{"id":196,"date":"2024-11-17T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=196"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:53:39","slug":"aliens-fireteam-elite-tech-review-do-the-jitterbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Aliens: Fireteam Elite tech review \u2014 Do the jitterbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p><em>Aliens: Fireteam Elite\u00a0<\/em>has finally made landfall, leaving thousands of swarming bug-like creatures straight to our PCs. The game is noticeably not a AAA title, but it still has some power to display. The Xenomorphs themselves can animate goofily and glitch in and out of existence from time to time, but this is a respectable version of the game, and I noticed few large bugs (pun not intended) and had no crashes during my time with it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a loot at the game\u2019s specs before we move on.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bb_ul\">\n<li><strong>CPU:<\/strong>\u00a0AMD Athlon X4 950 \/ Intel i5-2500K<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM:<\/strong> 8 GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU:<\/strong>\u00a0AMD R9 285 4GB \/ Nvidia GTX 760 4GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bb_ul\">\n<li><strong>CPU:<\/strong>\u00a0AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF \/ Intel i5-7400<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM:<\/strong> 16 GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU:<\/strong>\u00a0AMD RX 480 8GB \/ Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reviewer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bb_ul\">\n<li><strong>CPU:<\/strong> AMD 2600x<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM:<\/strong> 16 GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU:<\/strong> AMD RX 5700XT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are far from demanding requirements, as you can see. They are somewhat misleading, though, as they\u2019re both strictly for 1080p. At 1440p and max graphics, I tended to get around 75-90 fps in most situations. I rarely got temporary dips into the 40s, but the fps is pretty consistent here. As I said before, I didn\u2019t have a single crash during my time with <em>Aliens: Fireteam<\/em> <em>Elite<\/em>, although I did see a fair amount of disconnections after attempting to continue onto the next mission with my team. One or more of them would simply lose their connection with me, forcing us to regroup back at base.<\/p>\n<p>Next, let\u2019s look at the game\u2019s graphics options.<\/p>\n<h2>Involve yourself within my dreams<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210824043502_1-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"20210824043502 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No Surprises here. Yes, we\u2019ve got borderless at the very least, but the game doesn\u2019t appear to currently support ultrawide monitors. The framerate can be locked up to 120, but anything above that will require you to switch to unlimited. There\u2019s image sharpening, but I\u2019m not sure what it uses to do this. The same can be said about the game\u2019s anti-aliasing, which goes up to 16x. There are no more than three settings for textures and shadows, so there isn\u2019t a massive amount of leeway for getting your frames up by messing with those. Here are some comparison shots of everything using one of <em>Aliens: Fireteam Elite<\/em>\u2018s few bright, outdoor areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/texture-quality-low-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Texture Quality Low\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texture Quality Low.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Texture-quality-high-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Texture Quality High\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texture Quality High.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/shadow-quality-low-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow Quality Low\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shadow Quality Low.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/shadow-quality-high-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow Quality High\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shadow Quality High.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AA-off-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Aa Off\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AA Off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AA-max-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Aa Max\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AA Max.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ambient-occlusion-off-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Ambient Occlusion Off\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambient Occlusion Off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ambient-occlusion-on-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Ambient Occlusion On\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambient Occlusion On.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-sharpening-off-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Image Sharpening Off\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Sharpening Off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-sharpening-on-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Image Sharpening On\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-285661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Sharpening On.<\/p>\n<p>As you can (hopefully) see, there are some noticeable differences to be found, even pared down like this. <em>Aliens: Fireteam Elite\u00a0<\/em>is a good-looking game overall, at least from a technical standpoint. The aforementioned wonky Xenomorphs will often flail and behave strangely. Sometimes they\u2019ll teleport randomly or fall through floors. But there are hundreds of them in each level, so this isn\u2019t the most surprising thing in the world. Next, let\u2019s look at controls.<\/p>\n<h2>Keep your soul<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210824044104_1-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"20210824044104 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Controls are a mostly standard assortment. Aim ramping and analog acceleration are nice to have for people who don\u2019t feel like aiming precisely despite playing a PC game about shooting things, but some people also like ketchup on steak. One persistent issue I had was that having a controller plugged in would often cause the controller and keyboard icons to flicker back and forth. This was not only distracting, but made the quick-time events when escaping from enemy grabs quite difficult, as I often didn\u2019t know what keys to hit. At least all buttons on both M\/KB and gamepad are fully rebindable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210824044050_1-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"20210824044050 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210824044042_1-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"20210824044042 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. <em>Aliens: Fireteam Elite\u00a0<\/em>has a perfectly acceptable PC version, unless you\u2019ve got an ultrawide monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliens: Fireteam Elite\u00a0has finally made landfall, leaving thousands of swarming bug-like creatures straight to our PCs. The game is noticeably not a AAA title, but it still has some power to display. The Xenomorphs themselves can animate goofily and glitch in and out of existence from time to time, but this is a respectable version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[303,304,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}