Aliens Fireteam Elite releases on August 24th and Cold Iron Studios has detailed its day-1 update. According to the team, this first patch will a Horde Mode to the game.

Additionally, it will bring some optimizations improvements. As the team claims, this patch will have GPU/CPU optimizations and performance improvements for PC. Moreover, it will pack environment and lighting visual improvements across all campaigns.

As with most day-1 patches, this one will be applied automatically to the game when it comes out. Below you can also find its complete changelog.

Aliens Fireteam Elite Day-One Update Release Notes

New Features

• Horde Mode
• Horde mode is in! Complete the campaign and then talk to Shipp back on the Endeavor to open up this new gameplay mode.

Kits, Weapons, and Combat

• Balance and difficulty pass for all difficulty levels.
• “Park’s Store” pricing adjustments.

Enemies and Encounters

• Xenomorph AI and pathing improvements
• Population adjustments for multiple campaigns.

Content and Environments

• Balance and difficulty pass for all difficulty levels.
• Additional Polish and bug fixing for the end escape sequence in the final mission of “The Only Way to Be Sure” campaign.
• Targeted GPU/CPU optimizations and performance improvements for PC and all console platforms.
• Environment and lighting visual improvements across all campaigns.
• Numerous environment and lighting bug fixes across all campaigns.

General

• Gameplay and GPU Optimizations
• Matchmaking stability and bug fixing
• AI Teammate bug fixing and improvements Localization
• Support added for:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Korean