my contention with the Nuclear Cinematic... is that Rimmy had like 7-8 more days to spare, no chance those nukes would even hit the planet at that point
A problem I've had with a lot of the recent aliens content is that while it is good, it all at some point decides it has to do an ass tease of some of the really cool stuff in the greater lore and then never explain it or follow it up for the sake of mystery. Like, xeno city is a really cool idea, but we get no context until literally the 2nd to last mission in the game that it even is a thing and then it just drops a bunch of unanswerable questions and the game ends. Same with all the references to the greater universe like the UPP and Tientsin name drops. Mystery is only cool until it gets gratuitous.
WY Pilot; Yeah, I got this, I got this! Hunslet; Get styled on LMAO 9:26:00 Rolled in with the Mk. 19's I see. EDIT; Cancel that, personal bloody Katyushka.
Something of note for the final final "mission", your trio are invincible, during the chase scene you dont have to do anything but run even if the big monster is ontop of you. Its just an "interactable" glorified cutscene on rails.
I will point out that it actually makes sense that the dropship survived the nuke, as it is a space capable military hardware so it'd be shielded against EMP and various strong radiation effects. The one in the aliens movie also cut it fairly close with its nuke, though not as close as the games one. Which is probably what they were trying to shoehorn in as well. But it'd be pretty silly for super advanced dropships to be disabled by basic nuclear bombs. In an era where everyone has access to nuclear powered machines
@@rayvonwade-hunt570 No, I fully believe he has watched them. By the sounds of it it was a fair bit ago since a proper viewing. And while the ending was nice artistically, I fully agree with Rimmy it sucked as a gaming end. There were many different options to have a more engaging end play than run from the scripted giant monster. Though I'm not as upset over the three sacrifices one after the other as he was, they did do Martinez and Stern dirty in how simple they were to brush aside as well. Hopefully the lack of detail suddenly appearing for the alien city and the titan was to try and leave sequel openings rather than development running aground but I kinda agree with the chat person who said the story peaked with the Pryce confrontation and seemed to just tie up ends after, rather sloppily. But endings can be the worst to try and think of in a world where "everything" is considered cliche by someone, so I can see why it might have been a sudden decision to just chuck half the Aliens plot in to see it out. A few patches and a couple of level changes for the end of the campaign and the game will be golden.
my guy the dropship flies out after the nuke lands, the blast effect alone should have sent the dropship spinning, not to mention the countless other nukes landing all around - and the fact that the nukes shouldn't even fire for 9 days yet. The ending is total fucking trash. It's not even nice artistically - it doesn't connect with the rest of the story in any meaningful way apart from Cassandra herself a character with so far a single cutscene, Marlow isn't actually important in the ending and the Xeno Titan is just a totally left field ancient enemy. Even Harper's sacrifice is ruined by the fact that just moments earlier we were chain-spamming 40 mike mikes to stun this guy and yet now we're completely trapped and hopeless. Weak story telling that was clearly just trying to rush through various scenes that it "had" to have, and emulate the movies. The game had plenty of very cool sequences and action cutscenes, the Dropship fight for example is an absolute peak of the game and Pryce's follow-up is the best story moment in the entire game. It feels like those last cutscenes were rushed, even the animation is shit, Stern especially just kinda looks like he's standing there like a gormless idiot rather than doing anything heroic or looking like he's in control on a battlefield, the weird close-up on his face makes him look like a nutcase.
Yea it looks like they rushed the ending, guess it partly explain why its being sold as $40 game , hope it will have any decent DLC that fix those problems.
@@RimmyDownunder When I say artistically, I mean the titan looks awesome and the alien city is suitably unnerving and intriguing. That's it. Story and play were completely shat on, fully agree. Yeah there should've been a hell of a lot of turbulence on the dropship, but I was commenting more on the EMP effects and any other radiation issues more than anything. Though it can also do orbital landing, so stability would still be heavily focused on in its design. I agree with like 99.99% of your conclusion, just wanted to comment on how the dropship would be designed to be able to survive that kind of nonsense to a degree. As for the nuke dropping right on it, I feel that was more shitty perspective than the nuke landing right on its tail. Could be wrong, but it looked to me that it landed after the dropship had made a little distance and we see it from a rubbish low view. Then again, action games and movies have open helicopters fly, base level cars driving away, or tiny ships sail from nukes landing barely 100m away, so could've been just rule of cool BS. The 9 day thing is just them not wanting to have to make multiple endings, so I sorta just chucked it into the shitty story telling pile that was the end chunk of the game. I'm very curious what happens if you bum rush the pioneer station and manage to get there before the infestation level got overly noticeable, if it let you turn it off and made a new issue to contend with. But highly doubt it. I also wonder if you screw the timing and the nukes drop, do they have a cutscene for that or if it just resets you like it did with full squad death.
@@RimmyDownunder The Codex says it's only temporary and so we as players know that, but I think the in-game characters don't know that. Their only source of info on the Guardian's apparatus was Dr. Becker telling them that Marlow somehow found a way to suspend it "indefinitely" which is just straight up misinformation. I THINK that's one of the ways the game tries to explain why not a single damn person on the Otago knows that there was a Xenomorph in the containment cell, because Becker could have simply said "Oh he died mysteriously"/"Oh he started acting out so I purged the room and cleaned it up" It's still really damn stupid that NOBODY CHECKED after all that time though. Like, even if Becker had closed it, all someone had to do was open the window. Someone should have double-checked what the Dr. was up to especially after our only prisoner inexplicably died. The game handled this plot point so clumsily when there were so many ways it could have been handled logically while making Becker and W-Y look more competent and ruthless.
Spoilers For the containment part. Yeah it doesn't make sense you would either have Guards there or you would just terminate the Guardian to not put the entire ship at risk regardless of manpower. Like the use of the Guardian has already passed so he was a ticking time bomb why was he not killed earlier and his body destroyed?
What kind of containment cell is that supposed to be? No levels of redundancy whatsoever - just a single bulkhead door and a window. Also, since the Xeno grew from a chestburster into an adult drone somebody, probably the good doctor, must have been feeding it. They are not chiapets, they require sustenance. Everybody on that ship had to be aware of its presence onboard, yet not only was it not immediately destroyed, they didn't place any guards either. On another note, how does the chestburster kill its host when the only thing its bursting through is a glass viewport on his chest? Like, there's even a little spew of blood - why?
@@DarkEcho119 Actually if the aliens eat is a point of theory for the lore. Theres nothing official that is known if they do eat, there was a cut scene from one of the movies, but other than that nothing but theories, so its entirely possible he didnt feed it. But I definetly agree that there should have been guards there, if not everyone on that ship should have been packing heat because they are on an entirely infested planet, they all should ATLEAST have sidearms, if not full blown rifles just everywhere.
@@sparrow9663 if I had to guess, probably a more willing human quarantine cell being in the lab. The actual cell block one would assume on the ship probably has more escape routes for a chestburster so they stuck him in the sealed room. But yeah, post guards in the hostile zealot, is regarding the threat of the chestburster for a moment, they were super concerned about traitors not long before that scene. iirc from various bits of lore, a adult human has enough mass to see a chestburster to metamorphosis but it will be a little degraded. It's meant to have carers to bring meat or a large space to scavenge usually
@@DarkEcho119yeah it is stupid to kill the guard. I would like much more if it just a normal human. I mean whats the point of all the modifications and probably training if it still randomly kill you? I think it would be much better if both sourvive the "birth" but the alien ate the guy offscreen. Hell even better! Dont show the birth! Just show the guy hiding the broken glass and before the betrayal the guy feed himself to the xenomorph!
Here at 4:31:06 It makes so much more sence to have the marines take on the commandos, there easier to kill than the guardians (the blue dudes with chest busters if you forgot). The guardians needed 2 grenades to kill while the commandos only need one. But yes Hayes we need to let the the aliens in and risk the squads life more than go through the inviorment and scenario these marines were TRAINED TO FIGHT IN!! Dumb game moment
If they'd actually showed a small army with adequate entrenching to repulse the marines into the grave, it would be an understandable gamble. But they didn't. Did Hayes not understand that eating crayons was a joke!? Did she get a bad batch of rations!?
Honestly watching my guy actually using the stealth mechanics makes this game so much easier than the run n gun Ive been doing. Still not gunna change tho haha
Even though I fell asleep about halfway through and was woken up by Rimmy dissecting the ending, this was one of the most entertaining series I have watched in a long time.
I quite enjoyed watching this game and do hope the continue to update it. A few things I think would severely help in making it better ^note spoilers from here on down^ I think a slight rework of some classes would be good: The medic I think should definitely get that reduce stress for 30 seconds. While I could see the sergeants replaced with an ability to actually split your squad into fire teams - allowing you split control of your squad into two smaller fire teams of two. This can actually be quite useful for stealth, defence and even resource gathering while not to breaking as they can be quickly overwhelmed. The wayland utani guys are just a joke really. The entire “there harder than the aliens” is a complete fail. And you know an easy fix to this? Make their fireteams slightly stronger with classes similar to yours. Have a fireteam of 5 of them with 1 being either a Flamer guy, a smart gunner or a techy who deploys a sentry gun. Funnily enough they kind of make do this with the cultist. They throw a mix of gunners and melee lads into the same unit and send them in. The gunners take cover while the combat guys charge you so your kind of forced to split your fire to counter both. Now this semi more justifies opening the gates on the guys as they can prove a slightly harder force compared to numptys with rifles. And better make these areas you have to break actual threats. Multiple smart gunners, choke points with flamers, a large wave of lads you know will hurt so opening the gates/vents becomes a almost hard yes. The stealth section… it’s poor as you said. Maybe instead of having the doctor reveal a grown alien from containment. Have him shut down the weapons and such and have a praetorian get in - or a special one like a “praetorian hunter/lurker” that’s essentially described to hunt solo and be extremely hard to kill. Now have Hayes not alone, but set up with a squad of no names/wounded marines/support personnel - could have it that as you explore around you find some. Maybe a wounded marine who got attacked and if you found a physician first can get him into the squad. Or a engineer who can get a synthetic up and running, etc. Now you have these guys going around with her and slowly have them getting wiped out too. This would make the engagements scarier but also give you that feeling you are fighting back too. Plus it would justify the cage thing with it getting burned (with doors sealed) but being this extremely hard to kill alien it breaks through the glass - tho now you can say that due to its wounds it’s more likely to flee the battle with enough firepower tossed at it. And same goes for the final mission. The final mission should have been your marines plus the characters. Having this extra large squad cutting their way through the alien city to get Cas and getting out makes for a extremely good story moment. Hell having YOUR marines in in a proper life of death no way out situation dialogue between themselves about staying behind and getting Cas and Hayes out due to how Cas being Harpers daughter and Hayes having proved herself a marine at this point, having a small scene where they stop and you hear the dialogue of them choosing to make that last stand and seeing Cas and Hayes retreat away and playing out this last stand and having your hero’s go down in a hail of gunfire makes that attachment to them so deer. And you can have it then cut to Hayes and Cas making the final run. Also for additions I think would make this game more interesting: 1. As above how i described the sergeant change. I’d make the APC a 2 man upgrade vs just 1. This would make the idea of getting this APC so much stronger than just a 1 man upgrade but being able to bring a full team of all classes + 1 gives that upgrade a nicer feeling too. It would also make the sergeants split squad ability even stronger - but you kind of want that going into the later stages - and would make your fire teams feel like they could actually hold up themselves now vs having to sprint for safety with one another constantly. 2. Have a upgrade system for your squad equipment. I.e. Sentry guns, welders, APC, dropship, etc. It would make people want to hold onto their supplies more vs just throw them all into Sentry Guns and tools and medical equipment each mission vs scavenging for them. This could also mean buying upgrades like having your welders being able to hold aliens back longer - I.e. justify the short time they hold back aliens initially while giving them a chance to do as Rimmy suggests with having them hold a minute or 2. Or even simple upgrades like having your sentry guns be more resistant to damage and have more ammo to shoot with. And upgrades for your APCs could be space to include more sentry’s - so no running 4 sentry groups from the start - but also maybe upgrades to its ability to evacuate and move and shoot. And same for the dropship maybe being able to do multiple deployments a day. 3. Add a few more classes in there. Maybe a grenadier class - upgrades can be stronger grenades, reduced grenade cost and maybe a crippler grenade for your big/sprinter aliens. Rank ups could be stuff like a double shot launcher which allows two shots for 1. Maybe a CQC lad who’s similar but for shotguns. Hell have his first ability tho he to “boot” an alien. I.e. you get one mixed in he can give them a kick away from the group to kill and avoid the acid burns. Could also have one of his ranks be to be able to hold off face hugger/alien yoinks longer. - note id make this a standard amongst all awake characters that they can fight off a face hugger and even a basic alien for a short time before losing to them. And like Rimmy said you can send someone to rip it off/shoot it off - ripping it off means you get them away to a distance that the acid doesn’t cause lasting wounds while shooting it off means the acid is closer causing more lasting and permanent injuries. I’d also make synthetics a free placement unit. So they can be a engineer, medic or even a recruit - tho as a marine they are much more loud and spottable for human targets (slightly more ignorable for low tier aliens - not permanent just less notable to attack compared to human targets) and as a recruit they have just use a primary gun and hack vs secondary equipment. - truthfully I’d also have a lot more cannon fodder be added into maps for quick recruitment that doesn’t cause to much of a spiral early for easy wins. I.e. have some of the cultist that get kidnapped not just be cultists but maybe “hidden” survivors or dockers/unionists - maybe a handful of security personnel. And if you save them there’s a chance to recruit them permanently depending on how good a leader you have. But also just recruitable for that mission as a basic extra gun - workers getting pistols, while security get rifles. Then you can have this extra fire power whos a bit more expandable and when you get home are treated as saved civillians - which is how you raise your ability to recruit actual survivors as full personnel vs just the very very scarce handful of recruitable personnel. Hell it would make a more interesting thing in those later mission with the wayland mercs as you could have some maybe more willing to pull treaties/even join you against the aliens if you have shown to be merciful to civilians and even wayland personnel.
i want to point out if others havnt already but it seems like no more than 3 main or side characters can be in one scene at a time so at the end there the one armed marine had to die to make room for cassandra then stern died to make room for harper to show up and die for his daughter
I'd hunt down A:DD playthroughs when I'd get too stressed during my own game, and this is the best playthrough I have found. NAFO friendly, copped to the mechanics incredibly quickly, and called out terrible design decisions without dwelling on them for hours. 10/10, would watch you eviscerate your stream chat again.
Don't worry you'll get your ending in the DLC. Remember Fireteam Elite there in the end same happened and ultimate three way boss fight happened in the DLC so.....
I feel like the stealth section would have gone a lot smoother if chat had stopped distracting Rimmy with defense of the writing. Also 3:38:25, Deobia is a dude's name.
Spoilers Games like these work best when they play off the connection you have with your grunts. The ending really screwed that part up by giving you the named story characters of whom you can predict who's going to die. Kinda disappointing.
It's even worse that you consider the squad you take on the final mission gets overwhelmed and killed off camera. Look at the final cutscene again and as Cassandra and Hayes flee, you can see the marines laying dead on the floor as the dropship doors close.
Not sure if you figured it out in this stream, but the Brawler negative trait does seem to work, somewhat. The brawler perk deals 1 damage to one of your guys when you rest, however a rest will heal your team by 1 pip too. They counteract each other. The only time you'll ever see it do anything is by either having multiple Brawlers in the same squad (Assuming right there, not sure if they can all target the same guy or not.) , or by noticing that a wounded guy will not be healed upon rest with a brawler in the squad.
To be fair, psychiatrists get an MD before getting into psychiatry. As she said herself, she's assisting Bookard when shes got little to do, so that she'd replace her makes sense.
We have seen the drop ship survive emp from nukes before in aliens so well I agree with all your other points about the ending I don't about the drop ship at most they could improve it by having the pilot have a passing comment about how it a good thing her baby is emp shielded or something but since they come emp shielded by default design it may be a little force
No way in hell your A-team died, they killed 4 queens, countless drones, countless warriors, countless runners, along with several crushers and praetorians. Plus the turrets, they had turrets deployed! If that dropship had also brought back up, they should have managed to hold that position pretty easily while waiting for the named characters to return. Can't really put everything in here for how I would have changed that ending myself, but I imagined the B-team got sent down too to support the A-team. Saw how those who got to name them were having banter in chat, so imagine there was an actual rivalry (Red not being involved in it, given you had him on both teams on several occasions) and that final battle is when their rivalry ended. Fighting as one, setting aside their competitive urge to be the best of the marines on the Otago, for the sake of the mission. That would have been badass to have that happening whilst the other three were down in the ancient city saving Cassandra. Then, instead of it being Harper sacrificing himself, both teams ended up clearing out the entire hive and dropped down to throw RPGs and plasma upon that big xeno. Having those who you commanded and ensured the safety of in all the other missions, saving you instead now. Give the player a sense of pride in seeing the marines they guided and upgraded, be absolute badasses and be the heroes in the final cutscene. With them all coming back home together too
Same. The small glimpses you see look like prety generic marines. I assumer your guys boarded the dropship earlier given they're meant to be pretty exhausted and physically holding by threads with all the injuries and acid burns on them. Given what I see, I'm dead certain there was supposed to be a bigger setpiece for the final missioj but they ran out of time. Hell, I'm certain the entire Mission 12 level isn't finished, and their using low lighting to keep the bad details hidden.
Heaaaavy spoilers for those who didn't watch the video So like, why tf would a engineer make a xeno that big? They really don't make xenos that big lmao, we have essentially seen what a xeno for a engineer would look like already in the Prometheus movie
@@DillsyYourDaddy67 maybe? The only way it works if we try to use that is saying it's like the empress from that one comic line... Which is literally the ruler of every single alien in existence and only one can exist at a time-
The part where youre letting xenomorph in to kill the commandos, youre meant to stay in the sec room and let both duke it out, ending with the xeno wining and then leaving, yea still unreasonable , but if they set it up as theres hundreds of commandos in the building it could make sense.
The marines didn t look like my squad at the end so they made it out. They were just randos so they got away. I d rate the story a 7/10 at most yeah ending was bad i liked the darwin era as villians one of the more orignal villians in the aliens franchise, adored the gameplay and settings. Would love a multiplayer or weyland yutani campagin that be interesting to have
i just wanna say one He had the blast sheilds down on the windows no one knew it was in there second she didnt unlocked the door it unlocked once she finished the sequence... and because the codes were not working the door would not close... Its stupid yes but just how the game put it
Ok now to the ending, If they had it where the one guy died ok stern fires his nade stuns it tells you both to run an runs behind you guys frieing his nades and you see him being chased oh in the distense...just besting all kindas of aliens... then it get to the part where the big guy hits him but he lives... i mean barrly alive bleeding from the mouth broken ribs making a rubtered organ but still following, then he falls over unable to move no more and Hayes trabs him trying to help him to move and it gets infornt of them trys to grab them three but harper... uses the rest of his energy to holding back... he dies but then as your running you get on the elevator go up your marines are waiting for you and more marines that the pilot brought all of them holding there ground till the pilot is able to make fix the ship do to some damge done by a Xeno and all of a sudden you jear from the main ship Hayes you need to get back to the ship now the nukes are are comeing earlier then expected... pilot says they wont be able to carry everyone as the marines look at the pilot to get the two girls out... as they hold back the aliens so they cant excape the nukes
Have the bad ass merc stay back with the marines and let them all die like baddasses giving the ship time to take off and excape the pilot throwing the merc a detanater to seal those bugs i nfor good or somthing
You keep saying that the Praetorians' AI is buggy because they keep running away. That's not a bug, that is intended. They don't just blindly attack like other aliens. Praetorians will attack (sometimes), run away, heal back some of their health (don't know if you noticed that), and call for reinforcements. To kill them you basically have to chase them down or corner them.
Strong male characters? Can't have none of those. Not for long, anyway. Honestly, I thought it was gonna be Harper that stepped down off the dropship before going into Xeno City.
While the game would probably choke if EVERY marine you had could be deployed in a full platoon, it does feel like running 8 for the finale should be doable.
right after you get the hypersleep chip the writing and story go to dumb dumb mode also ending cutscene is BS cause I got an achievement that said everyone of my marines lived
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I realize that the game is super rail-roady given how often it just steals control of your squad away from you, but it really irritated me when I noticed Aliens lurking in the offices floor of Pharos Spire despite me actively ignoring the vents objective. Setting aside they're literally ambushing in the vents without completing the objective anyways. Why even mention that opening the vents would let the Aliens in when the game just decides they're walking around the halls anyways? I would much rather fight the mercs, both because a grenade and an rpg generally deletes the slow and tightly packed squads, but also because letting opening the vents into the last bastion of the city which could easily still house civilians seems... Really fucking out of character? Especially since it isn't necessary. You can absolutely kill the mercs without the 'help' of the Aliens (setting aside that such 'help' means a neverending swarm swamps the halls now). Feels like the rail-roading gets extremely frustrating at this point in the game. Maybe the nexus mod community (there are some nexus mods up and running now) can force the vent objective into being optional. Even if its an ineffectual change, because the defenses being disabled at the ground floor means the Aliens can start swarming in anyways (e.g. when Hunslet notes them swarming up the building), it'd still be an improvement to the game. But deny them access to the vent system. Maybe someone can make the implicit death of your squad into a neverending horde defense a la the final segment in Halo Reach. Throw in some characterful dialogue for the last stand. Or have it work with a timer representing when the nukes arrive (and explain why the background timer is irrelevant, maybe with some Pryce sending some emergency launch codes that accelerate the nukes or some such). If you wipe before the timer but after the story characters escape, you win, but if you survive the full duration of escalating threats you get some fluffy dialogue between those holding the desperate last stand. Maybe even have the last stand field all of your marines while at it. Can't speak to how much work that would be, being ignorant of the modding process for the game. But it'd make these last arcs of the game real goddamn cool.
#OnlyWomenLive Jokes aside, at first I thought the game just had a female heavy cast, which is only worth mentioning due to 'the times'. But now I think every named male character has been killed (9:44:48 hopefully Harper didn't die); worse, it's hard to put into words, but it feels like the writers didn't want any male presence in the good team at all, and we only grudgingly got Harper and Stern as male good guys (Martinez too, I suppose). Harper didn't need to get disabled from his abilities to the point of being sedated either, it felt more like the game didn't want Hayes to be outnumbered by men in the command squad. Add to that, the writing is bizarrely discordant (especially during the Otago segment): - Martinez doesn't take charge of the marines during the security breach on the Otago, the chief engineer acts as Hayes' point of contact instead. This makes sense when she's trying to cut through the doors, but not when she clearly needs help killing the thing. Hayes's claim that all the marines are outside is demonstrably incorrect as well, as the wounded marines would have been mobilized in a fight-or-die scenario. Martinez or a subordinate (even some nameless sergeant) would have been around to direct the marines remaining aboard ship. - The head doctor chooses to stay with the wounded marines in the infirmary, but while the scene is similar to other impactful scenes where a doctor stays behind to tend their patients, it shares only the form without the substance. The entire medical staff in that room is shown to be killed, while the alien is shown in the scene to ignore the wounded marine on the bed. In spite of this, the Otago loses none of its ability to heal marines, with the psychologist apparently slotting into the medical head's position and new medical staff appearing from the aether. - The head of research turns out to be evil (He was the only non-fighting man in a position of authority, so it was inevitable. Or so it felt). Rimmy goes into significant detail on how basically any plan was better than what was written and I agree. I really want to reiterate that a ship crashed in hostile territory, taking in survivors, some of which are cult sympathizers would have had guards posted in important spaces. This wouldn't even need to be marines. Arming a few of the apparently infinitely spawning scientists or self-reviving medical staff would have done wonders in their areas, not to mention sentry turrets to cover other important areas. I mentioned the infinite scientist spawns, but when the entire team is slaughtered by that alien, only to be replaced in their entirety in the next scene, it ripped me right out of any immersion. - The confrontation with Director Pryce. Hayes claims she's a synth, but we never see any evidence. In fact, the dialogue in that scene is so strange to me that it seems like they had to re-write it at some point, but didn't want to go back and re-do the animations or setpieces. Pryce's reactions and body language seem to indicate that Hayes is laying on some damning evidence that would ruin her if she left Lethe, but being accused of being a Synth isn't a reason to stay in your office and die. Even the argument that she is, indeed a synth doesn't hold up when you consider Ash and Bishop from the Alien and Aliens movies. They are clearly not stuck in one place, and can carry out directives creatively when needed. Rather than the synth story, I think this is an area where a subplot was cut from the game, and the conversation is awkward because of it (otherwise it's just poorly written). - The most damning issue I have: Where is Hunslett's Co-pilot/Loadmaster/Crew Chief? Ferro had Spunkmeyer, so why and how is Hunslett alone at the controls when her crew chief should have been with her on the run bringing Harper and his team aboard the station? There's just an unremarked empty seat behind her the whole game and she's just doing two people's jobs all the while having the spare attention to be cracking jokes and making observations that seem like they'd need her to be tapped into the marine's helmet cams on top of following all the squad chatter. - There should have been a flood of new marine recruits after the Spire mission as former WY mercenaries that survived so far come to take refuge. You know, because people like to be alive, and it was obvious that the spire was doomed. /endrant If Stern was going to go out, it should have been at the wheel of the APC since he was so adamant about the squad calling the cavalry (himself). The boss battle could have been about maneuvering the otherwise immortal enemy into positions where Stern could get a few shots off with the APC plasma cannon, and ultimately needing to ram it to finish it off, assuming he needed to die at all, since a boss fight about maneuvering an enemy into a position would have been infinitely better than the bad copy of the Spiderman PS1 game running from Monster-Ock "bossfight." A disappointing game, writing-wise for sure. Putting it in the same place a Prometheus, I'd think.
save scumming ruins it, gotta try and live with consequences - some best gameplay moments in my play through was carrying marines slowly back to APC using stealth because I literally wouldn't survive being caught.
@@yochaiwyss3843 bugs are acceptable if it's breaking immersion, but reloads for being overwhelmed or pushing wrong button etc spoil it. Hopefully they iron out majority of bugs with patch this week
@@GR-wp4wb When the controls can be pretty clunky and when squad wiping will force you to reload the game anyway reloading a save is perfectly reasonable. The game doesn't play by very clear and consistent rules either. If I carefully and meticulously worm my way through a mission and it just decides to beeline a runner at me at the worst time which just ignore the distraction mechanics it sucks. If I'm making my way through a mission having spent a lot of resources and time being as stealthy as possible and then the game spawns an alien out of a hole next to me the second I pass it or in a vent that then starts a massive chain reaction of death then hell yeah I'll reload it. The game gives you all these tools and incentives to be stealthy but the systems for it are not reliable or consistent enough to just 'accept the consequences' when it's not my fault it happened. If I go the wrong way and trigger an alien and it kills half my squad then fine, if I walk past a vent I knew was there and trigger it, fine. If I shoot a grenade and draw an alien to me and start a massive onslaught at the worst time fine, but losing half my squad because an alien spawned right next to me at the second I passed by and having all of my marines just somehow not kill it for ages isn't fun. Consequences are for my actions, not for the failings of the game or it's mechanics.
@@BlargSmarg for me, if the game spawns an alien next to me in a vent or from a hive then that is just bad luck. Not the same as bad game design. I think once you get into the mindset that reloading is an option for when things don't go as you "think" they should then it's spoiled. An example from the stream - the youtuber reloads because he pushed M by accident and one of the marines entered a coma and needed carried to APC. Rather than do it, reloaded. The loaded save took him back before any of the encounter starts, so now the whole sequence is played with full knowledge of what's coming and from where. I don't like that - but you guys can play how u like.
@@GR-wp4wb Except the game often gives you open warning about the fact you will be attacked with the intent of you preparing but often leaves it entirely unclear where from. Sometimes it tells you to prepare then walks you into a room with no access to all the turrets and command points you spent outside. That's not fun design, that just feels bad to play. As for 'bad luck' when an alien spawns next to you, sure, but when you spend ages carefully getting past a certain point, or fighting your way through a hunt and getting to the other side and then the game instantly spawns another alien right next to you that bad luck feels very unenjoyable. The game is built around trying to keep stress down, using the stealth mechanics to keep threat down, but the spawn systems and the way stealth works often just goes against that. If I play everything carefully and correctly and bother to take a lot of extra time to work my way through as stealthily as possible then of course having it ruined by an RNG spawn is going to feel really cheap and frustrating. You can't build a game around using stealth as a core mechanic then expect players to just accept that they can be screwed by RNG regardless of all the effort they put in. Having started a second playthrough of my own, now on a harder difficulty and trying a more straight forward approach I'm actually having more fun because the stealth mechanics don't feel like a burden and I actually run into less issues because it's easier to blast your way quickly through enemies and make a lot of progress during hunts than it is to try and sneak in around and avoid them. That feels like the exact opposite of the way the game is supposed to be played.
"Why would you betray us?"
"I am in extreme amounts of credit card debt"
americans☕️
"Understandable, still going to shoot you."
(He plays Genshin Impact)
For reference, I like to read that last line in the voice of Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising
Motivation: "I HAVE NO MONEY"
Honestly the Xeno Titan is just the alien version of the boulder chasing Indiana Jones
A yes, a 10h video.
According to my calculations you still have an hour left.
Not long enough.
my contention with the Nuclear Cinematic... is that Rimmy had like 7-8 more days to spare, no chance those nukes would even hit the planet at that point
they were in that mine for a while and lost track of time
@@blacklistedpirate4169 if mechanically naps on any other level don't pass to next day, then they have no reason to do so on the final one.
@@yochaiwyss3843 my comment was a joke
@@blacklistedpirate4169 ah I didn't know. All good then.
A problem I've had with a lot of the recent aliens content is that while it is good, it all at some point decides it has to do an ass tease of some of the really cool stuff in the greater lore and then never explain it or follow it up for the sake of mystery. Like, xeno city is a really cool idea, but we get no context until literally the 2nd to last mission in the game that it even is a thing and then it just drops a bunch of unanswerable questions and the game ends.
Same with all the references to the greater universe like the UPP and Tientsin name drops. Mystery is only cool until it gets gratuitous.
WY Pilot; Yeah, I got this, I got this!
Hunslet; Get styled on LMAO
9:26:00 Rolled in with the Mk. 19's I see. EDIT; Cancel that, personal bloody Katyushka.
Something of note for the final final "mission", your trio are invincible, during the chase scene you dont have to do anything but run even if the big monster is ontop of you. Its just an "interactable" glorified cutscene on rails.
I will point out that it actually makes sense that the dropship survived the nuke, as it is a space capable military hardware so it'd be shielded against EMP and various strong radiation effects. The one in the aliens movie also cut it fairly close with its nuke, though not as close as the games one. Which is probably what they were trying to shoehorn in as well.
But it'd be pretty silly for super advanced dropships to be disabled by basic nuclear bombs. In an era where everyone has access to nuclear powered machines
I know right he kinda sounds like he never watched an alien movie. We're super advanced in the movie . I liked the ending
@@rayvonwade-hunt570 No, I fully believe he has watched them. By the sounds of it it was a fair bit ago since a proper viewing.
And while the ending was nice artistically, I fully agree with Rimmy it sucked as a gaming end. There were many different options to have a more engaging end play than run from the scripted giant monster. Though I'm not as upset over the three sacrifices one after the other as he was, they did do Martinez and Stern dirty in how simple they were to brush aside as well.
Hopefully the lack of detail suddenly appearing for the alien city and the titan was to try and leave sequel openings rather than development running aground but I kinda agree with the chat person who said the story peaked with the Pryce confrontation and seemed to just tie up ends after, rather sloppily. But endings can be the worst to try and think of in a world where "everything" is considered cliche by someone, so I can see why it might have been a sudden decision to just chuck half the Aliens plot in to see it out. A few patches and a couple of level changes for the end of the campaign and the game will be golden.
my guy the dropship flies out after the nuke lands, the blast effect alone should have sent the dropship spinning, not to mention the countless other nukes landing all around - and the fact that the nukes shouldn't even fire for 9 days yet. The ending is total fucking trash. It's not even nice artistically - it doesn't connect with the rest of the story in any meaningful way apart from Cassandra herself a character with so far a single cutscene, Marlow isn't actually important in the ending and the Xeno Titan is just a totally left field ancient enemy. Even Harper's sacrifice is ruined by the fact that just moments earlier we were chain-spamming 40 mike mikes to stun this guy and yet now we're completely trapped and hopeless. Weak story telling that was clearly just trying to rush through various scenes that it "had" to have, and emulate the movies.
The game had plenty of very cool sequences and action cutscenes, the Dropship fight for example is an absolute peak of the game and Pryce's follow-up is the best story moment in the entire game. It feels like those last cutscenes were rushed, even the animation is shit, Stern especially just kinda looks like he's standing there like a gormless idiot rather than doing anything heroic or looking like he's in control on a battlefield, the weird close-up on his face makes him look like a nutcase.
Yea it looks like they rushed the ending, guess it partly explain why its being sold as $40 game , hope it will have any decent DLC that fix those problems.
@@RimmyDownunder When I say artistically, I mean the titan looks awesome and the alien city is suitably unnerving and intriguing. That's it. Story and play were completely shat on, fully agree.
Yeah there should've been a hell of a lot of turbulence on the dropship, but I was commenting more on the EMP effects and any other radiation issues more than anything. Though it can also do orbital landing, so stability would still be heavily focused on in its design.
I agree with like 99.99% of your conclusion, just wanted to comment on how the dropship would be designed to be able to survive that kind of nonsense to a degree. As for the nuke dropping right on it, I feel that was more shitty perspective than the nuke landing right on its tail. Could be wrong, but it looked to me that it landed after the dropship had made a little distance and we see it from a rubbish low view. Then again, action games and movies have open helicopters fly, base level cars driving away, or tiny ships sail from nukes landing barely 100m away, so could've been just rule of cool BS.
The 9 day thing is just them not wanting to have to make multiple endings, so I sorta just chucked it into the shitty story telling pile that was the end chunk of the game. I'm very curious what happens if you bum rush the pioneer station and manage to get there before the infestation level got overly noticeable, if it let you turn it off and made a new issue to contend with. But highly doubt it. I also wonder if you screw the timing and the nukes drop, do they have a cutscene for that or if it just resets you like it did with full squad death.
Spyre takeover be like "Hmmmm we're having too easy of a time maybe we should bring in the Xenos"
The one cutscene of the guardian said that the gestation and growth was "Suspended indefinitely" by the apparatus the guardian was wearing.
Nah it's only slowed, says so in the codex afaik and also there's the scene where one bursts out of a guardian in containment
@@RimmyDownunder The Codex says it's only temporary and so we as players know that, but I think the in-game characters don't know that. Their only source of info on the Guardian's apparatus was Dr. Becker telling them that Marlow somehow found a way to suspend it "indefinitely" which is just straight up misinformation. I THINK that's one of the ways the game tries to explain why not a single damn person on the Otago knows that there was a Xenomorph in the containment cell, because Becker could have simply said "Oh he died mysteriously"/"Oh he started acting out so I purged the room and cleaned it up"
It's still really damn stupid that NOBODY CHECKED after all that time though. Like, even if Becker had closed it, all someone had to do was open the window. Someone should have double-checked what the Dr. was up to especially after our only prisoner inexplicably died. The game handled this plot point so clumsily when there were so many ways it could have been handled logically while making Becker and W-Y look more competent and ruthless.
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I think the survival horror aspect is the Xenomorphs trying to survive your overwhelming power. 😅 poor thing...
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For the containment part. Yeah it doesn't make sense you would either have Guards there or you would just terminate the Guardian to not put the entire ship at risk regardless of manpower. Like the use of the Guardian has already passed so he was a ticking time bomb why was he not killed earlier and his body destroyed?
What kind of containment cell is that supposed to be? No levels of redundancy whatsoever - just a single bulkhead door and a window. Also, since the Xeno grew from a chestburster into an adult drone somebody, probably the good doctor, must have been feeding it. They are not chiapets, they require sustenance. Everybody on that ship had to be aware of its presence onboard, yet not only was it not immediately destroyed, they didn't place any guards either. On another note, how does the chestburster kill its host when the only thing its bursting through is a glass viewport on his chest? Like, there's even a little spew of blood - why?
@@DarkEcho119 Actually if the aliens eat is a point of theory for the lore. Theres nothing official that is known if they do eat, there was a cut scene from one of the movies, but other than that nothing but theories, so its entirely possible he didnt feed it. But I definetly agree that there should have been guards there, if not everyone on that ship should have been packing heat because they are on an entirely infested planet, they all should ATLEAST have sidearms, if not full blown rifles just everywhere.
@@sparrow9663 if I had to guess, probably a more willing human quarantine cell being in the lab. The actual cell block one would assume on the ship probably has more escape routes for a chestburster so they stuck him in the sealed room. But yeah, post guards in the hostile zealot, is regarding the threat of the chestburster for a moment, they were super concerned about traitors not long before that scene.
iirc from various bits of lore, a adult human has enough mass to see a chestburster to metamorphosis but it will be a little degraded. It's meant to have carers to bring meat or a large space to scavenge usually
@@DarkEcho119yeah it is stupid to kill the guard. I would like much more if it just a normal human. I mean whats the point of all the modifications and probably training if it still randomly kill you?
I think it would be much better if both sourvive the "birth" but the alien ate the guy offscreen. Hell even better! Dont show the birth! Just show the guy hiding the broken glass and before the betrayal the guy feed himself to the xenomorph!
Here at 4:31:06 It makes so much more sence to have the marines take on the commandos, there easier to kill than the guardians (the blue dudes with chest busters if you forgot). The guardians needed 2 grenades to kill while the commandos only need one. But yes Hayes we need to let the the aliens in and risk the squads life more than go through the inviorment and scenario these marines were TRAINED TO FIGHT IN!! Dumb game moment
If they'd actually showed a small army with adequate entrenching to repulse the marines into the grave, it would be an understandable gamble. But they didn't. Did Hayes not understand that eating crayons was a joke!? Did she get a bad batch of rations!?
@@bthsr7113 she must obviously have gotten crayon(shaped) rat pack.
Honestly watching my guy actually using the stealth mechanics makes this game so much easier than the run n gun Ive been doing. Still not gunna change tho haha
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the cloak just appears in front of red and rimmy and then slinks back into its place without rimmy even noticing it
STOP MACKING ME BE STUPID! Best line ever!
Rip all those who suffered by the ending
Even though I fell asleep about halfway through and was woken up by Rimmy dissecting the ending, this was one of the most entertaining series I have watched in a long time.
4:29:00 haha i loved that reaction! Yeah its stupid we let the swarm go in!
How dare you think that engaging the anxiety monkeys with rifles is easier than engaging the literal planet devouring bioweapons!
Not much of a twitch viewer but its been cool to lurk and watch live here whilst i work
I quite enjoyed watching this game and do hope the continue to update it.
A few things I think would severely help in making it better ^note spoilers from here on down^
I think a slight rework of some classes would be good:
The medic I think should definitely get that reduce stress for 30 seconds.
While I could see the sergeants replaced with an ability to actually split your squad into fire teams - allowing you split control of your squad into two smaller fire teams of two. This can actually be quite useful for stealth, defence and even resource gathering while not to breaking as they can be quickly overwhelmed.
The wayland utani guys are just a joke really. The entire “there harder than the aliens” is a complete fail.
And you know an easy fix to this? Make their fireteams slightly stronger with classes similar to yours.
Have a fireteam of 5 of them with 1 being either a Flamer guy, a smart gunner or a techy who deploys a sentry gun.
Funnily enough they kind of make do this with the cultist. They throw a mix of gunners and melee lads into the same unit and send them in. The gunners take cover while the combat guys charge you so your kind of forced to split your fire to counter both.
Now this semi more justifies opening the gates on the guys as they can prove a slightly harder force compared to numptys with rifles.
And better make these areas you have to break actual threats.
Multiple smart gunners, choke points with flamers, a large wave of lads you know will hurt so opening the gates/vents becomes a almost hard yes.
The stealth section… it’s poor as you said.
Maybe instead of having the doctor reveal a grown alien from containment. Have him shut down the weapons and such and have a praetorian get in - or a special one like a “praetorian hunter/lurker” that’s essentially described to hunt solo and be extremely hard to kill.
Now have Hayes not alone, but set up with a squad of no names/wounded marines/support personnel - could have it that as you explore around you find some. Maybe a wounded marine who got attacked and if you found a physician first can get him into the squad. Or a engineer who can get a synthetic up and running, etc.
Now you have these guys going around with her and slowly have them getting wiped out too.
This would make the engagements scarier but also give you that feeling you are fighting back too.
Plus it would justify the cage thing with it getting burned (with doors sealed) but being this extremely hard to kill alien it breaks through the glass - tho now you can say that due to its wounds it’s more likely to flee the battle with enough firepower tossed at it.
And same goes for the final mission.
The final mission should have been your marines plus the characters.
Having this extra large squad cutting their way through the alien city to get Cas and getting out makes for a extremely good story moment.
Hell having YOUR marines in in a proper life of death no way out situation dialogue between themselves about staying behind and getting Cas and Hayes out due to how Cas being Harpers daughter and Hayes having proved herself a marine at this point, having a small scene where they stop and you hear the dialogue of them choosing to make that last stand and seeing Cas and Hayes retreat away and playing out this last stand and having your hero’s go down in a hail of gunfire makes that attachment to them so deer.
And you can have it then cut to Hayes and Cas making the final run.
Also for additions I think would make this game more interesting:
1. As above how i described the sergeant change. I’d make the APC a 2 man upgrade vs just 1.
This would make the idea of getting this APC so much stronger than just a 1 man upgrade but being able to bring a full team of all classes + 1 gives that upgrade a nicer feeling too.
It would also make the sergeants split squad ability even stronger - but you kind of want that going into the later stages - and would make your fire teams feel like they could actually hold up themselves now vs having to sprint for safety with one another constantly.
2. Have a upgrade system for your squad equipment.
I.e. Sentry guns, welders, APC, dropship, etc.
It would make people want to hold onto their supplies more vs just throw them all into Sentry Guns and tools and medical equipment each mission vs scavenging for them.
This could also mean buying upgrades like having your welders being able to hold aliens back longer - I.e. justify the short time they hold back aliens initially while giving them a chance to do as Rimmy suggests with having them hold a minute or 2.
Or even simple upgrades like having your sentry guns be more resistant to damage and have more ammo to shoot with.
And upgrades for your APCs could be space to include more sentry’s - so no running 4 sentry groups from the start - but also maybe upgrades to its ability to evacuate and move and shoot.
And same for the dropship maybe being able to do multiple deployments a day.
3. Add a few more classes in there.
Maybe a grenadier class - upgrades can be stronger grenades, reduced grenade cost and maybe a crippler grenade for your big/sprinter aliens.
Rank ups could be stuff like a double shot launcher which allows two shots for 1.
Maybe a CQC lad who’s similar but for shotguns.
Hell have his first ability tho he to “boot” an alien. I.e. you get one mixed in he can give them a kick away from the group to kill and avoid the acid burns.
Could also have one of his ranks be to be able to hold off face hugger/alien yoinks longer.
- note id make this a standard amongst all awake characters that they can fight off a face hugger and even a basic alien for a short time before losing to them.
And like Rimmy said you can send someone to rip it off/shoot it off - ripping it off means you get them away to a distance that the acid doesn’t cause lasting wounds while shooting it off means the acid is closer causing more lasting and permanent injuries.
I’d also make synthetics a free placement unit. So they can be a engineer, medic or even a recruit - tho as a marine they are much more loud and spottable for human targets (slightly more ignorable for low tier aliens - not permanent just less notable to attack compared to human targets) and as a recruit they have just use a primary gun and hack vs secondary equipment.
- truthfully I’d also have a lot more cannon fodder be added into maps for quick recruitment that doesn’t cause to much of a spiral early for easy wins.
I.e. have some of the cultist that get kidnapped not just be cultists but maybe “hidden” survivors or dockers/unionists - maybe a handful of security personnel.
And if you save them there’s a chance to recruit them permanently depending on how good a leader you have.
But also just recruitable for that mission as a basic extra gun - workers getting pistols, while security get rifles.
Then you can have this extra fire power whos a bit more expandable and when you get home are treated as saved civillians - which is how you raise your ability to recruit actual survivors as full personnel vs just the very very scarce handful of recruitable personnel.
Hell it would make a more interesting thing in those later mission with the wayland mercs as you could have some maybe more willing to pull treaties/even join you against the aliens if you have shown to be merciful to civilians and even wayland personnel.
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I did the same exact thing at 9:33:20 where you just barrage the synth for the joke he made.
Look at the round expenditure of the first mission compared to the global average XD
"Those... creatures... they know we're here..."
They sure as fuck know mines are there.
There is always that one outliner that fucks up the Statistical Data
I am so sad about this ending it was so fucked
i want to point out if others havnt already but it seems like no more than 3 main or side characters can be in one scene at a time so at the end there the one armed marine had to die to make room for cassandra then stern died to make room for harper to show up and die for his daughter
I'd hunt down A:DD playthroughs when I'd get too stressed during my own game, and this is the best playthrough I have found. NAFO friendly, copped to the mechanics incredibly quickly, and called out terrible design decisions without dwelling on them for hours. 10/10, would watch you eviscerate your stream chat again.
Don't worry you'll get your ending in the DLC. Remember Fireteam Elite there in the end same happened and ultimate three way boss fight happened in the DLC so.....
I’m still waiting for that revolver rimmy
I used to listen to a lot of Astrophysics when i played ss13. They had it on the kitchen's music box.
I feel like the stealth section would have gone a lot smoother if chat had stopped distracting Rimmy with defense of the writing. Also 3:38:25, Deobia is a dude's name.
I hope this gets edited into a letsplay style thing at some point.
5:31:56
Feels so dumb. Baby Yoda paintball energy. I even like Hunslett, but that was stupid.
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Games like these work best when they play off the connection you have with your grunts. The ending really screwed that part up by giving you the named story characters of whom you can predict who's going to die. Kinda disappointing.
It's even worse that you consider the squad you take on the final mission gets overwhelmed and killed off camera. Look at the final cutscene again and as Cassandra and Hayes flee, you can see the marines laying dead on the floor as the dropship doors close.
Damn, only managed to stay for 3Hours and 35Minuites of a 10(!?!) hours stream
Not sure if you figured it out in this stream, but the Brawler negative trait does seem to work, somewhat. The brawler perk deals 1 damage to one of your guys when you rest, however a rest will heal your team by 1 pip too. They counteract each other. The only time you'll ever see it do anything is by either having multiple Brawlers in the same squad (Assuming right there, not sure if they can all target the same guy or not.) , or by noticing that a wounded guy will not be healed upon rest with a brawler in the squad.
You can see an example of the latter example at 1:24:17
If you pay attention to Mick, you'll notice how he doesn't get healed by the Rest.
To be fair, psychiatrists get an MD before getting into psychiatry. As she said herself, she's assisting Bookard when shes got little to do, so that she'd replace her makes sense.
We have seen the drop ship survive emp from nukes before in aliens so well I agree with all your other points about the ending I don't about the drop ship at most they could improve it by having the pilot have a passing comment about how it a good thing her baby is emp shielded or something but since they come emp shielded by default design it may be a little force
Yet another case of corporate higher ups forcing a good game to come out before it was fully ready because profit margins
B Squad scouts like Steiners, just more small scale.
2:58:35 skip until the stealth section BS ends, for your own sanity
No way in hell your A-team died, they killed 4 queens, countless drones, countless warriors, countless runners, along with several crushers and praetorians. Plus the turrets, they had turrets deployed! If that dropship had also brought back up, they should have managed to hold that position pretty easily while waiting for the named characters to return.
Can't really put everything in here for how I would have changed that ending myself, but I imagined the B-team got sent down too to support the A-team. Saw how those who got to name them were having banter in chat, so imagine there was an actual rivalry (Red not being involved in it, given you had him on both teams on several occasions) and that final battle is when their rivalry ended. Fighting as one, setting aside their competitive urge to be the best of the marines on the Otago, for the sake of the mission. That would have been badass to have that happening whilst the other three were down in the ancient city saving Cassandra.
Then, instead of it being Harper sacrificing himself, both teams ended up clearing out the entire hive and dropped down to throw RPGs and plasma upon that big xeno. Having those who you commanded and ensured the safety of in all the other missions, saving you instead now. Give the player a sense of pride in seeing the marines they guided and upgraded, be absolute badasses and be the heroes in the final cutscene. With them all coming back home together too
Same. The small glimpses you see look like prety generic marines. I assumer your guys boarded the dropship earlier given they're meant to be pretty exhausted and physically holding by threads with all the injuries and acid burns on them.
Given what I see, I'm dead certain there was supposed to be a bigger setpiece for the final missioj but they ran out of time. Hell, I'm certain the entire Mission 12 level isn't finished, and their using low lighting to keep the bad details hidden.
That room became one room it was those too other doors you needed to weld
100% agree the ending was trash
Heaaaavy spoilers for those who didn't watch the video
So like, why tf would a engineer make a xeno that big? They really don't make xenos that big lmao, we have essentially seen what a xeno for a engineer would look like already in the Prometheus movie
Maybe that's what the Queen version of that xeno looks like? I dunno but I agree that it doesn't make sense it's that big.
@@DillsyYourDaddy67 maybe? The only way it works if we try to use that is saying it's like the empress from that one comic line... Which is literally the ruler of every single alien in existence and only one can exist at a time-
The part where youre letting xenomorph in to kill the commandos, youre meant to stay in the sec room and let both duke it out, ending with the xeno wining and then leaving, yea still unreasonable , but if they set it up as theres hundreds of commandos in the building it could make sense.
honestly if they made this into a GTFO type fps game I would be hella down to get spooked with friends. Could even keep a lot of the mechanics .
They really assassinated Hayes' character after the alien got loose on the Otago. Dumb decision after dumb decision.
The marines didn t look like my squad at the end so they made it out. They were just randos so they got away. I d rate the story a 7/10 at most yeah ending was bad i liked the darwin era as villians one of the more orignal villians in the aliens franchise, adored the gameplay and settings. Would love a multiplayer or weyland yutani campagin that be interesting to have
its a shame about the ending the rest of the game looks good
how do you get a 5 person squad?
When you obtain the APC in a story mission (it's not something you can miss)
@@sgtsmith501 thanks I am not that far as rimmy but getting there
APC replaces the buggy about midway through campaign.
@sgtsmith501 funny enough i saw there is a higher completion percentage on completing that mission than actually getting it
i just wanna say one He had the blast sheilds down on the windows no one knew it was in there second she didnt unlocked the door it unlocked once she finished the sequence... and because the codes were not working the door would not close... Its stupid yes but just how the game put it
Also YES not haveing gaurds was VERY STUPID
Ok now to the ending, If they had it where the one guy died ok stern fires his nade stuns it tells you both to run an runs behind you guys frieing his nades and you see him being chased oh in the distense...just besting all kindas of aliens... then it get to the part where the big guy hits him but he lives... i mean barrly alive bleeding from the mouth broken ribs making a rubtered organ but still following, then he falls over unable to move no more and Hayes trabs him trying to help him to move and it gets infornt of them trys to grab them three but harper... uses the rest of his energy to holding back... he dies but then as your running you get on the elevator go up your marines are waiting for you and more marines that the pilot brought all of them holding there ground till the pilot is able to make fix the ship do to some damge done by a Xeno and all of a sudden you jear from the main ship Hayes you need to get back to the ship now the nukes are are comeing earlier then expected... pilot says they wont be able to carry everyone as the marines look at the pilot to get the two girls out... as they hold back the aliens so they cant excape the nukes
Have the bad ass merc stay back with the marines and let them all die like baddasses giving the ship time to take off and excape the pilot throwing the merc a detanater to seal those bugs i nfor good or somthing
You keep saying that the Praetorians' AI is buggy because they keep running away. That's not a bug, that is intended. They don't just blindly attack like other aliens. Praetorians will attack (sometimes), run away, heal back some of their health (don't know if you noticed that), and call for reinforcements. To kill them you basically have to chase them down or corner them.
Strong male characters? Can't have none of those. Not for long, anyway.
Honestly, I thought it was gonna be Harper that stepped down off the dropship before going into Xeno City.
Mitchell vs Mitchell
You selected the more recent save, not the original one you said you wanted. Chat was right bro.
Red bad luck All time
You gonna play that dragon dlc for age of wonders 4?
Ludonarrative Dissonance: The Game
So I take this game goes the route of "based gameplay, based characters, cringe ending"
That was fucking comical how that went.
While the game would probably choke if EVERY marine you had could be deployed in a full platoon, it does feel like running 8 for the finale should be doable.
right after you get the hypersleep chip the writing and story go to dumb dumb mode
also ending cutscene is BS cause I got an achievement that said everyone of my marines lived
All dead and Red bad luck
Cool video 🤘
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May I ask some Tarkov experts: How can I put underbarrel 40mm grenade launcher and shotgun AT THE SAME TIME to what apears to be fully converted to a plasma riffie action and caliber FFFFORKIN M1911 PISTOL?! Because that was the weapon wich was used by main character while descending to this shitty "grande finali"
I realize that the game is super rail-roady given how often it just steals control of your squad away from you, but it really irritated me when I noticed Aliens lurking in the offices floor of Pharos Spire despite me actively ignoring the vents objective. Setting aside they're literally ambushing in the vents without completing the objective anyways.
Why even mention that opening the vents would let the Aliens in when the game just decides they're walking around the halls anyways? I would much rather fight the mercs, both because a grenade and an rpg generally deletes the slow and tightly packed squads, but also because letting opening the vents into the last bastion of the city which could easily still house civilians seems... Really fucking out of character?
Especially since it isn't necessary. You can absolutely kill the mercs without the 'help' of the Aliens (setting aside that such 'help' means a neverending swarm swamps the halls now).
Feels like the rail-roading gets extremely frustrating at this point in the game. Maybe the nexus mod community (there are some nexus mods up and running now) can force the vent objective into being optional. Even if its an ineffectual change, because the defenses being disabled at the ground floor means the Aliens can start swarming in anyways (e.g. when Hunslet notes them swarming up the building), it'd still be an improvement to the game. But deny them access to the vent system.
Maybe someone can make the implicit death of your squad into a neverending horde defense a la the final segment in Halo Reach. Throw in some characterful dialogue for the last stand.
Or have it work with a timer representing when the nukes arrive (and explain why the background timer is irrelevant, maybe with some Pryce sending some emergency launch codes that accelerate the nukes or some such). If you wipe before the timer but after the story characters escape, you win, but if you survive the full duration of escalating threats you get some fluffy dialogue between those holding the desperate last stand. Maybe even have the last stand field all of your marines while at it.
Can't speak to how much work that would be, being ignorant of the modding process for the game. But it'd make these last arcs of the game real goddamn cool.
Those did not look like Engineer Aliens!!!!!
Are you talking about the final xeno ❔
ya that ending was complete shit its like another masseffect 3 ending
Games like this always needs stupid plotpoints :P
"Do this even though it's stupid"....
"But i don't neeeeeeeeeed to do that".... :P
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Woot
cant believe you killed frenchie
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#OnlyWomenLive
Jokes aside, at first I thought the game just had a female heavy cast, which is only worth mentioning due to 'the times'. But now I think every named male character has been killed (9:44:48 hopefully Harper didn't die); worse, it's hard to put into words, but it feels like the writers didn't want any male presence in the good team at all, and we only grudgingly got Harper and Stern as male good guys (Martinez too, I suppose). Harper didn't need to get disabled from his abilities to the point of being sedated either, it felt more like the game didn't want Hayes to be outnumbered by men in the command squad.
Add to that, the writing is bizarrely discordant (especially during the Otago segment):
- Martinez doesn't take charge of the marines during the security breach on the Otago, the chief engineer acts as Hayes' point of contact instead. This makes sense when she's trying to cut through the doors, but not when she clearly needs help killing the thing. Hayes's claim that all the marines are outside is demonstrably incorrect as well, as the wounded marines would have been mobilized in a fight-or-die scenario. Martinez or a subordinate (even some nameless sergeant) would have been around to direct the marines remaining aboard ship.
- The head doctor chooses to stay with the wounded marines in the infirmary, but while the scene is similar to other impactful scenes where a doctor stays behind to tend their patients, it shares only the form without the substance. The entire medical staff in that room is shown to be killed, while the alien is shown in the scene to ignore the wounded marine on the bed. In spite of this, the Otago loses none of its ability to heal marines, with the psychologist apparently slotting into the medical head's position and new medical staff appearing from the aether.
- The head of research turns out to be evil (He was the only non-fighting man in a position of authority, so it was inevitable. Or so it felt). Rimmy goes into significant detail on how basically any plan was better than what was written and I agree. I really want to reiterate that a ship crashed in hostile territory, taking in survivors, some of which are cult sympathizers would have had guards posted in important spaces. This wouldn't even need to be marines. Arming a few of the apparently infinitely spawning scientists or self-reviving medical staff would have done wonders in their areas, not to mention sentry turrets to cover other important areas. I mentioned the infinite scientist spawns, but when the entire team is slaughtered by that alien, only to be replaced in their entirety in the next scene, it ripped me right out of any immersion.
- The confrontation with Director Pryce. Hayes claims she's a synth, but we never see any evidence. In fact, the dialogue in that scene is so strange to me that it seems like they had to re-write it at some point, but didn't want to go back and re-do the animations or setpieces. Pryce's reactions and body language seem to indicate that Hayes is laying on some damning evidence that would ruin her if she left Lethe, but being accused of being a Synth isn't a reason to stay in your office and die. Even the argument that she is, indeed a synth doesn't hold up when you consider Ash and Bishop from the Alien and Aliens movies. They are clearly not stuck in one place, and can carry out directives creatively when needed. Rather than the synth story, I think this is an area where a subplot was cut from the game, and the conversation is awkward because of it (otherwise it's just poorly written).
- The most damning issue I have: Where is Hunslett's Co-pilot/Loadmaster/Crew Chief? Ferro had Spunkmeyer, so why and how is Hunslett alone at the controls when her crew chief should have been with her on the run bringing Harper and his team aboard the station? There's just an unremarked empty seat behind her the whole game and she's just doing two people's jobs all the while having the spare attention to be cracking jokes and making observations that seem like they'd need her to be tapped into the marine's helmet cams on top of following all the squad chatter.
- There should have been a flood of new marine recruits after the Spire mission as former WY mercenaries that survived so far come to take refuge. You know, because people like to be alive, and it was obvious that the spire was doomed.
/endrant
If Stern was going to go out, it should have been at the wheel of the APC since he was so adamant about the squad calling the cavalry (himself). The boss battle could have been about maneuvering the otherwise immortal enemy into positions where Stern could get a few shots off with the APC plasma cannon, and ultimately needing to ram it to finish it off, assuming he needed to die at all, since a boss fight about maneuvering an enemy into a position would have been infinitely better than the bad copy of the Spiderman PS1 game running from Monster-Ock "bossfight."
A disappointing game, writing-wise for sure. Putting it in the same place a Prometheus, I'd think.
needs mroe dakka
.....wow. An amazing game... With a shit ending.
Smh. Mass Effect all over again
save scumming ruins it, gotta try and live with consequences - some best gameplay moments in my play through was carrying marines slowly back to APC using stealth because I literally wouldn't survive being caught.
Imagine thinking bad game design and bugs are "consequences"
@@yochaiwyss3843 bugs are acceptable if it's breaking immersion, but reloads for being overwhelmed or pushing wrong button etc spoil it. Hopefully they iron out majority of bugs with patch this week
@@GR-wp4wb When the controls can be pretty clunky and when squad wiping will force you to reload the game anyway reloading a save is perfectly reasonable. The game doesn't play by very clear and consistent rules either. If I carefully and meticulously worm my way through a mission and it just decides to beeline a runner at me at the worst time which just ignore the distraction mechanics it sucks. If I'm making my way through a mission having spent a lot of resources and time being as stealthy as possible and then the game spawns an alien out of a hole next to me the second I pass it or in a vent that then starts a massive chain reaction of death then hell yeah I'll reload it. The game gives you all these tools and incentives to be stealthy but the systems for it are not reliable or consistent enough to just 'accept the consequences' when it's not my fault it happened. If I go the wrong way and trigger an alien and it kills half my squad then fine, if I walk past a vent I knew was there and trigger it, fine. If I shoot a grenade and draw an alien to me and start a massive onslaught at the worst time fine, but losing half my squad because an alien spawned right next to me at the second I passed by and having all of my marines just somehow not kill it for ages isn't fun.
Consequences are for my actions, not for the failings of the game or it's mechanics.
@@BlargSmarg for me, if the game spawns an alien next to me in a vent or from a hive then that is just bad luck. Not the same as bad game design. I think once you get into the mindset that reloading is an option for when things don't go as you "think" they should then it's spoiled.
An example from the stream - the youtuber reloads because he pushed M by accident and one of the marines entered a coma and needed carried to APC. Rather than do it, reloaded. The loaded save took him back before any of the encounter starts, so now the whole sequence is played with full knowledge of what's coming and from where. I don't like that - but you guys can play how u like.
@@GR-wp4wb Except the game often gives you open warning about the fact you will be attacked with the intent of you preparing but often leaves it entirely unclear where from. Sometimes it tells you to prepare then walks you into a room with no access to all the turrets and command points you spent outside. That's not fun design, that just feels bad to play. As for 'bad luck' when an alien spawns next to you, sure, but when you spend ages carefully getting past a certain point, or fighting your way through a hunt and getting to the other side and then the game instantly spawns another alien right next to you that bad luck feels very unenjoyable. The game is built around trying to keep stress down, using the stealth mechanics to keep threat down, but the spawn systems and the way stealth works often just goes against that. If I play everything carefully and correctly and bother to take a lot of extra time to work my way through as stealthily as possible then of course having it ruined by an RNG spawn is going to feel really cheap and frustrating.
You can't build a game around using stealth as a core mechanic then expect players to just accept that they can be screwed by RNG regardless of all the effort they put in. Having started a second playthrough of my own, now on a harder difficulty and trying a more straight forward approach I'm actually having more fun because the stealth mechanics don't feel like a burden and I actually run into less issues because it's easier to blast your way quickly through enemies and make a lot of progress during hunts than it is to try and sneak in around and avoid them. That feels like the exact opposite of the way the game is supposed to be played.