Editing Patriarch (section)

==== Attacks and abilities ====
There is a wide variety of offensive materials at the disposal of the Patriarch. Attached to his left arm is a heavy weapons platform with both a rocket launcher and a mini-gun attachment. The use of these attacks are well telegraphed with a preceding taunt and loading sequence. The main distinguishing mark between the two is the vocal taunt; when he is readying the mini-gun he says either "''Time for a more direct approach''", "''Wait right there, Hahahahaha!''", "''Stay there- I'll make this quick.''" or "''This is the end of you!''" and when loading the rocket launcher he says "''One in the pipe.''". He generally notices any pipe bombs close to player and planted at the same height, readies his rocket launcher platform to blow them up in an instant.

In close quarters combat, the Patriarch effectively has three attacks: he can strike you with either his tentacle or claw, both of which do high amount of damage to the player and could send them flying away; he can thrust the giant tentacle on his chest at the player, which has half the reach of the claw attack but can hit twice in quick succession. Both attacks will send the victim flying through the air and are immediately preceded by very short animations distinguishing them apart, either in the form of drawing one of the arms back or by squatting slightly before the tentacle attacks.<br>

Similar to the [[Stalker]], the Patriarch has the ability to cloak himself and render himself invisible. However, unlike the Stalker, the Patriarch turns red and translucent for a split second before becoming almost completely invisible; only glimmers are visible. Patriarch cloaks and gains 25% movement speed to melee players in a chain of melee attacks to eliminate them.

The third melee attack has him swinging his claw and tentacle out in a 360 degree radius in mid-air then thrusting himself forward and doing another large swing to players; dealing major damage to anyone who might be within its radius or his path. That swing is the most deadly one as it can kill a fully armored player (besides a high level Berserker or Field Medic) with a single contact. After performing that deadly swing, Patriarch stands trembled, wiping under his nose with his claw hand and mocking players; yelling "''So you're trying to do that again? Ha ha ha ha!''". Luckily Patriarch will only use his roundhouse swing when cornered and swarmed by 3 or more players. Most of the time getting too close to him with more than two players would result in quick deaths, which eventually can lead to team wipes in a blink.

If a player is having a rough time with Patriarch's melee attacks, only one player (preferably a Field Medic or Berserker who can take his retaliation; cancel his ranged attacks by attacking him with a melee weapon or at least evade his swings) should approach Patriarch to take the unwanted attention away from the cornered or weak player.

The Patriarch has 3 adrenaline stimulants strapped on his leg, to heal back when he hits certain health thresholds and kneeldown. After kneeling down he rushes away with doubled speed to heal once from a syringe use. Each syringe heals him back for 25% and won't be used more than once for each session even if he's still under the expected threshold after healing. Patriarch also gains health with melee attacks like all other specimen when hit below 90% maximum health. If he has 90% health or below he gains 10% of current health for each player he kills with any of his melee attacks.

[[File:Kevin C.jpg|thumb|right|[[Killing Floor (modification)|''Killing Floor'' mod]] era Patriarch promo image.]]