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This article is about The Corrupted. You might be looking for the other Eyeificated enemies. |
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Unknown "[CENSORED]" - The Corrupted's 'partial' dialogue of Wave 48 on Expert Mode |
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Unknown "THE TRUTH THE TRUTH THE TRUTH THE TRUTH THE TRUTH THE TRUTH" "THE EXISTENCE OF NOTHING IN THIS PLANE WILL RESULT IN" - The Corrupted's former dialogue of Wave 38 on Expert Mode |
Description
The Corrupted is a major boss that is encountered on Wave 48 in Expert Mode. It is a very slow boss, but to make up for it, The Corrupted has quite a high health threshold of 
100,000 health, 
150,000 and a few abilities. Upon spawning, it gains 
30 but is reduced to 15 after using Eye of The Corrupted ability and provides a permanent
200 maximum damage cap, which is a bug. It is advised not underestimate the boss due to the high amount of damage it can soak up.
The Corrupted is replaced by the Grand Eye of the Seer in 'Ranked Up' Expert Mode.
Lore
Unfortunately, this description has to brief in order to reduce the chance of infohazard breach. The Corrupted is an example of an entity overtaken by the 'Eyeification', which can be activated using a specific set of phrases and words that indicate certain things about the universe, such as the reason why it exists. We will refer to this as the 'Truth' from now on. When any person, thing or device hears and UNDERSTANDS the 'Truth', the Eyeification occurs. Typically, this includes large masses of eye growths entering the body and the production of a blackish sludge substance, which tends to override most bodily functions. This can be observed in anything that can store 'memory', such as people,AI, computers or even on paper. It appears that the Corrupted was one such individual who came across the unfortunate truth. Perhaps its strength and power resulted from it being the 'Alpha', and having the most knowledge of the truth as a result. Interestingly, this one can speak and shows active signs of intelligence - making it exceptionally dangerous. However, one thing is clear from our records, the Corrupted didn't discover this on it's own. Someone told him.
"When someone looks too far into the deep knowledge that the universe holds, IT may use a failsafe to prevent more knowledge from being explored. Those who learn too much shall immediately be Eyeificated, resulting in a transformation into a rabid and insane being, which this poor soul had undergone."
Appearance
The Corrupted is by far the largest naturally-spawning eyeificated enemy in-game. Much like the rest of the eyeificated enemies, it has an abnormally large eyeball in the place of where a head should be present.
It appears to be wearing purple clothing including a violet tie and buttoned shirt. At the upper parts of the sleeves are jagged spikes made of seemingly glowing amethyst, whilst the lower sleeves are banded in a similar color to the spikes protruding from the sleeves.
Multiple obsidian rocky growths are seen to be emerging from the neck area and slightly engulfing the lower part of the eye. The iris of The Corrupted's eye is white with a purple glow associated with it, and the pupil is a dark purple color. The rest of the eye is considered to be black and the unnaturally purple veins flow across the front of the eye before fading away. A purple crown is also seen being worn on its head.The Corrupted had a giant eyeball in place of its head, with a white sclera, green iris and a black pupil. A crown is also wore on its eyeball. It wore a green granite cloak, black cape and rocky growths around its right arm. Its torso and legs were black. A green pauldron, along with black and white bands were worn on its left arm. A glowing substance is found on its left hand.
The Corrupted is an entity wearing yellow metallic armor and black leggings. Its right arm is covered with rocky growths with black spikes protruding out of it, Said growths are seen reaching out to its left arm. A large eyeball with a white sciera, an orange iris, black pupils and a grey crown replaces its head.
Tactics
- It's not recommended to use any towers that deal more damage beyond the boss's bugged passive
200 damage capacity, as they will only deal 200 damage, resulting in drastic DPS loss while dealing with The Corrupted.
- On the other hand, fast-firing towers with defense pierce like Bottom path Sniper or Vulcan can deal with The Corrupted without any issues, so use them as a main source of damage to the boss.
- Elite is by far the best option at dealing with The Corrupted thanks to it's top path's great dps, full on defense pierce and triple damage to shields, resulting the tower to be an MVP at defeating the boss.
- Recon Base, more of a last resort, can provide some damage to the boss thanks to ram damage, as they ignore maximum damage capacity. However, while still dealing with The Corrupted's shield health, most of Recon Bases's strong units will eventually stop spawning after losing all of the cash to spawn them.
- Though not related with the boss, you can use Businessman's bottom path Attrition ability to deal with the starting horde of Corruptions and Tranquils at the start of the wave to boost the time at with The Corrupted earlier.
Trivia
- The Corrupted at a certain period of time used to possibly have one of the highest defense counters in the game (30), higher than Cosmil. Once the Hard Light got re-added back to Expert Mode, The Corrupted lost that record since.
- The Corrupted was first seen through Enemy Randomizer with a staggering 500,000 HP before the Blissful Revelations update.
- The Corrupted is the third enemy to have "The" in its name, the others being The Vanguard and The Archangel.
- This enemy has a joke variant, the Egorrupted.
- The Corrupted makes a deep, distorted sound that resembles laughing when it spawns.
- Its death sound is the same as the Mothership's, albeit at a lower pitch and echoed.
- Before old Expert Mode layout was brought back, If observed closely, The Corrupted actually has 2 dialogue lines in Wave 38, but both are instantly cut off by Captain in order to protect the player(s), due to which The Corrupted dialogues consisting the truth of the universe, which eyeificates anyone upon listening.
- The Corrupted has the highest shield health in a game, followed by the Mechanical Arbiter and Kugelblitz Ultimate.
- In the lore, The Corrupted before eyeification, was an active regent for Overlord during his absence, however, whatever Overlord has told him resulted in The Corrupted's transformation.
- The Corrupted then spread the truth to Avaria, forcing Overlord to annihilate the entire species of Archangels.
- The reason why Overlord wasn't affected by eyeification was because he didn't cared to learn the "truth", as this wasn't what he really wanted. This could also tell the information he spoke was more of an ingredient to activate eyeification.
- The corruption is kept away from the public within XCF and is Overlord's most guarded and powerful tool.
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