Enemy Abilities

This is a difficulty mod that increases the challenge of defeating the game's various enemies by giving them new skills! Most abilities increase the difficulty of fighting a given enemy, however some abilities will open up new counter strategies!

Alloy Vulture Secondary: Swoop

• Swoops towards the target, slashing with it's talons.
• Inflicts Bleed
• Will stun itself if it flies into a wall!

Bighorn Bison Secondary: Unearth Boulder (reworked!)

• Unearths a boulder in front of it. This boulder has a healthbar and can be damaged by both enemies and players.
• When the boulder is killed, it launches three mini-boulders in a spread towards the nearest enemy of the boulder's killer.
• These mini-boulders explode on impact.
• Melee-attacks from Bison will break the boulder instantly!

Blind Pest Secondary: Thwomp Stomp

• Slams down with a poison explosion to hit targets directly beneath it.
• Enters a grounded state for three seconds afterwards.

Clay Apothecary Special: Tar Deluge

• Spawns a Tar Ball that it charges for 3 seconds. If it takes damage during the charge, the Tar Ball will get bigger and deal more damage!
• Creates a large lingering tar area upon landing. Deals low damage, but applies tar. The zone is larger the more charged the Tar Ball was!
• If killed during the charge, it blows up, damaging nearby monsters!
• Only usable below 60% health.

Clay Templar Utility: Grenade Barrage

• Launches a volley of five tar-filled grenades over cover to flush it's target out.
• Only usable if it doesn't have line of sight, and can draw an arc to the target.

Greater Wisp Special: Inferno Wheel (new!)

• Charges up a ring of powerful fireballs that spin around the Greater Wisp.
• Fireballs explode and leave behind a large DoT zone on impact.
• Each fireball can be damaged and destroyed.

Grovetender Special: Mass Resurrect

• Grovetenders passively collect gravestones when nearby enemies die.
• They then launch collected gravestones at the player, which explode into the ghost of the killed enemy.
• Ghosts provide armour to the grovetender.
• Only usable below 50% HP.

Larva Utility: Caustic Pod

• Launches a small blob of acid towards their target. Deals no impact damage.
• Spawns a Caustic Pod at the location of impact that explodes upon taking damage.
• Deals light AoE damage to all nearby bodies (both ally and enemy!), and applies poison.
• Behaves similarly to Sulfur Pods (although deals less damage).

Lunar Chimera (Golem) Special: Laser Sweep

• Sweeps a laser along the ground towards the player, igniting the ground.
• Ignited ground deals light AoE, and explodes after a short delay.
• Only usable below 90% HP. Has 2 charges by default.

Solus Extractor Utility: Tendril Tether

• Fires off a tendril towards it's target.
• Hooks onto both terrain and units, pulling the Extractor towards them.
• If the Extractor hits a player, it slows them, gains an attack speed boost, and a reset on their Extract ability.
• Extractors now prioritise enemies that have items that they can actually steal.

Solus Prospector Secondary: Drill Burrow

• Burrows beneath the ground, then emerges beneath it's target shortly after.

Solus Transporter Utility: Tractor Beam / Fling

• Picks up monsters with a tractor beam, before tossing them at its target.
• Deals damage dependent on the flung monster's weight.

Xi Construct Secondary: Core Launch

• Spins up to fire it's core at the nearest player.
• The core embeds in the ground for a few seconds, and transfers any damage it takes to the Xi Construct.

Notes

• All modules are enabled by default! Don't like a skill? You can disable it in the config!
• May contain bugs! Please report any that you find :)

Credits

• .score for the PluginConfig and for some AISkillDriver utils that I filched from Enemies++
• rune580 for RiskOfOptions