- "Deploy a Spiderbot that will target and stun the nearest foe via facehug."
— In-game Description
The Spiderbot is an Activated Ability for DedSec available in XDefiant.
Overview
The Spiderbot is a robot designed like a spider that stuns and damages enemies for 4 health per half second for 5 seconds by jumping on their face. Whilst under the effect of the bot, the user is unable to fire their weapons, and movement is slowed. The Spiderbot can be destroyed by shooting it, meleeing it, or using an EMP Grenade. The Spiderbot can also be Hijacked and is destroyed by using Lockout. It is possible to destroy a Spiderbot affecting a teammate. The Spiderbot will seek out and hunt enemy players to stun, and provide assist points if a teammate kills a stunned enemy. Multiple active Spiderbots will not attempt to stun the same player.
The targeting system of the Spiderbot is disrupted through the use of Smoke Grenades.
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Patch Notes
- Spiderbots were not making any new fans with their uncanny-and unintended-tendency to meld into stairs and slopes while skittering across graded surfaces, which also granted them immunity from Hijacking. All of that stuff has been fixed.
- Spiderbot deployment is no longer canceled if the deploying DedSec player immediately activates their ultra. Also, Spiderbot movement sounds have undergone a tune-up to address player complaints that the little facehuggers were getting the drop on them because they couldn't hear them coming. To that end, we've increased the volume of Spiderbot footsteps, as well as the radius within which the footsteps are audible.
- Fixed a glitch that was disabling DedSec's Hijack ability after using it on moving devices such as the Incinerator Drone or Spiderbot.
- Eliminated a convoluted exploit in which players could bequeath the damage inflicted by a high-recoil, low rate-of-fire weapon (such as a sniper rifle) to a low-recoil, high-rate of fire secondary weapon if they swapped these weapons and fired moments before getting face-hugged by a Spiderbot. Kudos to anyone who figured out that exploit. Now kiss it bye-bye.
- Made it easier to hear approaching Spiderbots so players might fend off an impending face-hugging.
- DedSec's spiderbots were shocking target players before leaping on their faces, which wasn't winning them fans. Now they only zap targets at the face-hugging stage of the relationship.
- Fixed an issue where DedSec's Spiderbots were ignoring victims previously targeted by the deploying player. Now they'll spiderhug faces new and old with equal enthusiasm.
- Players can once again shoot DedSec Spiderbots off their own faces. Not sure why; everybody loves Spiderbots.
- DedSec's Spiderbot cooldown increased from 25 to 40 seconds.[1]
- Adjusted Spiderbot behavior so multiple Spiderbots won't attempt to hug the same face, nor will Spiderbots continue to ignore faces they've hugged multiple recent times. Some give and take from the Spiderbot kingdom.
Trivia
- The Spiderbot is used in the
Little Guy Player Animation as a stand-in for a stereotypical movie supervillain pet.
References
- ↑ Not implemented in this patch
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