WHAT DO YOU AIM AT AS XENO?

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TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL!

  • Head
  • Torso
  • Right Leg
  • Right Foot
  • Left Leg
  • Left Foot
  • Right Arm
  • Right Hand
  • Left Arm
  • Left Hand
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why can I not vote eye? not that I aim for it and it is the same as aiming head but it is discrimnatory

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The fact that I cannot vote for at least two things is bad. But I guess I can’t say head unless they are helmetless.

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Right foot is the general rule

If everyone slashes the same limb, everyone has a much higher chance of killing splints and causing delimbs, thus amplifying attrition by a lot.

Hands are a nothingburger unless you delimb

Arms are a nothingburger unless you delimb (but gives IB)

Torso area is hard to frac, but if you do then it’s the best place to kill splints due to massive organ damage + IB

Head is mostly a nothingburger (unless helmetless) due to IA, but gives IB.

Leg gives IB but less chance of delimb and harder to frac- Better to just aim foot tbh

Feet are generally the best choice since crippling movement speed is the absolute best debuff you can inflict (massive decrease in marine offensive capability + way easy to cap and kill), plus it has low health so it’s easy to frac and delimb + it means damage easily transfers to leg anyways.

Majority of people ought to aim right foot unless it’s a special case e.g. helmetless marine

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In my opinion aiming for the hands is only useful if you are attacking a Specialist/Smartgunner and are praying for a delimb.

I’ve heard that a high-damage xeno like Rav might be justified in aiming for the chest, as chest damage is generally far more likely to cripple a Marine long term and their high damage output is good enough to not worry about time to kill, but I’ve not tested it and I don’t play Rav.

But as noted by Basil, I feel feet are the best area to slash. Sometimes I might swap it up by going left feet, more fractures = more fun

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I main lurker and I constantly get dehands.

Actual right foot or the “right” foot on the targeting doll (which is actually the left foot)?

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Where’s the groin option?

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actual right foot

I hope you don’t ask that question when you’re splinting me xd

torso encompasses chest and groin (they’re functionally similar for damage reasons anyways, albeit chest is more damaging due to the huge number of organs inside)

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As the specifics aren’t here. Voted head, but I target eyes specifically. That or groin.

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Aiming chest as vanguard or a rav is incredibly underrated, I once made a sadar spec go perma because I heartbroke him with a tail pierce as vguard :flexed_biceps:

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I am fairly certain the vanguards tail-pierce hits a random limb when used. If it were not for that I suspect they’d be even more powerful than they already are

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Debatable. If everyone slashes the same limb, there won’t be many fracs on the marine. Usually you can keep fighting efficient enough with 2 fracs. 3+ becomes an issue. So spreading damage to give more fracs makes some sense.

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If by left foot you mean here, then yeah. I typically target this part, as it’s a bit further from the center of your screen then right foot.
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I didn’t know most tier 3s decided to target the right foot tho, I can do that if it’s better (as Basil stated).

Chest is only good for base rav, due to how much damage empowered charge does.

Groin is pletty slept on, if you get a groin frac, it’s one of the worst fracs and slows you down a LOT.

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Yeah, ultimately spreading damage between the 2 legs and hopefully a torso part is best. Both feet and legs fracced? That marine isn’t going to kill anything, or run away. Plus a chest frac? They’re dead unless they get surgery.

Generally speaking most people target right foot in the initial engagement at least. I’m not actually sure when people decide to switch body parts, though it seems to be a mix of ‘never switch from right foot kekw’ to ‘switch once you hear crack, or know it’s fracced’ to ‘schizophrenic random limb every marine’.

Unless I’m hallucinating, I’m fairly sure a significant chunk of abilities damage the chest exclusively, so some players (mostly T3s like rav) seem to just target chest since their odds of fraccing are relatively higher. Again, not actually 100% certain on this one.

I’d say that’s probably a good thing attrition-wise. You’re right that if people only slashed the right foot there’d be much less fracs dealt then if some people switched and broke other bones instead.

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The game revolves around queen screech and the need for a marine to outrun the queen. Light armor is king as you can reliably outrun a frenzied queen and counterpush queen after screech. Otherwise you get caught and end up getting neurogased at the same time, or feeding frenzy stacks to a zerker rav, or getting unavoidably capped by a runner during the stun duration.

Ideally the t1/t2s will be aiming equally between left and right foot to help remove the speed advantage light armor gives. Base rav seems to be able to reliably frac chest, which the marine will be on the clock as they have no means to heal chest organ damage unlike head with ia.

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Usually i try to aim at marines

Sometimes i accidentally aim at other xenos and shove them over when they’re low health and running

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Right feet, or hand, the rest doesn’t matter. The system is rigged so if too much damage is made on one limb, it spreads without impacting armor, so slash right foot, it will damage right leg and then groin.

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you aim at the enemy marines, duh

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If you’re on the frontline you should always be aiming at right foot
on the frontline the mobility of marines is one of the biggest deciding factors on whether they can secure xeno kills or not. The only exceptions to this are targeting head for helmetless marines.

If you’re on the backline then you can aim for the hands
it’ll prevent the marine from escaping you, as the mobility is less important, due to runner/lurker easily outspeeding the marine, while keeping the marine’s hand broken is much more important because you want to secure the kill before needing to go back and heal.

TL:DR frontline stab rhand, backline stab rfoot, helmetless marines stab head.

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Only one option? That’s pretty sad

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