The Ashwalker Addendum
A guide for hunting the beasts of lavaland the way the lizards do. If you wish to improve your hunting skills as a member of NT I recommend practicing with the kinetic crusher as it forces you to use similar techniques.
Goliaths
Difficulty - Moderate
When fighting Goliaths, it important to be patient and to master your timing. Due to their thick hides, throwing spears is completely ineffective, meaning you will have to engage Goliaths in melee. There is a moment after it moves where it is unable to attack, this is the time to strike. If you’re fast you can sneak two hits in before it can hit back. Maintain a two tile distance, wait for it to move, then go in for the kill. Rinse and repeat till victory. The timing for the attack window is determined by the tickrate of the server, meaning its subject to fluctuate. Our LRP server tends to have a slower tickrate due to having a higher pop, so the timing there is more forgiving compared to MRP.
Tendrils should be taken as a fully armed group. To stock up pick them off one-by-one and carve up their bodies (use a knife/spear on the body with harm intent) into hide and bone to craft armor/weapons, their meat can also be cooked in lava to make a decent meal. Once you have gear get some extra bodies to feed your own tendril to get some extra hands/respawns. When you’re ready to take it down, keep healing supplies on hand and make sure to drag out any allies who get hit with the hentai attack.
Watcher
Difficulty - High
In the case of lizardfolk Watchers are an absolute pain to deal with, their beam can freeze you solid and their melee damage often kills in three or less hits. The easiest method is to bring a friend willing to “tank” the hits while rushing the watcher down, then using a legion core or cactus fruit to recover. If you stock up on extra spears you can also chuck a bunch at it between beam shots, though this method is slow and uses a lot of spears. However, watchers have similar move/attack patterns as goliaths so the stupid brave can use the same strategy from before, given that they have some cover to quickly hide behind.
Tendrils are a deathwish, ensure you got a full-scale (pun intended) operation to take one down.
Legions
Diffic- lol no they’re free health
Legion skulls have 1hp, you can beat these things bare handed if you so desire. Skulls spawn slower than your melee attack rate so just swat away the skulls between stabs on the body and you’ll be fine.
When dealing with large numbers/tendrils its advised you bring friends to avoid being overwhelmed. I find a group of 3 or more is all you need to take one down successfully, even if one of them isn’t armed they can help just by slapping skulls. However I highly recommend keeping one legion tendril alive to use as a free health dispenser.
Megafauna
No. Just no. If you happen to think this is a good idea as an ashwalker the very least you can do is not lead it back to your den to kill everyone else.
Miners
These guys are always valid, have colonizer status, and will likely have no reservation in shooting your eyes out of your skull if they know this. They usually have advanced weapons like PkA’s or crushers, but they don’t have spears and their base even has a shuttle, meaning they can access the station if they aren’t lost.
To recognize a Miner, look for:
- Normal legs (The weird stumpy feet that can wear shoes)
- The grey/green miner uniform and mask.
- A lack of a spear/A KA in hand.
Even with this, always exercise caution with trying to kill a miner, as they could still be a lizard doing a fleshy weakling cosplay or some shit. Maybe give a warning to a lizard if you see them, as most miners are too retarded to figure out that we can’t speak Galactic Common for whatever reason. If you see them speaking the colonist language then blast their ass though.