“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Leon C. Megginson
Welcome to your first current [post moba] Queen guide; where I will pound information into you. This guide will be for the most optimal way to get from ground side to Alamyer if you are a beginning Queen player. Later on in the guide I will go into detail on more in-depth and advance tactics for Queen and other things to do if you are struggling through various sitations and give you a few and how to fix them. But for now let us start with the basics.
The Interface (Off Ovipositioner) From left to right
- Rest
- Regurgitate
- Overwatch Xenomorph / Watch Xenomorph
- Order Construction
- Grow Ovipositioner
- Corrosive Acid (Queen has level 2)
- Emit / Change pheromones
- Psychic Whisper
- Psychic Radiance
- Gib
- Plant Weed Node
- Choose Structure
- Build Structure
- Banish from hive
- Readmit to hive
- Screech (50s CD)
- Spit
- Toggle Spit (Acid or Neuro)
The Interface (On Ovipositioner) From left to right
- Regurgitate
- Overwatch Xenomorph / Watch Xenomorph
- Order Construction
- Psychic Whisper
- Psychic Radiance
- Banish from hive
- Readmit to hive
- Screech (50s CD)
- Disattach from ovipositioner
- Leader Xenomorph
- Heal
- Plasma
- Give Order
- Choose structure
- Plant weed node
- Build structure
- Devolve Xenomorph
- Toggle Queen Eye
Psychic radiance is AOE psychic whisper. Only really useful for talking to a group of non-xeno speakers at one time.
Setting up your first hive!
Once you find a hive spot you want to drop a weed node under yourself so you don't run out of plasma.
After that you want to turn on the recovery pheromones so that you have big plasma regen and from the construct hive structure button make a hive core, and spread your hives first hive weeds. You're going to go onto help intent and then click the hive core to add plasma to it.
This is what you and the area should look like once you're done.
This is what the chat will say once you have properly put down the core. It lets you know you've done it correctly and tells the others where the starting position of the hive will be.
Next thing you want to do is repeat the hive core step but with the spawn pool instead. The spawn pool lets you get your pooled larva from the ether and allows other players to join as xeno. If you see a lot of pooled larva; you most likely do not have a pool and will need to construct one immediately.
Next step is evo pods, it makes the xenos evolve faster and you can build two evo pods for the hive. Make sure you have both and they are filled to completion.
Congrats, you have now successfully set up your first hive. Now let's go onto the next step.
Hive is done, children are screeching, now what?
You're going to click first the alien tab.
Now in the alien tab there is a bunch of words, ignore all of them and then search for the four that are in this image. You will want to permit special structures deconstruction to all builder castes. This was updated so that building special structures is on by default, with slashing, and unnesting. So you just need to let them destroy stuff so they can move clusters when the front line moves.
Everything is permitted, now what?
Grow your ovipositioner and start making eggs. Or if you started in a location that is heavy with pre-bursted bodies. (Bodies that your starting larva sprung from) Then you're going to make an egg morpher nest and fill the egg morpher with the prebursted body. Next from ovi you will want to plant eggs if your egg morpher isn't up yet. You can plant eggs around you freely as long as it is right next to you. So North, south, east, west, nw, ne, sw, se.
Example:
Quick tips about building.
Keep in mind that when you build the area around hive structures cannot be built around. There is a 1x1 area fully around the structure when fully built that you cannot build stuff at. So you want to put things close together as possible and within reason when making your hive.
Ovipositioner Building
When you are on ovi, you have access to queen eye. (It is the small box on that is SE of me.) This is the last one on the Queen ovi interface section. Queen eye is your strongest tool while on ovi and it will be the best way for you to win rounds when you never want to get up, or know that your hive is independent enough to crush the marines without your input.
This is what the building looks like when you are off ovi.
This is what it looks like when you are on ovi. As you can see when you're on ovi you can build thick walls and doors. This is very important for your hive set up. There is no point in having drones build thin walls in your hive when you can build thick. For the first 30 minutes of the round, you can build with no cooldown which means that your drones should not be in the hive building they should just be weeding. (Will go further into this later.)
Random Tips
This is an example of a queen room. You have eggs around you just in case scout tries anything or flankers. They are either going to run into the eggs, throw a nade, or try to C4 the surrounding walls to get to you. In all those situations since you set up your queen chamber, you will be aware of it happening and hear it. But if you are doing your job right, you will see a flank coming via queen eye or broken doors from the scout to alert your runners to the potential threat.
Also 3 deep resin walls like that stop HE OB which can overlap the core and hit everything. Your caps might die, but you won't, and that's the important part. As long as the queen is alive and mature you can always replace the caps.
Next to the egg morpher if your burrower is good; they will place the tunnel there. It's so that when xenos come in via the tunnel with a captured host they are instantly hugged and don't have to go far, depending on how long the marine has been in their stomach; the short treck from the tunnel may be the difference between the hive being blown up by soemone with a nade, or a peaceful instant hug. Never put the egg morpher in the nest room for that reason. Also never let the burrower put the tunnel in the nest room for that exact reason as well.
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