dying

[ELDEN LORD]

what happens when all ur peeps die, i keeep getting my butt kicked and just restarting over. im only on second day and they keep sending swarms after me , playing on normal lol

[Ugo]

Welcome

[Dirteedeeds]

Welcome to Oblivion!

[ELDEN LORD]

ya kinda regretting goign over the 2 hour mark, cant even do anything, army gets stressed first 2 min of being in and just madness all over, dark souls was easier than this

[Cornbread With Salsa]

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

ya kinda regretting goign over the 2 hour mark, cant even do anything, army gets stressed first 2 min of being in and just madness all over, dark souls was easier than this

get good

[Tyrax]

You can lower difficulty to story...it's still difficult, not a cake walk, but more manageable until you learn.

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by Tyrax:

You can lower difficulty to story...it's still difficult, not a cake walk, but more manageable until you learn.

Ya i might just start game over as im allready day 3 in amd the missions seems to last forever. Ive mo idea the pacing yet. I hate games that make u think. This one surly does

[Vultan]

Stress goes up during a "hunt".
Hunt only happens if the marines are spotted by the enemy.
The APC wont trigger a hunt, so use it to kill wandering aliens.

Sneak as much as you can. If your marines get stressed, find a 1 door room and rest.
This manualy saves the game and reduces 100 points of stress.

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by VultanTV:

Stress goes up during a "hunt".
Hunt only happens if the marines are spotted by the enemy.
The APC wont trigger a hunt, so use it to kill wandering aliens.

Sneak as much as you can. If your marines get stressed, find a 1 door room and rest.
This manualy saves the game and reduces 100 points of stress.

How long does it take to rest. Last timw i closed a door it didnt seem to do anything. Then somethinh happened then everyone died.

[ELDEN LORD]

Also im like on day 3 with only 40 percent done. Is that good or bad

[MADOX-01]

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

Originally posted by VultanTV:

Stress goes up during a "hunt".
Hunt only happens if the marines are spotted by the enemy.
The APC wont trigger a hunt, so use it to kill wandering aliens.

Sneak as much as you can. If your marines get stressed, find a 1 door room and rest.
This manualy saves the game and reduces 100 points of stress.

How long does it take to rest. Last timw i closed a door it didnt seem to do anything. Then somethinh happened then everyone died.

You gotta weld all doors in a room and a green text on top of the screen will pop up saying you can rest. Rest areas are indicated on the map with a little green house.

[Sming]

What tactics are you using? If you don't try to sneak past the aliens and you shoot them every time you'll get annihilated in short order. When you become detected or are being hunted, the bar on the mission difficulty slowly progresses. When it gets far enough, it increases the mission difficulty.

The best way to play is the antithesis to the film version Aliens in that your best bet is to totally avoid being detected where possible, and where it's not, make sure you have enough spare parts to be able to secure a room (ideally with only one door). If you check the map it'll show you the rooms with a little green house on them. Those are the ones you can secure. If you do that, you'll get a text message saying that you can rest. Click the button and you'll get to see what benefits it gives you.


Aside from that, yes just avoid the aliens even if it doesn't seem very 'marine-like'.

@blinkninja1 - In terms of day 3 with 40 percent done, I can't say. I was up to 57% by the end of the first day, which itself may not be good. I couldn't go back the second day myself due to injuries and a random mission option that killed the deployment. I would guess that with the planetary threat going up daily, as long as you're exploring the map to bring back all the consumables (anything you find but don't use gets brough back to the ship and can be used without spending resources in future missions) you should be about alright I'd think. Also, resting takes a few seconds of cutscene and doesn't require any specific waiting time beyond that.

Then again, I'm not that far through myself so I can't be sure.

[[FuFo] Da HALOSHOCK]

Here's a thought. Don't fight every bug you see. avoid them, lure them away with motion sensors when you unlock them start putting mines under the motion sensors. the game may be aliens but you don't have the strength to constantly fight them even into the late game without cheats.

[Cornbread With Salsa]

Originally posted by FuFo Da HALOSHOCK:

Here's a thought. Don't fight every bug you see. avoid them, lure them away with motion sensors when you unlock them start putting mines under the motion sensors. the game may be aliens but you don't have the strength to constantly fight them even into the late game without cheats.

thats not even what "Aliens" was about! they got their asses kicked in the movie.

[Lv2-Landen]

I restarted and did a fresh game to see how far I could get on the first mission with a fresh squad. Sadly at 69% of the mission it wont give you any more objectives besides extract. So 40% isn't too bad. There is simply times where you will have to pull back out.
I highly recommend getting used to using the motion trackers to distract enemies. You will need to utilize that skill later on when the bugs are thick in areas you need to explore.
Eventually you can utalize things like landmines and the sniper to get a few bugs out of the way. But spawn times for some areas is so low that sometimes you just HAVE to sneak or combat push thru.
Speaking of. Sniper shot with silencer will allow you to do certain rooms later on due to specific enemies squatting. So highly recommend getting a recon with it.
Otherwise practice your stealth and getting the hang of having welders ready for that rest when your stress level goes up.

[[FuFo] Da HALOSHOCK]

Originally posted by Cornbread With Salsa:

Originally posted by FuFo Da HALOSHOCK:

Here's a thought. Don't fight every bug you see. avoid them, lure them away with motion sensors when you unlock them start putting mines under the motion sensors. the game may be aliens but you don't have the strength to constantly fight them even into the late game without cheats.

thats not even what "Aliens" was about! they got their asses kicked in the movie.

This isn't a movie. this is a survival game.