This game follows the story of what happens after the John Carpenter 1982 movie adaptation of the John W. Campbell JR Novel "Who Goes There?". The original game borrows heavily on the story from the 2002 video game and the current sequel expands further on the plot after Captain Blake defeats the Thing entity. After the death of Whitley and the destruction of Gen Inc property; Captain J.F.Blake boards a rescue plane and leaves Antarctica. Complications arise and the aircraft malfunctions and crashes. With no report from Blake the Alaska base sends in a new rescue team of which you the player take control. Your task is to find Captain Blake and escort him back to Alaska. However the thing entity did not die with Whitley on that day...
The Spectre ASIN has appeared on the battlefield captain! Sometimes the regular Spectres (The Blue Ones) will be replaced by special variants. One of these is the ASIN. The ASIN is a fast and agile unit adept at eliminating individual targets. They are lightly armoured, evasive and... tricky. They come in 2 variants both of which carry Flash Grenades, Gas Grenades and Smoke Grenades.
One variant uses opts for a sword and micro Mac-10 SMG combo; This unit is able to fire shots against your squad and get in close with some strange high-tech sword. The other variant prefers to shoot you in the head with the L9A61 Sniper rifle and this unit also carries the new sword for close encounters.
There is more to come with the short v2.5 update. SomeThing strange is going on; The Ship will never be the same again...