Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2

What the actual ♥♥♥♥. How can you make the Aliens franchise boring? It's a cookie cutter, badly implemented, characterless and grating experience. I can only imagine the management saw a cash cow and milked it. Unfortunately, they've left a shell of a game behind.

What a solid continuation. Aliens have significantly more variety, Story is better than I was expecting (I dont even remember the 'story' of the first game) Gunplay feels solid, Build and Weapon customization options arent just 3-5% more X, its stacking buffs and timing benefits and skill specialization. There are 15 missions (1 being prologue but its a full length mission - they should release this as a demo imo!) each takes 20-30min on the "standard" difficulty, Ive not done the final one yet but even on Standard there were some harrowing moments first go through! Completely viable and enjoyable solo experience, about 80% of my missions have been solo'd once and then Ive done them also Coop w/ a friend. We have done random full groups and had zero issues. Challenge cards add some variety to stuff, they dont get consumed (I think they used to?) so you can get goofy and make special setups to maximize them as part of the build, it doesnt pick one from the pool submitted anymore, a full group will run 4 challenge cards!

30 hrs in. 400 of AFTE1. - campaign is a pos. they couldve done SO much more even with the same engine and weapons and effects. just calling classes differently and some weapons does scrap overall. we have 150 decals and colors but no real content. AFTE1 was 9/10 campaign mode even if short. this one is a 3/10 with generosity, and they made it last longer but its the same levels chewed and spit back out the other way around. ♥♥♥♥ level design. -UI/UX is atrocious, you have do exit a buying window with 3 click just to get to your own inventory then go back and check what you wanted to buy when you couldve easily done that from the same screen. No skip cutscene option, no flashlight option which sucks because their dark corners are poorly thought out. -horde IS better but lacks finesse and flexibility after round 15. and exactly how some other people mentioned, the specialist class is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, its meant for end game but that ♥♥♥♥♥ on all the other classes. -im not even mad about small bugs and ♥♥♥♥ that doesnt work yet or glitches out, its the begining, but the main problems are with clear design choices, template level design, filler ♥♥♥♥♥♥ content instead of relevant fight dependent mechanics and items and just crap missions. I actually returned to play AFTE1 campaign to enjoy the scenery and how the levels are built. this is just so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. -worth 15e as a DLC , 100% not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 50 as a standalone. And they'll probably make it better in the coming months, and then add another DLC 6-12 months in for another 15e or something. Not worth it.

和朋友玩了几个小时浅评一下，首先就是黎明这个傻逼发行商的首发脑瘫定价就注定了这是一款小众变态游戏，全球区只有老钟改了价格，其他东南亚那些地方都还是300CNY起步的状态，所以目前在线人数只能说非常有限，尤其是亚洲区域玩家池非常少，匹配动辄三五分钟起步还边进边退，所以喜欢匹配路人野排的玩家需要三思。 AI的战斗效能非常糟糕，只有异形贴脸的情况下才会发动攻击，而且被扑倒了还得你去解围，只能说有点人工智障的意思，如果战局中有人掉线的话是不会有玩家补位进来的，你就只能带着一个弱智生化人抗压（ 武器的手感和音效等只能说能玩，但肯定没到出色的级别，喜欢老电影里面脉冲步枪那种音效的话其实还可以，但动画就不敢恭维了，不要指望有其他大厂TPS的那种带惯性动捕动画水平，180度秒转身喜欢吗？武器上尤其是那个泵动霰弹甚至没有拉栓的动画，非常雷普，这你都敢卖316？ 优化基本上就是EA游戏的平均水平吧，过图加载会顿卡，经常开镜的时候莫名其妙low帧低于30，勉强能玩。 然后技能上只能说主要聚焦在两个主动技能的特化排列组合上，继承了一代那个技能树的原来还得自己拼，等级不高就先不评价了，武器配件和一些小增益之类的数值给的非常保守，10伤害的步枪加个5%8%的伤害你觉得有任何卵子用吗我请问了？ 最后就是任务设计，你游目前我的评价只能说差不多七八关打下来真的做的就是个七八，从A杀到B防守一会开个门再杀到C防守一段时间结束就是你游关卡设计的全部了，目前甚至都没见过有什么推车或者其他类型的剧情导向任务目标，进去就是杀，杀完防守再到下一个地方继续杀，真是闹麻了。 而且子弹也给的非常抠门，在武器携带提升40%备弹量弹匣配件的情况下只能说普通难度勉强够杀到下一个弹药点，如果是高难度数量再多一点我都不敢想，也是挺难绷的。 总体来说目前状态可玩，优化稍微优于地狱已满2的EA首发版本，但也就是能运行得起来的状态，不值得特意来玩。

3 days after releas 7 pm on a friday, crossplay enabled and any region selected and can't get a full team on standard to do the campaign for the first time. This game feels worse then the first game in every way that matters. I bought and played every alien game, so it pains me to say this but don't buy this game.

i dont mind the game at all but, why are we calling captain Ko Sir when its clearly a she.. theres only 2 genders,

Its fun but not worth $50. If you like the aliens universe wait until its on sale for about $20. Its really no different from the last one except you have one more person in the fireteam.

TL;DR: It's fun, and has enough content at launch to warrant the price (unless you are a victim of lack of regional pricing). As of right now (no patches yet) the game has performance issues when transitioning between zones in a mission- probably because it doesn't load the assets until you get to the checkpoints. The cinematics are CRINGE and the voice acting is corny (it grew on me). The movement is floaty as if you were playing a first person game in a 3rd person perspective. However, it is REALLY fun. Ridiculously so. What the game does bad is glaring, but what it does right is just as obvious if you play past the first mission. The enemy variety is impressive, especially for launch. Three different factions (technically four, but robots and synths work together) that each have their own specialized units. Their AI is fun to engage with and you'll be shooting at the walls, floors, and ceilings. The weapon customization is above solid. You have a large variety of weapons, some class-restricted (at first) and some not. Each weapon has 3 attachment slots with a ton of options. When you max out a weapon you can augment it, which drastically changes how the weapon works and there are dozens of really powerful choices for that too. A really fun mechanic that makes missions repayable are the Combat Cards. They are similar to boosters in Helldivers 2 in the sense that each player can select one to bring. However, rather than small helpful bonuses (some can be that), they are instead game-changing modifiers that make the game harder, easier, or both. For example, rank 4 High Threat Environment increases how much damage players AND enemies deal by 100% for a 1.5 reward multiplier. Some add restrictions, give massive buffs/de-buffs, or even give you extra items on mission completion. But the most impressive thing is the build crafting. Holy... It is extensive to say the least. I am a little more than halfway through unlocking all the medic's perks (just finished the campaign) and the amount of builds I have tried and succeeded with is astounding. It's hard to tell just what a class is capable of doing, because each class can build to do SO many things effectively. The game has its faults, (performance will likely be addressed- movement, cinematics, and voice acting not so much), but the progression and teamplay really carry this game. It's been awhile since a game has launched and I genuinely felt like it has enough content to sink 100+ hours in without running out of things to do. And the flamethrower you get towards the end of the game... FINALLY, someone has done a flamethrower right. The movement might be floaty, but I swear I can feel the weight behind that thing when I am purging xenos.