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"The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility...its purity. A survivor - unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." ...too bad you're the one playing it"- Troika, This Page
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, sheer numbers, and the stupidity of the Marines.. 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.
You will not do well.
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 and other animals to help repopulate. You would be wise to establish your Hive somewhere in the far northern cave network, nesting in the southern jungle is entirely pointless and will get you killed.
If you're a first-timer, check the Xeno Quickstart Guide. Here are additional tips:
- Speak in Hivemind by using :a before your message.
- Example: Say ":a My 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 as long as the hive has a living Queen. Each caste has its pros and cons.
| Job | Role | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
 Drone |
Support: Never lay any walls. Accidentially kill marines while you try to attach them to nests. | Medium |
 Sentinel |
Defence: Miss all of your acid shots, accidentially kill your targets instead of stunning them. | Medium |
 Runner |
Offence: Run head first into landmines and electric fences. Whine at the Queen for jelly so you can eventually become a Ravager. | Hard |
Tier 2 Evolution
| Job | Role | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
 Spitter |
Spit at fuel tanks and die to them, be annoying to the marines as they cannot hit you due to your speed. Still die because you overextend and don't manage to reset your speed ability. Annoy the synthetic as you melt them to death and they cannot fight you as you can simply stay out of their melee range. | Anti-Synth |
 Lurker |
Cloak and kill lone marines, find your meta lurker squad to destroy the colony as the rest of the xenos take care of the frontline. | Ravager waiting simulator |
 Warrior |
Lunge and Fling marines across the screen and into the ASRS pit. Punch them for a guaranteed bone break as they try to flee, die to slugs. Boxer strain: Be annoying as fuck, be a macro god and kill everyone (even predators) in less than 5 seconds as you build up minimum of 9 stacks for the KO, resist enemy queen screeches and every single xeno stun/root, resist grenades and slugs and even rockets. Die for being too greedy as you either get triple shotgun PB'd or slashed 5 times by an enemy T3 xenomorph. Get an army of tamed/corrupted boxers to surround the enemy queen and punch her to death as she cannot do anything. | Macro Spam Simulator |
 Hivelord |
Spam thick walls until you get bwoinked, outspeed a runner while on weeds, perma tackle marines in 2 hits. Never actually build pylons or any of the special structures as you inevitably die to CAS and/or OB. Resin Whisperer strain: never actually build any defenses, only builds reflective walls and acid pillars for the memes as the entire hive complains about the lack of walls and pylons (despite build distribution existing) If Offensive structures are somehow bought, only builds acid grenades to use for themselves and never builds the shield pillar. | Perma-tackle God |
 Burrower |
Burrow literally everywhere, even space until it gets patched. Make secret FOB tunnels and watch as the entire hive stealth hijacks the dropship. Place traps everywhere to the point that marines OB your hell arena. Burrow ontop of marines and use your tremor tackle combo to capture them without the marine being able to do anything. Tremor the marines as you melt their weapons and watch them salt. Somehow get shipside and watch as the entire shipside crew tries to kill you but that never happens and you manage to either wait for the hive to come to you or you end up the last person being alive. Delay the round to infinity until an intelligent marine brings slugs to the table and stunlocks you to death. | Shipside's worst nightmare |
 Carrier |
Do nothing for the entire round because xenos aren't trying to capture anyone. Die to the marines while holding eggs as they create the corrupted hive thanks to you. Shaman strain: Only uses the shield/healing ability, never manages to obtain the maximum possible effect since all the xenos are never together except during hijack. | Shaman Only |
Tier 3 Evolution
| Job | Role | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
 Praetorian |
Change into a strain because the original is borderline mediocre. Vanguard strain: Block rockets,root and fling marines. Become Queen's personal meat shield whenever someone is trying to focus her. Oppressor strain: Warrior+, abduct multiple marines directly to a filled egg morpher as they all get infected. Dancer strain: If you thought Berserker was hard then this is the next level as you need to actually aim with your abilities. Can't be body-blocked at all, still manage to complain about it somehow. Warden strain: die out of boredom, only uses shield, never uses rejuvenate. | Too many strains |
 Boiler |
Use your gas whenever the queen screeches to make the marines salt, Start making fart memes until you actually develop a fetish (gross). Snipe marines with your acid lance but die horribly when its time to flee. Realize you can still make neuro gas by filling resin holes but you never do it either way. Trapper strain: melt the entire FOB despite 3 synths and the entire engineering department fixing the cases. Pretend to be a shotgun marine and PB marines to death with your acid shotgun. Become a literal artillery unit and nuke marines miles away while overwatching a runner in the colony as you sit in the hive, cry when the bug gets patched. | Engineer Salt Generator |
 Ravager |
Use your abilities to be overpowered as fuck, die when you overextend. Never actually learn your mistakes.
Berserker strain: Die until you learn to click good, outheal the damage by constantly slashing the entire group of marines only using shotguns, die to a M39 or MOU double chungus. Hedgehog strain: Use your abilities to punish the marines shooting you,be more tanky than the fucking useless Crusher. Die when all your abilities are on cooldown. |
death of shotgun mains |
 Crusher |
Cry because you are now just a more tanky Lurker and used up 1 T3 slot on a useless role. Pray for the original crusher strain to be implemented but that will happen after all the crusher mains have already left. | Bullet sponge |
Tier 4 Evolution
| Job | Role | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
 Queen |
If no roundstart queen, nobody evolves to one until 12:25 and dies 5 minutes later to marines speedrunning. If roundstart queen, chooses the most stupid and off-meta hive spot in existence. Either stays on oviposition for the entire round and pretends to be TGMC Hivemind-lite or de-ovis as soon as marines land and stays a combat queen until they die or marines evacuate. Always buys build distribution first but it never actually gets used because nobody wants to build like a drone. Buys useless T3 techwebs instead of saving for fortified weeds. Uses Queen Beacon whenever possible to either surprise invade the FOB, retreat the hive or meme shit which ends up the entire hive dying to an OT rocket or C4 and ends up getting queen banned for griefing. | Ban Speedrun |
| Burst as a THICK larva. Die before you manage to obtain max stacks, once you get them, die either way to predators. Gib every single marine on the screen and always flee when anyone actually does damage to you. Image related is what actually happens to your average abomination minutes after existing. | Impossible |
