Aliens: Fireteam Elite Achievements Gives Us Campaign & Difficulty Names, & New Enemy Type!

[Corporal Hicks]

Now that we’ve got a date to mark in our calendars for Aliens: Fireteam Elite’s release, we’ve also got a look at the game’s achievements. We now know the names of each of the four campaigns, the names of the 4 different difficulty modes and possibly the name of a new enemy category that we glimpsed in yesterday’s trailer! Beware some possible spoilers here.

Name	Description	Gamerscore
Priority One	Finish the “Priority One” Campaign.	15
Giants in the Earth	Finish the “Giants in the Earth” Campaign.	15
The Gift of Fire	Finish the “Gift of Fire” Campaign.	15
The Only Way to be Sure	Finish the “Only Way to be Sure” Campaign.	15
Didn’t Break a Sweat	Finish a mission on Intense Difficulty.	15
A Stand Up Fight	Finish a mission on Extreme Difficulty.	15
My Kind of Crazy	Finish a mission on Insane Difficulty.	35
Expeditionary Service Ribbon	Finish all Campaigns on Standard Difficulty.	15
LV-895 Service Ribbon	Finish all Campaigns on Intense Difficulty.	15
LV-895 Campaign Medal	Finish all Campaigns on Extreme Difficulty.	35
Reticulum Theater Medal	Finish all Campaigns on Insane Difficulty.	50
CMISRS Asset	Return 39 pieces of intel.	35
Keen Eye	Open 50 hidden caches.	35
Confidence Course	Do a successful Challenge run.	15
Overwhelming Confidence	Complete 25 successful Challenge runs.	35
Specialist	Level a Kit to Rank 8.	15
Kitted Out	Level five Kits to Rank 8.	35
A Personal Friend of Mine	Level a weapon to four stars.	15
All My Personal Friends	Level 30 weapons to four stars.	50
Fully Rigged	Fill every slot in a perk board.	35
Glorified Toasters	Eliminate 1000 Synthetics.	15
Anti-Mutation Station	Eliminate 300 Pathogen.	15
It’s a Bug Hunt	Eliminate 10000 Xenomorphs.	15
Those Things Were Huge	Eliminate 2000 elite enemies.	15
Burn ‘Em Out	Kill 1000 enemies with fire.	15
High Voltage	Kill 1000 enemies with electricity.	15
Nukes, Knives, AND Sharp Sticks	Equip three attachments on a single weapon.	15
State of the Art Firepower	Collect one attachment of every type.	15
Ready for Anything	Collect 25 attachments.	35
Express Yourself	Collect 20 emotes.	35
It’s a Cover, Not a Hat	Collect 20 hats.	35
Art Gallery	Collect 40 decals.	35
It’s Camouflage on Some Planet	Collect 40 colorways.	35
Fashion Team	Change your hat and outfit.	15
Red Makes It Shoot Faster	Equip a colorway and decal onto a gun.	15
Tower Defense	Use 500 consumables.	15
I Think They Like Me	Get grappled five times in the same mission.	15
Supportive Squad	Complete 50 missions without anyone being downed.	35
Trigger Discipline	Complete a mission on Intense Difficulty or above without anyone taking friendly fire damage.	35
Got All I Need	Complete a mission without using aid kits, ammo crates, or consumables.	15
Improvised Explosives	Kill 50 enemies with explosive barrels or pods.	15
Suturing Expert	Heal your fireteam with an aid kit 100 times.	35

 

So we now know that the four campaigns are Priority One, Giants in the Earth, Gift of Fire and finally Only Way to be Sure. The difficulty modes are Standard, Intense, Extreme and Insane.

And finally, it looks like there’s a new enemy category known as Pathogen, hinting at a much stronger prequel connection than just the Engineer locations! Given the required amount of kills to get the achievement, I would imagine this would be a lesser seen enemy type within the game. We may have already seen one of the Pathogen enemies in the last trailer too!

Forgive the poor screenshot. Is this a Pathogen enemy?

The prequel novel, Aliens: Infiltrator, also heavily played with the Engineer’s black goo and its effects on native wild-life and the Aliens themselves. Thanks to seattle24 for the heads up on the news.

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[Drukathi]

Giants in the Earth
The Gift of Fire

Ridley applauds and dances with a smile.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Based Fireteam Elite using the correct terminology.

[Still Collating...]

Oh hell yes! So standard was the lowest difficulty? And they have three more difficulties above that? I see I'm gonna love this and get the cruel experience I long for! Thanks Cold Iron, that's how you give the player choices, I hope acid burns like hell.

Glad we'll see some pathogen creatures, but not too much. Didn't know we'll be killing so many synths, but story wise I get the context. One synth compared to 10 aliens feels right. I wonder what are elite enemies? Is the Praetorian one, or does that bugger count as a Xenomorph? I wonder if we'll have any boss fight or not.

[Corporal Hicks]

I bet elites are gonna be the bigger Aliens like the Praetorians or the Big Chaps.

[Voodoo Magic]

In context of them all, Big Chaps I wouldn't guess for "Those Things Were Huge" but Praetorians, definitely!

[Protomorph]

Awesone. It feels to me like the Giants in the Earth level is the Engineer location.

As for the Pathogen enemies, are these gonna be like Fifield zombies?!?

[PVTDukeMorrison]

Awesone. It feels to me like the Giants in the Earth level is the Engineer location.

As for the Pathogen enemies, are these gonna be like Fifield zombies?!?

The ESRB heavily implied that

[Corporal Hicks]

In context of them all, Big Chaps I wouldn't guess for "Those Things Were Huge" but Praetorians, definitely!

This game's Big Chaps are big ass monsters unless I'm misremembering?

[acrediblesource]

Awesome! Now things are looking good for this game!I hope there are a variety of pathegan creatures....some hordes and some boss or special one and done  creatures.

[The Necronoir]

Awesone. It feels to me like the Giants in the Earth level is the Engineer location.

As for the Pathogen enemies, are these gonna be like Fifield zombies?!?

The Gift of Fire is clearly a reference to Prometheus and the eponymous Greek myth, so that chapter is probably heavily embedded in engineer lore too. If I had to guess, I'd say Giants in the Earth is exploring the engineer ruins, with The Gift of Fire focusing on dealing with the outbreak of the pathogen, and The Only Way to be Sure your efforts to nuke the entire site.

As for the pathogen itself, I think it's probably going to be made up of a horde of different mutations, some perhaps infecting other types of enemy in front of you. The one screenshot we have already shows a large beast with a lot of smaller ones scuttling over the wall in the background. Also, note that they use the singular "pathogen", even when referring to a collection of them, which implies that they're treated as a homogenous mass of sorts.

[Private Buttz]

Ugh. The prequels ruined the mythology of the Alien. Not knowing was so much better. They were mysterious. Majestic. Terrifying. ALIEN. The prequels made them feel cheap and stupid. Which is pretty much what Ridley Scott thinks of the creature at this point. I'm all for enemy variety, but I hate the new mythology. Personal Opinion.

[Evanus]

If anything, the pathogen adds more mystery.

[BlueMarsalis79]

People need to deal with it, they're part of the mythology now, whether they like it or not.

[Kailem]

In context of them all, Big Chaps I wouldn't guess for "Those Things Were Huge" but Praetorians, definitely!

This game's Big Chaps are big ass monsters unless I'm misremembering?

Correct, their asses are indeed huge.

I like that "standard" is going to be the easiest difficulty with three harder settings above that. Should certainly help with the replayability factor that's key for a game like this.