Aliens Dark Descent Players MUST KNOW These Tips - Aliens Dark Descent Tips and Tricks 

The biggest tip to give this game is to use indirect methods to deal with xenos. The apc gun and the sentry guns do not cause hunts. If you combine this quirk with the fact that placed beacons can lure large parts of the level to one spot. you can effectively lure huge amounts of the ambient enemies into death traps.

I've platinumed the game and have some advice, especially if you're going for a Nightmare completion. ~ The campaign death clock does not start until you reach Mission 6, the Atmospheric Processor. Make the absolute most out of the luxury of having multiple deployments until this point. If that means taking another squad of marines into a location to gather missed resources then do it. ~ You should have two complete fire-teams ready by the time you reach Mission 6 and get the APC. Make use of multiple deployments before the death clock starts to level up two squads of marines rather than have all your experience front-loaded into one squad. ~ Always, and I mean always, have a Recon with a silenced sniper rifle in both squads. Being able to navigate locations with less detections is major, especially on Nightmare difficulty where Xenos are very dangerous and Hive aggressiveness gains quickly. ~ Make use of the Tecker's Tactical Drone (don't bother upgrading it to Battle Drone, all it will do is waste ammo on higher difficulties), it's an excellent asset. It can be used to provoke Stasis Drones and Facehuggers into waiting Sentry Guns, avoiding a detection. ~ On a similar note, place Motion Trackers by the ARC/APC whenever it is moved. Luring Xenos into it is a very effective way of saving ammo and avoiding detections. ~ Get in the habit of leaving Motion Trackers everywhere on the map. ~ Activating a Motion Tracker during a Hunted phase will get Xenos off your trail fast. ~ Do not sleep on Suppressive Fire, it will literally save your life on Nightmare when Xenos have a lot of HP and you need to slow them down before they get to your squad. ~ If you have to fight, plan ahead if you can and try have space behind you to move backwards while firing. Keep distance from Xenos until you get the Acid Resistant Gel on Pioneer Station. ~ If you have to fight KEEP MOVING but DO NOT RUN until all Xenos are down. Keep moving to avoid Xenos immobilising your marines. ~ Use the Flamethrower to stop Xenos flanking your squad, also use it to cover doorways and force Xenos to literally crawl through fire to get to you. ~ Prioritise your XenoTech. I'd say the following are mandatory for deployments where you're looking to make major progress. - Chitin Kevlar - Acid Resistance Gel - Hive Jammer - Hive Tranquilizer - Pheromones ~ Do not bother wasting 10 XenoSamples on the Extraction Device. If you lost marines to Facehuggers you fucked up and should just reload a save. Save scumming I know but the deck is already heavily stacked against you on Nightmare as it is. ~ Weld up and use Safe Rooms often. Shit can go bad very quickly on Nightmare so save your progress often.

One other tip that I would recommend is to not sleep on the suppressive fire ability. When you have a bunch of enemies or even just one coming at you, it can be a big help. It can even slow down the queen's charge to a crawl, giving you enough time to cause serious damage to her before she reaches the squad.

The single door room tip is a really good one since tools are such a valuable commodity. Great game but man it’s up there w darkest dungeon and battle brothers in terms of difficulty. And you’re 100% right, shit goes south FAST!

Get yourself the Tech class with the drone and send them in on first mission. Use the drone to explore the map whilst you stay safely behind sentry guns. You can map most of the stuff out - and at higher levels the drone can weld/break welds.

⚠️ *ROTATING SENTRY TURRETS:* ⚠️ *To rotate a sentry turret, select the turret option, when the turret blue silhouette appears, press and hold the select button (Xbox “A”, PlayStation “X”) and you can rotate the cone of fire with the left analog stick. HAPPY HUNTING MARINES!*

Relevant to the footage in this video: Elevators don't work during a Massive Onslaught.

5:10 the lifts save progress. Got to mention the APC so OP

The last tip is you need to play this game at night with headphones on.

Mines only cost renewable command points. If you're having trouble dropping three mines in a line from a spawn point really helps. Also good is mining choke points and cross tunnels that the swarm has to go through to get to you across the map. Bonus points if you set up a tracker, overload it, and have put it in a minefield. Set up smart guns to cover the likely route of any bosses across your minefield.

Playing on Nightmare difficulty is really challenging, and makes you use every skill you have to turn the tide. I slept on Suppressive Fire for my Normal playthrough, but Nightmare would be absolutely impossible without it. Same with flares. Don’t over-rely on grenade launchers, damage consistence and avoidance are the name of the game.

I use pouches and aiming sights on marines it helps so much and I found having the enduring perk help out a lot

I would recommend not looting ammunition right away because every time you send in an squad again they only come with two clips each as he mentioned in the video this is undeniably crucial to difficult fights where you might not be near the APC.

Game is way easier if you use like 2 sergeants and spam mines + recon with silent precision shot. Most of missions on Nightmare you finish with medium aggression level and you can easily complete missions in 1 deployment. Mines are OP belive me :)

Good tips! And I'm 60 plus hours in. This game is awesome. Also "team spirit" perk is essential imo.

Just wait until you able to get 5 marines on your squad.

Anyone else find the death clock really disappointing after a couple of runs for me this game is AMAZING, tough on you when you are punished but rewarding when you are successful however, you only get your full squad after the death clock and I ngl want more time with a full team as a XCOM player I do like a longish gameplay and I feel this campaign was waaaay too short (saying that as a good thing because I want longer)

I don’t like save summing, but during the big reactor floor I found pretty quickly if I’m spotted I’m basically dead since I was going in with my b team since my A team got badly damaged

Eventually picked this up at the weekend, hopefully is much better than Aliens Fireteam. Not my type of genre however I’m a big fan of the Alien Franchise so thought at the price it was worth adding to my collection

Good tips!!! I'm at mission 7...nightmare :)

If you can layer you defense. Try placing a sentry with other sentries in it firing arc. DoT the Queens.

Ah the mine.....hate that place haha

the reason why new players doesn't understand the is because new generation haven't played rts tyyYpe games before.

Tried to like this game but the massive onslaught is just too much. Been trapped in the mine for a week with only 3 squad members and one is carrying an engineer. Onslaught is just impossible. So now I’m stuck with an unplayable game. 😞

And use "Suppressive Fire" liberally. It has a slowing effect on the xeno's.

5:04 It would have been funny if you had said, "don't do what i just did in the video" . "Now was not the time for me to find out what would happen if i declined to use the elevator".

One thing I would like to see in the game is definitely more soundtrack options, when the aliens are hunting for you the same soundtrack can get annoying, even though it is still heart pounding. Some soundtrack from the movie aliens would definitely help especially in the hive when the queens coming after ya or when it comes to last stand moments when your in a rock and a hard place when you see that onslaught message appear on your screen and your not fortified up NOR in a good defensive position.

My elevator collapsed, at the start, struggling to understand the game, but trying my best,

This game punishes me in the best way possible. I have restarted it twice now. Hopefully it won't take a third time.

I’ve been stuck on berkleighs docks for 3 days😰

I finished the game on easy in about 32hours, but never had any "difficulty' related problems during the game, so while it was tense it was never overwhelming and i did'nt seem to have to worry about the stealth side of the game when being hunted etc so i mostly just gunned through every mission in 2-3 deployments. I'm interested in tackling the game on higher difficulties, but what save setting would you recommend playing on for hard or nightmare difficulty?

tell me about it. every mission i say "ok now i get it, it shoudl be easy" and the next mission is always worse with my dying again.

Quick question, I'm new in the game, and I'm not sure how to handle the days that you can let pass when you are in the Otago. Is it OK to do it? Are there any suggestions about it? Thanks in advance.

The cerberus protocol always end my game,,, I am at the Tower. Can't find more Alien DNA there :(

spam tf out of floor mines. literally drop them everywhere.

I thought that was awesome resting saves progress.

in the reactor mission dont save the marine trapped in one of the rooms he is a cultist and will sabotage the Ortego's generator it gives 3 options Option A: Suspend the work of all engineers and doctors for 1 day and waste 1 day. This is the least painful solution and i recommend choosing it. Option B: Lose one of the marines. The game will choose one of the characters with the highest experience level. i do not recommend this option because every levelled-up marine is invaluable. Option C: Waste 1 day and take a risk that the event can reoccur. This is also a bad idea, because the risk is high and it may turn out that you've unnecessarily wasted 1 day. but all together just dont save the marine i was playing nightmare with no one can hear u scream (the one save per mission) and i missed the orbital bombardment deadline cause i chose option 3 and it turned up again

try to get in the infinite ammo glitch is the best tip. I got 2.2 billion worth of reloads. Hurry before its patched.

does Ammo respawn if you have to exfill and come back on the level?

PG mate ❤

Im still confused about days passing by and it will forbid you to move to the next mission

Yeah I finished this about a week ago. Royal pain in the ass!

This game is fun even tho performance is a bit of hit or miss. loving this game both on pc and S-deck. i am glad this is not turn based game that i hate to the ends of the earth than its a real time strategy action game.

They should call it Aliens: sneak around and die, die, die.

It starts relatively easy?. I felt it started hard got Easy then got hard due to the level design in the later half

I dont like this game. Its about stealth yet aliens spawn at random places and do random patrols but always around my squad. So stealth is broken. And if they detect me all aliens from whole map go for me...Its just pure BS game.