Marauder

Marauder
Distinctions	Razor sharp teeth, absent arms, fires necrotoxin
Primary Attack	Necrotoxin blasts
Variants	Marauder Overseer
Games featured	Resistance 2

The Marauder is a new strain of Chimera that appears in Resistance 2. It serves as a boss enemy in the Cocodrie level.

Overview

The Marauder is a two-story tall bipedal creature with no arms, resembling to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It has a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and a deafening roar. In its mouth is a flamethrower-like weapon which launches its venomous saliva, which catches fire and propagates at an alarming rate, causing severe tissue damage to anyone who comes in contact with it.

Strategy

Side view of a Marauder.

• When the player encounters the Marauder, they must be very cautious. This Chimera uses an attack in which it spreads a fiery substance in front of it, similar to a Spider Grenade. It also has a rather long range attack that resemble a ball of fire, which can easily kill the player in one hit if it's direct.
• The L210 LAARK (which can be found in the attic of the house) or the Bullseye Mark II is the weapon of choice against the Marauder. It's recommended to lure the Marauder to the hole in front of the house and hit it with the weapon, and repeating this tactic until it dies. Perhaps the easiest way to defeat the Marauder is to use the Auger Mark II and shoot it from safely behind the mansion's walls. It will die about in about 20-30 shots, or 2-3 LAARK rockets. The player can also use the Magnum's secondary fire.
• The V7 Splicer, which is also found within the house, is highly ineffective against the Marauder (the blades will just bounce off).
• An attempt to attack the Marauder while outside of the house is very risky as the area is open and the player may get killed by the Marauder's fire ball attack.
• The Marauder's spit attack can sometimes harm the player even if they are a floor above it.
• When the player defeats the Marauder, it will fall over and it's body is used to climb over a small river infested with Furies to the next area.

Marauder Overseer

Within the Chimera ranks are Marauder Overseers, which are far more damage resilient and much more damaging than the Story Campaign version. This type of Marauder looks exactly the same as the standard Marauder, and appears in Bracknell and Bryce Canyon during the Co-op campaign. If a player gets too close to it, the Marauder will lift up a foot and stomp the ground causing a significant amount of damage. Most notably on Superhuman mode, the Marauder Overseer is able to easily overwhelm a full squad of 8. With the exception of the advanced Titan overseer, nothing else comes close to the Marauder in terms of difficulty.

Gallery

Concept art by Rodrigo Ribeiro.

Marauder model and texture by Steve Moore.

Marauder model from Garry's Mod "Resistance 2: Characters Ragdolls".

Nathan Hale faces a Marauder.

The Marauder watches Hale.

The Marauder attacks.

A dead Marauder.

Trivia

• The Marauder shares many physical and aesthetical traits with the Dinosaur-like 'Grunthor' enemy from the game Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction; both having glowing yellow eyes and the ability to spit flames.
• As the Chimera were originally present on Earth during the time of the dinosaurs, it's possible that the Marauder strain was produced by infecting a native theropod with the Chimeran virus, or is derived from theropod genetic material preserved by the Chimera from the original colonization of Earth.
• A so far unseen Chimera known as a Mauler was listed on resistance-game.com. It is described with remarkably similar traits to the Marauder, yet has a different name. At first it was thought to be a misspelling of Marauder until Resistance: The Gathering Storm identified the Mauler as a completely separate strain. It is possible that the Marauder is a substrain of the original Mauler that is designed for combat rather than as a beast of burden, as the Mauler is described as being used for.
• After the Marauder is killed go around the left side of the house with a Auger and the corpse will glow as if it was still alive.
• When the Marauder Overseer been killed by Specter Team, the Chimera's corpse will blown up into pieces of flesh and guts.