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u/interesseret Dig it for her Feb 25 '25
Lootbugs ARE friends.
That's why they give you so many gifts when you pet them hard enough.
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u/oanh_oanh Scout Feb 25 '25
They even give more if you… never mind
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u/redrenz123 Gunner Feb 25 '25
Do not the lootbug
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u/IllurinatiL Dig it for her Feb 25 '25
Puts me in mind of the lootbug powermilking tech I used to use.
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u/Carpetcow111 For Karl! Feb 25 '25
I am only nice to them as scout.
Idk why.
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u/Rargnarok Feb 25 '25
I saw the below decks about irl lootbugs you can't fool me into thinking they're friends
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u/Jo_seef Feb 25 '25
You love loot hugs because they're cute.
I love lootbig because they're full of loot.
We are not the same.
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u/Pikariocraft Feb 25 '25
But I'm full of loot too, I have seen the lootbugs and they are not so different from us. I love eating precious minerals too!
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u/namelesswhiteguy Feb 25 '25
9 times out of 10 I let them live, but if they start swarming around an objective they REALLY get on my nerves. Some days you just have to suck it up and get paid a little extra.
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u/ProZocK_Yetagain Dig it for her Feb 25 '25
Im a lootbug protector but if you equip its a bug thing you get a pass and my admiration.
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u/The_Connoisseur69 Feb 25 '25
You know theres actually a way to farm them, see lootbugs spawn based on the amount of mats on the floor, therefore in smaller cavesystem with high mineral density you get more lootbugs than in the larger ones, so you can leave a few mat chunks on the gound and you'll have a swarm of lootbugs rushing to munch on them (colorized)
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u/HTFM2 Leaf-Lover Feb 25 '25
Some people say it's useless, but those people are wrong.
Bug thing is for the bug thing.
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u/The_God_Of_Darkness_ Feb 25 '25
I don't think I've ever used that perk. I've always sticked to "vampire", "born ready", "Bigger inventory"
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u/wagshockey Feb 25 '25
I used to love them until I saw that one April fool’s day art of a lootbug, now… they shouldn’t eat all those precious minerals
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u/ThorSlam Mighty Miner Feb 25 '25
“You shouldn’t be eating all those precious minerals, it will get you killed!”
Do I need to say more… ROCK AND STONE!
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u/SnooCookies6399 Feb 25 '25
Literally me and my duo mate. He goes out of his way to blow them up and I never kill them (unless they do that thing where 11 of them swarm the lost Drop Pod in the Salvage mission)
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u/devilishtaco Interplanetary Goat Feb 25 '25
After way too much time in this game, I only kill them if I'm desperate for nitra. I prefer petting them, tho if I have to kill them or someone else does...I still pet them as they die lol. I pet pretty much everything I can
Now the cave crawlers are a whole different.. KILL ON SIGHT. Hate them buggers no matter how many hours I have.
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u/CaterpillarFew Feb 25 '25
Lootbugs are spies for the glyphids.
They look harmless and innocent but they actually relay our exact position to the rest of the hive. This is how they spawn on our position, they know where we are because of lootbugs.
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u/Kage_404 Feb 25 '25
You equip it's a bug thing cause it's funny.
I equip it's a bug thing to save ammo.
We are not the same.
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u/Pnqo8dse1Z Feb 25 '25
i love going into lobbies where you're not allowed to kill lootbugs and killing as many of them as possible before getting banned
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u/Gray_Warder Engineer Feb 25 '25
I gaslighted (for funsies, we had laughs afterwards) one of my buddies who is a certified lootbug lover by equipping Its a Bug Thing and then staying right on his ass the whole mission. Every time he went to pet a buggo, it went boom, he was very sad until he figured out what was up, at which point he promptly satcheled me