TGMC:Carrier
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| SUPPORT XENO | |
 Carrier |
Difficulty: Hard Duties: Facehug as much marines as possible, spread weeds on the front lines, be the ultimate marine salt miner Guides: no separate guides Quote: "I love it when marines get stuffed by my facehuggers." |
The Babysitter of Facehuggers
As the hive grew, the demand for a specialized xenomorph that mass produce facehuggers and adminster them onto new hosts. Before the arrival of this caste, all xenomorphs grabbed as much facehuggers as possible to reproduce more sisters and to induce psychogenic shock upon marines (or for that matter, any humans). This primitive state of facehuggers requires to be carried out in a more intricate and personal manner.
However, after xenomorphs realized that capturing marines were not meeting reproduction quotas and decided to grow the hive with psychic means, the carrier was almost out of the job if it weren't for its baseball ability to throw facehuggers. Such dexterity did not come unnoticed by the queen mother and her research, and with great efforts they have expanded the carrier from more than just stuffing marines.
Playing the Carrier
Not going to lie, this caste is pretty hard. You are expected to:
- Throw facehuggers at marines
- Infect or hurt marines in the process
- Keep a distance between you and marines
- Throw near the marines so that they don't shoot facehuggers but at the same not too far so that facehuggers can't do their job
- Make resin traps
- Hide resin traps like the Viet Congs would do against the US Marine Corps
- Weed the unweeded
- Emit Pheromones for your sisters
The Carrier's main role is as a "grenadier," infecting, hindering, and damaging marines with various types of facehuggers, both in traps and by throwing them directly. You can store up to 7 facehuggers that are used for this purpose. The Carrier excels at supporting other xenomorphs in pushes, especially those with stuns or that demand a lot of attention from marines. They can be dangerous in close quarters and can infect or damage many marines in a heated firefight when supported by other castes, but you are a support class and should never engage marines directly. Carriers are relatively slow and lack a reliable escape or self-defense ability outside of their huggers, so you can easily be chased down and killed if you're caught out of position.
You should always focus on keeping your hugger stores full when possible. To store facehuggers, create one from plasma using the spawn hugger ability or click on a full-grown egg with an empty hand to open it. The hugger will appear. Click on it to pick it up, and then click it while it's in your hand to store it. You will get a message that it's been stored along with how many huggers you have, and you can see the number of your stored huggers in the stats tab. Keep in mind that huggers outside of eggs will die after a short time, so do this quickly.
To throw a hugger, select retrieve/throw hugger by clicking on the button. This will not put a hugger into your hand, but leave it as your active ability. Using right click or middle click, activate the ability and a hugger will be thrown automatically to where your mouse is pointing. Do not throw huggers using the throw UI button or R hotkey as they will only be thrown one tile.
After a larval facehugger is thrown, it has a brief cooldown before it will attach itself to a nearby host. If you hit a marine directly, this cooldown is 1.5 seconds. If it lands on a tile, the cooldown is 2 seconds, so remember that a direct hit on a marine will have a much higher chance of the hugger attaching. Most attacking huggers instead have a hit cooldown of 1 second and a tile cooldown of 1.5 seconds, and the clawed hugger has a hit cooldown of 0.5 seconds and a tile cooldown of 1.2 seconds. Note that a direct hit also allows a marine to simply click the hugger to instantly kill it with melee instead of having to fire their weapon, so this might not always be the most effective option, especially if they're reloading.
If you aren't actively infesting, you should be making traps. To create a hugger trap, activate the create resin trap ability and then shift or middle-click where you want the trap to go. It will create an empty hole on the tile that you must fill with a hugger. Traps can be covered by trash and other detritus to trick marines into moving into them.
Carriers can also plant weeds and transport eggs using the retrieve egg ability. You can carry up to three eggs at a time. Do not forget about these useful abilities.
You are a Support caste and should not put yourself directly in harms way, though you are often most effective on or near the front lines due to your ability to spread weeds and create facehuggers from plasma. If you don't have anything better to do, place traps in random high-traffic areas. A hugger can stop a marine push dead in its tracks as they will think twice about pushing further so quickly. Carriers are also great at serving as a distraction while other xenos flank a group. If you facehug a marine, you'll likely have forced them to relieve themselves from combat to go get surgery. This can take them out of combat longer than outright killing them. Remember, it's no longer expected for any larva to actually burst during the round, so if that happens it's just a bonus.
Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths
Carriers only have one path for evolution, the Defiler. Evolving to one can be good if you know how to play it well, but if the hive already has one or two, you would be better served staying as a carrier.
Maturity increases stats as follows.
- Slash is the melee damage when the xenomorph is in harm intent and slashing marine. In the code, it's melee_damage.
- Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values, not hard armor, which means that they reduce damage by a percentage rather than a flat value.
- Hugger Delay determines the delay before huggers will automatically latch onto a face.
- Phero. Strength determines how powerful some activities will be, such as pheromones themselves, as well as using abilities that heal.
| Age | Health | Plasma | Slash | Melee | Bullet | Laser | Energy | Bomb | Bio | Rad | Fire | Acid | Hugger Delay | Hugger Storage | Egg Storage | Phero. Strength |
| Young | 250 | 500 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 2.5 | 4 | 3 | 1.5x |
 Mature |
275 | 600 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | 4 | 2x |
 Elder |
300 | 700 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2.3x |
 Ancient |
325 | 800 | 20 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 1.5 | 7 | 6 | 2.5x |
Carrier Abilities
| Ability | Description | Plasma Cost | Cooldown | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Toggle Bump Attacks |
This ability allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. If for some reason you want to avoid them, toggle this off. The red arrow means it's on; the green arrow means it's off. | N/A | N/A | ||||
 Rest |
This ability is used to rest and get up, you will heal faster when resting on weeds. | N/A | N/A | ||||
 Psychic Drain |
This ability is executed on dead marines. Every dead marines psyhic drained will give 60 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva. | 100 | N/A | ||||
 Cocoon |
Devour your victim to cocoon it in your belly, then expels the contents of your stomach onto the current tile. With the marine inside, they still have life force and able to be revived, but it will give psychic points for 5 minutes. Yields a minimum of 1 psychic point every 5 seconds, but increases to a maximum of 5 points with lower server population. | 100 | N/A | ||||
| Файл:Plant weeds.png Plant Weeds |
Plants a resin weed node, which will start growing resin in a 3-tile radius that allows xenomorphs to heal and restore plasma while on top of the tile. Plasma cost is also halved before the shutters have been opened.
Right-Clicking the ability icon will allow you to select different types of weeds to plant.
Can only be placed on a tile that does not already have a resin sac, and cannot be placed on rock, grass, catwalks, or snow. |
N/A | N/A | ||||
 Emit Pheromones |
Toggles to see your pheromones, allowing you to select recovery, warding, or frenzy. You may only emit one at a time, and you can see which pheromones you are effected by in the '''stats''' tab. Each pheromone uses 5 plasma every regeneration tick, which doesn't do much.
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5 per tick | N/A | ||||
 Create Resin Trap |
This allows you to turn any regular "Weeds" tile/turf into a "Resin Hole" tile/turf, in which you can then place a facehugger in by clicking on the hole with a hugger in your hand. | 400 | N/A | ||||
 Retrieve/Throw Hugger |
This allows you to retrieve a hugger from your storage if you don't have one in hand, or throw the hugger currently in your hand at a targeted area. Huggers reset more quickly if you hit the marine directly. | N/A | 3 seconds | ||||
 Spawn Hugger |
Creates a hugger using excess plasma stored in your body, placing it directly into your storage. | 200 | N/A | ||||
Choose Hugger Type |
Selects which hugger type you will throw with the Throw Hugger ability. All huggers thrown will always be the currently selected type, regardless of what this was set to when Spawn Hugger was used.
Clicking this ability opens up a radius up to five choices. Click expand to view different hugger types.
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N/A | N/A
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Primordial Evolution
Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
For the XENOMORPH, this primordial ability is Facehugger Turret.
| Ability | Description | Plasma Cost | Cooldown |
|---|---|---|---|
 Facehugger Turret |
Once every 5 minutes, place a turret that fires one facehugger every 10 seconds, at a range of 5 tiles. Thrown hugger type is
selected based on what type the carrier had equipped while constructing. |
800 | 300 |
Carrier tips & tricks
- You can hit a host directly with a thrown facehugger to make the hugger activate half a second faster than normal.
- If a marine steps onto the same tile as a hugger, it'll attack almost instantly (0.5 seconds). Try to throw huggers one tile ahead of rushing marines for a nasty surprise. Shuffling them onto the same tile as your own hugger with help intent will also work.
- Huggers will die when standing on fire, but can be thrown over it safely.
- Resin holes can be placed under trash for sneakier traps.
- Don't leave un-planted eggs lying around! The last thing you want is to get killed by a squad of corrupted xenos because you left an egg where a marine could get their hands on it.
- Pay attention to the hive's attacks, especially the Queen's screech, for the best opportunities to throw huggers.
- If an unconscious marine is dragged back, you can take a neurotoxin hugger in one of your hands and repeatedly inject them with it to make them very annoying to revive. Larval huggers are a great option as well, obviously.
- Facehuggers will knock off all the face gear, meaning masks. This can cause additional problems for marines on ice maps.
- SWAT masks will block one larval facehugger, and B18 helmets will block five. If the marines have amassed a high budget, it might be best to use other types.
- Robots are immune to being infected (they don't even have a mouth) and neurotoxin (they don't have blood either). Go figure. If the robot population seems high, or you're fighting one specific robot, adjust accordingly.
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