Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2

I usually see the good in most games and am really forgiving of a lot of issues but this game is so bad it compelled me to write a review. It's a long one so bare with me, but there's a lot wrong with this game. That's also coming from someone who adored the first game! This is entirely worse and for double the price. - Terrible performance with constant frame drops, I would regularly go down from 120 to like 14 and then back again. At first I thought it was maybe some shader compilation still happening and it would go away after the first time that shader appears, but nope! Even 5 hours in I was still dropping frames every 20 seconds, it became nauseating to play. - The dialogue is SO cringe and the facial animations are some of the worst that I've seen. Our group turned down the character audio completely, it's that bad. The game forces you to interact with these characters to progress the story in the hub and I couldn't skip it fast enough. - Music varies from actually pretty good, to what the actual f### am I listening to. The guns sound good at least, but listening to a smart gun fire constantly for 40 minutes at a time gets pretty tiresome. - Combat is sorta fun, but the time to kill feels terrible even on normal difficulty, let alone anything higher. Every encounter plays out basically the same. Think of a Hunter jumping on you from L4D and that happens every 10 seconds. Spitters stay back and hit you from range but they take so long to kill you just ultimately deal with it until the fight is over and then clean them up afterward. - THE AMMO. You'll constantly be running out of ammo because of the time to kill but the ammo crates are so far between one another that you'll almost always be down to your pistol, which exasperates the time to kill issue. How you progress through the levels are almost always blocked by locked doors that require you to clear the area first so you HAVE to fight everything. It also loves putting you in a holdoff situation while a door is locked and the providing you ammo on the other side of the door, not when you actually needed it during the holdoff. - The levels themselves have a little bit of exploration looking for cosmetic crates or credits to buy things from the annoying vendor in the hub. They're still super linear though. Run from point A to point B. Even the ones with objectives need to be completed in a linear order. - The environments where these levels take place are also bland and boring. Lots of metallic corridors in derelict spaceships. Even then, the spaceships don't feel lived in or have any interesting spots. Just hallways and rooms with bodies in them. - Sometimes items on the ground just can't be picked up, whoops! Even then the item economy isn't all that interesting. You've got a couple of different ammo types and like mines and grenades etc but they feel ineffective. - Class depth and customization is actually good but progression is pretty slow. I like the idea of taking perks from other classes and mixing and matching them to make something cool but the idea of playing this game long enough to unlock things on multiple classes is so unappealing. - Cosmetics are all pretty lame. It looks like a lot of weapon skins but most of them are ultimatley dark grey/black. Decal system didn't work, I wasn't able to scale, reposition or rotate them at all. This feels like a Xbox 360 game that you'd find at the bottom of a bargain bin at Walmart but it still costs the same as a modern release. If you REALLY love Alien, then I'd still recommend you just play the first one, but maybe pick this up on a STEEP sale and keep your expectations low. This is abysmal compared to other horde shooters on the market. You're better off with basically any other one. Do better, Cold Iron.

As a fan of the first one, I was looking forward to and excited about this game... I was wrong to be. Weapons have no stopping power. Xenos and Synths are bullet sponges... not the Specials, the BASIC drones... NEEDS Optimisation. Needs the Crossplay setting to actually work. I was playing on PC, my partner was hosting on PC... I couldn't join him on PC because Crossplay was OFF. See the issue, devs? Did I say it needs Optimised? I will say it has potential, but in its present state, I would wait for ... the next five updates to drop.

California Millennial writing, dialogue, and voice acting. absolutely garbage.

Bon, J'ai attendu d'avoir un peu joué, et là j'ai fini la campagne. Ce jeu a du mal a souffrir la comparaison avec le 1. Les points negatifs, qui fachent mais qui sont subjectifs et dont on peu passer outre : - Le chara design est toujours woke (la ils ont reussi a rendre la moitié des visages homme biens, parcontre les femmes, c'est le défilé des horreurs, ca va de vomitif a passable moche). A croire que parmis la team de design on a des gros frustrés de la vie et qui detestent les femmes et la beauté.... bref - Sur le pont du vaisseau, mention speciale pour 3 gardes sur 4 qui sont identiques, c'etait trop dur de varier. - L'animation des visages des pnj auxquels on parle... mais au secours ! on est bien en 2026 la ? c'est serieux ? les bouches trop ouvertes, enfin bref, c'est n'importe quoi. Maintenant dans le dur du jeu - L'histoire, si on peut appeler ca une histoire... il n'y a aucun rebondissement, aucune surprise, rien, c'est plat, linéaire, ca pourrait etre ecrit pas un enfant de 5 ans... le mechant est mechant parce qu'il a pas été aidé, alors il est mechant et n'a aucune morale... wohoo - La construction de la campagne... on prend Alien fire team elite 1, on copie colle, on modifie 2-3 trucs et voila . Mais globalement, comme dans le 1, on va affronter des aliens, puis des maps de synthetiques, puis des maps de patogène, avec comme dans le 1, l'exploration d'un vaisseau des ingenieurs. Aucune surprise ! - le gameplay est rigoureusement identique (a part l'ajout du cac, a voir a trs haut lvl son efficacité), les personnages toujours aussi rigides dans leurs deplacements, et ils ne peuvent toujours pas monter 1m sur une caisse, il n'y a rien de plus. - les classes, on change les noms, on change un peu les capacités et hop le tour est joué ! (alors qu'il y ait les memes classes tout ca, ne me derange pas, bien au contraire, j'ai adoré les classes du 1!) mais la, rien de plus, ah si, on peut faire "sa propre" classe en mixe... bon, c'est la parade du pauvre hein, on n'a pas d'imagination, demerde toi a en faire une ! mais surtout nous on fait rien de vraiment neuf... - les combats ! bon la preparez vous a roter du sang ! Dans le 1 vous pouviez etablier des strategie de repli, de tenir une position (couloir/porte,), se retrancher etc. Là vous oubliez tout ca ! c'est le chaos ! ca pop de partout, devant derriere, au plafond, dans votre dos, et encore dans votre dos. Alors je comprend la volonté de rendre le jeu plus dur, et mettre du stress tout ca, mais vu que les mobs sont bcp plus rapides, arrivent en plus grand nombre aussi, et bcp plus d'elite et de boss, ca devient vite tres tres difficile a gérer surtout pour les nouveaux joueurs et meme en niveau facile. Ca va en rebuter plus d'un ! - Une autre chose en moins : le decompte du temps en fin de mission. Je m'explique sur les combats de fin de mission, il y avait un timer de 3/5mn a tenir et c'etait bien visuel. Ca avait le merite de mettre de la tension dramatique, du stress et les joueurs savaient ou ils en etaient, et plus le compteur approchait de 0 et plus le stress montait, c'etait bien ! La , il n'y a plus de compteur, et quand on ne connait pas la map, arrive le combat final (on ne le sait pas vraiment) donc un combat, et des vagues de mobs qui arrivent encore, et encore et encore, toujorus encore. C'est pas un sentiment de bon stress, de tension, mais un sentiment de "bordel y en a encore, mais c'est chiant la !!" - Ah oui, quelques freeze, lag par moment (mais ca on peut esperer qu'ils vont corriger ca) Au final, est ce que je recommanderai ce jeu ? non, et certainement pas a ce prix. Dans le meme style de jeu, ben il y a Alien Fire team elite 1 qui est plus sympa a mes yeux, sinon Space marines 2, tres bien aussi. Et dans un autre registre, toujours en TPS, tres fun, avec pour le coup bcp de joueurs, et tres suivi par ses dev, : helldivers 2 Voila, merci a ceux qui auront pris le temps de lire mon pavé.

Terrible performance dude, don't even want to say other stuff.

my biggest and only glaring issue is how bad Peer to Peer hosting is, if your get connected to a host and midway drops you lose XP time spent without recovering. it punishes those with bad connectivity so hard. worse its even harder to find players on the same region thats why i have to queue in a broader region.

Kinda sucks, cos I do enjoy the game, but... Get fireteam 1, it's better. If you already have fireteam 1, just know, fireteam 2 is much, much worse. First the Pros: the Specialist is a great idea, turning the hand guns of fireteam 1 into sidearms in fireteam 2 was smart. Cons... : The classes just don't feel as impactful, the synth companions are even dumber and more useless than the previous game (their habit of just standing in a group, watching you, not firing a shot and getting mauled by things is infuriating cos it's like 25% of what they do!), there are so many game bugs, elemental damage is underutilised, the class abilities just don't feel as good are were better synergised in the first game. The story is non existent, WY scientist does WY scientist thing... it doesn't tie into the various lores as well as the first. And the voice acting, oh god, what the actual hell? The actors are performing fine, but they aren't colonial marines, they are the scooby gang from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They took the most annoying character from the first game and gave her a commanding role, they added even more annoying characters, and they collectively suck ALL atmosphere from the game. And the male player marine sounds like he's trying to be Zap Brannigan from Futurama! It doesn't feel Aliens, it feels Buffy, it feels kiddy friendly and soo damned annoying. Especially Piper, what maniac writer and voice director thought that 'gosh I'm such an eccentric and awkward nerd!' trope belonged anywhere near a xenomorph hive! And they don't shut up! And then you have to replay the levels cos there just aren't enough, and listen to them again, and again. What were the devs thinking? I really want to like this game more than I do, I'm still playing it and I have fun in co-op, but it's certainly not the experience I was hoping for, and I'm utterly flabbergasted that it's so much worse than the previous game, and in all the ways people complained about the first game, they made those specific things even more annoying. o.O So... yeah. Shame.

Zu dem derzeitigem Standpunkt nicht zu empfehlen. Es ist von Bugs so überflutet wie ein Starship Trooper Shooter, nur kann man sie nicht töten. Gewisse items in Missionen sind nicht aufhebbar, stirbt man als host und das Team beendet die Mission, bekommt der Host keine EXp und auch nicht den vollen Belohnungs Reward, sehr ärgerlich in der Lvl phase. Einen Ingame Chat gibt es derzeit nicht um mit anderen spielern zu schreiben oder wichtiges mitzuteilen. Es gibt zurzeit keine Daily oder Weekly Aufgaben. Das Matchmaking für grp suche, ist eine totale Katastrophe,. Man wartet von 10 bis 30 Minuten auf ein volles Squad, da man Extrem oder wahnsin nicht mit den bots laufen will. Und wenn man ein volles Squad hat, kickt das spiel zu beginn der Mission rnd Spieler raus, welche nicht mehr nach joinen können und auch sonst kein ingame nach joinen möglich ist. Beim Waffenwechsel kann es zu Movement Fehler kommen. Bedeutet rennen ist deaktiviert und jeder Gegner kann euch dann töten, weil auch die dodge rolle nicht mehr funktioniert, oder der gute T bug schlägt zu. Deckungen Wie Türen, Massive Wände, Decken Stockwerke usw bieten 0 Schutz. Der Gegner kann durch sie hindurch treffen, beispiel flammenwerfer, Säure trifft euch hinter einer massiven Steinwand oder geschlossenen Türe. Säure ein Stockwerk unter euch am boden trifft euch auch direkt 5 Meter im anderem Stockwerk darüber. Dann gibt es Vorfälle von Spielern, welche kurz vor dem Evac Extrac absichtlich Team kill machen, da ab Heftig friendly Fire aktiv ist, sprich sollte man der host sein der dann dadurch gekillt wird ist der Reward erledigt wegen dem Bug. Die Report Funktion zum melden solcher Spieler funktioniert nicht, da anschliessend eine UI aufgeht welche sich im Untermenü befindet, die man aber nicht anwählen kann. Schliesst man das ganze stürzt das spiel ab mit der üblichen Unreal Error Einblendung. Alles in allem fühlte sich das Spiel an wie ein überteuertes DLC ohne Endgame Content. Man hat alles in gewissen Spielzeit freigeschaltet und dann nichts mehr zu tun. Die Rewards welche man dann bekommt sind halt nur noch Credits und Herausforderung karten, welche sich nicht wirklich lohnen zu farmen da eben RNG oder man luck hat das man die bekommt wenn sie jemand anders aktiviert. Ganz zu schweigen das gewisse Klassen Gadges gar nicht richtig funktionieren oder Mechaniken nicht durchdacht umgesetzt worden sind. Wartet lieber bis das game mit einigen Patches verbessert wurde.