Cyst

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The Cyst

General Information

The Cyst is a slow moving and shambling specimen that approaches the player and attempts to grab hold, immobilizing him/her. The Cyst is considered to be the lowest threat level to players due to its very slow speed, light damage, and small health pool. Engage at convenience.

Statistics

	Normal	Hard	Suicidal	Hell on earth
Bounty	£8	£7	£6	£5
XP	8	11	11	11
Health (Body)	75	100	100	100
Health (Head)	15	20	20	20

Notes on XP

• XP rewarded for your on-perk weapons.
• Killing with weapons other than your current perk grants the XP to the perk that weapons belongs to.
• Damaging with on-perk weapons and then finishing it off with an off-perk weapon divides the XP and grants it to both perks.
• Damaging with off-perk weapons and then finishing it off with an on-perk weapon divides the XP and grants it to both perks.
• Assist kills grants full XP.
• The Katana currently does not grant XP towards any perk.
• The bash attack (default v) does not count as Berserker damage for Berserker XP, meaning it grants the XP to your current perk.

Speed

- Cysts move slowly when docile, and sprint when enraged.
- On higher difficulties, Cysts have a chance to enrage upon sighting a Player, and have a chance to enrage when shot.
- Once enraged, Cysts will never stop sprinting until they are killed.
- Movement speed is randomized, but is skewed towards higher values as difficulty increases.
- Movement speed is further modified by a multiplier based on difficulty. This value is 0.87 on Normal and 1.05 on Hell On Earth.
- Movement speed is set to maximum at all times on Hell on Earth difficulty.

	Normal	Hard	Suicidal	Hell on earth
Speed (Walking)	171 - 209	171 - 209	171 - 209	171 - 209
Speed (Enraged)	360 - 440	360 - 440	360 - 440	360 - 440
Chance to Rage on Sight	0%	0%	5%	40%
Chance to Rage when Shot	0%	0.01%	100%	80%

• For comparison, a healthy player character with minimal weight walks at a speed of 383, and sprints at a speed of 460.
  
• These values are increased by 1% per level for Berserkers, Gunslingers and Medics.
  

Resistances

- Cysts have little to no resistances, and have a crippling weakness.

	Piercing	Slashing	Bludgeon	Toxic	Fire	Microwave	Explosives	Slashing - Knife
Damage Taken Multipler	100%	85%	90%	100%	100%	25%	100%	100%

- Cysts have no resistances to ballistic weaponry and are extremely vulnerable to sub-machine guns.

	Sub-machine Gun	Assault Rifle	Shotgun	Handgun	Rifle
Ballistic Damage Multiplier	150%	100%	100%	101%	100%

- Cysts only have one weak spot, which is the head.

	Hit Zone Damage Factor
Head	110%
All other	100%

Behavior

- Cysts are the weakest Zeds in the game, being extremely slow to move and attack.
- Upon spawning, it will attempt to walk or sprint towards the nearest player to scratch them.
- On Suicidal and Hell On Earth, Cysts gain new attack animations that they will use when enraged, but their behavior does not change drastically between difficulties.

Extermination Tactics

- Being cannon fodder, just about any form of weaponry will take them out very quickly.
- Ammunition can be saved in early waves by switching to the knife and cutting their heads off.
- In later waves, Cysts are there to populate the waves and distract players from larger threats. Try to take them out quickly so you can focus on the real threats sooner.
- Extremely weak to Sub-machine guns, making the SWAT the best perk for quickly exterminating huge groups of Cystss.