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The Dust Raider Marine forces must hold out for a hour against the Xenomorph assault. If successful they will be evacuated by the USCM warship, and shortly afterwards the planet will be assaulted by the USCM warship's veteran marine forces to re-take the military compound. The Dust Raiders then secure [http://cm-ss13.com/wiki/images/6/6f/LV624.png LV-624] and the entire Tychon's Rift sector. | The Dust Raider Marine forces must hold out for a hour against the Xenomorph assault. If successful they will be evacuated by the USCM warship, and shortly afterwards the planet will be assaulted by the USCM warship's veteran marine forces to re-take the military compound. The Dust Raiders then secure [http://cm-ss13.com/wiki/images/6/6f/LV624.png LV-624] and the entire Tychon's Rift sector. | ||
===Supplies=== | ===Supplies=== | ||
Supplies in the outpost are generally limited to handheld firearms, medical supplies and engineering equipment. From each wave, crates containing random assortments of supplies (such as ammo, attachments, constructables, etc.) are given out in Requisitions inside the bunker. The outpost's Quartermaster or Logistics crew will deliver the supplies out from the main outpost to the pillboxes in the front. They are either dragged through or delivered by the pipe chute. | |||
=== Close Air Support === | |||
Squad Leaders can also order airstrikes in addition to mortar bombardments using their Laser Designators. | |||
==The Xenomorphs== | ==The Xenomorphs== |
Revision as of 13:29, 13 November 2018
Whiskey Outpost is an alternative map and game mode featured on Colonial Marines server. On this map, instead of playing as a USCM Marine in the battalion 'Falling Falcons' of the 4th brigade and the USS Almayer, you'll play as a USCM Marine from the 3rd Battalion 'Dust Raiders', led by Captain Hans Naiche, who are previously in charge of keeping the peace of the Tychon Rift sector. It takes place five years before the arrival of the USS Almayer in the Tychon Rift sector. The Dust Raiders had established a USCM presence in one of the major locations of the sector, including Whiskey Outpost.
However, they were soon under attack by unrecognized alien forces, with several patrols of marine units wiped out before the main invasion begins. The Dust Raider Marines have no other choice but to send a distress signal to alert the remaining USCM reinforcements to their location, by doing that will take a long setup time. The Marines must hold out for 60 to 90 minutes or longer until reinforcements arrive to rescue them, the Aliens must wipe out the Marine force before more Marines arrive to their world. This is a fight for survival, and neither side can afford to give one quarter.
Whiskey Outpost
Whiskey Outpost was part of the Tychon Rift Sector. It is an outpost that is a heavily fortified military base. It is well situated as any attacks can only assault from the south of the base. The base is well equipped with a large array of automated sentry guns and mannable Smartgun weapon posts, however the base is not fully fortified for a incoming assault. The Marine forces will need to spend their time rapidly establishing barricades and similar defences before the vanguard alien forces arrive.
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There are three main routes into the base. The west side, through a heavy jungle environment, the central area which is a mix of rivers, jungle and open terrain, and the east side through mostly open terrain broken up by dropship debris. Each entry way has two lines of defence, the first line which consists of barricades and manned Smartguns, and a second line which consists of a line of barricades and automated Sentry Guns.
The outpost itself is centred around a central medbay/command post. Surrounded by engineering areas and barracks. The outer perimeter of the outpost is surrounded by barricades and manned Smartgun emplacements. The medbay/command post entrance is guarded by an array of Sentry Guns and a Smartgun emplacement. The west side of the base also contains a resupply pad that will receive resupply crates.
The Marines
Unlike the Falling Falcons Marines who are stationed at the Almayer, the Dust Raider Marines are stationed at planetside - and will have different job changes. Much of the common roles remains unchanged and some are just renamed, however, there are a few roles that completely changes the role one way or another. Below here, are the major and minor changes between the roles.
Take note that after the first wave of Xenomorphs arrive, you are not able to latejoin this round as a marine.
Renamed Roles:
Chief Medical Officer > Head Surgeon
Medical Doctor > Surgeon
Researcher > Chemist
Executive Officer > Lieutendant Commander [sic]
Chief Engineer > Bunker Crew Master
Requisitions Officer > Quartermaster
The Dust Raider Marine forces must hold out for a hour against the Xenomorph assault. If successful they will be evacuated by the USCM warship, and shortly afterwards the planet will be assaulted by the USCM warship's veteran marine forces to re-take the military compound. The Dust Raiders then secure LV-624 and the entire Tychon's Rift sector.
Supplies
Supplies in the outpost are generally limited to handheld firearms, medical supplies and engineering equipment. From each wave, crates containing random assortments of supplies (such as ammo, attachments, constructables, etc.) are given out in Requisitions inside the bunker. The outpost's Quartermaster or Logistics crew will deliver the supplies out from the main outpost to the pillboxes in the front. They are either dragged through or delivered by the pipe chute.
Close Air Support
Squad Leaders can also order airstrikes in addition to mortar bombardments using their Laser Designators.
The Xenomorphs
The Aliens see several major changes to their playstyle in order to suit this game mode. These changes are as follows.
- The Aliens do not get a Queen, or any Facehuggers. More Aliens will spawn every single wave. Aliens are expected to throw themselves at the Marine defences. In order to play as an Alien you must manually take control of a body when they spawn.
- More powerful Aliens will spawn in later waves. Early waves will see the Aliens stuck with young level Runners and Sentinels. Later rounds will see later tiers of Xenomorphs spawning. The final waves usually see a large amount of Elite and Ancient Aliens spawn among all tiers.
- Aliens do not heal on weeds outside of healing out of critical damage. Retreating does you no good.
- Aliens cannot evolve or upgrade their Aliens. You play as what you spawned in as.
Overall, Aliens are a lot more expendable in Whiskey Outpost than standard play. You are expected to throw yourself at the Marine defences, though try and exploit weak points in the Human defences. Don't be afraid to die as you'll be dying a lot as an Alien in this game mode.
Alien Strategy
The game can roughly be divided into three parts. The Early Game (scouting phase), the Mid Game (offensive phase) and the End Game (annihilation phase).
In the Early Game the Xeno forces consist only of scouting xenomorphs, large amounts of Runners and some Sentinels and Drones that reached the Human base first. Eventually being joined by light amounts of Hunters and Spitters. In the Early Game the Aliens should focus on pressuring the outer Human defences and trying to kill as many Humans as they can, the more dead Humans, the more people that will be playing as a Xeno. In this stage of the game the Alien forces are very weak and won't likely overrun the Human defenders.
The Mid Game begins roughly when the "Vanguard" Alien forces arrive, this occurs after the mid-game lull occurs (Marine bombers delay xeno spawns, giving Marines a moment or relief). At this point the Xeno forces consist entirely of Lurkers, Spitters, Defenders, Warriors and Drones with some Sentinel and Runner support. At this point of the game the Aliens become a very dangerous force, unprepared the Aliens can quickly overrun underdefended outposts and many Xenos can easily slip by and harass the central base. Eventually tier 3 Aliens will begin to appear, adding to the threat of the Alien forces. In this stage of the game the Aliens should focus on overrunning the forward defensive lines and opening up the map to Alien movement.
The End Game begins when the full Alien force arrives, and usually occur within the last ten to twenty minutes of the round. At this point most Aliens will spawn in as Elite or Ancient, and you'll start to see a ridiculous amount of Tier 3 xenos, such as dozens of Ancient Crushers, Boilers, Ravagers and Praetorians. At this junction the Xenomorphs are so powerful that they can quickly roll over the remaining Marine defenders in most cases. There is little strategy at this stage, your only goal now is to try and kill the remaining Marines before their reinforcements arrive.
The Aliens must wipe out the Marine force before an hour elapses. If the Aliens succeed they will ward off any further Marine forces from landing, fail and the planet will be assaulted by the USS warship's veteran marine forces to re-take the military compound.
Whiskey Outpost Event Mode
The Whiskey Outpost Event Mode can be triggered on any of the currently available maps by an admin+. Once the Event Mode is triggered late-joining will not not be available for that round and there will not be any Human Response Teams as reinforcements, so you'll be stuck observing or deciding to play as an alien if you didn't ready up in time.
Available Jobs
Similar to the Whiskey Outpost Gamemode there is only a select set of allowed marine jobs for this event.
Not readying up as one of the following jobs will force you to be a Squad Marine:
Round Start Setup
A selection of Boxes will be spawned in at round start for the marines to move around and setup their ideal and desired Outpost, complete with a functioning medbay. Follow the Ground Commanders orders on where the Outpost should be made. Note that you can examine the boxes to see what machines/supplies are in them.
Round Progression
Once the marines have established their outpost the xenomorph waves will start to appear with brief intervals between. Due to the plethora of xenomorphs attacking each wave the marines have been given Special supply beacons that once activated allow the user to select what supplies they require and automatically call it in. These will drop in the form of supply kits. Note that supply kits will also randomly spawn after each wave with random supplies.
As a xenomorph keep in mind that with later waves comes more powerful xenos; so waiting to mature is deterimental to your goal, as it is easier to respawn later as a higher tier xeno, and there is no limit on timers; once you die as a xeno, you can jump right back in.