So if it is in shooting mode it takes significantly reduced damage from krak and doesn't even get staggered out of it. This had got to go. It is the most tanky "extremis" enemy that somehow magically gets stronger armor just because it crouches down a little. 

Either lower its health or fix krak not doing the same damage as it does to every other extremis/not staggering it. This enemy already spams a somehow even more BS version of spore mines. (acid spore mines, yay now when you dodge the mines you still get damaged because of the puddles they leave behind for 10 seconds. So much fun)

heck while it is in its way too fast running mode it seems to also take less damage from krak and not get staggered. 

This enemy is so broken, fix your shit Saber.

Yeah, something is fishy about this Biovore chap. Last time I used 2 Krak grenades on him while he was not burrowed. Only then he could be finished (Ruthless and higher difficulties). White burrowed = no chance. Also, shooting his cannon while burrowed seems to not help in most cases. Yesterday I shot at least 10 rounds from Last fusil in it and nothing. Also the sniper perk for 50% damage in block stances is not working on him correctly. Maybe it is bugged or there are situations where it will be bugged. Don't know. Sometimes he goes down easily, sometimes just nothing works as intended.

Only melta bomb and melta weapons can do the job nicely + the plasma weapons are good, but he should get some tweaks for sure. 

Not to mention the melee combat with it. There is no combat flow, which means, he can mix up his attacks whenever. That melee bomb attack is the worst. He can pull it out anytime. Acting more like the lictor, but you have less time or no time to react to his orange attacks.

From my experience once it "deploy" you need to get in and melee it. Ranged won't work since you get the shield icon when you shoot it so that means your damage is getting blocked.

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Koetetsu wrote:

From my experience once it "deploy" you need to get in and melee it. Ranged won't work since you get the shield icon when you shoot it so that means your damage is getting blocked.

I know how they are supposed to work. This isn't about ranged attacks, this is about the damn thing being seemingly resistant to krak grenades not just while "deployed" (a bullshit mechanic that makes no logical sense by the way) but also seemingly while running and really any state other than performing a melee attack. It only takes one to down them if you catch it while it is swinging at someone but in literally any other state it takes 2+ which can't possibly be intended. They are clearly broken in some way.

They have more HP than any other extremis or if not more defense and given they are a technically ranged extremis they really shouldn't be so resistant to ranged attacks if they are also so fast melee can't keep up if they decide to flee instead of start tossing melee attacks around. They are frankly bad for the game, they aren't challenging, they are annoying, and 3 can spawn on Absolute which is just cancer. They can also climb up drop-downs and then are unreachable by melee so... yeah these things needs some looking into.

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I know how they are supposed to work. This isn't about ranged attacks, this is about the damn thing being seemingly resistant to krak grenades not just while "deployed" (a bullshit mechanic that makes no logical sense by the way) but also seemingly while running and really any state other than performing a melee attack. It only takes one to down them if you catch it while it is swinging at someone but in literally any other state it takes 2+ which can't possibly be intended. They are clearly broken in some way.

They have more HP than any other extremis or if not more defense and given they are a technically ranged extremis they really shouldn't be so resistant to ranged attacks if they are also so fast melee can't keep up if they decide to flee instead of start tossing melee attacks around. They are frankly bad for the game, they aren't challenging, they are annoying, and 3 can spawn on Absolute which is just cancer. They can also climb up drop-downs and then are unreachable by melee so... yeah these things needs some looking into.

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They are weak to melee so if you do get one in melee they die pretty fast.  Much quicker than a lictor or ravenger. For the krak grenade I guess it depends on where it auto attaches itself to because they do have armor just there on them.  Maybe when they are swinging they have opened themselves up for those vulnerable parts to be hit by the explosion of the grenade.  I tend to jump on them and if they do take off running shoot them in the butt with neo pistol.  They're vulnerable back there.

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Shining_Darkness wrote:

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I know how they are supposed to work. This isn't about ranged attacks, this is about the damn thing being seemingly resistant to krak grenades not just while "deployed" (a bullshit mechanic that makes no logical sense by the way) but also seemingly while running and really any state other than performing a melee attack. It only takes one to down them if you catch it while it is swinging at someone but in literally any other state it takes 2+ which can't possibly be intended. They are clearly broken in some way.

They have more HP than any other extremis or if not more defense and given they are a technically ranged extremis they really shouldn't be so resistant to ranged attacks if they are also so fast melee can't keep up if they decide to flee instead of start tossing melee attacks around. They are frankly bad for the game, they aren't challenging, they are annoying, and 3 can spawn on Absolute which is just cancer. They can also climb up drop-downs and then are unreachable by melee so... yeah these things needs some looking into.

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They are weak to melee so if you do get one in melee they die pretty fast.  Much quicker than a lictor or ravenger. For the krak grenade I guess it depends on where it auto attaches itself to because they do have armor just there on them.  Maybe when they are swinging they have opened themselves up for those vulnerable parts to be hit by the explosion of the grenade.  I tend to jump on them and if they do take off running shoot them in the butt with neo pistol.  They're vulnerable back there.

Naw doesn't seem to matter where it sticks. Shouldn't really matter though considering it is krak, you know, the grenade type specifically designed to punch holes in armor. If anything they should be weaker to it given their "armor" is biological so punching a hole in it would cripple it.

Again, this isn't about me not being able to take them out. This is about them being the only extremis threat that consistently take an entire 2 kraks to take down. The other ones that survive one do so with just barely enough health left to not be vulnerable but it can eat two and still only be in red health (not quite vulnerable) and that is just not balanced given we only get 2 krak if that is the grenade type we are carrying. If we carried 3 then it would be less of a problem but 2 krak takes care of 2 extremis in just about every other encounter. 

The biovore is bugged 100%. Also, if you kill it, it's spore mines won't succumb with it like it should via the synaptic link. Not even the spore mines which are close to it. I have killed them a dozen times and I always encounter this issue. The problem is, that those spore mines will then proceed to attack you like nothing happened. Already made a post in the bug section regarding it.

Also, there are these hovering spore mines like visual glithes as well. Did you encounter the same as well?

Yes.   The ghost mines are almost always there after the biovore dies.