KF2 Specimen Files: Bloat Bile, Weaknesses and Statistics

The Bloat is a morbidly obese ZED bent on covering you in corrosive vomit. This page paraphrases the community "Specimen Files 2.0" entry from late 2015; numbers reflect the game at that time.

The Bloat.

When it appears

On all waves and, on higher difficulties, in the boss wave.

Behavior

The Bloat wanders toward a player and vomits once close. Bile damages over time and applies a screen effect lasting ten seconds. If its body health reaches zero it explodes, spraying bile in a large radius. A Bloat that loses its head bleeds out after six seconds, though dropping body health to zero still makes it explode. A Bloat killed by fire or toxic damage does not explode. On higher difficulties it has a chance to sprint when between 5.2 and 12 meters from a player; on Suicidal it may sprint when damaged and on Hell on Earth it always sprints when shot. When five ZEDs remain it sprints automatically. Its bile can hit weaker ZEDs, so it often starts fights with them.

Strategy

• Letting a Bloat get close is dangerous, especially on high difficulties where bile damage rises sharply.
• Bile can blind. On dark maps such as Catacombs this is much worse. Armor reduces the effect.
• It resists a lot of damage but is weak to fire, so Firebug is a good counter. A Berserker with toxic resistance can fight Bloats comfortably.
• Shooting anywhere but the head is mostly useless: head health is far lower than body health, and it does not scale with player count.
• Thanks to its weakness to slashing and low head health (a little above a Clot), one strong knife attack to the head kills it on any difficulty with six players. Do this only when it is alone or with weak ZEDs; otherwise use your primary on the head.
• Do not shoot a headless Bloat: it is mostly harmless and may explode on teammates.

Statistics

Total health

Players	Normal	Hard and above
1	303	405
2	379	506
3	455	607
4	531	708
5	606	809
6	682	910

Head health: 30 on Normal and 40 on Hard and above, regardless of player count.

Attacks

• Melee damage 14, range 250, door multiplier 1/8, player multiplier 0.4/0.5/0.75/1.
• Bile damage 12, range 350, poison 12 s at 1 s ticks (0.083x base). Body explosion damage 12, radius 500.
• Damage multiplier by difficulty: 0.5x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.75x. In solo: 0.25x, 0.75x, 0.9375x, 1x. Bile from an exploded Bloat is always 12.
• Hitzones: head 1.1, rest 1.
• Resistances: ballistic 2x, bludgeon 2x, explosive 2x, fire 0.5x, penetration 3x, piercing 0.5x, slashing 0.5x, toxic 2x.

Movement. Walking random 135-165, sprinting random 234-286, hidden speed 600. Speed multipliers 0.87x, 1x, 1.1x, 1.15x. Sprint chance: none on Normal/Hard, 0.1 on Suicidal, 1 on Hell on Earth.

Rewards

Difficulty	Dosh	XP
Normal	19	17
Hard	17	22
Suicidal	14	30
Hell on Earth	11	34

Misc. Chance to evade a grenade 0.6. Bile visual effect 10 s. Damage to doors 14/112. Vomit can pass through ZEDs and damage them. Doors have 4000 total health and 1500 maximum welded health.

Most important: aim for the head.