The dreaded black crawlers.

[HammaHTime]

So so far in dominating i've found only one (just south of railroad) but i was wondering if there are any others.

It was an awesome fight but the hyper allergic is bs tho ( you can't even antidote the stun )

[HulkOSaurus]

Use bandages.

[HammaHTime]

Bandages don't work in combat, and since there's way more than one on dominating, it's kinda impossible :p. My tactic was finding corridors with 2 entry points, locking one down with mines and bursting down/yelling the other one.

[HulkOSaurus]

Yup. That works, as well. I notice people usually develop something of a personal touch when it comes to scorpion-spiders.

Bandages do work against them, but you have to wait for all of them to hide during combat. Cool thing about them is that they don't proc that debuff

[harperfan7]

There's only one black crawler.

[TheAverageGortsby]

Yeah, as harperfan7 said, the Black Crawler is a special Crawler "boss". The ones that come in groups and tag you with Hyperallergenic  are Death Stalkers.

If you know ahead of time at all that you're going to be facing them, try taking an Irongut - it'll cut down the damage you take from Hyperallergenic to about 20 so you can afford to pop antidotes and advanced health stims, if you aren't all set from a regen vest and - if combat allows it - the bandages Hulk is so fond of suggesting

Failing that, back yourself into a corner or against a wall, throw down bear traps around yourself in a layer 2 deep, then toss a cheap frag or HE to make a ruckus.  They'll come looking for the sound, see you, and charge right into the traps. Get your exterminator on.

[HammaHTime]

Aw man . Are they any other special boss critters?

[ciox]

Did anyone fight the new and improved black crawler yet? I was going to on my latest Dominating run but forgot all about him.

[jubisloviu]

Did anyone fight the new and improved black crawler yet? I was going to on my latest Dominating run but forgot all about him.

i did try him on my chemical pistol build on dominating
you're pretty much dead if you don't win the initiative roll, since he also has 1~2(can't really remember) death stalker buddies to ruin your day
he also deals tons of damage, so you have to either one shot or stunlock him while you deal with the death stalker(s).
a shame he doesn't drops any new oddity, you'd think the only black crawler in the game would have something interesting, i wonder if we'll see more of them in expedition

[harperfan7]

Yeah, it's the room that's hard, not him in particular.  You're dropped right in the middle of several with no good dead ends to park yourself in.

[Fenix]

Aw man . Are they any other special boss critters?

There is named ancient rathound if you join some oligarch.

Did anyone fight the new and improved black crawler yet? I was going to on my latest Dominating run but forgot all about him.

I did. For my build was nothing special, Incapacitation all the turns. For other there could be troubles maybe.

Bandages don't work in combat

Bear in mind that turn-based mode and combat is different things, it's not obvious I know, was mistaken same way.
You can be in turn-based mode but not in combat.

[HammaHTime]

The butcher lurker is also a boss it seems.

Anyways the way i dealt with the black crawler on dominating was with my good ol flashbangs. It's the other 2 death crawlers with him that you have to worry about sadly.

Unfortunately, on dominating there is almost no chance you're going to remain a single turn without combat. Base crawlers don't apply hyperallegic but the death ones sure do and those ones are pretty much 70-90% of all crawlers on dominating, especially in the cave of pillars and the area leading up to black crawler.

[Fenix]

Yeah, that area was epic. I used 5-6 traps, half of them set in some unexpected places, and they all worked, it was scary when I hear souds of them snapped lol, because I didn't really expected them coming from that side...

[paulkirikawa]

Why not Exothermic Aura or Aluminized Suit? Stand right in the center of scorched earth and they would stop by the edge of fire, waiting for the darkness returns. And, technically, invisibility of stealth couldn't last for 5 turns. Poor creature.
Show em a crit-guaranteed orb or double purple fist or an aimed shot combined w/ 12.7 W2C/anatomically-aware scope/corsair frame. This can be a lot of joy.