Chapter 112: Death of the Alien Queen

May I ask, what will happen when the game development reaches the later stage and falls into the situation of insufficient construction period?

The answer is the reuse of various materials.

Many game monsters that exist as boss units in the first few levels will become elite or even miscellaneous soldiers in the later stages of the game.

This is the case with the vampire bats in Castlevania, the punishment knights in the Knights of the Round Table, the heavy armored knights in the third generation of Tomahawk, etc.

Alien vs. Predator is naturally no exception.

In addition to facing the Alien Queen as the final core boss and being able to move freely without being dragged down by her big ass, Luke and his team also have to face the two new species of armored pupae that had previously faced Luke and his team in area e12 as the early bosses. They also reappeared as super dark gold monster servant units, carrying many types of miscellaneous alien soldiers.

Although they are no longer boss templates, the overall strength of the new species of armored pupae has been greatly reduced, but the number directly makes up for their lack of quality.

On the other hand, although the template of the Alien Queen is basically the same as before, because it appears in the form of the final core boss and is essentially the leader of another alien group, its overall strength is not at the same level as the one Luke killed before.

[Alien Queen's full-strength combat posture (lv15) (Super Dark Gold Monster) (HP 100%) (Rune Level 5) (Resistance: Fire resistance -5%, Toxin resistance 100%)]

[Monster characteristics: full-strength rigid body, poisonous blood shooting, toxin immunity]

One final boss, two bosses downgraded to elites, and more than a dozen miscellaneous soldiers, but there are only three people facing such a battle. No matter how you look at it, it is impossible for the human side to withstand the firepower.

However, the fact is that the alien camp that chose to charge was overturned at the first encounter.

To be precise, it was hit back by the plasma shoulder cannon that suddenly had no shooting cooldown time and would not overheat, and started to fire crazily.

The miscellaneous aliens could only withstand three rounds at most before being charred. The weakened new species of armored pupa also fell to the ground with Maillard reaction, almost instinctively curling up and trying to resist with their own bone plate shells, but it was basically in vain. After being hit by seven or eight rounds, they stopped breathing.

Among this group of aliens, only the Alien Queen, who had obtained the "full-strength rigid body" characteristic and had only -5% fire resistance, could move forward against the output of the plasma shoulder cannon.

But the Iron Blood would not stand still and output, but chose to fight and retreat.

The frost missiles that popped out from the back from time to time also slowed down the Alien Queen's advance speed.

After a round of output, except for the Alien Queen who roared and could never get close to Luke and others, the other aliens died or fell down, and were completely disabled.

In a blink of an eye, only the Queen was left with combat power.

But just as the Alien Queen screamed again and wanted to summon more children, the Viper, who was thought to have weakened, stood up again!

The shoulder cannon on his shoulder fired again, and at the same time, the same 9-second countdown special effect appeared above his head.

Anyone with a discerning eye knew that this seemingly impossible and wonderful situation must have been caused by Luke again.

Unlike many other similar games, "Alien vs. Predator" has a shooting key in addition to the conventional attack key and jump key, which means that the four optional characters can actually fire directly.

The weapons held by the two human characters are machine guns and pistols, while the two Predators are plasma shoulder cannons.

Machine guns and pistols have stronger firing speed and suppression power. Although they are less powerful, the shooting cooldown time recovers faster.

The shoulder cannons of the two Predators are range attacks, which are powerful, but the shooting cooldown time recovers more slowly.

Since Viper became Luke's second mercenary, Viper, who was changed from a neutral boss template to an NPC mercenary template, was inevitably weakened.

Being three points weaker is often unavoidable.

The most obvious one is his plasma shoulder cannon. To be precise, the power of the shoulder cannon has dropped to the level it should be in the game, that is, one shot can only deduct about 40% of the total health of the soldiers and aliens. If it is changed to attacking elites and bosses, the blood lost will be even less.

But at the same time as the power is reduced, the "self-energy recovery" of the shoulder cannon is also on par with the game level.

At full energy, the shoulder cannon can release up to 2 shots in a row, and then it will enter a cooling time of at least 6 seconds.

This is the game's limitation on the Iron Blood Shoulder Cannon, which is still powerful... But among the drops in the original version of the game, there are enhanced items that can break through this inherent limitation!

[Name: Super Magazine]

[Type: Consumables]

[Origin: Alien vs. Predator]

[Quality: Unknown]

[Usage Conditions: Hold a hot weapon that consumes ammunition or energy]

[Attributes: Within 9 seconds after use, the hot weapon you hold will gain temporary enhanced effects of unlimited energy, unlimited ammunition, and constant barrel temperature. ]

[Note: Shoot! ]

Luke can shout out objects that originally existed from the corpses of the aliens. The number of weapons he shouted out to kill the aliens even successfully armed the guards of Qixing City and carried out a comprehensive sweep of the aliens in District E12.

With the help of so many draws, Luke still managed to collect and store a considerable number of super clips, and none of them could be circulated.

Because he knew that there would be a place where they would be useful later, and there was no need to consume such special items in the normal clearance process.

And now, Luke thought it was time to use them.

There are two ways to use super clips. One is that Luke gives the clips to Viper, and he adds and installs them by himself, and then decides when to activate the 9 seconds of infinite energy.

The other is that Luke opens his panel, drags the super clip with his mind, and then throws it directly on the avatar representing the Iron Warrior Viper, and it is activated immediately like medicine.

And Luke still has seven such super clips...

The full logistics of the monster nest strategy is indeed very refreshing, and Viper successfully enjoyed this happiness for the first time in his hunting career when he fought side by side with Luke.

The shame and anger of being captured and injected with eggs by the alien queen in front of him were vented out by him at this moment.

But the core boss of the finale still has its due strength. If it is placed in Diablo, this queen must be at least a slightly strengthened Andariel.

After taking Viper's plasma shooting for 15 seconds, it actually relied on its terrifying fighting instinct to successfully seize a gap in Viper's shooting habits, and once again successfully sprayed a large ball of acid blood from its abdomen!

This time, the poisonous blood spray is not just a soft parabola, but a poisonous blood arrow like a real Zerg hydralisk!

The target is Viper's terrifying face with the door wide open.

But at this moment, Viper, who was still obsessed with output, suddenly felt his left arm being hit hard, and the whole person involuntarily moved a few steps to the side.

And at the place where he just stood, his employer Luke was sprayed with poisonous blood from the Alien Queen!

"No!!!!"

Seeing this scene, Viper roared out completely uncontrollably.

Viper, who had completely placed himself in the position of guard, could not accept the reality in front of him. Even if he died, he had to die to guard his employer, rather than being guarded by his employer. This was too much of a reversal of priorities.

However, the scream that seemed to have begun to echo in Viper's mind did not appear, but Luke's loud voice, which was somewhat sinister and completely without any pain suppression, came to his ears.

"... Explode!"

Luke, who was holding the 100% acid-resistant Alien King in his left hand, made a thumbs-down gesture with his other hand holding the Necromancer's staff.

The next second, Luke took advantage of the gap when the Queen had no time to take care of the back, and used the three skeleton warriors hatched from the alien corpse there to drag and carry the new carapace corpse behind the Queen's buttocks, and it suddenly exploded.

This time, the highest damage of 120% of the corpse's health was directly triggered!

The Alien Queen, who was hit by Luke's elite corpse explosion, let out a more painful scream than the 15-second Iron Blood Shoulder Cannon. Her huge body was shaken by the horrific explosion from the corpse of her direct descendant and began to stagger!

At this time, the red condor, which had been summoned early and controlled by the three eyes to fly from a distance, crashed heavily into the mouth of the Alien Queen, which was opened wide because of her screams, at a speed that broke the sound barrier!

The Alien Queen's screams stopped abruptly!

Because its mouth and chin had been cut off by the supersonic shovel-shaped gun body of the ancient three-eyed tribe's spear.

The unprecedented extreme pain even made the killing weapon like the Alien Queen forget the fighting instinct, and just stomped around on the spot, trying to use her claws to touch the chin mouth part that no longer existed and was bleeding wildly.

She even forgot what she was facing now.

"...Viper."

"Roar!"

"Deal with it."

The Iron Warrior accepted Luke's order and started charging his shoulder cannon again.

The Alien Queen, who was in full force, was completely buried in the flames of the plasma shoulder cannon.