Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[The Rock Worm]

This thread will serve to discuss any monsters known in the Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (or AAMP for short). To give an idea on what I mean, I will start. Below is a category example of AAMP Monster discussion topics...

1: Monster Rarity
2: Monster Intelligence
3: Monster Stats
4: Monster Appearance

For now, I'll start with the rarity.

Monster Rarity

Penumbra (Overture and Black Plague) and Amnesia The Dark Descent (or ATDD) both had a variety of monsters, each more seen than the other. A pattern can be seen between the two games (as shown below).

Strongest Monster: The Grey Rock Worm from Penumbra and the Brute from ATDD shared many traits. Both could kill you in one strike, both were rarely seen in comparison to the other monsters, and both were physically better than the others. For the Worm, it was sheer amount of health. The Brute, however, had a huge amount of regeneration aiding him. Even though the Grunt shares the same health and regeneration amount, he can't kill a Brute due to his attacks being less than the regeneration speed. As seen between the Brute and Worm, the strongest monster can be any size and its physical powers can be greater or equal to the other monsters in their games.

Common Monster: The monster most averagely seen is a bit weaker than the strongest, yet still tough enough to be a serious problem for you. The Grunt of ATDD, the Dog and Tuurngait Infected from Penumbra (Overture and Black Plague respectively) fit this category. They were regularly seen throughout the game play and were quite dangerous. The common monster, as seen with these three, can be anything in terms of size and if it's humanoid or not.

Annoying Monster: This category defines the weakest monster in terms of physical strengths and rarity. They are more common than the strongest monster, yet not as regularly seen as the common monster. They are also quite troublesome when one or more are around you, but you can usually escape it easier than the common monsters. Penumbra: Overture had Spiders while ATDD had Water Horror/Kaernk. Spiders had weak attacks and low healths, but comes in swarms. Kaernks can usually be easily avoided by leaving the water or actually being killed as they have no regeneration.

Now that we've defined the Monster Rarity, it would be comparing the Pig-like monster from AAMP into this category. Right now it's a bit early to tell for certain, but we can guess. My guess, seeing that you can travel outside, I would assume something bigger is lurking outside while the Pig Monster is inside... so I think he's a Common Monster. Now what is the big, strong monster I'm not sure, but big enough to roam the streets.

PS: This is my 200th post!

EDIT: Rechecked the regeneration speeds for Brute and Grunt. While both have 100 max regeneration health, they recharge it by 5 points at a time. The outcome of a Grunt (30-60 dmg) vs Brute (50-120 dmg) would still, in most cases, be the Brute. The Brute can still deal more damage than the Grunt per swing.