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Drifter
Drifter idle
"Something in alien. I dont know what, I'm just the editor."
Kharaa Kharaa
Team Resources
Marines res 8
Supply
Icon kharaa 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
Enzyme Icon
Creates a cloud of hormones that increase rate of attack for Aliens inside it by 25%.
Hotkey
A
TRes Icon team resource neutral 2
Duration 5 seconds
Targets Alien players
Requires Shift Hive
Hallucination Cloud
Hallucination Icon
Creates controllable mirror images of units in effective range, which

Casting Hallucination Cloud onto a Res Node with Infestation or a Techpoint will hallucinate a Harvester or Hive respectively.

Hotkey
S
TRes Icon team resource neutral 2
Targets Alien players
Requires Shade Hive

Mucous Membrane

Default

Mucous Membrane
Mucous Icon
Grants Aliens a Shield for 5 seconds.
Lifeform Shield Amount
Skulk 15
Gorge 21
Lerk 25
Fade 40
Onos 70
Hotkey
D
TRes Icon team resource neutral 2
Targets Alien players
Requires Crag Hive
Patrol
Patrol
Sends the Drifter on Patrol. Can be queued up along up to 10 waypoints by pressing
Shift
.
Hotkey
G


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


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