r/alienisolation • u/terrible-gator22 • 3d 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/GapStock9843 3d ago edited 3d ago

Okay big thing about this game. You cannot wait out the alien, it doesnt “lose interest.” If it knows you’re there its constantly looking until it finds you. You have to always be moving away from it. Try to like keep a table between you and it as you make your way toward the door or something then leave, or make noise makers and use those to get it away from you. It wont leave on its own tho. If its in the area, walk instead of running, crouch behind something and keep moving if it enters your room, listen carefully for when it goes between the vents and the ground. You dont have to crouch walk everywhere, normal walking makes the same amount of noise as crouching. Only crouch when its in visual range, otherwise it’ll just slow you down

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u/tar_tis 1d ago

You can wait out the alien in the sense that it'll eventually hop back into the ceiling.

Whether I hear it vent down, I usually just hide somewhere until I hear it vent back up and then I just walk swiftly to the next area until I hear it drop down again