Brains
Health	300
Attack Damage	15-20 (arm hook) 10-15 (tentacles)
Found in	Quake 2 The Reckoning
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"A vicious cyborg abomination with life-stealing tentacles protruding from its chest during attack."

— Quake 2 Manual

In Quake 2, Brains is a freak of nature, constructed from a grim mixture of human and mechanical body parts. It has a small stereo-camera in place of a head, two arm hooks, multiple hooked tentacles within its openable chest cavity (which it sometimes unleashes on nearby enemies to bring them within range of its arm hooks), and a powerful energy shield that is able to absorb a lot of gunfire. However, perhaps as a result of all the equipment it carries, or because of some unresolved flaw in its creation process, Brains is by far the slowest enemy in the game, making it easy to avoid, outmaneuver and dispatch.

Brains start appearing in the Factory hub, and are a rare enemy throughout the rest of the hubs.

StrategiesEdit

• Alone, a Brain is not much of a threat because it has to get in close to attack, but its energy shield makes non-energy-based attacks quite weak against it. Note, however, that when it opens its chest to use the tentacle attack it drops its guard, so an efficient way to attack it is to make it try to use the tentacle attack, jump back out of range and shoot it with the super-shotgun. As the energy shield does not protect it from attacks from behind, another effective strategy is shooting a rocket from your Rocket Launcher that will hit the ground right behind his back will take him down in a couple of shots.
• With other enemies, a Brain is a non-threat. Because of its slow speed, it takes forever for it to get near you. If you see it getting close, just move back a little. Get rid of it when the other enemies are dead. Otherwise, you're putting yourself in unneeded danger.
• Beware of Brains hiding in small dark spaces, this happens often in small narrow hallways in which you may be ambushed if you are off guard.

Beta ClassEdit

An upgraded version of Brains is found in The Reckoning called Brains (Beta Class).

GalleryEdit

A Brain's shield in action

Quake II Manual photo

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