User blog comment:Godechaud/Questions raised with the start of Season 3/@comment-4393153-20130809222319

I'm pretty sure the reason that no other alphas have turned into their full on alpha mode is that it would be too expensice bugdet wise.

As for the alphas, no idea, we don't know what happens to an alpha when then don't have a pack, both Peter and Derek were without a pack (for however brief a period of time) yet theire eyes were still red.

And from what I saw, the members of the alpha pack killed their own specifically to join Deucalion's alpha pack, so they immediately switch from one to another, and were never packless