Now that the dust has settled, is this a good game?

yes but it needed some dlc packs for more missions and ayys

Dusty old bones full of green dust

>>714466872
what do you mean by that

3/10 DEI shit for the first hour
10/10 holding off xeno waves with smart guns and sentries thereafter

>>714466783 (OP)
It's a good game but needed the devs to read over the fucking Colonial Marines Technical Manual to learn what shit is available to the USCM.
They have fan-fiction firearms when the manual has a whole lineup for use.

>>714468564
Like what?
Not being a dick, genuinely curious

Gameplay is ok, story is uber woke shit.

>>714466783 (OP)
it nails the Aliens atmosphere quite fell and setting up killzones to counter hordes is fun
what is not fun is the shitty story and the game shoving humans as enemies in the middle of the game, it's still a solid 7/10 though

The Wey Yu city and tower should have been the last mission tbqhwy sempai

Yes, it's great.
You can also tell that the giant aliens at the end are the developer's way of dodging senile old man Ridley Scott's stupid Engineer nonsense to explain the Space Jockeys.

My main criticisms are that the marine customization is kinda shit and the graphics are sometimes bad when you zoom in too close.
Also I would prefer that the marines gain XP for actually fighting xenos instead of just clearing missions. Give me the option to grind a little.

>>714468820
You should try reading the Technical Manual.
Good example is the LMG version of the Pulse Rifle which uses a big L shaped magazine.

>>714466783 (OP)
story sucks and it feels like they were afraid to go full tactical because of normies

>>714471708
>Also I would prefer that the marines gain XP for actually fighting xenos instead of just clearing missions. Give me the option to grind a little.
You do actually gain bonuses for killing 'elite' tier enemies, which spawn with the murder-waves. So for every mission you should try to get maxxed aggression at the end and use your APC to grind them all down.

>>714466783 (OP)
2woke4me

>>714469006
i got the same feeling from it hence why i never bought it
how bad is the woke stuff?

>>714466783 (OP)
I really appreciated that this game treated Queens like a special unit type and not “la big bad final boss”, it was refreshing to see, kinda just wanted another mode after the campaign for more scenarios either random sandbox missions or challenges

>>714471997
Oh like crushers and prateorians and stuff? I didn't notice that. Thanks.

>>714466783 (OP)
can you costumize all your units look, gender and voices or are you stuck with randomely generated characters?

>>714472234
You can customize them, but either because of the stylized artstyle or sheer lack of pretty people in the lives of the devs, all the customization possibilities and NPCs look atrocious. I guess it's to drive home the idea that the world is a crapshoot and pretty people don't thrive in it.

>>714472047
>yfw the queen in the mine in the 1st mission
>yfw there's a queen every mission

>>714472608
as long as I can make an all white male squad and most voices don't sound faggy I am ok

>>714472779
Yes, you can. At the end of the day, it's a great game regardless of how ugly the characters can be. I really hope we get another one.

>>714466783 (OP)
shit

>>714468564
The TM is as not canon as the comics, so the developers can do whatever they want. Also, the giant snake alien at the end is dumb: how can a facehugger designed to hug human-sized heads going to do it to a giant? At least the hockey/engineer is just a little bigger.

>>714466783 (OP)
Yeah. Wish it had an expansion or something. Only issue is that once you figure out a proper stun-shotgun loop and have high enough troopers you have kinda beaten the game, since while the slowmo makes the game less of a struggle with controls, it also eats a lot of the challenge. Also, stealth snipers can make pretty easily sure that you never have unscripted horde events.

>>714475457
The TM is the single best written piece of Aliens lore since...Aliens.
As far as I am concerned it's the highest order of canon aside from the first two films.

>>714475457
Did you miss the point where you sneak past the giant eggs and the bad guy talks about how they are meant for other beings than humans?

Fact: Scott-lore still dominates all the comic book shit in quality.

>>714475665
I haven't played the game, only watched the ending cutscene on Youtube.

>>714476876
Based retard.

>>714475575
Damn, how do you recover from that sight?

>>714466783 (OP)
It is but the lack of enemy types is its main flaw. They could have added some crazy xenomorphs like the gorilla morphs or dragonfly morphs from the konami arcade games.

>>714477294

>>714477683
What? Do you hate having fun?

>>714471948
Wasn't that the Heavy Pulse Rifle, then?
Also, it is the first Alien game I can think of that actually featured the plasma rifle.

>>714466783 (OP)
I really liked it up until the point where they started having you fight humans or robots with guns I don't remember. I also remember them doing some weird "character's daughter is the key to all this" and dropped it at that point.

>>714472672
>first spoiler
That was peak OH SHIT moment, because you don't have the tool kit available to really take the fight to them.
Ran like crazy trying to create roadblocks.

>>714466783 (OP)
Pros:
FVN like genuinely enjoyable, atmosphere carried this game the hardest, nice variation to missions, mission aggression stats snd overall timer does good job at building tension
>Cons
A.I will cheat, deliberately beelining even if you're hidden, you cannot finish mission in unorthodox way(mission demands you unleash xenomorps against automated defenses, even if you complete the objective without them, they will still spawn), game encourages placing beacons for pings everywhere, post mission hangar and overall narrative is dull, ending is just copy paste of the originals
7.5/10

>>714477981
Nah the heavy pulse rifle in the game is just fanfiction nonsense.
That's why I'm upset, they literally have a canonical weapon to use.

>>714466783 (OP)
I thought it was great. Shame they abandoned it. Hope we get another or some other dev poaches the combat.

>>714477781
Based, I always had a thing for the Kenner flying queen.

>>714475457
If you actually played the game you would know that is explained you dumb fucking shit

>>714475665
Yes because he never played it and is looking to find an excuse to hate this good alien entry because of contrarian /v/aggotry