Floaters

nexus · Post by **nexus** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 6:51 pm

Nah, with laser based weapons you can cut of the head (Jules makes a slicing motion with his hand "svuuush")

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:38 pm

with plasma, everything melts/burns/turnes into carbon. or am i mixing some of that up with pulse weapons from FO2? iirc, mole rats burn when using plasma on them, anyone know if thats true?

nexus · Post by **nexus** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:48 pm

I can't remember with the plama guns - but basicly when scoring a critical on a near-death target usually result in the target being sliced in half (or some other bodypart being sliced of)

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:50 pm

i tried plasma on some critters just now, and they all melted. i need to try some more, just to be sure, i think that osme things burn with plasma. they all burn with pulse

nexus · Post by **nexus** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 9:21 pm

arhh, but then it's time for something new!! If you are tired of fried meat, try using laser weapons, then you'll see what I mean ;)

Red · Post by **Red** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:31 pm

Yeha but if I remember correctly melting people makes them drop items which is damn annoying... A too bad too as I like the melting animations

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:15 am

the melting is really cool. i especially like watching super mutants and centaurs melt, they have lots of bones...

Zbyram · Post by **Zbyram** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:11 pm

iirc, mole rats burn when using plasma on them, anyone know if thats true?

Yup that's right, they kinda explode really and turn black.

Section8 · Post by **Section8** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:51 pm

Do floaters even eat what they attack? They could be herbivores for all we know. I'd always thought their attack was some kind of "implantation" which is backed up by the ovipositor, which is an organ that deposits eggs.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:19 pm

is it a tongue? or is it a fountain of red stuff? iirc, it retracts after "shooting"
but it does poison you sometimes

Demon-X · Post by **Demon-X** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:07 am

I think its like a frog tongue, If you read the Richard grey audio logs it describes something similar.

I think I consumed one of the mutated things scurrying around here today. Before I knew what was happening, some sort of tendril had sprung from my stomach and covered the poor creature.

Ok so its a tendril of some sort, I think it might be sticky or have spikes to hold the victim. The poison might be some kind of corrodive saliva that it meant to immbilise prey.

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:04 pm

Like I wrote before, a friend of mine commented that worms digest their food kinda like how flies do it; Puke on it, melt it, eat it.

I suggest that this is no diffrent, the floaters spits some corrosive substance on the victim, victim melts, floater sips the fluids while, maybe, using those teeth, too.

The sound the floater produce when it attacks also sounds more like a "spit" sound and less like a " tongue whip" sound.

Therefor, I DE RIGHT AND YUOS THERE RWONG.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 2:55 am

pfff... im never wrong.
sometimes..

anyway, worms dont puke on their food, they eat it and grind it up in one of their many stomachs

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 1:26 pm

Grind it with what? Have you ever seen a worm before? I dont recall teeth on the menu.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:36 pm

with small rock like things, similar to how birds eat stones now and then to aid in digestion. it uses its muscular stomach to move the stones around w/the dirt to grind it up, whilst secreting stuff on it to aid in digestion.

eh, i guess it does sortof "puke" on its food, but its done internally

Tank · Post by **Tank** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 10:15 am

Anyways, back to the discussion. Floaters!

Weapons: Plasma weapons melt things with their inventory still "on" the pile of goo like on a normal body, explosives turn theminto body-parts with their inventory spread all around and the laser-weapoins cut things up. However, on floaters, both laser-weapons and plasma and pulse all do the same thing: make them "puff" up and turn into the crabon Red was talking about.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:47 pm

no..
i thought that lasers cut them in half at the "stalk"
and then the head drops down.

Tank · Post by **Tank** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:32 am

Never, ever had that happen- and I use the laser-rifle a lot for the close-encounters up there...

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:05 pm

Strapon2 wrote:no..
i thought that lasers cut them in half at the "stalk"
and then the head drops down.

yep, that's what happens for me too.

Plasma weapons fry the critters.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:25 pm

plasma makes them turn into a burnt up version of the origional, laser cuts 'em in half.

does the alien blaster act like plasma? or does it act like electrical/pulse?
iirc, pulse/electric death scene with the floater is:
it cooks it, like plasma, but when it hits the ground it burns up, into nothing. so all thats left is some ashes, nothing that resembles a floater.