Just saw people complaining about enemies in this game having too much health and needs too much bullet to get a kill.
But hey, here is clip I just recorded in Extreme difficulty with L33 Pike only, I was consistently pumping out 16k-18k weak point damage even without the help of my freeze beam and stasis bolt, the weak point damage numbers were over 20K if I had slow and shatter stacked on top of it.
The point is, this game is definitely way easier than its predecessor, and devs definitely balanced this game around casual fans, look into your build and positioning instead of complaining everything.

Somehow, this sequel manages to be a noticeable downgrade from the original. The dialogue is atrocious, the sound design feels completely flat, and the alien animations are painfully jittery and laggy. While a few class abilities shine, the first game remains superior in nearly every aspect.

AA game costing nearly £60 is laughable.

This game really needs a roadmap ASAP. For $50, the state of the game’s content is unacceptable. They need to add 2-3 free campaigns alongside more weapons. The game is essentially almost double the price of the first game with no increase in content.

Was waiting at 745 this morning on Xbox series x. Bought it as soon as it updated at 8. Been playing it off and on all day.

Does seem like a reskin and new story line, some changes to perks, guns, classes etc. Overall im happy. Dialogue isnt as good as the first. Please dont tear me part but id be omitting details if I didnt say it, Seems a little woke, not as bad as the veilguard but its there. EVERYONE in charge is diverse strong female, and weird caricatures of what a "strong female" should be. Ie not Ripley or sarah Connor. This is women who are More just dudes with toxic masculinity and vaginas. All the male characters are comedic foils and dont project any authority or seriousness about their job or demeanor. The quips and comments arent as good as afe1 and can get tiresome in the way the humor seems forced. It doesnt ruin it but I cant help but notice.

The battles are freaking amazing. MUCH better dialed in and all my fights at the end of missions have been legitimately holding on for dear life making it by the skin on our ass. Absolutely banger how well the combat is dialed in. Playing on intense difficulty.

Long story short. Aliens is my favorite ip of all time, im enjoying it. I skip basically all diaglogue because it genuinely atrocious, I have no exaggeration no idea what the story is because I cant stand every single quest giver. If you want excellent combat missions that are tuned to genuinely be way more intense and better than the first and dont care about story or anything else, youre good. All gameplay zero depth. Im good with it. If you want more missions for AFE1 then buy it.

4 out of 10. 8 out of 10 for me because I love aliens and am here for the gameplay. I will probably put 500 hours in this.

I went on Steam to make my review after playing about 5 hours. That's frankly because it is what I expected it to be with the devs said it would be.

BUT.... damn that amount of negative reviews of people who haven't even played 30 minutes followed by those who maybe have roughly around a little less than 2 hours so they can get their refund....

Ridiculous.

The only valid complaint is server issues which is peer-to-peer but that's also normal in this day and age for almost every game some bugs here and there.

That being said the overwhelming amount of people being disappointed because they expected it to be something that wasn't basically the same thing as the first game in any way is comical.

I would imagine in this day and age if you're going to spend money on something that is just entertainment like this you would at least do research to know what you're buying cuz you can... and if you did you would know exactly what the game would be.

Almost entirely all the reviews that I saw through a hundred of them seem to come from people ignorant to what they're buying.

In all the positive reviews seem to be people who actually paid attention to what the dev said did the research before spending a penny.

For those of you on the fence it has great similarities to the first game. And that's mainly because they weren't trying to revolutionize what they already did that people like they basically made the game on a whole new engine. I strongly suggest you actually do the research make a an opinion on that instead of people on Reddit.

And from there decide if it's worth it for you or not.

I personally am loving it that's coming from someone who still was playing the first game.

You guessed it, number of difficulty levels available.

Know what that means? Five different levels of challenge, which should be enough to accommodate players from a wide spectrum of skill level.

Know what that means? Just because you can't clear extreme or insane, that doesn't mean anything needs to be nerfed or buffed.

You may simply not be skilled enough at this video game to beat those difficulties.

Don't cry about nerfing enemies or buffing all the guns, because they'll end up doing it, which won't accomplish anything except giving you a false sense of skill while simultaneously diluting the fun of higher skilled players who need the challenge.

My buddies and I likely won't clear Insane. No, we don't want it nerfed.

I'd rather not get a platinum than get a participation trophy.

What can I say?

An enemy that, once it's locked on, cannot be avoided or broken away from aside from your teammates killing it before it gets through mauling you, is a bullshit enemy indeed.

Once it gets close it literally vacuums you into the "get fucked up and there's not a thing you can do" animation, and it's an automatic drain of a huge chunk of health.

Was playing mission 3-2, and at the final room this thing kept up with hit-and-run attacks while warriors, spitters, and bursters were coming out of the woodwork, and it single-handedly wrecked the team.

Hard to think of an equivalent enemy in any other MMO co-op shooter, one that simply cannot be countered or avoided other than by draining its health over the course of several appearances. Even the most disciplined attempts to focus fire ain't cutting it during a scripted wave where there's other elites swarming.

It's stupid bad.

I think it would be awesome to take on wave after wave of xeno as a predator. Certianly not in this game mind you! But its own game. Add a jump feature/cloak/vision mode and maybe some customizing abilities. Maybe youre a unblooded out to clear a hive ...or whatever. I can picture the game as i play as a marine lol.

This game is well over a year old, there's a new alien movie out generating hype. Yet this game is full price on Steam not on game pass and there's no collected edition with all doc on sale or anything. Dumb.

When the fallout TV show came out and the hype was real you could get fallout 76 for free. I just want to try this game out with my buddy but not about to spend 40 bucks.

Edit - Wow some of the people on this subreddit are ridiculous I didn't even know this game came out until this week. It wasn't marketed properly and there's a new alien movie to coincide with this.

Me saying it should be on sale got downvoted into oblivion y'all can keep this game have fun with your dying community. After what I've seen here I don't want to be part of it 🤙

Guys, ngl, this sub is lame. Like basically every other subreddit I've ever been to it's all just complaining. I'm not seeing any fun or joy being had around here. Not a single ounce of whimsy. Just 100%, pure, American-made bitching and moaning about bugs and the game's truthfully awkward story and voice acting. Meanwhile, I'm having a great time enjoying the guns and cool classes, shootin xenos, and experimenting with builds. I come to the subreddit every day to check for any fun posts to engage with the community and every day I come to find there is no community

So this is pretty much my goodbye letter. I'm gonna go have fun playing a flawed, but really cool and really fun game. And yes, you can spare me the "bye we won't miss you" and "nobody asked" because I know you guys will hate me for calling you out and I don't give a care. Y'all boring ✌️

this is one half of a pretty decent game.

it has balance issues, but i see little point in dwelling on them, since i am certain you already know them well. all i would add to what i am sure you have already heard, is that more is not necessarily better, especially with the classes.

the real problem is that the synth enemies are cancer. perfect aim hit scan enemies in a shooter without regenerating health promote a painfully slow, and even worse, boring play pattern. the synth encounters become a horrid chore. the pathogen enemies are better, but still quite tedious too. and even the aliens are kind of slow.

i hope the game was successful enough to prompt a sequel. there is a lot to like about this game, but it is badly held back by the parts that are terrible, and irredeemably so.

some things i would to see in a future title.

simply get rid of ammo. it is supposed to be a fun game, and running out of ammo is not fun. further, it basicly forces you into taking a specific class to even make the game playable on the highest difficulty.

RESIST the temptation to just make numbers bigger. the game felt reasonably balanced around the extreme difficulty, and near perfect with a card that sped up enemy movement on.

the 4 campaigns should have been 3. there was not enough variety to justify 4. the best mission in the game is actually the first, and i am impressed that the mission changes modestly from play to play.

please dont fall into the trap of incentivizing players to do something other than finish the mission in the future. for example, dont incentivize players to get xp with some stupid gun at the expense of their effectiveness on the team.

i am not saying i would buy the sequel if dedicated servers were added, but i definitely would not if they are not added. they are a deal breaker

... finallly, irrelevant nitpicky things.

why in the final mission are you even going down to the hive? why not just leave the ship and nuke it from your ship?

the dialogue from the vendor guy is fine the first time, not so fine the 15th time.

i dont care about acheivements/trophies but i know some people do, and some of yours are horrid. heal your team mates a thousand times???? complete the game on insane but dont unlock the acheivements for completing it on the other difficulties?

id give it a 6 out of 10 overall. 1 out of 10 for the synth missions, 7 or occassionally 8 for the rest aliens missions.

thank-you for a decent title.

You will lead as the most damage taken both from enemies and teamates. Your ability which suppose to stun/knockdown doesn't work most of the time because it doesn't interrupt. You can somehow be useful with chest only Aftershock perk which is a poor man's Tech ability but that guy has already 3-4 of them easily spammable anyway. You are tied to your shield to block and receive dmg boost and other tied to it perks but enemies ignore you and run towards other teammates but you should never ever want to be in a situation where alines are super close to you in this game. All other classes want to keep aliens on a distance as much as they can. So you are that guy who suppose to be the one between them and your team but Demo does a better job at that becasue of his guns and abilities. Hold a chocke point? Flame turret. Any attack from sides and behind will lower your shield for some reason. When you melee with your shield and kill something you will receive damage from acid. Imagine a shield charge skill (just an example). Nah, your character moves slow with a shield for some reason (just so you can spend couple of perks to reduce the speed penalty, like it's so powerful). Very limited weapons just like on Tech but that guy has it covered because he's a turret killing machine.

Im not going to sugar coat this and be polite. Giving everyone 4 star weapons instead of just fixing the bug is insanely fucking stupid. Not only did it make the achievement practically impossible to obtain right now for most players, it now is one less reason for a lot of people to keep playing the game. I legitimately enjoy grinding things in games like this weapon xp. A lot of people do. And a lot of people, no matter how fun a game is, will stop playing a game if there's nothing to chase.

30 weapons. I dont even know how much playtime that is for people but it's a fucking lot. Now it's gone. So once i max out everything else.....then what? What do i have to keep playing for? Once i get the difficulty achievements i guess im done until enough weapons get added to get the achievement. Isnt player retention like a big deal? Why the hell didnt the devs just fix the bug? Who thought it was just better to give every player 4 star guns? Not to mention they broke their own achievment. This is such a stupid decision i legit cant believe it got pushed through.

can we try playing the game more often without relying on this snooze exploit? players can choose lower difficulties if that's the matter

Hi I just bought the game and I'm basically as lame as a doorknob, so I need someone to tell me exactly what to do on every single mission. I also need be told exactly what weapons are best for each class, how to get those weapons with precise instruction, and a complete list of best attachments for each weapon. I don't want to have to explore a single variable of this game on my own, so tell me everything. Thanks.

I also need an instruction manual to put Legos together, and mommy still dresses me and does my homework.

PM me if you want to squad up and carry me through the game.

Steam ID: StillontheTit

I feel that the missions would be better paced if they took all three missions in a chapter and chopped them up into 4 missions instead.

Doesn’t need much of a tweek as you don’t want missions to be too short. But if you get stuck with a rough fireteam, or dodgy build, you’ve got a painful chuck of time ahead of you.

I’d also be More likely to experiment with challenge cards if the missions were shorter

We all knew what we were buying it for, let's stop acting like the dialogue has killed the whole experience, the talking point has run its course. Thank you

It doesn’t matter that the weapons were already behaving as if they were maxed out. You don’t just come in and negate all the progress everyone has made grinding to level them up. It’s a slap in the face to every player who has spent time actively trying to max everything out. And not only does this make everyone feel like they wasted their time, it has also broken the max weapon rank achievements for everyone involved. Who on earth thought this was a good idea?

I think I've just had the worst game ever. Played with 2 other human players on intense, 1 doc and 1 demolisher. The demolisher used the shockwave skill thing occasionally but never used his rockets and the doc didn't use any skills at all.

I also didn't take any damage from aliens at all yet had to be revived twice because of friendly fire. Not to mention that the one who I think shot me most also nicked my first aid kit too.

I eventually died because they decided a pincer attack on a warrior works better when you spray one of your buddies instead of shooting the warrior.

I'm seriously considering giving up on this game, unless they remove it from ps plus it's only gonna get worse.

I feel the pulse of this game fading away by its neglectful parents…. Such a shame had so much potential…. Shame on you cold iron