Alpha Spitter

Life
It has 15/16 Lifepoints.

Behavior
Aggressive Creature. Attacks the player on sight with a big, exploding fireball that quickly splits into more, smaller fireballs.

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 engineers 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.

Another approach is to use Xeno-Basher and spam melee attacks.

Loot
Drops an Alien Organs.

Variations
Two known variations exist:


 * Red: This is the most common variant and fires red homing shots.
 * Green: This is a much lesser known variation that resides farther away from the starting location. It usually guards an artifact or precious resource, and its attack pattern is much more passive compared to the red version.