TGMC:Shrike

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UNDEFINED XENO
Shrike	Difficulty: Hard Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Be the psychic support of the hive, become queen when the previous one runs headfirst into a missile. Guides: N/A Quote: "Oh boy, here I go flinging nades back to marines again."

The Shrike

The shrike is one of the few xenomorphs that have harnessed telekinesis to defeat the marines, but with this great power comes with great responsibility. With such psychic abilties, you are also tasked to lead the hive with and without a queen. Since you are not queen, you are not as heavy as the queen, so you cannot withstand much damage from marines; in fact, you can get stunned by shotguns and mateba. You are a support caste and should not be spearheading the xeno charge. However, your fling does provide a good stun against one marine, making you an excellent duelist.

If the Queen and Shrike die, then the hive will be orphaned and collapse within 2 minutes. If there is no Queen or Shrike in that time period, there will be a marine major.

Playing the Shrike

So, seems that you have become the shrike, but what do you do now?

First steps:

• Turn on your pheromones to either recovery, a typically non-combat pheromone, or the warding and frenzy pheromones which increase combat performance of you and your fellow xenos
• Use your Call Burrowed ability regularily, as it allows dead players to respawn at your feet as burrowed larva. Use only while you are safe as larva can easily die

Now that thats done, what should I be doing? Go help support your fellow xenos at the front line with healing and through the use of your abilities "Fling" and "Devastating Force". As you are more of a support caste marines will be especially eager to kill you. Do note you should not try to take on marines on your own, as you do not do much damage and your abilities are perfect for opening opportunities for your allies.

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

The Shrike is a Tier 3 and can evolve into a queen if there are more than 8 xenos in the hive.

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	325	750	20	30	30	30	30	60	10	10	30	10
Mature	350	850	20	35	35	35	35	60	15	15	35	15
Elder	375	900	23	40	40	40	40	60	18	18	40	18
Ancient	400	925	23	45	45	45	45	60	23	23	45	23

Shrike 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.	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
Corrosive Acid	Lets you expel acid from your body onto any structure/object you are able to. Shrike acid is medium strength, stronger than a Sentinel's but still weaker than a Boiler's or Queen's acid.	Easy	75
Place acid well	Place an acid well that can put out fires when a xenomorph steps on the acid well.	Easy	75
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
Lay Egg	Makes you lay a hugger egg.	Easy	400
Call of the Burrowed	Sends a ping to all ghosts allowing them to join the xeno team as burrowed larva that will spawn on you. Do not use near combat or the new larva can easily die	Easy	N/A
Choose Resin Structure	Click to choose which resin structure you wish to build with Secrete Resin. It will always default to Resin Wall upon evolution.	Easy	N/A
Secrete Resin	Builds whatever resin structure you have chosen in Choose Resin Structure on your hotbar, on your current tile.	Easy	75
Psychic cure	Allows you to heal xenomorphs from up to three tiles away on a one minute recharge.	Easy	200
Psychic Whisper	Allows you to bully captured hosts telepathically	Easy	N/A
Larval Growth sting	Begins a 3-part channel that injects larval serum into a target, speeding up a larvas growth. (Overdosing causes oxygen damage)	Easy	N/A
Psychic Fling	Use on a human or item on the floor to use psychic powers to launch it 5 tiles away from you	Hard	100
Unrelenting Force	Launches all humans and items in a 3x3 square in front of you away from you (Works only in the cardinal directions, not diagonally).	Hard	0
Emit Pheromones	Emit one of the three Pheromones. The Shrike has some of the most powerful Pheromones available to the hive. Your pheromones will grow stronger as you mature.	Easy	30*
Rally Hive	allies the hive to a congregate at a target location, along with an arrow pointer. Gives the Hive your current health status. 60 second cooldown.	Easy	N/A

Tips & Tricks

• Don't tank shots, you are meant as a support caste.
• Open up duels with a fling instead of screech. If you fling first, you can further stun them with a screech, and when screech is used, your fling is ready to go to further stunlock the marine.
• Aim for arms in duels. You can easily decrease the marine's capability to duel you when they have a fractured arm. Marines can't use shotgun if not wielded. If they have a pistol or submachine gun, then you will have to break both arms to prevent them from using the weapons.
• Use your screech to fling marines' nades back at them; you are the only xenomorph that can do this.
• Use help intent to help shuffle behind marines, turn around to face marines' back, and screech. Watch as they get pushed to a group of xenomorphs.
• Sometimes it's better to save psychic cure to save sisters that get into trouble than waste it for a quick heal

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