This is why everyone hates the Impalers

[Foxador]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3305822995

I had 150 armor with the health booster which lowers damage you take by 20% and still got one shot by a impaler that spawned in a bug breach next to me. It spawned roughly 10m away as I was verifying a Ore Vein which triggers a breach next to you. There was so much fog and smoke coming out of the breach that I didn't notice it right away, but when I did notice it I threw a orbital precision strike on it's head. As I was moving away the impaler spawned it's tendrils directly underneath me and one shot me into the sky. This wasn't death by me falling, this was insta death because a tendril spawned underneath me and sent me kissing the sky

I had to find my backpack 100m south of where I died, my samples were 200m west of where I died and my weapon was 100m north of where I died. I literally exploded and sent all my items flinging across the map

Even when the impaler doesn't insta kill you, it just prolongs your demise as you get chain ragdolled around by it until you die. It's really hard to fight the tendrils when you have a ton of other bugs on you, chargers on you, bile titans on you, nursing spewers on you. You get like a fraction of a second to hit one of the tendrils before it wacks you, doesn't even need to hit you but you'll still get ragdolled which causes the next tendril to then wack you or pick you up and insta kill you

[Xan84]

If by now you did not figure out that the devs are anything but competent... I have a bridge to sell you.

[Inardesco]

AH releasing an overtuned enemy while nerfing player weapons? What a suprise.

Guess you werent here during the time gunships got released.

[Forblaze]

Yeah, Impalers really mess you up when you're solo. I assume this was a deliberate decision to encourage group play.

[Foxador]

Yeah, they can be a pain solo because all the tendrils will focus on you non stop but there's ways to deal with it. My biggest problem is when it just insta kills you by launching you into the sky and throwing your equipment and samples all over the map in random directions

[Sigma]

The devs can't even complete a difficulty 5 mission; they have no idea what the elites they release even does. :)

[BlingNikolaas]

I had this exact same issue with the flying away. Why can't they just test this before they implement it?