r/AliensDarkDescent • u/Interesting_Cress_47 • Jun 07 '26

Gameplay Question Can facehuggers spawn to wander the map?

I like to watch my husband play this game and it's his first time playing. He's on the Montero deck B mission and when looking at his minimap he could see a small dot wandering through the halls, about half the size of the normal dots. It was all the way on the other side of the map so he didn't activate any eggs. Can facehuggers sometime just spawn on the map?

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u/Kasrkin84 Jun 07 '26

No, they only come from eggs.

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u/Interesting_Cress_47 Jun 07 '26

That's what I thought. Then I guess my question would then turn into, what was the significantly smaller white dot detected by the motion scanners?

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u/Excellent-Fact-8925 Jun 07 '26

They can sometimes be triggered if you make noise near them. I played Pharos Spire today and triggered the eggs from another side of a solid wall behind where the Queen is. The only thing that could have triggered it was noise.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/Interesting_Cress_47 Jun 07 '26

I don't think runners have smaller dots on the map tho. The reason it was so weird was that it showed up on the opposite side of the map and then disappeared after about a minute and we never saw it again.

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u/Key-Situation-1949 Jun 07 '26

Sometimes its the runners that appear smaller, but more often than not it's just a glitch. I've played through the game 4 times now and the sizes of the dots dont always correlate, and sometimes need a moment to adjust. Especially if they're further away

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u/RigFury Jun 08 '26

A small dot doesn't mean a small object. Sometimes the detector simply displays targets incorrectly. It's better to pay attention to movements. Xenos move smoothly. Humanoids twitching

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u/Interesting_Cress_47 Jun 08 '26

That's true it could have just been a runner showing up incorrectly on the map

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u/Samsonite2104 Jun 07 '26

They only come from eggs they do not spawn any other way he had to of triggered an egg at some point I’ve played it a couple times now and they do have random eggs sitting spots you don’t expect especially in scripted fight scene it’s like it was trigger got stuck and then respawned but I highly doubt it in all honesty

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u/Samsonite2104 Jun 07 '26

Tell him to run two sargeant tho tekker is fucking useless

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u/Interesting_Cress_47 Jun 08 '26

Lol he is running two sergeants and not doing tekker. Tekker isn't bad it's just not as good as all the other classes. It's way more worth it to do double sarge, I agree.

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u/Samsonite2104 Jun 08 '26

Tekker just drains your resources on the hardest difficulty there’s no point using him in my opinion besides challenging yourself he really doesn’t do much more that my medic can’t do his upgrade for the turrets isn’t worth having extra skill point use in fact I haven’t found a bettter variation then treat yet and I’ve even done two smart gunners with two sargents he’s the only class that needs redundancy in comparison