IMMORTAL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MIMIC?

[Bap0s]

me and my friends finished all the objectives and were on our way to leave and this mimic showed up. I shot it with my shotgun and it lived, leading him to stun lock me in his attack. He proceed to find my friends and kill them both after being shot and burned by 3 people. WTH

[Zeromentor]

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I've had this happen so many times you'd think I'd develop PTSD by now. So, I'm not sure what is causing this, be it a bug or some error in hitboxes, but yes the Mimic can sometimes be nigh impossible to kill.

This seems to happen most often when someone in the match crashes or leaves the game. Often times one or all players will not be able to see the Mimic, and the "Player Name" above it's head will instead be a blank black square. Also, it's attack animation causes players to be stunned and unable to fight back, and immediately afterwards the player's gun will not have fixed it's aim and the player will be unable to accurately fire at or kill the Mimic before it attacks again, nor can they simply run away. Obviously, this commonly causes all players in the area to get wiped out. It's especially bad if you are trying to extract because this will end your run.

Also, as a third bit of info, in it's Mimicking Phase, the Mimic will often absorb a lethal attack without dying and transform to attack afterwards, so shooting it while it is too close can cause it to just stun-lock and kill the nearest player. In this specific case I recommend waiting for the Mimic to run away before attacking it, which seems to happen if you point a gun at it and wait (but sometimes it still transforms, but... At least you tried).

TL:DR- Bugs and Design Issues Bro.

[longshot]

It's definitely not a multiplayer-only (i.e. someone crashes or leaves) bug, as I lost several solo Nightmare runs to the mimic being invincible. Don't think I have ever managed to kill it, it just acts like any attacks don't register on it, and you can't outrun it. The only consolation on Nightmare is, like every other monster, it just one-shots you, so the stun-lock is irrelevant. Extremely frustrating.

I'm also not convinced that it's a mimic-only bug, as I've had other enemies intermittently become seemingly invincible as well. It usually happens when they bug out in some other way. Like, sometimes an enemy's pathing will bug out and it'll get constantly stuck trying to reach you or won't move unless you move as well. Every time I've seen that happen, they act just like the mimic where it seems like no attacks register on it. If you're especially unlucky and it happens when you're in the Underground Bunker, that's a death sentence.

[DraftysoyBean]

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