Crew expendable question, spoiler

[SpaceMonkey907]

So am i missing something or did i just beat the game in 5 minutes? After the failed attempt to get the alien in the airlock you get knocked down and Ash is standing there and starts talking with a shot of the medical bay.... is that it? thats the end of the game?

[RIOT|Stalkermaster]

That's it, how did you take 5 mins?

[SpaceMonkey907]

haha

[dinosauriac]

It's a bit of a pity that Crew Expendable / Last Survivor are so lightweight. Really not much to them apart from a nice jolt of nostalgia. There's some audio logs to find, but I don't think there's very many.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

I didn't enjoy it much at all. Lovely to see the Nostromo and be able to walk around parts of it. It was recreated perfectly, and so atmospheric to walk around this ship that I remember so clearly being a nightmare ship back when the movie came out.

I finished this one in around 15 minutes. That's with a few deaths, and one glitch ending where I didn't see Ash, I just died. At first I thought that was the end, but then it reloaded back to the checkpoint. So I tried again, and then got the real ending.
The real ending didn't make any sense though.
The same as the nest and multiple aliens/eggs in the main game didn't make any sense.
Why was Ash there? Why wasn't Dallas (I played as Dallas because that's who really went into the vents to shut it off) either dead right then or strung up in a web? And what the hell was Ash talking about?
I read somewhere that it was Mother doing some kind of simulation of how the crew would handle certain situations with the alien. But if it was a simulation, why was Ask Talking to Dallas? Surely Dallas was a part of the simulation? He couldn't have been really doing that, or he would have then figured out that Ash was an enemy.

Didn't make sense to me, and wasn't that fun to play. Put me off even starting the last survivor mission, because I know that one is short; get to the self destruct panel, start sequence, you have five minutes to escape without dying.

[Ulfric_Stankcloak]

Originally posted by wobbler:

I didn't enjoy it much at all. Lovely to see the Nostromo and be able to walk around parts of it. It was recreated perfectly, and so atmospheric to walk around this ship that I remember so clearly being a nightmare ship back when the movie came out.

I finished this one in around 15 minutes. That's with a few deaths, and one glitch ending where I didn't see Ash, I just died. At first I thought that was the end, but then it reloaded back to the checkpoint. So I tried again, and then got the real ending.
The real ending didn't make any sense though.
The same as the nest and multiple aliens/eggs in the main game didn't make any sense.
Why was Ash there? Why wasn't Dallas (I played as Dallas because that's who really went into the vents to shut it off) either dead right then or strung up in a web? And what the hell was Ash talking about?
I read somewhere that it was Mother doing some kind of simulation of how the crew would handle certain situations with the alien. But if it was a simulation, why was Ask Talking to Dallas? Surely Dallas was a part of the simulation? He couldn't have been really doing that, or he would have then figured out that Ash was an enemy.

Didn't make sense to me, and wasn't that fun to play. Put me off even starting the last survivor mission, because I know that one is short; get to the self destruct panel, start sequence, you have five minutes to escape without dying.

What I don't get is does it even change the events in the movie? Because tbh I was really hoping so. I was thinking this DLC would be essentially what would happen had Dallas succeeded in the vents. But if he didn't, does that mean they all get murdered? I really wanted to see the rest of the crew survive or at least know they did. I like to think that after the DLC, They confronted Ash now knowing it was him and he gave his famous "Last word" Then thought of a new plan or something. Anyway, Its a good DLC, I just don't get it.

[-|Nur|-]

The DLC was inspired by a deleted/incomplete scene in Alien where Parker spots the alien near the ship's airlock. This takes place right AFTER Dallas has been taken by the alien. Parker tries to get the alien trapped inside the airlock but the alien escapes after Ash sounds an alarm.

[Ulfric_Stankcloak]

I understand that. It's neat but what I mean is the majority of the dlc is the plan Dallas has in the movie. At the edge of the DLC, he's still alive. While they fail to get rid of the alien, is there a chance that it changes anything? Tbh one reason I wanted this dlc was because I was like "Oh man, maybe the crew can actually survive now." Because I got sad when dallas was taken :( along with the rest. Imagine if in the movie dallas was successful. Or at least got out of there alive. Maybe they still could have won. Idk

[bricksmarlen]

Originally posted by wobbler:

The same as the nest and multiple aliens/eggs in the main game didn't make any sense.

Why does that not make any sense? A queen laid the eggs. The initial Alien you encounter throughout the first half of the game is not the Alien that emerged from Foster.

[C_for_Crouch]

Originally posted by wobbler:

The same as the nest and multiple aliens/eggs in the main game didn't make any sense

I think, that it didn't make sense to you, because you weren't paying that much attention to the story, and, also, because you didn't (and can't) encounter the Queen (yeah, like it's a thing, that must happen if you stepped into a Hive. It's not like it's all up to the player's interpretation either)
To your knowledge, the first Alien got aboard Sevastopol ~2 weeks before the arrival of the Torrens (you). To me, even one Alien had all the time in the world to start killing, abducting people, building the Hive and just terrorizing the station.