Difficulty: Medium Duties: Weed the colony, build the hive, plant eggs for the Hive Guides: no separate guides Quote:Frenzy: on. Knuckles: cracked. Weed: ready. Yep, it's Combat Drone time.
Coming out of its former but short life as a small larva, the drone looks up in the nighty sky, gazing at the millions of stars sparkling down from the heavens. Which worlds become a home for the hive, which battlefields demanding of resin, which species will face extinction, and which aspirations will the hive have. Such questions will be answered as the drone looked away from the heavens and started planting resin nodes on the unfertilized ground.
Playing the Drone
Chances are if you've gone drone, you plan to either evolve to carrier, hivelord, deflier, shirke, queen, or even combat drone. You plant weed like no tomorrow and putting marines on edge with weed and speed.
The primary objective of the Drone as with most other Tier 1 caste Xenos is first, to stay alive.
In the meantime, here are some things you should focus on:
Weeding areas like no tomorrow
Planting weed behind xenomorphs' push so that they can retreat faster
Healing wounded xenomorphs
Annoying marines by stinging them with larval accelerator
Cocooning marines for psychic points
Making resin walls far FOB to make marines cry when they can't gun-ho
Building resin walls near FOB to let xenomorphs rest
Try not to combat drone all the time; remember, you cannot take a lot of damage, so guerilla hit and run tactics are your best bet if forced into combat.
The drone's most important duty is expanding the hive, whether by weeding new areas or building new defenses. When building, keep in mind that xenomorphs have a strong advantage against marines in tight winding corridors, and offset patterns. When weeding, keep in mind that you cannot plant weeds on rock, grass, or catwalks. Don't hesitate to set up forward hives and nesting areas close to combat, and bring eggs from the queen's hatchery to assist in quick infection of marines. R
Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths
Your choices are relatively simple. You can evolve into carrier, or hivelord, which are tier 2, or queen, which is tier 4. Carrier and hivelord both evolve into defiler if they choose to evolve rather than upgrade.
Your upgrades primarily supplement your building abilities with increased plasma regeneration, and an increased plasma pool.
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.
Pheromone 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
Pheromone Strength
Young
225
750
16
10
10
10
10
0
0
0
10
0
1x
Mature
250
800
16
17
17
17
17
0
5
5
17
5
1.5x
Elder
275
900
18
24
24
24
24
0
10
10
24
10
1.8x
Ancient
300
1000
18
31
31
31
31
0
15
15
31
15
2x
Drone 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 only when resting on weeds and will also regenerate plasma faster.
N/A
N/A
Psy Drain
Grants the hive a minimum of 30 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva. Psychic points scales with the server population, with a maximum of 90 with fewer players connected.
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.
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.
Weed Types:
Default, does nothing extraordinary. Costs 75 plasma.
Boosts health and plasma regeneration by 20%, and doubles sunder recovery. Costs 150 plasma.
Slows humans and vehicles a small amount, can stack with sticky resin. Costs 225 plasma.
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
Secrete Resin
Builds structures, which can be chosen by clicking on the ability while it's active.
Resin Buildings:
Resin Walls regenerate their own health. Starting at 150 HP, they restore 3 HP every 5 seconds, with a maximum of 300. Also reduces incoming bullet damage by 60%.
Sticky Resin slows down human and vehicle movement drastically, while also slightly blocking flamethrower flames. Has 36 HP. Slowness can stack with sticky weeds.
Resin Doors block movement for non-xenomorph mobs. Has 100 HP.
75
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.
Pheromones:
Accelerates healing for health and plasma.
Increases armor and accelerates sunder recovery.
Increases movement speed.
5 per tick
N/A
Psychic Cure
Heals up to 50 damage on a target within 1 tile. Damage healed increases with the recovery aura. 1/20th of damage healed is also used to recover sunder.
Heals brute first, and then burn. This means if you have 49 brute damage, you'll heal 49 brute damage and then 1 burn damage.
200
5 seconds
Transfer Plasma
Transfers your plasma to a fellow xenomorph, giving them up to 200 plasma.
Up to 200
N/A
Corrosive Acid
Expells weak acid onto an object or wall, destroying it after a while.
Other xeno castes are able to spew acid onto objects, however the Drone's is the weakest. Unable to affect any reinforced wall, and takes about 10 minutes to dissolve a small hole in a regular wall.
75
N/A
Ozelomelyn Sting
Injects a host with Ozelomelyn, which purges chemicals at a rate of 5u per tick and deals 0.75 toxin damage per tick up to a cap of 40 points.
100
25 seconds
Create Resin Jelly
Places Resin Jelly in your active hand, which can be used on yourself or other xeno castes for a 15-second immunity to fire.
100
45 seconds
Primordial Evolution
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE INGAME.
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 XENO NEW ABILITY.
Your corrosive acid is very weak, but it's better than nothing. Don't be afraid to secrete some and call for a stronger acid xeno to come in the meantime.
Never try to 1v1 any marine. You are not built for that.
Mature
Elder
Ancient
