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Nightcrawler
"You feel as if you are invincible..."
Nightcrawler is a Blackout-exclusive Gootraxian in Kaiju Paradise.
It is reptilian like, being mostly grey colored with black leaf-like or scar-like patterns on its ears and limbs. It has unique purple patterns on the front of its torso and the bottom of its tail that glow during blackouts. It has a pair of 3-lens night vision goggles that glow, adorned with a waist belt of satchels and a blowtorch along with a pair of gloves.
Abilities
Unlike any other Gootraxian seen in the game, it has two unique moves: Pummel and Pursue.
Pummel works similar to a katana. It is a 'combo-like' type of ability, allowing Nightcrawlers to attack survivors 3 times in quick succession with the last attack having a slightly long cooldown. Unlike the Katana however, it will not slow the Nightcrawler down. During Blackouts, these attacks will dash the Nightcrawler forward.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Damage | 23 |
| Cooldown | 0.75 seconds |
| Combo Cooldown | 2.75 seconds |
| Effects | Dash (BO), Combo |
Pursue is the Nightcrawler's signature move. To use this ability, the player must have an infect streak. During Blackouts, it only costs 1 infect to use. Otherwise, it costs 3 infects.
Pursue is divided into three stages. First, is the preparation stage, where the player slams their fists into the ground, ragdolling nearby survivors. Shortly after, the second stage begins, where the Nightcrawler begins to sprint wherever the camera is facing. You cannot control its movements in this state and can only move your camera around to guide it. If it collides against a survivor, it will damage them, knockback, and ragdoll them. This ragdolled survivor will act as a projectile and damage anyone that got hit by them.
Near the end of the pursue, the final stage begins, in which the closest survivor in a certain radius of the Nightcrawler is grabbed by the neck, lifted off the ground and punched away, dealing heavy amounts of damage as well as ragdolling the survivor. If a survivor dies to the Pursue, they will not be turned into a Nightcrawler and will instead die on the spot. If there are no nearby players during the duration of this stage, the Pursue will simply expire.
| Stat | Value | Stat | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preparation Stage | 4.25 seconds | Slam Damage | 13 |
| Pursue Stage | 3.5 seconds | Trample Damage | 20 |
| Grab Stage | 4 seconds | Grab Damage | 61 |
| Shortest length of Pursue | 7.75 seconds | Full length of Pursue | 11.75 seconds |
| Effects | Non-infectious, Knockback |
It has a passive, where, upon being losing a certain amount of health under 2 seconds, it will stomp on the ground and cause nearby players to blow away a few studs, dealing 12 damage.
During Blackouts, fireaxes, bottles and scythes will be dodged, reducing the dealt by 90%, resulting in both the fireaxe and scythes dealing a meager 4 damage, while the bottle only deals 1. Furthermore, attacks dodged will not slow the Nightcrawler nor Ragdoll them.
Goggled Nightcrawlers have a huge health pool of 800 HP, however, they cannot regen naturally, only healing 20 damage upon infection during Blackouts and 10 normally.
Goggle-less Nightcrawlers do not have the same unique abilities as a Goggled Nightcrawler and will instead have 100 HP along with the standard Gootraxian abilities (grab & attack). However, they will still retain the ability to passively dodge the axe, scythe and bottle.
Acquirement
Nightcrawler can be obtained by finding a pair of goggles around the map.
The goggles can only spawn randomly around the map during Blackouts next to or nearby weapon and item spawns with a 60% chance in public servers and guaranteed spawn on the second Blackout if the goggles don't spawn on the first Blackout. It is always guaranteed to spawn in private servers.
You can also obtain it by being infected by another Nightcrawler Gootraxian, but you will not have the goggles.
Bestiary Entry
N/A
Trivia
- Nightcrawlers are one of the only few Gootraxians who can outright kill survivors.
- In this case, they can do so by using their Pursue ability.
- It is the second Gootraxian in the game that doesn't have the usual abilities such as grab & attack. The first one being the Slime Pup.
- Nightcrawlers without goggles will have the standard abilities, however.
- The only weapon that can ragdoll Nightcrawlers during Blackouts are bricks.
- If you use
:tf me nightcrawlerin private servers you will transform into a goggle-less Nightcrawler.- This can be changed by including
;goggle=trueon the initial command.
- This can be changed by including
- Goggled Nightcrawlers have the highest health pool of all Gootraxians that are not a Diamond Slime variant, at 800 HP.
- Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian so far to have appeared in the game's thumbnail, but was still unreleased for the time it appeared.
- They were heavily inspired by the Cloaker from the Payday franchise.
- In fact, by using the command
;cloaker=trueon par with Nightcrawler's tf command in private servers, the Nightcrawler will say Cloaker's voice lines.
- In fact, by using the command
- Nightcrawler's idle face was slightly different when it was still unreleased.
- It is currently the only known Gootraxian to have more than one contributor create its concept.
- ButteredPancakes made its initial design.
- Mysticalesta created its concept art.
- Kos assisted in its design.
- Kazuko gave the idea of its species.
- Chroma suggested its current name.
- According to one of the contributors, its design is heavily inspired and based on Salazzle from the Pokémon franchise.
- Goggled Nightcrawlers are one of the only few Gootraxians who's Bestiary Entry is unlocked right after infection.
- A Goggle-less Nightcrawler has to obtain a 10 infect streak for the Bestiary Entry to unlock.
- Players can kill the Nightcrawler to unlock the Bestiary Entry.
Gallery
<tabber> |-|In-game= Assortment of in-game footage of Nightcrawler.
Skins
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Nightcrawler's skin (Goggles) -
Nightcrawler's skin (No Goggles)
Bestiary
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Nightcrawler's Bestiary icon. -
Nightcrawler's Bestiary icon when hovered.
Expressions & Animations
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|-|Miscellaneous= Content related to Nightcrawler, outside of the game.
Concepts
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Concept for the Nightcrawler, by Mysticalesta. -
Another concept for the Nightcrawler, by Mysticalesta.
Icons
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Silhouette Nightcrawler in the initial V3.1 icon of the game. -
Nightcrawler unveiled in the official V3.1 icon of the game. -
Nightcrawler but.. blocky for the April Fools 2022 icon of the game.
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