Noctol

The Noctol is an entity added by the Anomaly DLC that only appears during the unnatural darkness event.

Occurrence[edit]

Noctols attack during the Unnatural Darkness event until all Noctoliths are destroyed or the darkness disappears on its own. Also, damaging a noctolith triggers an attack wave of noctols once per noctolith.

Summary[edit]

When exposed to light, Noctols receive a debuff that scales to the light's brightness^[Check], reaching full strength at 50% or brighter, where it gives +15% pain, +200% melee cooldown, and ×50% move speed.

Containment[edit]

A noctol yields 3 bioferrite per day and 200W of power when hooked up to an electroharvester.

Analysis[edit]

In darkness Noctols fight almost as well as Scythers and move much faster, but bright (50%) light inflicts a debuff that makes them barely more dangerous than unarmed humans. Their extraordinary move speed drops to below an ordinary pawn, their attacks still hit hard but are extremely slow, and their above-average health scale is balanced out by the +15% pain from light. With good light management they are one of the less threatening entities you can face.

Noctols spawn en-masse in dark areas around a Noctolith when it is attacked. Make sure you place lighting down prior to attacking them. Flood lights are ideal for areas in and around your own base, but any lighting will suffice. If facing them outside, such as around the Noctoliths themselves, disruptor flares and solar pinholes are portable and easy to deploy. In less advanced colonies, bringing wood to build torch lamps can also work.

Noctols are a good source of advanced anomaly research points since they're easier to contain and much less dangerous than chimeras or devourers so long as they're kept in well lit areas.

Health[edit]

Body parts[edit]

The body part table is collapsed due to length. Expand to view.

Body Part	HP	N°	C^[1]	TC^[2]	Parent	Capacity^[4]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed	FS^[5]
Body	60	1	100%	26%	N/A^[6]	-	Death	-
Spine	37.5	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[7]	-
Stomach	30	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion	-
Heart	22.5	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death	-
Lung	22.5	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost	-
Kidney	22.5	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost	-
Liver	30	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death	-
Neck	37.5	1	22%	5,5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death	-
Head	37.5	1	75%	2,475%	Neck	-	Death	-
Skull	37.5	1	25%	1,2375%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.	-
Brain	15	1	70%	2,8875%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Always scars.	-
Eye	15	2	12%	1,98%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Always scars. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.	-
Ear	18	2	8%	1,32%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.	-
Nose	15	1	10%	1,65%	Head	-	-	-
AnimalJaw	15	1	10%	1,65%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.	-
Leg	45	4	7%	5,95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −100% if all lost.	-
NoctolClaw	15	4	15%	1,05%	Leg	Moving	-	6

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Inside. A flag used for some combat calculations. Usually meant for parts inside another one rather than merely attached.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ Frostbite Vulnerability
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.

Armor[edit]

Armor

Attack table

Noctol
Attack (Damage type)	DPS^[1] (Post Hit Chance)^[2]	Dam.	Cool.	AP	Selection chance^[3]
Average	9.03 (5.6)	-	-	19%	-
FrontLeftClaw (Scratch)	9.84 (6.1)	12.3	1.25s	18%	37.5%
FrontRightClaw (Scratch)	9.84 (6.1)	12.3	1.25s	18%	37.5%
Teeth (Bite)	7.5 (4.65)	15	2s	22%	25%
HeadAttackTool (Blunt)	4.5 (2.79)	9	2s	13%	0%

↑ Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the pawn.
↑ Assuming a melee hit chance of 62%
↑ Chance for attack to be selected. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the pawn.