Guide to Xenomorphs

[DoctorMadness]

 

Now it seems you have decided to spawn as an Larva,or maybe you got linked to here because of an Angry Man who's mad at you for "Killing the Human".But why is this?Because you actually should back down and read the Guide.Xenomorphs rarelly happen and its guidelines aren't as easy as you think,and if you don't follow them you're screwing over the whole Hive.this guide will contain all Xenomoprh phases,and then some more important things.

 

I spawned as an tiny Larva!What do?

Chances are,you are an stray that got caught by one of the Xenomorphs and went to medbay immediatelly.If so,turn on you yakety sax and go to the nearest vent or worse but not as bad,hide under tables,gibs,or whatever you have avaliable to hide at.

You main priority once you're in an safe area is to use the Hivemind (:a) chat to find the main Hive.Go there.Once you're there,its simply the Waiting game.Aid other newbie players who are killing humans and tell them NOT TO KILL THE HUMANS(or even monkeys,you can reproduce on those too)

 

Eventually you Larva will have taken some time as an Red Carapace.Consider clicking Evolve then,you will be Presented with 3 races:Hunter,Sentinel,and Drone.You'll get more specified guides later,but for reference.The Hunter is the Stealthy Role,The Sentinel is the Defence role,and the Drone is the relaxed one.The Queen is the mastermind.

 

If the hive is under attack,go somewhere else "not used" like Clown Office,Construction Office,or the more obvious areas you can go to evolve and start an hive as Drone,as you other workers will likely be dead.You chances of success are low,but hey,who knows...

 

Xenomorph General

"Dah,i picked X,now what?"

Hold-it Nellie.Frist,you'll need to know what applies to every Alien Castle,as you'll need to collaborate with other Castles to succefully infect the Humans.

 

1.Weed

You will notice Aliens are planting Purple Sacks that spread weed everywhere.Those are important,as they Recharge you Plasma.Alien Drones should plant those regullary,and they will spread those even if they don't know what they do.Basically,if you lose Plasma to split Neurotoxin Splits,its time to go back to one of the Hives.this is exactly why you should consider stopping by sacks every so once in an while.

Notice:Weed can't spread into Space.In solars,they will move exactly over the Solar Array,but not into space.

 

If you lose all Plasma tough,break open an Plasma Canister.Its slower,but you can refill plasma if its in the air.

 

2.Facehuggers.

Now,the Queen can plant Eggs that Hatch into Facehuggers.Those are Vital to the Circle of Reproduction,and maybe you throwing weapons if necessary.

The Alien Queen,and NOBODY ELSE,can plant Eggs that hatch into Facehuggers.The Queen,Drones and Sentinel can open those,altough their best use is on hands of the Hunters,so hatch them regullary if they're here and you can.If not,hivemind(:a) chat to call an Sentinel or Drone over to break them open.

When an ALIVE person is infected by an Facehugger,they will eventually split into an Larva,witch will also be Player Controlled,regardless of the status of them abeforewards.(For the note,they take the next ghost player with xenomorph event turned to YES.If none of those are dead,the next death should generally prompt anoter larva to spawn).

The only way to resist getting an Facehugger is putting on an Hardsuit Helmet,RIOT helmet,or an Carved Pumpkin on their face.(Notice:If someone puts an Carved Pumpkin on his face and charges to the hive,Adminhelp it.Its considered meta).

Notice:Monkeys are facehuggable,thus providing some userfull guide for where to infect.(Mainly,Virology and Xenobiology,that are easly accecible from space,fear not space carp).

2nd Notice:You can see an image of the larva progression.Larva means egg,alien mouth means an larva will brust out on next death from someone.Userfull at times.

 

3.After infection

What to do after infecting someone is actually questionable.You Aliens instict command you to try to grab the infected,but if you fail remember the masses think that killing somoene will stop them from brusting.this ins't true,so be happy with you success if you have to flee after throwing an facehugger.This applies to both monkeys and humans.

On the other side if you managed to take the prey easly to the Hive,put it on one of those globs of purple aliens make.There should be building called "Hive" on the drone's construction menu.Once an human is put here it won't escape,so no worries of having to check if the panicked one managed to space or dissapear into somewhere while you we're off.

 

4."Whispering"

An most special abillity all Xeno castles have is Whispering into human heads...Now,i'd tell you to get creative and manipulate humans but since you're an Huge Blue Alien,you'll have to assign them orders...and RP wise,only the Queen is smart enough for that.So basically only an Unseen Queen can manipulate someone.Carefull not to impresionate an mod or admin with those powers,thats reportable.

 

5.Eating Humans

Generally,eating un-stripped humans can lead to them using whatever deus ex machina they have to furiosuly bash agaisn't you belly to escape,and even if they fail eating them will cause an severe terminal indigestion.Generally an bad idea.

 

6.Pros over Humans

You slashes can outrobust an Tarajan at up close(not that you will want to do that) and you have extra HP,and since Exosuits rotate slowy,close range combat is actually kinda covenient for you if you care not for the man.Usually,you'll want this to outrobust Engineering Cyborgs due to their Welders and to cut up non-ranged Exosuits,or await till Security realises Stunbatons don't stun you.

 

7.Cons over Humans

Hardly know but Aliens are actually weak to Lasers and take normal damage from Projectile Weapons.What is so important here is that people often don't realise they take double damage from lasers,or that different races and people take extra damage from other things.More obviously you have an weakness to Welders,but since its melee you will want the Weaker Humans to gang up at you with those since its more...convenient to have them up close.

If you get shot with an syringe or have something on you eye,assume it was Choral Hydrate(terrible agains't you but hey,start worrying),Beepsky Smash(they know what they're doing) or Neurotoxin(Wave you Hive goodbye!) because those are the only ways to stun you.

 

8.Don't meta

Actual tip.If the turrety things shoot you,destroy them or run from them.If there's an airlock opening for no reason,destroy it and replace it with an Plasma Door.If theres an blue thing on an room surrounded with things shooting you,YOU WANT TO GET RID OF THE THINGS SHOTTING YOU FRIST.Infact,you don't even care about the blue core speaking things,or the little small things on the wall looking around.No you don't even know where they reside.Don't even brother sticking an Facehugger on those.(I might be told wrong by an admin,but otherwise you're breaking rule 15:"your characters knowledge should be limited to what your character would know").

 

9.Bugs.

There are bugs on the system,of course.Frist one is that if you have the "throw" intent selected you will instead snuggle with people.This is the only problem i know so far,but its the most important thing you need to know,specially if you're throwing facehuggers around.

 

Specific Castles

Now that we have the generals,lets focus into something more important:You castle.As said,there are three:Drone,Sentinel and Hunter.their difficulty can vary,with very hard from easy,regardless of castle,altough rounds as Drone are GENERALLY easier than Sentinels and Hunters.

 

Hunter:

As an Hunter,you have two speciall abillties and the Hardest job in the hive,collecting people stealthly(or not so sealthly if they already know you're here).

 

The frist abillity to help you is "Invisibillity".

Invisibillity ins't what it really is tough,its more of "Transparency".It works better in darker areas and is batantly obvious on lit areas(where its plain obvious theres an "Stealhly Alien" walking around "completelly invisibly").If you get discovered,you have 150% HP and the fastest Walkspeed of all Aliens,quickly scamper to a vent,but remember that if the Humans don't know there's an Xeno infestation,you just ruined the element of surprised.

 

The 2nd is called "Regurgitate",it allows you to spit whatever you digested.

Doesn't look like big abillity untill you realise you can eat an Human by aggresivelly grabbing them,and then run off to an vent to the hive,without allowing the other humans to follow you.Easiest way to pickup an human like that is to throw an Facehugger at him to stun him then eat him while the xenomorph infects him.Don't screw it up!You can only throw the facehugger once.

 

Generally,you can help the Sentinels and Drones spread the hive to get extra monkeys and only go help them if you have nothing else to do,or if there are too many Hunters and you accidentally pressed the "Hunter" button when Evolving.

 

(For reference,its acceptable to kill someone if:They're already infected(check if they have an little egg,alien mouth or facehugger over them or throw an Facehugger on them to regonize it),they have an Facehugger protective helmet(Specially if they're banging on the door.Aim for the harms after disarming them to disable their abillity to hold an batton,or if close to the hive/vent,eat them and bring them to one of the Purple Blobs you can walk over,they will be immobilised if buckle them to it,just remember that you swipes do an tubular amount of 22 damage and should be used wisely,if aimed on hands and swiped once its enough to give them an fracture).

 

Sentinel:

So you've choosen the Sentinel.You will be facing Security Officers with gear to hunt you down,people banging on the hive and what more.Generally,you're here to make sure that they don't douch the currect Hive or Queen,so rev up those trolleys.

 

You 1st abillity is to corrode walls.You should frequently corrode airlocks and let the Drone's replace those with you Alien-Opening only doors,so the humans can't pass by the Airlocks as freely.It will also make quite an hassle for the humans to pass tru,and thats exactly what you want.

 

You 2nd and most important abillity is to Spit Neurotoxin.Use it freely if an human is approximating the hive,but remember it also takes plasma and you can miss it as it travels like an projectile,and you can't fire it like an gun.(You'll have to pop up the little menu you get by right/left clicking people,making it highly incovenient).

 

If the Humans build an Exosuit invading the Hive(The kind you will most have trouble with),you should be able to camly beat it up.Rotating around it when it starts trying to drill you while you scratch it will work if its an RIPLEY.If its an Odysseus with some deadly acid on its Syringe Gun or an well suited Combat Mech the humans have officially won the war agaisn't the xeno's.Give the admins one last prayer as you die you unjust death,you only hope is somehow getting close do it then circling it,and you outrageous 20 brute damage per swing should do the job.

 

3.Drones

As an Drone you have an simple job untill the Queen dies.Then everyone will expect you to evolve into an Queen,regardless of how you can play Heads of Staff,so be ready for anything.

 

As an Drone,you main task is spreading weeds all year around,plus creating special walls and membranes for the other castles.You special abillity is infact creating those walls,and you can replace Airlocks with doors.You hives are ridiculously obvious due to the purple weeds growing all around(if they aren't everywhere already,FIX IT!They give everyone plasma.Create some Purple Sacks to spread them)to anyone already,so plasma walls won't hurt,since neither the AI or Crewmembers can open them.

Other than that,you can create "Purple Blobs" that other aliens can entrap humans on by buckling them to it like it was an chair.Userfull if they know what they're doing,as it will completelly immobilizing anything put on it.

 

For combat,you have absollutelly NO powers expect that you Melee swings deal extra damage,and even then its lower than Sentinels and Hunter swipes and you're SLOWER than anyone but the Queen,and you don't have the benefit of having 150% Health like Hunters and Sentinels do,witch is why you need Sentinels to protect you.If they fail,jump to space,you don't need to breathe and coldness,and the pressuse won't hurt you.(THIS IS EXACTLY WHY YOU ALWAYS KEEP AN DOOR LEADING TO SPACE ON THE HIVE,or less often,nothing since it will depressurize the rooms,altough whoever barges in is either intentionally equipped or unintentionally equipped with Space Resistant gear).

 

If an new Queen is necessary and you're up for the task,accumulate some Plasma(and by some i mena fill you reserve to the max) and click the "EVOLVE" button on the Alien part.If it fails,someone took it already.sigh quietly.If not,congratulations,you are the Queen!You now have become an Priority Target that would be justified in being shot frist,and will constantly be hunted down by metagamers.Its gonna be an amazing day.

 

The Queen

The one and only.You have the responsibillities of being an Antagonist,And Head of Staff,and an high Priority Target.It won't be meta if an Security Officer barges in,sees an crow of Aliens but thinks that fixing fire on the one that is Lagre and Outstanding among the group,so you'll have to clear out yourself.

 

The frist duty as Alien Queen is leading the Hive.Most of the time,you drones should Obey you,and they should be doing it.Use of the hivemind (:a) will be Paramount,like any :c or radio.Unless of course you Aliens belivie you are an Queen for breeding purposes,like in Earth Wildlife.Either way,there's NO cannon over that,but its always much more normal to belivie you're an Leader,specially due to you actual higher intelligence and abillity to talk in normal human language(honestly,it IS weird that you can charge you vocallization to Human to Alien,but hey,why brother...)

 

The 2nd duty is one only you can do,and its planting eggs that build up Facehuggers,and you should be doing it whenever you aren't telling you fellow aliens what to do and where to go,that is actually quite often.After they're done growing,make sure the Drones and Sentinels are busting eggs open.An general Hunter should have two Facehuggers on his pockets at the very least.If they aren't equipped with that,you're doing something VERY wrong as Queen.

 

When an Security Crew/Squad,from ERT or Station breaks in,call for you Sentinels to KILL THEM.Call EVERYONE to kill them,if they start gaining momentum they will slaughter you whole family apart,but killing the last hope of the station who has the possibly best weapons they can use in this case will turn to be worth it.I know everyone will throw an rant on how you must not kill people so you can reproduce on them,but if they're equipped with Facehugger resistant helmets and they're banging at you door,they're valid targets.Don't even brother infecting them.

If this fails,that 250% HP is going to whittle down quickly,unless the "Raid" you have is 1 person you can shot down with you Neurotoxin.

 

Alien Empress

Occasionally,you will see huge aliens that are 2X2 tiles huge(an default charater is just 1X1,for reference)

Its one of the Rarer ones,its HP ins't listed,but it would be safe bet to it should be around 300% or 500% should be its default.But even then,it might be just 100%.Its hard to know how much HP something has when you killed it hitting it with an Energy Axe and is just testing content,specially when its actual robustness is not listed.Neverthless it seems to have normal Queen abillities,such as Splitting Neurotoxin and planting eggs,so it might be 250% HP.

 

Generally it will be agreed you precense is mighty and you have Authority over the Queen,and i dobut the Admins would object to that.Wether you count as Queen or not is not tested.

 

And that cuts it out!

This guide is as complete as the Head of Staff guide.I'll revise both for the moment,but do not expect any more guides untill i consider both completelly ready for the public.

 

[NoscopeToolbox]

 

OH GOD THE GRAMMAR

other than that, nice guide

EDIT: Do you realise castles are buildings not aliens