Just like SL, or specs. RNG. Named xeno was bald? Well, this person who rolled spec is also bald. Timelock would be usefull, for sure. Like 5 hours of xeno gameplay.
I would say that those kind of aliens could be equivalent of Marine Spec, so atleast 4 for low pop (60 players overall) and additional one each 15-20 marines with cap at 8, maybe 10. Since named xenos would be fairly plentifull, then impact of one being bad would be weaker than one bald spec.
I like the idea. Spawn more survivors to give xenos something to do during pre-drop phase and chance to gather players for cannon fodder.
Pre-drop would be like Alien movie, after drop like Aliens and further like AVP games.
Kinda cool. Everyone gets slice of cake, everyone has a phase to shine etc. Add small drones/borgs to the marines so they could get small reinforcements to not be overhelmed that easly in late game and here we got it.
Queen could distribute "jelly" to promote cannon fodder into "named xeno" in situation when it starts as low pop, but spikes to high. Currently xenos don't have tools to balance it out without staff spawning ravs.