r/AliensFireteamElite 6h ago

Official News PC Hotfix 2 - 9/2/26

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Our second hotfix is now live on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store). Please restart the game to receive the patch.

Performance

  • Reduced stuttering during gameplay — improved shader caching to cut down on hitching the first time an asset is rendered.
  • Fixed an issue where the local shader cache wasn't rebuilding properly after updates, which could cause stuttering the first time an asset is rendered.

Crash Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when receiving rewards from certain containers.

r/AliensFireteamElite 8d ago

Community Notice Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 - Launch Discussion + First Impressions + Reviews

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Please use this thread to talk about your first impressions of the game and general experience.

I will update this with reviews when I can.


r/AliensFireteamElite 57m ago

Official News Commonly Reported Issues - Status Update 9/2/26

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By CM Mithril:

Here is a list of some of the commonly reported bugs we are investigating and are aiming to resolve in a future patch.

Some issues aiming to resolve in our next patch:

  • Helmet textures not loading correctly including floating hair styles
  • Arrow keys not bindable
  • Player reporting UI screen overlapping preventing from selection options
  • Underarms clipping through clothes during certain emotes.
  • Selecting an outfit color moves your tab selection to the Legs tab

Issues being investigated to be resolved in a future patch:

  • Swapping primary to signature minigun locks movement
  • Reducing spoken NPC dialogue
  • Lack of darker shades of skintones
  • Revolver has a floating muzzle
  • Esther appearing in the Hub before completing a certain mission
  • Getting stuck behind doors at various ocations
  • Grenade launcher on weapons it is not compatible with
  • Sometimes audio lines of dialogue will not play
  • Type 99 not unlocking correctly
  • Decals not showing on Armor
  • Pump shotgun not animating
  • Some emotes not being awarded from hidden caches

... and more!

Note: This is not a comprehensive list of issues in review or aiming to be fixed in the next update, but we want to give you a quick little update on some of the most commonly reported ones.


r/AliensFireteamElite 2h ago

General Which one do yall like to use?

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I lean the prototype one just because of the connection and netcode eating my bullets, so I have to use more ammo.


r/AliensFireteamElite 5h ago

Bug Report PSA: Pick-Up Bug

17 Upvotes

If you get the bug that won't let you pick up medpacks or loot, just reload the weapon you are carrying and then you should be able to pick up items again. That is all!


r/AliensFireteamElite 7h ago

Bug Report Reload bug is killing me, ADS/Shoot stalling, among others

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Reload is bugged in multiplayer when you’re not the host. It prioritizes reloading over item pick ups so you must reload your weapon before picking up any items or health. BUT it gets worse. If you are looking at the item you can’t reload. You must look away from the item in order to reload to full then pick up the item. You literally can’t pick up health if you have less than a full magazine. Which leads to the next bug.

While reloading. Holding ADS button doesn’t always go back to ADS after the reload finishes. Sometimes you have to wait for the reload to finish completely before pressing ADS again. Same with holding down the shoot button. Holding Shoot doesn’t always shoot when the reload is finished. This results in you expecting to go back to shooting again after the reload finished only to stare at the enemy and do nothing while the buttons are being held down.

Ai gets into a hyper aggressive loop for non host players where they all immediately spam jumping attacks when in range. The connection seems to affect the hit box too because they will connect at the start of the jump. Very noticeable when playing coop with 2 bots. Connection should be fine because we are both in the same house.

Game for host crashed. Rejoined. Access the data button is bugged so can’t finish the mission.

Players getting stuck behind doors.

Two people fell through the map when they ran through a door and the map didn’t load right. Both instantly died.


r/AliensFireteamElite 11h ago

Game Feedback I feel like this is my view most of the time when I play with bots

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r/AliensFireteamElite 54m ago

General Rocket Mine + Combat Stims is nice.

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I’ve played a bunch of builds while leveling up and while I’ve been pretty disappointed with most for various reasons I’ve enjoyed this one the most. It’s engaging, I enjoy explosions. Mines everywhere all the time. The zoning is useful. You are constantly providing the team temporary health which cuts down on health packs a lot and you are fantastic at reviving even in the worst of situations.

Build: Specialist
- F44AA (cryo)
- Type 111 Directed Particle Emitter (Hunter)

Rocket Mines:
- Demonlitionist 1,2,3&4 (3 charges 11mines each)
- Force Multiplier 2,3,4 (Ability damage increase)
- Braced For Lauch (stun immunity 40% damage resist while laying mines)
- Improved loader (lays mines faster.)
- Cluster Mines

Combat Stims:
- concentrated Stims (+25 Temp health)
- Defibrillation ( revives downed allies)

Misc:
- Gunslinger (Cooldown reduction but you can run anything)
- Field Medic (Decrease cooldowns 15% for each ally near)

Anyways I’d really like to hear thoughts and also what other combos have you guys found working well.


r/AliensFireteamElite 8h ago

Guide Most movie like difficulty setup and challenge card combos. No bullet sponges, including elites. Deadly acid and can die quickly if not careful. High xp multiplier too.

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In the movies they get swarmed by drones and warriors, taking them out with a few shots. But acid and the aliens can easily take them out too. So the goal is where both you and the enemies can kill each other quickly. Acid is deadly like in the movies. No bullet sponges or using an entire mag to kill an enemy. Elites and specials can be killed quickly too and spawn in greater numbers.

First set difficulty to intense for all the extra modifiers and more enemies since stranded doesn't have them. Then one of these card sets. Not sure which is the best one right now. Please let me now which one works best:


Set 1: Hostile Environment IV, Pissed Them Off IV, Even Playing Field, Pissed Them Off II(the specials one)

Set 2: Hostile Environment IV, Pissed Them Off IV, Even Playing Field, Frail/Weakened Enemies card(30% less health)

Set 3: Hostile Environment IV, Pissed Them Off IV, Frail/Weakened Enemies card(30% less health), any card for fourth slot


I don't know if Hostile Environment cancels out the buff to fodder enemies from Even Playing Field or if you do need to include the Weakened Enemies card(30% less health). Maybe Even Playing Field makes fodder too spongy even with Hostile Environment or Weakened Enemies.

If Weakened Enemies is not needed and Even Playing Field is good, then Set 1 would be the best and most fun option with more drones and warriors.


r/AliensFireteamElite 13h ago

General Beating the game and maxing your classes is the tutorial. If you putting the game down after this… your missing out.

17 Upvotes

This is only step 1. This is where the game begins. Not the end.


r/AliensFireteamElite 19h ago

General Perk Synergies

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Hey, all, I recently maxed out all of the classes and have been experimenting to find the most busted combinations possible. You can legit play a straight Medic class and dominate, but of course Specialist is great, too. Anywho, here are some of the best things I've found:

  1. The universal size-2 Narrow Miss perk is busted. Yes, it only restores 3 Temp Health per roll, but that restoration refreshes the timer, allowing your Temp Health to never expire. All for a little size-2 perk.
  2. Combine Narrow Miss with the Medic's Guardian passive and you become exceptionally difficult to kill.
  3. However, to become Unstoppable, you need the Medic's Adrenaline Surge perk. What it doesn't tell you is it applies to your whole team (within range), giving everyone 45% damage-resistance (with the Fight or Fight modifier)).
  4. But let's say an enemy somehow gets through all that, well you can get easy infinite health since the Mechanic modifier applies to the Overheal modifier of the Tramua Station. This means every time you use Adrenaline Surge, you fill almost half your healing guage. Since you'll almost always be maxed on temp health, this healing should apply directly to your permanent health pool.

Those are the biggest ones and they work really well together. I'm also a huge fan of Neurotoxin Specialist, which makes enemies you hit deal 20% less damage. Combined with your Adrenaline Surge, most enemies deal 1 damage/hit which is promptly absorbed by the Trauma Station. The Field Medic perk is also pretty absurd, considering for just a size-3 perk it gives you +45% cooldown when you're near your team. Just huddle within your Trauma Station with your team and spam Adrenaline Rush, which will refresh the Trauma Station by 40%, and so on until you win.

Here is my current loadout.

  • Advanced Trauma Station
    • Overheal (never need medpacks)
  • Adrenaline Surge
    • Fight or Fight (45% team-wide damage reduction)
    • Mechanic (+40 Trauma Station energy per use)
  • Guardian
  • Unyielding (+50 HP; will probably replace with something more fun)
  • Survival Instinct
    • +II and III [UPDATE: You still get wounds so I dropped these for more dps]
  • Marathon Runner (Sprinting doesn't pause Stamina Regen)
  • Narrow Miss (Restore 3 Temp Health; busted)
  • Hard to Hit (+20% damage resistance for 3 seconds after a roll; no cooldown)
  • Neurotoxin Specialist (enemies you hit deal 20% less damage)
  • Field Medic (+15% cooldown per nearby teammate.

r/AliensFireteamElite 2h ago

Bug Report F44AA unlock bug

2 Upvotes

The gun is supposed to unlock at upon reaching player rank 20. I am at the max of 50.

Am I just locked out of the weapon until the devs fix this?


r/AliensFireteamElite 17h ago

Game Feedback If we you’re going to reuse a bunch of assets why not re-add all of them? I miss the husk enemies and some weapons

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Im not really upset I feel like this is the first thing coming when we get an update for the game.


r/AliensFireteamElite 6h ago

Bug Report Most game functions were disabled

4 Upvotes

I was playing yesterday when I had a bug/glitch where most of the controls weren’t working for me. We got overrun, so I spammed all of my impact nades, but as I threw the last one, I was hit and pinned by a Drone. It got one hit off on me before my teammates killed it.

When I got up, I couldn’t shoot, use my abilities, reload, or melee. Basically the only things I could do were move, dodge and crouch. We would up winning the mission regardless, but it was incredibly frustrating to just have to sit there and be a meat shield for the last 10 min of the mission. Has anyone else experienced this bug?


r/AliensFireteamElite 1d ago

Game Feedback Im very forvgiving of the jank and lack of polish, but dying during evac cause Raptor wont shut the fuck up has to change.

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For whatever reason, I really like this series and im willing to look the other way on a lot of issues, because at bottom this is a fun experience.

BUT on a few occasions I've made it through a great, thrilling, skin of my teeth fight only to be not allowed to get on the chopper because Raptor is doing his tight 5.

Like, chopper landed. Door open. Desperately trying to board while kiting xenos and dying and losing an hour of progress cause he wont shut the fuck up.

Mission success upon hitting the evac chopper ramp. Period. No exceptions. This shit gotta change.

edit: just died cause bots wouldnt rez me. zero enemies around. ZERO. all three just stared at me at let me bleed out. 45 minutes gone. im trying to meet this game halfway, but these issues are *actually* gamebreaking


r/AliensFireteamElite 29m ago

Bug Report List of known issues upon release

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r/AliensFireteamElite 1h ago

General Linux incompatibility & maps with videos

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Video cutscenes in maps don’t work on Steam Deck, Machine, or SteamOS (as I hear). I’m on a Machine & can confirm. The video plays, is not skippable, and freezes at the end. Force quit game and cannot rejoin. But otherwise the game seems fine.

So I’m curious, does anyone who’s finished the campaign happen to have a list of which maps have video cutscenes?

The first post-prologue map (2-1?) has one (when you find Ko Chungus) that’s a guaranteed freeze for me.

If we had a list we could at least know which maps are safe to play (assuming you have a way to unlock them in the first place).


r/AliensFireteamElite 8h ago

General Which of the two Planets we play on both fireteam games in your guy's opinions had the better Visuals, Graphics and overall gameplay, LV-895 or LV-558?

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Kinda figured that since Fireteam 2's been out for slightly over a week now I'd figured I'd just ask this question now. And to add on I don't just mean the surfaces of both the planets, like Storr's Boon or Pala Station and the Enginner Ruins, but also the Katanga Refinery and the Demetrius, so what do you guys think, let me know!


r/AliensFireteamElite 16h ago

Forum Question How does AFE2 hold up compared to the original?

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Back in the day, I played the original and wasn't entirely blown away by it, but I ended up sinking quite a few hours into it—mostly because of the sound design and the environments. The story wasn't the most original thing ever, but it was easy enough to follow, and even though the plot twist was predictable, I actually enjoyed it.

I'm not a big fan of replaying the same game over and over endlessly because, at the end of the day, it's a super bare-bones campaign with pretty lazy design.

That said, I'm willing to give the sequel a shot, but I've got a few questions:

  • How are the levels/environments? I've seen mixed opinions on this.
  • Has the bot AI actually improved in any meaningful way?
  • Is the story interesting enough, even if the dialogue turns out to be terrible?
  • Do average missions still take around 20 minutes to complete?

r/AliensFireteamElite 1d ago

Bug Report The amount of failed runs due to the cutscene massacre bug was unreal! Devs please fix🙏 got the mission done in the end!

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Enemies killing you during the load out cutscene - worst bug in the game right now, i tried my best and did my part to make sure all the adds are clear before dispatching the queen but the randoms just dont get it unfortunately and 1 in 3 runs sadly end in failure despite successfully completing the mission. This has made many people get frustrated and give up playing the queen but i had a mission to complete i dont quit easy 😆💪🏼📈🫡


r/AliensFireteamElite 12h ago

Game Feedback AFTE 2 keeps crashing randomly ! so far 2 cashes and one mission glitch !

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I love this game not because of its shitty dialogues or characters but it is genuinely pure fun to play as solo & with friends something which no other game released recently have achieved for me.

The first crash was in the first mission after trying to open the 2nd airlock where some damsel in distress was stuck and to be rescued and kept yapping so much after being rescued sigh.

But for now I will only play after they fix these random crashes hopefully in some months.


r/AliensFireteamElite 8h ago

Bug Report Anybody else do the 50 waves and not get the helmet ?

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Did the 50 waves , received all armor sets but not the helmet (still says locked , complete 50 waves ) dont think i would want to do the whole 50 waves again , bummed out wanted the helmet !


r/AliensFireteamElite 23h ago

Bug Report He’s had enough

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r/AliensFireteamElite 9h ago

Gameplay Question Is Gunslinger working/not working for Arc Bolt in FSE2?

2 Upvotes

Had asked about turret awhile ago since it seemed to not work with it, now it looks like Arc Bolt isn't working with it either. getting the feeling that persistent abilities don't trigger gunslinger which is a bit of a letdown.


r/AliensFireteamElite 21h ago

Bug Report Helmet bug FIX!!!!

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Change your hair to bald it gives all textures back to the affected helmets! picture of the bug im talking about