Review: Aliens Colonial Marines + All DLC's and TemplarGFX overhaul mod

do you remember when gearbox was working on what was going to be the best aliens games ever made do you remember the screenshots the videos the interviews the marketing the hype the lies and a complete disaster when the game was finally released because I do I'm xdk and in this video I'm going to review Aliens colonial Marines and all the DLCs plus templux gfx overhaul mod but I can't make a simple review without telling the story which is aliens colonial Marines but from my perspective and I have to warn you that in this video there will be spoilers for the game and the movie Aliens and alien free so if you don't want that now is the time to head to the Escape parts and for the rest of you buckle up now the first thing that needs to be said is that I am a huge alien fan I got the movies I got the Games books and magazines alien poster alien figures alien t-shirts also for my kids heck I even got a pet Facehugger this is come here roxan so you can imagine my excitement when I learned there was a new aliens game on the way in the beginning it was just a couple of screenshots with a description saying that it would be a four-player co-op and I thought to myself hey that's just like the Left 4 Dead games but with an alien skin so I was officially on board but it would be a while before we heard anything again till we got our first real teaser trailer from here on it is full steam ahead gearbox does not waste any time promoting this game they do interviews they put out videos they got people in costume which by the way got their faces kept for the multiplayer which is a nice touch they got the original alien queen from the movie Aliens on display I am so hyped for this game that I am literally losing my mind foreign take a look at this package if you look down here you can see that we have an awesome statue I'm sorry did you just show me there is a collector's edition [Music] say no more Randy I will absolutely pre-order the collector's edition [Music] and after all this is going to be the best aliens games ever made and since we know we can go through the campaign up to four players I called up my old friend and said Lord Jim pick up the phone you got by Alan Aliens colonial Marines I already pre-order it if you do the same we can go through The Campaign together you and me buddy it's gonna be great it's gonna be so bad and you can't do it and Lord Jim said okay oh and by the way Lord Jim if you're watching this I'm sorry and so we waited for release date and as we waited I watched every single video that had anything to do with this game but one vehicle I'm most interested about can we relive the experience of Ripley riding the giant exo suit at all yeah that's called a power loader and we we showed it in our demonstration and that's got a big role to play in this game um in fact a lot of the Marines like to improvise with these things once the battle starts they start welding flamethrowers and pulse rifles to the arms of the power loaders and they they actually become formidable weapons holy [ __ ] I cannot wait to start welding on weapons to my power loader now I was checking out the demo seeing the first person view of player one and I saw they kind of got eaten at the End by one of those Huger aliens you're not gonna tell me that I die within the first couple of stages right and the second player does the most of things the demonstration we showed at E3 was actually a scene from act two uh there's a lot of gameplay there and of course there's the alien queen has been introduced and you face the alien queen now we didn't show the player get eaten we just saw the alien queen get in your face what happens beyond the point where we cut the camera well that's up to you when you play the game oh I cannot wait to see how we gonna get out that one and now finally it is 12th of February 2013. it is release date and I am going down to pick up my Aliens colonial Marines collector's edition [Music] so I went to the store and said hello I'm here to pick up my pre-order Aliens colonial Marines collector's edition hmm Aliens colonial Marines collectors edition hmm yeah that's been delayed delayed for how long a week [Music] so I went home without a game and decided that I wouldn't want to watch any reviews regarding Ellen's Corona Marines I wanted my game experience to be spoiler free of course I couldn't do it so I went on the internet and well this is what I saw Aliens colonial Marines colossal colossian you can go through campaign levels without actually fighting any aliens you can Sprint past them they will literally sit there and let you run by them and the best is if you watch the credits for this game it's like five and a half minutes and when you see the amount of QA testing that was [ __ ] available based on those credits you will sit there and wonder who the [ __ ] was testing this [ __ ] [ __ ] nobody that's who okay so that's not looking good but hey maybe they aren't as big aliens fans as I am maybe I'll see past all that and just enjoy the game for what it is anyway a week goes by and I am back at the shop hey I'm here to pick up my Aliens colonial Marines collector's edition [Music] still want that yeah okay here it is and now finally I got my aliens Colony Marines collector's edition [Music] well let's open it up and see exactly what's inside the Box first an envelope classified what's this be the face of your country oh it's an enlistment flyer yeah I'll join the U.S colonial Marines United States colonial Marines this is to clarify that put in your name has satisfactionally completed colonial Marines Academy training and has graduated with honors put in the date signed by a major general Hancock yeah I'll think I'll fill this out when I have completed the game [Music] got a couple of patches they look pretty nice time to slap them on my uniform nice then we got a blueprint of the USS Sephora my new home all right here we go Mission briefing update send a two Squad Recon team Vlog I'll read it later then we got this reconnaissance pictures from Hadley's Health perimeter but what is it what is it it looks like X sir thank you private then we got the figurine a colonial marine in a power loader fighting an alien which I gotta say is um pretty damn awesome work oh then we got the inside of the box which we can put behind the figure for immersion wow it really looks like we are inside the hangar and of course the game itself but it doesn't stop there I also got some extra items for inside the game the first thing is a firing Rings where you can practice with your weapons there are also different modes you can choose from like accuracy overwhelm speed all my favorite Gallery where you have to shoot the bad guy and not the little girl with the balloons there are of course also some new weapons the first one being the phased plasma rifle or you have to charge up the shot all right let's see how it works against enemies oh this is my phased plasma pulse rifle from the collector's edition you honestly forgot I had it the fun thing about this weapon is that this is actually something Hudson mentions in the movie Aliens base plasma pulse rifles I guess now we know what it looks like speaking of Hudson I also got four characters from the movie Aliens which I can use in the multiplayer first one being Higgs looks close enough then we got Hudson where I don't quite think they capture his likeness in his face which is kind of a shame being such an iconic and character and all we got Drake looks decent enough pretty cool and a palm where I do think here the captain is likeness but I would have prefer seeing him in his combat gear but okay Sonic electronic ball Breakers another reference by Hudson [Music] Let's test it against enemies yeah I can't really make up my mind if I find the T posing stupid or hilarious additional Marine customizations not much extra here but it's fine and last but definitely not least Ripley's iconic pulse rifle taped together with a flamethrower oh don't worry you'll be seeing plenty of this gun in the rest of the video [Laughter] published by Sega and produced by nerve I mean time gate no wait gearbox to him with this many developers the game's gotta be good right like I said the game came out in 2013 on Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 windows and at the time of making this video also steam decks I'm reviewing this game on PC and just a heads up if you buy this game and start playing it make sure to go in options and remove the film brain filter it's something they put on in one of their earliest updates to well try to hide their shitty graphics yeah much better So Randy before we go on I want to say one thing to the PC players um I don't know if it's been clear the last update we did included a film grain filter some people didn't like it as much we will have an option for that rolling out within the next week yeah that's true too so cool so so believe me when I tell you this game looked a lot worse when it was released especially on Xbox there's that sister again I couldn't but I'm getting ahead of myself we will be talking more about the graphics later but first what is the plot of this game it all starts with a distress call which has been sent by Corporal Dwayne Hicks 17 weeks later the ships of Flora which are filled with Marines reaches the solaco which is now back in orbit over the moon lv-426 you play as Croco Christopher winner and when you wake up you learn that you are amongst the last ones who have been awakened from quiet sleep the rest of the Marines have already gone into the solaco and have made heavy resistance and it is now your turn to go as you move forward you will meet other surviving marines that will stick with you throughout the campaign and it doesn't all take place in the ship's solaco you will eventually get to go down to headless hope now I know I know this shouldn't be possible since headless hope blew up but I'm okay with this walking in the footsteps of the Marines from the movie Aliens is such a joy and it is easily my most favorite part of the whole game this feels a little bit like being in the movie there will also be other sites in the game which an alien fan will recognize and speaking of you will meet a surviving Marine from the movie Aliens in this game and the surviving Marine is xdk I mean couple Dwayne Hicks where the [ __ ] is [Music] back here now unconflicted about this Hicks is my most favorite character from the movie Aliens and I'm glad to see him here at the same time it's like um well he died I guess it would have made more sense if they chose a marine we didn't see die like um Hudson we saw him getting dragged under but we didn't see him get no wait a minute there he is yeah he's dead anyway when they asked Hicks about why he's alive and there the answer is that's a longer story I care about one thing taking these guys down I would love to sit here and tell you that that is the only plot hole of the game unfortunately it is just one out of many and when the game is over you will be left with more questions than answers if it wasn't obvious by now this is a first person shooter and as a colony Marine you are equipped to the teeth first you got your motion tracker for the most part it is useless since the enemies is always rushing you hit on but in that unlikely situation you don't know where to go it can point you to the next objective there are lurkers in the game as well and they will hide and then jump you it is on this rare occasion the motion tracker becomes quite handy foreign a shoulder lamp to light up dark areas and a welding torch unfortunately the doors are scripted if you have to weld them open or shut could have been cool if it was something you chose yourself and then you got all your guns you got your main weapon secondary weapon pistol some sort of explosive and you can swap these out as you go the chance of you running completely out of ammo is zero that plus the game is very kind of always making sure that diametype you're using the most is what will be in the Next Room [Music] the new weapons which comes with this game are all very cool the design is close to the pulse rifle and because of that they look like they have always been a part of the colony Marines Arsenal plus as you rank up you will get the options to change your weapons make them more accurate or hard hitting changing the weapon skins it's an interesting idea and it's fun to play around with but it's not the driving force of this game then we got sensory guns which you can pick up but once you're carrying it you gotta cross your fingers you're not being attacked because you can't just throw it away and start shooting you have to set it up but the animation takes a little time so that's pretty annoying but apart from that they are pretty fun my tractor is getting lit up here all right O'Neill get behind the sentry gun and on the subject of weapons you can find legendary weapons there'll be weapons from the movie Aliens and once you have found them you have them with you at all times except for two of them that will be frost is flamethrower and baskets smart gun now this one hurts in this game you will only come across the smart gun three times and that is a crime all right foreign [Music] level you will start fighting with newtonic mercenaries now don't get me wrong I don't mind fighting a couple of humans in my aliens game but this is just too much half the game you'll be fighting these faceless straight out of Call of Duty mercenaries and when the game's over I think I've killed just as many humans as I have aliens to the point that I'm not even sure I'm the good guy anymore I miss killing aliens there are three new alien types in this game which I haven't seen before the first one being the crusher which is big and run on all fours and will will crush you I actually like this idea because you have to fight it differently compared to the other aliens the only thing I'm wondering is if the alien takes form after the host thus that means unlucky face Hawker impregnated a rhino I guess I should know think it I don't think we can kill that thing the second new type are the boilers which are aliens who have survived the blast from headless hope they are now mutated blind and have to use their senses to find you and if they do they will run up to you and explode an ass of blood all over killing you and when you meet them you have no weapons so it's a stealth section and it's actually pretty well made hey get your flashlight out of my face to kind of see me they're [ __ ] blind oh yeah it's just too bad they don't look scary to me they're more resembles old ladies yeah I'm heading down to this door to get my pills now the last alien is the Raven which is big and strong and reminds me of the praetorian and this alien we get to fight in a power loader which would have been cool if it wasn't so poorly made you can only hurt it with your right arm so you're just doing the same stupid move over and over again until the Raven is dead you will come across the power loader twice in this game and the first time it is literally just to walk 20 meters and open the door remember the Randy Pittsburgh interview where he said you could weld on weapons to the power loader yeah that's a lie that has never been a thing you could do in the game really is that it uh yeah I opened the door and on the subject of Lies remember the E3 walkthrough where you saw the queen get in your face and kill you or as Randy puts it ah doesn't show you getting neat and it just shows her getting in your face you have to play the game to see what happens well let me tell you what happens none of that Raider Queen oh there she is instead when you meet her she will chase you around for a bit getting hit by a couple of missiles and then she will flee and you are being ordered not to follow her FTL we're getting off this rock okay side note that guy is the real hero of the story your go-getter son but don't worry you will eventually get face to face with the queen in an epic boss fight except that it isn't but there are plenty of videos out there explaining how bad this boss fight is so you know what I'm just gonna skip it just like most of my teammates did when I played the game yeah thanks a lot fellows such a such an iconic sound and when we got the source material for 20th Century Fox the actual audio that was recorded and folded and some of the other stuff that was digitally produced man it's so exciting to be able to play with that content and then work that content into the game and that all sounds good except when you do it in a lazy way just listen to the pulse rival going full auto foreign rival from Alien vs Pearls at Gold Edition which is over 10 years older than this game there's nothing wrong by using sound effects from the movies and put it in your game you just have to edit it a little bit not just a simple copy paste and when it comes to the rest of the sound effects it's not really anything that's gonna stick with you [Music] the music is actually not that bad it is kept very close to the movies especially aliens and I think they have managed to pull it off there are many videos out there saying that the voice acting in this game is horrible but it is not the voice actors or actors who are horrible it is the written dialogue that have been handed that is Michael Beam has also been slammed for sounding like he doesn't really want to be there and that is sort of true he has said in an interview that working on this project with gearbox wasn't fun and it felt passionless like gearbox didn't really care which is a shame considering they got some of the old actors back to reprise their old rules Graphics now usually I can defend bad Graphics if it's an older game or it has a good story or maybe they just had a very tight budget but here it is kind of hard to defend for a couple of reasons the first thing is that games that came out the same year as this one or even years earlier looked way better than aliens Colony Marines the second thing is remember the walkthrough that they showed at E3 that had way better graphics and people were excited but that was made on a high-end computer and since the game had to run on an Xbox 360 they done the graphics way down and so what we are left with is screen tearings in the cutscenes bad Graphics textures and this lens glare which is so bright it just can't see anything and then we got these black holes where alien comes out of I mean they didn't even bother to text this one to be positive about the graphics here is pretty hard another thing that hurts my eyes is the death screen when you die you will be presented with this frozen screen anything else would have been better remember when I said earlier that the boilers will explode in acid killing you there are also spitters in this game they will spit acid at you and you will take damage but that's where it stops the rest of the aliens in this game give so little acid damage that you don't have to think about it at all you can be stomping around on their dead bodies waste them right in front of you and you'll take little to no damage oh yeah the aliens in this game are not frightening at all foreign fans will agree on if an alien and a human getting hand-to-hand combat with each other the human would lose however in this game like many other alien games you can go in hand-to-hand combat with the alien and beat it to death with your rifle but this game does have a good idea though every once in a while when enhancer hand combat you will pull out your sidearm and shoot deal in through its face this is a good idea why risk fighting an alien hand to hand when you can just take out your pistol and shoot it in space especially since there's no acid damage [Music] when you die in this game you will be sent back to the previous checkpoint however if you play with a friend there is a chance you can save each other while I'm down I really like this feature that you can help your body up if you can make it in time and I'm done [Music] awesome pose it looks like you're resting are you dead though but now I am how do you feel quite relieved if you play this game alone your teammates will wait for you at the next door if you just saw the person like me who likes to explore but if you play with a friend who is charging head-on the game will force move you up to your squad which is super annoying sometimes the game will even Force move you just for a couple of meters which drives me insane okay transported me two meters come on the AI in this game is the stuff of Legend yes you have heard correctly it is that bad for Stardust the aliens will always be rushing you head on if you're playing with a friend it will also be going for him so that helps a bit your teammates are not much of a help sure they're doing a lot of firing but they're not dealing a lot of damage it's a good thing that one of the last official patches they removed Friendly Fire because your teammates are always in the way and running around like headless chickens all right I'll take point and you'll follow me let's go wait what how the hell did I end up in front I don't know please subscribe oh it's my belt Jesus bucks and glitches now this could be an even longer video If I had to cover it all so I'm just gonna give you the highlights like this one for example here Lord Jim and I got killed but instead of being moved back to the previous checkpoint we have pushed forward to the next one I guess that's one way to beat the game the rest of the things are stuff like enemies getting stuck in the scenery body parts getting stuck in the scenery floating items equipment not showing enemies you can't kill because they're stuck in the scenery clipping through characters objects living through each other here's a good one we're supposed to go through a door but it's scripted to be opened by O'Neill but where is O'Neill ah he's outside stuck on a rock it's okay I'll just do the level again hmm I got a feeling there's some sound missing here the list goes on and on and on but it's not just the Bucks and glitches there are also Parts in the game where the team haven't done its research like this section here O'Neill's doing CPR firstly lock your elbows O'Neill second remove the man's press plate and thirdly the man's not dead stop doing CPR you're gonna kill him oh crap now you've done it check his pulse and do the CPR thing again O'Neill oh [ __ ] the man's still alive O'Neill he's still alive you didn't kill him after all O'Neil get back here what the [ __ ] what the hell did the donut come from um it's an Easter egg because there's a donut in the movie Aliens so I guess they had to edit stir me yeah I'm not going I'm not going shoot me in the hate someone oh it actually that's the friendly fire you can play the campaign with up to three of your friends and I will take my head off that they have implemented it here there are not many games out there today that allows you to do that however I do have a couple of things I would like to point out these are the four playable characters for the campaign Player 1 the host of the game will always be winners that make sense he's part of the story he has to be there player 2 will always be Mohawk guy player free bandana girl and player 4 the black dude so if you are a girl and you want to play the campaign with your brother your boyfriend or you know that guy who's a really good listener and you want to place the female character well bad luck you have to invite a third person to join as player 2 so you can get bandana girl why we can't choose our own character when we join a game it's weird also in the multiplayer we can make our own character why can't we just drag that over especially because none of these extra characters are shown in India of the cutscenes there are also some criticism going through the campaign with four players is way too easy even on the hardest difficulties you are going to be mowing everything down in front of you with ease but in my experience if you play the game with three friends that are just as crazy as you are then that doesn't really matter [Music] totally further I pressed the wrong button on my keyboard you did yeah how to activate the underslung thingy that's a grenade launcher I don't think you want to mess with that multiplayer had I made this review just a couple of years ago there would still have been a couple of active communities out there which were hosting games but today it is safe to say that the multiplayer is dead so if you want to multiplayer game going you unfortunately have to invite people yourself there are our reviews out there saying that the multiplayer is where the game really shines I disagree but there are a couple of features here which I do actually quite like you back to base for instance when you play you will earn points the Marine can use this in their Cosmetics but the alien can use it to unlock new skills and kill moves my true fear it is to play dead or run myself through the uh um the Marine another thing is that on some maps when you play the alien you can change into the boiler or the crusher which will really give the Marine players a run for their money oh my God that's our bag no please thank you oh my [ __ ] off I'm overpowered Jesus and the Marine players can pick up heavier weapons on the maps but I think I don't like is when you play the alien the screen will be all green and foggy which just makes the graphic looks even worse that plus you will always see your alien in third person and the camera angle is not always helping there are different multiplayer modes as well the one I found the most interesting was Survivor where the Marines had to fortified their position by putting up sensory guns open and closing doors and the aliens has to get through it try to breach that helps so after playing the campaign with my friend and a little bit of multiplayer I gotta be honest to say that I was disappointed no that does not even cut it I was pissed gearbox has promised us something worthwhile but what they gave us instead was a big fat lie I felt cheated out of my money I was Furious the best way to describe it is to play your clip from another YouTuber's review from back when the game was released oh and ready and red sucking scumbag cheating mother piece of [ __ ] you and your team put out one of the worst games ever and you are now reckoned in the animals yeah it goes on like that for a while by the way the story in this game is considered Canon have I given this game a rating back then I would have given it a score of today I was angry I uninstalled the game and I promised myself two things one I would never pre-order a game I did two I would never buy anything from Gearbox Software again I did for this game actually and then I moved on gearbox on the other hand are still making bug fixes and new content to their game that being new multiplayer maps Cosmetics weapons a DLC story and a new multiplayer mode the problem is that they want money for all of it personally I think they should have made it all free a way to say sorry to all those who have purchased their game and since I have already decided not to waste any more money on the game I ignored it now I can't remember how many years that went by as this game was fading away as a bad memory but all of a sudden movement people were once again talking about aliens colonial Marines but why have they made a new patch new content plans for sequel what it turns out there is a new overhaul mod that is so good that people are debating if it has saved the game or not now this I cannot bypass so I waited for a sale and bought the remaining content for my game I know and then I would install the new mod to see what all the fuss is about but before we talk about the mod let's first take a look at the new content for the game [Music] reconnaissance pack four new multiplayer maps added for the game behind a paid wall of course and there is certainly not much I can say about it the only reason why you want to pick this one up is to get the new Cinema of skins and kill moves you can also buy the movie map pack which gives you three new maps from the movies one on the ship Nostromo the solaco and fury 161 it says you get four new maps but the fury map is used twice just in different modes I think it's stretching it to call it four new maps and I'm sorry to say that all these new multiplayer maps they're not particularly well made any of them out of the two new weapons the first one is called Sonic hyper artillery remote protectiles better known as sharp sticks which is also referenced by Hudson in the movie Aliens so let's test it out [Music] oh yeah one more time let's see how it fares against enemies the second one is the sonov double barrel shotgun which is referenced by um no one it comes with 12 shells five two at a time which means you only got six shots has a slow reload it's not in any of the movies why it is here and behind a pay wall is beyond me [Music] stasis interrupted a short single player story which takes place after the movie Aliens and lead up to the main game you get to play as three different characters the first one is Elizabeth Hudson's who wakes up on the way you nutronic ship Legato only to see that everything is complete chaos with aliens and mercenaries running around it is now your task to try to find your parents who is on board the same ship the second character we get to play as is Samuel Stone who has already been introduced through the Elizabeth story and he has noticed that the lacato is Tethered to Marine Starship yes dasilako and he wants to get over there and inform the Marines of the situation it is also through his story we get to see how qubble Hicks survived this is what stasis interrupted DLC story does is it fills in a lot of the plot holes there are in the main game although some of them are a little far-fetched at least it's an explanation the last of the character is a wailing newtonic employee named Rick Levi he sees what they're doing is wrong and decides instead to help quavo Hicks try to get a distress signal out on a personal level I really dislike this character but at least he's trying to do right out of the three characters Elizabeth is the only one we don't get to see in a cut scene everything is seen through her eyes I know it's a weird thing to point out but I just find it odd since we get to see everybody else we get to play as in a cut scene from third person view but there you go [Music] when I got this DLC I decided that my old friend Lord Jim had soft enough so it didn't involve him in this playthrough and so it was by pure coincidence I ran into a player called The Dark Side who like me has just gotten this new DLC and was also a huge alien fan and so we agreed that we could go through stasis interrupted together you okay yeah I'm fine thank you you ever use a gun before my father taught me none of these free characters are Marines which means they don't get access to a lot of weapons during the story that's okay it makes sense however since I have bought five extra weapons for my game I do expect that I can use them for the entire game but that is not the case in stasis interrupted which is not okay a thing they have carried over from the main game is all the bugs and glitches one I forgot to mention is if you have pushed your walk button because you want to immerse yourself and then push your sprint button your character will go into a Sprint animation but you will still be walking which is annoying you're right there are also some clipping here and there but it's not that bad there's a goddamn hole in the spaceship the voice acting here is still good Laz Henriksen and Michael Beam are reprising their rules and I gotta say I enjoy listening into their conversations when we discovered that Lieutenant Ripley the child and yourself in escaped lv426 on board the solaco her name was Newt it was Rebecca actually but does that mean that the writing have improved yes it does just listen to this well looks like a two-day haul before we hit fiorina I grabbed this deck of cards from the crew quarters outstanding I'm kidding the writing's still bad [Music] there are also some new audio logs that you can find and I think the ones here in the DLC are better than the ones in the main game [Music] yeah that was sweet all in all I would say that stasis interrupted is a good DLC there are more focus on suspense atmosphere and like I said earlier it does fill in a lot of plot holes all right you ready what the you're just gonna leave me in here fine be that way I don't need you I'll clear this up myself bye-bye goodbye movement [Laughter] help me help me help me help me get me up oh thank you that is so kind of you no problems you're welcome there we go never saw this one open before and there we go sergeant in 14 seconds buckhunt now right off the bat I just got to say this mode is Fun the way it works is that you and up to three of your friends have to survive 30 waves of enemies that's a mixture of aliens and waiting the tonic Mercenaries every time you kill an enemy you will earn money this money you can use to buy Health ammo weapons open up new areas of the map and believe me you have to you will not survive 30 ways of enemies at the starting position because the enemy gets stronger for each wave so teamwork is important here stick together cover each other's back help each other up from the ground and you can even give all your money to one player so he is able to unlock that next door so you can progress oh [ __ ] damn okay let's gather our money at one player so we can get this generator up and running you should cure that [ __ ] Hudson I outrun you uh that's where you're right all right now let's do your plan chief so in conclusion if you got the main game stasis interrupted and buckhunt installed I will then change my verdict into a 5 out of 10. I still think it's shitty that you have to pay extra money for these two DLCs but what can you do against a greedy Corporation [Music] foreign DFX overhaul mod this was the reason why I returned to the game and for this review I managed to track him down to have a little chat about his mod not only is inexperienced motor he's also an alien fan and the first version he did of this mod was actually just intended for himself but after receiving a lot of positive feedback he continued what you're looking at now is version 6.2 and as you can see it looks a whole lot better just for fun let's do a comparison with another YouTuber who did a recording When the game was released on Xbox first mission here we go well I'll be damned I already see a problem either the game is broken or I am holding the world's smallest [ __ ] gun oh there we go yep I'm ready and now let's take a look at the PC version with this mod the difference is night and day the atmosphere have changed remember when I said this game wasn't scary where it's scary now it is so much darker there are more reasons why it's scary but we'll get into that wow a feature that he is putting that I quite like is that you can now remove the HUD entirely with a push of a button you know to immerse yourself there are some weapons however that doesn't work that well without the hood but like I said it's just a push of a button to get it back the smart gun is one of the weapons that are affected by this but not really since it has an auto aim it doesn't really matter remember I said you only come across the smart gun three times during the campaign well thanks to this mod you will see it a little more often which is really nice I mentioned in the vanilla that you could never run out of ammo but now the ammos being dropped by the enemy might not be the ammo you need so you got to swap out your weapons more frequently and keep an eye on that ammo count remember short controlled bursts Templar tells me that the work you did for the AI is what he's most proud of and with good reason the aliens feel so much better they will no longer just rush you when they see you they will wait they will outflank you they run on all fours until the last minute they will use the environment he by the way is also the one who found the famous tether typo which is now fixed and implemented in his mod but there are still people out there today who believe if they go in and fix the table themselves they will automatically fix the AI which is not true template tells me that working on the AI he found a lot of files that had been started but never finished which he completed but for whatever reason the typo story is what blew up in the media and it's not just the alien AI that has been reworked also your teammates which are now more useful I mean just take a look at O'Neill clearing out this room almost by himself who's dead one of the reason why this game is more scary is because it is now hard I died so many times that I had to go put the difficulty settings down sure you can drop your enemies faster with headshots but if you get hit or a nailing gets close to you you're boned all right boys come on this is the planet lv4259 lv426 sir that's right soji good job picks all right we got 15 Brazilians coming in when it comes to multiplayer you gotta make sure that the ones you're playing with has the exact same version of The Mod as you do otherwise it's gonna become very unbalanced since the enemies are tougher and the weapons hit harder that guy with no mod joining your game won't stand a chance but if you join his game with your mod you are going to completely annihilate everything because your weapons are that much stronger ah it is only after playing with this mod that I realized that the game is not all that bad there are a lot of attention to details and not to the alien movies which just goes to show that if the developers had put all their time and energy into this project when they were first given the license they might as well could have made the best aliens game ever at the time of this video Templar has spent almost 6 years working on his mod and although it is great and I highly recommend it it does have some small problems here and there the one I'm going to mention is when you play stasis interrupted every time I try to load in mission 2 my game will crash so my advice is play the game first on vanilla then install the mod you will be presently surprised on how good it is and so to answer a question which was asked earlier in this video does this mod save the game yeah I believe it does if you got the main game stasis interrupted buckhunt and install the mod on top of it then my final verdict for this game is 6 out of 10. [Music] I asked Templar if gearbox or Sega had ever thanked him for saving their game unfortunately even though they know about the mods existence they have never reached out to him so allow me on behalf of myself and all those who have enjoyed your mod to say thank you Templar gfx for all your hard work and if there is anyone who deserves to put his name down as a real colonial marine it is you I'm xdk signing off

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Id: J06RraDxtHg

Length: 53min 56sec (3236 seconds)

Published: Fri May 26 2023