DRIFTER
What it does
It picks one straight line the moment it spawns, aimed near wherever you were standing, and it flies that line until it leaves the arena. It never turns, never corrects, never chases. It moves at 1.10x your speed, so it will run you down from behind if you travel along its line, and touching it takes 8 off you, the hardest contact hit of any basic enemy.
The tell. A narrow yellow kite trailing sparks, nose pointed exactly where it is going, so a screenful of them all facing different ways means none of them are coming for you.
How it kills you
You back away in a straight line like you would from anything else, which is the exact path it is already flying, and it overtakes you from behind. Or you get busy dodging one and walk into the second and third line crossing the same space.
How you beat it
- Break sideways the second you see a line pointed at you. One step out of it and it flies past forever.
- Turn perpendicular instead of running straight away. Along its line is the one path where it catches you.
- Put a wreck between you and an incoming one, and ignore the ones that already passed. Auto-aim will chew a dart that is flying away, so point the right thumb at what is still coming.
When you meet it
Share of everything that spawns, at four points in a run.
The numbers
- Speed
- 1.10x yours It overtakes you
- Contact damage
- 8 Highest of any basic enemy
- Health
- 10 / 20 / 42 at 0:00 / 5:00 / 10:00
- XP
- 1
- Tracks you
- No One fixed line, picked at spawn
Speeds are multiples of your own. Health grows 16% per minute of run time, compounding, with no cap.
Current as of build 5 · back to the bestiary