These guys inherit all skills from the mist unit (Yes, it includes the mist for some reason) along with some signature abilities of their own.
On top of their godlike defence, their offence is stupidly good. It's not like a small health buffer either! The armor on these guys can soak up more bullets and rockets than a metal gear, and that's putting it lightly! When the armor breaks, however, these little pricks can regenerate it! This armor acts like a second health bar, and will deflect bullets of any kind as it takes damage from the impact. Oh boy! If there was a contest on what NOT to add into a video game, these guys would be in the semi finals at the very least! Unlike every single skull variant up till now, these guys are made for direct combat! Just as you'd imagine, these walking asshats (pardon my language) are surrounded in armor.
Once again, much like the mist skulls, it's wasted potential! Unfortunately, as well, they more or less just appear during a single mission, only to then dissapear and never be seen/mentioned again. This time, however, they're much more easy to handle, which kills the fear factor slightly. They're laser sights also have a similar effect like the eyes of the mist skulls, in that it shows you where they are and instills mild fear into you. They're much less mobile, but they force you to be slower in your approach. The camo Skulls ( Seen here!) Are also very good! You realy have to take your time when you encounter them and try to keep your head down, unless you want it to have a few bullets flying at it. I was hoping that the mist skulls would appear occationally across Afghanistan during freeroam, to mix things up a little and create a constant threat that you'd need to avoid, but it never happens! I would've loved to see them appear outside of missions, with a cloud of mist showing the general area where they'd spawn and where you shouldn't go for the moment if you didn't want to risk a fight (unless you were confident enough in your weapons or or stealth, of course). You suddenly feel hopeful when you realise that you can finally fight back, but then your heart sinks afterwards when you realise that you only won because of a superweapon that was given to you during the mission! The second time you encounter them you still can't beat them with your own weapons, but you get a rocket launcher during the mission that let's you beat them. It's when you realise that you don't know what the hell they are and that you're outclassed that you'll begin to fear them, which is fantastic! The mist they produce also prevent you from calling in a chopper, so you're on your own when you encounter them! In other words, the mist skulls are terrifying and it's handled very well! The first skulls that I showed you are the mist skulls, and their design is fantastic! The first time you meet then they move in a completely unnatural way, behave almost like zombies when they haven't seen you, have glowing and unnatural eyes, and are simply too strong to fight at first.
The spoiler code is: (/spoiler)Ĭan we talk about the skulls? You know, these guys?
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