How to easily beat the Alien in Alien: Isolation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2014
- I cover a range of techniques, which will have the Alien literally cowering in fear of you during Alien: Isolation.
There are a whole range of techniques and hints, whether you have weapons or not - here is how you fight the Alien... Who knows, maybe you could fight more than one with these tips!
UPDATE: You can apparently hide under beds from the Alien which works - but is hit and miss. Worth trying if you are in a state! Thanks to commenter Duane Banks for that tip!
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Alien: Isolation
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One correction: Yes you can hide under any of the large double desk without being noticed by the Alien. These were my lifesavers during the game.
Did you get this to work on the hardest difficulty? I definitely didn't :(
Goose UK Played on the hardest difficulty. Lockers always saved me, as long as you are holding back he surely won't notice you (at least it never happened to me). Hiding behind things almost always works as long as there is an object between you (even if it has hollow parts through which you can clearly see the alien, like storage shelfs). Ducking under desks almost always works as long as he doesn't look straight at you. If the desk is in a small room/corridor and the alien just wanders along it (so that you see his legs but not the whole body), then he won't notice you. If the corridor is bigger and the alien will be far enough for you to see his whole body with head, then, if he will look straight at you, he will be able to see you. If you'll stay under the desks for too long then he will sniff you out and start peeking under them. Sometimes he will peek under the wrong desk giving you a chance to escape. In general the Alien seems to react to much more things than humans do, but at the same time his sight seems to be worse than that of humans: If you peek over, the humans will notice you instantly from over the entire room. The alien, however, won't. It irritated me a bit, and I don't think it's the alien that's too dull, rather humans seem to be overly sensitive (at least for video game standards).
Also, in a different vid you said the game cheats by spawning synthetics behind you - Never saw that happen, maybie you didn't notice them. There are a few lying on the floors as traps but they are in predetermined spots and you can stay away from them. Other than that, I never noticed any NPC teleporting/spawning. If it ain't there, it ain't there. Unless it's the alien, who is everywhere.
In general, nice vid.
Edit: If the alien is in the vent, then, apart from the dripping stuff, you can hear heavy breathing from it.
Flamethrower: The alien can force itself through the flames from time to time. It will hit you, drain some of your health, and then run away. If it happens inside a vent, then, if he will force himself through the flames, it will kill you no matter what. Also, from what I've noticed, the alien learns the flamethrower: Upon first contact, it sprinted at me and got burned. With each new encounter he seemed to be more and more wary of the flamethrower, up to staying just out of range, and trying to lure out pointless shots untill you run out of fuel. So I think it's best to avoid confrontation at the beginning, just to be sure the flamethrower stays as effective as log as possible.
Yeah seems like many of you have managed the tables, I tried it once and died. Maybe I could have given it another go but it felt like a risky strat. Might use it in my next play through! Thanks.
Goose UK My goo tip for tables is not to hide on the edges. Once under one look up and make sure your highest looking point is in the middle of the table so you are equal distance from either side. Works a treat for me. Also another one is a good one for the easiest setting. Throw in a random hide in the corner of the room next to a door way so when the alien walks in he is generally looking forward. I had to do it once and almost pissed myself when his tail skimmed past me.
+rentaroo I think the alien will look under desks from time to time, not sure if this is leaning behavior from the AI because the alien wouldn't know you were there anyway.
The best way to avoid Alien is to be unpredictable even more than it's. So don't use the same method so often, instead, surprise him with your tricks as much as possible. For example; When you use your flamethrower for a while start using molotov instead. Or set traps throughout the map to make him confused. One time I just got panicked and accidentally threw him a flashbang. It makes him confused as well and I instantly hide under the desk afterward. So sometimes even ineffective tolls seem to work from time to time.
Long story short is; be unpredictable as much as possible it gets.
The flame thrower may be the "most effective" weapon against the Alien, but it also triggers him within the game to appear and search for you more frequently, as though you have aggravated him. If you use it on him more than once in a short period of time, he'll turn very aggressive. He'll jump up into a vent, then seconds later jump back out and begin hunting you. If he hasn't been agitated by the flame thrower, he'll stay away longer and be a bit less aggressive. Stealth is always the preferred option. Oh, and I hid from him behind average-height tables and other objects just fine.
You can definitely hide under a desk, the reason you probably were seen is because you could see the alien's face. If you can see it, it can see you.
TheBlueTalon Wrong, I hide before under a bed in a doctor room, he enters in the room, I saw his face and then he get closer and boom, disappears out, he claims in the bed I'm hiding and he waits for a while if something come out from under the bed with is me, and then he goes away, and if you don't believe, hide yourself under a doctor's bed, and you will see, I didn't use mods or anything I'm a gamer, and I play without cheating, I hate that, and I'm a game tester, so you can imagine what a lot of hints and surprises I spot, that none realised yet, probably but not all, and I don't trying to be better than anyone that's what I experience on the game.
Emo Magneto No, you're wrong, if you can avoid the alien's line of sight you can hide under a desk indefinitely. Learn how the game actually works and stop spreading misinformation.
**looks in a corner**
Guys, it's different for each player. The game is scripted so that the alien reacts to your playstyle, and the outcome differs. Some players can walk and even run short distances without getting caught, I can hardly stand upright for a moment without getting caught. I'm not a game tester or anything, but I've read a lot of posts and watched plenty of videos that made my jaw drop when I saw what some players could get away with. It wasn't until I read about the special way this game has been programmed (only with regards to the alien, all other enemies behave the same way to everybody) that I understood why player experiences often are so different from one another.
@@dr_feelgood1902 no u wrong , the first guy said if u see the alines face ur dead which is not real ,and yes u can hide ans see his face nb all along...seeing his face doesnt mean ur in his line of sight
My experience was - hiding under a table, the Alien never spotted me. Maybe it was due to me crawling a little bit back and away from the direction it came. I found this, together with hiding behind an obstacle, better than any other, because you can keep the Alien in sight and know, where it is. Hiding inside of boxes always means the highly risk during bursting out of it - you cannot see, if the Alien ist just close at the left or right, cause you cannot see good enough from the inside.
Beside that, I now try my second run after having watched the pros on twitch / speedrun.com - they have invented a lot of tricks of whom I try to use a few, just not to exaggerate but having fun. One, I do not master anyhow, and I don't know why. Maybe someone knows and can help? It's "crouch clipping", and I'm not on pc but on XBOX one. For example, if you watch Matty (via Speedrun.com for example), who is a XBOX-gamer, too, how he gets through the door in mission 10 - this does not work with my console, me wondering why, just doing the same: Using the torch for some seconds at the opposite door before, then walking straight forward to the door I want to go through, focusing to the middle, keep walking when hitting the door and looking downwards to the feet, same time tapping the LS. Sometimes, the sign for catching the lock behind shows for a millisecond, but I never was able to activate it with the green "A". Watching Matty, the sign shows up much more longer, so it's no problem to hit it with "A". Anyone knowing anything? Is it to adjust the console or some settings maybe?
On lower difficulties, if you haven't made a bunch of noise, a lot of hiding will work. And, when on lower difficulties, the motion tracker won't always get you caught.
"Hiding under tables doesn't work"
It does. You just need to keep shuffling around to break line of sight, but be careful to do it quietly.
"Sometimes the Alien will just see you in a locker"
That's because it heard you slam the door.
Nightmare? More like "end my suffering, now."
I found out late in the game that I could have saved alot of ammo using the pry hammer on the facehugger. Mutiple ones I wouldnt advise it. But the perfect example is when late in the game you have to turn the power on in the room that has one single facehugger, if you flame it or shoot it the alien will come down immediately and attack you. So time it just right and kill it with the hammer.
How about the Holy Hand Grenade?
Worms
@@aporia3764 Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
It didn’t work for me. I even counted to four.
1:20 That sudden "RBM to hold breath" was the most bullshit thing this game has pulled yet
dude, you make great videos and have a really great voice for this type of thing. Please keep making more!
that moment when you realize if you hold the flamer out after burning it enough the alien learns and stands still and hisses at you and trys to outsmart you
When playing on hard when are carrying the flamethrower.the sound it makes when rubbing your side or your back and even the sound of the fluid splashing in the tank will draw attention
Thanks for the video much appreciated, I absolutely LOVE the Alien Franchise and was looking forward to playing this unusual concept game, but after 5 hours was getting a little disappointed with what felt like a slow paced, terrifying game of hide & seek. I came onto TH-cam today looking for some guidance, hints and most importantly some suggestion that I might find it a bit more entertaining as it progressed. I think learning about how the Flamethrower can be used to reduce the hours I've spent waiting in a filing cabinet for the alien to move on sounds progressive - thanks for giving me hope - good man.
Yeah it's a weird one. It's a great game, but so much was confusing and didn't gel well together. If this helps you and others get to the good game beneath that then I'm happy. I started replaying it last week and it's still super atmospheric.
It is quite bullshit about "you're not safe from the alien under a desk"
Lemme explain to you how does it work.
If you playing it smooth and nice, alien patrolling the area but you always sneak and he is not noticed to your presense -- you can hide under a desk and go and make yourself a tea -- he WONT check it.
If you alerted him to your presense -- swings with maintenance jack, shooting, sprinting, it will come and really SEARCH for you. In this state -- it will check under a desk, but it depends on range between your hiding spot and the source of disturbing sound. Sometimes it will remain agressive and keep checking whatever place you can hide under.
So basically, if you play it smart and not making loud moves to accelerate (or fail) your progress -- alien will be very passive. If you play it dumb -- prepare to get your face eaten off whereever you hide.
Hidding around a corner works and in fact I had the alien circle a table while I was hidding behind it and while it had CLEAR vision of my head.
Hard diffuculty.
The majority of ppl who praise this game must suck at stealth games or are outright fanboys.
Vladimir C NO WAY MY INITIALS ARE V.C
You can hide beneath beds and tables. Also if shot with the shotgun. You will stun the alien! I found this out yesterday while experimenting with different death scenes to see what affects the different weapons do to it
i remember one time when my game glitched (i think). the alien saw me and i whipped out my flamethrower and it ran for the vents before i even burned it. then it popped outta the vent in the next room and ambushed me. i think that would make an intesting game mechanic, where instead of just walking towards you, it stops and backs off, and tries to flank you. would give it more of a chance, with the ability to come outta a vent behind me when it sees that i will turn up the heat on it.
It may have just decided to go into the vents and drop somewhere else to try and find you. The ai path program probably told it "Into Vent - Then to Room (Name here) and to the alien you didn't exist.
Adam McNare / Nape it hissed at me, made the screech noise, and went for the vent. I existed to it, it just jumped up and then as soon as it came outta the vent it already knew where i was. It wss most likely a glitch, but it would be interesting as a game mechanic, for it to not always take the direct approach
potassium gamer
Hmm. I think I saw that glitch happen before in some playthroughs. Maybe he _did_ decide to flank you. after all, it's an unpredictable ai.
Adam McNare / Nape now, if only he had done that during the hospital level. 2 heart attacks, one from him finding me, the other from letting me think i am safe before my death. And to make it better, he may not always come at you, leaving you wondering: is the monster gonna male its move or what?
Adam McNare / Nape reason for hospital level, is that it is the only level where it is mainly just you and the alien and you are unarmed. I would be sure my death was near, only to be given a 70 30 chance of either false hope or a lucky break. Ofcourse, it should only happen up to 3 times outta 10 to balance it, but they could add so many variables: the alien could drop outta the vent silently, and lay in wait for me, or try to sneak, or go loud, or even hide in the vents. Imagine knowing that the creature is now aware of you, and that it is either toying with you or saving you for later/trying to trick you
Hey dude. Yes you can hide behind a table or a desk as long as there is an object covering your head. You can certainly hide under tables and desks very well.
Nice video by the way.
I did see in a video that if you shoot one of the red Fire Extinguisher canisters if the Alien is next to it, the explosion sends it running off as if it were a Molotov.
Lol I wouldn’t doubt it, even though I’m an old Arkham vet, I would’ve NEVER thought of that in this game, thanks for sharing that, I’m gonna have to start getting creative
Hiding under things seems to be kind of a crap shoot for me as to whether or not it actually ends up working. Sometimes the alien won't see you laying under that bed when he walks past, sometimes he will. Which seems pretty fair tbh - most of them are pretty revealing. It also makes sense that sometimes the alien would randomly check lockers even without knowing for sure if you were in it - especially if you've done nothing but hide in lockers all game. It learns! :D
the Alien homes in on you if you a) have the proximity sensor active b) are running c) are making noise, particularly if its a gone but doing work also draws her. BUT HE IS WRONG! you can hide behind one of those small tables quite easily i have a lot of times when i get caught off guard. just keep it in between you and alien, if she can't get you lined up in her sights she'll leave. using the same method to escape will ultimately burn you. she will figure it out even if she never sees you do it, getting in a locker or under a table, use all forms of escape so she has to keek guessing
Best basic combat guide I've found. You are doing the Lord's work.
nice one
I have played this on hard and medium and hiding behind a short table is safer than you imply. The Alien doesn't have good peripheral range and he cues which way he will turn. Antagonize it enough and it may be very aggressive and perform Its actions faster. So when scoping out multiple directions while standing still it will turn its head fast maybe sprint for 10 feet stop. It will hiss and growl but I do it all the time and loop around away from its peripheral. Plus if anything is on the table, as is in that image you show when discouraging it. Lighting plays a role, his angle relative to you, his speed at the time. Adapt. It helps to get an angle where you can't see it and, in my experience, it can't see you. Also under a table does work you have to use variety and I have rarely been caught there. Sometimes it is luck that plays an important role. I have been caught twice in tall and short lockers. On my second playthrough and just contacted Verlaine and am now trying to engage the docking clamps. If you do hide under a table put a pipe bomb near, leave a molotov behind you as you go down a narrow corridor. Even use a noisemakers to attract the Alien to those traps. Just keep changing tactics and it all mostly works. Keep checking map for points of interest and goals. Verlaine was awesome and so was Samuel's. I have never seen a "cheap kill". It always returns always molotov or not use it place it on the ground and walk away and draw it to you if it is patrolling. If you did it right it will walk right into the molotov and force it up a vent. If you keep hitting it with just the flamethrower it will take more and more
That's good advice. I may need to revisit this game, it's been a long time since I made these videos, but I loved it.
the Alien does adapt to the flamethrower if you use it a lot.
it's almost impossible to make a realistic Alien game as it is an apex predator it can sense the bioelectric field of living things, it has infrared vision, can detect even the slightest vibration.
in short if you don't have a pulse rifle or a smart gun you are fucked and if there is more than one its game over man.
What the fuck are we gonna do now?!
@@megachoons Build a campfire, sing a couple of songs.
@@MiloDC it'll be dark soon and they mostly come at night..............
....................................mostly.
you're actually a pretty cool youtuber. wonder why not much people have subscribed to you
Ha, thanks dude - I just started *actually* making content a few weeks ago, so hopefully there will be more stuff there for people to want to follow in the future!
pipebom is also something you get early on in the game and if you hit the alien with it it will also run away.
They also obliterate androids and humans. They're the best crafting item for combat.
I’ve succeeded in hiding from the alien behind, around and under those desks at the beginning. It saved my ass in the medical ward missions
FlameThrower-As i do i dont hold it. i just click the mouse button like 4 times.I think holding it makes the fuel lower faster..?
good game review mate, keep it up hope you get more subscribers asap ;) you deserve it
You can shoot those gas canisters too, they’re pretty much everywhere, if you don’t have Molotov’s or flamethrower, those work great
i have somehow used 1 of them single med beds to hide from the alien not sure how it didnt see me but it workd for me on hard
Place mines under the vent where the alien would propably drop down. This way when the alien drops down, it gets stunned for a second or two by the explosion which gives you time to react.
On harder difficulties, flamethrower fuel is rather scarce and the fuel consumption of the device is also less economic.
OK, the alien fears fire but on hard or nightmare difficulty, you can run out of fuel in no time - after that you're a sitting duck or you can resort back to the good old hide and seek with the creature :)
One of my gripes with this game is they give you way too much flamethrower fuel, imagine how much more tense the game would be if you used the flamethrower how it was intended (emergency use only)
And molotov is one of the last resorts -- Pipe bombs are much better at driving off not just aliens, they resolve any problems with enemies you can possible have, it kills anything. Also when you hold it -- it doesnt make any light like Molotov does, so if you feel that your cover is about to blow -- pull out the Pipe bomb and, if it starts hissing, throw it into his face. Also, you can find Pipe bomb even before you find Molotov. I'm curious why this "pro" doesnt have it at his inventory at all.
I just beat my first playthrough on Hard and I never found that blasted pipebomb either :-/
It can be found at the mission the Quarantine, with Dr. Khulman. The second Sample Storage room with the Save Station -- its on the first middle-right table, you wont miss it. Another part is at the Engineering Decks, the place where you have to dance around a Working Joe to pull up the buggy (or wtf is that vehicle is) to open a hole in a floor. There is a closed door that can be opened only with Access Tuner level 3. There is a Nostromo Log and Pipe lvl 2 blueprint.
I hope it'll help in your adventures around Sevastopol
morriszombine
Thank you sir!
Glad we settled this down. (C) Working Joe
Correction you can stun the alien with the revolver if you headshot buts it's only stunned For a second or two and it's also stunned by the shotgun no matter what bodypart you shoot
I consecutively shot it in the head and it still ran up and killed me tho
Thanks. Very helpful.
what do you mean hiding under a table doesn't work I've seen Let's Plays where it has
Anthony Jordan
It works but if the alien is coming from a specific angle it'll see you, also if it's suspicious you're there it'll check under
What doesn't make sense to me is that the shotgun has proven itself capable of killing an alien in the movie aliens.
I don't know if it's directly stated in the movie but they were using armor piercing rounds. Also Sevastopol wouldn't want to keep any weapon that could puncture the hull of the station.
Watch the speedruns by Psycho Hypnotic. He has the world record at 2:36. He has methods of always keeping ahead of the alien, or using the flamethrower and other things.
this was very helpful thanks so much
Dude you're like a Xenomorph exobiologist.
I could see you in the next Alien movie.
Also about lockers. The probability of your locker being checked by Alien depends on difficulty and is not affected by leaning back -- only leaning forward will sell your position out, aswell as holding tracker in the near proximity of the alien. On Nightmare you have only 25 percent that the Alien will ignore your locker, so on higher difficulties avoid using lockers at all costs.
Also about a bug with holding breath -- if you lean backwards BEFORE alien start sniffing your locker, you will glitch the interaction and you'll get killed either way. To survive and to do it smart -- press S when the prompt pops out then click RMB immediately, so you will be fine at any difficulty without being killed by teleporting alien
Cool man just bought the game... Waiting for the install packs to download.
It's really good - I'm enjoying it. Distracted by Fifa 15 this week but I'm thinking about going for the 'no deaths' playthrough... challenging stuff!
I don't know if you can put easily and alien isolation in one sentence
thankyou that really helped.
This so helpful
The alien can't see you but they can hear you
Thats not true
@@mathews2774 yep it is
Mlg Mousatos where does it say that
@@mathews2774 it dasnt say jast try it stand in front of him and see if he attacks you
you forgot to mention collect everything and build maximum items possible. also you don't have the most effective weapon against the alien in this video "The Pipe Bomb".
How does that work
+Sir Paul you mean how pipe bomb works?
sri ram yes thats what he meant
Thumbs Up, Ta Chap.
how is your voice so damn calm in a horror game
lol
Seriously, its like he'd explaining how a bake a cake.
@Centralist Australia i bet your too scared to play past mission 5
@Centralist Australia wow your so brave have my babies
When you keep playing the game it's not that scary anymore.
barely started playing, i'm about a couple hours in, don't have the molotovs yet, i probably just suck at stealth games, or i might be sucking because i'm playing on hard mode, either way, i'm at the first time the alien pops out, while looking for a doctor's ID tag for the OTHER doctor... pretty early on... any tips for playing without molotovs?
+fawkesianaut 23 Yeah, don't get caught! But seriously don't run, don't try to escape the area while the alien is still in the area. I would move hiding spots periodically, make yourself seem unpredictable.
what you mostly need to do, is look at the alien tracker
it will guide you to your objective and tell you where he is
Gassy Goddess haha yeah man, thank you, I beat that game a year ago but thanks :)
lol
I've just completed that area - my first play-through as well. I recommend using your map instead of the tracker since if the Alien is close by it can hear it (at least that's what the devs say) and when the Alien is close enough to show up on the tracker you can also hear him. My feeling is that the tracker is most useful for tracking humans and synthetics (androids). - I had to move in stealth mode through the whole section in order to not get caught and killed. I'm playing on Normal for now.
Yet, still no cheat codes on xbox one. Pc does. And when I finished many times the game in nightmare mode well it’s funny to get the other fun side the game with cheat codes. But apparently there are none for xone... Ripley so sad...
the pipe bomb scares the shit outta alien and it probably won't come back for atleast 1min if u don't make any noise.
im going to give a piece of advice. do not waste the flamethrower and use as little as possible. you will need it more later in the game.
i'm so good at this game now that the Zeno morphs work for me and even those little face hugger bastards even they know not to screw with me lol OK the face huggers don't work for me but they're easy to kill and it's actually quite easy to manipulate the alien to take out roving groups of people for you because some of them are pretty good shots
I think the developers should of let you kill alien and then added in the face huggers to help make another alien,so then you would of got some realism at least, the design that went into this was amazing and could of been a great game if they would of remade alien 3 like this (snes version),game play for me was great, story line and ending was poor and as I said could of been much much more if only the developers kept the original story line.
One thing I don't understand is why the alien can't be hurt or killed by your guns or any weapons for that matter. The revolver should be able to kill the alien considering that in Aliens, Vasquez killed one with a 9mm pistol and the revolver in game fires .357 cartridges which are larger and more powerful than a 9mm. The shotgun obviously should have the power to kill the alien yet it only stuns it, and incendiary/exsplosive weapons can kill it fairly easily too. It just doesn't make sense to me
It could be that the ammo for guns on Sevastopol is somehow intentionally weaker since it's a space station where you really wouldn't want a hole.
+Tyler McNeeley in aliens they used "inciadary" ammo (prolly spelled that wrong)
I am sure because i just saw that movie yesterday
The pulse rifles had explosive tipped rounds yes but not Hicks' shotgun or their side arms. Lore wise it doesn't make sense at least to me
+Johnathon Tyler-Spears well I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure a space ship hull is significantly stronger than polarized silicon, just gonna whip that out there.
+Tyler McNeeley Pulse rifles are basically one shot kills to the aliens, if it didn't die outright on the first shot chances are it's not getting up from it.
Love for the fact that this alien game is the concept that guns don’t do anything to it yet in the later movies and colonial marines pulse rifle do a shit ton of damage basically every weapon they used. Sega I understand survival horror but what if I just want to kill the xeno fuck
Sega stupid autocorrect
Bullshit on you can't hide under a desk. Did a lot of that.
Yeah maybe i sucked
Actually you CAN hide underneath a big table or bed and not be seen by the Alien. Has this speaker even played this game?
I don't think it's a cheap tactic.
I think I read somewhere that if you empty a revolver magazine into the alien it will retreat back into the vent, and I think half a shotgun magazine has the same effect. Don't quote me on that though.
It seems the revolver has no effect on the alien. I got caught by it once and it charged at me, I used up my revolver magazine and it kept running as if I never even pulled the trigger. The shotgun, however, temporarily stops the alien for 1-2 seconds, giving you time to back away from it & reload one shell. It runs for you, you shoot, back off & reload at the same time. Might help you get somewhere you need to get while it's found you.
"It's using the air ducts to move around"
Zey are under ze floorboards
I think you have gamma set on too high
I wish you could actually kill the alien, there is like 3 of them isn't there cuz I don't remember
When you called this game out for being cheap I had to subscribe
Unfortunately you started this video by getting a lot of things wrong. Almost as if you haven't played the game.
Hidding around a corner works and in fact I had the alien circle a table while I was hidding behind it and while it had CLEAR vision of my head.
Hard diffuculty.
The majority of ppl who praise this game must suck at stealth games or are outright fanboys.
Good job with incorrect tips