Zombie

* Normal
* Tentacle Mutant

**Zombies** are undead enemies encountered in Beneath. They make their first appearance in the Caves, at the very beginning of the game, and tend to be accompanied by stronger, but rarer variants known as **Tentacle Mutants**.

## Description

### Normal

Zombies are undead former U.H.D.F. workers. They are similar to normal humans, albeit they look gaunt and they're partly covered in a dark red substance, assumed to be either dried blood or some kind of corruption, which could be responsible for them rising from the dead.

They are very easy to defeat as a result of their slowness and weakness. They're very brittle - their body parts will sometimes entirely fall apart when hit and can be easily slashed off. Zombies may sometimes wield obsidian weaponry or crystal shards, however they're usually unarmed. Despite being undead, they're not immune to fire damage, poison or electricity. In fact, they're very vulnerable to electricity, often being completely blown apart when shocked.

A Zombie will become slightly faster when other Zombies are nearby. Some Zombies may also be randomly faster than normally.

Zombies will roam around aimlessly until they spot the player. They will give a groan when initiating combat and shamble towards the player afterwards. Their attacks are sluggish and usually result in little damage, but they may be dangerous in groups.

### Tentacle Mutants

Tentacle Mutants are mutated zombies sporting an unique characteristic - each sports an elongated, purplish, tentacle-like arm. The material covering their mutated arm seems to be extending to the torso, which further indicates that it may be corruption instead of blood, although it remains unconfirmed.

Tentacle Mutants are slower than zombies and are slightly more hunched over, presumably due to their heavy mutated appendages. However, Tentacle Mutants are not to be underestimated. They deal roughly thrice as much damage as a regular Zombie and additionally knock the player back.

If not in combat, Tentacle Mutants will roam around similarly to Zombies. During this, they will curl their mutated arm up and lower their heads.

## Abilities and Powers

### Normal

* **Melee Swing:** The Zombie will lean backward, before swinging their arm or weapon (if holding one).

### Tentacle Mutant

* **Tentacle Whip**: The Tentacle Mutant will reel back and quickly swing its arm forward like a whip, dealing medium damage and knocking the player back slightly.

## Strategy

* As Zombies are the most common enemy in the earlier areas, they are very easy to beat. The usual strategy is to hit them quickly before they have a chance to attack.
* Tentacle Mutants are more dangerous than common Zombies, as they deal more damage and have more health. Generally, since they can take a few hits before dying, it is best to bait them into attacking and back up. Then you can rush in and hit it a few times to kill it before it can attack again. Keep in mind they are specifically dangerous to low health classes and/or new players.
* Zombies are deceivingly durable in certain cases. They are able to withstand many hits if all of their limbs/head stay intact. Weak projectiles like those from the crossbow will have little to no effect.

## Trivia

* It remains unknown whether the crimson substance on them is dried blood or some sort of corruption. If it's corruption, it may indicate that all Zombies are underdeveloped forms of some kind of more powerful descendants, not strictly the Tentacle Mutants.
* As seen in the Level Editor zombies actually have extremely high health (set to 10, which is normally 1000), but due to them having extremely fragile bodies they take a lot more damage per hit. On the other hand, Tentacle Mutants may have less health points but aren't as fragile and therefore are tougher to defeat.
* If the player dies to a Zombie, the game humiliates the player by saying that they fell to a "weak, pathetic, unarmed Zombie".
	+ The game still says the aforementioned text even if the Zombie was holding a weapon.

## Gallery

A Tentacle Mutant standing next to a mauled corpse of a Zombie.A Tentacle Mutant reeling back its arm, about to swing it at the player.A blood-drenched Zombie.A group of Zombies approaching the player.