Goliath

The Goliath is the bulldozer of the shambler world. Huge and intimidating, your best bet when facing one of these is to run, or have it eat up your measly supply of bullets effortlessly.

Newly created Goliaths have tough, bullet-resistant hide paired with, long, extendable, yet very durable, tendril arms that it can use to swat people around with at a distance by purposefully dislocating joints and therefore gaining a melee range of about 3-4 meters. Its decently light and newly formed armor enables the Goliath to move at a surprising speed, up to 7 mph in fact. Part of its face is unarmored to let it roar for backup if it is ever alone.

As time goes on, the bone plating all over their body gets thicker and harder - the arms cannot be extended anymore, but form dangerous appendages able to smash through concrete and bend steel without much effort. Body armor gets heavier and more protective, eventually covering the Goliath’s full face in a thick protective layer and making it into a tanky Juggernaut that relies on other shambler to be fully guided - as such, older Goliaths are mostly seen in larger hordes, acting as wall breaker and first line assailant.