Talk:Overviews of Aliens (TFTD)

Originally from Tentaculat Commander's edits from the once-unified Overviews of Aliens page.

One recommendation on editing: before the "See Also" box on the beginning of each section, put an all-clearing line break:
<br clear="all" />
...otherwise, the alien image may overlap the grey box on Mozilla browsers.

--Papa Legba 11:45, 12 December 2005 (PST)

Alien Threat levels

We need to classify the aliens in threat levels just like in the Enemy Unknown alien overview.

I suggest the following classifications for the races; I've given a brief justification after each race for why I classify it as I do. Admittedly, I haven't played TFTD nearly as much as Enemy Unknown, so I may has misclassified some races.

Low Threat

Zombie - Slow, melee only
Calcinite - Melee only
Gillman- Poor stats!

Medium Threat

Aquatoid - Underwater Sectoids. Poor stats, but watch for MC; they seem to field Squad Leaders a bit more often than Sectoids fielded Leaders or Commanders.
Bio-Drone - Explosive, hovers, sneaks around alot.
Deep One - Ranged attack, doesn't need direct LOS.
Xarquid - Tough, powerful attack.
Hallucinoid - Ranged and Melee, powerful.

High Threat

Lobsterman - Strong, insanely damage resistant, and can turn a trooper into confetti in melee.
Tentaculat - As said: "Underwater Flying Chryssalids."
Tasoth - Strong Molecular Control
Triscene - Reapers with ranged attack!

A few thoughts on that list. Gill-men are like UFO's sectoids in that some of them do have psi, but I think only high ranking gill-men are capable of this.

I'd put biodrones into high threat. They're lite-Cyberdiscs and don't suffer from the cyberdisc's limitations in size. Also, please check out their snapshot accuracy.

I'm not too sure where to classify Hallucinoids. They are TFTD's equivalent of flying reapers. However they have fairly tough armour and their attacks are dangerous. I guess medium is the best place to put them.

Triscenes are another hard one, as they lack the armour that sectopods have, and can be blown away by a gas cannon with HE shells. However they share the same amazing accuracy that the biodrones have.

Calcinites are technically declawed chryssalids. They don't zombify, but they pack a whallop and can move very far compared to most units. I'd move them up to medium.

-NKF

Gillmen have psi? I never noticed that, and it's not mentioned anywhere on the wiki. Also, I know of no place to find the stats for the units in the game, other than a hex editor(and my free trial is expired. :~( Arrow Quivershaft 22:52, 9 September 2007 (PDT)

Could I interest you in using MS-Edit as a hex-editor of sorts? It's no where near as flashy, but it does wonders for something that was meant to just edit plain text.

Last I remember, I got barraged with panic and mind control on the first part of a shipping lane mission, where I thought I was only facing gillmen. They did quite a nasty number on me before I was able to clear the map. - NKF