How do alien upgrades work?
Gorges can build all sorts of structures. They can build offensive chambers (turrets), resource towers (only on nozzles; these gather resources for your whole team) and upgrade chambers. The upgrade chambers include defensive chambers, sensory chambers and movement chambers. Each one gives your team access to a new upgrade. When an upgrade chamber is built, all aliens on your team have the option to choose one of three upgrades from that chamber’s upgrade category. Once they make this choice, they cannot change their mind until they gestate to another lifeform or die and respawn. The more upgrade chambers, the more powerful the upgrade earned from it. For example, one defensive chamber would allow aliens Level 1 “carapace”, “regeneration” or “redemption”. If a builder now builds a second defensive chamber, it would automatically change their Level 1 ability to a Level 2 ability, making it more powerful. The alien team can have up to three levels of each chamber upgrade. The aliens are