Starfield Explorer Discovers Alien Cockroaches That Suck the Air Out of the Room
An intrepid Starfield explorer has reported the discovery of a unique breed of alien predator that suffocates its prey by sucking oxygen from the local atmosphere.
In the wake of Starfield’s September launch, players have been busy exploring the myriad planets that make up the Settled Systems in search of beautiful vistas, weirdaliens, and, of course, the mysteries and Easter eggs developer Bethesda habitually includes in its games.
Recently, Reddit user DiamondZoyd posted a video, spotted by VG247, that details the player's encounter with a new species of bug-like alien that has a somewhat unorthodox method of subduing its next meal.
The existence of the critter is first referenced in a conversation with the NPC Hadrian Sanon, who is introduced to players over the course of the United Colonies Vanguard storyline. While exploring dialogue options with Sanon, the player can ask the xenobiologist to describe the most insane creatures that they have ever seen, which includes an encounter with an insect-like lifeform on a remote planet in the Moloch system that had the ability to suffocate its prey.
Lo and behold, soon after travelling to the planet Moloch II, DiamondZoyd was quickly set upon by a group of ‘pack cockroaches’ whose attacks lowered the player’s oxygen gauge. DiamondZoyd noted that a lone bug doesn’t pose much of a threat, but when attacking in concert they had the ability to swiftly drain the O2 meter.
The Redditor also made sure to check that the oxygen bleed was coming from the space cockroach attacks, rather than a status effect that caused players to shed the precious gas upon taking damage. Of course no creature on Earth is capable of performing such a feat biologically, but the attack hardly feels out of
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