Environment

In the gloom of dark installations with aliens, predators, or marines tracking you, its easy to miss things of improtance, either by simply not knowing what they are or being to busy saving your ass. Heres a list of commonly encountered hazards that AvP2 poses for you.

Acid: Yup this nasty crap is what aliens bleed. Occasionally it also drops from ceilings. Stepping in this is quite painful due to the fact it tends to eat through your body. Fortunately acid damages armor mostly so you usually have a chance to get away. Remeber when an alien dies from any weapon except the flamethrower it leaves behind a corrosive little present. Avoid acid until it neutralizes it self and fades away. Acid burnt holes can help you access new part of a level sometimes so watch for them.

This useful object is an ammo box. It contains various ammo for different guns and flares. Sometimes it even carries guns itself. You can open ammo boxes in two ways, either walk over them or press the move button on them if they are out of reach. Just watch for use crosshair. Note that there are also predator ammo boxes too, but they only appear in multiplayer as far as I know. Predator ammo boxes carry out the same as the marine carrying spears and nets.

Armor: Armor as helps protect vulnerable marines from damage. One armor pick up contains 100 units of armor and remains until depleted. Armor is the primary protection a marine has from alien acid. In single player you can wear a maximum of 100 armor, and in multiplayer a max of 200. One full armor suit saves you many continues so keep it at full as often as you can even if it means going back over to a partially depleted suit.

Single Ammo: You find this all over. This particular one is buckshot. Most singular ammo are marked with the kind of gun they are used for. Ammo powers the marine, never be without it.

Circut Board: A circut board can be found by pressing the use key on some panels. Its a good idea to try to find a circut board if there doesn't seem like there is any other way in. Circut boards can be hacked via the marine hacking tool, or they can be shortcircuted by the predator charge emmiter. Try to hack or shortcircut any board you find.

Computer: Computers don't serve any intergral purpose in the game but they do often have writing on them. Computers serve up interesting back story on the events happening around you. Press the use key on their screen to read whatevers on the monitor.

Corpse: Just a corpse, you'll find these every once in a while. These shouldn't be confused with cocooned people, which are many times alive, at least till the chest burster chews through their sternum. Mostly just decoration, they occasionally have ammo on them.

Dropship: Your main method of getting from orbit to planet. This baby is fully loaded with missles. As a predator one trys to kill you and as a marine one helps you out. What more could you ask for.