early levels such as "Doom Hunter Base" the Mecha Zombie is an effective way to build up kills in the super shotgun mastery.