Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?

**Jeivar** · 2021-12-14, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)

It's currently 30% off on Steam, but its discussion forum seems to mostly be posts about how the game is dead and nobody can find anyone to play with. Some forums do just attract constant negativity and doomsaying, so I thought I'd get a second opinion.

Do you think Fireteam Elite has any sort of staying power? Or has the player base abandoned it, never to return?

**warty goblin** · 2021-12-14, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)

I have no idea what the multiplayer scene is like, but it's a pretty good time in singleplayer. The bots are decent, and the shooting is solid enough, although a touch unremarkable. Worth it if you want to shoot ugly things in third person and are tired of/just don't like Gears, because Gears 5 is very, very good.

**Rynjin** · 2021-12-14, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)

I've never even heard of this game, which is never a good sign.

**Brother Oni** · 2021-12-15, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)

All the reviews I've read or watched have indicated that the faithfulness to the source material is great (the characteristic sounds of the M41A Pulse rifle, xenomorph shrieks, etc) and that single player with the bots is fine on the medium difficulty levels, but the game really shines when you're playing with two other friends with voice comms.

I think it's the comms and friends that make this game - joining a random PUG without comms may as well be the same as playing with more competent bots.

**Wookieetank** · 2021-12-15, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)

To me it looks an awful lot like Deep Rock Galactic gameplay wise, and I already have that, so I haven't given this one a 2nd look.

**NRSASD** · 2021-12-18, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)

Rock and Stone forever!

**The_Jackal** · 2022-01-04, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)

Eh, at 30% off, it's worth it to buy as a single-player game. The bots are as dumb as wallpaper paste, but they won't actively try to kill you, and should be sufficient to get you through the missions on Recruit difficulty, provided you have any FPS skills to speak of. The developer made a dog's breakfast of the matchmaking, there was no 'get me in a game' queue, so you had to hope that someone was waiting for the exact same map at the exact same time as you want to play, at least at the last time I started up the game client. The core gameplay is pretty fun, though I think it relies a bit too heavily on enemies emerging from walls behind you, and the Alien runner animations are pretty janky.