silent kill egg possible?

[Tyumen]

subj

[Starfisher]

Silenced sniper can kill it.

Also, today I let them pop, then flamed the facehuggers. I remained undetected, although there wasn't enemy nearby so I do not know if it counts the same as shooting.

[Jhea]

just use a grenade

a) it gives an achievement
b) it's 'silent' as in no hunt begins
c) only nearby drones will come to investigate...
so just place some mines before they come and where they most likely come from and watch them pop too.

kill 4 eggs and 2 drones like that pretty much every mission
ez gg

[Jadawin]

grenade them and it works but make sure to cover all the eggs

[Kasper Kroenen]

you can silence kill them... but you don't even hear a silencer sound like with the drones. The eggs just "dissapear" and there is nothing to indicate that a shot took place. Kinda poorly done on that part of the game, tbh.

[Taffey]

Would be nice if they could be killed by flamethrower

[Kasper Kroenen]

Originally posted by Taffey:

Would be nice if they could be killed by flamethrower

wait, you can't?

[Taffey]

Originally posted by Kasper °,_,°:

Originally posted by Taffey:

Would be nice if they could be killed by flamethrower

wait, you can't?

Doesn't work for me no matter how often I tried. Bathed them in fire over and over and over and they still just chill there blocking my path.

[Kasper Kroenen]

Originally posted by Taffey:

Originally posted by Kasper °,_,°:

wait, you can't?

Doesn't work for me no matter how often I tried.

for a game that overuses the ALIENS quotes at times... its amazing that a FLAMETHROWER can't kill a nest lol.

[Dregora]

Grenades work, i've never had eggs hatch, just lob a grenade into it. Logically you'd think this isn't stealthy.

But you are wrong. Nobody notices. They are silencer grenades. Ssssht.

[Tyumen]

grenadelauncher? he not silent

[SGT Rock [82EN]]

Mission 02 there's an "Egg Room" on the second floor. When the door opened and the detection line was beginning to draw and the eggs were opening I torched them with the flamethrower and it worked. Eggs, Facehuggers were destroyed and the hive wasn't alerted. If the opportunity presents itself I'll have to try on other such rooms, but this strategy worked THIS time at least.

[Mr Geriden]

Flame thrower can be really effective, as long as the egg sits in the fire blanket.

[Keith 'Blood' Hanson]

Yeah, it is slightly annoying that the flamethrower won't burst unopened eggs for some reason, probably a bug.

Silenced sniper shots can take one out but...there's probably more of them around.

Grenades or explosives can do it if you kill *all* of the eggs or aliens in the room; killing three in one corner and then leaving the other four in the corner alone will be heard and start a hunt.

[SGT Rock [82EN]]

It's been a few years but I think even in the movie Aliens when Rippley see's them in the nest and uses the Flamethrower on them they don't "Burst". They catch fire and begin roasting and some start opening with the newborn facehuggers screaming and dying. The grenades she opens up with afterword certainly do the trick though.

[Casper]

I'm confused there are so many rooms that have multiple egg clusters. It seems like a rooms where you can hit all the eggs with a single grenade is the outlier. I don't understand how I am meant to clear a room with 9 eggs in 3 separate bundles