Worth buying after patch?

[Cesco]

Hello ladies & gents,

Heard this game had great potential but had some issues and bugs at release so I was a little hesitant to buy and try this game.
I've read there's been a first patch for now so my question would be. Is the game any fun and/or sound enough with the patch fix to spend my money on?

I don't necessarily love real time strategy games for the sake of being real time strategy games but I do like Alien and its lore.
What would your advice be?

Kind regards!

[DropShot]

I thought it was worth it, even with the bugs. Although, i have to admit i didn't run into any of the soft-locking bugs people were having, i can see that being very annoying.

[Flinz]

I agree. It was worth even before second larger bug fix patch. I also haven't faced any progress halting bugs but I can understand those being very nerving. Still some bugs to splat but hopefully eventually even those will be gone.

I would not call it rts game but tactical action game. One of those real time board game types.

[lynchie72]

It's a classic. The bugs are disappointing given the quality of the game. I haven't encountered any bugs so far that have blocked progress. Mainly a bit of jank and graphical glitches.

[Narisomo]

It still has bugs that aren’t fixed since release. Today I had:
- Save room didn’t work.
- Game crashed (wonderful in combination with the last point).
- Soldier disappeared during mission (startet with 5, then only had 4, no one died; disappeared completely even in the display).
- Soldier freezes while opening ammo crades (reload save game).
- Command points stopped refreshing.
- Aliens stuck in one area.

The mission (Montero) was somehow completely broken. It wasn’t like that on my first run.

So far, most of the mistakes have been merely annoying. You can play the game, but you should forget about anything like Iron Man, the game is too buggy for that. It seems that the developers do not have their code under control. Too bad, because the game has some fresh ideas and it is a good alien game by design.

[Brenry]

i bought it on patch and was miserable experience dealing with game breaking bugs just on lvl 1. Most of the threads I read through were people who stalled progression well into the game and shelved their saves due to more bugs added.

I ended up refunding the game and getting into Baldur's Gate 3 instead. Aliens is something i would love to explore at a later date, but it's far from ironed out. Just look at feedback on developer Tindalos Interactive previous title, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. Same situation they ended up abandoning it after plenty of buyers pleading a working game.

[AlexTheRussian]

Experience will vary apparently for everyone. The only bug I encountered through the entire play-through is scripted event in the ship occurs regardless of your actions. It's well known to be a bug, but it doesn't impact the game in any major way (delay of 1 day).

Otherwise, the infamous cape for recon has been there, but if you are the kind of person who can't enjoy a game because some has Dr. Strange's cape, you probably gotta stop pooping in your own cereal every morning.

Otherwise this game is to Aliens movie what Alien: Isolation was to the Alien movie. Phenomenal for lovers of the universe.

[Team Triss]

Oh hey it's that guy. I know that guy.

It's still a bit buggy. I've only really encountered one major bug on my playthrough; the infamous "shoot everything on sight" bug. I was able to get around it but I wasted a bunch of resources doing so. Hopefully that's finally patched out soon.

It's a mixed bag. If you're familiar with Tindalos titles, it's their normal "pretty well done but here's some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics for good measure" thrown in. A lot of the missions are really fun, tense, satisfying, but some of them are like dragging your ♥♥♥♥ through broken glass.

I'm about to finish it and I think I'm happy. Don't think there's too much in the way of replayability right now; there's no NG+ as far as I know, and I really don't want to replay certain parts of it anyway.

Probably worth getting on sale but if you like Aliens it's pretty good. It's definitely more stealth focused than the trailers and marketing material let on, though. You want to remain unseen for as long as possible.

[ABBAJESUS]

Don't. I played it and can't evacuate. 2 hours of progress gone... I'm not gonna start again because there's a chance it will happen again... Needs more patches.

[RogueStriker]

I just got to the third mission and have not run into any bugs. Game kind of reminds me of a real time XCOM with all the extra management. The art, sound and atmosphere are all spot on for the universe.

[lukas.meidl]

I have finished game on PS4. Got the game right after it was released. I have encountered plenty of bugs (some probably will not apply to PC version). Overall I have enjoyed the game despite the bugs. And mind you some bugs only get fixes after you start the game again from new save, since the maps are persistent.
I would buy the game now, since it seems like majority of the bugs have been sorted out. But my first playthrough was bit pain and I would not buy game on launch again. Since it seems to be the rule that games are getting released in messed up state.

[Cesco]

Thanks for the feedback, you guys! :-)

[Witch ~]

ITS THE BEST GAME THIS YEAR I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOVE IT

I would 100% it but some achievement are a bit too annoying to do

[Skyline5gtr]

Wait it out still too many bugs for a single player game

[Mithrandir]

The game is playable but it is still very buggy.
I have ended the campaign on Normal in July. Started a new campaign after August the 1st patch to take a look.

Game is still super buggy with the interactive objects and pick up items in the map.
I dropped my gameplay with the game still in this state.

If the developers fix all that annoying bugs, the game is great for it's genere. But nowadays, its full of very frustrating bugs.

Very common in almost every game published by Focus. Red flag folks.

[Sirvival]

every steam forum has bug complainersgame works, ignore the bug cry babies