Aliens: Colonial Marines - Out Now

[sukraj]

Originally Posted by Insomniac01

Word of advice stay far, far away.

Yeah stay well away

[Blu-rob77]

When is more awsome dlc coming out haha.

[Ill_Be_Back]

The game is an unfinished mess, not even worth £5.00 of my money...

[Derb]

Originally Posted by sukraj

Yes lol u should give it a try u got nothing to lose bruv.

I beg to differ, HDD space.

[sukraj]

Originally Posted by Derb

I beg to differ, HDD space.

If he has the game he might as well play it lol.

[ariakon]

To be fair, unfinished mess that the game was, I still liked it more than Metroid: Other M. Main reason I may never own a WiiU, right there. Aliens was a brick-ton of blah bordering on terrible, but it didn't punch my nostalgia in the eye. So there are worse games I've bought.

[Steve]

I just finished playing through the campaign. Overall I didn't think it was nearly as bad as everyone said it was. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it was great either. Ultimately for me it felt like I was playing an old game. I thought the story was decent enough as far as shooters go. The graphics aren't on par with current top scale games and neither was the AI. It also had little glitches here and there I didn't like. I kept feeling like I was playing an old Xbox or PS2 game. The only real difference I saw between games of that era and now is that in this game you could bring your weapon up and use the sights instead of just shooting from the hip all the time. If this had come out back around the time of Halo or Doom 3 I think people would have thought it was amazing, but for it to have been released so far into the Xbox360/PS3 life cycle it was something of a letdown. Overall I give it a 6.5.

[Mavrick]

Hate to revive a dead thread but this news is just too good to not post.

It turns out the atrocious Xeno AI was down to a single letter typo in a string of code! You really couldn't make this up, it took 5 years to find and it was a modder that discovered it....

A new update will be coming soon with this change included, however after getting reports back from several players on how much this effects the game, I just had to post it now

Inside your games config file (My Document\My Games\Aliens Colonial Marines\PecanGame\Config\PecanEngine.ini) is the following line of code :

ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToT ether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTeather

Im sure you'll notice the spelling mistake

ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToT ether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTether

If you fix it to look like the above and then play the game, the difference is pretty crazy!

Why is this line important? There are two reasons :
1) AttachXenoToTeather doesn't do anything. Its basically empty or stripped
2) AttachPawnToTether does ALOT. It controls tactical position adjustment, patrolling and target zoning

When a Xeno is spawned, it is attached to a zone tether. This zone tells the Xeno what area is its fighting space and where different exits are. In Combat, a Xeno will be forced to switch to a new tether (such as one behind you) so as to flank, or disperse so they aren't so grouped up etc. (*disclaimer* this is inferred opinion, I cant see the actual code only bits)

Whenever the game tried to do this, nothing happened. Now it does!

PC Gamer posted comparison videos.

https://www.pcgamer.com/all-this-tim...a-single-typo/

[TheZoof]

Yeah - I read that last week. I gave it a try on my PC version and it did improve game play.

Still not a great game but definitely could have been a little more popular with that setting.

I will return to Alien Isolation as the best Alien game of the past 5 years.


AVP2 for all time.

[Spidey Blu]

I wish we were getting a sequel to Isolation. One of the best licensed games of all time.