Come ON

[Rocket]

It's times like this that infuriate me. I'm saved RIGHT next door to an objective. I have to grab an upgrade and solve a puzzle with the tuner to open a door.

Load game. Alien is there, wait and he jumps away. Grab upgrade, Tuner on door, Alien comes down. Dead

Load game. Alien is there throw noise maker. Open door with Tuner, get in door, can't switch to flame thrower in time. Dead

Load game. Alien is not there, move down hallway. Alien jumps down right next to me. Dead

Load game. Alien is there, scare him away with Flamethrower, grab upgrade, Tuner on door, he comes back right as I'm about to push the button.

AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT THIS EXCEPT TO KEEP TRYING OVER AND OVER.

*&$#* that junk!

[flipfloppie]

I am stuck in this exact same point. I'm playing on Easy already. That aside, I cannot make it through the door. It gets me every time. I've tried flares, noisemakers and even flaming her a few times. But I am not fast enough to get the code in and then it drops in and kills me before I can exit the mini-game and flame it. Even when I do this, if I hide for a bit, it is always there. I guess I might have to re-start the mission? I'll try a few more times then try that I guess. I really didn't want to go down to Novice since I've slogged through the whole thing at this difficulty. *cries*

[AstalaYstalawa]

There is also the option to load 'Previous savegame' - Savegame before last save!

[flipfloppie]

Aaaaand of course, as soon as I posted this, I jumped in-game and did it! I hid under the tables and calmed my nerves. Popped out, tried the hack. Failed the first two times then I think the game had pity on me because the third time all the symbols were right next to each other. As the door opened and I made my way to the ambulance, I heard the alien come into the Ambulance Bay behind me but I just sprinted for it. They tried to tempt me with an always-needed injector on the floor, but I stifled my loot-lust and fired up the pod. Phew. Reading through this thread did help give me hope, so thanks to all who offered suggestions. I swear this game is giving me high blood pressure.

[Bru741iX]

Im just going to leave this here:

Move slowly, and keep in mind that the Alien has moods.
When it's "just seeking/hunting", it's not very observant to how you move and hide.

If it's agitated, it'll start paying more attention to your hiding spot.

And lastly, if it hisses when it "sees" you, it's not lights out, if you can find a hiding spot a little bit away from where it saw you, it'll typically not notice you.

And also when you save, you save EVERYTHING besides the Aliens location.
It's mood, it's understanding of how you move etc, are still in it's "mind".

Generally, hiding the same way, or in the same spot is never a good idea.
And just because you hear it coming out of a vent, doesnt mean it's on to you.

It has a hunting/searching pattern that remains the same almost all of the time, and even if you're well hidden, it will find you after x amount of time.

When it patrols, it'll typically move past you 2 times(on hard) when you're hiding in lockers, under tables or beds, and when it comes by for the 3rd time, light's out AKA you're dead.

Best thing you can do is to take it slow, but not too slow.
Notice how it patrols, and if it breaks from the typical path it follows(like when it suddenly searches very near to your location) then it's a good time to find a new hiding spot or use a distraction or weapon(molotov or flamethrower).

But keep in mind that distractions and weapons agitate the Alien, making it more "frustrated" and therefore more likely to random acts like, quickly change directions, crazy ivans(moving in a path, then suddenly looking backwards to check if you've popped out of cover) etc.

[Welene Wios]

Can someone pls tell me what mission OP is talking about here? Just curious

[newsWatch9]

I've waited with the upgraded tuner near this door for like 2min because I hadn't seen the Alien in a while and was expecting to get screwed over as soon as I touch that door, lol. But he wasn't coming so I started hacking and literally, the second I raised the tuner to that door I heard him fall out of the vent just outside. For a second I was like, maybe I can make it, maybe he'll stomp the other way but then again, that hallway only leads 2 ways and I'm not ready to die. So I started mashing qqqqqqqqqq, "get the ♥♥♥♥ out of this animation ripley", as the door behind me opened and an infuriated Alien started hissing my direction.

Just a split second before I would have faced certain doom, I finally got my flamethrower raised, turned around and got just the puff of a flame on him as he knocked me over and vanished into a vent nearby.

One of the closest and most thrilling encounters I've had in this game.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by Медуза Кальмары:

Can someone pls tell me what mission OP is talking about here? Just curious

I was vague intentionally to avoid spoilers, Mission 15 right before you grab the Level 3 Tuner and launch the Ambulance Shuttle to the Anesidora.

Edit: Looking back, I actually directly stated that in Comment #13.

[newsWatch9]

Originally posted by holychair:

(and maybe some more graphical settings, not vsync though because this caused heavy tearing).

vsync causes input lag.

[Welene Wios]

Originally posted by Sparky:

Originally posted by Медуза Кальмары:

Can someone pls tell me what mission OP is talking about here? Just curious

I was vague intentionally to avoid spoilers, Mission 15 right before you grab the Level 3 Tuner and launch the Ambulance Shuttle to the Anesidora.

Edit: Looking back, I actually directly stated that in Comment #13.

Ah. Something weird happened to me in that part. I grabbed the upgrade, Alien comes and, kill me, and the game crashes. You know, the infamous .exe has stopped working error.

I reopened the game, replayed that part, and the Alien didn't show up. Maybe the game crashing removed the Alien from that scene. Idk.

[newsWatch9]

Originally posted by holychair:

Originally posted by newsWatch9:

vsync causes input lag.

I'm perfectly aware of this and that's why I always turn off vsync first. But if that results in too heavy screen tearing (like it does here), I lower the resolution which is the next best thing to reduce lag.

Screen tearing never really bothered me at all, I don't even notice it most of the time.

[Tca_11a]

Play Novice or Easy for the best realistic alien.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by holychair:

Originally posted by newsWatch9:

vsync causes input lag.

I'm perfectly aware of this and that's why I always turn off vsync first. But if that results in too heavy screen tearing (like it does here), I lower the resolution which is the next best thing to reduce lag.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card you should always be using Adaptive V-Sync from the Nvidia Control Panel.

+No input lag
+Greatly reduced screen tearing
+Much higher average frame rate

[Jaesen Moreaux]

In my experience, hitting it with a flamethrower only pissed it off and bought me several seconds to get away. If I flamed it and then stayed there it came right back at me after a moment.