Aliens: Fireteam Elite Gets A Quality-Of-Life Update As Its Devs Confirm Work On A New Game
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is experiencing a bit of a content drought this past year, with the last update dropping in April and in February before that. Understandably, this has caused concern among the co-op shooter’s playerbase, especially since player numbers have dropped considerably since the game’s launch in October 2021.
As if on cue, developer Cold Iron Studios rolled out a patch, albeit a small one, for the PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch versions yesterday, with the same patch expected to roll out on Xbox later today. It’s probably not as big of an update as the community would have wanted, but it does come with a handful of welcome quality-of-life improvements, including updates to AI behavior and fixes for queue issues, host errors, disconnects, crossplay, crashes, and other matchmaking problems.
The studio also announced that its begun full development on a new title, which is more than likely the reason for the content drought. The unannounced game is being backed by Daybreak’s parent company, Enad Global 7.
There’s an interesting bit of backstory here as Daybreak had acquired Cold Iron Studios in August 2020 just a few months before it was itself bought out by EG7 in December of the same year. For some reason or other, Cold Iron wasn’t included in the deal. While EG7 has agreed to support Cold Iron’s next game, it still has no plans to buy the studio and reincorporate it into the Daybreak umbrella.
Our first big Quality Of Life update is here, fireteam! We’re addressing a bunch of common community requests, including:
🔸AI partner improvements
🔸Steam Community Items
🔸Matchmaking improvementsCheck the patch notes for a full intel drop.https://t.co/cYfhztPjzy pic.twitter.com/dUzVpIst7b
— Aliens: Fireteam Elite (@AliensFireteamE) October 24, 2023
