TGMC:Defiler

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UNDEFINED XENO

Defiler

Difficulty: Medium Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Use Neurogas smokescreens to support pushes, and Defile sting to infect marines with quick bursting larvae. Guides: This is the guide. Quote: "It's baby time! Baby, you're the best, you're not like all the rest. It will be so much fun when you're the one that burst. No matter what you do I will be proud of you even if you receive a liberal arts degree!"

The Defiler

One of the more unique and recent castes to evolved from the machinations of xenomorphs, the Defiler provides the hive further refinement of xenomorphs' priority in chemical warfare by washing marines' eyes with chem trails, shashing terrified marines with its venomous claws, and stinging unexpected marines with a fresh larva.

Playing the Defiler

Considered as a high-risk high-reward caste due to its armor and health stats and demand of CQC, the responsibilities of the Defiler are:

• Obscuring marines' line of sight with gas by being very, very close to marines
• Going into vents and jump scaring marines by jumping out of unwelded vents and gasing them
• Slashing marines with reagents
• Attempting to OD marines with said reagents (unlikely, though)
• Bobbing and weaving to not die instantly
• Weeding areas to provide space to WASD marines
• Planting eggs for tactical farts that deny area
• Shoving up larva in marines

The Defiler is one of the most difficult support caste xenos to play, due to its forced front line fighting, requirement of knowing reagent uses, and low armor and health compared to other T3 xenos. Your defile sting is integral in getting quick infections on front lines, especially when the hive is without a carrier. You can place weeds, and your Emit Noxious Gas ability can lay down a smokescreen to allow xenos to push on fortifications that include turrets. If you master the defiler, you will be the thing marines have nightmares about when they sleep.

As a Defiler, it's very important to maintain in your mind that you cannot take as much damage as any other T3. Losing a Tier 3 Xenomorph is always a big setback for the hive due to Tier limitations and the time it takes to reach Tier 3 for any xeno. Your Emit Noxious Gas ability is integral for xeno pushes, especially in the absence of a boiler, start your channel out of marine sight, then run in as soon as your gas begins to vent. Reagent claws can be extremely useful, if you know how to use it. Keep in mind Reagent Slash can be channeled even while moving, so if you stay close to the target, you can get your full 3 slashes. Your defile sting is a 3 sting channel that infects marines with a larva on the first sting, and injects neurotoxin and Larva growth serum on the others. This essentially forces the marine to get the larva out, taking them out of the field for a time, or suffer death. Death can come faster when you pump them full of reagents, as each reagent in their system increases the larva's growth speed. A good strategy is to run in with the queen and Reagent Slash marines as she is screeching, you can ensure they stay down much longer than the short amount of time they are normally incapacitated.

Reagents

The Defiler has the ability to use four different reagents: Neurotoxin, Hemodile, Transvitox, and Sanguinal. Both Emit Noxious Gas and Reagent Slash abilities will select Neurotoxin, Hemodile, Transvitox as their reagent whereby Defile exclusively produce Sanguinal gas.

Name	Description	Metabolism Rate	Overdose Threshold	Critical OD Threshold
Larval Accelerant ▮	A metabolic accelerant that dramatically increases the rate of larval growth in a host. Gives you the shakes and dramatically increases the growth speed of embryos. Additionally, purges medicines at a rate of 3u per tick. On overdose, causes 2 toxin and oxy damage; critical overdose stops breathing.	0.1 units per tick	30u	50u
Neurotoxin ▮	A debilitating nerve toxin. Impedes motor control in high doses. Causes progressive loss of mobility over time. Causes progressively increasing pain and stamina loss, increasing after ticks 20 and 45. Additionally, purges medicines at a rate of 1u per tick. Doesn't overdose.	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A
Hemodile ▮	Impedes motor functions and muscle response, causing slower movement. Causes heavy slowdown that gets doubled in the presence of transvitox or neuro. Having both causes even greater slowdown.	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A
Transvitox ▮	Converts burn damage to toxin damage over time, and causes brute damage received to inflict extra toxin damage. Every tick, converts burn damage to toxin damage equal to 1/4th the current cycle, doubling the rate for each xeno-based toxin in the bloodstream (excluding larval, for some reason). Whenever damage is taken, additional toxin damage is taken equal to 1/10th the current brute loss or damage taken, whichever is lower. This is multiplied by xeno-based toxins in the same way the burn conversion is. The toxin damage has a max of 180 total.	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A
Sanguinal ▮	Causes brute damage and bleeding, with the damage dealt multiplied by other xenomorph reagents inside the target (Stamina for Hemodile, Toxin for Neurotoxin and Burn for Transvitox).	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A

The target will have a HUD indicator next to their health bar in the form of a colored dot which shows if the target has a reagent in them or not. You can then examine them(with shift-click)to see what reagents are in them exactly.

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

Maturity increases stats as follows.

• Slash is the melee damage when the xenomorph is in harm intent and slashing marine. In the code, it's melee_damage.
• Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values, not hard armor, which means that they reduce damage by a percentage rather than a flat value.
• Pheromone Strength determines how powerful some activities will be, such as pheromones themselves, as well as using abilities that heal.

Age	Health	Plasma	Slash	Melee	Bullet	Laser	Energy	Bomb	Bio	Rad	Fire	Acid	Pheromone Strength
Young	300	400	23	30	30	30	30	0	30	30	25	30	1.7x
Mature	325	500	23	35	35	35	30	0	35	35	30	35	2x
Elder	350	550	26	40	40	40	35	0	38	38	35	38	2.1x
Ancient	375	575	26	45	45	45	40	0	40	40	40	40	2.6x

Defiler Abilities

Ability	Description	Plasma Cost	Cooldown
Toggle Bump Attacks	This ability allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. If for some reason you want to avoid them, toggle this off. The red arrow means it's on; the green arrow means it's off.	N/A	N/A
Rest	This ability is used to rest and get up, you will heal faster when resting on weeds.	Easy	N/A
Psychic Drain	This ability is executed on dead marines. Every dead marines psyhic drained will give 60 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva.	100	Easy
Cocoon	Devour your victim to cocoon it in your belly, then expels the contents of your stomach onto the current tile. With the marine inside, they still have life force and able to be revived, but it will give psychic points for 5 minutes. Yields a minimum of 1 psychic point every 5 seconds, but increases to a maximum of 5 points with lower server population.	Easy	N/A
Plant Weeds	Plants a resin weed node, which will start growing resin in a 3-tile radius that allows xenomorphs to heal and restore plasma while on top of the tile. Plasma cost is also halved before the shutters have been opened. Right-Clicking the ability icon will allow you to select different types of weeds to plant. Click expand to view different resin types. Default, does nothing extraordinary. Costs 75 plasma. Boosts health and plasma regeneration by 20%, and doubles sunder recovery. Costs 150 plasma. Slows humans and vehicles a small amount, can stack with sticky resin. Costs 225 plasma. Can only be placed on a tile that does not already have a resin sac, and cannot be placed on rock, grass, catwalks, or snow.	N/A	N/A
Emit Noxious Gas	Emit Noxious Gas begins a channel that after a short amount of time begins to vent the selected reagent as a gas from your dorsal ports, you can move once the gas begins to vent.	Medium	200
Defile	Purges all chemicals in the victim and deals toxin damage equal to half the total unit of chemical purged from the victim's system multiplied by 2 for each unique xenomorph toxin in its system. The victim also exudes a cloud of blood red Sanguinal smoke that scales in size with the amount of toxin damage dealt in this way.	Easy	100
Reagent Slash	Deals damage 4 times over 3.6s and injects 3u of selected reagent per slash. Can move while slashing.	Easy	30*
Inject Neurogas	Inject an egg with neurogas, killing the facehugger, but filling it full with neurogas ready to explode.	Easy	30*
Lay Egg	Makes you lay a hugger egg.	Easy	400

Primordial Evolution

NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE INGAME.
Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
For the Defiler, this primordial ability is Tentacle.

Ability	Description	Plasma Cost	Cooldown
Tentacle	Allows the defiler to grab a tallhost or item from range and bring it towards the defiler.	200	20

Defiler tips & tricks

• Your Defile Sting ability can easily overdose hosts. Do not sting if you have slashed them more than 2 times with Neurotoxin Reagent Claws, without waiting a small bit for the neuro to tick out of their systems. Unless you want to kill them.
• The first sting of your Defile sting ability will infect marines with a larva, this will be an accelerated larva with a rough growth time of 3 minutes.
• Neuro claws should only be used for 2 slashes of any capture capture gameplay is dead.
• Always start the channeling of your Noxious Gas Vent ability out of sight of marines, as if you move during the channel before you start to vent, you will have to wait the full cooldown period, consume plasma, and won't vent anything.
• You can operate as an assassin of sorts, against a marine with just about any weapon but a shotgun, due to your speed and Reagent Claws ability.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter, Pyrogen
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor