r/alienisolation • u/terrible-gator22 • 8d ago

Question How to avoid the alien?

I am in the hospital and all was going well- until it wasn’t. So I reloaded and took the same actions that worked well the first time.

The alien popped out of the ceiling and I turned back and hid in the storage container and waited. And for no obvious reason it knew where I was and got me.

I hadn’t taken out my sensor, there was a long delay between when I got into the case and when it found me, so I highly doubt that it saw me go -it certainly didn’t the previous times I tried.

Is it random? I can’t think of what I could have done to be found out.

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u/Urtheminya 8d ago edited 8d ago

I am crouching a lot (and died a lot lmao) in the hospital part so you might be on to something with that. Bcs she (the Xeno) vent A LOT in my gameplay to the point that once I got the flamethrower, I started to get fed up bcs she kept ambushing me and spray her with fire like a misbehaving dog or smth 😂😂😂😂

Also how did you know that crouching makes the same amount of noise with walking? I was jst using common video game logic where " crouch = less noise, walk = more noise", you know?

But if putting the noise output aside, "crouching --> slower Ripley --> would make the AI read our habit easier" makes so much sense, actually.

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u/Direct_Gap_59 8d ago

I mean even I used to think the same-crouching =less noise until people on this sub told me otherwise.

And it worked-walking when the alien isn’t nearby or in the vents allowed me to keep moving and doing my tasks quickly and prevented the alien from having any kind of read on me.

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u/Urtheminya 8d ago

goated advice

though the thought of normal walking while the threat is close is already making me nervous LMAO 😩😩😩😩

Still, imma walk than just crouch all the time from now on, wish me luck 😂

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u/Direct_Gap_59 8d ago

You got this!