Mother Spider

Mother Spiders are a type of spider exclusive to the Downpour DLC. They are large, fast, and have a green coloration on the ends of their quills. When killed, they release several s from their body.

Appearance
Mother Spiders are a medium to small size and resemble arachnids, being similar to s and s. They possess a swollen abdomen due to carrying their brood, and appear to have a head that juts out to one side. Their legs are long and slender, easily surpassing their body in height.

Combat
Mother Spiders, although not strong or fast, can swiftly react and dodge incoming ranged attacks by leaping above or ducking, making it a challenge to land a direct hit on it. However, it has a cooldown before it can perform another dodge, so throwing an object and letting it dodge before striking it with a can be a viable strategy to defeat it.

When killed, the creature's abdomen will combust, generating dark green particles, and releasing smaller spiders which scatter about and coordinate to form a s. Nearby creatures may cause the resulting coalescipede to target said creature instead of the, allowing you enough time to retreat while the coalescipede is occupied.

often kill Mother Spiders along with their s, although the timed fuse of s can give the Coalescipedes time to move away and survive.

Abilities & Behavior
Mother Spiders avoid interactions and confrontation with creatures. They ignore s, s, and s. Mother Spiders are reclusive and skittish, choosing to run from anything they deem a threat. When a creature persistently follows Mother Spiders, they resort to lunging at them to stun them. Mother Spiders can lunge at, catch and kill the player character. When killed they release the aforementioned coalescipede but the body convulses before it happens.

Dodge
Mother Spiders have enough reflex to avoid any range incoming attacks able to leap or duck away from it.

Trivia
• The Spiders behavior and unique ability bears close resemblance to a large number of real-life spiders, who carry large amounts of spiderlings near or on their abdomens, typically in an egg sac underneath their abdomens and cephalothorax before hatching.