Pulsating Tumors are land deformities which are found in Lavaland. They emit a GPS signal, so they're easy to find. They are meant as a stepping stone for the aspiring Megafauna-killer, so if you plan to activate one, do be prepared!
Pulsating Tumor
Pulsating Tumors show up as "Menacing Signals" on your GPS. At least one is guaranteed to spawn, although it's possible for there to spawn much more. You can interact with a tumor to spawn in an AI-controlled elite mob, which doesn't do much besides chase you and use abilities. Killing this AI-controlled mob drops a necropolis chest and nothing else. You should probably start by doing this, since losing doesn't mean that your fellow miners have to deal with a pissed off monster tearing down the mining base.
Alternatively, you can use a stabilized legion core on the tumor before activating it, and the resulting elite mob will be controlled by a ghost, in return for special loot. When you kill a boosted elite mob, there is a 50% chance that it will drop a tumor shard, and a 50% chance that it will drop a special type of loot. The pulsating tumor will also disappear, along with its GPS signal. Do note that if you do lose to a boosted elite mob, it'll be freed and released to create general havoc. This freed Elite Mob does not regenerate health naturally, although it can heal by standing on top of a pulsating tumor.
Tumor Shard
Tumor Shard
Используется для: Making an Elite Mob subservient to you
Стратегия: Use it on the corpse of an Elite Mob to revive it.
- It gets healed back to full health, but its maximum health gets slashed by half from 800 health to 400 health.
- A small excerpt is added to the end of the description, stating that "However, this one appears appears less wild in nature, and calmer around people."
- It becomes completely non-harmful to its master, which its abilities don't have the capability to friendly fire its master to death.
- It can now also be revived with a Lazarus Injector, if it happens to die.
- It is still mute, so it can only communicate with gestures.
- Besides that, it still maintains all of its abilities, as well the damage of its melee attack.
Goliath Broodmother
An example of sexual dimorphism, this female goliath looks much different than the males of her species. She is, however, just as dangerous, if not more.
Statistics
Health: 800
Melee Damage: 30
Armor Piercing: 30%
Speed: Slow
Abilities
An AI-controlled Goliath Broodmother will simply use these abilities whenever they're available. If it's controlled by a ghost, they can conserve these abilities or somehow combo them together.
- Spawn Tentacles (Cooldown: Passive): The Goliath Broodmother will start passively spawning burrowing tentacles around her once she goes below 50% health. The rate of which these tentacles spawn are doubled once she dips below 25% health. If you get hit by these tentacles, you will receive 10—15 brute damage and be stunned for 10 seconds. Try not to be hit by these.
- Tentacle Patch (Cooldown: 15 seconds): The Goliath Broodmother will spawn a 3x3 square patch combined with a 5x5 cross patch of tentacles at a target. If you get hit by these tentacles, you will receive 20-25 brute damage and be stunned for 5 seconds. Try not to be hit by these.
- Enrage (Cooldown: 70 seconds): The Goliath Broodmother emits a noise and becomes substantially faster for 6.5 seconds. In the 7 seconds after it enrages, however, the Goliath Broodmother will become substantially slower.
- Spawn Children (Cooldown: 40 seconds): The Goliath Broodmother spawns 2 baby goliaths at her current position. A maximum of 8 baby goliaths can be present at any one time. These baby goliaths are slow, have 30 health, and they only deal 5 melee damage. If their target is not within melee range, they will, with a short delay, burrow a tentacle under its target, which is identical to the passively spawned tentacles. If you completely ignore these baby goliaths, it can bite you later, considering the sheer amount of tentacles each baby goliath produces is bound to catch you off-guard sooner rather than later. When a baby goliath is killed, it gibs in a small, but fiery explosion. This has the capability of knocking out an unaware miner.
- Call Children (Cooldown: 60 seconds): The Goliath Broodmother transmits a message to her children directing them to converge at a particular location.
Loot
Besides having a guaranteed chance of dropping a necropolis chest, if the Goliath Broodmother is boosted with sentience, it has a 50% chance of dropping a Tumor Shard, and a 50% chance of dropping its own unique loot: the Broodmother Tongue.
Broodmother Tongue
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