Aliens Dark Descent: How to get out of the cargo hold in the prologue? Aliens Dark Descent guide, walkthrough

The Cargo Bay cargo hold is the first place in Aliens Dark Descent where you can die and watch the game over screen. Our guide tells you how to escape the cargo bay while playing as Maeko Hayes.

Last update: 19 June 2023

During the prologue of Aliens Dark Descent, you reach the cargo area with hypersleep pod and encounter a single xenomorph. This guide page contains tips on how to escape from the cargo hold and avoid death. We explain how to obtain a welding machine and how to use it properly.

• Examine hypersleep pods in the cargo hold
• How to escape from the cargo hold and avoid death?

Examine hypersleep pods in the cargo hold

One of the initial objectives in the prologue of Aliens Dark Descent is to visit the cargo hold and examine the hypersleep pods. This happens before meeting the marines, so the only playable character is Maeko Hayes.

The main heroine will find traces of the xenomorphs and her life will be in danger.

In the cargo hold, you can die for the first time - it will happen if you spend too much time trying to leave this location. Then a video of Hayes being caught by a xenomorph will play, forcing you to load a save.

How to escape from the cargo hold and avoid death?

Immediately after watching the cut-scene with the xenomorph eggs, run to the technician's corpse. Press the interaction button to search them and take the welding machine.

Now run towards the exit from the cargo hold (right-click twice on PC).

After getting outside, click on the doors and select the option to weld the airlock, which consumes 1 tool. This is also a tutorial on blocking some passages on the map to make it harder for Xenomorphs to track the heroes.

Watch the video of the xenomorph trying to break the lock, but fortunately, it will be unsuccessful.