I was able to get 4 kills from it. It happened in TDM, which surprised me, but my team was able to get to it first. I got to hijack it and go forth and kill. The berserker’s jumping attack seems to be an instant kill. The hitbox isn’t that big on the attack, so it requires some good aim. The payoff is an easy kill. I didn’t try using the poison breath, but that may be able to set up opponents for a jumping attack. It can be extremely devastating in BR (I also think it may be able to appear in Tag Battle since that mode shares the same ATEs as TDM. In that case it would be gdlk there as well.). After a minute or so, the berserker shook me off. I had to execute it afterwards.
It’s only useful if you like high risk/high reward, tracks incredibly well to the right(because that’s where he’s turning to) and is damn hard to avoid if dodging to the right, it’s possible, but it isn’t a good idea to try, that shit will crush your guard so easy. If you dodge it to the left though, it’s completely free to punish.
Other than that, Oinkie has the worst standard KWH, it has 0 armor, is slow(faster than most, but still slow), and incredibly obvious. It is an incredible punishing tool though for baiting 360s, the timing on it is perfect to catch people on their recovery if you don’t get pushed from blocking.
If someone can find a way to make berserker mutants appear frequently… pls share D=
I might start playing offline BR’s and trying out random shit, probably just a coincidence but I got one on my first BR just now.
The order of RTE’s went something like this.
Gunrunner
Item Slots
Rampaging Vehicle
Rampaging Vehicle
OA system
Bombing Raid
Executioners
Item Slots
Cargo Plane
! Berserker Mutation detected
There were no mutants that spawned before, nothing enemy related happened. All the while, I was picking up and destroying every item I could find, so I may play a few more. Maybe a certain # of events has to happen, and maybe a certain # of items has to be used within a time period? Like I’ve never seen a berserker late in a match.
Course the CPU’s were assholes and i had like 3 rampaging on him at once, couldn’t ride it. Also I found the fact that two rampaging vehicles happened one after the other extremely odd. Maybe the “director” as I like to call him, (the thing in the background picking what will happen next) really is just a randomized asshole.
Edit: My bad, completely forgot there WERE executioners, but no mutants. Also, a cargo plane RIGHT before the mutation.
BR#2- No mutant
Poison Gas
Carpet Bombing
Drones Drones and more Drones, drones EVERYWHERE
Item Slots
Regular Mutants
Regular Executioners
You know, it might be worth recording events whenever a mutant shows up, maybe we can find a pattern.
Damn… I was hoping I was on to something crazy awesome or something. <_<
BR #3 Berserker mutation confirmed!
Mostly the same events as the first BR,
Rampaging Vehicle
Item Slots
OA System
Nanovirus (game of poison tag)
Executioner x 2 (Killed)
Executioner x 1 (Killed)
! Berserker Mutation detected!
More testing is needed obviously but things are looking good. Maybe when you start the match, theres a predestined sort of group that happens, and within that group is another group of subevents–which if taken advantage of correctly. Spawns a mutant?
And I don’t get to ride it, this is annoying as fuck with CPU’s, trying to get on one with humans will be impossible.
So no drone enemies spawned the entire time both berserkers were present, also. No chutulus! And both berserkers were in Altambra Central Square.
BR #4
Rampaging Vehicle
Killseeker Item Bro
Rampaging Vehicle
Executioner
OA system
Item Slots
Nanoviral
Gunrunner
Assassination
Bayside Bridge
Killseeker Item Bro
!Berserker Mutation! (Bridge bombing still happening)
Feels like Altambra Central Square is a pretty common map for berserkers, out of the 4 I haven’t seen chutulu yet, and chutulu ALWAYS seems to fucking spawn online, in every fucking map. So it’s probably one or the other.
Chutulu, Kraken, Berserker
Maps without Kraken probably have a higher chance for Berserker. There were laser drones right after the berserker died as well, CPU 01 stole my hijack this time. He then proceeded to run into a wall until the berserker threw him off. Fuck off, game. Just, fuck off.
BR #5.
Gunrunner
Jamming Drone
Item Slots
OA system
Nanovirus
Exeuctioner
Black Hole
Satellite Array
BERSERKER
What the fuck man. 4/4 Altambra has had a berserker. What is the fucking connection!? No drones?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that CPU’s play BR a LOT different than humans do. they converge in one area, at any given time there are 10+ in a single area fighting it out, none of the BR rooms I play in do that at all. It’s 5-6 people in an area max, and people dip constantly because no one wants to get gangbanged. This might have something to do with it.
BR 6 (Bari Shur Ghost Town)
Gunrunner
Killseeker Item Bro
Gunrunner
Item Slots
Executioners
Chutulu!
/Quit
BR 7 (ATC)
OA system
OA system
Ninja Drones
OA system
Executioners
Nanovirus
Item Slots
Mutants
Assassination
Executioners
Rampaging Vehicle
Electrical Storm
Ninja Drones
Ninja Drones
Cargo Plane
First ATC match without a berserker mutant. Thought it was coming too when I saw the executioners.
So I take it that the Berserker is spawning in like a lot of big time hazards, a lot of players in one area. But a lot more players are required.
Yeah, I had 16 players every game. It probably has something to do with the converging in one giant area, maybe “battle roylae is taking place” for a set amount of time? That’d be a pretty awesome solution tbh. Wouldn’t be too hard to test either. 12 people are required for that notification to happen right?
Not all of them were huge events, like the first one was right after a cargo plane highlighted the underground subway part and blew up, shortly after the “berserker mutation detected”
Now that I think about it, the Berserker spawned in my match where everyone was fighting. We were on the Oil Rig in the area in front of the Gatling gun and we fought there from the beginning of the match until after the Berserker was destroyed.
The Berserker can spawn on the Oil Rig? I’ve never gotten a Berserker or Cthulhu on that stage.
I got a Cthulhu on Oinkie’s casino for the first time a few days ago as well.
I think some stages just have higher spawn rates, because I get a Cthulhu on Bari Shur like every game, and on Central Square every 2 to 3 games.
never on the Hong Long stages though.
I see chutulu everywhere. He’s universal. I’ve seen Berserker on oil rig before–in a tdm no less.
Kraken only spawns in:
Bari Shur Ghost Town (Dock Area)
Oil Rig (Control tower or Excavator area)
Oinkie’s Casino (Main platform or underground area)
So far:
Altambra Central Square
Oil Rig
are the only confirmed Berserker levels I know about. If anybody else has seen one outside of those two levels I’d really like to know. And if it were confined to these two maps–I wouldn’t actually be surprised. I didn’t realize Kraken was so limited either until now. It’d explain why Berserker seems so rare. Map selection being random and all, and then most BR’s consisting of small, group fights.
Same thing I observed. This was quite a while ago, but the first time I saw a Berserker was in Altambra Central Square in a BR (actually, it might have been TDM, I don’t really remember), and the second time was in an Oil Rig BR.
In the first case, everyone was fighting in that pseudo-open area on the ground floor (near the bridge, the teleporters/vents/elevator that bring you to the top of the skyscraper/small building/large open field), and the mutant spawned on the other side of the map at the entrance of the underground subway.
In the BR, the majority of the lobby was in the gatling gun/oil rig area, and the mutant spawned in the jet parking lot. In both instances, it didn’t really do much, it just looked around and took a few steps in any direction, like it didn’t care about the brawling going on. Plus its presence isn’t obvious like Kraken and it doesn’t make itself known like Cthulhu.
First time I accidentally killed it while I was playing around with Gargoyle. I kept spamming KWL attacks in rampage and the prompt came up, but I didn’t stop mashing fast enough so it exploded. Second time I accidentally killed it as Rin Rin, while a rampaging Sasha was spamming ice drills on it in. >.>
Never, ever heard of the kraken spawning at the excavator.
Only seen it infront of the Gatling gun and in front of Oinkies throne, near the lift and zip line at the top.
I once saw Krakan spawn at the back of the jet parking lot in Oinkie’s Casino. It might have been glitched because the tentacles were off of the ground and away from where the player was standing, making it hard to hit him. This was in Tag Battle or TDM I think.
I’ve seen the Kraken where the jets are also.
@Fear, I rode a Berserker Mutant in Bari Shur 2 weeks ago in BR…so it appears there as well.
Edit: I’ve seen one in Oinkie’s Casino as well.
Right , right. No, I completely forgot about the jet parking lot spawns. I’ve seen Kraken spawn there on Oil Rig too, but it was sort of glitched out. I don’t think he is SUPPOSED to spawn there. He was invisible, the ground was broken like there were tentacles laying down, and he kept producing shockwaves (they were visible) In Oinkies Casino, he spawns there normally though.
Excavator spawn is pretty common so… yeah. Also the gatling one.
Bari Shur Berserker is kind of surprising considering how often chutulu spawns there. It’s got to be player density related.
Well, it seems that Berserkers aren’t exclusive to BR what with some folks saying they saw one spawn in a TDM and possibly a Tag Battle as well. If that’s really the case, then that could make it a little easier for us to try and get together to do a mass experiment with human players perhaps.
Also, a thing I know for sure is to NOT go Rampage on the Berserker as soon as it spawns. From what I’ve seen, you’ll kill it faster than you’ll make it collapse so you can ride it. >.>
I still don’t understand how the hell the Kraken climbs to the top of the control tower. >___>
Kraken doesn’t give a fuck. That’s why.
I couldn’t tell by looking at it, but the concept art of the final version shows that it has lobster/crap claws, and that makes sense since I was once in the gatling gun area and I watched it climb the control tower. It didn’t use its large tentacles, just its smaller stiffer ones (which I found out were lobster claws).