"The Deep One is a biological nightmare, a cross breed, produced by the mind warping experiments of the Aquatoids. We have encountered several variations of this creature.
After extensive research we conclude that these are manufactured by the invaders. Swelling their ranks when fresh human stock has been captured. Each of these sub-human is armed with an electrical energy discharge powerful enough to kill an aquanaut."
And to elaborate, by human stock they mean that they're alien organisms grafted onto a human which grow and consume them except for their brain and eyes, becoming their new body which is then controlled via surgical implants.
They're mission-critical researches (both alive and dead), and they can largely stop showing up, because they're terror units associated with the earliest aliens. Can severely delay your progress to both crucial basic armors and to game-completion-path required researches, especially the live capture, and that's made even worse in some versions where it's possible to research the bastards out of order and be unable to complete the tree.
Pretty different role however. Pure terror unit attacking via an arched "spit" attack similar to celatids, however appearing much earlier. (I honestly don't get why the artwork seems to have them carrying a gun, neither their sprite nor the mechanics seem to imply a gun...)
Also very brittle, they get killed rather quickly.
Is that the forsaken underwater xcom? Care to drop some lore
"The Deep One is a biological nightmare, a cross breed, produced by the mind warping experiments of the Aquatoids. We have encountered several variations of this creature.
After extensive research we conclude that these are manufactured by the invaders. Swelling their ranks when fresh human stock has been captured. Each of these sub-human is armed with an electrical energy discharge powerful enough to kill an aquanaut."
From the wiki
And to elaborate, by human stock they mean that they're alien organisms grafted onto a human which grow and consume them except for their brain and eyes, becoming their new body which is then controlled via surgical implants.
Y'know, fun.
Wow, that isn’t terrifying at all.
Gee whou could guess that a game called terror from the deep would have horror elements
We need a remake
You snipped his fake pwt cannon :(
are these the ones you had to research for the first armor?
Yep, famous for disappearing from the spawnpool very early and softlocking you
These absolute fuckers.
They're mission-critical researches (both alive and dead), and they can largely stop showing up, because they're terror units associated with the earliest aliens. Can severely delay your progress to both crucial basic armors and to game-completion-path required researches, especially the live capture, and that's made even worse in some versions where it's possible to research the bastards out of order and be unable to complete the tree.
Take this ya flipper-wearing sonovabitch 🗡
Looks very Muton-y.
Pretty different role however. Pure terror unit attacking via an arched "spit" attack similar to celatids, however appearing much earlier. (I honestly don't get why the artwork seems to have them carrying a gun, neither their sprite nor the mechanics seem to imply a gun...)
Also very brittle, they get killed rather quickly.
Its actually Kermit ther frog
https://preview.redd.it/tt4azdnbjybg1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ef90917cfcace79f75a57062915ac7a6824c46d
How did you get this picture of me?
I love the sound they make…when they die
TFTD is the best XCOM game
Looks like a discount muton