Aliens Fireteam Elite releases on August 24th and Cold Iron Studios has detailed its day-1 update. According to the team, this first patch will a Horde Mode to the game.
Additionally, it will bring some optimizations improvements. As the team claims, this patch will have GPU/CPU optimizations and performance improvements for PC. Moreover, it will pack environment and lighting visual improvements across all campaigns.
As with most day-1 patches, this one will be applied automatically to the game when it comes out. Below you can also find its complete changelog.
Aliens Fireteam Elite Day-One Update Release Notes
New Features
- Horde Mode
- Horde mode is in! Complete the campaign and then talk to Shipp back on the Endeavor to open up this new gameplay mode.
Kits, Weapons, and Combat
- Balance and difficulty pass for all difficulty levels.
- “Park’s Store” pricing adjustments.
Enemies and Encounters
- Xenomorph AI and pathing improvements
- Population adjustments for multiple campaigns.
Content and Environments
- Balance and difficulty pass for all difficulty levels.
- Additional Polish and bug fixing for the end escape sequence in the final mission of “The Only Way to Be Sure” campaign.
- Targeted GPU/CPU optimizations and performance improvements for PC and all console platforms.
- Environment and lighting visual improvements across all campaigns.
- Numerous environment and lighting bug fixes across all campaigns.
General
- Gameplay and GPU Optimizations
- Matchmaking stability and bug fixing
- AI Teammate bug fixing and improvements Localization
- Support added for:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Czech
- Polish
- Korean