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Species Difficulty Tierlist
What do you guys think the easiest and hardest Specimens are? After playing for 30 hours and doing them all on tier 4 difficulty, my thoughts are this:
- 007 "Ghost": By far the easiest in the game. The only thing difficult about it is when you need to kill it on Tier 4 it takes forever to drop. Otherwise seeing it be the enemy just means it's walking simulator for the rest of the game. Even its capture can be done without ever even opening a zone door. With tier 3 armor, you can literally get a blue canister, throw it down, stand on it, wait until he comes into the cell with you, shoot it, and press the button. 3-5 minute mission easy as that.
- 005 "Peacemaker": Its drones are really just annoyances, but otherwise, it's really simple to deal with. Also one of if not the only one that doesn't really "know" where you are until it or its drones sees you personally. The hardest thing about it is its capture, because it by far takes the most damage per phase to stun.
- 006 "The Octopus": I think squiddy boy has a really high learning curve compared to anything else, but once you do learn that, he's really REALLY easy to deal with. Get a revolver, shotgun, and 3 red canisters and you can completely skip needing the flamethrower at all. That being said, I feel like the game is just straight up lying that he's just curious early on. I distinctly remember my first experience with him being a tier 2 difficulty mission and him just one shotting me in a corner the moment he saw me.
- 009 "Mike": He's definitely the most balanced middle ground in the game. He can't be scared off as easily as the others, but you can if you're persistent. He can be outran. He punishes you for not being situationally aware but is easy to avoid. Once again, the capture is the hardest thing, and that's less because HE is hard to deal with and more because the Lightning Gun just sucks.
- 008 "The Eye": Orbby is probably the hardest to deal with early on. You can't scare it away unless you really annoy it by making it back up long enough (which you can't do in general solo). In tier 4 difficulty, it's fast enough to keep up with you and cause you to run out of stamina. It has a consistent 1 shot it can use at any point, including in vents. It can glitch out and turn its one advantage of being docile off on tier 3 and 4 difficulty. It can even turn off power in its boss fight.
- 010 "The Puppet Master": Let me be clear; he is BY FAR the easiest one to kill in a 1v1. What makes him so difficult is the zombies. You are constantly getting caught off guard in doorways, having to reload, wasting ammo, and being camped. On lower difficulties you can quickly shoot into the vents he's in to scare him but on higher ones he just stings you if you try, and most of the ammo crates are conveniently placed in rooms with one vent at the only doorway in, so you just get trapped there for 2 minutes. There's also so many corpses he can pull from at any given point that its impossible to make him come down without having to hit the ammo crate at least 3 times. Also just so happens to be the only one in the game that can attack you (via zombies) before you even reach the command deck outside of the Power On modifier.
- Tier 4 Turrets: Tier 4 turrets without the revolver maxed out is hell on earth. Genuinely never pick tier 4 turrets without a max revolver. Even WITH the revolver, if you don't clear out a whole area to fight the boss beforehand, they just randomly screw you over. Half the time they don't even come down when you expect them and wait until later when you least expect it.
u/PixLisReaL — 9 days ago