Alien: Isolation - M17 Corridor of Death 

Damn true, lol

Agree.

Except Charlie.

Till this day I cannot finish this game. Too stressful

I played this game like 7 years ago and I still remember where the facehugger appears and that jumpscare when he's behind a window and starts running in his fours 😭😭😭 the sound of this f.ker running gives me PTSD

​@damianromanov that sprinting jump was terrifying 😳

i just finished my first nightmare run and saw somebody on reddit mention the 'corridor of death'. i was like, "is that the level i think it is?" lo and behold i was right. i died so many fucking times here :''') but i'm just satisfied that i beat nightmare!

Yep but then after about 5 hours you figure out how the alien works/spawns and its incredibly boring and the alien just becomes an annoying obstacle that you can't kill but have to get around.

@@Gemineiyou definitely played on easy 😂😂

@sXe94core no I play all games on hardest difficulty lol 😂

@@Gemineiwe can tell you played it on easy.

@@dubnubgtd8538 whatever makes ya feel better about yourself :)

Thank you for the kind words.

probably done the sequence over and over to upload here. not that impressive?

No, it was pretty impressive. Practiced or not.

When I first played Alien isolation it was so intense I kept running towards nearest lockers and moving slow at times that xeno is deadly

@@johnmoffat5782 I know what you mean. I spent my ENTIRE first run-through kneeling. I never walked. Never ran. Even in the areas I know now that the Xeno doesn’t patrol. I was terrified. What a great game.

@Kurt Smith same here. I played with quality headphones with powerful bass and steps alien made was terrifyingly scary 😨. Done some sections and took month or 2 break cause it was too intense.

I always like to save as much of my flamethrower fuel as possible so I can burn the hell out of the Alien during this part. Makes me feel like a badass running around when the music starts playing lol

@@willkerr665 i spent too much flamethrower i barely have left for this part cant even remembered how mnay time i died.

@@vhiolekhatradhrekwohr1113 you need to use the molotov, the alien always spawns in the room so you can have it in your hand aiming it at the ground where it will be

yeah that and the molotov, was a surprise to get the achievement after haha

On my second or third play through i saved flamethrower fuel as long as i could that i got to 100+ flamethrower, pretty impressive to say the least 😌

Nah i dont think so

@@eddiecano8488 same

I finished it today, also on nightmare, with every item maxed out. I almost never used anything, besides the flamethrower from time to time. I always was able to hide and crouch around but I also died from time to time. I endlessly enjoyed the whole game, though. It's design, the alien, the graphics, the layout of the maps, everything was like when I watched the original Alien movie first. They really did an outstanding job.

@Ash F, unrelated but I really got captured by your writing, if it makes sense 😇 the second half made me feel as if this was something I experienced as well. You, sir, should write some more✍️

The music makes it even scarier

Except for it stomping around and using doors like a person.

@@nodak81 Using doors like a person? The doors are sensor based you melt 🤦🏾‍♂️ if it can't get through a door it uses vents and as for the stomping around, it's an exoskeleton based lifeform who's exoskeleton is near indestructible and has limbs as strong as steel. Did you even play the game or even watch the original movie and how HR Giger wanted the Alien to be? It's supposed to be an indestructible, intimidating and borderline untouchable creature. That was the whole point of the original movie, which this game is a direct sequel to.

@@ashf585 Haha! Yeah, get fucking annihilated Nodak. I was wondering why it was stomping around, too...but without those stomps, it just wouldn't be the same. There's so much tension to be had from those stomp-stomps. To be fair as well, the Alien is by no means lightweight. It is an imposing presence that would likely thud along the ground...even more so as it realizes there's no threat on board...making it more brazen. Or maybe I'm reading into it too much. Either way, very cool.

@@dakotadillon5981 If i remember correctly, Xenomorph is well over 2m tall and weighs like 150 kg or so...hard to imagine it moves like a ninja, unless it moves really slow.

@@Endru85x In the movies, they are shown to be very quiet if they want to. Even in Alien: Isolation, there are parts where the Alien is quiet as the night. It just picks its moments.

I NEVER FUCKING KNEW I COULD PLACE THEM, SHIT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SOO MUCH EASIER

Depends on procedurally generated conditions: is the player crouched or standing? Are they still or moving? Are they in darkness or broad daylight? Is the alien passively making rounds or does it know your presence?

U even sweat or fart in that corridor, that Alien will be all over ...for you

If you can see it, it can see you. I’ve tested this theory. It took like ten seconds for it just to get to me lol

@@bv657 - Yeah, I've always kinda figured that. It's just that it's 'vision' is a little loosely defined, and is very dependent on which skill level you're playing at. Even on Nightmare I've seen the alien occasionally miss the player!

Regardless of whether or not if it can see you in the moment, it technically always knows where you are. The ai director always gives subtle and not so subtle hints as to where you are. Aside from the scripted events like when you find it walking past you in a hallway or in the nest or after the first encounter where it killed what seemed like 4-5 people. It will ALWAYS know where you are, hence why you can never stay in one place for a long period of time.

Both of those sections are really easy with a correct strategy Here it's just luck

​@@RobertEdwinHouse9Plus the fact that you are fu** scared and you have almost nothing left to play against the alien

Lolz the aliens glitched at the end for my nightmare run, the end bit where you are going for the EVA suit when the alien steal you away. I followed the alien down the stairs and there was supposed to be two in that room where you have to sneak across and get to the suit, but I’m assuming it glitched as they both didn’t appear. The alien had been relentless up to that point. But I had another unfortunate glitch where one of the vents wouldn’t acknowledge that the door in front of it was open and wouldn’t let me leave it, so I had to find the long way around. It was just after you align the dish to speak with Verlaine.

@@tarantulagirl Yeah, the aliens sometimes bug out for me too. Sometimes I only have to deal with one alien and other times it's both of them. I think it goes based on how quickly you're executing the tasks, which prevents the alien (s) from spawning and catching up to you.

True dat.

When you get out of the vent in that area, the game forces the Alien to upvent and stay backstage until you trigger the set piece by using the keycard. So you can use any weapon you like to kill that particular facehugger and the Alien will not drop. In fact, you can go back through the vent and backtrack through the entire area, running and making as much noise as you like while the Alien is locked in the ceiling. It should also be noted that maintenance jack is not a stealthy weapon. It will attract the Alien if he is active and hears you using it. You should also know that killing facehuggers with the mainentance jack or firearms at close range causes damage to the player due to acid splash. All the best playing Alien Isolation. Enjoy.

@@baldrickstrousers344 Wow! You are quite a specialist in this game. :)

Absolutely. Feel free. Get creative and have fun. Enjoy.

Tracker in this game is a double edge sword you can track the alien but it also can give your location because of its beep noise.

That is the reason I throw the EMP at the end before going in the vent. To try to get the Alien to drop in that other room. If he's dropped somewhere and busy examining where the device went off, then he can't drop in the final vent quite so readily. Throwing a weapon type device like an EMP or a Flashbang is best. They make a bigger noise and Alien learns to ignore dedicated distraction devices such as the noisemaker. Give it a whirl and see how you get on. Best of luck.

That is what we call crouch hopping in which we mash the crouch button every half second or so. It's faster than crouch walking, but almost as silent.

@@baldrickstrousers344 Cheating, in other words 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@sj-30000 No. It's not cheating. It's not deemed to be a glitch in the NMG category. Unlike silent walking or silent running.

@@baldrickstrousers344 It's circumventing the game mechanics... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aye. I use the normal yolo strat in speedruns. This method was meant to be safer and reproducable. That said, that middle bit, when you run back to the generator, is still quite unpredictable. As it turns out, the yolo strat can be more consistent as I'm sure you know.

I never use psycho running. Defeats the purpose of the game and literally leeches all the fun right out of it.

@@the_sixxness Me neither. When I talk about yoloing, I mean in NMG rules. So noisy running only.

Well no. He upvents as a result of setting off the pipe bomb I planted. If the pipe bomb wasn't there, he wouldn't upvent and you be lunch if you couldn't fend him off.

That is _crouch hopping_ in which one mashes the crouch button every half second or so. It's faster than crouch walking, but almost as silent. The Alien drops again fairly quickly and is often somewhere in the corridor in the vicinity of the doorway. I don't want to be heard walking at that point.

I also just learned this from this video. Game changer.

That is true. This isn't an entirely foolproof method. The part where you are forced to go back and use the generator is subject to some randomness. You could get the Alien dropping at a different place. What is shown in the video is the Alien's typical pattern, but he does go off pattern and if you are unprepared, it can potentially catch you out. All part of the fun. Enjoy.

and he uses exploits, what a legend

It can only be done on PC. It's a keybind, by binding mwheel_down to the same functions as E. This is a normal (and legal) speedrunning config. To do it you have to edit C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\\214490 emote\input.cfg Normally you have these two lines amongst all the other keybinds: bind E use bind E button_mash To you have to add two extra lines for the mwheel_down: bind E use bind E button_mash bind mwheel_down use bind mwheel_down button_mash That doesn't just let you use generators fast. But you can also activate prompts super fast, pick up items as you fly by and so forth. Just be careful with keypad code doors, you may want to just single press E for those so you don't enter a set of 5's. Also, don't use the mouse wheel with the aerial trolley at the end of M12, or you'll fall to the ground and either die or be softlocked. Enjoy.

@@baldrickstrousers344 Ohhh it’s a hack. Lol. I was like “wtf??”

@@baldrickstrousers344 so you cheat, basically. well done i guess

@@James28R Changing keybinds is not cheating lol

The crosshair is provided by _xhair_ which in turn requires the _reshade_ mod.

@@baldrickstrousers344 more exploits, hahah

It just stood there? For minutes? Just being still for even half a minute straight would be jarring...even unnerving. Unnatural. That's nutty.

@@dakotadillon5981 it made me soooo scared lol . Because you know when you play a game for awhile you really get a feel for the AI but this game would throw curve balls like that at me and it made the game so much more immersive again . The creepiest part is when it started moving again lol my most vivid memory of that game

Glad to have been of help. All the best.

Thank you. But ... umm ... that WAS Nightmare mode and I loot a lot so I typically manage to make 3 or 4 pipes and craft 1 molotov in every run. In addition there are ways to mostly avoid the Alien dropping and harrassing me, which saves flamethrower fuel and devices in the missions before M17. I save those resources for 16, 17 and 18 where things get especially spicy. As for that final vent, I try to get Alien to drop in that second last room by throwing an EMP or a flashbang; if he's down in the other room, it reduces the chances of him upventing and droppng in the vent in time to intercept me. In a speedrun I use a yolo strat, which has a lot more running in it than this. I suppose I should record a yolo strat version for you to all see.

@@baldrickstrousers344 oh I see, I apologise, I didn’t realise, though I should have as there was no health bar visible. Then your run was even more impressive. On my Nightmare run the Alien was pretty much the same as Hard until, after you align the dish to speak to Verlaine and then the alien would not leave me alone, i even saved my game at one point and each time I died it was literally spawning me on M17 with alien actually there, I don’t know if there was a glitch but it got stupid frustrating, it was just everywhere, M17 it was just crazy present. I could only collect enough loot to build pretty much one of everything, but there aren’t many static drops in the game, I like the randomness of it because each play though is guaranteed to be different but it can also work against you.

@@tarantulagirl Not to worry. Thank you for your kind words.

The purpose of throwing the EMP at 5:05 is to get the Alien down and examining the point where the device went off. That way he's busy and greatly reduces the chances of him dropping in the vent I'm about to climb into.

@@baldrickstrousers344 sorry i meant 2:40. The alien always teleports there so when i go into that room i have the molotov aimed at the part it lands. You did everything the stealth way whereas most players get detected and fight the alien rather than hide. I didnt know that you could hide at that point. it looks risky to do the stealth strategy there instead of using force. There was a hiss so maybe it saw you but the difficulty setting changes how many milliseconds you can be in its vision before it can attack.

@@rickysmyth If he doesn't see you, he's scripted to upvent. That said, that's not the fastest way to do that bit. This is fastest way: www.twitch.tv/videos/1465063815?t=3h39m48s ... and reliable too.

@@baldrickstrousers344 were you playing nightmare? It did appear to have seen you..Even on nightmare the player is allowed to cheat a little, like if the alien sees Amanda's foot briefly it will only hiss at you and not be able to attack you. I hear there's an insane level mod where no cheating is allowed at all but I haven't played it. I seen a player do this with the alien being invisible. Just learned every spawn point and memorised it's patrol path and threw distractions every now and then so it doesn't catch up. The faster you go, the easier the game is as you get to the next area while the alien is investigating a gunshot or whatever