Another specimen Idea: The Hydra

[cooldudenot]

Playing with this idea....

"Hydra"

An Experiment in Regeneration, the "Hydra" is a specimen with a pair of armored heads, and in fact, armor covering most of it's body, it appears to be an expansion on the "Chaingunner" experiments, Moving quickly and using it's armor to get into an advantageous position before opening fire

To take it down, is a challenge for even the best of squads, each head takes 2 fairly hefty rounds to remove (One to breech the helmet, One to Harm) and taking it's heads off wont even kill it, the only way to truely stop this monster is to destroy the "Serum" tank on it's back, it contains a strong healing agent like what the patriarch carries, when a head is removed, the serum is capable of actually Regrowing the head (although without armor) and keeping the specimen from death

The idea here would be teamwork, it's not overly dangerous until you piss it off, then it lines up and opens fire on you with a patty-style weaker minigun, it's big, tough, and cant be killed by removing the heads unless you also remove the backpack with the healing agents that keep it alive

Sharpshooters cant easily snipe it, the minigun works like a husk fireball, if it hits you, your ironsights drop and you need to find cover

They are rarer than a Fleshpound, and for potential problems, cannot spawn in solo games, you must have at least 2 players for one to appear

I think there would still be a tactic against it when using SS. Use a handcannon or two to kill the heads, and then use a crossbow to penetrate his body to hit the serum on his back. So you don't really need to flank when using SS.

In short, the SS will still pwn this specimen, according to your specifications of course.

 

[Madhate969]

I still like this idea of a 3 headed zed, that has regenerating heads. not thrilled about a 'head' box on the back, but jsut something that makes the SS call out to the rest of them team for handle

 

[No Glory]

b-dump!.....wait, what? Who bumped this?!


Just wondering who's interested in this idea?

Perhaps to make it more realistic tho, it has 2 lifeless heads grafted on. Only one of the 3 is actually real, so when you go for the headshot, you'll have a 1/3 chance at killing it.

 

[Catlinman]

The last idea sound good but it would be to easy to kill if it had 1 head and 2 dead ones ( pop 2 and shoot the last 2-4 times ) This way doesn

 

[brick_top1982]

More three headed things come to mind, why not a little minion for the Hydra

and some more pictures of how I would like to see this Hydra, basically this troll lookin thing but with three heads

 

[Catlinman]

Yea that would look pretty cool ! But it would take alot of work !

 

[slavek]

That second picture of the 3 headed dog thing is Cerberus from Final Fantasy 11.

 

[S3R4PH!M]

My idea is like this:

It looks like an crossover between Flesh Pound and Husk (all these metallic things, you know?). It has two heads, one of them looks more like the FP's and the other looks more like the Husk's.

Like said they would talk and argue and laugh together(like "'where are you going you idiot?' ''Shut up!" or "'lets take that one' 'oh yes.. hahahaha!!'") The FPlike head would have th FP voice and the Husklike head would have the Husk voice.

Both heads can spit a kind of bile with a range between Bloat range and Siren range. Maybe they could spit different biles(e.g. the huskhead can spit an inciendiary bile and the FPhead can spit an acidic bile.)

As melee attack it would grab the player and walk while holding the player damaging him by biting him and using him as a meatshield(while holding the player friendly fire should be on). If both of the heads are shot down it would let the player go and it would just slap around it damaging both players and ZEDs.

The ZED is as fast as a non raged FP but has about double HP of the FP(slow but hard to kill) It can't be headshotted, because the heads are regrowing after about 5 to 10 seconds, what would make it possible to shoot him from nearby because without heads it cannot spit or grab people. It has a special vulnerabilty to fire and maybe explosives which are no frag nades, too.