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Grenadier

GamesUndeadShamblesA virus2010 to today

A ranged special zombie from Dead Island: Riptide: an infected scientist in a hazmat suit that throws explosive lumps of its own flesh. Its weak point is the oxygen tank on its back: puncturing it sets off an explosion that kills the creature.123

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First appeared
2013
Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
Source work
Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
Techland
Age rating
ESRB M
Made in
Poland
What causes it
A virus
The wiki names the agent Pathogen HK; in the game's story, researchers identify the infection as a mutation of kuru that began among the island's indigenous people.
How you become one
Infected scientists still in hazmat suits.
How it moves
Shambles
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • the oxygen tank on its back, which explodes when punctured

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2013

Dead Island: Riptide (2013)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Tears off pieces of its own toxic flesh and throws them123

2

The chunks explode123

3

Rated slow123

4

Appears in Riptide only123

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Grenadier about 3 km/h
You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Zombies - Dead Island Wiki (Fandom)
  2. Dead Island - Wikipedia
  3. Dead Island Riptide - RAWG

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