Bloat

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The Bloat has the most vitality of the early-wave enemies. Its primary means of attack is spewing acidic bile at anyone within a few feet of them, making hit-and-run tactics ineffective. It also explodes and showers bile on nearby squad members and specimens when killed.

This fat monstrosity may not be such a danger to most players, but those who specialise in close-range combat are likely to get showered with bile. Support specialists and Berserkers should therefore take pre-cautions before they charge into the battlefield. Not only does bile inflict lasting damage, but it also obstructs your vision with a huge yellow splat (Combat armour will disable this disruption) and causes your view to shake. The damage output of bile varies from each difficulty ranging from about 8-20 and lasts for about 5 seconds.

The Bloat also has a butcher knife, but will only use it if you are within its melee range.

The easiest way to kill a Bloat is with a headshot from a distance. Even if the Bloat doesn't die instantly, it is rendered incapable of spewing bile and forced to rely on its much weaker melee attack. Even better, a headless Bloat will usually die before reaching the players if decapitated from a sufficient distance, allowing players to save ammo. It is also advisable to avoid using melee attacks unless the Berserker perk is chosen, as the Bloat explodes when killed and will damage nearby players. If possible, lure the Bloat into a group with other enemies and then cause it to explode. Gorefasts, Clots, Stalkers and Fleshpounds are known to attack Bloats that damage them. This conserves ammo, and is more easily done with the Berserker or Medic's speed boost, but team mates are often necessary to keep your escape path open.

Contents 1 Extermination 1.1 Health charts 1.1.1 Total health 1.1.2 Head health 1.2 Bounty

Extermination

• The Bloat moves slowly, so it is relatively easy to headshot it with any ballistic weapon that is not a shotgun, including the 9mm tactical pistol.
• Stay back if you can. As noted previously, the Bloat releases acidic bile when it is alive and upon death. The bile is projectile when the Bloat throws up, but is radial when the Bloat dies. This bile is incredibly annoying when it hits you, blinding you if you lack armor, but can also be useful. If you can trick a Bloat into biling another specimen then it can kill them (and earns you an achievement) or can cause infighting between powerful specimens such as the Scrake and the Bloat in question. Normally the Bloat loses, and it holds up the enemies for a second, giving you a brief reprieve.
• After decapitating a Bloat, allowing it to die without suffering further damage will cause it to simply collapse, without exploding.
• A Berserker with a sufficiently powerful melee weapon can use their speed bonus to quickly charge in and kill the Bloat before it can vomit, then back off to avoid the explosion.
• If you spot a Bloat surrounded by Clots, a fairly common occurrence, shoot the Bloat to death first, as the bile from his death will inflict damage to the specimens around him.

Health charts

Total health

The base hit points of the Bloat is 525; its total health on normal with one player, for every additional player +131.25 hit points is added. This figure is then multiplied by 0.5 on beginner, 1 on normal, 1.35 on hard, and 1.75 for suicidal.

Players	Beginner	Normal	Hard	Suicidal
1	263	525	709	919
2	328	656	886	1148
3	394	788	1063	1378
4	459	919	1240	1608
5	525	1050	1418	1838
6	591	1181	1595	2067

Head health

The base hit points of the Bloat's head is 25; its total health on normal. This figure is then multiplied by 0.5 on beginner, 1 on normal, 1.35 on hard, and 1.75 for suicidal.

Beginner	Normal	Hard	Suicidal
13	25	34	44

Bounty

Beginner	Normal	Hard	Suicidal
£34	£17	£14	£11

Characters
Humans	Original characters • Outbreak character pack • Nightfall character pack • Trader
Specimens	Clot • Crawler • Gorefast • Stalker • Bloat • Husk • Siren • Scrake • Fleshpound • Patriarch

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