I would suggest only using the freeze ability when you are in desperate measures. I had a snowy called Frozone and I got into a bit of trouble on extinction, I basically almost died but luckily I hid behind a crevis in the wall and regened my health and managed to fight off the rest of the raiders. The bite attack is powerful but most of the time your mainly going to be using the snowy for swooping down and collecting drops from the drop pods when someone finished it, use a whip as well, very important.

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