TGMC:Defiler

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UNDEFINED XENO

Defiler

Difficulty: Medium Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Use Neurogas smokescreens to support pushes, and Defile sting to infect marines with quick bursting larvae. Guides: This is the guide. Quote: "It's baby time! Baby, you're the best, you're not like all the rest. It will be so much fun when you're the one that burst. No matter what you do I will be proud of you even if you receive a liberal arts degree!"

The Defiler

The Defiler is one of the most difficult support caste xenos to play, due to it's forced front line fighting, Requirement of knowing reagent uses, and low armor and health compared to other T3 xenos. Your defile sting is integral in getting quick infections on front lines, especially when the hive is without a carrier. You can place weeds, and your Emit Noxious Gas ability can lay down a smokescreen to allow xenos to push on fortifications that include turrets. If you master the defiler, you will be the thing marines have nightmares about when they sleep.

Playing the Defiler

As a Defiler, it's very important to maintain in your mind that you cannot take as much damage as any other T3. Losing a Tier 3 Xenomorph is always a big setback for the hive, due to Tier limitations, and the time it takes to reach Tier 3 for any xeno. Your Emit Noxious Gas ability is integral for xeno pushes, especially in the absence of a boiler, start your channel out of marine sight, then run in as soon as your gas begins to vent. Reagent claws can be extremely useful, if you know how to use it. Keep in mind Reagent Slash can be channeled even while moving, so if you stay close to the target, you can get your full 3 slashes. Your defile sting is a 3 sting channel that infects marines with a larva on the first sting, and injects neurotoxin and Larva growth serum on the others. This essentially forces the marine to get the larva out, taking them out of the field for a time, or suffer death. Death can come faster when you pump them full of reagents, as each reagent in their system increases the larva's growth speed. A good strategy is to run in with the queen and Reagent Slash marines as she is screeching, you can ensure they stay down much longer than the short amount of time they are normally incapacitated.

Reagents

The Defiler has the ability to use 3 different reagents, Neurotoxin, Hemodile, and Transvitox. The currently selected reagent is the one used by both Emit Noxious Gas and Reagent Slash abilities.

Name	Description	Metabolism Rate	Overdose Threshold	Critical OD Threshold
Neurotoxin ▮	A debilitating nerve toxin. Impedes motor control in high doses. Causes progressive loss of mobility over time. Causes progressively increasing pain and stamina loss, increasing after ticks 20 and 45. Additionally, purges medicines at a rate of 1u per tick. On overdose, causes 0.5 toxin and oxy damage; critical overdose stops breathing.	0.4 units per tick	30u	60u
Hemodile ▮	A stamina draining toxin. Causes increased stamina loss and slower movement. Causes slowdown and makes you take additional damage in the form of 20% extra stamina damage whenever hit.	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A
Transvitox ▮	Heals brute and burn wounds, while producing toxins. Whenever you take damage while it's in your system, you heal a small portion of brute and/or burn damage equal to 40% of the damage taken in exchange for equal amounts of toxin damage. Converts damage up until 45 toxin damage, at which point it stops taking effect. Prioritizes healing brute damage until it's fully healed, with the remainder of healing flowing over to burn.	0.4 units per tick	N/A	N/A

The target will have a HUD indicator next to their health bar in the form of a colored dot which shows if the target has a reagent in them or not. You can then examine them(with shift-click)to see what reagents are in them exactly.

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

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.

Age

Health

Plasma

Slash

Melee

Bullet

Laser

Energy

Bomb

Bio

Rad

Fire

Acid

Young

250

800

17

x

x

x

x

TBH

x

x

x

x

Mature

270

900

17

x

x

x

x

TBH

x

x

x

x

Elder

290

1000

20

x

x

x

x

TBH

x

x

x

x

Ancient

325

1000

20

x

x

x

x

TBH

x

x

x

x

Defiler 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.	Easy	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	Easy
Plant Weeds	Can only be placed on a tile that does not already have a resin sac, and cannot be placed on rock, grass, or catwalks.	Easy	75
Emit Noxious Gas	Emit Noxious Gas begins a channel that after a short amount of time begins to vent the selected reagent as a gas from your dorsal ports, you can move once the gas begins to vent.	Medium	200
Defile	Channel to inject an adjacent target with larval growth serum. At the end of the channel your target will be infected.	Easy	100
Reagent Slash	Deals damage 4 times over 3.6s and injects 3u of selected reagent per slash. Can move while slashing.	Easy	30*
Inject Neurogas	Inject an egg with neurogas, killing the facehugger, but filling it full with neurogas ready to explode.	Easy	30*

Defiler tips & tricks

• Your Defile Sting ability can easily overdose hosts. Do not sting if you have slashed them more than 2 times with Neurotoxin Reagent Claws, without waiting a small bit for the neuro to tick out of their systems. Unless you want to kill them.
• The first sting of your Defile sting ability will infect marines with a larva, this will be an accelerated larva with a rough growth time of 3 minutes.
• Neuro claws should only be used for 2 slashes of any capture capture gameplay is dead.
• Always start the channeling of your Noxious Gas Vent ability out of sight of marines, as if you move during the channel before you start to vent, you will have to wait the full cooldown period, consume plasma, and won't vent anything.
• You can operate as an assassin of sorts, against a marine with just about any weapon but a shotgun, due to your speed and Reagent Claws ability.

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