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Gargantuas
Gargantuas are huge, powerful aliens that are almost solid armor. They mainly fire pyrotechnic bolts at you. These bolts will quickly eat away at your health, so don't go close to one unless you have to. Also watch out for the red globs of energy that gargantuas can fire at you from a distance.
Gargantuas do not react to generic weaponfire except to become angrier. You can blow up a Gargantua with hand grenades if you have enough, but it takes 9 or 10 even on Easy difficulty. You basically need to dodge gargantuas until you can find an alternate method of destroying them.
