Fly My Pretties, Fly! Trap Alex Build (including vs Cheater) - Resident Evil: Resistance

A straight forward build that focuses on trap spamming as Alex that works pretty well when executed properly. (Couldn't find strong enough teams to make it to Area 3).
I stream this pretty frequently on twitch so more matches of this and more can be found there: / gostoneph17 .
REmemesis uploaded this build earlier as well: • Video
Useful video that showcases sneakier trap placements (there's even more of them hidden in this game): • Alex W. Cheesy/God lik...

[@NickGostone]

More deck cards that can be considered for this build: Clone (cloning Airbursts and Triple Landmines is great), Decoy (not as worth it imo since you cannot gain Bio back from it), Trap Booster (occasional 0 cost cycle card that doesn't feed time like Crawler, but Crawler can also protect traps). The cards that mustn't be replaced at any circumstance are the Mods and Traps, as well as Shield and maybe Discount. Lately I replaced Crawler with Clone because the Crawler would continuously stop my momentum when I was spamming traps on the survivors and well, Clone has been a double edged sword, useless when it clones effect cards (Shield, Quickdraw, Discount) and nice when it clones Traps (especially Airburst, Triple Landmine and Shock Trap).

[@megamax898]

"Holy fuckin' shit, c'mon man, what in the actual fuck"- January

[@NickGostone]

Match timestamps: 9:11 12:55 15:44 23:26 27:22 32:50 35:34 39:41 42:58 46:27 (cheater) 49:15 (cheater) 55:25 (leech explosives 2 variation) Corrections: 1) Actually, Lucas Special is Inductor 2 + Leech Explosives 2, not Leech Explosives 1. This may actually not be intended because it says "moderately" not "greatly" (greatly is Leech Explosives 2 while moderately is Leech Explosives 1). The test with Leech Explosives 2 actually had Lucas Special included in it so that was a mistake on my part, it's both of them combined having double the effect since each gives the same amount of Bio Energy. Leech 1 values are +0.2 from a regular trap and +0.1 from Airburst, Leech 2/Lucas have double the effect of Leech 1, +0.4 and +0.2 respectively (and combined quadruple of Leech 1). 2) You can also use Detonator Mod and retain the trap speed and deck freedom, but what you'll have to sacrifice then is your economy (Trap Efficiency Mod). Also: You can choose to use Optical Fiber Cable instead of Electric Cable 3 because I think Electric Cable 1 is as fast as activation speed can get, beyond that you only benefit from it if you do not have Red Queen Mod in the deck. With Optical Fiber Cable you get a bit EIS CD to potentially help slightly more.

[@Deafina006]

Me while playing as Alex traps meta *Mistake waster card of Red Queen Mod* spam emote to team "Uneducated Buffoons!" My life is best!

[@nemesistomystars5693]

Great video, you make the most cheese and disgusting builds and I love it!

[@horrorlover2000]

Our king has returned! :)

[@prozacx]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, decide watch some re vids for nostalgia

[@NickGostone]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@nemesistomystars5693]

After about 2 weeks of using your build I’d recommend switching out quick draw for booster- traps. QuickDraw prevents you from keeping a shield in your deck and high rank teams will destroy your camera before you get a chance to switch to it

[@NickGostone]

Booster never gives an actual benefit to the build due to there being 2 mods, maybe it can give a slight benefit if you are at full energy and just reduce the cost ahead of time so you get the benefit anyway (or in area 1 before you get all the mods). Otherwise it is either a 0 cost cycle card or a 1 energy cycle card. I can see the point though of quickdraw forcing you to lose a shield that you had drawn too early, that is a problem indeed. I think I still prefer quickdraw but you can get a dead hand like that occasionally (quickdraw is also nice to get the mods quicker in area 1 if deck RNG isn't working in your favor). I think you just have to be careful and make sure you have the shield when you need it, especially in Area 3, waste traps if you have to, shield is more important. EDIT: You can consider Decoy instead of Trap Booster, it can be alright.

[@nemesistomystars5693]

@@NickGostone yeah but imo it’s much better to have booster to just keep cycling when you got someone in a corner with an air mine. Just made some slight adjustments, thanks a lot for the build though I enjoy Martin players struggling at countering this shit. I also switched out the crawler for clone. (gotta mention I’m using the leeching explosive 2 variant)

[@huyget]

What happens if they all go along ?

[@NickGostone]

You will still take time away from them individually if you play well enough, it'll be harder to win in smaller maps though.

[@outridergaming1874]

Hi I trying to rank alex 14 to 20 I don't have shockwave trap but i use high explosive trap My question is survivors can see them easily If you make them invisible Can you explosive the traps very fast ?

[@NickGostone]

You can try using Highly Explosive Trap, other options are Deception, Decoy, Crawler. If you didn't read my comment I don't use Crawlers anymore, I have Clone instead. If you use Veil you sacrifice speed of something, be it activation or arming. If you want to play this style of build with Veil then you can keep the same equipment, activation speed will be slightly slower (but of course use Electric Cable 3, not Optical Fiber). Issue with Veil is there isn't much of a point arming traps fast with it, there remains a visual effect when you spawn a trap, which will make it visible. For Veil it'd make more sense to focus on sneaky placements and fast activation speeds, again if you want this style of build. I wouldn't really recommend Veil for a pure trap build, unless you want to meme with sneaky Veil trap spam, you can use fast activation with that as well but it won't be as good as Mechanic. If you want to experiment with other passives I recommend Trap Efficiency instead so you can more easily spam traps, at the cost of losing Mechanic's durability and activation speed. All in all though, this equipment and Mechanic is the way to go for Trap Alex.

[@outridergaming1874]

@@NickGostone okey I'll remove the crawling Zombie and change it to clone card or leg hold trap 3 Some survivors have good eyes it's better blow them up

[@SiresC]

I like you play video alex ._.

[@huyget]

You only win because they stay together .