Vengeful Child is one of three special units in NieR:Automata. It is encountered in Flooded City, and accompanied by a single Gold Goliath Biped. Like the other golden stubbies, it spawns at a fixed level of 25, and has 1,000,000,000 HP.
Description[]
Gameplay[]
Vengeful Child is the last of the three gold stubbies encountered in the game: it is found on the first section of the highway in Flooded City after Courageous Brother and Hateful Sister have both been defeated. It will start out acting like a normal stubby, but when its accompanying Goliath Biped is defeated, it will start to jet around the area using rocket thrusters, attempting to ram the player character with its head.
Due to its increased mobility, it is even more advisable to take it on as 9S, since it takes a very long time to wear it down on the rare occasions it stops long enough to land a few decent hits.
In the frequent cases where it jets directly into the water, it will be replaced on land.
Notes[]
- This unit is an alteration of the Small Stubby, and attacks in the same way as a normal one.
- Killing the three gold stubbies is not specifically marked as a sidequest, but works like one: if they are not all killed in the same route, they will all respawn for the next playthrough. If they are all killed, the "quest" will be marked as complete and they will never appear again. The accompanying golden units will respawn like normal enemies if the stubby is not killed and the player quits the game or leaves the area.
- All three units of this kind, Brother, Sister, and Child, spawn in one of three areas. After you kill one, the next will appear in one of the other two areas: City Ruins, The Coast, and The Desert by the apartment complex. When the first unit is killed, the next will spawn in one of the other two areas, and the third will appear in the last area to have been used.
- There is a known bug where Vengeful Child's unit data is not added to the intel files. It is not clear why this happens.
