Glyphid Dreadnought Twins

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On occasion a Dreadnought will split in two during metamorphosis and twins will develop side by side in the cocoon. All the examples encountered so far have been interrupted transformations with armor that has not fully hardened. Just what would emerge from the cocoon if the process was permitted to finish is still unknown and despite R&D’s requests for a controlled study, management would like to keep it that way.

— Miner's Manual Description

The "Glyphid Dreadnought Twins" are a pair of Dreadnoughts encountered as bosses in the Elimination mission type. They have a 1 in 3 chance to spawn when the first Glyphid Cocoon is broken in the Elimination gamemode, and a 1 in 2 chance to spawn from each subsequent cocoon, unless they were spawned by the previous cocoon. They will attack the Dwarves once they spawn. They also have a very rare chance to spawn in place of a swarm in Mining Expedition, Point Extraction, On-Site Refining, and Deep Scan mission types.

The boss comprises two separate unique enemies, being made up of two smaller Dreadnoughts instead of a large one, called the Lacerator and the Arbalest. They each have a separate health bar. They are almost identical in appearance, the only difference being their ridge colors and headplates. The Lacerator is dark blue with sharp ridges that glow orange, while the Arbalest is dark blue with smooth ridges that glow yellow. They have large front leg plating like their kin, but their ovular abdomens are a deviation in appearance. Sporting large sharp fangs, they are heavily armored across their bodies.

The Lacerator specializes in melee attacks, while the Arbalest uses ranged abilities. The Lacerator is very aggressive and will chase the Dwarves down when attacking, while the Arbalest prefers to stay on walls. The Lacerator is 50% faster than the Arbalest and the traditional Dreadnought. They are heavily armored, but their plating can be broken. The twins, individually, have less health than a regular Dreadnought, but when the difference in their health pools becomes at least 20%, they are able to share their health with a net regenerative gain, regaining any missing armor in the process. They will also do this process one time in the middle of the fight if they didn't do it before, regardless of their health difference. They are immune to damage during their health & armor share. They do not have any weaknesses. Their exposed back is a 1x weakpoint and while most of their flesh takes 1x damage, their lower jaw is a 0.5x multiplier.

The Lacerator has a variety of attacks and abilities, mostly melee oriented. It is able to produce flame breath at close range, which can burn. It has a standard slam attack dealing moderate damage. Its rock wave attack is ranged, and will produce a rapidly advancing row of stone spikes.

The Arbalest has only two ranged attacks. Firstly, it is able to release a rain down a shower of fire on a Dwarf, called the Explosive Barrage. Its other attack, the Fireball Fan, will release a spread shot of 5 fireballs; this attack will be used after the Arbalest's first Health/Armor share.

Being highly mobile, they are able to quickly swarm and rapidly attack unsuspecting Dwarves. Despite this, both of the twins have a burrow ability which allows them to hide in order to regenerate, and then pop out of the ground elsewhere to surprise players. With this ability, they will not dig through terrain in order to reach the Dwarves, unlike the regular Dreadnought and Hiveguard variants. Along with the other Dreadnoughts the Lacerator and Arbalest take 2.666x damage while frozen unlike most enemies taking 3x.

Dreadnoughts follow one player at a time, switching targets at semi-regular intervals. A new target is picked randomly, but the choice is affected by distance from the dreadnought to potential targets and by how many other creatures are attacking them. There is no explicit "aggro" meter that players can directly affect.

Combat

Health and Armor

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		900	1350	2250	3150	3375	5062.5	5906.25		2250	2700		3150	3375	3375
		1800	1800	2475	3375	3600	5400	6300		2475	2925		3375	3600	3600
		2700	3150	4050	4500	5400	8100	9450		4050	4275		4950	5400	5400
		3600	4500	5400	7200	7650	11475	13387.5		5400	6300		7200	7200	7650

Attacks

Armor Regeneration

When certain conditions are met, such as a large enough health difference between the Twins, they will get close to each other and the Twin with higher HP will lose HP (1/4 of the HP difference), while the Twin with lower HP will gain HP (3/4 of the HP difference). Effectively increasing the sum of their HPs by 1/2 of the HP difference.

Arbalest

Explosive Barrage

Projectile
Damage Amount		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		7.5	10.5	18	30	42	63	84		18	22.5		34.5	42	45
		7.5	12	19.5	32.25	45	67.5	90		19.5	24		36.75	45	48
		7.5	13.5	21	34.5	48	72	96		21	25.5		39	48	51
		7.5	15	22.5	37.5	51	76.5	102		22.5	27		42	51	54
Details
Damage Type		Explosive
AoE Projectile
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		9	12.6	21.6	36	50.4	75.6	100.8		21.6	27		41.4	50.4	54
		9	14.4	23.4	38.7	54	81	108		23.4	28.8		44.1	54	57.6
		9	16.2	25.2	41.4	57.6	86.4	115.2		25.2	30.6		46.8	57.6	61.2
		9	18	27	45	61.2	91.8	122.4		27	32.4		50.4	61.2	64.8
Details
Damage Type		Explosive					Radius: 4 m Maximum Damage Radius: 3.5 m Minimum Area Damage: 25 %

Fireball Fan

AoE Projectile
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		10	14	24	40	56	84	112		24	30		46	56	60
		10	16	26	43	60	90	120		26	32		49	60	64
		10	18	28	46	64	96	128		28	34		52	64	68
		10	20	30	50	68	102	136		30	36		56	68	72
Details
Damage Type		Explosive + Fire					Radius: 1.75 m Maximum Damage Radius: 1 m Minimum Area Damage: 20 %

Lacerator

Bite

AoE Melee Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		10	14	24	40	56	84	112		24	30		46	56	60
		10	16	26	43	60	90	120		26	32		49	60	64
		10	18	28	46	64	96	128		28	34		52	64	68
		10	20	30	50	68	102	136		30	36		56	68	72
Details
Damage Type		Melee					Attack Radius: 1.5 m

Burrow

AoE Attack
Area Damage		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		10	14	24	40	56	84	112		24	30		46	56	60
		10	16	26	43	60	90	120		26	32		49	60	64
		10	18	28	46	64	96	128		28	34		52	64	68
		10	20	30	50	68	102	136		30	36		56	68	72
Details
Damage Type		Kinetic					Radius: 3 m Maximum Damage Radius: 2 m Minimum Area Damage: 25 %
Knockback Force		Horizontal: 4 m Vertical: 7 m

Flame Breath

Spray
Damage per Tick		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		5	7	12	20	28	42	56		12	15		23	28	30
		5	8	13	21.5	30	45	60		13	16		24.5	30	32
		5	9	14	23	32	48	64		14	17		26	32	34
		5	10	15	25	34	51	68		15	18		28	34	36
Details
Damage Type		Fire
Max. Range		7 m
Interval		0.5-1.0 s
Duration		1 s

Rock Wave

Projectile
Damage Amount		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	PV 1	PV 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		10	14	24	40	56	84	112		24	30		46	56	60
		10	16	26	43	60	90	120		26	32		49	60	64
		10	18	28	46	64	96	128		28	34		52	64	68
		10	20	30	50	68	102	136		30	36		56	68	72
Details
Damage Type		Kinetic
Knockback Force		Horizontal: 2 m Vertical: 1 m

Gallery

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  Arbalest's Fireball Fan
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  Arbalest's Explosive Barrage
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  Lacerator's Flame Breath
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  Lacerator's Rock Wave

Trivia

• These creatures were added in Update 33: New Frontiers
• Arbalest and Lacerators names both reflect their preferred methods of attacking the dwarves
  
  • An arbalest is a larger, more powerful variation of a crossbow primarily used in 12th century Europe, reflecting Arbalest's primarily ranged attacks
  • To lacerate is to violently tear and make deep cuts in flesh or skin, reflecting Lacerators primarily melee attacks