ALIENS Developers team: Dark Descent released the first major patch for the game that corrects errors, adjusts the balance and adds new injuries to diversify the impressions of the players.
This patce presents an extensive list of basic corrections. In particular, an error was eliminated, due to which the player could not unlock the Olduyan oil refinery (mission 11) after the completion of the mission "Price cheating" (mission 10).
In addition, the patch eliminates problems such as the disappearance of civilians when falling to the ground from the lift and on the mines of dead hills (mission 1). Another significant correction guarantees that the mass onslaught does not stop shortly after the start. The patch also corrects the problem due to which the marine, which fell into the arms of the face, did not receive restrictions on skills and movements.
The patch solves numerous problems with dialogs that previously prevented the players from advance in the game, and adds a protective function that teleports your infantrymen, drones, civilians next to their current position if they get stuck in the surrounding area.
Also in the update, various malfunctions were eliminated that could occur, for example, when the eggs opened to release the face-to-face or because of the AI of strangers, as well as when loading the autosas of the introductory video and others. These improvements increase the stability of the game, especially for those who use the gamepad.
Balance changes in patch are aimed at improving the gameplay. For example, now aliens will quickly discover players only if they are close to the noise source. The timer of the revival of humanoids in missions 2, 3, 7 and 10 was also significantly increased.
In addition, in the patch of the phases of the energy loader in the main mine Olduva (mission 11) and on the basis of Tantal (mission 8) were turned into endless taxes, and several shelters were removed in various locations to adjust the level of the complexity of the game.
The patch introduces five new injuries into the game, increasing the variety and deepening the gameplay. Among the new additions are hypochondriac, hematophobia, anthropophobia, obsessive -compulsive and xenomorphobia.