For this guide, we ‘ll be focusing on how to play CM-SS13, a SS13 waiter that was inspired by the “Aliens” film and that forked from the “Baystation 12” codebase, which is besides an SS13 server. This guidebook ( equally good as a few roles ) may besides apply to other servers, so keep in judgment that not every server is the same as CM-SS13 ! Do n’t apply your common Security moves in other SS13 servers as opposed to this one.

CM-SS13 is a fan-based waiter that, while it is inspired by the Alien franchise, it is NOT affiliated with 20th Century Fox, Disney Studios and/or its other companies in the production of other games or films.

Downloading BYOND

First things beginning, you ‘ll need to download the BYOND Client in club to run the game. Head over to here and download the windows adaptation of BYOND ( Usually Beta ). additionally, you ‘re going to need a BYOND explanation a well. once you ‘ve downloaded the node and made an account. Open the BYOND node and enter your Login details. once done you ‘re all set to join a Space Station 13 server .

Getting Started

Rules

Every server has their own adjust of Rules. You MUST read all of the server rules before you start playing. If you do n’t, you ‘re likely to get banned. not reading the rules ( equitable because “ you know the rules ” and bric-a-brac ) is NOT an excuse !

Setting up a character

At the start of your game, you ‘ll be in the Lobby Menu. From there, you have four options to choose from. Click Setup Character to open the window for customizing your human character and setting your roles .

Name and Physical InformationOccupation ChoicesBackground InformationMarine GearUI CustomizationGame Settings

Joining a circle

• If a round hasn’t started yet you can select “Ready Up” and you’ll spawn in when the round starts.

• If you join in the middle of the round and want to play as a marine you select “Join the USCM!” . When you select “Join the USCM!” you’ll get a list of roles you can play. Select one, and you’ll spawn in.

• If you join in the middle of the round and want to play as an alien select “Join the Hive!” . When you select “Join the Hive!” you’ll need to wait until a larva bursts for you to play.

• If you want to spectate the entire round and learn the basics while you’re not playing select “Observe”. When you select “Observe” you’ll receive a confirmation if you wanted to join as a ghost. You cannot respawn as a Marine once you spectate the round! You can respawn, however, as an alien or other characters that might be in this round. Keep in mind that the Metagaming rule applies when respawning as a character from a ghost.

In the Game

The Tabs

On the exceed correct side of your screen, you will see the check for the game. Descriptions of what each tab does can be found in the table below:

Marine Interface

This is the human interface in CM.

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Interface:	Function:
	Toggle to open or close the clothes menu.
	This is the headdress slot, you place hats and helmets hera to wear them. Helmets provide protection to your head and provide some storage slots.
	This is the eyewear slot, you place glasses, welding goggles and other ocular gear here .
	This is the mask slot, you place accelerator masks, coifs and cigars here .
	This is the ear slot, you place radio headsets or earmuffs here. Keep your headset to listen to your Squad and locate the SL if you’re lost.
	This is the jump suit slot, you place your marine, medical or technology uniform hera. You’re going to need uniforms to wear armor and ensure you’re safe and ready to serve the corps.
	This is the exosuit slot, you place marine armor, jackets and coats hera. Armor is essential to surviving in the field.
	This is the bridge player wear slot, you place latex paint gloves, insulated gloves and squad gloves hera .
	This is the foot wear slot, you place combat boots and business shoes here. Boots increases movement speed.
	This is the exosuit storehouse slot, you will commonly place weapons here to store them for while you are out of fight. Read more: How to Launch an Instance and Host a Website With AWS EC2 – DZone Cloud
	This is the identification card slot, you place your Id ( Identification card ) here. Always keep your ID here.
	This is the swath slot, you place belts and rigs here .
	This is the binding slot, you place backpacks, satchels and other weapons here. It is recommended that you hold a satchel at your back.

Interface:

Function:

These are your character ‘s hands, you use these to pick up items by clicking on them. Your active hand, will be highlighted this means anything you pick up will go to this pass. To switch hands either click on the other handwriting, use middle mouse button or crusade X if you have hotkey mode toggled on. While an token is in your active hired hand, you can use that item ( such as holding two hands for rifles ) by either clicking the detail in your active agent hand or by pressing Z while in hotkey mode. If you have a lacking hand however, you ‘re unable to use or pick up the item with that hand unless if you ‘re able to get a robotic refilling .

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	These are your characters pockets, you use these to store bantam items or pouches on your fictional character .

Interface:	Function:
	This is the toggle rail flashlight button, when pressed it will toggle the rail alight on your gunman if you have one attached. In addition, when pressed it will besides toggle scopes if attached to the grease-gun .
	This is the manipulation unique action push button, you can use this to pump a shotgun or clear a round in the bedroom of your rifle or to light the flamethrower so that it can be used .
	This is the exhaust magazine clitoris, you eject the magazine or beat in the accelerator you are holding in your active voice hand if you press it. Alternatively, use the active empty hand to the gun to unload the magazine.
	This is the activate weapon attachment button, once clicked it will toggle any underbarrel attachment on the gunman in your active agent hand ( If applicable ). This is besides how you switch to reloading the attachment, remember to switch back to normal ammunition after reloading attachment .
	This is the toggle explosion fire button, once clicked it will toggle explosion arouse on the artillery in your current active pass ( If applicable ) .

Interface:	Function:
	This is the captive steering wheel, there are 4 types of intents colored in each square. You can hertz through these intents using 1-4 with hotkey mood toggled on . The green square in the top left is help intent, helping marines either with by pulling out the flames of another human character or an encouraging hug. You can walk through other characters with Help intent on, exchanging your character’s position to another character’s position, but once you’re in an intent other than Help, you’ll push and block other character’s movement. This is important during a fight. Read this for more details. The blue square to the right is disarm intent, disarming and shoving other human characters. The yellow square below disarm intent is the catch intent, grabbing another character (Which is the same as pulling). The red intent is harm intent, punching other characters and allows you to fire point blank.
	This is the aiming target, which allows you to click on different parts of the body to aim for. You can use the numpad to promptly switch between parts. If you’re a Combat Marine, aim at the chest for minimal friendly fire. If you’re treating a wound, aim at the wounded part and click at your character.
	This is the resist button, press this when you are on fire to stop, sink and roll or if you in a nest you can press it to start breaking out. You can set a Macro as a hotkey for this military action .
	This is the drop button, once clicked it will drop any item or stop pull in your active agent hand. alternatively, you can press Q to drop an active item or stop pulling a character with hotkey mood on .
	This is the shed button, press this when you want to throw what ‘s in your active hand. To throw just click the hold clitoris then click on a tile. You can besides catch things if you have throw toggled on. You can besides press R to toggle throwing on/off in hotkey manner. Grenades (once primed) or flares (once lit) will automatically allow you to throw, so just prime and click to a location to throw.
	This is the toggle firing manner button, weight-lift this and you ‘ll toggle between normal burn and aimed fuel. Aimed fire means if you click on person you ‘ll aim at them rather of fire, this then pops up with more options where you can allow them to pickup items and move about. If you are taking prisoners as a CLF/UPP, the firing mode may help you.

Interface:	Function:
	This is the squad drawing card locator, the arrow points to where the squad leader is so you can constantly stay with them. The Squad Leader locator locates ever 10 seconds, so don’t complain where is your SL at when you’re gone.
	This is the internals button, when pressed it will toggle the between the habit of internals, aka on or off. To use internals hold an oxygen tank car and then equip a mask, after this toggle internals on. You’re not going to use this a lot, except when you are a Medical Doctor.
	This is the the icon that shows the country of your characters health, from k with a 100 % browning automatic rifle indicates goodly condition, which is full health to crit indicates critical status, that being, about dead. If you get to Crit, fall back and go to a medic immediately.
	This is the hunger meter for your character, it will display how athirst you are by the color. If you ‘re full it ‘ll disappear, if you ‘re hungry it will be coloured orange and grey if you ate besides much. You’ll start to lose movement speed once you get hungry, so try to eat some food before heading down.

Interface:	What it does:
	This section is for toggle switch state of matter buttons, when pressed they will toggle the state of matter of the detail they are depicting, for exemplar the armor box when clicked will toggle the armor light on or off .

Alien Interface

This is the alien interface.

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Interface:	Function:
	These are your xenomorph hands ; you use these to grab people by pulling or grabbing them ( via Grab captive ) or pick up facehuggers by clicking on them. To switch hands either pawl on the other hand, use the middle shiner button or iron X if you have hotkeys toggled on. Remember, switch hands while your active hand is occupied (via Facehugger or pulling).

Interface:	Function:
	This is the resist button, to use the resist button cluck on it. The uses of the resist clitoris for xenos is limited to putting yourself out when specify ablaze, if the flames do not go out keep resisting to stop drop and roll to extinguish the flames .

Interface:	Function:
	This is the hunt/stalk button, when pressed it will toggle between Hunt ( Which is running mode ) and Stalk ( Which makes your xenomorph walk ). however, when Lurkers are in Stalk mood it makes them partially invisible. Always keep it at Hunt mode unless if you’re playing as the Lurker.
	This is the captive wheel. Like the Human interface, the Xenomorph interface contains the same 4 intents, but with different actions. Note that you can use hotkeys to motorbike through intents by pressing 1 – 4. Disarming other Xenomorphs does not help put them out if they’ve been set on fire. The green intent is serve which allows you to help other Xenomorphs get up faster after being stunned as well as that it enables you to help extinguish any Xenomorph sister that has been set on fire. Like the Marines, other Xenomorphs in Help intent can walk through other Xenomorphs with Help intent, exchanging positions. However, if your intent is anything other than help, you’ll be able to push other Xenomorphs out of your way. ‘Bodyblocking’ other Xenomorphs (pushing Xenomorphs to dangers such as marine gunfire while the aforementioned is getting out of danger) is frowned upon and usually against the rules. Big Xenomorphs as well as all Tier 3 Xenomorphs will always push and bodyblock other Xenomorphs regardless of intent. Blue intent is disarm and when this is active you’ll attempt to tackle any mob you click on. This intent does not affect xenomorphs with the exception of the Queen. Yellow intent is grab, this allows you to grab mobs and move them (Which takes up your current hand, similar to pull). Red intent is damage, when active you’ll slash any mob or object you click on (With a few exceptions).
	This is the aiming aim, which allows you to click on unlike parts of the soundbox to aim for when you attack something/someone .
	This is the drop button, once clicked it will stop pulling the throng your Xenomorph grabbed on or drop the facehugger in your active handwriting. You can besides press Q to drop something or stop draw when you have hotkey mode toggled on .
	This is the throw push button, press this when you want to throw what ‘s in your active hand. To throw fair click the throw push button then click on a tile. notice that the Xenomorph hold distance is about 1-2 tiles, unless you ‘re a Carrier in which case they have an ability to launch huggers huge distances using shift-click or center mouse button .
	Appears when you are pulling, snap to stop pull .

Interface:	Function:
	This is the plasma meter, it shows how much plasma you have left in a ocular form, aka if the meter is full of blue your plasma is full. To get a more accurate reading of how much plasma you have go to the condition check and it ‘ll be displayed there. Fall back and stay in weeds when you’re out of plasma.
	This is the queen locator, normally there is an arrow point to which way the queen is sol you can always help her, when she is in want. When the Queen dies or is n’t in-game there wo n’t be an arrow there due to there being no queen. Note that when you are playing as the queen an arrow will not appear like in Figure 4.
	This is your health meter, the green acid blood empties as you take damage, note that presently the xeno players health is full. Retreat to weeds and rest on them to regain lost health.
	Clicking this will toggle on and off your ability to see in the dark as a xenomorph, utilitarian when looking for light sources from marines or survivors .

Note all of these are xeno abilities of which are detailed on each xenomorph castes page .

Interface:	Function:
Regurgitate	To devour, grab a host with Ctrl + Click or Grab intent (3 in hotkey mode) then click yourself, standstill. To stop the host from getting up and running away, you can switch to an empty hand (X in hotkey mode) and keep tackling them using Disarm intent (2 in hotkey mode) when you are devouring them. Xenos with devoured humans inside them can not vent crawl but Xenos with devoured monkeys can. Hosts with boot knives can injure the Xenomorph they are inside if they are conscious. (Edit this template)
Grow Ovipositor	Grows an ovipositor from which the queen begins to passively create eggs from. Costs 700 plasma .
Screech	A wide area of effect stun, screeches upon activation. Costs 250 plasma .
Emit Pheromones	Emit one of the three Pheromones. It is advised to emit the pheromone that are not already being emitted, as pheromones don’t stack. Costs 30 plasma to emit and then drains plasma while active .

Interface:	Function:
Plasma and Health Indicator	Visual indicator of the level of plasma and health a xeno has.

Interface:	Function:
Mature Xeno Icon	Visual indicator that the xeno is at the mature level in the upgrade system.
Elder Xeno Icon	Visual indicator that the xeno is at the elder level in the upgrade system.
Ancient Xeno Icon	Visual indicator that the xeno is at the ancient level in the upgrade system.

See Pheromones for the details .

Interface:	Function:
Frenzy Pheromone	Increases movement speed and damage from slashes.
Warding Pheromone	Grants a reduction in armor taking damage, can also slow and even prevent crit bleedout for Xenos. Additionally provides a small health boost to critically wounded xenomorphs. Potent enough warding pheromones will completely negate bleed out and improve damage reduction to armor..
Recovery Pheromone	Increases health regeneration, increases plasma regeneration on weeds, reduces stun times of affected Xenomorphs.
Examples	The yellow glow around the Recovery pheromone symbol means that Xenomorph is the one emitting the pheromone.

How To Play

• Movement– You move your character around with the ARROW KEYS. Alternately if you press the tab key you can enable hot keys which allows you to run with WASD.

• Interacting with People and Objects– The game mostly involves using the mouse. You can pick up objects by clicking on them, and they’ll go into your active hand. To set them down, find a table to set them on or use the drop button on your HUD. You can also throw objects using the throw button on your HUD. You can grab people and certain objects with your grab intent. You can also hurt people using your harm intent. Advanced interactions can be found on the FAQ page.

communication

F3 or T to talkF3, T (in Say before your message if you use the chat box at the bottom).
Use ( in hotkey manner ), or the chat box at the bottom of the screen ( you need to typebefore your message if you use the new world chat box at the bottom ).
To contact Marines or Aliens over a long distance you can use a radio/hivemind. here is a list of radio keys :

Hotkeys

To toggle hotkey mode on/off crusade the Tab button. Below is a list of hotkeys which can make your everyday round of SS13 that much easier. You can besides make your own identify bindings and one-click multi-functions for in-game actions with Macros. It is highly recommended that users new to SS13 use keybindings rather then macros.
Hotkey List: This section means that these key commands can be merely be used with hotkey modality toggled on .

Any Mode: This incision means that these key commands can be used even with hotkey mode toggled off .

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Keybinds

Keybinds are an editable set of keybindings ( like any modern game ) where you can change certain keys for certain commands. Know that the deviation between macros and keybinds is that keybindings have a set command ( For exemplar “ Toggle Weapon Safety ” is a command and it ‘s deafult keybinding is Shift+V ) to edit the key ( you can not enter your own command ), compared to macros where you enter the dominate and the key yourself .

• You can press Clear to clear the keys in the input section.

An example is the input key for the command: select help intent is 1 which can be cleared and changed to what you would like.

• The plus symbol when clicked will turn green

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  , when it does the next key you press will be used as the input key.

More information

There are more guides to help you start your foremost few rounds in CM-SS13. The Marine Quickstart Guide and the Xeno Quickstart Guide are very helpful .

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