Changes: Maggot

Revision as of 11:50, 14 September 2020

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Maggots are small Infested units that are usually spawned by Brood Mothers. While each individual Maggot is weak and easily killed, they are spawned in groups of four or more, and multiple Maggots can latch onto players to slowly drain shields and health while reducing their movement speed.

The Tenno can spawn friendly Maggots using Nidus's Ravenous, Helminth Charger's Strain Mod Set, or throwing the Pathocyst glaive.

Tips

Latched Maggots can be removed and/or killed by performing a quick melee attack.
Latched Maggots can be removed by rolling.
- Rolling deals damage against removed Maggots, and in fact it is possible to outright kill injured Maggots in this manner.
Due to their overall fragility they are killed by most attacks, but their small size and quick movement can make it difficult for players to target them. Use AoE attacks such as the ground slam of certain melee weapons, or abilities like Paralysis or Rhino Stomp to quickly dispatch Maggot swarms.
Jumping then ground slamming instantly detaches maggots and kills them.

Notes

Individual Maggots can be Mind Controlled, but will serve no major use to the player.
- Maggots spawned by Mind Controlled Brood Mothers will be allied until the power wears off or the Brood Mother is killed, in which the Maggots will be hostile again.
- Allied Maggots spawned or mind controlled can obtain shields through the use of Shield Ospreys either spawned as a specter or from allied ones supplied by Corpus during Infested Invasions.
If a Maggot survives a Paralysis attack, it can be executed.

Bugs

The Maggot's model has been known to stretch, particularly at the legs. This is most likely due to Maggots not having a proper knockdown/jumping animation, using instead the stock animations used by other quadrupedal enemies (such as the Charger or the Feral Kubrow), which causes the limbs to move and stretch to where they would approximately be.
- This can also occur when stunned by Silence. Subsequently, Silence will prevent maggots from latching onto the player unless they physically attempt to touch them.
- Gara's passive stun can also cause the model to warp.
Under high packet loss or ping, Latched Maggots have a chance to catapult players in an apparent random direction at extremely high speed or alternatively fall off the map.

Media

Maggot on the player
Maggot codex
A swarm of Maggots spawned when a Brood Mother is killed
Maggots on Decoy, after being spawned by the Brood Mother

Patch History

Hotfix 29.0.4 (2020-08-27)

Appearance improvements towards Maggot death FX.

Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

Fixed maggots potentially being created out of bounds when spawned by the death of a Brood Mother.

Hotfix 25.7.7 (2019-09-26)

Pathocyst added.

Hotfix 25.1.2 (2019-06-12)

Fixed Strain Consume maggots auto-Reviving players if they are downed.

Update 25.1 (2019-06-05)

Fixed Strain Mod Maggots Energy color persisting as default.

Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)

Fixed Maggots from Strain Mods/Nidus not using the proper emissive colors.

Hotfix 24.7.1 (2019-04-11)

Fixed recasting Nidus’ Ravenous in new a location not properly recalculating Maggot explosions.

Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)

Strain Mod set added.

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Hotfix 15.7.2 (2014-12-19)

Fixed Nyx's Mind Control causing Brood Mother Maggots to attack enemies after Mind Control ends.

Update 15.6 (2014-12-11)

Saryn's Molt now removes Brood Mother Maggots

Hotfix 15.5.6 (2014-12-02)

Fixed Infested Maggots latching on to invisible targets, or targets that are too far away from their leap.

Hotfix 15.5.3 (2014-11-28)

Fixed Infested Brood Mother Maggots not detaching from Limbo once he enters the Rift.

Hotfix 15.5.2 (2014-11-27)

Fixed an issue where Brood Mother Maggots stayed on players that enter Limbo's Rift.

Update 15.0 (2014-10-24)

Introduced.

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+<section begin=intro />
-'''Maggots''' are small [[Infested]] units that are spawned by [[Brood Mother]]s. While each individual Maggot is weak and easily killed, they are spawned in groups of four or more, and multiple Maggots can latch onto players to slowly drain shields and health while reducing their movement speed.
+'''Maggots''' are small [[Infested]] units that are usually spawned by [[Brood Mother]]s. While each individual Maggot is weak and easily killed, they are spawned in groups of four or more, and multiple Maggots can latch onto players to slowly drain shields and health while reducing their movement speed.
+<section end=intro />
+The [[Tenno]] can spawn friendly Maggots using {{WF|Nidus}}'s {{A|Ravenous}}, [[Helminth Charger]]'s [[Set Mods#Strain Mod Set|Strain Mod Set]], or throwing the {{Weapon|Pathocyst}} glaive.
 ==Tips==
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 *Latched Maggots can be removed by rolling.
 **Rolling deals damage against removed Maggots, and in fact it is possible to outright kill injured Maggots in this manner.
-*Due to their overall fragility they are killed by most attacks, but their small size and quick movement can make it difficult for players to target them. Use AoE attacks such as the ground slam of certain melee weapons, or abilities like [[Paralysis]], [[Rhino Stomp]] or [[World On Fire]] to quickly dispatch Maggot swarms.
+*Due to their overall fragility they are killed by most attacks, but their small size and quick movement can make it difficult for players to target them. Use AoE attacks such as the ground slam of certain melee weapons, or abilities like {{A|Paralysis}} or {{A|Rhino Stomp}} to quickly dispatch Maggot swarms.
 *Jumping then ground slamming instantly detaches maggots and kills them.
 ==Notes==
-*Individual Maggots can be [[Mind Control]]led, but will serve no major use to the player.
+*Individual Maggots can be {{A|Mind Control}}led, but will serve no major use to the player.
 **Maggots spawned by Mind Controlled [[Brood Mother]]s will be allied until the power wears off or the Brood Mother is killed, in which the Maggots will be hostile again.
 **Allied Maggots spawned or mind controlled can obtain shields through the use of [[Shield Osprey]]s either spawned as a specter or from allied ones supplied by Corpus during Infested Invasions.
-*If a Maggot survives a Paralysis attack, it can be executed.
+*If a Maggot survives a {{A|Paralysis}} attack, it can be executed.
 ==Bugs==
-*The Maggot's model has been known to stretch, particularly at the legs. This is most likely due to Maggots not having a proper knockdown/jumping animation, using instead the stock animations used by other enemies which causes the limbs to move and stretch to where they would approximately be on a Charger/Kubrow.
+*The Maggot's model has been known to stretch, particularly at the legs. This is most likely due to Maggots not having a proper knockdown/jumping animation, using instead the stock animations used by other quadrupedal enemies (such as the [[Charger]] or the [[Feral Kubrow]]), which causes the limbs to move and stretch to where they would approximately be.
-*This can also occur when stunned by [[Silence]]. Subsequently, silence will prevent maggots from latching onto the player unless they physically attempt to touch them.
+**This can also occur when stunned by {{A|Silence}}. Subsequently, Silence will prevent maggots from latching onto the player unless they physically attempt to touch them.
+**[[Gara|Gara's]] passive stun can also cause the model to warp.
+*Under high packet loss or ping, Latched Maggots have a chance to catapult players in an apparent random direction at extremely high speed or alternatively fall off the map.
 ==Media==
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 Broodmother2.jpg|Maggots on Decoy, after being spawned by the Brood Mother
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+==Patch History==
+{{Scrollbox/Article|
+{{ver|29.0.4}}
+*Appearance improvements towards Maggot death FX.
+{{ver|27.1}}
+*Fixed maggots potentially being created out of bounds when spawned by the death of a Brood Mother.
+{{ver|25.7.7}}
+*Pathocyst added.
+{{ver|25.1.2}}
+*Fixed Strain Consume maggots auto-Reviving players if they are downed.
+{{ver|25.1}}
+*Fixed Strain Mod Maggots Energy color persisting as default.
+{{ver|25.0.8}}
+*Fixed Maggots from Strain Mods/Nidus not using the proper emissive colors.
+{{ver|24.7.1}}
+*Fixed recasting Nidus’ Ravenous in new a location not properly recalculating Maggot explosions.
+{{ver|24.2}}
+*Strain Mod set added.
+{{PatchHistoryNeeded}}
+{{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
+{{ver|15.5.6}}
+*Fixed Infested Maggots latching on to invisible targets, or targets that are too far away from their leap.
+{{ver|15.5.3}}
+*Fixed Infested Brood Mother Maggots not detaching from Limbo once he enters the Rift.
+{{ver|15.5.2}}
+*Fixed an issue where Brood Mother Maggots stayed on players that enter Limbo's Rift.
+{{ver|15}}
+*Introduced.
+}}<!--{{ver/Lu|25.7.7}}-->
 ==See also==
 *[[Brood Mother]], the [[Infested]] that spawns this unit.
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