Aliens: Fireteam Elite Quality of Life Patch Released

As promised within Cold Iron’s announcement of their next project, new quality of life patch has just released for Aliens: Fireteam Elite. The main highlights are AI improvements to the synthetic companions present while players are gaming solo. Alpha and Beta should be more useful for higher difficulties and dynamic in their battlefield performance. A number of bug fixes have also been implemented.

Check out the full patch notes below:

Quality of Life Updates

• Updates to matchmaking that fix host errors, disconnects, queue issues, crossplay, crashes and more
• All game modes have been added to Quickplay
• Added additional logs and analytics
• Alpha and Beta Updates
• Improved offensive capabilities
• Improved defensive capabilities
• Improved support capabilities
• Adjusted scaling and healing for difficulties
• Adjusted behavior when reviving player
• Adjusted behavior relating to fire paths and friendly fire
• Adjusted Sleep Mode parameters leaving Alpha and Beta in at least a state of minimal engagement at all appropriate times

Bug Fixes

• Lancer Horde Slayer skin is retroactively granted to players who have already beaten a horde mode on extreme
• Fixed a rare bug that caused game fails when connecting to Epic servers
• Fixed a missing SFX bug related to HEL
• Fixed an exploit in Cathedral Bridge
• Fixed a bug on Likasi Tower that prevented players from purchasing additional consumables
• Fixed bugs related to the following Challenge Cards: By the Lowest Bidder, Slow But Sure, Stuck Magazines, Expendable Crew, Threat Neutralized, Chain Reaction, Sidearm Expertise, Sentry Turret 
• Fixed a bug related to player stumbling
• Fixed a bug causing the perk ‘Guard Dog’ to not deal appropriate damage
• Fixed a bug that prevented Warriors being highlighted by the T22E4 Sargodha N-HANCE Large Optic
• Fixed a bug that caused the ‘Anesthesiologist’ perk to grant 20% temporary health
• Fixed a bug that caused animation and SFX errors with the EDS-93 Zadak
• Fixed a bug that caused the Gunner’s grenade to be not visible after emoting
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to exploit character movements
• Fixed a bug that caused client crashes when players accept invites from Hardcore players
• Fixed a bug that caused malfunctions with the OCAP-91 VOLCAN while using the Lancer kit
• Fixed a bug causing Lifetime Stats to appear negative if the number cap is exceeded
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Requisition Store from working consistently across all Horde Modes
• Fixed a bug that caused Alpha and Beta to continuously fire after being knocked down 

The patch is currently live for all platforms with the exception of Xbox. That release has been delayed and is expected to drop at 10 am PT on October 26th.

Alongside the patch, Steam Community Items such as trading cards, backgrounds, and stickers have been added to the PC platform.

While we were still hoping to see more substantial campaign DLC additions added to Fireteam Elite, it seems Cold Iron Studios may be saving the big guns for their next project in full development. They’ve referred to this upcoming mystery game as “Building on the success of Aliens: Fireteam Elite” and “a new experience for fans to sink their teeth into.”

In the meantime, more quality of life updates are planned for Aliens: Fireteam Elite, so we’ll be keeping our motion trackers at the ready. We do very much appreciate Cold Iron’s efforts to have the game in the best state they can make it as they move forward with their new title.

Psst… a proper photo mode would be a nice one of those long-requested features ;).

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