Talk:Fractal Guardian

Attack Inaccuracy?

I was playing in the newest patch and when I encountered a fractal guardian, it started using a ranged spray attack which inflicted rapid burn damage over time, similar to the acid ballast plants output. I can't find the exact damage numbers, but the page does not mention it at all. --DoryL (talk) 22:31, 16 November 2021 (CET)

I've been told it's more similar to the Prototype Steam Cannon. But yes, the page will need a rewrite to be up-to-date. There are no longer two variants either. FourGreenFields (talk) 23:57, 16 November 2021 (CET)

Yeah, after taking control of one with console commands it does use a unique steam cannon, but there are actually still two variants, one with the harpoon launcher and one with the steam cannon. Typing "spawn fractalguardian cursor" will give the one with the harpoon gun, and "spawn fractalguardian2" will give the steam cannon one (i've encountered both in-game). Also both of them have a stabbing attack that does roughly 20% bleeding and 25% lacerations. --DoryL (talk) 22:34, 18 November 2021 (CET)

I'm not sure where FourGreenFields is getting the information that there is only one guardian but DoryL is correct that there are two distinct guardians. This is easily confirmed by checking the Barotrauma\Content\Characters directory which has the XML files for both guardians in the Fractalguardian and Fractalguardian2 sub-directories. Terragen (talk) 23:54, 18 November 2021 (CET)

Is there a way to extract damage numbers from the game files or source (I checked the character XML file and did not see anything, although I could be missing something)? Right now I've got some rough numbers I've calculated based on testing in a sandbox with console commands to disable AI, but if there is a better way to get the data then I will use that. --DoryL (talk) 00:42, 23 November 2021 (CET)

It appears to be defined in the creatureloot.xml. guardiansteamcannon, guardianhookcannon, and guardianspear. I think that's only the ranged attacks though, melee attack is in the ragdoll's .xml, I think FourGreenFields (talk) 00:58, 23 November 2021 (CET)