What is the "pig smashing on floor" alert?

[skyhrg]

What does he do? There seems to be an alert and when I go there, there is a pig monster smashing on the floor. What does it do?

[Reianor]

Check your albom.
It grows in real time. And, if given enough time turns into one tought bastart to handle.
The sooner you can kill it, the easyer it is to kill. Early on a solo hero can slay it without any serious health loss. Later on a whole 4-man team might need healing to take one down.

You may also want to know about the "rhinos" alert too, but since you didn't ask about them I'll not spoil the potentialy lethal surprise.

Oh, and btw, unless I'm missing something, smashing on floor is just it's attack animation, it's not actually doing anyhting to damage the "floor".

[melkathi]

Originally posted by Reianor:

Oh, and btw, unless I'm missing something, smashing on floor is just it's attack animation, it's not actually doing anyhting to damage the "floor".

Indeed it is only animation.
The only thing not in your reply is the fact that the Keeper (name of the enemy) also buffs other enemies on the floor and reduces dust loot chance while it is alive.

[skyhrg]

Ok I see...

I think the rhino thing is opening the doors, right? Like, if I don't kill all the enemies, it'll open the doors for me?

[melkathi]

Yup.
It will damage itself every time it attacks a door, so after a certain number of doors it will die.

[Natjur]

Originally posted by melkathi:

Yup.
It will damage itself every time it attacks a door, so after a certain number of doors it will die.

But as each door is opens could spawn another "rhino". It can get out of hand very fast and was how I got the 'finish' dungeon with all door open, as I was running with the crystal to the exit on the last level. They opened the last 6 doors by the time I got to the exit.

[melkathi]

Originally posted by Natjur:

It can get out of hand very fast and was how I got the 'finish' dungeon with all door open, as I was running with the crystal to the exit on the last level. They opened the last 6 doors by the time I got to the exit.

That was mighty kind of them

[Black Hammer]

Best title for a thread ever, by the way.

[qtquazar]

This was one of only a few deisgn gripes I had with the game... at times it feels very hard to spot these alerts. I believe they don't show up in strategic view. I foudn myself scrolling around the map trying to find them multiple times.

[BarfingPanda]

He ♥♥♥♥♥ everything up and destroys your game