since when can the alien do this

[Ciaran Zagami]

simple question...SINCE WHEN CAN THE ALIEN OPEN LOCKED DOORS!?

I was playing on one of the eariler chapters and I managed to rick the alien into a room with one of those emgancy override doors (the ones you can lock at will) and locked it in thinking I was free from its penis headed wrath I pulled out my motion dector only to have the alien somehow open the door and "jump scare" me from behind

[Major Malfunction]

I have found in my playtime that the emergency override lockdown is only temperary, that and the alien (much like rats do in real life) have the ability to squeeze into areas that we can not get to.

[Evil Overlord]

Emergency override is unreliable in a chase (it can take a second to close when you don't have that second) and even if it works only buys you a few seconds tops. I personally keep a pipe bomb at the ready if I have to risk getting spotted by stompy, it'll hurt you but stompy falls back for a little while after it hits her in the face.

*Just did a little test. Caught stompy in a room in the med bay with one locked door (didn't hack it), no vent access, and one door you can shut the power off too. I locked the door to the room in which you get Dr. Morleys keycard then used the rewire panel to set off the alarm in said room across the hall. I waited for stompy to go running in then used the rewire panel to cut power to the door effectively trapping her. I pulled out my motion tracker and watched stompy move around the room for a few seconds, then she seems to have teleported into the vent as her dot moved through the sealed rooms walls and to a vent exit in the hallway.
*Repeated the experiment and went right upto the door to watch her, after a few seconds she simply vanished.

[Berserk Belta]

Yeah, most overrides will clear after a few seconds, sadly.

As for the teleportation, if you watch the creature it does 99% of the time move around on foot, using the vents etc. rather than just blipping from place to place, and since they bothered to do that, the teleport ability seems like a failsafe so that the entity can't get itself stuck when it can't find a path -ie something that stops game breakage.

[-|Nur|-]

And if there's a vent in your room the alien will use it to get to you, if it has seen you, that is. See 06:50 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlM5vbA6BUU

[Evil Overlord]

Found a youtube video of a guy who thought of what I tried a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClmBS_BbAp0

Skip to 4:30 to see the amazing disappearing stompy.