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Giant Tentacles
Giant tentacles are one of the most dangerous enemies you will meet. They have very sharp "beaks" that they pierce flesh with. They attack anything living or moving in their respective areas. The only advantages that you have are that they're rooted to one spot and that they can only hear their prey nearby; they can't see.
Hence, moving past tentacles is just a matter of staying quiet. Use the walk modifier or crouch-walk to avoid detection. Toss grenades to distract the tentacles away from you. Conventional weapons will only make tentacles sink into the ground very briefly. You need to find an alternate method to destroy tentacles permanently in the one case where you have to destroy a tentacle to progress in the game.
