Alpha Spitter

Behavior
Aggressive ranged creature. Attacks the player on sight with its fireball attack.

Strategy
Get a rebar gun and quite a few healing items. Close combat is suicide. Try not to get hit with too many fireballs at once - they'll deplete an engineer's life nearly completely within one volley. Try to find some cover (or build some beforehand or use the tractor) - shoot whenever possible and duck behind cover to heal.

Variations
Two known variations exist:


 * Red: This is the most common variant and fires red orbs, which in turn, shoots multiple red fireballs dealing 10 damage each.
 * Green: A rarer variation that resides farther away from the starting location. It usually guards an artifact or a precious resource, and its attack pattern is different. It stays at long range and attacks in a pattern similar to the smaller spitters but has two-shot modes.  The main attack is a single extremely fast green fireball that is difficult to dodge unless you are at a far range.  The other attack happens less often and shoots a volley of about 8-12 green fireballs at engineer in a tight cone shape in rapid succession, each with 10 damage. Unless using cover, fights happen at long range and require shot prediction with rebar gun. It also has more HP than its red cousin.