So the game is great (haven’t beaten it yet because I still got the last mission to beat but I know how it goes) and it has alot of cool bosses, but there are some that I think could easily be slotted in and make alot of sense from a gameplay, story and uniqueness aspect so here’s the 5 I think are likely to come
5. Engineers
Engineers are fairly powerful in Alien lore considering one nearly beat a elder predator to death with relative ease so it makes sense that it would be a boss battle, it would probably be hostile to all factions and utilize grab and sheer Brute force to beat players to death and with the heavy Engineer focus in the story it’s not to far off to say them destroying the ships cores could have snapped them out of cryosleep
4. Power Loader
Honestly very surprised one didn’t make it in and it makes alot of sense being a extremely tanky boss enemy that can do severe melee damage if it gets close enough to players and given the fact there is one in the game I don’t see why not since a model already exists for it, story wise I can see it being used to help try to exterminate the marines as Weyland Yutani uses its Synthetics to pilot them
3. Rat-X
Probably the hardest to fight for anyone who is arachnophobic and it would be a great addition into the game, they were in the book and were mutagen hybrids between rats and spiders so it would be a pretty terrifying enemy to fight as well as bring forth more stuff from the book, gameplay wise I’d love if it had a sort of drag away mechanic where it can pounce players and then drag them away as opposed to the usual pin would be horrifying as well as seeing it charge up and bite you, gameplay wise I think it would be great and act as a tankier boss compared to the Stalker and also adds more onto the Pathogen faction which is honestly extremely disappointing in terms of size so another enemy for that faction would be nice, it could also be explained as the previous Rat-X laid eggs on a ship during their escape and managed to spread around as well as ussuring in the Pathogen into the game for future again.
2. Alien Queen
Yes I know what your going to say “but its already in the game” and yes, but I think its pretty obvious that people were disappointed in the fact that we didn’t get to fight her, in a game about fighting your way through hoards of aliens, synthetics and mutants its really disappointing that you don’t get the privilege of fighting the Queen and feeling like the Ultimate Badass, story wise I could see them introducing a new Queen as a major threat while everything runs rampant on the planet and it would be a extremely powerful enemy having loads of health and requiring the players to utilize the environment and everything they got to take her down
1. Ultramorph
I’ve always said it and seeing the game now I think the Ultramorph is just too perfect to pass up as it ticks all the bars:
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It would be a Queen sized alien that’s immensely powerful that could act as a substitute for the Queen if all else fails giving the players that feeling of fighting off a towering behemoth of a Xenomorph.
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It would be extremely powerful considering it was spawned from a Engineer and put the players skills to the test if they wanted to take down the extremely powerful Xenomorph maybe having the players wear it down over the course of the campaign to finally kill it in the last mission to show how monstrous the Ultramorph is since in the old canon they are strong enough to destroy entire hives, it could also spit acid like its Alien Infestation interpretation giving it a terrifying ranged attack that could literally melt through the players health if they aren’t careful.
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Story wise it would fit in perfectly and be explained that the juggernauts cores being destroyed awakened the Engineers and one managed to get facehugged creating a extremely powerful rampaging beast that destroys everything in its path, Xenomorph or not and would perfectly fit into this role as Engineers are extremely relentless and aggressive to begin with.
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And I have brought the idea up to the devs and they have showed signs of being interested so it’s likely we could see the first design for the Ultramorph since the Space Jockeys changed to Engineers.
I think the Ultramorph is the perfect candidate for a boss, its extremely powerful and intimidating while fitting perfectly into potential future content on a story premise and would be the first design of the Xenomorph since its shift from Space Jockey to Engineer which would make them the first people to make a canon depiction of the creature which is something I imagine is too enticing to pass up and it’s always been a creature at the back of every alien fans heads since the first film so I think it would be perfect for the game