Alien: Isolation - The Nest Made Easy

My method of stealthing the Nest.
Beware: potential spoilers. If you do not want to know how the Nest works and want to preserve the terror and mystery, I suggest you do not watch this video or read any further in this description.

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Ok. So here goes:

This method prevents the Alien from knowing you are ever there.

There are three scripted Alien appearances. In each appearance, the Alien goes for a little stroll and then upvents. To deal with this, we just leave it alone, stay out of it's sight and let it do what it wants. Easy enough.

But there is a second, dynamic Alien that becomes active after you set the Alpha Core to overload. But it remains in the vents ("backstage" to use the game's internal terminology) until it hears a noise from the player ; running, bashing, firing a weapon or using a device. On hearing a noise the Alien will drop and hunt for you. And it will continue to drop and hunt for you for the rest of your time in the Nest. So the aim is to not let the dynamic Alien drop in the first place.

However, this is where the Facehuggers come in. There are several scripted Facehugger events that are intended to force you to use your weapons and in so doing cause the dynamic Alien to drop. This video demonstrates how to deal with these Facehuggers without making a noise.

In fact, there is only one Facehugger you end up having to flame, and that is on your way out anyway, limiting your exposure to the dynamic Alien to almost nothing.

This almost entirely eliminates the level of risk in the Nest. You can quite happily wander round and loot everything you can up until you activate the Beta Core. After I plant the Molotov, I craft a new one and then go looting to replace the items used.

If you choose to explore though, do NOT go near any unopened eggs after the Alpha Core has been activated, because egg = Facehugger = kill = Alien = bad day in the Nest.

Enjoy.

[zulucruz]

Going through the nest with one shot of flamethrower only. A real chad

[idontknowwhattoputhere]

Can’t wait to forget all this when I go to do it again

[gothound]

Took down the nest in 5 minutes with a single flamethrower puff....I quit for a year after entering the nest and only beat it then after loading up and realizing I had max flamethrower ammo: I burned my way through.

You've done Ripley and the Marines proud.

[Gooooms]

This is easily the best walkthrough videos I’ve seen. Concise and not bloated while making perfect sense.

[MegaBondagemon]

You can tell that this is a no-nonsense, no-talking, no "animated intro" from the time length of the video.

[Desiderium]

Damn, it really shows how many times you've played through this scene. You know so many nuances.

[markpeters]

Those distant screams of people trapped in the nest. So scary. I wish they'd have some live people throughout the nest, maybe some with face hugger still attached. Would be creepier

[tobiewolfen]

Like a boss. This game scares the crap out of me to move with such strategy.

[BasilVII]

I remember when i was down there and hid in that one locker near the objective. I was scared af. I still dunno how i managed to complete the game, but it was one kind of a ride.

[YumYum]

This game is great but so terrifying for me.
Can't get over the fear of Gigers creature

[Jackal_El_Lobo]

The nest super creepy but I think what really amps up the fear is that you can hear sounds of the Queen. While we never see it, you can definitely hear audible screams of it indicating that it resides in a different chamber somewhere inside the nest.

[shelsiebob]

Excellent walkthrough, worked like a charm. Thank you!

[tarantulagirl]

The nest is a bizarre stage, because weirdly I found it easiest on Nightmare mode. The alien didn’t show up once apart from the scripted parts where you come back through the yellow doors after the first set of pulls and when it walks by the tunnel as you come back from starting the generator. I had the hardest time in the hive on novice, which I played after nightmare just to see how easy it was, the alien was far more present in the nest in novice mode, it kept dropping down and hanging around looking for me.

[magdielgonzalez]

This mini guide with on-screen instructions is very helpful. After watching the Alien movies I went back to the game that I haven't played since 2014 because it was so difficult. Just three more trophies and the platinum will be mine. THANKS.

[_cmllea]

THANK YOU I WAS SO SCARED TO FIGURE THIS OUT BY MYSELF

[TheTechCguy]

A whole lotta “nope!” at this part! I don’t think anyone in their right mind would be down there where that nest is for the life of them. Ripley was lucky she wasn’t infected with a facehugger here! 😱☠️👽

[Jcarroz]

Nice! This section was annoyingly difficult on the PS3 when I played years ago. I kept getting hung up on environmentals or had to make noise by killing face huggers. The despawn trick is great if I play again.

[christianlake]

The morale of the story is: Hide in lockers and type on keyboards will keep ya safe from facehuggers.

[herrlogan]

This is the best rendition of Aliens´ design. Only thing missing is Pulse rifle/Smartgun :)

[mttcoelho]

Learning a new thing every single day. Congrats for doing this video!