[TopAce]

Somebody said the Predators were weak because the humans stole their Shoulder Plasma Casters.

[Nico]

Why do people think predators are so tought? They're like humans, just bigger ( and therefore, stronger ). Remove all the toys of the pred, and he's no much better than a human. And that's exactly how it was in the movie, they didn't have their best toy, they died.
And I want to add that the aliens are overly dumbed down too. I stopped counting how many acid-blood death have been magically ignored in that movie.

Grug: There was nowhere near enough blood for a predator movie

[Flipside]

The thing is that Predators may not have had their favourite weapon, but that was a long-range weapon anyway, they used those battle claws things close up. I'm pretty sure it said in one of the books that Predators are a lot less susceptible to the 'ol Acid blood than humans as well.

Thing is, Predators are all trained in the art of combat, they have a Spartan society in that respect. 3 marines, even with only their secondary weapons, could, most likely, down a Xeno, and each Predator can be considered a highly-trained Marine.

[Nico]

Ah, come on, the xenomorph blood can tear through a ship's hull, it downed a damn destroyer in A3
How can some fleshy creature be "a lot less" susceptible than humans? If that's in one of the books, sorry to say, but that's superhero syndrom. In the movie, they use the claws, and the claws melt.
And if Preds are trained in the art of combat, aliens are born living weapons...
As for the shouldergun, I can assure you that I have no problem using it at close range in the game It's so powerful, shoots so fast... It's like ten times better than the ones in the two pred movies.

[Flipside]

LOL Well, I haven't seen the movie to be honest, but I played one of the games for a while Problem is, I play everything like Unreal Tournament, which doesn't work when you're a facehugger

I think it was to do with the armour or some kind of neutralising agent in their skin, similar to the venom proof properties of some lizards and frogs. Probably just writers crap.

Still musta been 3 pretty lame Predators, I'll have to watch the movie and see how it went, I suppose in confined spaces, it could happen, as long as the Alien could retreat, and pick them off one at a time.

[an0n]

The point was - they were three lame Predators, operating in less-than-ideal circumstances.

The Preds probably have blades that can resist the acid, but being youngsters, the AvP Predators didn't pick the right metals and died because of it.

I mean, just look at the face-huggered one. What moron would take their mask off just to battle-mark their face when there's huggers and Xenos whizzing about?

[Nico]

Well, the first one, at least, the kill can't be denied. The pred was busy figuring out how to gut that guy, he really didn't see anything coming. And, well, the blades didn't melt as fast as any other alloy in any Alien movies do, so I guess they ARE resistant to the acid, but when you dig it right into the acid, it just can't resist for long. It did manage to cut a piece of the tail away and that made the alien much less dangerous. The net resisted to the acid quite long too. The alien... captain? did what he could, imho, and put up a good fight, he would have won if he didn't wait for the net to melt way.
And yeah, the pred removing his helmet was dumb, but he also seemed to be the n00b of the team.

[Kie99]

Anyone know the release date on DVD in the U.K.?
BTW at the bottom of the Ocean there are going to be a lot of fishy aliens.  The queen has proven she can survive with no oxygen in Aliens when she held onto the Sulaco(?)
What would an Alien Blue whle looks like. Especially if the Queen laid a queen egg!

[an0n]

What the hell are you smoking?

The Queen didn't hold onto the Sulaco. She dropped some eggs/huggers into the docking bay before Ripley spaced her. And the face-huggers started an electrical fire onboard, causing the Sulaco to fire the stasis-pods out into space.

[Kie99]

What I'm smoking is none of your business.

THe queen went held onto the ship when it was taking off from LV-426, then when it landed on the big spaceship the queen attacked Bishop.

[an0n]

There's a difference between her holding her breath in a zero-pressure, thruster-heated cavity for all of 20 seconds and her being able to reproduce at the bottom of the ocean under dozens of atmospheres of pressure in the super-cold, super-dark waters.

[Kie99]

Yeah, but I think Aliens would be pretty adaptable, after all they don't know what sort of environment they will burst into.  For example, what if some facehugged creature (an Alien creature, not the Alien) had been swimming deep underwater the Alien would be screwed.

[Nico]

Well, aliens can survive a bath in fusion metal, so why not in very cold water?

[Kie99]

The immature reply to that would be the Alien cracked under all that water which was cold...

[Nico]

what killed it wasn't the hot metal, tho, but the thermic choc

[Jetmech Jr.]

If your going by the fan novels, you should definately stop. Movies>Novels. Novels aren't canon sources, considering they are all highly contradictory.

[Nico]

canon?
"points at sig"
Canon is like interfamily sex, it prevents evolution

I might add that AvP being a crossover, nothing from it is canon if you think about it.

[neo_hermes]

canon
*targets the word and Charges his BFRed*

[Jetmech Jr.]

Fine, if you hate the word so much:

The novels aren't Reliable or Truthful sources of information on the subject.