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 drugged-up marines to instantly delete their liver.

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 gassing 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
• Defiling marines with many chemicals in them for extreme toxin damage

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 a powerful followup to neurotoxin spits, and the main counter to drugged-up marines. 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 brief channel that purges all chemicals in the victim while dealing toxin damage scaling to both the amount purged and the amount and variety of toxins that were in them. This gets exponentially stronger if you pump them full of reagents, as each reagent in their system multiplies the overall toxin damage. 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
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, effectively increasing the damage of slash attacks. 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
Ozelomelyn ▮	Purges chemicals at a rate of 5u per tick and deals 0.75 toxin damage per tick. The toxin damage has a max of 40 total.	1.5 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	Allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. This allows you to slash any enemy creature by running into them. The red arrow means it's on, you attack when on HARM intent; the green arrow means it's off, you push when on HARM intent.	N/A	N/A
Rest	Used to rest and get up. You heal faster when resting on weeds.	N/A	2 seconds
Psy Drain	This ability is used on dead Marines. For every Marine's psyche drained, the Hive will gain between 30 and 90 psychic points, depending on the number of Marines spawned; and 1/8 of a larva.	50	N/A
Cocoon	Devour your victim to cocoon it, then expel the contents of your stomach onto your tile after 3 seconds. Any Marine in a cocoon is still able to be revived, but the cocoon will give psychic points for 5 minutes. Yields between 1 and 5 psychic points per 5 seconds, depending on the number of spawned Marines.	100	N/A
Corrosive Acid	Expels acid onto an object or wall, destroying it after a while. If used on wall, a hole will appear after some time. Small xenos can climb through, large xenos can break the wall with the hole on it open. CTRL + click to interact with the acid hole. During the prep phase, all xenomorphs with this ability get strong acid. [Acid Strength by Caste] Drone and Sentinel, and Scorpion have the weakest acid. Takes 8 minutes to melt a hole in a regular wall. Cannot be used on reinforced walls. Hivelord, Shrike, Spitter, and Praetorian have common acid. Takes 3 minutes to melt a hole in a regular wall. Cannot be used on reinforced walls. Boiler, Primordial Hivelord, Queen, and King have the strongest acid. Takes 1.5 minutes to melt a hole in any type of wall.	75 if caste has weak acid; 100 for medium and strong acid	N/A
Plant Weeds	Plants a resin weed node, which will start growing resin weeds in a 3-tile radius that allows xenomorphs to heal and restore plasma while on top of the tile. Right-clicking the ability icon will allow you to select different types of weeds to plant. Placing a weed node on top of another will replace that weed node with the new type. During the prep phase, plasma cost to place a weed node is halved. [Weed Types] Default, does nothing extraordinary. Costs 75 plasma. Boosts health and plasma regeneration by 20%, and doubles sunder recovery for any xenos resting on them. Costs 150 plasma. Slows humans and vehicles a small amount, can stack with sticky resin. Costs 225 plasma.	75-225	N/A
Emit Pheromones	Toggles your pheromones, allowing you to select Recovery, Warding, or Frenzy. You only emit one at a time, and you can see which pheromones you are effected by in the Status tab. Emitting pheromones uses 5 plasma every regeneration tick. Strength of pheromones is tied to caste and increases the effects. More at Xenomorph Mechanics. [Pheromone Types] Recovery: Accelerates healing and sunder regeneration for resting xenos, increases the amount healed from healing abilities, and increases plasma regeneration. Allows for healing after taking damage without having to wait 10 seconds. Warding: Increases soft armor in all areas for each level. Frenzy: Decreases movement slowdown by 0.6 for each level. [Pheromone Strength by Caste] Drone and Drone - 2.0 Carrier - 2.5 Defiler - 2.6, Hivelord - 3.0, Shrike - 3.0, Hivemind - 4.0, Praetorian - 4.5, King - 4.5 Queen and Pheromone Towers - 5.0	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.	200	40 seconds
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.	100	20 seconds
Reagent Slash	Enables your slashes to inject toxins directly into the target. Lasts 4 seconds, allowing 3 slashes to inject 7u each, for a total of 21u.	100	6 seconds
Inject Neurogas	Inject an egg with neurogas, killing the facehugger, but filling it full with neurogas ready to explode.	100	5 seconds
Lay Egg	Makes you lay a hugger egg.	200	12 seconds

Primordial Evolution

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 ability is incredibly lethal to marines wearing the B18 body armor, as the armor's autodoc will constantly keep them on over 100u of various medicines. Any toxin plus a Defile will instantly put them out of the fight.
• You should always change your selected chemical between venting gas and using your reagent slash, as all toxins strengthen each other more than just adding more of one.
• 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.

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