So ive seen a couple reviews mentioning the game only has 5 missions.

the game has a list of what looks like 5 missions. when you unlock them, its 5 chapters with 3 missions each. the game actually has 15 missions not 5

as far as the gameplay itself goes its basically the first game with some more customization, 4P coop and more enemy variety. havent had any bugs, no issues with online playing with friends though it IS p2p so that will vary depending on who you match with.

is it perfect? no its not. but if you liked the first one youll like the second.

Edit: as other reviewers said there is some stuttering noticeable when you open objective doors or advance into new story segments. feels like the game only loads each map segment as you go through or something.

When I bought Alien: Fireteam Elite 2, I expected to hunt bugs.

The developers, however, have generously introduced an entirely new faction:

game bugs.

And unfortunately, they may be the most dangerous enemy in the game.


Are the dialogues corny?

Yes.

Is the story particularly strong?

Not especially.

Do I care?

Honestly, no.

I did not arrive expecting Shakespeare in space. I came here to shoot enormous quantities of Xenomorphs, dismantle hostile robots and generally contribute to a substantial reduction in the local extraterrestrial population.

The problem is that the game occasionally seems determined to prevent me from doing even that.

And if I weren't already a huge Alien fan, I genuinely don't think I would touch this thing with a ten-foot stick.


Well.

Please take a seat:

- Some perks simply don't work.
Others work perfectly well until you decide to play online with other human beings, at which point they
occasionally appear to reconsider their contractual obligations.

- The new Horde mode is particularly impressive.
Not mechanically.
Administratively.
Rewards don't always work properly, and progression appears to stop at Wave 50.
Reach Wave 55 and the game can replace the rewards you previously earned with... nothing.
Which is certainly one way of encouraging players to push themselves.
“Congratulations on exceeding expectations. We have removed your salary.”
An innovative motivational system.

- Then we have the classes.
Theoretically, different classes should provide different strengths, abilities and reasons to experiment.
In practice, some abilities are so weak that using them feels less like combat and more like making a
suggestion.
Meanwhile, the Specialist can access perks from every class.
At which point one begins to question why the other classes have attended the meeting.
If one class is allowed to wander through everybody else's perk trees collecting whatever it likes, class
identity becomes somewhat ceremonial.


- You cannot interact with or pick up certain things unless your weapon is completely reloaded.
Why?
I have no idea.
Apparently opening a box while possessing seventeen rounds instead of twenty is beyond the physical
capabilities of a Colonial Marine.

- There is no text chat.
An interesting choice for a cooperative online game in the year 2026.
Perhaps communication was judged to provide an unfair advantage?


- The game can freeze and eject everyone except the host.
Fine.
Things happen.
You would naturally assume there is an option to rejoin the lobby.
There isn't.
So if the game itself removes you from your friends' session, it will then stand at the door and calmly
explain that readmission is not company policy.
Excellent.

- The enemies have also developed several abilities which I don't remember from the films.
Xenomorphs can become trapped inside walls.
Others disappear beneath the map.
Elite Xenos occasionally teleport around when moving quickly enough.
I originally assumed this was lag.
Eventually I concluded that Weyland-Yutani has apparently succeeded in weaponising quantum
mechanics.

- There are also sections of the campaign where you can simply fall through the floor and die instantly.
No enemy required.
The architecture itself has joined the hunt.

- Even the statistics menu is unreliable.
Lifetime statistics don't always calculate correctly.
Some weapon-stat sections are incomplete.
Precision weapons appear to have been forgotten entirely in places.
Which is oddly appropriate, considering precision also appears to have been omitted from portions of
the game's development.


Shooting Xenomorphs is fun.

Building characters is fun.

The basic idea works.

When everything behaves itself, you occasionally catch glimpses of exactly the game I wanted.

Then somebody falls through the floor, a perk stops functioning, an Elite Xeno teleports across the room, the lobby collapses and Horde mode decides that your rewards have become theoretical.

And we begin again.

I could continue listing problems.

Quite comfortably, actually.

But I suspect we all have responsibilities.

Final verdict

At the moment, my recommendation is simple:

wait.

Not for a small discount.

I'm talking 70–80% off territory.

Even if you're a major Alien fan, I would wait until the developers have had time to fix the game.

And considering the current size of the player base, my greater concern is whether they will be given enough time to do so before support begins quietly disappearing.

There is a genuinely enjoyable cooperative shooter buried inside Alien: Fireteam Elite 2.

Unfortunately, at present, retrieving it requires fighting through rather more bugs than advertised.

And none of them bleed acid.

I was a huge fan of the first game, so I'm surprised and disappointed that Fireteam Elite 2 released in such an unpolished state. The gameplay is mostly executed well, but the literal bugs need to be fixed ASAP:

* characters/enemies sliding around
* doors locking characters out from progressing forward in levels
* random controls getting disabled (vaulting, picking up items, etc.)
* missions refusing to load after everyone readies up
* lack of true drop-in

Happy to change my review to something more positive once the issues are addressed.