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Aliens: Fireteam Elite is the type of game that’ll likely overwhelm you after a few hours of play. As a cooperative class-based third-person shooter, you’ll race to accomplish key objectives while gunning down near-endless hordes of terrifying, bloodthirsty aliens. It demands the best out of everyone involved, whether you’re playing with others or by yourself, so you’ll need to make sure you’re ready. To help you better your skills against the alien menace, we’ve compiled all of our guides below for your reference.

For more about the game, be sure to read our Aliens: Fireteam Elite review. Otherwise, continue reading to check out all our in-depth guides. Be sure to check back frequently, as we’ll be updating this roundup with even more guides in the coming days.

Beginner’s Guide – Essential Tips And Tricks

For a basic rundown of what you need to know before diving into Aliens: Fireteam Elite, you’ll find no better starting point than our beginner’s guide. We’ve compiled useful insight around best practices to follow and other important habits to build as you exterminate the alien threat.

How Combat Rating Works

If there’s one thing that’ll confuse you early on, it’s what the game calls your combat rating. To help you better understand how this mechanic works, we’ve put together an explainer to shine a light on the matter.

Class Guides (Doc, Technician, Gunner, Demolisher, Recon)

As mentioned, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative class-based third-person shooter. It gives you the option to choose between four distinct classes (five, once you beat the game). Each has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, so there’s a lot you’ll need to know and understand about their playstyles properly use them. Fortunately, we’ve made in-depth class guides to help ensure you’re going into every campaign prepared.

• Doc Class Guide – A support class that’s ideal for those who like to heal and increase the power of their teammates.
• Technician Class Guide – Armed with a handy turret, this class helps keep smaller aliens at bay so their teammates can focus on other deadlier threats.
• Gunner Class Guide – If you’re a beginner, the Gunner is a straightforward and balanced class that’s great to start with.
• Demolisher Class Guide – This no-frills class is all about dishing out damage with all manner of heavy weaponry and explosives.
• Recon Class Guide [Unlocked after beating the campaign] – This class excels at providing reliable intel to their teammates and taking out enemies from a distance with their marksmanship skills.

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In the long road to get Showtime’s live-action TV series adaptation of Halo made, one of the strangest turns yet was that the series won’t actually air on Showtime. It was announced earlier this year that Halo was moving from the premium cable network to the Paramount+ TV service. Now, at a TCA summer press tour panel, Showtime says the change was a good one for them.

“Look, we love Halo, and we have great affection for it, and [Paramount+ is] a good fit because we continue on as the studio so we’re going to be intimately involved with the creative and the production of it,” Showtime Networks president of entertainment Jana Winograde said. “But the truth is that it was always a bit of an outlier for us in terms of its fit in the Showtime universe. We did an amazing job of imbuing into the series, the character drama that we’re so well known for. But at the end of the day, it is a big, broad, big-tent show. So when Paramount plus came into being, it really was a natural fit there.”

While Showtime isn’t typically known for epic-sized sci-fi series, the network spent seven years developing the series. Letting it go, even though Showtime Networks continues to be involved in a creative capacity, sounds difficult.

However, as Gary Levine, Showtime Networks’ other president of entertainment explained, “We started developing Halo seven years ago when there was no Paramount+ or even the glimmer of an idea about it, and it was always a bit of an odd fit, you know? What is Showtime doing taking a video game–a first-person shooter video game–and putting it in their dramas?”

That’s an interesting shift from what Levine said at TCA’s 2018 winter press tour, when he claimed he believed this take on Halo “will definitely satisfy the fans of Halo and I think also satisfy the drama audiences of Showtime.”

Now, instead, Showtime will get the TV series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, which was also the basis for the 1976 David Bowie film. This series was originally being developed at Hulu, before moving to then-CBS All Access. It’s now a Showtime exclusive, which Levine said is a better fit for the network.

“I think this is a one-time thing, and we did a one-time trade,” he said., “‘You can have Halo, we’ll take Man Who Fell to Earth.’ We’re happy, they’re happy. I think both shows will thrive in their new environments.”

Halo will star Pablo Schreiber as the iconic video game character Master Chief/John-11, The rest of the cast is rounded out by Natasha McElhone (*Dr. Catherine Halsey), Jen Taylor (Cortana), and a number of other familiar names from the franchise–and even some original characters.

A release date has not been set for the first season of Halo Paramount+ yet. If the show is renewed for Season 2, it will need to find itself a new showrunner–or possibly showrunners. It was reported in June that co-showrunner Kyle Killen left before production in Budapest kicked off, while co-showrunner Stephen Kane would also be exiting the series after he finished Season 1.

Microsoft shared a first look at the spectacular opening of Forza Horizon 5, including a look at both cover cars. Shown during the Xbox Showcase at Gamescom 2021, the opening of Forza Horizon 5 begins with the 2021 Ford Bronco Badlands jumping out of a plane, down onto the game’s fiery volcano.

After that the Bronco races down the volcano, reaching high speeds and hitting multiple jumps, before launching over a cliffside into the Horizon Festival below. After that, you transition to a 2020 Corvette Stingray, which parachutes down into some grassy hills before driving into a massive dust storm.

If two cars parachuting into Mexico wasn’t enough, next a 1980s model Porsche 911 modified to be a rally car is dropped into the rainforest. The Porsche flies over a luscious lake and waterfall full of flamingos before driving through the bushes and dirt of the jungle.

Lastly, players take control of the Mercedes-AMG One, which shares the honor of cover car with the Ford Bronco. The Mercedes is dropped into the sandy desert by a plane flying way too close to the ground, where you are challenged to race through the rocky coast and living desert to the Horizon Festival.

Forza Horizon 5 launches on November 5 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC, available on Xbox Game Pass at launch. You can check out GameSpot’s Forza Horizon 5 preorder guide. Microsoft also announced 10 new indie games coming to Xbox Game Pass and that Xbox Cloud Streaming is coming to consoles this holiday during its Gamescom Xbox Showcase.