[1.12.x] Enemy Stats & Mechanics

This is to explain terms used in the respective sections of the guide.

• General Info
  
  • Breed Tags: Used to internally classify enemies for things like proc checks, buff and debuff application, etc.
    
  • Boss: An internal flag (is_boss) to mark enemies as bosses which is relevant for certain checks.
    
  • Detection Radius: The radius in which enemies check for potential player targets if they do not have a player target yet.
    
  • Slot Type: The type of slot an enemy occupies around a player unit when the enemy is in melee combat. A player unit can have up to 9 normal slots attached to it, up to 8 medium slots, and up to 5 large slots. The effective maximum amount of occupied slots can vary depending on certain factors during gameplay (large slots taking priority over medium slots over normal slots, overlapping slots getting disabled, navmesh limitations because of map geometry, etc).
    
  • Explosion Power Multiplier: Modifies the power level of explosions which affects the damage they deal to the enemy. Only applies to explosions with damage type grenade_frag: Arbitrator's Remote Detonation (explosion part), Arbites Grenade; Hive Scum's Boom Bringer, Booby Trap; Ogryn's Bombs Away! (cluster grenades), Frag Bomb, and grenades from Grenadier Gauntlet and Rumbler; Veteran's Shredder Frag Grenade.
    
  • Mutator Variant: Some enemies have variants that are spawned exclusively by specific difficulty mutators. Usually, these variants have the same behavior and identical base settings but are slightly altered in regard to health, hit mass, size, appearance, and the like.
    
  • Health Percent Damage Cap: Limits the max amount of damage taken per hit to a certain percentage of the enemy's maximum health.
• Armor & Hit Zones
  
  • Base Armor Type: Used to calculate the stagger strength of attacks against the enemy as well as the damage dealt to the enemy by DoTs and Arbitrator's Cyber-Mastiff.
    
  • Hit Zone Armor Type: If a hit zone has a hitzone_armor_override specified, then the enemy's base armor type is overridden for attacks against this hit zone and damage is calculated accordingly.
    
  • Hit Zone Damage Multiplier: Hit zones can have a hitzone_damage_multiplier specified which modifies the damage dealt to the enemy when the respective hit zone is attacked. These damage multipliers can be set per attack type (melee, ranged, explosion). Certain weapon attacks are set up to ignore any applicable hit zone damage multipliers: Elektrokinetic Staff (chain lightning), Phosphor Blast Pistol, Psyker's Smite, Skitarius' arc lightning; certain other attacks ignore hit zone damage multipliers only for enemies with breed tags horde, roamer, elite, and special: Boltguns, Bolt Pistols, Grenadier Gauntlet (grenade projectile), Plasma Guns, Voidstrike Staff (charged ball projectile).
    
  • Center Mass Hit Zone: Used to calculate damage dealt to the enemy by explosions and by chain lightning (e.g. Psyker's Smite, Elektrokinetic Staff; Skitarius' arc lightning).
    
  • Weakspot Hit Zone: Used to calculate weakspot damage dealt to the enemy and to proc on weakspot events.
• Attack Overview
  
  • Damage (Health): The four values listed correspond to difficulties Uprising | Malice | Heresy | Damnation/Auric, with the last value for Damnation/Auric in bold.
    
  • Damage (Toughness): Listed as a multiplier that modifies an attack's base damage when dealing damage to toughness. If an attack 'ignores toughness', its damage bypasses toughness entirely and is dealt to health directly.
    
  • Corruption Ratio: Specifies the portion of health damage taken that is dealt as corruption damage.
    
  • Block Cost: The base flat amount of stamina it costs to block the attack. If an attack is 'Unblockable', the weapon used to block is required to have the block_unblockable property (either innately or provided by a buff from talents or blessings), otherwise the attack cannot be blocked, drains all stamina, and hits the player. In case of ranged attacks, the weapon used to block also requires the property to block ranged attacks (either innately or provided by a buff from talents or blessings).
    
  • Toughness Damage Behavior
    
    • Standard Melee: Damage dealt to health is reduced based on the current percentage of remaining toughness. So with 100% remaining toughness, no health damage is taken; with 75% remaining toughness, health damage taken is reduced by 75%; with, say, 17% remaining toughness, health damage taken is reduced by 17%; and with 0% remaining toughness, health damage is taken in full.
      
    • Standard Ranged / Regular Spillover: Damage is absorbed by toughness as long as the player has sufficient toughness. If the attack depletes toughness without having dealt its full base damage in the process, any remaining damage will spill over to health.
      
    • Melee Spillover: If the attack depletes toughness without having dealt its full base damage in the process, the remaining damage will spill over to health. Unlike 'Standard Melee', attacks with 'Melee Spillover' will always deal at least 25% of their damage to health. This effect is accomplished through a toughness_factor which accounts for the flat amount of total toughness a player has. For example, if an attack that deals 300 damage depletes the toughness of a Player A who is at 100% toughness and has 130 flat toughness total, this player will take 300-(130×0.75)=202.5 health damage; whereas a Player B who is at 100% toughness and has 150 flat toughness will take 300-(150×0.75)=187.5 health damage. Also note that the toughness_factor scales linearly with the current percentage of remaining toughness (from 0.75 down to 0). So if the same attack hits Player A who is at 40% remaining toughness (i.e. 52 of 130 toughness remaining), it will deal 300-(52×0.3)=284.4 health damage; whereas against Player B who is at 40% remaining toughness (i.e. 60 of 150 toughness remaining), the attack will deal 300-(60×0.3)=282 health damage.
      
    • Full Spillover: If the attack depletes toughness, its damage is dealt in full to health as if the player did not have any toughness.

• Attack Overview (continued)
  
  • Melee Attack Types
    
    • Regular Attack: The simplest enemy melee attack type. It targets a single player and cannot hit multiple players. It is more or less a distance check executed once per swing: It has a certain reach specified as well as a certain cone. As long as the player target is within reach, within the cone's angle, and within a certain vertical height, the attack will hit when the hit check is made. Against a dodging player, the reach is reduced and the cone's angle is tightened when the hit check is made.
      
    • Sweep Attack: A more elaborate enemy melee attack type. It targets a single player and can hit multiple players during one swing. Over the full time of the swing's duration, it checks each frame for valid player hits in, usually, spheres with a certain radius and processes potential player hits separately from each other. Against a dodging player who was acquired as a potential target inside a sphere, the effective reach is reduced when the hit check is made.
      
    • Broadphase Attack: A simple AoE melee attack. It targets a single player and can hit multiple players if they are inside its area of effect. It checks for valid player hits in a sphere with a certain radius but, unlike 'Sweep Attack', it executes its check only once instead of checking for valid player hits each frame over the full time of its duration. Against a dodging player who was acquired as a potential target inside the sphere, the effective reach is reduced when the hit check is made.
      
    • OOBB Attack: The most elaborate enemy melee attack type. It can target different players and switch between them (only if it has a multi_target_config), and can hit multiple players if they end up in its swing volume. It executes its hit check once per swing. Attacks of this type have a discretely shaped volume (oriented bounding box), defined by width, forward range, and height, that is rotated with the attacking unit. Against a dodging player, the dimensions of the swing volume are reduced. However, in order to successfully dodge an 'OOBB Attack', a player is required to not only enter is_dodging state in time but also create spatial separation. A dodge succeeds only if the target ends up physically outside the swing volume when the hit check is made. Therefore, these attacks cannot be dodged 'on the spot'.
  • Friendly Fire: Some enemy attacks deal friendly fire and can damage other enemies.
    
    • Melee Friendly Fire: For most melee attacks, the base amount of friendly fire damage dealt is the same as when dealt to players. However, the actual damage dealt depends on the target's base armor type: Unarmoured, Unyielding, Infested, Void Shield take full damage, Flak and Maniac take 50% reduced damage, and Carapace takes no damage. Daemonhost deals 150 melee friendly fire damage against all enemies (except for Bulwark); Beast of Nurgle deals 0.2 melee friendly fire damage against all enemies.
      
    • Ranged Friendly Fire: Most ranged attacks deal friendly fire damage only when hitting a weakspot with the base amount of friendly fire damage being 1 per hit. Sniper's shot deals 1225 ranged friendly fire damage; this base amount is affected by applicable hit zone damage multipliers and falloff, and can damage Captains/Twins only without void shield; deals no damage against Bulwark, Crusher. Plasma Gunner's shot deals 522.5 ranged friendly fire; this base amount is affected by applicable hit zone damage multipliers and falloff, and can damage Captains/Twins only without void shield; deals no damage against Bulwark.
• Combat Ranges
  
  • There are three different combat ranges enemies can be in: far, close, melee. These ranges are mostly relevant for enemies that can engage in both melee and ranged combat or that can be suppressed: Combat ranges determine behavioral factors (e.g. swapping between melee and ranged weapon) and also affect variables of the enemy's suppression config.
• Suppression
  
  • Suppression Max Amount: The maximum amount of suppression that can be dealt to an enemy.
    
  • Suppression Threshold: Once this value is surpassed, the enemy is suppressed. When the current amount of suppression on the enemy falls below this threshold, the enemy recovers from being suppressed.
    
  • Suppression Decay: After a randomly chosen delay, the current amount of suppression on an enemy will start to decay by a specific amount at a specific rate.
    
  • Suppression Immunity: This is the duration an enemy is immune to suppression after having recovered from being suppressed.
• Stagger
  
  • Stagger Reduction: Used during stagger calculation to reduce an attack's effective stagger strength. Each enemy has a default stagger_reduction but this can be overridden if the enemy does an action that has a stagger reduction override specified.
    
  • Stagger Resistance: Used during stagger calculation as a divisor. Generally, if the value is 1, it can be disregarded. If the value is below 1, it will increase an attack's effective stagger strength when determining the type of stagger the target will be put into; if the value is above 1, it will decrease an attack's effective stagger strength during this step.
    
  • Stagger Category: Each attack has a stagger_category specified in its damage profile which determines the possible types of stagger the attack can cause. For example, the stagger category "melee" allows the attack to put an enemy into stagger types light, medium, and heavy but not into stagger types explosion, light_ranged or killshot.
    
  • Stagger Type: There are different types of stagger an enemy can be put into (only the 'main' ones are listed in the tables). Depending on the stagger type, the corresponding stagger animations and settings like stagger duration and stagger immune time are determined. An enemy's effective hit mass also changes based on the stagger type: Roughly, 10% reduced hit mass while in light stagger, 25% reduced while in medium stagger, and 50% reduced while in heavy stagger.
    
  • Stagger Threshold: The stagger threshold is a value that has to be surpassed by an attack's effective stagger strength in order to determine (1) if the attack in question can stagger the target in the first place and, if it does, (2) into which stagger type the attack will put the target.
    
  • Stagger Duration: This is the base duration of the stagger animation which can be modified by other factors.
    
  • Stagger Immune Time: This is the duration an enemy is immune to staggers of the same stagger type after being successfully staggered. For example, an enemy put into light stagger will be immune to another light stagger for the specified duration but not against a stronger stagger type like medium.
    
  • Reverse Stagger Count: While an enemy is staggered, every successive staggering hit increases the current stagger_count on the staggered enemy. Usually, this stagger count increases an attack's effective stagger strength against an already staggered target. However, if an enemy has this setting, the opposite applies: Against an already staggered enemy, successive hits will get less effective in stagger strength.
    
  • Accumulative Stagger Multiplier: If an enemy does not ignore this mechanic entirely, an attack's effective stagger strength can be increased by successive hits against the target within specific time windows in order to accumulate enough stagger strength to eventually stagger the target. This multiplier reduces the effectiveness of the so-called stagger_strength_pool.

Since this enemy cannot engage in ranged combat, the combat ranges are mainly relevant for suppression. Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed:
The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

Since this enemy cannot engage in ranged combat, the combat ranges are mainly relevant for suppression. Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed:
The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

This enemy cannot be suppressed.


This enemy wields a shield. The shield is able to block both melee and ranged attacks that are directed at it from within a 120° angle in front of the enemy. Explosions and active DoTs bypass the shield. The shield has a health pool, so it can take damage and be destroyed.
Certain attacks have a unique shield_breaker property that allows them to destroy the shield immediately on hit regardless of its current health. If an attack with this property destroys a shield, 50% of the shield's max health is dealt as damage to the enemy.
Certain attacks have a unique ignore_shield property that allows them, when hitting the shield, to ignore the shield's health pool and instead deal damage to the enemy directly.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).



The Radio Operator can summon additional enemies 5s after he has spawned. The initial group of summons consists of three enemy types:
When one of the initial summons is killed, Radio Operator will continue to refill the roster by randomly picking one reinforcement until he is killed.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. This enemy cannot be suppressed.

Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed: * Requires the player to have a melee weapon wielded, to be within 4.5m of enemies targeting the player in melee, and to be above a certain challenge_rating threshold. The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).

This enemy cannot be suppressed.


This enemy wields a shield. The shield is able to block both melee and ranged attacks that are directed at it from within a 120° angle in front of the enemy. Explosions and active DoTs bypass the shield. The shield has a health pool, so it can take damage and be destroyed.
Certain attacks have a unique shield_breaker property that allows them to destroy the shield immediately on hit regardless of its current health. If an attack with this property destroys a shield, 50% of the shield's max health is dealt as damage to the enemy.
Certain attacks have a unique ignore_shield property that allows them, when hitting the shield, to ignore the shield's health pool and instead deal damage to the enemy directly.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.


This enemy wields a shield. The shield is able to block both melee and ranged attacks that are directed at it from within a 140° angle in front of the enemy. Explosions and active DoTs bypass the shield. The shield is invulnerable and cannot be destroyed.

This enemy cannot be suppressed.

This enemy cannot be in close combat range. Range switch cooldowns and other factors (e.g. vertical distance) are not listed:
The amount of suppression that the enemy takes depends on the suppression settings of the source (attack, talent, blessing, etc).