The upcoming tactical Aliens game Aliens: Dark Descent will be coming to consoles and PC on June 20, 2023! IGN have posted the Release Date Trailer with lots of new gameplay footage. The gameplay trailer starts showing a CG sequence showing the U.S.S. Otago and the Colonial Marines exploring the planet, Lethe.
The trailer then takes us to actual gameplay footage and shows us how we’ll be able to control our Marines in Aliens: Dark Descent. The footage shows off how we can customize our squad in the various environments on Planet Lethe, as we try to stop the Xenomorphs from overrunning the planet.
Developed by the French studio Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment, Aliens Dark Descent is only a few months away from release. The squad-based tactical Aliens game will be released June 20, 2023 on PS4, PS5, X-Box One, X-Box Series S/X and PC.
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You get tasked to create a successfull hive in several scenarios:
1 scenario would be you are 2-3 xenos onboard a massive WY ship which you escaped your cells and you now have to decide where to set up a nest, which doors to seal with hive resin, set up the nest on command bridge? or the engine bay? or somewhere else? each place has its advantages and disadvantages. theres no ship tracking because else it would be too easy for the marines to kill one.
1 scenario set like hadleys hope and one need to set up a hive either inside the colony or nearby caves and try and overrun the colony, but the humans will counter all decisions you do, if you dont cut communications they can request reinforcments etc.
I would love that as a dlc and be unique to play as the xenomorps.
You can barely hear the guy, but some new info here. First, the slowdown effect will cost some recourses, but they seem to be separate from the command points. I hope there'll be an option to use that freely in hard combat. Or at least make it more intelligent, like real adrenalin or something, if you use it, it will highten your stress etc., but I haven't seen that for now...
Second, from the gameplay, WE ACTUALLY HAVE CUTSCENES AGAIN. And it nicely shows the Alien, love it, nice movement. Though in gameplay it does move with the tiniest bit of jank. The warping dodge seems more and more to me to be a feature. I love giving Aliens the ability to dodge. Not enough Alien games do that (only AVP2010 and ACM, though better in ACM multiplayer). Here my only problem is that warping effect to the side with what seems like no animation for dodging.
The other thing, it seems from the trailers and now this footage that the special ability of the Warrior is a leap/pounce attack. Maybe the Runner's one is the tail whip judging from other videos.
That's it for my analysis for now! We also know form the first ever footage that there will be at least one Queen and Crusher to fight (since there was text that noted that a sniper shot can only stun them, and not dismember them like it will other xenos)
I wish I could hear the interview here better, couldn't make out if other new info was here.
Hope the levels will be randomly generated or this could get stale pretty fast I'm afraid.
And supposedly a 3rd that hasn't been announced.
After such a high with Alien Isolation...not sure this one will do it for me. (And I skipped Fireteam Elite as well...)
Also, going to add, if there's one definitive advantage that this game has over AvP Extinction.... is that you can actually rotate the camera.
I usually want to take my games slow, save/load often, and try to go for 100% completion.
Here this would be difficult.
I hadn't been expecting to be playing in a colony - I thought it was all in/around a crashed ship, not sure if I was misremembering something there - but the visuals look great there. Looked nice to see a more developed looking setup, but it still felt very old.
Hoping we see a good variety of weaponry in the customization as it was just the standard loadout shown in the trailer. But all in all, I'm still excited for this one.
Oh, and I've uploaded some new key art to the gallery.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/games/aliens-dark-descent/gallery/promo/
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Frv0ZV2X0AEVBug.jpg
Why are these games obviously just a Coloinel Marine cluster f#ck
Boring. Trust me loved Avp Extinction
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Same! The narration style especially.
Really looking forward to this.
Hope we get some more details and footage for Alien Day!
Actual 100 bullet mag for the M41A! Actual under-barrel grenade launcher! See AFE, it's not that hard...
This seems like it'll be exactly up my alley. I still can't believe it's coming so soon!
Only con so far, the plasma gun effects are poor. But the flamethrower looks magnificent! Hope there won't be too many human mutant enemies and I hope the story does something interesting with them.
The weather effects and locations look nice.