THE GAZER TENDRIL - World boss for FiveM

▶ Watch the showcase video: https://youtu.be/o9ml1axmtok

A 9-metre tendril bursts out of the road, turns two living eyes on you and fights like a boss from a souls game: every attack is telegraphed, every attack can be dodged, and standing still gets you killed.

The fight

• 10 telegraphed attacks - Execution Slam, Reaper Sweep, Hook & Crush, Impaler, Bile Spit, Bone Eruption, Seismic Line, Predator Burrow, Root Eruption and The Gaze.

• Roll to dodge - a combat roll during an active window avoids the damage (i-frames).

• Weak point: the eyes take 2x damage, the hide 0.85x. Hit the eyes hard enough and it collapses, stunned, for a damage window.

• The Gaze - the eyes charge from amber to white; break line of sight, roll at the right moment or get behind it.

• Predator Burrow - it sinks, a ring hunts you under the ground, locks, erupts - and a second eruption waits where you ran.

• Phase 2 at 50 %: five more tendrils rise in a ring and attack in sync - crossfire, closing teeth, eye of the storm (two of five gazes are real), predator relay, barrage.

• Enrage at 20 % - less breathing room, same readable telegraphs.

• No cheese: climbing onto roofs, cars or into vehicles triggers a seismic ejection; hugging the trunk triggers a root eruption.

The look

• Living skin - veins crawl and pulse up the body, wounds breathe with a dull ember glow, something moves under the skin. Drawn live, reacts to phase, enrage, hits, the gaze and death.

• Two tracking eyes with slit pupils that breathe, narrow to a slit when the gaze charges and cloud over when it dies.

• Photo-real hide, bone, teeth, keratin hook and wet mouth tissue; bone spikes that tear out of the ground.

• 20 skeletal animations, ground warnings for every area attack, short screen effects only (no permanent filters).

Server owners

• Standalone - QBCore, Qbox, ESX or no framework.

• Difficulty presets: Easy / Normal / Hard / Nightmare (health, damage, attack rate) - switch in game with /tendrildiff.

• Admin spawn /tendrilboss and/or a fixed arena that wakes when players walk in, with a cooldown.

• Shared co-op boss - server-authoritative HP, targets and attack schedule; health scales per extra player.

• Rewards through one open function in config.lua (QBCore example included), paid by damage share.

• 3D sound - every effect plays from where it happens; drop your own files in sounds/sfx.

• Boss music playlist - every song in sounds/music plays in turn while the boss is up and fades with distance.

• Server-validated hits (weapon, distance, fire rate), idle cost zero until a boss exists.

• Escrow protected; config.lua is open.