Ancient Medium Swarmer are a cruiser-class Ancient Swarmer enemy in Everspace 2. They are identified on the heads-up display by a twin-triangle icon. All Ancient Swarmer enemies are called Ancient Swarmer in the Heads-up display.
Characteristics & Behavior[]
Medium Swarmer are equipped a large Energy Spiral weapon, have the ability to teleport and change into a non-physical swarm-like form which makes them immune to any damage for a short time. Occasionally they release one or more Ancient Drones that immediately begin to fly towards the enemy. Medium Swarmer tend to teleport away change into their non-physical form when the player gets too close or when they take too much damage.
Strategy[]
When fighting against Ancient Swarmer, the player should always have the Hexaspatial Catalysts installed to be protected against the ambient kaion radiation and cause more damage to these enemies.
Medium Swarmer do not require special armaments to be destroyed because they normally only have hull hitpoints. However, they should not be attacked while in their meta-physical form, because all damage they would have taken is converted into shield energy.
Medium Swarmer are quite slow and can only shoot into one direction. However trying to attack them from behind is not a feasible tactic because the immediately teleport away to then face the player directly. Hence, players should try to keep some distance to the Medium Swarmer to have more reaction time to counter the released Ancient Drones and evade the large Energy Spirals.
Trivia[]
The name "Ancient Medium Swarmer" is used in the The Art of EVERSPACE™ 2 - Ancients and Titans DLC which contains the artwork for the Titans DLC and the Wrath of the Ancients DLC. In game, all Ancient Swarmer enemies are just called "Ancient Swarmer".