Titan Spinner
- Chapter
- 9 · East Raccoon City
- Where
- A cutscene in the Applegate Hotel Parking, then the NF Building: a chase through the lower floors and an arena on 3F and 4F, with windows, ladders and a big hole in the wall.
Weak point
The orange cyst on the rear abdomen (where the damage goes) and the mouth when it faces you (knocks it down). The head and body are armoured.
A giant spider, a B.O.W. left over from Raccoon City. It spits poison, rams, strikes with its front legs, shoots webs and spawns Small Spiders. There's no arachnophobia mode and the fight can't be skipped.
First it chases you and can't be killed: don't waste ammo. In the arena, a shot to the mouth or an explosion knocks it down and exposes the cyst: 4-5 Requiem rounds on the cyst kill it fast (Game8).
Reward
None. The floor gives way, Leon drops into Ridgewood Station and finishes it with the Hatchet to the face.
No published HP. The room has plenty of shotgun shells (VGC). The building's 2F holds 18 Small Spiders (22 on Insanity). Insanity: Game8 recommends the Clatter Carbine or another SMG for this fight.
Step by step
- Chase: don't shoot until the objective reads "Defeat the giant spider". The first lunge comes out of the hole beside a doorway: shoot or chop until it pulls back, then climb the fire-escape ladder.
- Watch the big holes in the wall: it grabs you from there. Near a window it can seize Leon and try to drag him out: mash the button on screen.
- Arena: circle it clockwise, climbing the ladders to the upper ledge. It has to slow down and climb after you, which gives you shots at the cyst.
- Explosive canisters: one on 3F (north) and one on 4F (northeast corner); they don't respawn. Don't throw them (it may walk off and the canister blows up alone): lure it next to the canister while you climb a ladder and shoot when it's close. A Hand Grenade also knocks it down.
- Knocked down: 4-5 Requiem rounds on the cyst. Without the Requiem, a point-blank shotgun or the rifle.
- When it hides in the webs, watch its shadow on the walls: it usually drops near the opposite ladder, a good window for the rifle. It comes back through the big hole, over the low walls, from the roof or through the windows.
- Its attacks have long wind-ups: parry (L) if you react in time.
- Spiderlings: if the fight drags on, it summons Small Spiders. Kill them fast with hatchet swipes, the Gal or a grenade: one on your face locks Leon up and you eat the next hit.