[Request] LV-426 (Alien/(2))

[AstronauticalFerret]

So I haven't seen this yet, noticed someone else is doing a Starship Troopers mod so decided to request something I haven't seen on the forum yet. I love the zombie horde mode, I love the SST mod as well, but I can't help but fantasize how fun it would be to face  either one xenomorph that does hit and run strikes, or a mass swarming from a nearby hive that nearly destroys my base.  Like the horde mod a person injured by a face hugger will end up dying but producing a chest burster that would in turn run away only to come back a day or so later to finish the job. The drones/warriors of course wouldn't want to kill the colonists, but instead drag them off to be hosts who you could go rescue if there was a way to spawn a hive on the map O.o?

If someone plans to do this or wishes to undertake it that would be awesome to see. I lack the coding and artistic skills to pull something like this off, I'd rather just throw a donation at someone and hope they can to the job.

[Gabriel_Braun]

Not until there's any mention of pawn animation to be fair but it's easy enough if you made a storyteller event that generates increasing fear thoughts in visual proximity of saliva splashes the way 'saw # corpse' does?  I'd make the actual xeno invisible though for the time being and if you were going to attempt it give it a shadow altitude of waist height so that it's sort of detectable on normal speed but you probably wouldn't see it coming until the first casualty forced the slowdown 

[AstronauticalFerret]

I like the idea of making it hard to see. Would make sense in the Alien/Alien3 way of things.  Making it excessively fast and able to take a colonist down in one to three hits and drag them off would be an interesting mechanic. Fear caused by seeing saliva pools or even shredded exoskeleton would also be a great way to spruce up the game play.  Once several colonist go missing you finally get to see a group of larger xeno's that do the same thing only are easier to see, but remain to the kidnapping and host producing ways instead of the silly rush in the way A:CM did it. Would make a good challenge as well. Once they get up to 10+ more members they can build a hive (The way raiders build a mortar encampment) and produce a queen who unless killed will produce an unlimited supply of eggs for normal cycles, thus resulting in constant night time raids of face huggers and drones. 

[CreepyD]

This is definitely a mod I'd like to play

Just some thoughts come to mind.
You might also need to add some kind of defenses, maybe beefier turrets like the ones from Aliens.
Nice to go with this would be the requirement to have ventilation for any mountain based bases, which can of course be used by the xeno's too.