Glyphid Menace

## Ugly Bug

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 — Miner's Manual Description

The **Ugly Bug** is a hostile Creature found on Hoxxes. It can be found in any region of the planet. It is a member of the Bug family, though its appearance is quite radical compared to its brethren. It has the same body shape compared to most Glyphids but is colored a bright cyan all over its body. Its mouth is much smaller, while its abdomen is considerably over-developed with two bright blue sacs on either side of its body and a heavily armored carapace on top.

The Ugly Bug is a ranged combatant. While most Bugs blindly charge towards the Dwarves, the Ugly Bug makes use of a hit-and-run strategy and can rapidly move across the entire map thanks to its burrowing ability. It prefers to hang off walls, far away from the center of a battle, making use of its long range acid attacks.

To attack, it fires volleys of acid at one target at a time. Individual shots from this attack are weak but unlike other projectile users, the Ugly Bug has a high rate of fire and its acid pelts can easily whittle down a Dwarf's health.

Each volley of fire lasts for a few seconds, but the Ugly Bug will keep firing if it is not attacked. If it takes any damage it will burrow into the cave walls once its volley ends and try to find a new location to attack from. If it emerges in a position which is too close to the Dwarves, or does not offer a good firing angle, it will burrow back into the terrain and try to find a new spot. When it burrows, it takes a couple seconds to emerge again.

A Ugly Bug's side sacs can burst once they take enough damage.

## Combat

### Breakable Weakpoints

The Glyphid Menace possess 2 Side Sacs, unlike regular weakpoints, they are breakable.

The Side Sacs have a base health of 100 that scale with Hazard Level.

Health Scaling

When it comes to dealing damage to break the weakpoint itself the weakpoint damage multipliers do not apply.

For example a weakpoint with 200 effective HP and a multiplier of 3x being shot for by a gun that deals 15 direct damage with a 30% weakpoint bonus will only take 15 damage.

Any Area Damage can damage and potentially break them, which can be detrimental since they don’t benefit from weakpoint damage.

The CRSPR Flamethrower and the Cryo Cannon can’t damage breakable weakpoints.

## Combat

### Attack(s)

Rapid Spit
Burrow

### Weakpoint

Mouth: ×2
Side Sacs: ×2

### Immunity

Courage: 0.7
Stun Duration: ×0.2
## Temperature

### Freeze T°C

30°
-50°

### Unfreeze T°C

0°
-48°

### Warming Rate

6°/s
40°/s

The Elite Ugly Bug is the elite version of the regular Ugly Bug. Like all Elite enemies, the Elite Ugly Bug looks almost identical to its regular counterparts; being only distinguished by its aura of distinct vertical red lines with the words 'elite' above their healthbar when scanned and looked at.

#### Attacks

In addition to all the benefits that all Elite enemies receive, Elite Ugly Bugs are incredibly annoying given both their high health and resistance combined with their penchant in fleeing to a safer distance. This makes taking them down to be a top priority as they would continue to harass the players with incredibly painful attacks.

Health Scaling