KF2 Specimen Files: Crawler Ambushes and Statistics

The Crawler is a spider-human hybrid that turns up in vents, windows and other inconvenient places. It is weak on its own but good at ambushes. This page paraphrases the community "Specimen Files 2.0" entry from late 2015.

The Crawler.

When it appears

From wave 2 and in the boss wave.

Behavior

Very simple: it approaches the nearest player and attacks when close. It prefers to spawn in manholes, vents and windows. On higher difficulties it uses more agile moves that make it harder to hit. On Hard it gains a rare chance to sprint when damaged, on Suicidal a chance to sprint randomly and always sprints when damaged, and on Hell on Earth it is always sprinting. It sprints automatically when five ZEDs remain. It fights ZEDs that hurt it, but its low health usually kills it first.

Difficulty	Random sprint	Sprint when damaged
Normal	0	0
Hard	0	0.01
Suicidal	0.5	1
Hell on Earth	1	1

Strategy

• Know where Crawlers can spawn so you are not surprised.
• You do not need to focus them: they have the lowest health of all ZEDs, and a headshot kills them with any weapon. Save ammo with a single headshot.
• 50% weakness to bullets, poison and blunt damage, and 50% resistance to slashing and the microwave gun, similar to Clots.

Note: the entry lists the Crawler weakness as bullets, blunt and toxic but the resistance table below shows these as 0.5x resistances; the table is the data, the text is the author's summary.

Statistics

• Health: Normal 41 total, 15 head; Hard and above 55 total, 20 head.
• Melee: damage 7, range 180, door multiplier 1/5, player multiplier 0.5/1.
• Damage multiplier by difficulty: 0.5x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.75x.
• Hitzones: head 1.1, rest 1. Resistances: ballistic 0.5x, bludgeon 0.5x, microwaves 2x, penetration 0.5x, slashing 2x, toxic 0.5x.
• Movement: walking random 252-308, sprinting random 450-550, hidden speed 600. Speed multipliers 0.87x, 1x, 1.1x, 1.15x.
• Rewards: Dosh 8/7/6/5 (Normal/Hard/Suicidal/Hell on Earth); XP 8 on Normal, 10 on Hard and above.
• Misc: chance to evade a grenade 0.6, damage to doors 7/35. Doors have 4000 total health and 1500 maximum welded health.

A Crawler is mostly an ambush ZED that does small chip damage. If you watch the spawn points, it will not be much of an issue.