Aliens Colonial Marines

#1 Posted by PhilipDuck (414 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

Has it been said anywhere what the deal is with the place being nuked at the end of Aliens? Because if this is 2 weeks after the events from 2 then i'm still confused at how they are happily walking around there and everythings untouched... Did the nuke not get launched? Curious if any of you have heard.

#2 Posted by Jwkokosmakroon (158 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

The atmospheric generator exploded, they didn't nuke the colony as such.

Still, I share your concerns :p

#3 Posted by TentPole (1858 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

Space Magic

#4 Posted by PenguinDust (12102 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

Everyone hid in the refrigerator.

#5 Posted by FilipHolm (608 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

@PenguinDust said:

Everyone hid in the refrigerator.

Holy shit I just fell off my chair laughing. Way to nail that reference dude.

#6 Posted by WonderboyCoz (151 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

well, this game is set something like 16 weeks after Alien 3 I believe.As for the thing being basically nuked... its a video game?

#7 Posted by GetEveryone (4448 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

Yeah, didn't Bishop mention that the blast was equivalent to 40 megatons.

I'd imagine there would be nothing left of that place.

#8 Posted by EuanDewar (4025 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

@GetEveryone

Yeah, didn't Bishop mention that the blast was equivalent to 40 megatons.
I'd imagine there would be nothing left of that place.

"In 17 minutes this place is gonna be a cloud of vapour the size of Nebraska."

#9 Posted by PhilipDuck (414 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

Yeah, so as the developers keep saying we are keeping this game in line with the events of Aliens etc.. i'm amazed nobody has questioned them on this yet.. I want to hear their explanation haha

#10 Posted by obcdexter (433 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

It (most likely, if Hicks wasn't bonkers) took the rescue team 17 days to get to the planet, so, that's maybe more than enough time for the area to "cool down". What I'm more concerned with is ... wouldn't it be a huge problem for the marines to survive on that planet with the damn atmospheric generator gone? Or maybe they already blew more than enough shit into the air to keep the atmosphere stable on its own for a long time - I'm sure that will be referenced in some way. As far as the supposedly humongous explosion is concerned: Guess it'll be revealed it wasn't as devastating as expected (the prognosis did come from an android, though, guess Bishop leaned more towards literature than mathematics :P)

#11 Posted by SeanFoster (668 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

I could've sworn I saw some footage of gameplay near the derelict alien space craft (where the eggs are). I don't believe that's very near Hadley's Hope, otherwise they wouldn't have had to wait decades for Burke to send them coordinates. Maybe the LV-426 parts of the game take place at some smaller facility the colonists setup before venturing into the derelict. That's all I got.

#12 Posted by GetEveryone (4448 posts) - 11 months, 14 days ago

@EuanDewar said:

@GetEveryone
Yeah, didn't Bishop mention that the blast was equivalent to 40 megatons.
I'd imagine there would be nothing left of that place.
"In 17 minutes this place is gonna be a cloud of vapour the size of Nebraska."

Indee'.

I'm interested in playing the game, merely for the fact that it gives me a chance to fire pulse rifles at xenomorphs, but I'd take the whole canon aspect with a pinch of salt.

#13 Posted by Wong_Fei_Hung (642 posts) - 7 months, 6 days ago

@PhilipDuck:

The alien craft could have protected the colony during the blast. It was a warship, and the aliens were one of the weapons (colonization weapon) It would have been heavily shielded.

Aliens: Colonial Marines

A first-person shooter set in the Alien universe. The player is part of a search-and-rescue team sent out to search for the missing USCM team last seen in Aliens.

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