Stun pulses couldn't do anything to the armored war machine, and furious attempts to penetrate its armor with hand blasters left melted blackened dents-apparently you had to concentrate your fire in one spot for a while to succeed in disarming the robot. The Nymph's telepathic field was affecting the robot as well, but it went offline and continued its offensive, making a sharp lunge forward in an attempt to grab the infected in its grip and press the carotid artery to send it into the realm of Morpheus.