Nuker
General#
The Nuker is the largest zombie in the game and the most expensive ability in it. Where the Bomber shoves people around, the Nuker poisons the ground they were standing on.
Stats#
| Cost | 2,400 gold |
| Rank | Platinum |
| Health | 8 hearts |
| Melee damage | 2 |
| Movement | Slow |
| Lives | 2, then locked for 120 seconds |
| Available | 120 seconds into the round |
Ability: Radioactive Detonate#
Costs the full 100 power, 5 second cooldown.
Detonates in a 7 block radius, dealing 10 radiation on the blast itself and heavy knockback, then leaves a radiation cloud behind. Anyone standing in the cloud keeps taking radiation and about 1 damage every half second until they leave.
Because it costs the entire meter, you get one detonation per fifty seconds at absolute best.
Playing It#
You have one shot, so make it a room and not a person. The cloud is the real weapon: a survivor who walks out of the blast at 60 radiation and has to cross the cloud to escape will often finish the trip as a zombie.
Detonate on the loot, on the stairwell, on the barricade the group is repairing. Anywhere survivors are forced to stand still.
The Gas Mask makes a survivor immune to the cloud entirely, so a group that has found one can simply hold the ground you contaminated.