Alien: Isolation – The Trigger DLC

A series of missions about Ricardo, the deputy safety officer from the second part of the game. Roughly 30 mins of gameplay.

Player Bases. ☐ Kids. ☐ Everyone. ☑ Mature. ☐ Casual Players. ☐ Pro players. Graphics. ☐ Potato. ☐ Really Bad. ☐ Bad. ☐ OK. ☐ Good. ☐ Beautiful. ☑ Masterpiece. Price. ☐ Full Price. ☑ Wait For Sale. ☐ Refund It If You Can. ☐ Don't Buy It. ☐ Free. Requirements. ☐ Minimum. ☐ Medium. ☐ Fast. ☑ High End. ☐ Super Computer. Difficulty. ☐ Easy. ☑ Medium. ☐ Hard. ☐ Very Hard. ☐ Death March. ☐ Dark Souls. Game length. ☐ Really Short. ( 0 - 2 hours) ☑ Short. ( 2 - 8 hours) ☐ Medium. ( 8 - 16 hours) ☐ Long. ( 16+ hours) ☐ Endless. Story. ☑ It Doesn't Have One. ☐ Horrible. ☐ Ok. ☐ Average. ☐ Good. ☐ Fantastic. Cinematic/Art. ☐ It Doesn't Have. ☐ Horrible. ☐ Ok. ☐ Average. ☐ Good. ☑ Like Watching A Movie. Music/Sound. ☐ Horrible. ☐ Decent. ☐ Average. ☐ Good. ☑ Amazing. Gameplay. ☐ Terrible. ☐ Ok. ☐ Average. ☑ Good. ☐ Fantastic. Bugs. ☐ Game Itself Is One Big BUG. ☐ Game Breaking Bugs. ☐ Lots of bugs. ☐ Few Bugs. ☑ Nothing. Others. Multiplayer: ☐ Singleplayer: ☑ Final Score: 7/10 Highly Recommended!

I you pre-ordered the Season Pass as I did, neither Steam nor Sega will honor that purchase and provide you will any of the DLC. Steam says it's an issue with Sega; Sega says the problem is on Steam's end. Either way, I did not get the content that I paid for, and neither Steam nor Sega are willing to do anything to help their mutual customers.

This came with the Season Pass. It's basically a set of very difficult maps. You can select different characters, each with their own inventory setup. I suppose the goal, aside from having fun, is to make it as high as you can on the leaderboards. Of course, you'll always have those clowns who have to cheat their way to the top. I guess it's to boost their self-esteem or something because their parents didn't love them enough as children. Completed in 00:00:00 with 2,000,000 points my @ss. And while WW leaderboards have been a thing for decades, developers still can't figure out how to ban these idiots. Regardless, if you want all the Alien: Isolation content, or just a set of new challenging maps, this is for you.

The Trigger is the final Survivor Mode DLC for Alien: Isolation. Like the first two, this one adds three loosely connected maps and a new playable character; Ricardo in this case. From the Survivor Mode DLCs, I'd say this one is the closest to having a sort of meaningful "story" to it, at least one that has a more direct connection to the game: it was Ricardo who set up the explosives that severed Ripley's EVA line and trapped her in the station. Just as with the other Survivor Mode DLCs, I recommend grabbing this one on sale.

The Trigger is the last DLC for Alien: Isolation, and it adds 3 more Survivor Mode maps, here your main objective is to get the highest score by doing optional objectives and escaping the map as fast as possible. You can choose from several characters, each with different equipment. With this DLC you unlock Ricardo, a Colonial Marshal ally of Amanda in the main game. Like the title, the events here are what triggers the main game's story. Despite improving their level and enemy variation in Trauma, sadly here the formula reverts back to the basics, hiding from the Xenomorph across 3 maps. I'd love to have more maps where it doesn't hunt, and instead we fight the other enemies. It's difficult, which is sad because it could be an enjoyable direct prequel to the main game. But sadly, very little story content and no achievements. If you enjoy Survivor Mode, The Trigger will be more of the same, with new maps and characters. If you prefer the more varied levels of Trauma, sadly you won't find it here. If you don't enjoy it though, you can skip this DLC entirely. Or, watch a playthrough if you want to know the story that triggers Amanda's journey.

While the base game is pretty good (at least for hardcore alien fans like i am) pretty much all the DLC for Alien Isolation is utter crap. It‘s just that some of the DLC are less crappy than others. Since i don’t want to write an individual review for every DLC, this covers all of them. Let’s start with the less crappy ones: „Crew expendable“ and „Sole survivor“. There is really not much too say about those two, apart from that they are directly inspired from scenes from the first alien movie and that they are extremely short. We are talking about half an hour maximum for each of them. They are playable, but simply too short to waste more than maybe a buck or two on them. The rest of the DLC are map packs for survivor mode. „Corporate lockdown“, „Trauma“ and „the trigger“ each consist of 3 small, short maps, while „Lost Contact“ and „Safe haven“ are just one big map, that is at least twice the size of the others, has 10 objectives and takes considerably longer to beat. The problem that pretty much ruins the all the dlc is the fact, that you can‘t lower the difficulty (except for crew expendable and sole survivor, which can be played on any of the difficulty modes). As far as i can tell, the maps are set on nightmare difficulty, which is never fun in this game. 95% of the time the alien is right at your heels and even if you manage to hide, it just sticks around for way to long, just waiting until you leave your hiding spot. It makes completing the required tasks a very frustrating and unfair ordeal. In safe haven and lost contact you can safe inbetween the missions at least but in the other 3 dlc, there is no safe function. If you die, you go all the way back. The maps of the other three can either be played in a row (you carry all your weapons and resources over to the next map, but if you die, you always need to restart from the first map) or individually (less frustrating when you die, but you always start the next map only with basic loadout). I strongly recommend playing the second way, because if you die on the third map and have to restart from map one, there is hardly anything more rage-inducing. i completed the main game in about 18 hours, and it took me another 17 hours just to complete the dlc. It's not because the dlc is so long, it's because it's so f****** unfair and unbalanced. If you are good you can finish the 3-map dlc within 15 to 20 minutes each, but if you are not a super-patient alien isolation pro-player you WILL DIE A LOT which really ramps up the time necessary to complete even the shortest of maps. The safe haven and lost contact missions would roughly take an hour each to complete, but since i died so often it took me 3 to 3 1/2 hours for each of them to complete. Like i mentioned earlier, those two have a safe function, but the progress is only safed as long as you are playing. If you leave the game, all your progress is erased and you have to start over again, so you have to finish them in one sitting, (and i don't think that many people have 3 spare hours that often). Nevertheless IF you HAVE TO buy dlc for alien isolation, I'd suggest taking either Safe Haven or Lost Contact, since they have the most value for their price and sometimes even come close to being slightly fun. Otherwise I'd say, just play the campaign of the base game again, which is way better designed and much less frustrating than this. __________________________________________________________________________ ALL THE DLC FOR ALIEN ISOLATION Genre: Survival Horror / Stealth Release: Q4 2014 - Q1 2015 ( ) 0/8 Simply one of the worst games ever made. Don't waste any money on this. ( ) 1/8 Bad. Seriously flawed with barely any redeeming qualities. Worth a couple of Cents at best, if at all. (X) 2/8 Sub-par. Only for hardcore-fans of respective genre / series. Don't pay more than 5 bucks. ( ) 3/8 Meh-diocre. It‘s okay. Don't pay more than 10 bucks. ( ) 4/8 Decent, but not for everybody. Don't pay more than 15 bucks. ( ) 5/8 Good game, Must-play for genre- / series-fans. Worth 20 to 25 bucks max, if you are not a fan. ( ) 6/8 Great game, universal recommendation. 30 bucks would be a steal for this. ( ) 7/8 Outstanding game, a milestone of it‘s respective genre. Definitely worth its full prize. ( ) 8/8 Simply one of the best games ever made. Get this, the prize doesn't matter.

Unlike Safe Haven and Lost Contact, The Trigger returns to the original 3-mission formula established by the other survivor mode maps. These maps all feature the xenomorph, although androids make an appearance in the first mission. No surprises here, this is essentially more of the same thing, so if you've enjoyed Alien Isolation's survivor mode, then you will almost certainly like this as well. The last mission can be completed surprisingly quickly, and, narratively speaking, leads directly up to the beginning of the main campaign.

This is one of the seven DLCs that come with the Alien Isolation Season Pass/Compete Collection. Two (Last Survivor/Crew Expendable) are story DLCs that let you play as characters from the original Alien movie, as you recreate classic scenes. Those two DLCs are awesome, non time-based content packs that I would recommend to anyone wanting between 1-1.5 more hours of content, or anyone looking for an exciting nostalgic experience. However, the rest of the DLC is "Survivor Maps" where you play as a random character (more unlock with each DLC) completing random objectives, in new maps that aren't featured anywhere else in the game. They will likely only be fun to those who: 1) Like the game so much, but want even more content 2) Are looking for a challenge (because there is no save points) 3) Are looking for a more "arcade-like" Alien Isolation Experience (You never know what objectives you will get, which paths you will take, which enemies you encounter, and there is a time limit on each challenge.) If you fit into any of the categories above, you will like the Alien Isolation DLC. If you don't, I would suggest getting just crew expendable/last survivor DLC, or none at all.

I cannot recommend the A:I Season pass. Alien: Isolation remains one of my top 5 games of all time. It is nearly perfect and a strong demonstration of games as art. The DLC included in the season pass is effectively useless. Time based 'challenges' which do nothing to further enrich the world this game creates. It is like playing fruit ninja to enrich half life 2. I am not competitive by nature, I don't care at all about "my standing" on leaderboards, or acheivements or any such nonsense. The DLC included in the season pass does not provide fleshed out extensions to explore and sink your teeth into, instead it provides a handful of maps where you stare anxiously at a timer counting down how 'well you are doing' Buy Alien Isolation. Avoid the DLC at all costs. I wouldn't even recommend it for a single dollar.