Originally Posted by
Oatzandhoes
As it stands right now, the endgame once the aliens have boarded the Almayer has nothing major at stake. As a marine you are presented with two options, evac almost immediately(a somewhat easy task if you have a good group and a couple of barricades) or stay and fight. However since the almayer is crashing into the surface of the planet regardless, you have no reason to actually stay and fight, since the xenos will die regardless. Your sacrifice is completely in vain. The previous endgame methods (shuttle evac on the sulaco, and then the self destruct room) at least gave you a reason to set up a defense and wait out the timer. Surviving until the ship crashes is pointless. It also kills all suspense from an observers or aliens perspective. We used to be left wondering if the hive would survive. Would someone find the ship and board it? Destroy it? Ignore it? Now it doesn't matter since all the xenos will burn up in the atmosphere in a couple of minutes. I think we should rethink the current endgame, and either bring back the SD room, escape shuttle, or something different entirely.