Upon returning, Hayes admits to Harper that she activated Cerberus despite this, they continue to work together. After scouting the Berkley's Docks spaceport for parts to repair the Otago, the Marines encounter Darwin Era, an anti-Weyland-Yutani cult who revere the Xenomorphs as a higher stage of evolution. The Marines enter the Dead Hills settlement, killing a Xenomorph Queen under the colony. Jonas Harper and his squad of Colonial Marines to the crash-landed Otago, where he takes command and deputizes Hayes as his Intelligence officer.
Bentonville and a freighter, Baldrin, are destroyed with all hands while the Otago is crippled. Narrowly escaping, Hayes realizes more Xenomorphs are in Bentonville's remaining cargo and reluctantly activates the Cerberus Protocol, a Weyland-Yutani planetary quarantine procedure using armed satellites. As the shuttle leaves, McDonald and the control staff are attacked and impregnated by facehuggers. Hayes encounters the aliens in the docking bay, trying to weld the doors shut. Noticing Bentonville's cargo weight discrepancy, Deputy Administrator Maeko Hayes recommends the ship be detained but her supervisor McDonald refuses. A mysterious infiltrator releases its contents: deadly Xenomorph aliens, which begin to massacre the crew. Meanwhile, at Pioneer Station, a shuttle, the Bentonville, drops off cargo. In the year 2198, on the moon of Lethe, the USS Otago prepares for a shakedown. According to the developer, each mission in the game lasts "anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour". Players can evacuate during a mission to prevent losing the entire squad. Squad members may die permanently after being attacked. They may miss their shots, behave irrationally, or even sabotage the player's mission. Their combat performance may be affected if they were put under too much strain. Each character has their own mental traits. Players need to maintain not only the physical health but also the mental health of these characters.
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īetween missions, players can upgrade and customize their marines.
Welding a door may stop the Xenomorphs from advancing, but it may also block the player's route in subsequent visits. The changes to level layout are permanent. They can also use a welder to open locked doors, and can weld doors shut as they retreat from one room to another. Players are encouraged to explore the moon station, discovering short cuts and deploying motion trackers which allows players to track alien movements. While combat happens in real time, players can briefly slow time to a crawl in order to issue commands or set up an ambush. The game features five starting character classes, each with their own unique weapons and abilities. Players need to issue commands to a squad of four colonial marines, who must battle the Xenomorphs and rogue agents from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. It is a real-time tactics video game played from a top-down perspective. The Dark Descent story is set in the year 2198, 19 years after the events of the original trilogy films. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Set in the Alien universe, the game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on June 20, 2023. Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time tactics video game developed by Tindalos Interactive in collaboration with Disney's 20th Century Games and published by Focus Entertainment.
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