Drifter

"Something in alien. I dont know what, I'm just the editor."
Kharaa
Team Resources 8
Supply 5 / 200
Health 300	Armor 20
Abilities and Upgrades
Abilities: Enzyme Cloud, Hallucination Cloud, Mucous Membrane, Patrol, Follow, Grow
Miscellaneous
Tech Requirements: Build on Infestation
Build Time:	7 seconds
Builds From:	Alien Commander
Buy From:	Build Tab
Hotkey:	D

Introduction

The Drifter is an alien lifeform that the Alien Commander directly control. Apart from the ability to speed up the growing of Alien Structures, it has several active and passive abilities tied to what type of Hive the aliens have. Drifters build at a speed of 1.25 which is 2.5 times faster than the self-building rate of 0.5. This means a Harvester (build time 38s) takes 76s to build on its own and 30.4s if a Drifter grows it.

These abilities can be used to assist the aliens in battles and in expanding fast.

Unlike the ARC and MAC the drifter does provide vision for the Commander, which makes patrolling Drifters a useful defensive tool to spot Phase Gates or Marine pushes early enough to form an effective response.

Passive Abilities

Shift Hive

Celerity: Drifters move 18% faster

Crag Hive

Regeneration: Drifters regenerate 3% max hp/sec

Shade Hive

Camouflage: Drifters gain Camouflage when they are idle

Tactical Summary - Spotting Hallucinations

Hallucinations die in a dark cloud instead of a disintegrating ragdoll.
Killing Hallucinations does not yield points.
Hallucinated structures will appear built on the Minimap (not grayed out) but have the unbuilt model.
The Switch-Axe will only deal half damage to a hallucinated structure, since it is not considered a structure.

Abilities

Drifter Abilities

Enzyme Cloud

Hallucination Cloud

Enzyme Cloud

Creates a cloud of hormones that increase rate of attack for Aliens inside it by 25%.
Hotkey	A
TRes	2
Duration	5 seconds
Targets	Alien players
Requires	Shift Hive

Hallucination Cloud

Creates controllable mirror images of units in effective range, which live for up to 30 seconds can be killed by Marines or destroyed be the Alien Commander have 20% of the Health of the original but no more than 700 Health have no Armor Casting Hallucination Cloud onto a Res Node with Infestation or a Techpoint will hallucinate a Harvester or Hive respectively.
Hotkey	S
TRes	2
Targets	Alien players
Requires	Shade Hive

Mucous Membrane

Default

Mucous Membrane

Grants Aliens a Shield for 5 seconds.

Lifeform	Shield Amount
Skulk	15
Gorge	21
Lerk	25
Fade	40
Onos	70

Hotkey

D

TRes

2

Targets

Alien players

Requires

Crag Hive

Patrol

Sends the Drifter on Patrol. Can be queued up along up to 10 waypoints by pressing Shift .
Hotkey	G

Grow

Speeds up the constructions of Alien structures to 125% speed (auto-build speed is 50%).
Targets	Alien structures

Kharaa

Classes - Skulk • Gorge • Lerk • Fade • Onos

Mechanics - Alien Vision • Evolve Menu • Hive Sight

Base Abilities
Skulk - (Sneak • Wall Walking • Bite • Parasite) • Gorge - (Belly Slide • Spit • Heal Spray • Build Menu) • Lerk - (Flight • Roost • Poison Bite • Spikes) •
Fade - (Swipe • Blink) • Onos - (Gore)

Unlockable Abilities
Skulk - (Leap • Xenocide) • Gorge - (Bile Bomb) • Lerk - (Spores • Umbra) • Fade - (Metabolize • Advanced Metabolize • Stab) • Onos - (Charge • Bone Shield • Stomp)

Shift Hive - (Adrenaline • Celerity • Crush)
Shade Hive - (Aura • Camouflage • Focus)
Crag Hive - (Carapace • Regeneration • Vampirism)

Removed - Frenzy • Swarm • Phantom • Silence • Feign Death • Hyper-mutation

Mechanics - Alien Commander • Biomass • Infestation • Maturation • Consume • Resource Model

Abilities - Heal Wave • Ink • Echo • Nutrient Mist • Rupture • Bone Wall • Contamination • Enzyme Cloud • Hallucination Cloud • Mucous Membrane

Gorge - Babbler • Hydra • Clog • Webs
Build - Cyst • Harvester • Drifter • Tunnel • Hive (Egg) • Pheromones

Advanced - Crag • Shade • Shift • Whip • Shell • Veil • Spur

Game Information - Options • Maps • Console Commands • Patches
In Game - Damage Types • Status Icons • Ranking System • Badges

Other - Skins • DLC • Mapping • Matched Play

Drifter