The Alien (A.K.A. Xenomorph) is a moderately difficult antagonist role to play aboard the Colonial Marines server. The aliens' strength comes mostly from close-quarters combat. You'll have to maintain at least a noticeable level of role-play and avoid meta-gaming situations at all costs. Your job is to serve the queen of your hive. You do not feel remorse or compassion, no needs other than to propagate and protect your own kind. If you do well, then there will be little in your way to stop you.

Starting Out

In the beginning, you are spawned in with a group of aliens, ranging from a Drone, several Runners and many Larva, aboard the mysterious planet know as LV-642, the alien infested planet. The amount of starting aliens scales with the number of Marines that initially join at round-start. The original aliens should have full knowledge regarding the locations and areas of the planet and human settlement to assist them in their mission of repopulation.

Several locations on the planet are prime nesting grounds, complete with a few monkeys to help repopulate. You would be wise to establish your hive somewhere in the far northern cave network, nesting in the southern jungle is very risky.

First-timer tips:

Speak in Hivemind by using :a before your message.
- Example: Say ":aMy life for the Queen!"
You are a slave to the Queen's will. Follow her orders or die trying - unless it's against the server rules.
Grow the hive. Gather together any hosts and bring them to her chosen nest for repopulation.
Weeds weeds weeds. Plant weeds everywhere. While on weeds, aliens regenerate health and plasma very quickly.

Tier 1 Evolution

You have a choice of three castes of xenomorph: the Runner, the Sentinel, or the Drone. After that, advanced evolutions become available through the use of Royal Jelly secreted by the Queen. Each caste has its pros and cons.

Job	Role	Difficulty
Drone	Support: Spend the entire round building recursive door mazes. Evolve into a Hivelord when you're the only drone left.	cMedium
Sentinel	Defence: Get murdered by the survivor you dragged in. Hide in a corner until you evolve to a spitter, even when the hive is under attack.	cMedium
Runner	Offence: Run face first into the nearest shotgun, whine at the Queen to allow slashing. Block all of the Boiler's shots.	cHard

Tier 2 Evolution

Job	Role	Difficulty
Carrier	Support: Never plant weeds, throw your facehuggers into kill zones.	cHard
Spitter	Defence: Rush into melee combat with marines, always miss with your spit.	cHard
Hunter	Offence: Pounce into the middle of groups, use your stealth to walk onto landmines.	cHard

Tier 3 Evolution

Job	Role	Difficulty
Hivelord	Support: Never dig tunnels when you need to, whine about the Queen being dead.	cMedium
Praetorian	Defence: Always use neurotoxic spit, never dissolve any walls.	cHard
Boiler	Defence/Offense: Scream at the Runners for blocking your shots, get murdered from long range by a Specialist with a sniper rifle.	cHard
Ravager	Offence: Only show up when you're not needed anymore. Charge everywhere except into Marines.	cHard
Crusher	Offensive Support: Yell at everyone else for getting in your way and stopping your charge. Turn your back to an entire squad of Marines.	cHard

Tier 4

The Queen

Job	Role	Difficulty
Queen	Scream at the Runner for stupidly dying. Scream at the Drone for making the hive completely impossible to navigate. Steal the dropship when you're the only one aboard.	cVery Hard

Tips

Plant Weeds often to spread weeds as far as possible. Plasma is the life force of the xenomorph.
Aliens do not need to breathe. You can traverse open (and oxygenated) space without permanent damage.
If you are injured, you will regenerate plasma at a much slower rate.
Aliens only heal when standing on weeds, and some castes will die slowly if they've been off of it for too long or knocked unconscious.
As a Queen, there is no greater advantage you can give your brood than to plant as many eggs as possible. Not only is it an excellent defence, but a powerful weapon when your sisters have access to facehuggers to immobilize their prey.
Remember you are in a hivemind, you have no free will.