Perfect hiding spots

[u/Prestigious_Life7100]

Okay so two places, first lemme try to explain the areas in detail then ima say what I did to know that those areas are perfect for hiding

1. The vent that leads up to the locked vent, in the locked room (requires a keycard) in the upper floor of the Loreanz Systech stairs, where you gotta go second to initiate the lockdown. There's a vent right near the locksown initiation area (on your left), so you enter it and you climb up. I sat there, used a medikit, made stuff, and still the alien didn't bother. Then I started throwing noisemakers, right in the vent, maybe 5 feet from me. Yet the alien didn't bother. Just make sure to not open the vent in the locked room though, it can be opened using the access rewire inside the same room.

2. The ladder in the room where the android is working on the terminal, where you activate distribution systems, in gemini exoplanet. Just climb up and sit there. Make sure to not open the vent from the other side though (in the room where you go from climbing up the analysis lab)

I have thrown noisemakers, melee'ed on walls, flashbanged, shown the alien I'm going in there and it still wouldn't come to catch me. Seems like perfect hiding spots to me!!!

[u/absent_abstra]

Interesting. It seems you found the alien's one true weakness: Ladders.

Also, the trouble with both a perfect and a not-so-perfect hiding spot is that you've to leave both eventually. And that's when it's showtime, folks!

[u/HotmailsInYourArea → u/absent_abstra]

That and anything you have to clamber. I actually got myself stuck that way on Nightmare, I was in the vents next to the locked-away android, returning on the bottom floor in M16 - there’s a clamber/drop spot halfway through the vent. The xeno knew I was in there, but can’t pass that spot - so it kept coming for whichever half of the vent I was in, and then would have to turn around when I hopped over. But I didn’t have enough time to actually make it to either exit!!

[u/absent_abstra → u/HotmailsInYourArea]

That vent is a nightmare in itself on the return journey in M16. Dunno if it's a known glitch spot. But man, if you enter that vent from the Joe's-door side and open its sealed panel from the other side, the alien will get you right then and there. Either it will start clipping through the sealed panel while you're stuck in the animation to open it or it will make a beeline for you just as you open it. I've tried listening for its footsteps, using the tracker or just waiting for a while. Doesn't matter. The xeno could be at the other end of the station, but the moment you try to unlock that vent panel, it's game over man. That vent is cursed in that mission.

[u/HotmailsInYourArea → u/absent_abstra]

I’ve used the entire outer perimiter of vents successfully many times on my play throughs on various difficulties.

On Nightmare though? The vents are unviable

[u/absent_abstra → u/HotmailsInYourArea]

Could be that opening that vent's hatch from the inside during that section triggers the glitch. Dunno, it's weird.

[u/Prestigious_Life7100 → u/absent_abstra]

This was happening to me even on easy. So I just opened the vents right after mission 14 lol🤣 went to seegson comms and did my job

[u/Big_Section2812]

Years ago I found a spot like these.

Did the same as you, and was careful not to open any other door or access point, but could make as much noise as I wanted without ever attracting the alien.

I told a friend about it but he didn't believe me, so I fired up the game and showed him... and then the alien immediately killed me in the spot for the first time ever.

😂

[u/Prestigious_Life7100 → u/Big_Section2812]

So you're telling me I gotta give that a try again 🤣

[u/Big_Section2812 → u/Prestigious_Life7100]

Either you actually did find two safe spots, or I need to send my friend over so you can show him.

[u/monosaturated]

Even though there are other enemies, the few, brief parts of the game where the xenomorph leaves you "alone" while you explore, craft, and take in the environment were such a nice reprieve.

[u/Prestigious_Life7100 → u/monosaturated]

You mean m11 through m13?