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{{Top|Enemy|Infested|Infested}} {{Enemy | name = Brood Mother | image = DiseasedAncient.png | introduced = {{ver|15.5}} | faction = Infested | planet = Earth, Phobos, Ceres and Eris | type = Infested | weapon = Spawns Maggots | fossilized = 700 | baseexperience = 150 | baselevel = 12 | codex_scans = 5 | unprotectedbodyparts = }} {{codex|Spawns maggots that attack its target.}} <section begin=intro /> '''Brood Mothers''' are large, heavy [[Infested]] that spawn [[Maggot]]s within their chest cavity, which the Brood Mother can then release to attack enemies. Brood Mothers will also charge at nearby opponents, and release an additional swarm of maggots upon death. They were introduced in the [[Operation: Mutalist Incursions]] event in {{ver|15.5}}. <section end=intro /> Attached Maggots slow the victim down a little while doing damage over time, with the slowdown and damage increases with the number of attached maggots. These maggots are weak and easy to dispatch but due to their small size can prove to be difficult without AoE weapons or abilities. ==Farming Locations== ''These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the enemies until better facts are proven. For endless missions, players may need to stay in-mission for a while until these enemies start spawning.'' {{MissionTable|Tikal|Gabii|Assur|Isos}} ==Tactics== *[[Maneuvers#Rolling|Rolling]] or using a melee attack will make Maggots fall on the ground. This will not kill them and they will continue to pursue a player until killed. This means that attacking a Brood Mother with melee is relatively safe. *Shooting them in the chest cavity will do a considerable amount of damage. ==Notes== *{{A|Mind Control}}led Brood Mothers will release friendly Maggots; however, it seems that when the ability ends the Maggots spawned while the Brood Mother is Mind Controlled will become hostile again. *Maggots cannot be shot off of friendly units. ==Trivia== *The Brood Mother was introduced in [[Devstream 35]], where it was referred to as the Diseased Ancient. ==Bugs== *Brood Mother corpses cannot be desecrated normally. However, if the Brood Mothers are stopped from releasing Maggots upon death, desecrating is possible. A reliable way to do this is killing them in one shot with a high damage weapon like the {{Weapon|Dread}} (requires further testing). *Mind Controlling a Brood Mother during a Defense mission may make it impossible to end the current wave, due to possible errors with the spawned maggots. *The Brood Mother's deceptive hitbox means that sometimes players will have to fire near the center of the Brood Mother's model to actually hit it. {{clr}} ==Variants== {{InfoboxSide|<tabber> |-|Deimos Brood Mother= {{EnemyHoriz | name = Deimos Brood Mother | image = DiseasedAncient.png | tileset = [[Cambion Drift]] | introduced = {{ver|29}} | weapon = Spawns Maggots | fossilized = 700 | baseexperience = | baselevel = 1 | codex_scans = 5 | other_drops = }} </tabber> }} ==Media== <gallery widths="300" position="center" spacing="small"> DiseasedAncientArt.jpg|Concept Art for the Brood Mother (along with the Maggot) as featured in Devstream 35. Warframe0080.jpg|Brood Mother codex data. broodmother1.jpg|Brood Mother releasing Maggots broodmother2.jpg|The Brood Mother's Maggots on Decoy zeljko-duvnjak-warframe-ancient-infested-01.jpg zeljko-duvnjak-warframe-ancient-infested-sketches-01.jpg zeljko-duvnjak-warframe-ancient-infested-maggot.jpg </gallery> [[File:Warframe Brood Mother-1|thumb|center|396x396px]] ==Patch History== {{Scrollbox/Article| {{ver|30}} *Brood Mothers maggots now spawn less and less frequently the longer they're alive to mitigate exploitive gameplay. {{ver|27.1}} *Fixed maggots potentially being created out of bounds when spawned by the death of a Brood Mother. {{ver|23.3.2}} *Fixed Nekros’ Shadow of the Dead Infested Brood Mothers producing looping/stacking maggot sound effects. {{ver|20.6.4}} *Fixed the Infested Brood Mother’s not being able to melee attack. {{ver|19.1}} *Fixed Brood Mothers and Boilers going into T-pose after death. {{ver|18.5}} *Fixed Infested Brood Mothers not doing any damage with their melee attacks. {{ver|15.13}} *Saryn’s Molt will now transfer enemies that ‘latch on’ to Warframes (Brood Mother Maggots, Swarm Moa Swarms, etc) instead of destroying them. {{ver|15.7.2}} *Fixed Nyx’s Mind Control causing Brood Mother Maggots to attack enemies after Mind Control ends. {{ver|15.6}} *Saryn’s Molt now removes Brood Mother Maggots, Nanite Swarms, Seeker Latchers and Leeches. {{ver|15.5.7}} *Infested Tar Mutalist MOA, Swarm Mutalist MOA, Boiler and Brood Mother have all been added to regular Infested missions throughout the star chart! {{ver|15.5.6}} *Fixed Infested Brood Mother not being able to get up after being knocked down. {{ver|15.5}} *Introduced. }} ==See also== *[[Maggot]], the enemy that the Brood Mother can spawn. {{InfestedNav}} __NOTOC__ [[de:Brutmutter]] [[es:Madre de la progenie]] [[fr:Mère des Couvées]] [[Category:Enemies]] [[Category:Infested]] [[Category:Update 15]] [[ru:Мать Выводка]]
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