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Carrier

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Carrier
Difficulty: Hard
Supervisors: Queen
Rank: Not defined
Duties: Deploy facehuggers, Infect prey, Area denial
Guides: N/A
Unlock Requirements: Not available.
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Playing a Carrier

As a Carrier, your job is to assist the more offense-oriented Aliens in capturing hosts. In order to help you do this, the Carrier is given the unique ability to store and throw facehuggers with great accuracy and increased range. In return, Carriers lose their previously held ability to secrete Resin. Carriers have a slow Plasma regeneration rate (with a cap of 300). They deal moderate slash damage, and have the same movement speed as most Aliens.

Carriers keep the ability to plant weeds, and should do so at every opportunity. The best places to plant weeds are in areas in which Aliens can take cover before renewing an attack on the hosts.

With middle clicking enabled, and at least one facehugger stored (click on a facehugger with an empty hand to store it), the Carrier will throw the facehugger in a manner similar to the Sentinel caste's spit towards an object you middle click on.

Tip: If you use the Throw-Facehugger verb, you can manually select a creature to throw a facehugger at. This allows you to throw accurately even if your middle-clicking skills are awful. Simply select a creature you want to aim for, click back onto the screen to re-enable movement, and click OK whenever you decide to throw.


Carrier Tactics

  • The Carrier thrives as a guerrilla/ambush fighter. The ideal target for a Carrier is one which is isolated and without headgear. (Remember to pay close attention to a Marine's helmet, if it is covered in cracks, it provides no protection against facehuggers).
  • The Carrier should always try to hunt with other Aliens. Having a Runner nearby to drag away hosts once you infect them is a huge help.
  • Facehuggers can be used to limited effect as Area Denial. Placing a facehugger in an area in which it cannot be shot or avoided essentially blocks off that area for cautious marines. Though not an extremely effective tactic, try placing facehuggers in hidden areas or around corners.
  • The speed and range of a Carrier's throw can cause chaos among Marines if you begin infecting them whilst they're already engaged by other Aliens. Use this to your advantage by striking against your ideal targets within the group. The group of Marines must decide to either let the Marine become infected (and lose one Marine), or attempt to remove the Facehugger (stopping Two marines from fighting). Either result takes Marines out of the fight temporarily,