Clot

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The Clot is one of the weakest and slowest specimen found in Killing Floor. Found in the large numbers in every wave the Clots regularly arrive alongside Bloats and Gorefasts. Despite its weakness the Clot has the ability to grab and hold while attacking you. The only escape is to either kill the Clot or jump to the opposite direction of the Clot. A careless player can easily get surrounded and overwhelmed, a situation aggravated by their numbers. There is a formerly whitelisted Clots-only mutator called Clot Buster packaged with the game.

Contents 1 Biology 1.1 Appearance 1.2 Behaviour 1.3 Historic data 2 Background 3 Extermination

Biology

Appearance

The Clot appears as a short, pale, nude, hairless humanoid, lacking genitalia and a nose. Its forearms and face, around their claw-like hands and mouth, are stained with blood and it has several circular stickers from medical experiments dotted around its body.

Due to their image as cannon fodder they make appearances on the images of several achievements not directly related to them, such as 'careful spender', 'dot of doom', 'hot cross fun', 'experimenticenticide', 'experimentimillicide', 'experimentilottacide' and 'it's what's inside that counts'.

Behaviour

Clots will slowly walk towards the nearest player, taking the most direct path available. When they reach a player they will grab hold of them and repeatedly bite them. If there is more than one Clot they will unwittingly try to surround the player in a scrabble to eat them. If a player succumbs to this and dies the surrounding clots will begin feeding on the corpse for a short while unless disturbed by other players.

Clots have been known to attack other specimens, but they will only do so in retaliation. Due to their low health however, any attack suffered from another specimen will usually outright kill the Clot before it has chance to do so.

Historic data

As with most aspects of the game, the only significant difference between the Killing Floor mod and the retail version of Killing Floor was the aesthetics; they appeared heavily bloodied and mutilated. They also lacked the circular medical stickers dotted around their body.

Background

When Horzine started its second wave of human cloning and genetic engineering programs, the intention was to create a fully grown male that would respond to imperatives and could recognize Horzine staff as its masters. Orders were to be given to these subjects through a neural implant which released controlled doses of serotonin upon successful completion of a mandate. The subjects quickly showed signs of aberrant behaviour, however, including aggressive self mutilation. The first batch of clones was spawned from the DNA of Horzine CEO Kevin Clamely's deceased son. The failure of these specimens put a brief hold on the project while new avenues were pursued.

Extermination

A Clots base health total health is 130, and head health is 25. These figures are then multiplied by 0.5 on beginner, 1.35 on hard, and 1.75 for suicidal. The base bounty value is £7, this is then multiplied by 2 for beginner, 0.85 on hard, 0.65 on suicidal and reduced to its floor value.

	Beginner	Normal	Hard	Suicidal
Total health	65	130	176	228
Head health	13	25	34	44
Bounty	£14	£7	£5	£4

A Clot can be easily killed with any of the available weapons and are easily decapitated. With almost any weapon, a shot or two to the head scores a decapitation, rendering them little more than a weak meat shields. Crowds of Clots can be dispatched quickly by any weapons with good area of effect, penetration depth, or high rate of fire. Their biggest danger is as a distraction and their ability to grab you. When grabbed by a Clot there are two ways to escape. Jumping away from their grasp is the first way, the second is to decapitate or kill them.

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Specimens	Clot • Crawler • Gorefast • Stalker • Bloat • Husk • Siren • Scrake • Fleshpound • Patriarch

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