Aliens: Fireteam Elite developer Cold Iron Studios announced yesterday that they had appointed a new Studio Head and Game Director and teased a mystery new project. Elena Siegman is their new Studio Head while Kendall Deacon Davis is the new Game Director. Siegman has a wealth of experience in the business, previously working in big franchises like Guitar Hero, BioShock and Destiny.
Cold Iron Studios states they are still committed to adding quality-of-life improvements to the 2021 title Aliens: Fireteam Elite including improving matchmaking and the synthetics.
Alongside the new leadership, Cold Iron will be adding some long-requested updates to Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Cold Iron is committed to providing quality of life updates to Aliens: Fireteam Elite while hard at work on their next major project. Future updates will include many of the community’s most prominent requests, such as fixes to matchmaking and improvements to everyone’s favorite Synths, known by players as “Alpha” and “Beta”.
Cold Iron Studios does say in the announcement that the studio is working on a brand-new title.
In the meantime, the studio is in full development on a new title. Building on the success of Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Cold Iron is hard at work making a new experience for fans to sink their teeth into. More updates will be coming as development is further along.
While it doesn’t specifically say their new title is a sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite or a new game in the Alien franchise, could a new Aliens game be on the cards in the future?
Cold Iron Studios was founded in 2015 but has been sold or transferred four times since then to various companies. It was initially purchased by Fox in 2018, and transferred to Disney along with FoxNext shortly after that. Then in 2020, Disney sold the studio to mobile game publisher Scopely before it quickly moved to Daybreak Games. Aliens: Fireteam Elite is still the only game that the game developer has finished and shipped.
However since this is the Alien franchise I only expect it to be more 'involved' RPG wise maybe like Alan Wake 2's effort is worth looking into. Even Alan Wake2 is a game I want to play even though its not out yet. But if it were in the vein of 1979s Alien or Prometheus timelines with a blend of AFTE with mechanics of Alan Wake 2, then I would only expect it needs a huge budget. A budget we have only seen with the likes of the Lora Croft franchise or the Last of Us.
I wouldn't mind an expansion of AFTE but if it got more budget for a proper immersive experience then I think it would need an overhaul. I like the gore elements of Colossal Protocol so it would mean a tremendous amount of lore being made. I can see that. ALOT. Has anyone seen the Xenomorph serpeant? I really think Rudy should make his tremendous catalogue available to the franchise to develop some things because there is never a dull moment with his work. Its just going to collect dust.
Think of the potential! Some fans are pretty bold when it comes to making the effort. The elegant nature of midjourney is that it is based of several neurological systems of information picked out from a database of ideas called a checkpoint. The acute ideas are very reminiscent of a real brain formulating and creating imagery. What you see here was trained on gigers works of art then slightly tuned into various ideas and by using his photos, new ideas were generated with extremely acute variations of what is already existing in the Giger art world.
What you're seeing is a 'real' human-like dream. a dream only a human can actually comprehend. because like humans, midjourney or SD might only derail ever so slightly because like a human, it has a memory and its only drawing from it in subtle ways to which a neural network is capable of doing. This is called a "neurological simulation of an idea".
But I get the past two games made a tremendous amount of loot for the Disney so I don't see why not.
I wish for better communication, since their approach is horrible as of now. I hope for new info on the game soon, but I doubt we'll hear anything for a while. Hope to be proven wrong.
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Either way, like Corp Hicks pointed out, it doesn't make sense to make another Aliens product based on one engine you already own (and so quickly since the release of the other). So chances are it will be a DLC...possibly another paid one and with a full campaign like pathogen if not more than one since they had to make a press release about it.
Both Dark Descent and Fireteam had a lot of bugs at launch and still have bugs. Dark Descent seems to have more problems on consoles for now unfortunately. But both games, on PC at least, were not completely broken on release and are both playable now for most users on PC at least.
But I'd also love to see something completely new. I know a lot of people have been wanting playable Aliens again so that would be interesting to see return.