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Regarding the "Mess Up" result in stress response on p. 6, I think it should be reverted to having (by default) a harsher setback than just a failure/+1 stress. It feels more thematic that once you're really stressed you start making serious mistakes; friendly fire, cause yourself an injury, etc. I quite liked that in The Walking Dead.

Regarding the "Mess Up" result in stress response on p. 6, I think it should be reverted to having (by default) a harsher setback than just a failure/+1 stress. It feels more thematic that once you're really stressed you start making serious mistakes; friendly fire, cause yourself an injury, etc. I quite liked that in The Walking Dead.

Thank you Tomas and the FL team, updated rules are excellent.

ALIEN_RPG_Evolved_Starter_Set_Panic_Cards_Front_BETA_2:
—Two SCREAM cards (p 5 & 7).
— No SPOOKED, NOISY, TWITCHY and LOOSE ITEM cards.
— Could be interesting to have the roll number somewhere on the card.

ALIEN_RPG_Evolved_Starter_Set_Stress_Cards_Front_BETA_2:
— No MESS UP card.
— Could be interesting to have the roll number somewhere on the card.

I noticed that the Full Auto rules seem to be different between the Starter Set and the CRB betas.

Starter Set:

Some weapons can fire bursts of bullets. When you fire a burst and hit, without pushing the roll, you can immediately make another attack roll, at the same target or another, as part of the same action. If you hit again (without pushing), you may roll a third time. As soon as you miss, or push a roll, the attack is over. Each attack roll except the first gives you stress level +1. You cannot make more than three attack rolls in a single burst.

CRB:

Some weapons in chapter 5 can fire bursts of bullets. When you fire a burst and hit, you can immediately fire another burst, at the same target or another, as part of the same action. If you hit again, you may roll a third time. Each burst except the first gives you stress level +1. You cannot fire more than three bursts in a single action.

So, according to the Starter Set you can only do Full Auto if you did NOT Push any prior attacks. Should these rules not be the same between books? Or is the Starter Set being intentionally "mean" with not allowing Pushing for Full Auto attacks?

Page 20, PANIC, oddly repeats the "skill rolls" trigger for Stress Response, and refers to Stress Response instead of Panic. I don't think that will confuse veteran players, but it's definitely going to muddle Stress Response and Panic for new players.

I'm out-of-proportion happy about the return of "Broken."

P21: Fatigue preventing Stress relief is mentioned under the rules for Stress, but not in the summary of the Fatigued condition, or on the Fatigued card.

Hope’s Last Day page 18: Not sure if this is a typo or deliberate. Xenomorph movement - the text says that a xenomorph may move up to two zones. Is this not tied to a xenomorph’s Speed? Some varieties have a Speed of 3 - is it meant that they can only move two zones regardless of Speed?

Xenomorph's speed determines how many initiation cards they draw. My belief no Xenomorph's can move more than two zones per turn. So a Sentry would draw 3 initiation cards.

In combat mode you can move into an adjacent zone as a Quick action and you can perform two quick actions in a round. So any human would be able to move two zones. Per the core book (pg. 208), Xenomorphs get a number of FULL actions equal to their speed rating. They don't appear to get Full+Quick. However, as part of their Signature Attack (a full action) they can move from Short to Adjacent. Or instead of making a Signature Attack, they can move either two zones or one zone plus from Short to Adjacent. And they get a number of Turns equal to their speed. So a Xenomorph in combat can move up to four zones, twice the speed of a human. And a Scout or Sentry a horrifying 6 zones (though they can only attack you from a mere five zones away. Only!). This is only for Combat however.

Pg. 55 of the core book says Xenomorphs may move one zone per point of Speed in Stealth mode so the Scouts and Sentries do indeed move more quickly than the drones and soldiers.

This all seems fairly clear to me and the text in the Starter Set looks the same so far as I can see. If any of my interpretation above is not what the developers intend, then something needs editing but I think this part is clear, to me.