Grub

Grub Faction Human Soldiers Origin Mars Species Grub Gender N/A Difficulty Hard Health Medium Weapon set Medium Character ID 16 Blood Hex #e6bf33

The Grub is a Martian enemy in Plazma Burst: Forward to the Past and a playable skin in Plazma Burst 2 custom maps. This enemy first made an appearance in the early levels of Plazma Burst: Forward to the past.

Although the Grub is not as well armored and not well armed (unlike its counterparts, the Armored Grub and Elite Grub), it can still be a formidable foe. The Grub is only known to carry a basic energy weapon that fires a single yellow projectile, but since the Grub has a cannon on each arm, it fires both simultaneously. They are first encountered on the second level of the first game, and last encountered on level 4.

The Grub skin was added into Plazma Burst 2 as a part of the Version 1.20 update. However, its Arm Cannon no longer works, possibly because of balance issues it would bring in, or simply engine constraints.

Grubs are aliens that are harvested by Human Soldiers in order to aid them in conflict. Human Soldiers sometimes heavily modify Grubs, and even implant robotic parts into them.

Weapon variety

Arm Cannon

Grubs have an integrated single-shot/shotgun type weapon in their arm. The arm cannon fires a single yellow projectile and has a fairly slow fire rate, but it deals medium-high damage. The arm cannon is not a particularly dangerous, and can be avoided if a Grub is dispatched quickly. However, it does have high knock back. All Grubs, Elite included, found in Plazma Burst: Forward to the Past have some kind of variant of this weapon.

Voice lines

The Grub shares its voice lines with the Armored Grub and the Elite Grub. It is possible the Grubs are voiced by Ruslan Chertenkov, however this is no longer confirmable.

Audio	Type	Transcript	Notes
	Alert
	Hurt
	Hurt
	Hurt
	Death
	Death
	Death

Trivia

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  Two Grubs team-killing (PB:FTTP)

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  A Grub on standby (PB:FTTP)

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  A Grub firing its Arm Cannon (PB:FTTP)

• This character has rather slow movement speed in Plazma Burst 2. This could be due to armor.
• The Grubs were probably made to defend areas from intruders from trespassing if they breach most areas that the Human Soldiers are guarding.
• Grubs may attack the Human Soldiers occasionally if they see the Marine and the Human Soldiers at the same time. This possibility occurs due to the Marine being the same species as the Human Soldiers, and the Grubs probably gets confused on who to fire at.
• According to Eric Gurt, Grubs are plastic life forms.