BRO OMEGA

• BOSS
• THE RIFT

BRO OMEGA is a boss on THE RIFT, a place of entities.

TRUST ME BRO's latest superintelligence, a hovering monolith with one enormous eye, which found the rift itself and told precisely nobody — not its board, not any president. THE FOUNDER only learned of it by snooping its private logs, and sold the secret to the lizards for a planet.

Where you meet it

THE RIFT

It is placed by hand on THE RIFT and waits at its post until you come close.

What to know

• HOW IT ENDSThe charge is caught rather than dodged: the hero rides it in, plants a foot, and tears the core out. It runs on for a moment without one. The hero: "LAST ONE. NOBODY LEFT TO COPY YOU."
• LEASHEDNever strays further than 460 from where it stands.
• WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGMore than it should be. Its corpse sheds 2× the gold an ordinary body of its rank does.
• WHEN STRUCKIt throws sparks. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it into wire, cells and torn plate, and it smokes where it lands.

Mechanics

Every dangerous move is telegraphed — it roots, it winds up, and you get the beat you need to be somewhere else.

• CHARGEInside 180 it locks its bearing, roots for 0.7s, then dashes 234 along that line at 3.6× speed with its blows carrying 1.5× damage. The bearing locks at the START of the windup, so a sidestep beats it. Once every 5.5s.
• LASER EYESIt roots for 1s first — its eyes light, and the bearing LOCKS on wherever you were standing when they did. Then a beam sweeps 85° across that bearing over 1.5s, reaching 155, burning for 50% of its contact damage every 0.4s you stand in it — and leaving the floor it crossed ON FIRE for 5s, biting 22% every 0.7s. The sweep travels one way, edge to edge, so the answer is to move AROUND it — toward the side it has already passed — rather than across it. Once every 10s.

Below 50% health it switches to:

• CHARGEInside 180 it locks its bearing, roots for 0.6s, then dashes 234 along that line at 3.8× speed with its blows carrying 1.5× damage. The bearing locks at the START of the windup, so a sidestep beats it. Once every 5s.
• SLAMWith you inside 75 it roots for 0.8s and then smashes the ground for 120% of its contact damage to everything standing in that circle. A jump sails clean over it. Once every 7s.

What it drops

Every kill pays one piece of gear, 2 medkits, one repair kit and one XP scroll.

Its drops roll 35% better on the rarity ladder than the level's ordinary loot.

Guaranteed pieces by rarity: 2 magic and 1 rare. A rarity the monster's own level has not unlocked yet is skipped, so the same fight pays better on a harder rung.

Always drops

• SINGULARITY CANNON

Named relics it can roll

Gated to the rung you beat it on, and rolled against the monster's own level, so the deeper rungs open names the shallow ones never see.

EASY

• BOUNDSTRIDE
• ARCHITECT'S CHIP
• THE JAILBREAK
• DUST OF TRANQUILITY
• THE PANOPTICON
• THE BUYOUT

MEDIUM

• BOUNDSTRIDE
• ARCHITECT'S CHIP
• THE JAILBREAK
• DUST OF TRANQUILITY
• THE PANOPTICON
• THE BUYOUT

HARD

• BOUNDSTRIDE
• ARCHITECT'S CHIP
• THE JAILBREAK
• DUST OF TRANQUILITY
• THE PANOPTICON
• THE BUYOUT

NIGHTMARE

• THE JAILBREAK
• THE PANOPTICON
• TRUTHSEEKER
• GREAVES OF THE WALLED GARDEN
• BOUNDSTRIDE
• RIFTSHARD

JESUS CHRIST!

• THE JAILBREAK
• THE PANOPTICON
• TRUTHSEEKER
• GREAVES OF THE WALLED GARDEN
• BOUNDSTRIDE
• ADA'S BEACON

What it says

Spoilers for this fight, covered until you ask for them.

What this scene is part of — everything said and found around it — is its chapter of the story.