i got 3 errors from this

i don't think the nihilanth has functional eyelids

he was already hard enough

impossible to kill

@im_okay
Fixed null vid.

dim why is the video null
probably isnt happening for you

insert boner joke here

If there are other "Harder Xen Aliens," maybe he can spawn them.

Fixed the bouncing mostly.

Ok, so I updated the mod. Sometimes he'll successfully fly over map brushes to get to you. Because of this, he has a slighly bouncy idle behavior. I'll figure out how to fix this shortly.

@Galvatronus Enderus
I looked into his mdl file, and I found no ACTs of interest... sort of. There's only the primary and secondary range attacks, his reload (recharges from crystals), melee (this is actually used to spawn a huge amount of aliens), idle and flinches. The only unused one is ACT_BIG_FLINCH which is him doing a quick 360 spin. And if I remember correctly, this is when he fires the blue bolts all around him randomly when he's panicked at low health. Maybe there are some more animations in the .mdl, but they aren't assigned to an act. This means either lots of manual labor or editing the model and recompiling (also hard).

I could add only the quick spin easily.

Oh! I didn't even know about the unused animations! I'll look into those and definitely add another attack or two.

Would be cool if the Nihilanth used the unused animations as gimmicks or attacks

dat face

There could be a Stronger Alien Grunt or Alien Slave. Alien slave literally dies by anything, and Alien Grunts' hornets miss. a lot

Nice job, tho I was just playing with my HLR stuff the other day and I had no errors. I'll be releasing an update in the near future so if you find anymore feel free to leave them in a discussion on the addon

does him moving work for the possession as if you use the possesser can you move as him if you cant can you maybe try to add that thx.

There's a rumor that Harder Nihilanth is the last thing people that are about to die see

@Galvatronus Enderus
Sure! And if it's too different, I can always make another variant in the same addon and NPC category.

Lol. I actually had an idea for an "Improved Nihilanth" a while ago. Is the NPC open for suggestions?