layek is annoying.

[Demonocolips]

well its obvious that some people dont understand the issue at hand here. its not one of skill its one of the flow of the game coming to a screeching halt when your in the middle of enjoying yourself.
if you have ever played ocarina of time the flow of the game comes to a screeching halt whenever that tutorial bird shows up out of nowhere. sure after a couple playthroughs you may remember where it is but that doesnt make it any less ANNOYING.
im traveling to another area, hey theres a layek in the way. gotta wait until it despawns. im building in my base a layek appears outside my turrets get rid of it, great now i have to take care of the radioactive waste.
this thing is a stray dog that follows me around but still tries to bite me if i turn my back, it also ♥♥♥♥♥ on my front steps whenever i scare it off.

old post: so far the single thing thats killed me the most times in this game is the layek. im reading an email, im killed by the layek. im organizing my inventory, im killed by the layek. im building a couch, im killed by the layek.
so far i havent found all the materials to build the xray thing so i have literally no defense if it decides to spawn somewhere in my view but not actually in my view to be identified. if i actually identify it its just a waste of time, but a short annoyance. dying when it appears behind me wastes much more time.
it would be nice to be able to do SOMETHING when this happens. even once i have the xray i know its going to continue to happen.

[Demonocolips]

no its around ~6 hits to death. dont know if armor works because of what its supposed to be. its reach seems to be around a meter or two from the model as well so if you get stuck in a bad spot it can take a few seconds to get away.

[Metal Mario]

Not a big fan of it because I don't like to have a babysitting mechanic in a game, I can't do anything at peace because at any moment he might just kill me while I'm crafting, reading the registry, cooking, or pooping. His spawn should be under a few controlled conditions only.
I like playing while listening to stuff outside of the game so having to stop it so I can pay attention to the stalker creep is even sadder.

[Demonocolips]

when i finally got the x-ray turret i found it shoots through walls. so within 20 meters of wherever you place it it will just die. so its good for base defense at least. well i guess it depends on how big your base is.

[Metal Mario]

If we can't have it spawn only under certain conditions we should have at least a notification like portal attacks. I somehow aggro'ed one and it only disappeared after I ran away.

[Throngler]

It would be neat if later in the game we get some kind of craftable structure to contain it rather than making it go away. Something available after the sector or two where you find it.
The consequence being that it requires power 24/7 else it gets free again.

[Boo]

If you're actually moving around a lot the leylak is a non issue, maybe it'll trouble you on occassion but not nearly to the frequency you're reporting. It's only an issue when you're in base and once you've had enough and make an xray machine it's aggression plummets after you flash it a few times, seeming to only spike back up if you start eating greyebs or are out of essences.

[mdhyena]

Annoying? I'm having troubles at spawning it to farm the essence. It, like, appeared for just 4 times per 6 hours of gameplay, two of which I didn't had X-Ray turret. Would be great to, I don't know, link its spawning rate to sleepiness or something similar. Love to be fully awake and drink barrels of coffee? You can forget about him almost completely. All so sleepy and even matches in your eyelids no longer help? The boogeyman will get you.

[Anker]

Originally posted by Assburgers:

are leyaks gonna be an entity that's once encountered, will keep coming back to stalk you and never go away for the rest of the game (as of this update)?

Yup. I've spent like half an hour renovating my base and had 4 new leylac essences to show for it.

[Anker]

Originally posted by mdhyena:

Would be great to, I don't know, link its spawning rate to sleepiness or something similar. Love to be fully awake and drink barrels of coffee? You can forget about him almost completely. All so sleepy and even matches in your eyelids no longer help? The boogeyman will get you.

That would probably be a good implementation.

[KhanWolf95]

Originally posted by Demonocolips:

so far the single thing thats killed me the most times in this game is the layek. im reading an email, im killed by the layek. im organizing my inventory, im killed by the layek. im building a couch, im killed by the layek.
so far i havent found all the materials to build the xray thing so i have literally no defense if it decides to spawn somewhere in my view but not actually in my view to be identified. if i actually identify it its just a waste of time, but a short annoyance. dying when it appears behind me wastes much more time.
it would be nice to be able to do SOMETHING when this happens. even once i have the xray i know its going to continue to happen.

When does the Laylek spawn? I only got to lvl 3 manufacturing and now Im just feeling paranoid playing solo I havent seen it yet.

[Phrog Bot]

Originally posted by KhanWolf95:

Originally posted by Demonocolips:

so far the single thing thats killed me the most times in this game is the layek. im reading an email, im killed by the layek. im organizing my inventory, im killed by the layek. im building a couch, im killed by the layek.
so far i havent found all the materials to build the xray thing so i have literally no defense if it decides to spawn somewhere in my view but not actually in my view to be identified. if i actually identify it its just a waste of time, but a short annoyance. dying when it appears behind me wastes much more time.
it would be nice to be able to do SOMETHING when this happens. even once i have the xray i know its going to continue to happen.

When does the Laylek spawn? I only got to lvl 3 manufacturing and now Im just feeling paranoid playing solo I havent seen it yet.

It'll be active as soon as you get to labs, past the collider, it might spawn some distance behind you as soon as you see a sign mentioning it/its holding room.

[Phrog Bot]

Currently with my base, which is in the security office in labs right with the cart and next to the animal pens, I have a couch blocking the door. The Leyak will try to go through the door and be blocked by the couch, then it will path around to the cart hold rather than going through the walls. Going to probably setup x-ray turrets in a way it gets blasted immediately when it spawns.

[Valhalla Awaits]

Originally posted by Demonocolips:

so far the single thing thats killed me the most times in this game is the layek. im reading an email, im killed by the layek. im organizing my inventory, im killed by the layek. im building a couch, im killed by the layek.
so far i havent found all the materials to build the xray thing so i have literally no defense if it decides to spawn somewhere in my view but not actually in my view to be identified. if i actually identify it its just a waste of time, but a short annoyance. dying when it appears behind me wastes much more time.
it would be nice to be able to do SOMETHING when this happens. even once i have the xray i know its going to continue to happen.

It makes a sound when spawning, though I too didn't understand what the sound signified at first as the game makes a lot of ambient background sounds that mean nothing. Also it makes a soft moaning sound once it gets relatively close, you could miss the sounds if your doing something loud, but you said you were doing nothing loud when attacked, you may need to turn up your audio.

I've never had it sneak up on me while doing anything as I can always hear it coming. However I have had it ambush me around sharp corners when I either went looking for it or ironically tried to get away from where I "thought" it was at the time.

Finally it shouldn't be killing you, I admit the Layak does some of the highest damage of any creature in the game, but you can just sprint away from it as long as your not way over encumbered. It won't chase forever.

[ExplosiveCrate]

Yeah my group's spent about six hours waiting for one to spawn with no success.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by ExplosiveCrate:

Yeah my group's spent about six hours waiting for one to spawn with no success.

Reboot the server, that should wake it back up.

There was a patch that recently dropped, but I don't think it addressed that. It will be particularly bad for a dedicated server, since after a few outs, it could glitch out and stop showing (until another restart).