Aliens Fireteam

[millais]

You spend two thirds of an Aliens game fighting humans, that's how bad it was.

Speaking of which, there is a brief snippet of the trailer that shows the marines shooting it out with what look like combat synthetics/androids exhibiting the bog standard "stay behind cover and pop out to take a potshot or switch cover" AI.

Having more enemy NPC variety is generally good I think, but definitely reminded me of those PMCs in ACM.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I mean, you can justify an ending by thinking that she died in the black hole of space and the company covered up her death. It's very plausible. How they would continue off of that in a sequel would be retarded. Does a passing craft happen to spot her -a tiny insignificant dot- in the void of space just before her air depletes? What about the chestbuster -Are they going to steal from Alien 3 and make it a Queen and that's why it took longer for it to burst out of her but have no fear they surgically removed it in time to start the outbreak all over again.

I think you're forgetting something about the ending, just before it cuts to credits you see a light shining on her implying a ship picked her up, but who exactly and why they were there is not explained.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Why would they lie about that? As it is her daughter is like 60-70 at that point, and it would be believable to ripley that she is dead.

Why wouldn't they? It's the fucking company. Are they going to say "Oh yeah, your daughter died in her mid 20's under mysterious circumstances." Fuck no.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Why wouldn't they? It's the fucking company. Are they going to say "Oh yeah, your daughter died in her mid 20's under mysterious circumstances." Fuck no.

There's literally zero reason to assume she dies, we don't see her die, we see her floating in space, then we see a light shining on her which clearly implies she was about to get picked up.

Why would they kill her off? Why would they not hope to be able to make a sequel with the same character assuming the game was a smash hit? Why make that harder for yourself for no real reason?

 

[BrunoMattei]

Disregarding theory-fighting. I have heard that, like Back 4 Blood, this will have a card system... The card system changes variables such as only headshots will do damage and things like that.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Well, in the game's favor its main competiton(Back4Blood) looks pretty shitty.

The game that could be a spoiler though is Evil Dead.

Edit: Gameplay walkthrough

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZco0Da52K0

The fireteam is only three players. Not liking that.

 

[Judge Dredd]

The fireteam is only three players.

Good.

These kinds of co-op games always played out the same, for me anyway. It would be me and one friend, and then a third would see us playing and join. 4 player was always rare, and when it did happen it would only last a round or two before real life got in the way for someone.

Well, in the game's favor its main competiton(Back4Blood) looks pretty shitty.

Back 4 Blood doesn't look that bad. It looks very generic though, which could be said about Left 4 Dead in hindsight. My biggest concern is it'll go the way of other games like Earthfall and be stuck in limbo with no one playing because no one is playing it. Which won't be helped if they do what they did with Evolve and Payday 2 fill it up to it's neck in microtransactions.

If B4B does shit itself, then it's biggest competition will be either Vermintide 3 or Deeprock Galactic.

 

[SiccDicc]

Well, in the game's favor its main competiton(Back4Blood) looks pretty shitty.

The game that could be a spoiler though is Evil Dead.

Edit: Gameplay walkthrough

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZco0Da52K0

The fireteam is only three players. Not liking that.

So is Outriders, what the fuck is going on? Are they scared that 4 means death in China?

 

[Marissa Moira]

So is Outriders, what the fuck is going on? Are they scared that 4 means death in China?

It's easier to co-ordinate. Monster Hunter World allows for four people but most go in groups of 2 and 3.

if co-op is required this means sitting around waiting for the other dudes to get ready or to come back.

 

[millais]

I'm sure the squad size is for gameplay reasons, but it is definitely contradicting the lore. I looked in the Technical Manual, and USCM squads are supposed to be 4-man groupings, comprised of a 2-man Rifle Team and 2-man (smart) Gun Team.

Spoiler: diagrams and text from Technical Manual

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm sure the squad size is for gameplay reasons, but it is definitely contradicting the lore. I looked in the Technical Manual, and USCM squads are supposed to be 4-man groupings, comprised of a 2-man Rifle Team and 2-man (smart) Gun Team.

Spoiler: diagrams and text from Technical Manual

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Hey buddy, did you see that nerd?

 

[SiccDicc]

It's easier to co-ordinate. Monster Hunter World allows for four people but most go in groups of 2 and 3.

if co-op is required this means sitting around waiting for the other dudes to get ready or to come back.

Then make the fourth a bot or some shit, I mean Aliens has Lance Henriksen ready and willing to reprise his role as AI comrade. Monster Hunter World also scales the hunts by how many people are in the group, you can go four, or you can go solo, it's built around how many you have and they also finally fixed the steroid abuse after someone disconnects. No more HP increase for that fucker, he loses based on how many disconnected.

This just seems like a lazy excuse to me.

"Oh, they'd never go full four anyways. You never go full four."
"I might want to..."
"NEVER. FULL. FOUR."

 

[BrunoMattei]

Then make the fourth a bot or some shit, I mean Aliens has Lance Henriksen ready and willing to reprise his role as AI comrade. Monster Hunter World also scales the hunts by how many people are in the group, you can go four, or you can go solo, it's built around how many you have and they also finally fixed the steroid abuse after someone disconnects. No more HP increase for that fucker, he loses based on how many disconnected.

This just seems like a lazy excuse to me.

"Oh, they'd never go full four anyways. You never go full four."
"I might want to..."
"NEVER. FULL. FOUR."

Do you like to watch and/or participate in foursomes?

 

[SiccDicc]

Do you like to watch and/or participate in foursomes?

Only way I can get it up, unfortunately.

 

[Love Machine]

Looks like they have a boomer, and hunter, a tank, and a spitter. Drone seems a bit redundant.

 

[SiccDicc]

Looks like they have a boomer, and hunter, a tank, and a spitter. Drone seems a bit redundant.

Well, canonically and apparently each "strain" of Xenomorph has an evolution where they reach a final stage. Like Pokemon.

I'm not kidding.

 

[Love Machine]

Well, canonically and apparently each "strain" of Xenomorph has an evolution where they reach a final stage. Like Pokemon.

I'm not kidding.

The only life cycle I know about that is """canon""" goes face hugger->warrior->praetorian->queen and everyone else just gets cucked. What are you referring to?

 

[SiccDicc]

The only life cycle I know about that is """canon""" goes face hugger->warrior->praetorian->queen and everyone else just gets cucked. What are you referring to?

Runners > Sentries > Crusher

 

[Love Machine]

Runners > Sentries > Crusher

what a cluster fuck.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Unfortunately, it's not going to have PVP Alien VS Marine mode. Huge, colossal, epic missed opportunity. Just wow. I'm shocked. Even Colonial Marines had a PVP mode. Fucking Colonial Marines. Every single AVP game for PC had a PVP mode and yes, even the 2010 game.

This is an easy skip for me and it's sad because it looked good despite the 3 player limitation. Not to mention faggots are defending this by saying it wouldn't be balanced and it's clear they never played the other AVP games because they were never balanced but they were fun as fuck.