Overwiew
The planet Duckov experiences extreme weather known as space storms. Here’s how to defeat the purple ghosts called “Storm Creatures” that appear only during these storms. This enemy is notoriously strong, capable of killing you on first sight. Even with decent gear, you’ll likely lose if you fight it normally.
Note to Readers
This article has been machine-translated from the original Japanese. For the most accurate content, please refer to the Japanese version.
Storm Creature
- Time Slot: Spatial Storm Phase 1
- Drop: Spatial Crystal
- Drop: Corrupted Weapon Part
Storm Creatures are monsters that appear only during periods of extreme weather. They drop Spatial Crystals and Contaminated Weapon Parts, which are also required for quests.
What is a spatial storm?
Space storms are abnormal weather phenomena that appear on Duckov’s planet, recurring every several hundred hours. Space storms have Phase 1 and Phase 2; to defeat storm creatures, you must go outside during Phase 1. For gathering materials or hunting, Area Zero is sufficient.
Phase 1 constantly inflicts slip damage, so you must use the “Space Storm Resistance Injection (Weak)” syringe to explore. This syringe is quite expensive, and attempting multiple battles will add up to a significant cost.
Place of occurrence
Entering the “Cave Entrance” located at the bottom left of the small hill in Area Zero guarantees an encounter with a Storm Creature. They also appear in various locations throughout the map. Storm Creatures are hostile towards Mecha Spiders that spawn at night and other regular enemies. Hearing a beam-like sound effect indicates a Storm Creature is nearby.
Battle Preparation
- Weapon: Elemental weapon (Quick Magazine or High Capacity)
- Weapon: Sniper rifle or rifle with high-power scope
- Armor: Whatever strong gear you have on hand
- Totem: Spatial Resistance
- Totem: Stamina
- Totem: Damage-boosting type
We recommend using elemental weapons. Regular weapons are acceptable, but Storm Creatures possess physical resistance, making them difficult to damage. Therefore, we recommend bringing elemental weapons.
Elemental Weapons
- Charged MP7
- Cube Gun
- TOZ66 Dragon Breath
These three attribute weapons are available relatively early on. The top recommendation is the Electrified MP7, which possesses the Electric attribute. The Electric attribute has the effect of shocking enemies, temporarily halting the movement of Storm Creatures. The next recommendation is the TOZ66 Dragon Breath, a Fire-attribute shotgun.
For customization, the Quick Magazine is recommended. Since you can’t dodge while reloading, the Quick Magazine’s fast reload speed is very useful. The TOZ66 Dragon Breath doesn’t allow magazines, but it has a naturally fast reload speed. If you have a high-quality high-capacity magazine, you can afford to miss a few shots without needing to reload, so that’s also a viable option.
Armor
- The one with high defense
Choose armor with high defense. While some armor can nullify spatial storms, it has low defense and is therefore not recommended.
Totem
- Spatial Tolerance
- HP
- Firearm Damage UP
Choose your totem from the three options above. We recommend Space Resistance and Stamina. Storm creatures are fast and won’t run away easily. So when you fight them, it becomes a gunfight. Choose something that increases your durability. For experienced players, something that boosts firearm damage is also acceptable.
How to fight
- Preemptive Strike (Sniper)
- Prepare syringes (about 2 types)
- Hemostatic agent
- Recovery syringe
- Space resistance syringe
- Top priority: Avoid enemy attacks
- Do not attempt recovery unnecessarily
Storm Creatures are known for their speed. Once the fight begins, there’s no escaping. Therefore, we recommend using the syringe before engaging. As mentioned earlier, when a Storm Creature is fighting nearby enemies, you’ll hear a “beam-like sound.” Use this sound as your cue to deploy the syringe and enter the fray.
Sniper preemptive strike
Storm Creatures are powerful, so ideally you’ll want to launch a preemptive strike with a sniper rifle or an assault rifle equipped with a 4x scope. Even for quests specifying weapons like “Defeat the Storm Creature with XX,” it’s generally fine as long as you don’t finish it off with the sniper rifle. That’s why it’s crucial to chip away at its HP with that initial attack.
Due to their high HP and physical resistance, Storm Creatures basically never go down in one shot with a sniper rifle.
Recommended Syringes
- Retractable syringe
- Hemostatic agent
- Space-resistant syringe
These three syringes are effective against Storm Creatures. We recommend the Recovery Syringe and Hemostatic Agent, as they are relatively inexpensive to purchase and easy to find during exploration.
The top priority is to avoid it.
The most crucial aspect of fighting Storm Creatures is evasion. Their speed makes it extremely difficult to hide and use healing items. Therefore, you must first focus entirely on dodging their attacks.
You can win in a shootout, but you’ll need to hit the Storm Creature with nearly all the bullets in your magazine.
They fire about three purple beams in succession. When you hear the initial sound, evade (Space bar on PC). Evading will dodge all or more than half the shots, so counterattack.
It’s best not to rely on recovery items.
When fighting Storm Creatures, you’ll rarely get a chance to use healing items. I recommend faking it with the syringe mentioned earlier and fighting solely through dodging and counterattacks. Using healing items will instead leave you wide open to the Storm Creature’s rapid fire, greatly increasing the risk of instant death.
If you’re using the healing syringe, you’ll recover some HP while dodging. So, it’s also viable to focus more on dodging and only counterattack moderately.