The Red Widow is an enemy that appears in Serious Sam: Tormental.
Overview[]
The Red Widow is a mechanical creature of an ancient schema of Mental's, likely with some ideas incorporated from the Arachnithid.[1] It's basically a gun turret with legs that resembles a spider. The Red Widow is based on one of the first ideas Mental had to create soldiers for his army. Back when Mental was more sane, he thought up of a simple idea by having a gun turret placed on legs and program it to kill everything in its path and let it loose.[1]>
Since then, this idea has gone through many iterations and the resulting Red Widow is the latest one. The idea being a heavy turret on many legs. The real-life projections of this schema are many different versions of the Bio-mechanoids, which are similarly iterated on constantly, changing shape with every new version.
Appearances[]
Red Widows are exclusive to "Nightmare Caves". An elite version of the Red Widow exists that has more health. It has a high chance to spawn in "Nightmare Caves V2" and "Nightmare Caves V3".
Behavior and skills[]
Upon sighting the target, the Red Widow enters a 'warm-up' phase, and unleashes a rapid burst of bullets. It takes time for the Widow to charge its bullets again, so once it fires its barrage, it won't change direction until it has fired all its bullets. Once the Widow has taken enough damage, the player can finish it off by performing a "brutal" kill when its body flashes yellow.
Tactics[]
- The Red Widow's high health, along with the dangerous amount of bullets it fires, are best dealt with Serious Weapons such as the Grenade Launcher, Rocket, Shotgun, Machinegun, etc. The bomber, grenade launcher and rocket are especially useful for dealing high damage to this enemy from a safe distance and can also destroy any of its bullets caught in the path of any projectiles fired from these weapons.
- The Gun can be used against the Widow, but it takes a longer time to kill it unless the player has good mods for it.
- With the Gun, it is recommended to have upgrades such as the burst-fire, flaming bullets of freezing bullets to slow it down and finish it off.
- The Freezegun is a useful weapon for slowing down the Widow before it has the time to fire its projectiles.
- The Sledgehammer should not be used against the Widow, as it can fire projectiles at the player while they are trying to get close to it, which can deal a lot of damage. The latter should be only used as a last resort.
- Another way of killing Red Widows is by activating the bombs in the area and letting the Spider get too close to them or whacking the bombs towards them with the sledgehammer. When the bomb explodes, it can deal a large amount of damage to the Widow and destroy their bullets as well.
- When encountered with other enemies, the Red Widow is a high-priority threat, as the large amount of projectiles it fires gives the player much less room to dodge other enemies. It should be one of the first enemies targeted in a fight.
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List of appearances[]
- Serious Sam: Tormental (First appearance) (non-canonical appearance)