Muffin's Loadouts

Overview

Welcome Muffin's loadouts. A selection of marine loadouts that are tailored to a very specific style of play. Found here will be a variety of equipment and strategies I use when playing as the standard grunt marine.

Squad Marine Loadouts

Jack of all Trades Rifleman

This loadout is aimed at covering as many areas as possible when fighting any target at normal screen range. Your main strengths are that you can adapt to whatever the enemy throws at you but you won't be able to specialise into any specific scenario.

Rifleman loadout

Weapon:	Loadout:
M41A Pulse Rifle MK2	Attachments Used Rail Flashlight Bayonet Angled Grip OR U7 Underbarrel Shotgun Strategy Your M41A Pulse Rifle is your primary weapon. This will be used to shoot at pretty much everything outside of shotgun range. Just like the squad marine itself, this weapon is versatile. Your positioning with the rifle is key. The enemy must be beyond 2 tiles away from you to use this weapon effectively. Because if they get into melee range, that's where the shotgun or the under barrel shotgun comes into play. The rifle is best suited at peppering the enemy with enough bullets to hopefully kill them or at best, push them back to retreat and heal. The attachment of either the angled grip or the under barrel shotgun is up to you. I prefer to use the angled grip most of the time because I don't like wield delay. But the utility of the under barrel shotgun allows you to breach into resin walls and doors very easily. Since resin structures are so prevalent on the field I would recommend the under barrel shotgun for clearing them out. The Rail Light is objectively good with no downsides as it allows you to see more of the darkness. Because being able to see your enemy allows you to shoot them. The bayonet is solely for helping you clear weed nodes and resin structures in place of the under barrel shotgun if it is out of ammo. Do not try to kill a xeno with it. It won't end well, most of the time.
M37A2 Pump Shotgun	Attachments Used Magnetic Harness Bayonet Mini Flamethrower Strategy This is your true friend for those close encounters. This is your secondary weapon for when the enemy is within 2 tiles of you. If you're skilled and quick enough, you can holster your rifle into your back slot by pressing E twice. Once to put the rifle away and again to bring out your shotgun. Switch to harm intent, click on their sprite and with a bit of luck, you'll be able to point blank them in the face, either stunning them, allowing for follow up shots or causing enough damage to kill them (AKA Runners). The mini flamethrower isn't meant to be used offensively. It's a deterrence tool that blocks the path of xenomorphs and causes them to flee in panic. It's always something xenomorphs don't usually expect. To suddenly be on fire from what looked to be just a marine with a shotgun. The fire by itself isn't strong at all. Yet, if a xenomorph is on fire, they emit light, which is a good way to allow you to track and hunt them down. Fire is still dangerous and can hurt, not a lot in the mini flamethrower's case but every little helps. Just try not to walk or get pulled into your own flames. The bayonet is solely for helping you clear weed nodes and resin structures. Do not try to kill a xeno with it. It won't end well, most of the time.

Equipment:	Loadout:
M10 Pattern Helmet	Storage Slots Emergency Auto-Injector FREE SLOT The helmet's storage slot is usually free space. I use the emergency auto injector right before combat kicks off during my firsts engagement of the round so that I have a good amount of healing chems right before shit hits the fan. Is it a waste? Probably. Could I have used it at a more optimal time? Also probably. But then there's the save it for later mentality. You and I usually don't know when that will be most of the time. So I just pop it off now rather than later. The amount of times I've scavenged marine bodies with first aid pouches containing a fully loaded emergency injector, is common enough for me to say, fuck it, I'll pop the emergency injector and head straight to battle. Though that's just me. You can do whatever you want with it as well as the space that is now free since you used it up. Put some shotgun shells in there or something.
SensorMate Medical Hud 15 Point Buyable	Having a Medical Hud allows you to better judge where your health is. It also allows you to see which marines are revivable, who needs CPR done, who's a goner and if necessary, who's currently in need of emergency medical help. For such a small investment to be able to see every marine's health. It helps you make some judgement calls on what to do with it.
B12 Pattern Personal Armor 30 Point Buyable	Storage Slots Splints Ointment Gauze The B12 Pattern Armour is the upgraded jack of all trades that is more protective than the normal medium M3. It protects the wearer a bit more from melee damage and gives a higher threshold before bone breaks occur. You're still as slow as the medium armour, but you'll stay a bit longer with a slightly higher chance to not fracture your bones.
M276 Pattern Ammo Load Rig	Storage Slots 5 x M41A Magazines (Any type) Just a nice tip. If you right click your belt and click Switch Storage Method. You can make it so when you click the belt, you instantly take out a magazine rather than opening up its inventory. There's 3 modes to it. Default: It's where you click on the belt and open the inventory up. First Item: It's where you click the belt and take out the first item you put in. Last Item: It's where you click the belt and take out the last item you put in. I advise you switch it to the Last Item, because if you're collecting AP magazines or the like, you probably don't want to accidentally take out an empty magazine you just put in and forgot about.
Brown Webbing Vest	Storage Slots 5 x Handfuls of Buckshot Same thing with the belt's quick tip. But I advise against it. Cause when you do use your shotgun shells up. You'll run into the problem of accidentally putting your medical supplies or other small things into your webbing. And if you forget to keep track of what's in the webbing, at an inopportune time you might pull out something that wasn't shotgun shells. So I advise to keep it on the default storage method of opening up the webbing and manually taking out the shells to avoid confusion.
Flare Pouch	Having flares allows you to extend your viewable range and decreases the darkness around you and your fellow marines. Reducing the darkness around you removes concealment, which is an advantage xenos have. You can not see the enemy if they are in the dark, but they can certainly see you. Removing their concealment allows you to shoot at them making it so an advantage they have is lost.
First Aid Pouch (Injectors)	Taking the refillable injectors First Aid Pouch allows you to recover from a fight without the need to rely on medics to heal you. It isn't a replacement for medics, as they and anyone with medical skill 2 or above are the only ones able to revive you. To effectively utilise this, before you go into battle. Inject one of each chemical only once. Repeat once you're out of combat and know you won't overdose. Refill them all in the Nano/WY medical vendors. To get the skill-less tricord injector, vend the Splints/Gauze/Ointment First Aid Pouch and get the refillable injector one as the second option or from the joint prep room. Storage Slots Bicaridine Kelotane Tricord Tramadol

Mobile Squad Automatic Weapon Fire Support

The idea behind this loadout is entirely based around firing as many bullets down range, suppressing the enemy's position, supporting the marine's advance and landing as many bullets as possible into any would be idiot to charge you down

Heavy Pulse Rifle Loadout

Weapon:	Loadout:
M41AE2 Heavy Pulse Rifle	Attachments Used Rail Flashlight Bipod Strategy This is your primary damage dealer. It's a glorified Pulse Rifle on its own with a giant 300 round box magazine. But since the bipod attachment I put on it gives the gun IFF, this becomes a very powerful squad support weapon. Usually the role of the Squad Automatic Weapon goes to the Smartgunner since they can switch from non AP to AP ammunition in an instant, fire as fast as you and has more ammo than you. But there's usually just 4 of them (5 if you count the CO). This is where you come in. You're going to be mostly behind all of the marines as the DEPLOYED bipod means you get IFF AND a massive fire rate boost to a whopping 600 RPM. So you can just casually dump 50 or so rounds down range without worrying about FF issues. Until someone pushes you into a different facing direction, do watch out for that. An ideal situation is when the queen screeches and a bunch of marines are knocked down. What you can do is deploy the bipod and rain a hail of bullets at the xenos trying to rush in. This helps suppress the enemy's advance to reconsider as they're taking a lot of firepower from you. Just try not to get targeted with a neuro stun knockdown. Bonus points if you have holo targeting rounds loaded. A tip. Before you move off of a bipod position, manually undeploy the bipod. This makes it so you don't get the bipod slowdown when you move off normally. The slow down is a death sentence to deal with if you've caught yourself falling back or retreating. A slow marine is a dead marine.
M37A2 Pump Shotgun	Attachments Used Magnetic Harness Bayonet Mini Flamethrower Strategy This is your true friend for those close encounters. This is your backup weapon for when the enemy is within 2 tiles of you. If you're skilled and quick enough, you can holster your rifle into your back slot by pressing E twice. Once to put the main weapon away and again to bring out your shotgun. Switch to harm intent, click on their sprite and with a bit of luck, you'll be able to point blank them in the face, either stunning them, allowing for follow up shots or causing enough damage to kill them (AKA Runners). The mini flamethrower isn't meant to be used offensively. It's a deterrence tool that blocks the path of xenomorphs and causes them to flee in panic. It's always something xenomorphs don't usually expect. To suddenly be on fire from what looked to be just a marine with a shotgun. The fire by itself isn't strong at all. Yet, if a xenomorph is on fire, they emit light, which is a good way to allow you to track and hunt them down. Fire is still dangerous and can hurt, not a lot in the mini flamethrower's case but every little helps. Just try not to walk or get pulled into your own flames. The bayonet is solely for helping you clear weed nodes and resin structures. Do not try to kill a xeno with it. It won't end well, most of the time.

Equipment:	Loadout:
M10 Pattern Helmet	Storage Slots Emergency Auto-Injector FREE SLOT Since you're not going to be in face to face combat that much. You can save the emergency auto injector for an actual emergency. My best advice to when to use it, is when you're going to be pushed back HARD and you have no chance of escaping. Lifeboats last stands and holds come to mind. Use it at your discretion
SensorMate Medical Hud 15 Point Buyable	Having a Medical Hud allows you to better judge where your health is. It also allows you to see which marines are revivable, who needs CPR done, who's a goner and if necessary, who's currently in need of emergency medical help. For such a small investment to be able to see every marine's health. It helps you make some judgement calls on what to do with it.
B12 Pattern Personal Armor 30 Point Buyable	Storage Slots M41AE2 Holo Magazine M41AE2 Magazine FREE SLOT The B12 Pattern Armour is the upgraded jack of all trades that is more protective than the normal medium M3. It protects the wearer a bit more from melee damage and gives a higher threshold before bone breaks occur. You're still as slow as the medium armour, but you'll stay a bit longer with a slightly higher chance to not fracture your bones.
Motion Detector 15 Point Buyable or get it from Requisitions	You can put the Motion Detector on your belt slot and it will actively spot and show movement on screen. It works just as if you were holding it in your hand. I use it because it allows me to fire off bullets in that direction with the bipod up to hopefully cause some form of suppressing fire. And sometimes, when you see movement behind a solid wall. You can setup the bipod and prepare to unload 100s of rounds into the unsuspecting foes face.
Brown Webbing Vest	Storage Slots 2 x Handfuls of Buckshot Splints Ointment Gauze In this case, you're keeping both the shotgun shells and medical supplies in here. You're not going be using the shotgun much. That is your backup weapon.
Flare Pouch	Having flares allows you to extend your viewable range and decreases the darkness around you and your fellow marines. Reducing the darkness around you removes concealment, which is an advantage xenos have. You can not see the enemy if they are in the dark, but they can certainly see you. Removing their concealment allows you to shoot at them making it so an advantage they have is lost.
First Aid Pouch (Injectors)	Taking the refillable injectors First Aid Pouch allows you to recover from a fight without the need to rely on medics to heal you. It isn't a replacement for medics, as they and anyone with medical skill 2 or above are the only ones able to revive you. To effectively utilise this, before you go into battle. Inject one of each chemical only once. Repeat once you're out of combat and know you won't overdose. Refill them all in the Nano/WY medical vendors. To get the skill-less tricord injector, vend the Splints/Gauze/Ointment First Aid Pouch and get the refillable injector one as the second option or from the joint prep room. Storage Slots Bicaridine Kelotane Tricord Tramadol