Holy shit the pit gate is a blast!

So things are going pretty well for the colony, we had ranked the monolith up, experienced the grey pal and was excited to see what comes next, and then suddenly The Pit Gate opens up, thankfully not in my colony and only two of the medium guys pop out so my colony managed to deal with them quickly.

We go in, explore and fight off the few flesh beasts, found an insectoid nest, and found some killer loot(a bionic arm,incendiary launcher and a full Msterwork set of steel plate.) And find the mound that the boss flesh beast(I call them Big Boy) is in and wait to to it once I mined up and gathered all the goodies inside. Once I do I then took two attempts at it fighting them and this is how this went.

Attempt #1 - went bout as well as you can expect, tried with a four man team and a turret pack and the thing that ended up killing half of the team was the turret cooking as the Big Boy damaged it enough to cause it to explode. So that attempt didn't work at all :]

Attempt #2 - so given how bad first Attempt went, it turned into an all hands affair with the exception of two pacifists and a paralyzed colonists, even shoved a gun into the hands of colonist name Tahu who basically loses his sh*t when he has to carry a weapon due to his belief. I gather everyone and prepare as I had learned from Attempt #1 the following.

•Fire is your best friend

•Turret pack is a great distraction

•For the love of God stay close to the exit

So with this in mind I had every one gather in the largest open space that was still readily close to the exit, with everyone armed and ready especially with the few flame based weapons I had, a flame bow, the launcher I found in the tunnels, but most importantly a Hellcat I had gotten super early on(Thanks Empire of Eternity! •<•-b) as it's fire ability is perfect for the cramped tunnels and something that worked well in attempt one.

So with everyone ready to go, I had Lour, the colonist with the hell cat to crack open the pod and book it to the firing line. It went really smooth actually! She managed to get away and the turret did its duty as she and everyone else started gunning the Big Boy and she torched it and it's spawn with the hell cat. Unsurprisingly this turns into a full blown moshpit pretty damn fast as what few colonist who against the wall and surrpnded by the others are shooting at the Big Boy still as everyone else is beating down the smaller ones. Chaos and fire is everywhere as tha fully due to the flesh beasts Big Boy couldn't reach us and then finally like a water balloon full of blood, Big Boy exploded and was finally down for the count. With that in mind I had the majority of colonist retreat back through the tunnel and out especially the wounded and mentally not sound colonists. But as Tahu and two other colonist Fields(my main melee guy) and Sonali are the last to leave I realized Lour was actually downed, having gotten beaten bad during the fight(shockingly came pretty much clean despite it) and had crawled away from the chaos as the beasts focused on the standing group but had led to her much deeper in around what remaining flesh beasts stood. So after beating the flesh beasts that rushed the survivors at the exit into submission The three bolted to get her, Sonali grabbed her gun and Tahu and fields managed to grab her and book it back, chased by what remained as dead and dying flesh beasts littered the place and just as much fire to boot. In the end literally right as the remaining beasts got to the exit, Tahu and Fields escaped and in the end everyone survived pretty much clean! It was such an awesome battle and super thrilling to experience especially since I didn't read much of the preview stuff.

I loved the Pit Gate and I'm so excited to see what's next in anomaly! I'm also hyped to see what modders do with this stuff in the future! :3

Thank you so much if you read this all the way through and I hope you have an amazing day!