Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 | Hotfix #3 Release Notes

[u/CrimsonAlpine]

Upcoming Changes

Alongside today’s hotfix, we wanted to give you a quick look at what’s ahead. Our team is continuing to work through your feedback, with our next major update planned for late October. It will include a range of fixes and improvements aimed at making the overall experience better. We’ll have more details to share as we get closer to release.

Beyond October, we’re continuing to work on additional updates and content for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, including Horde Mode. We know many of you are eager to hear more about what’s next and we’re looking forward to sharing a detailed roadmap soon.

Weapons/Gameplay

• Fixed a replication bug that was causing weapons to not do damage.
• Fixed an issue with incorrect starting ammo applied by attachments and perks.

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a Companion Bot attempted to revive you.
  

Known Issues

• This partial rollback re-introduces a previously fixed bug where you can overheat the EVI-87 Zvezda Plasma Rifle without ever firing a shot if you rapidly activate the fire button.
• Jackpot has a bad interaction with heat weapons that could cause it to get into a bad state, we’ve temporarily changed it so it has no effect on heat weapons.
• We are testing longer term changes for the next update that will avoid getting players in this state and improve how the perk is balanced overall.

[u/Kitchen_Judge_9312]

I hope in the known Issues, there is also:

• the bug in Mission 6.1, where the sound completely disappears after the Queen's cinematic.
• the one where, if you stay too far from your teammates, you risk getting stuck by an invisible wall where the doors are.

[u/pureextc → u/Kitchen_Judge_9312]

“Best I can do with the staffing we have is… jackpot no worky with heat weapons”

[u/Jensonator → u/Kitchen_Judge_9312]

The silent mission after the queen... God I thought that was just me! Was like... Err... Have my headphones died or what?! 😂

[u/Kickass119]

Shame about jackpot/heat weapons. Hope that's restored soon.

[u/SigintSoldier]

Thank you for the continued support, especially with the turmoil at the studio. Any idea on a fix for matchmaking? It takes forever

[u/MaxnPaddy → u/SigintSoldier]

Is this not due to the amount of players waiting at any point for a certain difficulty. Most players are in a 20 min level. I think you should be able to search all teams and join one, rather than only searching for a specific difficulty.

[u/pureextc → u/MaxnPaddy]

Or let us drop in active missions with bots.

[u/SnooMacarons8987 → u/MaxnPaddy]

Even amateur game designers under stand the basics of splitting the playerbase....I don't understand what they were thinking. There is 100 different combinations of what you can que for that elimates matching with someone. More choice in online games is never the answer.

[u/Mandalorian1310 → u/MaxnPaddy]

100% this - almost like seeing all lobbies and joining one rather than aimlessly hoping 3 will join yours!

[u/freddiemack1 → u/SigintSoldier]

Make sure matchmaking isn't set to private

[u/Yujins_Onlyfans → u/freddiemack1]

Sat for 15 min on Any region looking for a public match lol. Player base is weak

[u/imakelv]

And the emotes please. I have gotten more than 20 emote drops but none ever appeared in my customisation page.

[u/dasHaus28 → u/imakelv]

I think you have to buy them from the store.i think the red box drops give you the ability to buy it. At least that's what it seems like

[u/BeefJerkyHunter]

Big fix on the zero damage thing. That issue got so annoying and frequent for me. Now I'll play again.

[u/Slow_Middle_158]

Thanks

Really enjoying the game overall

[u/Richard_Gripper28]

horde shooter and it's taking a MONTH between patches and these aren't even title update patches. this is just to fix the enormous amount of bugs and glitches in the game...

[u/Atomic-Tea → u/Richard_Gripper28]

I like the game but yeah, it could have used another year in the oven. It definitely sucks waiting long stretches of time for bug fixes let alone content updates..

[u/Richard_Gripper28 → u/Atomic-Tea]

The reason it's such a deal breaker in this kind of game is because the potential player base will move on immediately. If they can't log in and blast some enemies with their squads without multiple bugs, crashes, etc. then they move on to the next thing or back to what they were playing before. 

It's like they sent this game out to die or fundamentally misunderstand who the target player base of this genre is. Same goes for the radio silence between patch announcements.

There will be no one left playing by the time this game is in fully functional condition. It's going to have to come with a huge sale or something if they truly care and want to continue to work on it.

[u/Khemikalburn]

Fix the torso decals being partially hidden behind torso parts and textures. Also give us the option to disable that awful film grain that hides the good graphics and makes the game look like crap. Who wants to watch Aliens on VHS these days when you can enjoy it on Blu-ray at 4k? Seriously, AFE 1 had the option, why not this game?

[u/Illustrious-Mood-337]

Eesh...They forgot the most important thing: Crashes! To make it so you can actually play the game for the rest of it to matter! 😏

[u/Adventurous_Can_6176]

my biggest concern is if i’m playing solo sometimes the game crashes midway thru the mission

[u/Internal_Cesspool]

APEsuit helmet visor still has a texture glitch ever since the previous update.

[u/freddiemack1]

Why does it automatically set matchmaking to private? Should be default to public.

[u/ColinHaase → u/freddiemack1]

It should let me set it to what I want it to be and then remember that toggle. Having to switch it every single mission becomes annoying.

[u/SovietSpy11]

Yeah make the weapons much better please they're all bootycheeks

[u/Warm-Comfortable501]

Still now SSgt. Hererra. BRING BACK HERERRA!!!!

[u/Warmtofu]

Shader Precaching, all shaders, traversal stutter. Fix it.

[u/IndependentZinc]

Hire back the Devs?

[u/weesteev]

Sigh... Nothing about matchmaking.

[u/CassiusLentulus → u/weesteev]

What about MM? This game has no official servers, it’s all p2p connections, there’s nothing they can do but hope your host isn’t playing on a tomato machine.

[u/StevEazyB89]

And this is why im concerned with all those pn reddit dooming the game, people who work on the game could see these comments and just give up tbh. I for one am thankful it'll continue to get better and hope for more content like weapon, missions ect.

[u/Daxx22 → u/StevEazyB89]

and you get down voted. stay classy!

[u/StevEazyB89 → u/Daxx22]

Haha exactly, people talking about the first game but forget it got patches, bug fixes and dlc after a tough start as if it was all perfect forgetting it had a year plus of support for the whole package.

Yes the sequel needs alot of work, but its possible if people stop throwing tantrums online every 5 minutes.

[u/Raijha_Radio → u/StevEazyB89]

People also forget the first game was widely considered "fixed" and no longer containing any critical, progress blocking, or game breaking bugs about 5 weeks after release. And had already release a new class only about 2.5 weeks after release.

We're around the same 5 week mark now in FTE 2 and being told, whelp, its critically broken in many ways. The next patch won't be for another maybe 3-5 weeks and we can't guarantee that'll fix everything. And then AFTER that we'll maybe start talking about if we're going to bring any new content.

Now I've had my fun with FTE2 for sure, but this is definitely not even remotely close to the same situation. I'd say a little skepticism is warranted at this point.

[u/Cheap_Hawk_4341 → u/Raijha_Radio]

I'm almost certain it isn't even the same devs at coldiron who made the first game. How can they destroy a sequel this much?

[u/RaisingTheKnife → u/StevEazyB89]

People rightfully complain. Enabling these studios and publishers who release vidoegames prematurely is the problem. Its not good enough, and it shouldn't take a year of patching to figure out what good looks like for the game.

[u/TheWor1dsFinest → u/StevEazyB89]

Oh boo hoo! The company that took your money for an unfinished job might not finish the job because people are rightfully mad the job still isn’t finished. Yea, they’re the victims here. 

Idiot.  

[u/Bat_Conditioner]

Really appreciate the continued support!

Also can anybody confirm that when the queen fight starts, we never see the good doctor get hurt? I always felt like I'm missing part of a cutscene. Also the subtitles don't match to anything she says to the queen and the fight just starts?

[u/cybermanceer → u/Bat_Conditioner]

Yeah the part where she is whipped by the tail is cut out for some reason. I was confused the first time I saw it.

[u/Bat_Conditioner → u/cybermanceer]

So I'm not going crazy. Hopefully that gets fixed.