Creatures
Creatures, also known as minions, is a type of non-playable characters in Gigantic. Their purpose is to help player controlled heroes in the match.
Overview
Creatures are the beasts which can be summoned by heroes on power circles. Their prime role is to guard the circle from enemy heroes and harvest power orbs once they are spawned, and doing so faster than heroes themselves. However, there are exceptions with some creatures not harvesting power, and there are also restrictions on where and how much heroes can summon them. Creatures also wield special passive, environmental abilities, designated by their families (types); these abilities give advantages and bonuses to their team.
Despite having huge health pool, much larger than heroes do, creatures are still vulnerable and can be killed with a coordinated effort of an enemy team. By doing so it can receive more power and make its guardian to get closer to rampage state. Thus summoning a creature requires careful planing and attention.
Summoning
Heroes can summon any creature on team affiliated and neutral power circles. Restricted circles let players summon only Ancient Obelisks, and thus making them harvest power by themselves.
At first hero summons a young creature. It costs nothing to do it, but there is limited amount of tries, depending on family or species. It takes about 3 seconds for baby creature to fully spawn, at that moment player would see a dark silhouette with a timer. The creature is especially vulnerable at this stage and must be protected by heroes until fully spawned.
Killing young enemy creatures will give 10 in the Power Race, just like killing an enemy hero.
Upgrading
As heroes gain FOCUS
Special resource that is accumulated and stored throughout every match, and can be used to unleash a FOCUS ABILITY, or upgrade young creatures to powerful adults.
Focus requires to build up FOCUS CHARGES (maximum 3) before it can be used. They can be accumulated by dealing damage to enemies, healing allies, taking damage, and sometimes after being defeated and sent to the Airship.focus in the course of the match, they have a choice to use it in the battle against enemies, or use it to upgrade the creature which was summoned previously. An adult beast is significantly bigger, sturdier and more dangerous than baby version, and possess even more powerful abilities, not to mention even faster harvesting of power orbs. The amount of needed focus charges varies between species.
It takes about 20 seconds for creature to “grow up”, and just like in summoning, it must be protected until fully spawned.
Killing an adult enemy creature will give 20 towards the Power Race, the same quantity as a harvesting power from a power circle.
Loadout
Player is able to choose and “equip” in the loadout, before the match, 3 types of creatures. When hero stands on the Power Circle they'll be able to summon or upgrade one of them, per circle.
At first player has a set of 3 default creatures, one from each of 3 common families: a cerberus, a bloomer and a cyclops. To use different creatures player should purchase them in game's shop with or . Some creatures are also included in content packs and bundles, which let player save big while purchasing multiple items.
Creatures
Bellow is the list of available in the game creatures with their basic stats and information.
Family | Creature | Health | Summon limit |
Upgrade cost |
Shop price | Notes | ||
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Young | Adult | |||||||
Cerberuses Reveal enemies on minimap. |
Cerberus Majoris |
4,900 | 6,400 | 1 | 1 | Default | No additional bonuses. | |
Shadow Cerberus |
4,900 | 6,400 | 1 | 2 | 9,000 | 675 | Grants STEALTH Makes hero invisible to enemies, creatures, and Guardians. Damage indicators and debuffs will still display when striking a stealthed hero. Invisible heroes also will be shown on the minimap by anything that reveals enemies, such as the vision radius of the Cerberuses.invisibility in its zone of impact, teleporting attacks. | |
Stone Cerberus |
4,900 | 7,000 | 1 | 3 | 11,000 | 675 | Very powerful melee attacks. | |
Cyclopes Create protective wall near circle's location that lowers for allies. |
Mountain Cyclops |
5,100 | 6,500 | 1 | 2 | Default | No additional bonuses. | |
Yeti Cyclops |
5,100 | 6,600 | 1 | 3 | 11,000 | 675 | Creates FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.Frost field near its location, FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.freezing attacks. | |
Riftborn Cyclops |
5,100 | 6,500 | 1 | 3 | 11,000 | 675 | Creates translucent wall which lets allies see and shoot trough. | |
Bloomers HEALING Provides HEALTH every second. The amount is determined by the source of the healing.Heal an ally in their zone of impact and create up to 2 healing blooms. |
Summer Bloomer |
6,000 | 6,200 | 1 | 1 | Default | No additional bonuses. | |
Winter Bloomer |
6,000 | 6,600 | 1 | 2 | 11,000 | 675 | Blooms grant FREEZE Reduces movement speed by 20% and damages enemies over time. DEEP FREEZE and FULL FREEZE are more powerful.frost SHIELD Absorbs 85% of all incoming DAMAGE for the duration of the shield, or until the shield is destroyed (if it has a HP value).shield. | |
Spring Bloomer |
6,000 | 6,400 | 1 | 2 | 11,000 | 675 | Blooms grant CLEANSED Removes any debuffs and prevents debuffs from being reapplied for a period of time (up to 4 seconds).cleanse. | |
Autumn Bloomer |
6,000 | 6,500 | 1 | 2 | 11,000 | 675 | Blooms grant STEALTH Makes hero invisible to enemies, creatures, and Guardians. Damage indicators and debuffs will still display when striking a stealthed hero. Invisible heroes also will be shown on the minimap by anything that reveals enemies, such as the vision radius of the Cerberuses.invisibility and SPEED BOOST Increases the speed of hero by a percent determined by the skill applying it.speed boost. | |
Drakes Perform periodic siege attacks. |
Fire Drake |
4,900 | 6,300 | 1 | 2 | 7,500 | 450 | Attacks inflict BURN Deals damage over time.burning. |
Storm Drake |
4,900 | 6,300 | 1 | 3 | 11,000 | 675 | Attacks inflict SHOCK Deals damage over time, when expires a burst of damage explodes from the affected target. MAJOR SHOCK and MASSIVE SHOCK are more powerful.shock. | |
Infernals Create one-way portals near circle's location. |
Crimson Infernal |
4,500 | 5,050 | 1 | 2 | 11,000 | 675 | No additional bonuses. |
Obelisks Can be summoned on any Power Circle, don't harvest power orbs and don't grant power on kill. |
Ancient Obelisk |
2,400 | 4,200 | 2 | 1 | 7,500 | 250 | No additional bonuses. |
Motigas
Motigas are a special type of creatures, which initially were summonable and would give DAMAGE BOOST
Increases outgoing DAMAGE dealt by skills.damage bonus to their team. Somewhere in development of the game they were removed from this position and since then serve as AI controlled dummies in the Practice Arena.
Unreleased creatures
Due to premature shutdown of Gigantic, not all types of creature were released, being left in game's test builds in unfinished state.