Surviving as a survivor now adays

David Stormwell · Post by **David Stormwell** » 17 Sep 2018, 23:59

Hia Sir or Mad'am can you please share with me tips on how to survivor now adays? With all the changes xenos get all the buffs against marines but what about em survivors? Every round i've played as of these last few days I have yet to see a survivor thats survived

DefinitelyAlone0309 · Post by **DefinitelyAlone0309** » 18 Sep 2018, 00:34

Hide in locker if you really just want to survive and aim for that boring shipside RP. If you just want to have fun and join xeno later, build defense like normal.

BillyBoBBizWorth · Post by **BillyBoBBizWorth** » 18 Sep 2018, 02:53

Usually just hide in a locker, ive been apart of survivor groups that held the xenoes off before but that was along time ago and i dont think you could pull it off now and most of the spots were against the rules technically anyways, like the wardens office on prison.I have survivor switched off these days.

Avalanchee · Post by **Avalanchee** » 18 Sep 2018, 07:23

Rename survivors to corpses

Amitt0 · Post by **Amitt0** » 18 Sep 2018, 07:27

I rolled survivor and was fortunate to get the doctor so I had meds on me that kept me in pretty good shape.
Three of us held off in the wardens office on prison and we were all killed as we heard the dropship coming in. They managed to get a boiler and just bombed us.
Fortunately i was revived.
Survivability seems to have gone done recently but it was exciting.

Rarien · Post by **Rarien** » 18 Sep 2018, 07:34

Honestly I thought survivors were to help the xeno get an early-game start.

Vispain · Post by **Vispain** » 18 Sep 2018, 10:42

Nah ...
survivors are like... Not really designed to live but also not there to purely feed the xenos more larva.

Chaznoodles · Post by **Chaznoodles** » 18 Sep 2018, 11:13

Grab a shotgun, blast some Eurobeat and put your running shoes on. It's the only enjoyable way to play.

Post by **Steelpoint** » 18 Sep 2018, 11:24

Surviving as a survivor...

David Stormwell · Post by **David Stormwell** » 18 Sep 2018, 12:04

Chaznoodles wrote: ↑
18 Sep 2018, 11:13
Grab a shotgun, blast some Eurobeat and put your running shoes on. It's the only enjoyable way to play.

Tied ran into a spitter and a warrior

David Stormwell · Post by **David Stormwell** » 18 Sep 2018, 12:05

Steelpoint wrote: ↑
18 Sep 2018, 11:24
Surviving as a survivor...

Before it was easily done now...^

Madventurer · Post by **Madventurer** » 18 Sep 2018, 14:01

I have only ever spawned as botanist and chef. Never anything else.

ThePiachu · Post by **ThePiachu** » 18 Sep 2018, 15:24

As I understand, your role as a survivor is for benos to have something to do in the first 30 minutes of a game. You are the latejoin xeno, the 2+ walking larva. Embrace this and enjoy the game

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Alternatively, you could hide somewhere nobody would ever check, like SW caves on Big Red. On big maps xenos won't scout every corner. On LV, you might be screwed though...

Gnorse · Post by **Gnorse** » 18 Sep 2018, 17:14

if you join as a survivor, write a note for the marines, grab the nearest gun and kindly off yourself.
Unless you want to give xenos one, two or, god forbid, seven larvae.

CABAL · Post by **CABAL** » 18 Sep 2018, 18:11

Gnorse wrote: ↑
18 Sep 2018, 17:14
if you join as a survivor, write a note for the marines, grab the nearest gun and kindly off yourself.
Unless you want to give xenos one, two or, god forbid, seven larvae.

Confirmed to be the best thing to do. For extra spice try to bust out the lethal injection from locker in Big Red and go on a killing spree. Watch Queen screaming at benos for killing a host.

DriedMilk · Post by **DriedMilk** » 18 Sep 2018, 23:31

you dont

Audi_Gzz · Post by **Audi_Gzz** » 21 Sep 2018, 06:54

Hide in a locker simulator, and pray theres RP for you when you go up

Lil Mayo · Post by **Lil Mayo** » 22 Sep 2018, 04:06

If you REALLY want to survive, you can:
A) Stay in a locker till rines come.
B) Bust in an enclosed area, which aliens can't explore, and build a coffin there. For example, enter Internal Affairs Dome on LV somehow, or spawn there, and make a coffin using wood from Robotics crates. They won't be able to see you, at all! Other cool areas are the jungles of LV, caves of Big-Red and Ice armory.

If you want to survive in style, and kill some aliums, you can:
A) Build a virgin fort. Just cades. Bonus points if you bolt down doors.
B) Build a C H A D fort. Deconstruct walls, rebuild them in front of doors. You get to delay the aliens until they get a T3 on the spot to tear down the wall. If you do this strategy on Ice elevator, you can delay them long enough till marines come and wreck half of the hive, if they're stupid enough to stay and attempt to siege you.

While the aliens are delayed melting down the walls and doors you (hopefully) bolted down or welded, tear down more walls and set up more defence lines. Rebuilding a wall takes as much metal as building a barricade, and offers WAY more protection for a survivor.

Remember, your chances of killing a xeno are VERY small! You need to survive as long as possible!
Strat B works wonders on Ice (Aerodrome elevator; wall up the corridor, if aliens bring a crusher or a smart boiler and flank you wall up the elevator itself) and Big-Red (Execution Room; you can set up in the cave just west of it, and set up an escape route into the LZ). However, strat B takes a TON of time, and requires that you bring more than 2 welders, and a welding helmet.

Surviving Ice, Big-Red and Prison is quite easy if you know what to do. LV can work with strat B applied to the Sec Dome, but, most likely, you'll die attempting to breach it, since we have no C4 anymore.

solidfury7 · Post by **solidfury7** » 22 Sep 2018, 08:06

Abandon anyone too slow or too new.

Go to parts of the map rarely ventured.

Take smallhosts hostage and kill them if aliens try to breach.... Or try trade them for your life.

If they refuse, kill all small hosts and then suicide.

LaKiller8 · Post by **LaKiller8** » 22 Sep 2018, 08:28

solidfury7 wrote: ↑
22 Sep 2018, 08:06
Abandon anyone too slow or too new.

Go to parts of the map rarely ventured.

Take smallhosts hostage and kill them if aliens try to breach.... Or try trade them for your life.

If they refuse, kill all small hosts and then suicide.

That will get you BWOINKED into oblivion.

http://www.cm-ss13.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18305

Dorkkeli · Post by **Dorkkeli** » 22 Sep 2018, 08:33

solidfury7 wrote: ↑
22 Sep 2018, 08:06
Abandon anyone too slow or too new.

Go to parts of the map rarely ventured.

Take smallhosts hostage and kill them if aliens try to breach.... Or try trade them for your life.

If they refuse, kill all small hosts and then suicide.

Pretty sure admins will bwoink you if you kill smallhosts

solidfury7 · Post by **solidfury7** » 22 Sep 2018, 08:37

LaKiller8 wrote: ↑
22 Sep 2018, 08:28
That will get you BWOINKED into oblivion.

http://www.cm-ss13.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18305

Going around killing smallhosts will get you killed. If you're doing it solely to deny them hosts/cripple xenos.

If you're using one or two of them as hostages/bargaining chips. You'd be fine.

CABAL · Post by **CABAL** » 22 Sep 2018, 09:31

I think that 2+ larvaes from human host is a direct nerf for survivors. Before only dick xenos would want to sacriface anything to capture/kill survivors, becouse one monkey was worth as much as one survivor. Now a chance to get sweet 7 new xenos makes normal xenos to consider attacking heavly reinforced survivors, or meta search all the closets.

Jayfeather · Post by **Jayfeather** » 22 Sep 2018, 09:58

The old strat set by Omar was C4ing tunnels on LV. Too bad spooky killed it.

Now these days. You are better of coffining/closeting yourself before the two minutes mark, or else Ovi-queen will see you on the tactical relay.

Defence will be difficult due to xenos metarushing you for them tasty seven larvas for humans. So you are better off setting up multilayer cades then offing yourself before they infect you. You can also try to be offensive and see how many runners or defenders you can murder in a rampage before you get infected or die.

Realistically, chances of survival by this time and day is extremely low depending on population and what you do.

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