
Aliens Vs. Predator 2

Fighting Guide

Version 1.1       11/29/00
Oni5115           Oni5115@hotmail.com

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Contents

 1.   About this Guide
 2.   Version History

 3.  Controls Guide/Summary
 3.A  Standard Controls
 3.B  Controls Information

 4.   Boot Camp Basics

 5.A  Weapon Guide Human
 5.B  Weapon Guide Predators
 5.C  Weapon Guide Aliens

 6.A  General Human Strategies
 6.B  Humans Vs. Predators
 6.C  Humans Vs. Aliens

 7.A  General Predator Strategies
 7.B  Predators Vs. Humans
 7.C  Predators Vs. Aliens

 8.A  Aliens General Strategies
 8.B  Aliens Vs. Humans
 8.C  Aliens Vs. Predators

 9.   Level Strategies   (Not started)

10.   Future Plans
11.   Legal Stuff 
12.   This FAQ is Posted at:
13.   Credits


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 1.   About this Guide.

This guide contains some in-depth Strategies for your usage in Multiplayer(MP).  
Haven't played the Single Player(SP) Demo and do not have full version yet.  
I think I'll wait for the patch to buy it.  For now I am content with MP.

This is also my first ever FAQ, so please bear with me.  

Most of the strategies are also designed for TeamDM as that is what I play 
most, however, some of it should work in DM as well.  I will be adding new 
strategies/tactics and info as I gather it.


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 2.   Version History


1.1 - Added the control guide as I realized many people do not know the 
      controls.  Added Boot Camp Basics.  Added more human weapons.
      Updated the Predators Vs. Humans section thanks to some info. 

1.0 - Well I wrote the whole thing all at once so far.
      Included every strategy I could think of for MP demo games.
      Most, if not all, can be applied to any game not just the demo.


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 3.   Controls Guide/Summary




 3.A  Standard controls


Shared Controls:

          Forward:  W
             Back:  S
        Turn Left:  Left Arrow
       Turn Right:  Right Arrow
      Strafe Left:  A
     Strafe Right:  D
              Run:  K
       Run Toggle:  M
             Jump:  Space
             Fire:  Mouse 0
         Alt-Fire:  Mouse 1
      Vision Mode:  V
          Look Up:  Home
        Look Down:  End
      Center View:  Delete
       Mouse Look:  Insert
Objectives/Scores:  Tab
     Send Message:  Enter
     Team Message:  \
            Taunt:  Backspace
 Crosshair Toggle:  .

(MP) Change Characters:  F1
(MP)          Fly Mode:  F2


Alien Specific Controls:

         Pounce:  E
       Wallwalk:  Left Shift
Wallwalk Toggle:  G
         Crouch:  Left Control
  Crouch Toggle:  /


Headbite:  Fire while teeth are visible
 Facehug:  Pounce on implant victim (Face Hugger only) 
    Tear:  Slash while claws are visible


Marine Specific Controls:

              Crouch:  Left Shift
       Crouch Toggle:  /
                 Use:  E
         Next Weapon:  Q, Mouse Wheel Down
         Prev Weapon:  Z, Mouse Wheel Up
              Reload:  R
       Shoulder Lamp:  G
               Flare:  F
      Hacking Device:  H
       Welding Torch:  T
  Knife/Exosuit Left:  1
Pistol/Exosuit Right:  2
             Shotgun:  3
         Pulse Rifle:  4
    Grenade Launcher:  5
        Flamethrower:  6
           Smart Gun:  7
     Rocket Launcher:  8
             Minigun:  9
        Sniper Rifle:  0
         Last Weapon:  X


Predator Specific Controls:

              Crouch:  Left Shift
       Crouch Toggle:  /
                 Use:  E
         Next Weapon:  Q
         Prev Weapon:  Z
              Reload:  R
             Zoom In:  PgUp, Mouse Wheel Up
            Zoom Out:  PdDn, Mouse Wheel Down
      Charge Emitter:  H
               Cloak:  C
        Disk Retrive:  F
        Wrist Blades:  1
         Combo Stick:  2
              Pistol:  3
            Speargun:  4
        Plasmacaster:  5
                Disc:  6
              Netgun:  7
         Remote Bomb:  8
         Last Weapon:  X
         Energy Sift:  T
            Medicomp:  G
Previous Vision Mode:  B


Leap:  Crouch + Jump


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 3.B  Controls Information 


Aliens:  You need Wallcrawl and Pounce/Lunge.  I only use Wallcrawl toggle 
   myself, but it is your call.  It can be useful to just let go of the 
         button and stop scaling the walls.  Crouch can help for sneaking up on 
         marines.

Marines: Here is what you MUST have:
  Forwards, Backwards, Strafe Left, Strafe Right, and Reload.
         You'll need to use your mouse to aim.  Use mouse wheel to change weap.
         The rest you can set to any convenient location.  Whatever works for
         you.  Just make you can access the important stuff over the rest.

  Preds: MUST haves include:
    Forwards, Backwards, Strafe Left, Strafe Right, and Reload.
         Mouse aiming as well.  Here is a key diference, by default
         the preds wheel actions zoom NOT change weapon.  You must
         either set a change weapon button, or use the alternate methods.
         I suggest setting it to Mouse 2, just press down on your mouse wheel.
         
         Other MUST haves:
         Invisiblility, Medicomp, and Energy Sift.

         The rest can be placed in the most convenient locations after the
         important things.


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 4.   Boot Camp Basics


Things you should NOT do!


Stand still during a fire fight.
Camp in a highly visible location.


Things you should do!


Look around while running.  Up, down, left, right, everywhere.
Constantly be aware of surroundings.
Learn the level.  Powerup locations, sniper spots, ect.
Listen to/for gunfire and location.



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 5.A   Weapon Guide Human


Combat Knife - A nice polished blade to hack through your foes.

               Absolutely useless.  Except maybe for fun between 2 humans 
               dueling.  If you run out of all ammo...
               On second thought never ever ever ever run out of ammo.

Pistol       - A beautiful handgun.  I don't know any of the specs of the 
               weapon other than that.

               I would not suggest it unless your out of good ammo.

Shotgun      - What would a FPS be without the standard Shotty?

               Reloading is a bear, damage is good.
               It is good only at close range, and only if you can hit the 
               enemy.
               May work well in SP, do not know, but not too great for MP.
               I only use when out of other ammo, or am hunting Melee Preds.

Machine Gun  - A Machine/Grenade gun that can be lethal close and far away.

               One of my favorites.  This gun is definitely worth carrying.
               Not only can you shoot a ton of bullets, but you can grenade 
               them as well.
               Grenades are excellent for lunging aliens, or any predators.

Smart Gun    - Grade "A" quality butt kicking machine with auto aiming capacity.

               Well, there is only a few reasons to not use this.
               Only a few though.  It eats up ammo at a ludicrous rate.  
               300 ammo can fly out the window with one enemy.  
               It can trash just about anything though.  Definitely a nice 
               weapon to have.

Flame Thrower- Barbeque time anyone?  A flamethrower.

               Heard this thing was lethal in AvP.  Get behing them and
               burn them down.

RocketLauncher- The Rocket Launcher.  Really I think you know what this is.

               I do not know how well it works.

Sniper Rifle - A sniper rifle of sorts.

               Again, I know little since I have only the demo.
 

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 5.B   Weapon Guide Predators


Claws        - The nifty claw rig the predators wear in the movies.

               Not as effective as the combostick, but not bad.  
               You can trash humans.
               I would never suggest melee against aliens though.

Combostick   - The nice double bladed staff of the predator.

               One of my favorites.
               Sneak behind human, stand up, and decapitato!
               Use the secondary attack to decapitate.  
               I also noticed while ducking you can chop off legs.

Net Launcher - Shoots a net at the enemy.

               Very slow projectile.  Works well if you can aim it, I am still
               not that good with it though.

Shoulder Cannon- Shoulder cannon that trashes anything.

               Works almost too well at times.  Though it is a must against 
               aliens in TeamDM.  Very effective.

Invisibility - You turn invisible.

               This works great.  If your not running they barely see you.

Vision Mode  - Changes your vision modes just like in the movies...  Sort of.

               You get four vision modes: Normal, Human, Alien, and Predator.
               Very cool and annoying at times, but true to the story.
               The only thing I found odd, was that I am pretty sure Predators
               have heat vision when not wearing the mask.  
               That is not true for the game.

Medicomp     - Your healing computer.

               Use it, and massive energy, to restore all of your health.
               I do not think many people realize they have this in the Demo.
               It renders you helpless for a few seconds though.

Energy Syphon- Restores your weapon energy to full power.

               It renders you helpless for a few seconds.  Very effective when 
               used with medicomp in a quiet area.


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 5.C   Weapon Guide Aliens


Claws        - Sharp claws to gut your enemies with.  Need I say more?

               Use them to gut your opponents.  You can slaughter their bodies 
               when they are on the ground too.  It's great mindless 
               entertainment.

Tail         - You can use your tail to sting your opponent.

               This attack disorients and stuns your opponent long enough to
               disembowel them.  Very effective, doesn't really deal much 
               damage, but doesn't have too.

Head Bite    - That extra head in your mouth pops out to damage your nemesis.

               I am not sure how to do this attack.  
               It happens automatically occasionally.
               I am sure it is in the instructions I just do not remember it 
               right off hand.

Lunge        - Jump really far really fast.

               Fly high, fly far, and may you land upon the poor hapless fool 
               you aimed for.  You MUST master this to be any good as an alien.

Wall Crawl   - Crawling on walls.  Need I say more?

               Just in case you needed further explanations of crawling on the
               walls.  It is when the aliens walks on the walls.  
               Running on walls is also included.
               Did I forget to mention this is when you are clinging to the 
               walls.  ... ... ...  Ok enough.


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 6.A  General Human Strategies


Machine guns or smart guns are really the best weaponry in the demo.
Shotguns are good at point blank, but the chance to really use them is too 
limited.  I would suggest the machine/grenade gun.  Smart guns against 
aliens.

Travel in groups of 2 or more when possible.  This helps you get return frags 
as well as protect each other.

Have the 2 travelers have different weapons.  One with the smart gun, the other
with machine/grenade gun.  This way it's kind of like a spotter/sniper set-up.  
Alternatively Machinegun/Shotgun would work alright as well.

Also, learn the location/function of your ammo boxes.  
This is a must for any human as different ammo boxes provide differing items.
It becomes very profitable to know this once you find your weapon of choice.  
Especially when your out of grenade rounds.

Also learn the locales of health and armor powerups.  
Make sure to watch out for enemies when getting ammo/health/armor.


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 6.B  Humans Vs. Predators


I do not usually complain about something, unless it becomes a nasty balance 
issue.  It really isn't fair that a predator can use his cannon, 
zoom in from 30 million miles away, and cap you off before you even knew what 
happened.  Then become invisible again just to strike another person down 
later.

If a predator is getting far too annoying I personally hunt them down.  
Not that the shoulder cannon doesn't have its uses, 5 marines with smart 
guns vs 1 pred, but it can be over powerful.


How to nutralize Cannoneer Preds:

Many people do not seem to realize/look for the red sniper dot.  
You can actually see it plain as day.  Very nice target.  
I usually spend a lot of time hunting down those dots if there is a cannoneer.

One game I made around 8-10 kills, had the highest score in the game, and we 4 
marines beat 4 predators!

The moral is to look for red dots and fire like crazy!

P.S.  If they shoot the cannon jump, strafe, move...  
DO NOT RUN STRAIGHT FORWARD!  
I dodged about 10 cannon shots before fragging the standing still pred.

If the preds are hunting and not sniping, I suggest grenade rounds or shotgun
and groups of 3 or more.  Then you can really strike them down as soon as they
are spotted.  Also if I didn't state it before don't stand still.  
A predator can net several people then hack them to pieces.


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 6.C  Humans Vs. Aliens


Again never stand still.  A sitting target is extremely easy to lunge upon.  
A moving target is much much harder.  Smart guns are great, if you do not have 
it then grenade guns or shotguns.  The shotguns reload can be a killer though.  
You have to be very accurate if you use it.

Also while on the move, never look only forwards always look all around you.  
Mostly I developed this while playing against predators, but it helps keep 
you from being trashed by aliens as well.


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 7.A  General Predator Strategies


Basically you have three strategies out there for Predators: a hunter, 
sniper/cannoneer, or melee.

Sniper - Use invisibility and the shoulder cannon to snipe out the poor humans.  
   *Cough* Cheap *Cough* Lame.  All right enough trashing this, 
         the strategy has its uses and can be a little too effective at times.
         None the less, I have used it when necessary.

Hunter - They favor netting and gutting strategies.  Can also be very cheap and
   effective.  I do not dislike this as much as snipers, but it can be 
         just as annoying.  I hate it when predators use this one-on-one.  
         It's fine if your outnumbered, but one-on-one it can be very cheap.

Melee  - A true predator.  These sneaky hunters use absolute stealth and 
    hand-to-hand combat as their primary tools only using other methods
         out of absolute desperation.  My very own personal favorite.


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 7.B  Predators Vs. Humans


Well contrary to predators being cheap, Humans can be just as bad with the 
smart guns.  Those can be very annoying especially if you're like me and try
to be a fair predator.  E.g. No shoulder cannon, no smart guns.  
(BTW - I think that's a fun and fair variant rule)

If they start using all smart guns, there are two ways to deal with this:
Skill and no skill.  Melee or cannoneer.  Cannoneer's can shoot down people
easily but are very cheap.  Melee preds have got to stand still.
If you do not move at all, they can not spot you.

If you are a snipe pred, here's a suggestion:  Do not stand still while marines
fire at you.  They can see you because of your brilliant red dot.

I have found many preds get lazy when it comes to this.  
Of course jumping won't save you from a smart gun.  
If they have the SG then duck and stop moving.


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 7.C  Predators Vs. Aliens


Shoulder cannon Barbeque anyone?  In the demo this is your only hope.  
They can see you whilst invisible and they are even more deadly than you are in
melee.

My only suggestion, never melee them.  If your out of energy, net them.  
Netting can be very difficult though.


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 8.A  Aliens General Strategies


Learn to lunge.  The higher up you aim the farther you fly.  
Aim where they will be, not where they are.  I still haven't mastered lunging.

Learn to wall crawl.  I actually just use toggle for simplicity, 
so I press the button and crawl away.  This and lunging are your best friends.


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 8.B  Aliens Vs. Predators


They can see you, you can see them.  Fair enough.  
You can fly 3 million feet, they can zoom in 3 million feet and snipe you.

I suggest learning your lunging...  
Honestly, if there are aliens in the game I am all about cannon fire.  
The combo stick is useless and claws are just as bad.  In the demo all 
you have is the cannon to fight the aliens.

So for aliens, you better hit the preds instantly or else suffer the 
consequences.


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 8.C  Aliens Vs. Humans


Same as before.  Except Use stealth to your advantage.
Remember the Alien movies?  Wait for them to come to you and trash them.

They cannot detect you if you stand still.  The only way they can is with
the smart guns or if your in broad daylight.  If you really get good at 
lunging you can catch many marines off guard by hanging on the sides of 
bridges and lunging off them.  Climb in vents ect.  
Anything to hide in and fly out of.  There really isn't all that much to 
hide inside in the demo.  Hopefully other stages will have more places to hide.


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 9.   Level Strategies (Not Started)


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 10.   Future Plans

Buying the game of course.

After that I will play until my fingers start to hurt.  
Then I will massively update this guide.

I will add more weapons info, and a tactics section.  
Will add a more strategies.  Mostly specialized in Predator and Human right 
now.  I want to a DM section as well.  Any contributions will help greatly as 
I prefer TeamDM.


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11.   Legal Stuff


This FAQ is Copyright 2001 by Oni5115.  
Please do not copy this information and post it on your site as original 
material.  If you wish to post it just e-mail me for confirmation of useage.  



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If you see it on any other sites please e-mail me.  
Again, If you would like to post it on your site, please just e-mail me.


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13.   Credits

Well my thanks goes out to Sierra for making yet another great game.


Other credits:


DeAdLy Spy - For telling preds can not be seen if they stand still.  
             Not even by smart guns.  I did not know that one.




Please send info to me at oni5115@hotmail.com


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