Focus Home Interactive recently released Cold Iron’s Aliens Fireteam Elite, and the first mods for it have appeared online. So, today we present you two mods that add Subsurface Scattering, HBAO, better Volumetric Fog, “Whole Screen Shadows” and a FOV.
The first graphical mod comes from ‘Xayjyn’ and introduces numerous new graphics effects. This appears to be a must-have mod as it will noticeably improve the game’s visuals. At the end of the article you can find some screenshots from it.
Here are all its graphical enhancements:
- Subsurface Scattering. Why this was disabled is a mystery, as even on consoles it’s pretty much free.
- ACES Tonemapping. One has to guess they simply wanted a more “classic game” look with the supplied tonework and color space. With blasting reds and Brown and Gray everywhere. No thank you. Also if you need to fix AA, why are you running AA at all.
- True Volumetric Fog. 2D is now 2.5D; yes it’s more atmospheric, and yes it will hella block your vision if you’re at the right angle.
- Screen Space Color Matched Shading. Goes with the ACES for neato shading on all those slat covered light walls. Spoooky.
- HBAO.The fanciest of AOs. No more weird gray halos.
- Whole Screen Shadows. Pretty self-explanatory
The second mod comes from ‘gladias9’ and introduces Smart Human Companions, Extended Camera FOV, New Class Loadouts and Increased Corpse Limits.
You can download these mods from here and here. Theoretically, these mods should be compatible.
Lastly, make sure to read our PC Performance Analysis.
Have fun (and kudos to our reader ‘darks‘ for the heads up)!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
There is a reason why it looked so cheap in trailers.
They should have added RTX support. The game looks terrible.
Use the SSR shader paired with reshade. Since the levels are pretty closed and claustrophobic the effect will do a big favor.
https://github.com/martymcmodding/qUINT/archive/refs/heads/master.zipok thanks, ive tested it. game still looks like old crap to me.
Haven’t tried it but it seems they went for gameplay > gfx and its kind of refreshing considering way to many great gfx wise titles are so darn hollow when it comes to gameplay…
Have you even played the game? because I’m telling you right now, the game is far from old. You clearly don’t know what your talking about.
I don’t know what people are playing on, but on my rig with a 3070 this game is gorgeous.
Absolutely !! This game looks wonderful, best looking game of 2010
Haven’t tried it but it seems they went for gameplay > gfx and its kind of refreshing considering way to many great gfx wise titles are so darn hollow when it comes to gameplay.
Game looks less plasticky and more real. Good job modders. Now if we can get a mod where the lips move in line with the dialogue, that would be another feather in the cap.
Game is boring after one completion.