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Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

Lassitude posted:

The queen killing Bishop because she's more intelligent than a drone isn't so crazy. I could see drones like what's in Alien being stupid enough that they know an android is just a machine and to ignore them unless they become a threat or whatever. The whole "how do aliens recognize other beings" thing is pretty sketchy so how they even tell a human from an android I don't really get, but aliens being dumb and needing a queen to make them smart enough to kill the power like in Aliens isn't so weird.

In the comics they key off of a kind of fear-sense that augments their ability to feel vibrations and heat. Most of the head is a sense organ. Less human androids wouldn't bother simulating emotions with a synthetic endocrine system like the W-Y models, they'd just fake it in software. lovely androids would be scentless to the alien.

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Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

Lord Lambeth posted:

I found the last 3-4 hours of the game pretty obnoxious, but they throw multiple aliens at you but then it becomes a very on rails portion with too many jump scares. I think they ran out of ideas.

For me the flamethrower was the turning point. Nothing after that felt tense or explore-y, or even Rambo badass which would've been ok too. It was just frustrating.

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