History Headscratchers / AlienIsolation

** PlotArmor, combined with ConservationOfNinjitsu. There's only one Alien in the game [[spoiler:Most of it, anyway]], and if you could only take it out with just a few bullets, then the game wouldn't really have much else to go on. Though an In-Universe explanation might be that the revolvers are very weak and weren't really meant to shoot anything that was built to last. That, and it's hard for Ripley to get a clean shot since she's not an experienced marksman and the Alien moves very fast.

* Is Amanda near the end [[spoiler: infected? It seems very ambiguous. I'm inclined to say no, since she'll still be attacked by the aliens, but it's not clear.]]
** It's worth noting that [[spoiler: the egg closest to her is still closed, but it is indeed left ambiguous. In my honest opinion, she's not infected.]]
** [[spoiler: Facehuggers ill still attack you even after the point you were supposedly infected, traditionally they ignore people already infected]]
** Ripley's daughter is [[spoiler: mentioned dying of old age in Aliens]], so, no.

* In the Final Dungeon: [[spoiler: How did the Aliens manage to create that many facehugger eggs in the second hive on such short notice? If there was a queen in the first hive, it's unlikely she made it out alive, and the only other way to make eggs involves a rather sloooooow process of converting captured humans, and it's unlikely there were that many left alive on the station.]]

* Where did that [[spoiler: lone Facehugger on the Anesidora come from?]] There's no way it could have gotten onto the ship without taking the time to attacking one of its would-be passengers first.
** My guess is it was [[spoiler: hidden under something in the ambulance Marlow used and took a while to wriggle free.]]

** It should be also noted that Amanda does actually meet some people who are not trigger-happy paranoid survivalists, and I'm not referring to plot-sensible characters like Axel, Waits or Ricardo, but some random NPCs. First two are in Mission 2, just after meeting Axel, they are trying to activate an elevator and will simply tell you that they want to be left alone. In "The Trap" we can meet some friendly people and warn them to get to safety in the marshall bureau because the creature is nearby. Then, while going to Gemini Solutions, we meet a lonely woman, resigned and sighing, who will ignore us.

** It's also very likely that by that point many of the survivors had some idea about how the aliens reproduced, or were at least aware of the parasitic nature of how they're born. To them, every new person they encounter is not just someone who may already ''be'' impregnated, but someone who will almost certainly ''become'' impregnated. [[NecessaryEvil The less people they allow to live,]] [[JerkassHasAPoint the less xenomorphs can breed]].

** It's also very likely that by that point many of the survivors had some idea about how the aliens reproduced, or were at least aware of the parasitic nature of how they're born. To them, every new person they encounter is not just someone who may already *be* impregnated, but someone who will almost certainly *become* impregnated. [[NecessaryEvil The less people they allow to live,]] [[JerkassHasAPoint the less xenomorphs can breed]].

** It's also very likely that by that point most of the survivors had some idea about how the aliens reproduced, or were at least aware of the parasitic nature of how they're born. To them, every new person they encounter is not just someone who may *be* infected, but someone who could also become *become* infected. [[TheExtremistWas Right The less people they allow to live,]] [[JerkassHasAPoint the less xenomorphs will breed]].

** It's also very likely that by that point most of the survivors had some idea about how the aliens reproduced, or were at least aware of the parasitic nature of how they're born. To them, every new person they encounter is not just someone who may *be* infected, but someone who could also become *become* infected. [[JerkassHasAPoint The less people they allow to live, the less xenomorphs will breed]].

* If there's more than one Alien, why did they came one at a time against Ripley than all together? Aliens establish that they would go attack their enemies on huge numbers with extreme aggression when one of their own is threatened?

** The station's systems are all kinds of messed up. Playing the wrong message is not that surprising.

* After Amanda leaves the baggage claim at the beginning of the game, she's treated to a prerecorded message about the station. However, this is the ''departure'' lounge. Why would they play an introductory spiel welcoming people to the station when they're about to leave?

*** This is true, as the M-41A pulse rifle's ammo is described as "ten millimeter explosive-tip caseless. Standard light armor-piercing rounds." That's the reason why the Pulse Rifles are able to shred through the xenomorphs and Gorman's gun in the above mentioned scene would have likely use regular 9mm ammo, which would explain why the rounds just bounced off of the one he was shooting at.

*** This is true, as the M-41A pulse rifle is described to have, "ten millimeter explosive-tip caseless. Standard light armor-piercing round." That's the reason why the Pulse Rifles are able to shred through the xenomorphs and Gorman's gun in the above mentioned scene would have likely use regular 9mm ammo, which would explain why the rounds just bounced off of the one he was shooting at.

** My guess is it was [[hidden under something in the ambulance Marlow used and took a while to wriggle free.]]

*** Wayland Yutani might be powerful but they don't control everything. If they spun Riply a line about Amanda dying an old woman if she died somewhere else there would have been far to many holes in the story. And indeed what would they have to gain from such a lie? Even if they were covering up their involvement something like "industrial accident" would have been a ''lot'' easier a story to create and maintain than several extra decades of life.

* Where did that [[spoiler: lone Facehugger on the Anesidora come from?]] There's no way it could have gotten onto the ship without taking the time to attacking one of its would-be passengers first.

* Where did that lone Facehugger on the Anesidora come from? There's no way it could have gotten onto the ship without taking the time to latch onto one of its would-be passengers first.

** Ripley's daughter is [[spoiler: mentioned dying of old age in Aliens]], so, no.

** The answer to this is actually fairly clever. The Alien isn't immune to your weapons, your guns just aren't of sufficient quality to kill it instantly (compare with the weapons used in the sequel which were top of the line military grade weaponry.). You likely kill several Aliens during the game, hey just survive long enough to escape and die out of sight and get replaced by another one without your knowledge.