TGMC:Carrier

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UNDEFINED XENO
Carrier	Difficulty: Intermediate Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Use Huggers to infest marines, Use your wit to place hugger traps, spread weeds on the front lines. Guides: no separate guides

The Carrier

Carrier rundown

Carriers are wonderful for increasing the population of the hive. They excel in close quarters, and can infect many marines in a heated firefight when supported by other xenos.
You should always focus on keeping your hugger stores full when possible, and always be making traps if you aren't actively infesting. Traps can be covered by trash, and other detritus, to trick Unga Marines into infecting themselves, by retreating over it. If there is no queen and no drone, congratulations, the entire fate of the hive rests in your hands, or the hands of a Defiler. You can produce huggers without the help of the queen by using your abilities. If you are throwing huggers, keep in mind that a direct hit will have a much higher chance of leaping onto a marines face than next to, or in front of a marine.

Playing the Carrier

To store facehuggers, create one from plasma using the spawn hugger ability or click on a full-grown egg with an empty hand to open it. The hugger will appear. Click on it to pick it up, and then click it while it's in your hand to store it. You will get a message that it's been stored along with how many huggers you have, and you can see the number of your stored huggers in the stats tab. Keep in mind that huggers outside of eggs will die after a short time, so do this quickly.

To throw a hugger, select retrieve/throw hugger by clicking on the button. This will not put a hugger into your hand, but leave it as your active ability. Using shift+click or middle mouse click, activate the ability and a hugger will enter your hand. You must then activate the ability again and click on a target or tile to throw the hugger. Activating the ability only once will not put the held hugger into throw mode (like an armed grenade) so make sure you press it again before you throw. Do not throw huggers using the throw UI button or R hotkey as they will only be thrown one tile.

After a facehugger is thrown, it has a brief cooldown before it will attach itself to a nearby host. If you hit a marine directly, this cooldown is .5 seconds. If it lands on a tile, the cooldown is 3 seconds.

To create a hugger trap, activate the create resin trap ability and then shift or middle-click where you want the trap to go. It will create an empty hole on the tile that you must fill with a hugger. You can then try and disguise these traps.

You are a Support caste and should not put yourself directly in harms way, though you are often most effective on or near the front lines due to your ability to spread weeds and create facehuggers from plasma. If you don't have anything better to do, place traps in random high-traffic areas. A hugger can stop a marine push dead in its tracks as they will think twice about pushing further so quickly. Carriers are also great at serving as a distraction while other xenos flank a group. If you facehug a marine, and cannot reach it to bring it back to the hive via Devour, don't fret. You likely have forced that marine to relieve themselves from combat to go get surgery on the Theseus. This is a good thing. Do not try to charge into a group of marines to grab one that you hugged.

Carrier tips & tricks

• Resin holes can be placed under trash for sneakier traps.
• Even if the queen is dead, you can make facehuggers and keep the hive alive. Though pay mind to whether or not you are delaying in any given situation.

Carrier evolutions & upgrades

Carriers only have one path for evolution, the {Defiler. Evolving to one can be good if you know how to play it well, but if the hive already has one or two, you would be better served staying as a carrier.

Carrier upgrades will increase your plasma regeneration, and Plasma, egg, and hugger storage, as well as upgrades to your health and damage.

Carrier Abilities

Abilities	Functions	Difficulty of use	Plasma cost
Rest	This ability is used to rest and get up, you will heal faster when resting on weeds.	Easy	N/A
Regurgitate	Regurgitate does exactly what it sounds like. Expels the contents of your stomach onto the current tile. To consume someone, grab them then click on your sprite, and stand still.	Easy	N/A
Plant Weeds	Can only be placed on a tile that does not already have a resin sac, and cannot be placed on rock, grass, or catwalks.	Easy	75
Create Resin Trap	This allows you to turn any regular "Weeds" tile/turf into a "Resin Hole" tile/turf, in which you can then place a facehugger in by clicking on the hole with a hugger in your hand.	Easy	200
Retrieve Egg	This retrieves an Egg that you have stored within your carapace, allowing you to transport multiple eggs to the front lines.	Easy	N/A
Retrieve/Throw Hugger	This allows you to retrieve a hugger from your storage if you don't have one in hand, or throw the hugger currently in your hand at a targeted area. Huggers reset more quickly if you hit the marine directly.	Hard	N/A
Spawn Hugger	Creates a hugger using excess plasma stored in your body, placing it directly into your storage.	Easy	100

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