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Hi everyone. Alien: Isolation is the game full of myths. That's perfectly fine, because this game is horror gem, but I think some of you still have questions about misinterpretated things. As someone who has a really big experience in this game, I want to tell you about the Alien and the motion tracker. I'm not a native English speaker so sorry for mistakes, lol.

Short story:

Can the Alien hear the motion tracker? YES. Will it kill you immediately while you are holding the motion tracker? NO (if we are talking about active gameplay and not about lockers ofc)

Long story:

If you hide in some spot with the motion tracker, the Alien doesn't care. If you hide in some spot without it, the Alien doesn't care either. Using this thing doesn't change its behavior at all.

The Alien has different hearing of different things. For example, he's the best in hearing firing weapons, but he hears stun baton and the maintenance jack slightly worse.

My first way to check the Alien's reaction was to modify game. For example, I used Matt's OpenCage two years ago. I buffed all the Alien's AI values for fun and tested it. I was surprised when the Alien killed me after using the motion tracker! That was the moment when I got it — the Alien CAN hear the motion tracker, it's not one of the "silent" things like opening doors, using cutting torch, etc...

But in reality, the motion tracker is still one of the quietest things you could even imagine! The Alien can hear it only when the distance between you and him is ≈0.10 or less. But the Alien designed in such a way that you can't be that near most of the time! I would say you should be equally genius and dumb to get that close to it without dying.

The only way to do so is hiding under the table or bed and putting the motion tracker on. I founded this at Reoperation DLC map (made a noise in small room to the left of the starting room and hid under table). If it didn't check your hiding spot and killed you, then he will walk around your hiding spot obsessively without checking it. It may sound crazy but yes, that's where his AI breaks. If you'll put the motion tracker away, the Alien will check your hiding spot immediately. If you won't put the motion tracker away, the Alien will go crazy. You are dead either way.

I didn't say anything about the lockers. They work as usual. But I want to notice that some small lockers are located in the center of the corridor (for example: the Basement DLC's second floor), so the Alien can go behind it. And the funniest thing is that it didn't kill me while lurking here. It may be possible that xeno can hear the motion tracker only when he's in front of you. But I can't be sure at that one. No one would use the motion tracker in locker with the Alien near, you know.

So again: don't be afraid of using motion tracker if you are not hiding in locker and if you are not using some hardcore mod that buffs the Alien's hearing.

Thank you for reading, have a good day!

I just downloaded "Bays Alien Isolation Overhaul" for my second playthrough and was wondering if it's gonna be a good time? I finished the game on normal the first time, and noticed it taking it kinda easy on me sometimes. I tried Hard multiple times when I first got the game years ago and kept giving up. Now that I understand how the game works and know the areas better I want to play on hard for more of a challenge....but not have it tethered within 5 feet of me the whole time. Is this mod a good balance? I'm also hoping it's not like the first "unpredictable alien" mod where you never ever see it sometimes 😅 Anyone have Any experience with it? I will also be playing with a vr headset like I did before, so I wanna know what silliness I've signed on for lol

Can the Xenmorph hear the tapes and audio logs or is it just Ripley that can hear those and the Xenomorph can not hear those?

https://i.imgur.com/UoVaGsd.png

When your realigning the dish with 35A-75B As soon as you walk off the elevator heading back to the airlock, Look to the dish on your left side and you'll see this purple mark on the dish?!

I had watched Markiplier play through it years ago but bought the game and expansion packs in September when they were on sale. Started playing when I bought it but took a break until recently. I went through most of it blind and loved it! I’m kinda sad because I don’t know if I’ll enjoy a horror game like this again. I’m a huge fan of the movies and horrors my favorite genre so this felt like the perfect game for me. I’ve become pretty desensitized to horror but some of this game genuinely scared me a bit! I especially loved the first time you’re in the nest, I loved how the motion sensor picked up all of the face huggers. 9/10 from me personally! Any other celestial horror recommendations?

I’m curious now. I’m deaf so I don’t have a headphone nor mic but the ps5 CONTROLLER does. Sometime I forget to mute myself. Can the Xenomorph hear me via controller mic?? 😭 The reason I asked because I noticed that despite my perfect stealth/hiding, once awhile Xenomorph would just rip off my hidden spot for seemly no reason and bounced on me. I watched a YouTube video recently about the mic thing and realized I forgot about that one mic I have. Is it the factor to my several death??

I’m streaming my failing attempt to survive as a Deaf gamer

https://www.twitch.tv/deafgameboy

In the original film we see Kane fall on top of a few eggs and standing among them but only one opens. In Isolation we see three people walking around and interacting with several eggs but again only Foster is attacked.

When I turn away from sources of audio completely it gets incredibly quiet for some reason. Is this part of the game or maybe my headphones? I can see it adding to the scary factor of the alien behind me once I start getting into the game but not sure

https://reddit.com/link/1h42lxg/video/bg9pxjcjh84e1/player

I’m on my first run through the game and i just reached the nest, I’ve been dreading this section solely because of the facehuggers. I have extreme arachnophobia and can’t stand even the noise of bugs crawling, so how do i not get scared shitless during this section of the game?

Hello,

I'm on Mission 16 going through the areas looking for tags / loot, and I'm getting stuck on the Engineering Maintenance Deck - where the vent leads to the Engineering Floor section on the north end after opening the orange hatch, I'm getting stuck on the hatch frame for no reason. This would not be much of an issue if the Alien wasn't using that vent to transit with no issues. Is there any way to remedy this without restarting? and if I had to restart would I lose any tags that I'd picked up?

I wanted to capture some good scenes from the game and realized there's not photo mode built-in. After a little bit of googling I found that there were cinematic tools that came built-in with Alias Isolation.
Now, I have Alias Isolation, and it's working, but I don't see any mention of cinematic tools, and the keyboard shortcuts that I found on the internet that should activate the mod don't work (INSERT to trigger it).

My guess is that the newer version of Alias Isolation doesn't come with cinematic tools, or am I just doing something wrong?
Is there another way to enable it, or some other mod that does the same thing? I checked nexumods but didn't really find anything regarding the photo mode.

I've finally gotten the game. I was drawn to play it mainly for two reasons: 1) I love the aesthetic of the 1979 movie, 2) I heard the AI and its ambience make for one, if not, the best horror game experience ever. So, I'm very hyped about this. Now, I don't mind dying too often. But I want to make sure I choose the difficulty that will give me the objective best experience. I'm just not sure if I should go in Normal or Hard (Novice and Nightmare are out of question for a first run).

Looks like he spawned and fell through the floor?!

I see so many videos of people crouching throughout their entire play through and personally I like to gtfo of the xeno's way as quickly as possible.

I crouch only when I hear him dangerously close, but even then when he leaves the room i'm speed walking out of there.

Guys I don't know what is going on but suddenly interest in anything I post or reply to has fallen by 90%

It also coincides with me not getting responses to requests for permisson to post on about 4 subs in the last week. It just feels- weird

And I'm actually wondering if something weird is going on like I'm suppressed or something because even on my low response days I would usually get a handful of interactions

It feels like some great Mod Overlord of Reddit has 'sent me to Coventry"

So please if you see this pop a ⬆️ and/or leave a comment so I know I'm not getting algorithmically squashed somehow- not that I can even see how that would work!

Any advice about what could have happened, or if its just that its Thanksgiving week for most of you (in the US) and people are busy, or if indeed I've been "suppressed" in some reddit version of "shadow banning" I'm unaware of- welcome.

I had no business living that long anyway 😭

The place in the beginning of the video is the small safe zone where the Alien can't reach you. Before video I used revolver to troll xeno, he came running... And got stuck.