Aliens and Queen

[sanddog1]

Typically For the aliens (while being :):):):):):)es themselves) do not compare to the lady in charge. A few friends and I were talking about it and any game where you fight aliens should at least have some sort of queen (boss fight) in it. Now while this is probably already done, I'd like to know what your people's thought on multiplayer would be. {DETHRONE} The Game mode where one plyr is a queen and the others must stop the queen from starting a hive, this includes getting weapons setting a trap and killing her quickly. I have allready posted it on here that being able to play as an alien is something that I am highly hopeing to do, Facehugger, dog alien, etc. If you guys really try with this You can make a great game. Let me know what you think. Any suggestions to build up my ideas or add some of yours are always accepted

[Bohlder]

Agreed! But the complication of starting a hive vs. already having one...this is online play remember? When was the last time you saw a complex online scenario?

[Kuteth]

Yeah that could be fun, but usually they never let players be the queen :(

[psychosis00]

A fight against the queen would be sweet . The climax of the 1986 Aliens Game ( that followed the movie plot ) ended in a fight against the alien queen aboard the Sulaco. All though even if we don't get to see or fight the queen, I feel confident that a mod will come out to add one. I can not really imagine them not having her at least make an appearance somehow.

[Chris!(($]

The Queen WILL be in the game. I am pretty sure there will be a boss fight maybe not at there very end of the game and hopefully not with the Queens Health meter always popping up like in most Boss fights like flamethrowers will probably have no affect on any Xenomorph except facehuggers and there eggs but to blind them and stop them or something and I doubt a pistol will do much to a Queen. We never saw what a Pulse Rifle could do to a Queen however. I am sure she will have week spots like around the neck and mouth but there is no way any weapon we saw being used in Aliens could harm the Queens head I mean that thing looked heavily armored. I would mind have someone flying the Drop Ship or driving the APC and the Queen is about to bring it down some how and you have a few missiles/rounds etc that you have to fire on her week spot to throw her down. so you can escape. I would prefer not to kill the queen for sequal reasons and when I say not kill I dont mean capture I just mean you harm her in a place where she falls or is blown back far enough to safely get away. I would still like a casual Alien and Predator ending of some sort huge explosion that Alien 3 failed at and Predator 2 kind of had that could still fit with leaving the Queen alive for a sequal because I dont want to have a sequal being with a totally different planet or queen making your Squad like Xenomorph Exterminators thats cheesy and if there is a sequal only one is needed IMO. I dont want a trilogy or something. But yah if its not a fight with the queen than maybe like in AvP the movie (Please dont flame me for mentioning that movie lol) when they looked up the 3000 ft tunnel they saw a small shadow that was the Queen going up it. That I wouldnt mind seeing as long as it didnt have a boss fight afterwards. For some reason I would like it if A:CM even changed the whole Alien story and made it so Alien Ressurection and parts of Alien 3 never existed. I mean the writers and directors of Alien 3 obviously never read teh comics and saw how much people liked them and the writers and directors of Alien Ressurection just didnt know how to bring back the legend. Anyways dont worry Aliens: Colonial Marines will make every Alien fan happy and make everyone who hasnt seen Alien-Aliens realise how much every damn game on Earth uses Alien and Aliens one way or another. I mean I remember reading similarities between Halo 3, CoD4 and Aliens and Bungie admitted Johnson was based off Apone. Anyways no matter what I will love Aliens: Colonial Marines just as much as I enjoy the Halo trilogy and CoD4 (even though 5 is in WW2 again.... AGAIN!!!!!!) Anyways thats all I have to say anyways its alot yah but expect more in the futures lol. Oh yah JUST one more thing does anyone here have a account on Gear Box's forums. If you do please tell me HOW I can sign up on their forums. with out using my ISP's email.

[psychosis00]

The Queen WILL be in the game. I am pretty sure there will be a boss fight ...

Oh rly ? So how mad would you if she is not in the game at all ? I'm sure we will work her in somehow, even if it is not in the way you want. Would you ignore a great game for that one reason alone though ??? I wouldn't.

[Chris!(($]

I will be fine if the Queen isnt in the game but the reason I said WILL is because it has been said multiple times she will make an appearence. Obviously it wont matter much to people whether we get a boss fight or not with her. If she is put in Multiplayer I hope you have to get like 15 kills in order to play as her. Plus I have a quick multiplayer idea. Since armor should be destructable I think health should either come back slowly or like in CoD4 or instead of having to wait you can get a medic's assitance. Now for Xenomorphs health should start to come back quite quickly when you are in a safe spot or you can get lots of health from tearing apart at corpses.

[psychosis00]

I meant to say ( THEY ) will work her in somehow. I'm such a tard sometimes. I do hope that we get to battle her as well , as that would be just to sweet !!

[Tzudro]

My only issue with throwing in a boss fight is that we will either be mowing down waves of regs at the end of the level, or fighting the Queen either once or over and over again.

I think they should throw in some different kinds of breeds to make it interesting. I mean, the Queen is one huge mother (ha ha), but imagine if they started impregnating animals on an established colony. What if they had a zoo there and the Aliens started making weird Xenomorphs. Big Xenomorphs.

Like what if a lion got impregnated? An alligator? A rhino? An elephant? Think of the weirdness that would ensue as you get the the end of the lvl and have to fight off an enormous, very cunning lion Xenomorph? I know it sounds stupid, but they should introduce some variety into the ranks of the already super cool aliens.

[dra0gon1]

Typically For the aliens (while being ******es themselves) do not compare to the lady in charge. A few friends and I were talking about it and any game where you fight aliens should at least have some sort of queen (boss fight) in it. Now while this is probably already done, I'd like to know what your people's thought on multiplayer would be. {DETHRONE} The Game mode where one plyr is a queen and the others must stop the queen from starting a hive, this includes getting weapons setting a trap and killing her quickly. I have allready posted it on here that being able to play as an alien is something that I am highly hopeing to do, Facehugger, dog alien, etc. If you guys really try with this You can make a great game. Let me know what you think. Any suggestions to build up my ideas or add some of yours are always accepted

i like your queen multiplayer idea be cool but what you have is a random player as the queen and there already in a hive then mariines have 2 kill queen but also kill eggs as well and also after like 30 respawn or randomly a queen face hugger cud be like a back up if queen dies but u have to kill a certin amout or somthing and also if queens dies the the marines have to wipe out the rest of the aliens and they win but the way aliens win is by killing all marines and by destrying the base reswpan or somthing like that

[-Demon-]

I so hope they do put the Queen in the multiplayer again. It was so awesome being one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vsK3Flx0Q

[Slick.]

When I played AvP 2 the Queen was in the single player game and the multiplayer. In the multiplayer, if you played as an alien you would start out as a facehugger, punch out of someones chest as a little wormy, morph into a grown alien (the alien you became depended on what your host was), and if you gained enough kills in a single life you would morph into a queen. I remember during one game, I had four queens running at me. That was an epic battle.

I think the Queen in the AvP 2 single player was in both the original and the expansion pack. I would be very surprised if they did not bring in the Queen. When I watched one of the video's about this upcoming AvP, the developer said they were all super geeks on the alien universe and that they wouldn't do anything to hurt the franchise. So, with this said, I would bet a case of beer that they have the Queen.

In fact, I just found a screen shot proving that she will be in the game.

Click Here (http://english.pravda.ru/img/idb/13-queen_elizabeth_ii.jpg)

[Telgin]

Honestly, I feel that the fight with the queen has gotten to be a little tired and dry because it's expected. I don't mind killing her, but I wouldn't mind not seeing her either. If I have to kill her, at least let me shoot her dead, unlike the original AVP (AVP2 got that right at least).

For multiplayer, a queen vs. several people is an interesting idea. Starting a hive though sounds like it would be impossible to balance. If she's generating computer controlled aliens, it could quickly get impossible for the other players to beat.

Another idea might be that she's sort of like a moving objective that you have to keep alive. This could be team based, another team might have a similar objective like an exosuit. Something that can kick tons of butt but left alone would cost you the game.

Really though, I don't care much for multiplayer, so it doesn't matter much to me. I just like enthralling single player experiences.

[LoCkNeS5]

Well you could easily make a gametype called "Hive" where when players start a random "alien player" is selected to be the queen from the start were the rest of the alien players would be the drones. Object of the game destroy the queen and the hive before time runs out. The drones would only have a certain number of lives before the hive reinforcements are "dry" or till the queen has been killed. Then the queen would have to fend for herself. Pretty much if you've ever played "Aliens Online" you know what I mean.

[-=Okami=-]

This is probably the first thread I have seen here with really constructive and tangable ideas to boost the series. I think these ideas are quite good, and a slightly newer edge on the standardized objectives usually help in most FPS games.

As long as specifically designed maps where made for a "DETHRONE" or "HIVE" style game setting, I could see this working. Especially if my idea stated in my super rant post with welding doors for the marines was implemented (See the post for the original details).

I would like see more involvement for multiplayer of the facehugger and queen, since multi is where the true longevity of this game will be at. They just need to make predator weapons not target facehuggers again like in AVP Gold to make lifecycle modes worth it - (I say pred weapons alone as they are more so true to being fire and forget, area of effect, and in most cases 1 hit kill on most classes as opposed to the smart gun or lock times of the sadar). Otherwise its a joke. And a homing projectile camp fest where aliens just get slaughtered untill all maps are packed full of players and utter chaos. Wich is not always the case.
(It was also a major problem in lifecycle mode where fresh chestbursters yet to pop out of the corpse of said victim, where camped and in 99% of cases, obliterated before even maturing.)

But really good ideas guys gotta commend you all for actually posting something constuctive thats worthwhile :)