Криссалид

Криссалиды это террористы, действующие вместе с снэйкменами.

Противные. Зубастые. Очень-очень быстрые. Способны вживлять в плоть яйца, (превращающие вас в зомби) лишь немого касаясь брони. Способность одной особи криссалида размножаться и легко уничтожать целые отряды дeлает их почти такими же опасными, как этериалы.

Характеристики

Очки действия:         110-127
Здоровье:              96
Энергия:               140-162
Реакция:               70-86
Сила:                  110-118
Храбрость:             100
Пси умение:            Нет
Пси устойчивость:      50-69

Урон:                  110-118
Тип урона:             ???
Меткость в ближнем бою:80%
Затраты ОД:            15

Живой экземпляр

Схожие с клешнями краба, клешни этого создания довольно мощное оружие в ближнем бою. Высокие скорость и обмен веществ дают ему хорошую скорость и ловкость. Вместо того, что бы убивать свою жертву, они вживляют ей яйцо и яд вместе с ней, которые превращают их жертву в ходячего зомби. Новый криссалид вылупляется из жертвы через некоторое время после её оплодотворения. Криссалиды действуют совместно со снэйкменами.

Вскрытие

Экзо-скелет этого существа очень жёсткий, но очень уязвим перед оружием взрывного действия. Мозг хорошо развит, и скорость роста его клеток очень высока. Каждая особь несёт в себе 20 яиц, которые они всаживают в какой-либо посторонний организм. Это существо является очень эффективным оружием террора.

[ NKF: Note, the above is taken directly from the game UFOpaedia. Technically, the comment about the vulnerability to explosives is only true when the Chryssalid is unconscious. Chryssalids, in fact, take normal damage from Explosives. To confirm this, refer to the Damage Modifiers.

With the Auto or Heavy Cannon, Chryssalids are more likely to get knocked unconscious with HE rounds while AP rounds often kills them. Make it habit of examining the corpse before moving on if you haven't destroyed the corpse outright. ]

[ Tsunamiatunzen1: The entry about the twenty eggs isn't true either. Although this doesn't do you much good since twenty zombies is enough to make the rest of your squad go berserk and at least one or two of your former soldiers would have certainly become a new chryssalid by then.

Примечания

• На уровне сложности «Начинающий», у криссалида 110 ОД, и каждая атака в ближнем бою занимает у него 15 ОД. Это значит, что его может быть не видно в начале хода, но он может пробежать аж 23 клетки и атаковать вас на том же ходу! Но иногда криссалид может выскочить из-за здания, пробежать несколько клеток, попав в поле зрения вашего солдата и возвратиться обратно, в то место, откуда выскочил. В связи с этим, он может попасть под обстрел (если вы оставили солдатам время перед концом хода), так как он делает это несколько раз, пока вы не передвинетесь поближе к нему.
• Они могут атаковать 7 раз за ход на уровне сложности «Начинающий» и 8 раз на «Сверхчеловеке»(самый сложный уровень сложности).
• Модификаторы урона криссалида: Огонь 80%, Оглушение 90%. Устойчивость ко всем видам атак у них почти одинаковая, несмотря на, "уязвимость к оружию взрывного действия", про которую говорилось выше.
• Криссалид, находящийся без сознания уязвим к взрыву обычной гранаты так же, как и к любой другой объект (что очень полезно, так как оставлять оглушённого криссалида живым очень плохая идея, если вы не сможете оглушить его ещё раз, в том случае, если он проснётся..
• Если вы находитесь в контроллируемой криссалидом зоне без летающей брони, можете попробовать подняться наверх и прострелить ступеньки, что бы он не поднялся. Это работает также если вы просто сидите на этажом выше криссалида. Тем самым вы заблокируете ему проход к вам и он останется на нижнем этаже. Но не забудьте сделать это со всеми лестницами, ведущими на этот этаж.
• If you're afraid of a Chryssalid popping out of a corner while you're assaulting a base or a big UFO, place yourself below or above the Chryssalid's level and then pop out and blast it on your next turn.
• If you find a lone Chryssalid in your area and you're still using human rifles or laser pistols, you'll have to do the unthinkable, get in its face and unload the entire clip into it! It's probably not going to die even from point-blank full-auto Rifle fire, but it's sure better than shooting wildly and missing or waiting for a reaction shot that never comes.
• HWP's can't be turned into Zombies but a Chryssalid attack can still make a mess of them. The HWP may survive the attack but will have a serious damage.
• Chryssalids usually dont have guns; using Flying Suits you can just hover in the air and shoot them or drop High Explosives down on them. A flying suited soldier can potentially distract a Chryssalid to an extent since a Chryssalid next to a flying soldier will stare angrily at it as long as there aren't any other ground units running amok nearby.
• Their lack of ranged attack or flying ability makes them easy meat once you have flying armor.
• AP works but you may want to skip the rifles and go straight to Heavy Cannon or Autocannons. Human weapons don't work very well unless it's a rocket launcher or something stronger than a laser pistol. Laser Rifles are reasonably effective as long as you have about 2 soldiers firing at each Chryssalid.
• All-round armour means Chryssalids are relatively quite HE-resistant, unless the Chryssalid was spawned from a Zombie that had its under armour damaged (this carries over to the Chryssalid form). Making it a good idea to kill Zombies with ground-zero explosions.
• A horrible way to meet one is shooting a Zombie with reaction fire as it shambles in for melee... then a Chryssalid pops out and sprints at you, turning your squad into more zombies.
• The only known way to prevent a Chryssalid hatching is to land killing blows on zombies with Incendiary rounds.
• Usually Chryssalids are unarmed, so they're sitting ducks during X-Com's turn. If you have a chance to kill one you should take it before it's too late.
• If one of your soldiers was Zombified alive, and so didn't drop all its weapons, the resulting Zombie and Chryssalid will reaction fire at you aggressively (if inaccurately).
• Listen during the alien turn closely. Chryssalids howl when they spot a target.

As with all terror units, they can be encountered in the following mission types:

• Terror Mission
• Base Defense
• UFO Ground Assault (Terror Ship or Battleship)
• Alien Base Assault
• Cydonia

Превращение в зомби

If a human unit (or Chryssalid under permanent control) is ATTACKED by a Chryssalid - Even once - It will become a Zombie. This happens regardless of what the other effects of the attack are, including DEATH.

Zombification occurs at the END of a Chryssalid's series of attacks on that particular opponent. So, even though only 1 attack is sufficient for zombification, a Chryssalid will keep attacking the same target that it begins attacking, until it dies, is stunned, or they run out of TU. This means that armor causes a major difference in Chryssalid attack patterns. An unarmored soldier will often die in just 1 hit, so a single Chryssalid will often run up to soldier A, kill and Zombify him, run to soldier B, kill and Zombify, and repeat this many times. For grounded soldiers in Flying Suits, it will often take many more hits to kill it's target, often not leaving it enough TU to go after a fresh target.

If the damage dealt to the subject was enough to kill it (usually the case), it will scream and drop it's weapons in the usual way before "resurrecting" as a Zombie. Regardless however there'll be no corpse left behind.

The 2nd case, Zombification without death, being "Zombified alive", is special, in that it does not cause units to scream or drop their weapons. No morale loss for unit death will occur, and no points for killed soldiers will be lost in this case. Armed Zombies can only use their equipment via Reaction Fire, and when killed, change to armed Chryssalids (which have the same limitation).

This scenario usually occurs in the case of a Chryssalid which has been reduced to critically low Health, and will very often be a Chryssalid that was previously knocked unconscious by bonus stun damage from conventional weapon fire. This is because Chryssalid melee accuracy is affected by Health %, so a critically wounded Chryssalid will often flail away and not be able to get a single hit in. Nonetheless, even a single missed attack has 100% chance of causing Zombification.

The 3rd option is if the attacks ended up stunning the unit. The unconscious body will fall in the usual way, but then the victim itself will be turned into a standard Zombie. The result is that the body remains and appears to belong to the (conscious) alien.

Zombie-spawned Chryssalids suffer from a oversight in the game code which means that they will always have their core stats, unadjusted by difficulty level. In difficulties above Beginner, this means that Chryssalids birthed from Zombies will have lower stats than those that spawned at the beginning of the mission, and are thus less dangerous. However, if playing in Beginner mode, armor of units is adjusted to 50% of core for all units. This means that in Beginner mode, Zombie-spawned Chryssalids will be significantly better armored than mission-start Chryssalids! So if you're playing on Beginner, make sure you are prepared to kill a Chryssalid significantly stronger than what you have been facing normally!

Any damage done to the Zombie's armor will carry over to the resulting Chryssalid, in % terms! So, if you shoot the zombie in a certain location a few times, say the rear (it doesn't matter since zombies have 4 armor all over on Superhuman), and it gets reduced to zero, the resulting Chryssalid will have zero armor in that location when it spawns! Since Chryssalids have 34 armor on all sides on difficulty above Beginner, a reduction to 0 armor is very very significant.

Zombies created during (for example) Alien Turn 3 will only be able to move and attack during (for example) Alien Turn 4.

As noted under Zombie, Zombie research teams under controlled conditions have never seen a spontaneous Chryssalid hatching while the Zombie is still mobile and unharmed. So although the Zombie packs a wallop in melee, don't shoot them if you aren't prepared to deal with the Chryssalid immediately afterwards. Run away until you can bring to bear enough firepower to deal with both the Zombie and the Chryssalid.

Chryssalids left on their own with civilians in a Terror Mission can quite quickly raise an army of the undead. This is one of the few tricky situations where you might end up shooting civilians for their own good. And yours, of course.

См. также

• Тентакулят
• Data Canister: Chryssalid
• Exploit: gaining permanent control via psionics