Aliens

[Steelpoint]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Riot Shields also have a chance to deflect or block a Aliens attack. Its RNG but its better than a small (10%?) chance of not getting stunned normally.

[Bombadil]

Be creative with how you fight aliens, if they have a clear advantage in one area, learn how to either work around it or negate it entirely.
Numbers: The stunning only lasts so long, too many people prevents everyone from being stunlocked.
Speed: Keep up and even outpace them, great for avoiding backup xenos.
Lasers: Distance means melee can't hit you.
Face protection: Ignore facehuggers completely.
Riot shield: Immune to pouncing, very resistant to spit (which can only be fired in cardinal directions)
Hulks: They can't stun you at all, and you can stun them with your punches.
Fires: Melt them and their nest, flush them out and put them in bad positions.
Mechs: Has all of the above.

It's not hard, you use these kinds of tactics on things like blobs, nuke ops, and revolutions. Competent aliens are just as dangerous as competent blobs or nuke teams, you just need a competent crew to respond.

People clearly just dont know how to fight xenos. I mean the phazon is a easy way to destroy all xenos

[Incomptinence]

Blob and aliens are actually inverse in the case of mechs. Mech attack speed limit means a box of chicken nuggets can overwhelm and slowly kill the mech, faster attacking multiple humans deal with nuggets easily.

Blob is weak to mobs of humanling chaff with basic tools. Xenos are not don't expect to just wipe them with a mob of assistants.

Phazon pilot with xray goggles is a xeno anathema so awful heavy lasers just being fired on unsuspecting xenos thing they are hidden in the dark, total carnage.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

Shame that that only buys you half a second before they disarm you again, honk.

[callanrockslol]

Xenos only get wrecked by round end competent stations, otherwise they blitz

[AnonymousNow]

Apparently xenomorphs not only get a free stun which they can instantly switch with harmful intents to literally stunlock-and-kill several people at once, but now they also get full knockouts which last for, at the least, two minutes? When did that happen?

EDIT: And when did dead hosts being viable for breeding become a thing? It doesn't make any sense.

[Anonmare]

Pretty sure dead hosts can't be used for breeding, but killing an impregnated host speeds up the amount of time it takes to burst, last I checked anyways. Don't like it personally but it's there.

Another thing most people don't know is that biting people as a burster speeds up your evolution rate, so go ahead and bite the other people who haven't bursted yet

[Nitrousoxide]

Where is everyone getting the idea xenos are round enders? I've like never seen a xeno hive succeed. They always get annihilated quickly with a flame thrower or lasers from sec.

[whodaloo]

Where is everyone getting the idea xenos are round enders? I've like never seen a xeno hive succeed. They always get annihilated quickly with a flame thrower or lasers from sec.

this post is fucking comedy gold, because RIGHT NOW on sybil there's a literal shuttle full of xenos going to centcomm

[Nitrousoxide]

Where is everyone getting the idea xenos are round enders? I've like never seen a xeno hive succeed. They always get annihilated quickly with a flame thrower or lasers from sec.

this post is fucking comedy gold, because RIGHT NOW on sybil there's a literal shuttle full of xenos going to centcomm

Well maybe it only happens on low pop rounds in the middle of the day when I'm at work?

I've seen it happen like once in the evening when I usually play.

[Steelpoint]

All these failed xeno hives.

[PKPenguin321]

Where is everyone getting the idea xenos are round enders? I've like never seen a xeno hive succeed. They always get annihilated quickly with a flame thrower or lasers from sec.

this post is fucking comedy gold, because RIGHT NOW on sybil there's a literal shuttle full of xenos going to centcomm

Well maybe it only happens on low pop rounds in the middle of the day when I'm at work?

I've seen it happen like once in the evening when I usually play.

>i've seen it happen like once

well there's your problem

[Scones]

They snowball based on securing sources of monkies, that's all

[callanrockslol]

Where is everyone getting the idea xenos are round enders? I've like never seen a xeno hive succeed. They always get annihilated quickly with a flame thrower or lasers from sec.

Aliens either win really hard and spend their time hunting survivers waiting for the shuttle or get absolutely wrecked by robust turbogriffons. When you see one alien take out a group of people and get wasted by a naked axe wielding lunatic full of stims you'll understand how it works.

[oranges]

aliens are fun precisely because they show up so rarely.

lets keep it that way

[Incomptinence]

Had aliens show up roughly five rounds in a row ruining things like cult and suck I mean is the events probability broken it's been all aliens and they dominate every round and for events as a break we get more aliens. Only round they didn't take over was one where the starting larva went sentinel. Is the random chance of them showing up broken?

Take over meaning become the sole focus shuttle calls etc.

[InsaneHyena]

Had six alien rounds in a row, want more. Aliums are fun to play as, fun to play against, they are super-fun in general and need to be a round in their own right.