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2021-12-14, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
- Location
- Iceland
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Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
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?"Is this 'cause I killed the hippie? Is that even illegal?"
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2021-12-14, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
- Location
- Tail of the Bellcurve
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Re: Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
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.
Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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2021-12-14, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2016
Re: Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
I've never even heard of this game, which is never a good sign.
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2021-12-15, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- Cippa's River Meadow
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Re: Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
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.
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2021-12-15, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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- Gridania, Eorzea
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2021-12-18, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2014
Re: Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
Rock and Stone forever!
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2022-01-04, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2006
- Location
- Up there past them trees!
Re: Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite worth getting, or is it dying out in record time?
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.
Last edited by The_Jackal; 2022-01-04 at 11:06 AM.