Aliens Fireteam Elite 2

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Perks

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Jackpot balance changes

Jackpot was a solid perk in AFE, but the substantial increase of special enemies on higher difficulties, combined with them being overall squishier than AFE makes this powerful effect trigger too often. We still want it to feel good to use but have a lesser effect when triggering from Specials. We may need review this further.

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Jackpot works again with heat weapons.

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The perk no longer reloads the underbarrel unless that is what you were using

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Killing an elite still fully reloads the weapon and dissipates all heat.

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Killing a Special has the following effects:

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Most weaponry: Instant reload of 50% of the magazine's max ammo.

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Heat weapons: -25% max heat.

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1 Shot weapons (Pike): Triggers full reload every 2 kills.

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– Drive Perks

Drive and its mods were balanced around a much smaller number of special enemies. While balancing the game with the goal of not making enemies too bullet spongey, we dramatically increased their number. This made Drive scale far too quickly and get to some seriously ridiculous values. We know that some players liked this, but it trivialized build choice and was giving far too much value for its slot size.

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Drive now grants 5% cooldown reduction for elite kills, 2% for specials.

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Battle Hardened is capped at 25 max health gain and only triggers on elites.

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Muscle Memory is capped at 20% max damage and only triggers on elites.

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The amount of damage bonus now matches what the tooltip says.

– Reaper now restores 5 permanent health for elites, 1 for specials.

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This was increased from 2 broadly.

– Updated the text and formatting of these to reflect their new mechanics.

– Escalating determination now gives you the max hp at the end of each wave instead of the start of each next wave.

– Overwhelming Fire now has a cooldown per enemy, not per player.

– Fixed weapon training/expertise/mastery perks not affecting weapons correctly.

– Fixed different weapons being affected by the wrong perks.

– Fixed the M4 Pistol not being affected by handgun perks.

– CQW Weapon Training

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Fixed it not affecting recoil as much as it should.

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Fixed it not affecting the recoil limit, causing recoil to go back to normal over time.

– CQW Weapon Expertise

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Added overheat speed to its effects.

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Fixed it making handling worse for all weapons.

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Improved handling bonus from 15% to 20%.

– CQW Weapon Mastery

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Fixed fire rate being increased but not fire rate limit, causing guns to return to the normal fire rate over time.

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Fixed it not affecting spread as much as it should.

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Fixed spread being affected incorrectly, where it was reducing minimum and maximum spread instead of minimum spread and spread increase per shot.

– Handgun Weapon Training

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Changed from increasing weak point damage to increasing stopping power, aiding in the intended gameplay for handguns.

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Fixed it not affecting spread as much as it should.

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Fixed spread being affected incorrectly, where it was reducing minimum and maximum spread instead of minimum spread and spread increase per shot.

– Handgun Weapon Expertise

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Fixed fire rate being increased but not fire rate limit, causing guns to return to the normal fire rate over time

– Handgun Weapon Mastery

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Fixed range not being increased correctly, only affecting near and far ranges.

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Fixed aim assist not being affected correctly, only applying a portion of the bonuses and not increasing aim gravity enough so handguns were barely affected.

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Added weak point damage and stopping power bonus removed from Weapon Training perk.

– Heavy Weapon Training

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Added overheat speed effect.

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Fixed it decreasing reload speed too much.

– Heavy Weapon Expertise

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Reduced radius effect from 15% to 10%.

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Added stopping power effect.

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Fixed it only increasing bullet and projectile damage and not explosion, environmental effect, and over time damage.

– Heavy Weapon Mastery

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Fixed causing guns to return to the normal fire rate.

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Fixed it not affecting the recoil limit, causing recoil to go back to normal over time.

– Precision Weapon Training

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Fixed it not affecting recoil as much as it should.

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Fixed it not affecting the recoil limit, causing recoil to go back to normal over time.

– Precision Weapon Expertise

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Fixed it making handling worse for all weapons.

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Added existing handling bonus to description.

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Improved handling bonus from 15% to 20%.

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Added weak point stopping power to effects.

– Precision Weapon Mastery

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Fixed fire rate being increased but not fire rate limit, causing guns to return to the normal fire rate.

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Added overheat speed effect.

– Rifle Weapon Training

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Fixed fire rate being increased but not fire rate limit, causing guns to return to the normal fire rate.

– Rifle Weapon Expertise

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Fixed range not being increased correctly, only affecting near and far ranges.

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Fixed it not affecting recoil as much as it should.

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Fixed it not affecting the recoil limit, causing recoil to go back to normal over time.

– Rifle Weapon Mastery

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Added overheat speed effect.

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Fixed it not affecting spread as much as it should.

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Fixed spread being affected incorrectly, where it was reducing minimum and maximum spread instead of minimum spread and spread increase per shot.

– Classes

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Specialist

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Unyielding now grants the full health bonus listed in its description.

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Hard to Hit now grants 20% damage resistance after dodging, instead of 100%.

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Duelist

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Fixed the Remote Detonator doing double friendly fire damage.

– Machinist

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Hyperlocal Logistics now increases turret health regen by 10% as described, instead of doubling it.

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The Rumble Turret is now the correct size.

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Fixed Rumble Turret radius and fire rate to appear accurately for clients.

– Marauder

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The Minefield perk no longer prevents you from manually launching remote mines when first equipped.

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The Minefield perk no longer forces players out of aim down sights.

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Fixed the Breaching Blast icon on enemy health bars.

– Hunter

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Made sure the beams only hit players if friendly fire is enabled and the players are hit directly.

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Friendlies are no longer counted in the near-miss or point-blank beam code.

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Particle Pulse ability buffed to make it more viable.

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Damage increased from maximum of 800 -> 1000.

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Stopping Power increased from a maximum of 600 -> 750.

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Ability friendly fire behavior fixed so it's working correctly and reliably.

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Maximum charge time reduced from 2 -> 1.5 seconds.

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AoE Damage from the explosion increased from 200 -> 300.

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AoE Stopping Power from the explosion increased from 300 -> 400.

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AoE Radius from the explosion increased from 300 -> 400.

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Fixed the ability not working to blow up explosive barrels or mines.

– Supercharged perk now increases charge time by 20% instead of 50% to make it more viable.

– Challenge Cards

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Challenge cards no longer deactivate for remaining players after a host migration.

– Misc

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Players now play the correct grapple animation when grabbed while crouched in cover.

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Weapons

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Fixed the F44AA stock ADS animation not replicating to clients.

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Fixed the front hand not gripping the shotgun properly.

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Adjusted the player’s hand grip on the Revolver Rifle.

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Underbarrels

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The HUD ammo counter now turns red when your underbarrel is out of ammo.

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Fixed the HUD showing your gun as out of ammo while using an underbarrel that still has ammo.

– Mondo Heat 9000

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Fixed the muzzle flash staying red with the Cryo Ammunition augment equipped.

– Augments

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Fixed the thermal beam augment for the Type 111 causing the beam damage to last indefinitely.

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Removed the extra 20 DPS fire DOT from the augment because it would retrigger and reapply itself.

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Added 10% Stopping Power buff to the augment to replace the lost DPS.

Fixed damage over time guns removing the wrong DOT from enemies if that DOT was applied by that weapon previously, causing the weapon’s DOT to last indefinitely.

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The Kramer Short Barrel Electric Ammo augment now shows electric effects.

– Known Issues:

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Bonuses that occur on Empty Magazines are only working for the host, not for other players.