TGMC:King
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| UNDEFINED XENO | |
 King |
Difficulty: Very Hard |
Statistics and Evolution Path
The king is at the end of their evolution tree.
- 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.
- Speed is calculated inversely, meaning the lower speed value you have, the faster you are. Xenomorphs are always running, meaning they have a -1.0 boost added to their base speed. (Chart displays running speed)
- Pheromone Strength determines how powerful some activities will be, such as pheromones themselves, as well as using abilities that heal.
| Health | Plasma | Slash  |
Speed | Melee | Bullet | Laser | Energy | Bomb | Bio | Fire | Acid | Pheromone Strength | |
| Base | 650 | 1200 | 30 | -1.1 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 100 | 60 | 100 | 60 | 6.0x |
The King
THE OMEGA. Resting upon your resin throne, you look up in the nightly sky contemplating on the next star you will visit. Breaking your concentration, you have been summoned by a distant hive from planets and stars apart. Amused by the gift they have bestowed upon you, you began the psychic transfer from body to resin, then from resin to mind, then mind to the new planet. Such is the power of resin that xenomorphs have mastered over their environment of evolutionary adaptedness. Going through the psychic webbing of the Hivemind traveling faster than light speed, you can see all the collective memories of xenomorphs, from the early primitive centuries to the expansive space-faring Hive. All your senses are flooded by such sacred psychic information, motivating you to do what is needed: provide victory for the Hive.
Before you can be a king, the hive needs to get 15 xenomorphs (burrowed larva included).
HAIL TO THE KING
If there is one job that king can handle, it's combative engagement with marines. You play as an opener that xenomorphs can capitalize on so that they can follow up with their own abilities. Fundamentally, you synergize xenomorphs' engagement by:
- opening opportunities with Screech to push with Nightfall
- disarming many marines through Shattering Roar
- snaring marines with your terrifying looks via Petrify
- confusing that pesty marine with Offguard
- using mass teleport to get xenomorphs together with Psychic Summon
- rallying and coordinating the hive for a push
- making corrosion of reinforced walls to allow for xenomorph maneuverability
- melting CAS flares and OB beacons
- Emitting the strong Pheromones in the Hive
Compared to many, if not all, xenomorphs, you have many AOE abilities that permit xenomorphs to wreck havoc upon marines. In fact, when queen screeches, you should be using your abilities right after queen so that the xenomorph can run marines through. Read other xenomorphs' abilities that are AOE, and coordinate with xenomorph castes to fully utilize your and the Hive abilities.
Since you are tanky compared to other xenomorphs, your Petrify can make short work of marines, freezing them in place and allowing xenomorphs to follow up.
King's Abilities
| Ability | Description | Plasma Cost | Cooldown | |||
 Toggle Bump Attacks |
Allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. This allows you to slash any enemy creature by running into them. The red arrow means it's on, you attack when on HARM intent; the green arrow means it's off, you push when on HARM intent. | N/A | N/A | |||
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 Rest |
Used to rest and get up. You heal faster when resting on weeds. | N/A | 2 seconds | |||
 Psy Drain |
This ability is used on dead Marines. For every Marine's psyche drained, the Hive will gain between 30 and 90 psychic points, depending on the number of Marines spawned; and 1/8 of a larva. | 50 | N/A | |||
 Corrosive Acid |
Expels acid onto an object or wall, destroying it after a while. If used on wall, a hole will appear after some time. Small xenos can climb through, large xenos can break the wall with the hole on it open. CTRL + click to interact with the acid hole. During the prep phase, all xenomorphs with this ability get strong acid.
[Acid Strength by Caste]
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75 if caste has weak acid; 100 for medium and strong acid |
N/A | |||
 Plant Weeds |
Plants a resin weed node, which will start growing resin weeds in a 3-tile radius that allows xenomorphs to heal and restore plasma while on top of the tile.
Right-clicking the ability icon will allow you to select different types of weeds to plant. Placing a weed node on top of another will replace that weed node with the new type. During the prep phase, plasma cost to place a weed node is halved.
[Weed Types]
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75-225 | N/A | |||
 Emit Pheromones |
Toggles your pheromones, allowing you to select Recovery, Warding, or Frenzy. You only emit one at a time, and you can see which pheromones you are effected by in the Status tab. Emitting pheromones uses 5 plasma every regeneration tick. Strength of pheromones is tied to caste and increases the effects. More at Xenomorph Mechanics.
[Pheromone Types]
[Pheromone Strength by Caste]
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N/A | N/A | |||
 Petrify |
"After a windup, petrifies all humans looking at you for 6 seconds. While petrified humans are immune to damage, but also can't attack. | 100 | 30 SECONDS | |||
 Off Guard |
Gives an indivudal marine a debuff that drastically increases their scatter and inflict confusion for a duration. Effect decreases over time. | 100 | 20 seconds | |||
 Nightfall |
Shut down all electrical lights nearby for 10 seconds. Does nothing to flares. | 100 | 45 seconds | |||
 Shattering Roar |
After a one second windup, unleashes a wave that briefly knocks down anyone in its path causing some minor damage and a bit of staggerslow that scales with distance to the king. | 225 | 45 SECONDS | |||
 Psychic Summon |
Summons all xenomorphs and minions in a hive to the caller's location. | 900 | 10 minutes | |||
 Rally Hive |
Rallies the player xeno to you, along with an arrow pointer for other xeno. Gives the Hive your current health status. 60 second cooldown. | 0 | 60 seconds | |||
 Rally Minions |
Command minions, ordering them to converge on this location. You must be next to minions in order for them to follow you. When you activate rally minion, you will *roar, which will in turn make the minions *roar as well. If you hear minions *roar, it means they are following you. Note that minions are stupid and WILL get stuck |
100 | 60 seconds | |||
 Command Minions |
Order the minions escorting you to be either aggressive or passive. | N/A | N/A |
Primordial Evolution
Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
For the King, this primordial ability is Zero-Form Beam.
| Ability | Description | Plasma Cost | Cooldown |
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 Zero-Form Beam |
After a windup, concentrates the hives energy into a forward-facing beam that pierces everything, but only hurts living beings. It can only travel in the cardinal directions. | 25 | 10 SECONDS |
Tips and Tricks
- You have 100 soft bomb armor, making you immune to grenades!
- With 100 soft fire armor, you are immune to fire!
- Summon AWAY from the frontlines, summoning backlines can be quite effective if the frontlines are too defended.
- Summon far away from any sightings of CAS or they will shoot a ton of shit at you which will hit your allies you are summoning.
- Summon with a plan, there have been way too many summons where xenos just run back to where they just were and the summon is wasted.
- You cannot summon from across Z-levels, so don't bother hitching a ride on the back of the tad unless you feel you can break down their cades and kill the remaining occupants before the tad can arrive at the ship.
| TGMC Roles 
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| TerraGov Marines | Command | Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot |
| Vehicle Crew | Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman | |
| Engineering and Supply | Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician | |
| Medical | Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher | |
| Marines | Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine | |
| Civilians | Corporate Liaison | |
| Silicon | Combat robots, Synthetic, AI | |
| Xenomorphs | Tier 0 | Larva, Minions |
| Tier 1 | Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel | |
| Tier 2 | Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter | |
| Tier 3 | Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler | |
| Tier 4 | Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind | |
| Others | Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, | |